Hi everybody Hi everybody What a surprise Spareage is on the run from the police. Gee, I would have never guessed that was a possibility and As much as I don't want to talk about this clown To be fair, he's a better person than rat boy aka Paul Saladino And it really blows my mind that people support either of these psychopaths sociopaths, degenerates, losers, whatever you want to call him.  Just better. I have you in me. Imagine like baby blood It's actually mainstream news that Spareage tried to kill his classmates in high school Which he actually attempted denying in the past yet There are still people who send this guy money every time he asks which seems to be once or twice a month I don't think I've ever asked for donations throughout the four years on my YouTube channel I still work a day job.  Well, I was there at the house and he kicked everyone out including Luna and his baby He threatened people with the knife throwing their stuff about once a psychopath always a psychopath Apparently he was mad that his girlfriend Luna was spending time with someone else He was mad that Luna and me spent most of the time together as we speak same language and everyone else was always busy So he kicked us out first with baby after that the others helped us get the hotel and food with the car Then he got mad at them for no reason. I mean, I don't know what happened But again, it just seems like he wanted to cash out real quick and things didn't go his way Maybe people showed up. He asked them for money. They didn't cooperate. Who knows? Interesting. We were supposed to go to his new meeting in August and he kicked us at the last minute and kept our money Got most of the money back through PayPal now. We're not surprised though. My boyfriend knew him and had stayed at his house I think he's going through something right now to be honest.  She messaged Cedric to call the cops and he did then when they came She said everything was fine. Now apparently Cedric is in Turkey and told the others to call the cops because Luna's in danger This is what I heard from someone who's talked to Cedric apparently and then he posted this picture Save Luna and her child from the torture But then another post said that Luna cheated on Spareage with someone that showed up in Romania To me it seems like Luna and Spareage are just working together to manipulate people and steal their money I mean, that's my best bet, but he has demonstrated abusive behavior on stream before and in his videos Yeah, why do you interrupt the stream?   What do you not understand? I am doing it.   You can look it up. He made it up simply.  Why are the teachers welcoming him? It doesn't make any sense and then he The video is still up the comments are put on hold or deleted So you can't see the comments that clearly point that out.   So do you also want it? I'll keep you some Yeah How much half It's it's kind of hard to really tell how can you hold the phone? It's kind of hard to tell how much I will really Take it. Okay. I have to this day.  Maybe I'll do too much. It's really hard Super nice There Okay, so that was like nothing so like because it was only till here so That's it. It's like a little tiny piece Thank you, man.  It does taste like Ludwig weirdly enough, right? Yeah. Yeah, I think so Interesting.  Oh, man.   I get everything now.   So I don't know what type of weirdo wacko ritual stuff. They're doing but There's got to be some type of cult like reason people are still paying attention to the sky or associating themselves with him so I guess thank you guys for joining me today a lot of you are commenting and kind of bothering me about this If you guys don't mind liking the video Leave me a comment down below as well as Sharing it on social media if you can if you guys do want to support me further You can go to frank dash the power.com to check out everything that's available from frankies for your range of meat to frankies naturals Thanks again for joining me today guys. I'll see you for tomorrow's video


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This is Will Spencer from the Renaissance of Men here with the new 21 report and Alexander Juan Antonio Cortez. Good to see you, sir. What's up Will? What number 21 convention is this for you? I believe this is, let's see, 18, I think this is number four. What did you think about this year's convention compared to years past? It's definitely evolved, it's matured. The male spear from when it started, let's say a decade and a half ago, I mean, if we're being honest, it started out as like guys that want to get girls. They really start with that. Okay, that's a real problem for a lot of men. But those guys are older now. That generation has, they've aged, the quality of the content has evolved. It's moved beyond obviously just being about getting sex. And this year was, it's gotten more mature. This year was probably the most mature by far. I started attending this where the quality and depth of conversation, it was political, it was philosophical. It was much more holistic. Religious as well. Yeah, religious. It really covered sort of the breadth of like the human experience, the masculine experience. So that was really cool. I guess it was really cool to see like the conversations I had this year with the attendees and the other speakers were tremendous. And you spoke at the 21 convention and the 22 convention, right? Yeah, I did both. What did you speak about at the 22 convention? 22 convention was very tame. I kept it very tame. Any time you're a man and like you're addressing a group of women, it's a different dynamic. Right. Yeah, obviously it is. And I wasn't really sure what to expect.  Like I wasn't sure if it was going to be younger crowd of women. Was it going to be older women? Was it going to be, you know, was it going to be groupies? Was it going to be women that just really want to hear what men have to say? Was this going to be research in their part? So, yeah, it was like a mixed crowd. And, you know, like the content of that speech was, like I said, very simple. It was like roughly 20, 25, like journal life lessons for women from like paternal perspective, as I called it. A paternal perspective. Yeah, paternal perspective. Since my audience is obviously predominantly males. No kidding. It's about 80% men, 20% women. But my overall audience is over 100,000 people.  And the questions I've gotten in the last few years from women aren't really not that dissimilar from men. It's just from a, you know, a womanly lived experience of being a girl. So I had created like a, like an AMA sort of slideshow on Instagram actually once a month ago where I'd done an AMA just for my female followers and I asked them like, what would you, like, you know, girls only like ask questions. And a lot of the questions were just, it was like the guy questions but just like I said, the girl version. This is like they want life advice. I'm 18, I'm 19, I'm 20, I'm 25. I'm 30, whatever the age.  And there's very little, I think, quality content for women that caters to that sort of, you know, like actual personal development. A lot of them just feel good rah-rah. There's a lot of good stuff on Instagram, but like it's a very limited platform. There's not a whole lot on YouTube. There's not a whole lot on Twitter. You know, it's mostly on Instagram, but not the content that's produced by 21. No. And a lot of it, I've explored it a little bit, but a lot of it's just like what I call like Chick Crack.  Chick Crack. You know, just because you exist, you deserve to be loved. There's nothing very constructive about it. It makes you feel good, but there's no actual direction as to how to improve yourself, change, do anything. Well, a lot of it. The messaging is that women are perfect as they are. So why should they need to possibly improve anything, right? Yeah. Just live and, you know, magic happens for you. Right. So I created sort of like this series of questions and answers about, you know, those kinds of topics. And I just put that into the presentation I gave. And it was about like a 20-ish, 25 lessons. It went over well. Like I could probably refine that speech a few times. And I would do it differently if I did it again next time. But the fact that there were women here that actually were receptive to this listening to man and like wanting to get a male perspective, that was very encouraging. Yeah. I mean, man, in fact. Mm-hmm. Did you have interactions with women outside of your talk? Did they ask you questions? Did they come up and talk to you? I did. I did. Yeah. And they're, you know, what I told them, like, the journey is not just similar for men. Mm-hmm. Yeah. That's one of the things, like, when we talk about masculinity. Yeah. Obviously, there's obvious differences in the nature of energy, the nature of masculinity, the nature of being feminine. There are biological differences. Like, no kidding. Like, that's all, you know, that's not... Radical. Yeah, that's all very scientific, honestly.  But there's a lot of shared experiences and, you know, one of the things I was telling one of the young ladies that I was talking to was, like, your process of becoming, like, a woman. Like, you're already a woman. Mm-hmm. And I tell this to the men, like, you're already a man. Like, there's not such thing as, like, oh, I want to become a real man. I'm like, there's such thing as being a better man. Mm-hmm. There's such thing as being a more effective man. Mm-hmm. There's such thing as being better at being a man. But you're already born a man. Mm-hmm. So, you see, that oven itself, that biological identity, like, you don't have to earn that related title. Sure, sure.  Sure.   Mm-hmm. Now, are you the type of woman that you'd like to be living the life that you want? Yeah, maybe not. Mm-hmm. But the process of getting there is going to be very individual. Mm-hmm. And, yeah, you can certainly pull from tradition. Mm-hmm. You can pull from maternal qualities. You can, you know, find that type of content. You can, you know, model yourself on that. But there's also going to be mixed as well, among the world, and guess what? Like, life costs money. Like, you're not in a position probably in your 20s where it's like, well, I don't want to work. Like, I just want to have a magical husband that makes six figures a year and live on a farm. Like, that's really nice if that happens. Mm-hmm. But the likelihood is you're going to probably have to date, vet, be discerning, get some experience interacting with men that way. And also, you have to support yourself financially. So, like, yeah, you do actually need to get a job. Mm-hmm. Like, no kidding. Mm-hmm.  Maybe not. Maybe it's more temporal. Mm-hmm. But you do need to work. Right. That has to happen. You can't be lazy. Yeah. That's the odds that you're going to have to work. Yeah. Everyone has to work in the society. There's no such thing as disavowing that and thinking you're going to get away with not doing it. Yeah. And that's what I was telling her.  You know, don't try to imitate something just for the sake of imitation. Mm-hmm. It was a good conversation. You felt like the message landed. Oh, yeah. 100%. What did you speak about at the 21 convention? That was a lot more broad. Talking about this past year, coronavirus, pandemic, supply chain breakdown. Like, it's vaguely familiar. Yeah, this is all very familiar to us. Like, okay, the world's in crisis. Yeah, no kidding. Okay, it is. How do we make sense of that and how do we effectively navigate the changing environment? What, you know, what thinking paradigms do we need to have? What tools do we need to adopt? How do we position ourselves? And I tried to give a very holistic overview of sort of the reality of living in a liminal time period where there's not going to be a war tomorrow and everything fixes itself. There's not going to be a savior that appears and, oh, this person's going to write the shim and everything's back to normal. Like, you have to prepare, when society's going through a period of decay and it's going through a transformative period, you have to prepare for the long haul, the long night, whatever you want to call it. This is going to be a multi-decade experience. Yeah, I used some examples from history, let's say like the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire lasted for, you know, 700, 600 years. So the Ottoman Empire never went away to date to the modern state of Turkey. So if you, there are people who have lived in Turkey, you know, generationally for probably hundreds, hundreds, hundreds of years. So they live through, their family needs to live through the rise of the Empire, the static period, the decline, the fall of it. Turkey still exists as a country. Yeah, countries don't go away. You know, I tried to spell, like, these very low-resolution fallacies that people have. It's like, oh, the United States going to collapse. I'm like, no, it's not going to collapse. Countries very rarely ever collapse and completely disappear. And not something of this scale. No, not that scale. Russia was a communist country, USSR, right? Did that collapse? Economically, yeah, it collapsed. Is Russia still a country? Of course it is. Because the people, they're still Russian people. And it still functions enough that people want to keep it going and remaking it to something else. So the United States, 50 years from now, will no doubt not look like the United States today. What will it look like specifically? I don't know, I can't answer that. Do you need to be prepared for rapid change? Yes. Okay, so what does that look like? That looks like having control of your income. I have this running joke, you know, on Twitter and different platforms, like, quit your job, work for yourself. You have the power and you have more flexibility running your own business, working, especially in the digital online space, living where you want to live, not allowing yourself to be subjugated to bad governance, like why you're going to put up that situation. You're not fighting it, you're basically a refugee in your own land. Go to the United States, 50 countries, go to where you're treated best, or go overseas if you want to do that. There's something wrong in doing that. People immigrate for very same reasons historically. Know what your relationships are. Have a network, have friends, have family, have an information network where you can use that to actually navigate the world. It's like networked intelligence. That's almost what Twitter is now.  You can connect with people all over the world, all over the country, all over different cities, towns, and you can get information, get intelligence, and know what's happening, have the curve. You can find people that have very good predictive powers, you know, by way of intelligence, in the field of study. It's like, okay, I kind of have some sense of what's going to happen. I can adequately prepare myself. I can change where I live. I know to stock up. I know not to be in this place and to be in that place. All that's possible for anybody. So I kind of covered that. I threw out the idea of creating cooperative networks of using cryptocurrency, like you can create your own cooperative networks of basic economies. So you can create your own mini-economy amongst yourselves. Whatever different coins. Yeah, that's not directly, directly traceable, but it's not even about being traceable.  You can sort of bypass traditional banking. If you in the future get debanked, or let's say in the future, your interest rates go negative, and now your dollars are actually losing dollars storing in the bank, well now you have an alternative. And you have to think about all this. Obviously I'm throwing a lot out here, but you can't afford to be naive. It's not going to fix itself. No one's going to take care of you.  Oh my god, I can't believe this is happening. Well it is. So you have to dispel with this shock, and like I can't believe it. It's everything that can get worse will get worse. Every right that can be taken from you will be taken from you. What are you going to do? It has to be something.  Because it's not. Just to play devil's advocate for a second, do you think that's kind of black pill thinking? I don't think so. Nihilistic thinking, let's say. This is being realistic. It's being realistic. The United States is not in a rising ascending period. That's pretty much a mutual agreement on that. That's fair. Does that mean it's going to fall apart and it's going to be a civil war tomorrow, and the electricity is going to disappear and go away? No. It just means that you're going to live in a society where it's going through social decay. It's no longer cohesive. Are parts of the country still very high functioning? Absolutely. You can go to Idaho, Oklahoma, you can go to Florida. Life is normal. Life is great. You would never know anything is wrong here unless maybe you go to the grocery store and it's like food's expensive. Inflation is happening. There are some people still, but life is going well. So even in the midst of this sort of mega-reaching narrative chaos, things still tend to operate. The U.S. is not at the point of the Balkan Wars or that level of conflict where things literally fall apart and you're dealing with a social breakdown of this war and rape and absolutely hell on earth. We're not there. And I don't know if people will even ever get there. Not widespread at all. No, but you will have to deal with government tyranny. You will have to deal with federal incompetence. Okay. Does that mean everything's shit? No. I consider this time period in history because things are falling apart. Opportunity is infinite. It's absolutely explosive. So Ivan Throne says as well. You have all the tools that every major media company has to do anything you want with. You have, like I just said, you have the ability to form networks, you have the ability to broadcast a message, you have the ability to create an email list, you have the ability to reach people, you have the ability to do business. You can do anything you want and the barriers to education for anything are, like, they're not existent. Zero. You want to learn something? You want to get in touch with somebody? You can do that. I'm astounded from people using Twitter and LinkedIn, especially, you can get in touch with the world's experts on so many different subjects and actually have a conversation with them through messages and learn from them directly. You know, the flow of information, the control of our information, our ability to leverage our existence against the vast social order, like, it's never been like that in human history ever. For most human history, 100 years ago, even 20 years ago, to be a known person, the idea of being a known person, creating a network, building your own kind of world, how would you have done that? Calling people on the phone? Sending emails? That was not an idea in the social consciousness at all. That was even possible. Today, anyone can do that. People are doing it by the thousands every day because they have the tools. And some of them realize how powerful this is. So, I mean, that, like, I'm very optimistic about. Like, if this is finding extraordinary. The social decay break down the solution. You do have to accept at a certain point that not every epoch in human history is wonderful and good. As I said, ascending. Sometimes things are rough. You can compare maybe to living through the United States in the 1930s. It's like, wow, this is really shitty right now. It did get better, obviously. But yeah, it was a rough decade. It was. So it is. So deal. So speaking of forming networks, you have your inner circle. And a lot of those guys came together and formed and some of those guys were here. What was it like meeting the guys from Palestine?  I actually did not know they were going to show up. I was talking the last night. We thought we'd just kind of surprise you. Were the guys that were here? Robert was here. KG was here. Kilo was here. Sean was here. Quite a few actually. That was just really cool. I had very personal conversations with all of them. Thank you for changing my life. I mean, you did that. But, it was very gratifying. When I started that group over a year ago, it started as sort of like a fitness group. Some guys signed up. They liked me. It really demonstrated me the power of creating a network of friends. And men, it's a very appreciate thing to say. But like, Iron does sharpen iron. If you get men together and you give them a common cause and orientation and better themselves and develop themselves, you do extraordinary things. The most powerful force in the world is a group of men working together. Having those kinds of relationships. It's only been like a year. So I imagine a few years from now, they're going to do cool stuff. Did it hit a little different?  As the figure of speech. As the figure of speech. Thank you for having a positive impact on my existence. It's a great time to meet the men in person that I spent over a year with. Chatting daily. Sometimes hundreds of messages a day did hit a little different. It did. I get messages all the time from guys where they got a program or multiple programs and follow me a while. It's in the DMs, right? Thanks so much, dude. I'm proud of you. That's cool. When you see a guy in person, you're like, wow, this really changed their soul. Did you just come from the gym? Yeah. I don't normally dress like this, go out like this, I'm not that vain. I came from training. I was with Tanner and Jack and Arthur and we trained shoulders. What role does fitness play in the life of a man? Fitness can be everything. I mean, it's almost like a writing joke at this point. You probably say this, if I have to tell you that you need to be strong as a man, you're not going to make it. Yeah. It's a fundamental aspect of male reality. It is the most distinct characteristic of masculinity, masculine energy, yang energy, that strength is what defines you. Hardness, power, kinetic force, that's masculine. Everybody knows that's masculine. Both men and women intuitively, when we see that, that is what a man is. So, you have to train that, you have to embody it. You have to embody it.  Like one of the ways I frame the fundamental difference between feminine and masculine existence, men move the world by force, by direct action, man of action. Women will the world to move. They do it by soft power, by persuasion, by enticement. It would be very disparate for a woman to try to very connect, force things to happen. That's masculine energy. Same thing vice versa, for a man to try to be persuasive and use soft power that way. You can, but it's very Machiavellian. Within both masculine and feminine, you can do both. A lot of what soft power is beyond the pretense of what is seen is it's manipulation. It's Machiavellian manipulation. It's building relationships. It's knowing how to phrase things and use people's emotions and form alliances. And men obviously do that. But there's a sort of feminine dynamic to it. And vice versa, a lot of times for women to be effective in the world today, they have to be more masculine. But speaking about the characteristics on a very pure, unmixed homogenous level, strength is masculinity. Masculinity is strength. Those things operate on a feedback loop, but it's virtuous cycle. You've got to work out. You've got to lift weights. I always say that jokingly, but seriously, what do I do? What's my business model? I tell guys to lift weights. That changes the whole world. It does. It's been very successful. Fight club physique. Let's just talk a bit about that because I think we've spoken about it before. That was a huge thing during COVID for a lot of men. It was very derivative, obviously. Fight club physique. A lot of guys have seen that movie. But I realized as lockdowns happen, I was thinking about, okay, my business, people are going to work at training at home. All right, well, this is an opportunity for yourself this year to establish the habit of fitness and health. The train to get physically in shape. And as I kind of talk about in the book, you have to dispense of all the fuckery. There's going to be a lot of things in the news that will anger you and upset you and you're going to argue about it. This is going to feel so important.  No one cares what you think. You're slothly and you got 20% body fat. BMI is 35. Look at yourself. What is there about you to respect? Nothing. So do the push-ups. Do the workouts. Start training. Maybe you're from now. Like now you're a man of action.  You have the means now to actually change your life the way you want. You're not so reactive to everything. If you could put anything on the billboard what would you put on the billboard?   I'll tell you why.  We set that up beforehand. We set that up. We set that up.   We live in this modern discourse. This modern social discourse. We call it global homo-culture. Which to clarify for a lot of people, what does that mean? Global homo-culture is not about homosexuality. It refers to global homogeneity. Everything is the same. Everything has to be the same everywhere. Everybody has to think the same and agree the same. It's shared by each other. There's no differentiation. There's no intellectual diversity at all. That's what global homo-culture is. So there's this question I've seen arise. I haven't even been asked this on podcasts the last so many years. If you could put anything on a billboard, what would it be?  Share with me what you would say to people. The word of Jesus.  Human beings are diverse. The world is diverse. There's many civilizations. There's infinite kinds of people. There are messages that are divine and that they are universal while respecting others. People want to love. Absolutely. Is there a message that you could put on a billboard? A commercial billboard? That would inspire great change? Not really. Lift weights. Lift weights, yeah. Unfuck yourself. It's supposed to be pithy and quotable and you're going to put that in your bio, your LinkedIn bio.  I wouldn't put anything on a billboard. Where can people go to learn more about you? What do you do? I have a newsletter that I've operated on for five years and the newsletter is where I actually hopefully give the impression that I'm an intelligent person. The newsletter is e-mailed obviously but that's where I actually do long-form discourses, missives on a variety of subjects, both fitness and philosophical and intellectual. On so forth, obviously I have my Twitter account for Cortez. Instagram, I use Instagram a lot now for photo essays, which is really cool. Instagram is an incredible art medium that I don't think a lot of people really appreciate for that, but it is. Yeah, so newsletter, Instagram, Twitter, and then my DMs honestly are always open as well. I've never actually closed them, so they wouldn't send me a message. You'll probably hear back. Yeah, one of the speakers, I think it was Socrates, spoke very highly of your newsletter. Yeah, it's a pretty diverse subject matter. I mean, if I was to recreate newsletter today, it'd probably be on Substack. I charge for it, but it's free. It's the best place to reach me as well since I always check those e-mails and correspond with people. Can people sign up for that through your Twitter account? Yeah, through Twitter account, through the website, Cortez.site, very simple. Thank you, Alexander. This is Will Spencer with the Renaissance of Men and Alexander Juan Antonio Cortez. Thanks so much.


I think we should be able to sit down and then we'll be, before we start the meeting and have the others in there, there will be several ways of photographing. I think we should be able to sit down and then we'll be, before we start the meeting and have the others in there, there will be several ways of photographing. Chair over there. Well, we've seen you, President, healthy, in good health. And the sportsmen say in great form, in great form, The fact that the weather is like this is not our fault. I thought you didn't know the experiment with something like this. They promised that tomorrow the weather is going to be fine. Still, in fact, before we do it, still. I said today that I'm not going to leave Washington until the weather is fine. They promised that they would not leave Washington until the weather is fine. Still, in fact, before we do it, still. Thank you. Thank you. We will put this arm here, thank you. Actually, thank you. Thank you. President, this way we're expecting you to follow us today. Thank you. I don't want to comment on the pain. I don't want to comment on the pain. I don't want to comment on the pain. If I tell you everything, I will talk to the President. If I tell everything to you, why am I going to say the President's name? President, right place, thank you. Thank you to your government. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Minister, as usual with this much press, you and I would go out on this one, and we would be out on the lawn, taking these pictures all at once. We would do the rain without the only kind thing to do it this way. Mr. President, when you, Mr. President, meet with Comrade Gagvachev, I hope he will have a good year. When you, Mr. President, meet Mikhail Gagvachev, I hope that the weather there is going to be fine, really fine. Mr. President, how important are today's talks in determining whether the Geneva Summit will be successful? I think it's all part of the same thing. Let's go. Mr. President, would you meet with Foreign Minister alone without any aids today? Just wait for me. Maybe a few moments before we move over to lunch. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Just one more minute. Throughout the time that we spent in New York, the weather was fine. Yes, we haven't had a beautiful weather. We'll take a look at that in a little bit later. You know, which interests are you going to be living in, and which are you not going to be living in? And the current anniversary session of the General Assembly has been very interesting. You know, Roshin and Shota have studied. The representation is at a very high level. I understand from our own reports here that I hope I have you correct, that this storm, the hurricane, is yet to strike New York, but probably will be worse there than was here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This way, please. That's it. Thank you. This way, please. This way, please. Thank you. Thank you. Make it up that way with the other. Mr. President, thank you for your consideration in having it indoors today. Thank you. You're welcome. This way, please. This way. This way, please. This way, please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. How are you? How are you? I have a chance to look at how the United States is portraying the press. The picture was a little less than flattering. I don't raise that to make you uncomfortable. To make a point. This meeting has... Mr. President, I think these are backwards because we're gathered here. The interpreters are switching. This is going to be... All right. Shall I start over? In preparing for this meeting, I had a chance to look at how the United States is portraying the press. It's not a flattering picture, but I raise this not to make you uncomfortable, but to make a point. This meeting, and the meeting that I will have with Mr. Gorbachev in November, provide an opportunity to get a more accurate view of each other, you to get a true picture of who I am, who I stand for, and what I want to accomplish. And I'd like to get the same from Mr. Gorbachev. I think we need to get beyond the stereotypes and talk frankly about our differences. To explore, instructively, what we've achieved together between now and November 19th, and then after the Geneva meeting as well. When I met last year with Mr. Gromiko right here, we are now... I discussed my view of the world and of our two countries placing it. I'm sure you're familiar with what I said then in that conversation, so I won't repeat myself, but I would like to emphasize something that I had said that time. Our philosophies and political systems are very different, and will remain so. But at the same time, we live in this one world together, and I think it must handle the competition between us through peace. Neither of us will ever allow the other to have a military edge. But if you're ever going to clear the air, reduce suspicions, reduce nuclear arms, there will never be a better time. I'd like to discuss several points. Why the Soviet Union should feel threatened by us, and we have never started a war, and never will. I will explain why we will see your military build up, and your attempts to expand your influence in the world as threatening to us. And this is why we're rebuilding our own strength. We feel we must defend ourselves and to make sure that a war is never conceivable. But we need to go beyond the discussion of our rivalry. I would like to share with General Secretary Gorbachev our hopes and our plans for our peoples, yours and ours. We both have much to do at home, and if we understand each other's priorities better. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. What's said about me the better? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I said to the President that indeed our negotiations are have adjourned, and now we have a beautiful one. And that is all. I issued an executive order just before you arrived. But this will give you a chance to go around here a little bit. Just to let you know who's really boss. We have some rough spots on our way in the airplane, but we came well. Well, that is one thing about a hurricane. You can't fly over it. You can have a good airplane and a good bottle of beer. Actually, I think the meteorologists don't let them fly over a hurricane, and they have instruments. The meteorological evidence of Mr. Reagan, the stock market closed at 10 a.m. this morning. The bond market closed at 10 a.m. Oh, wait a minute. The recommendation was made and to close the stock market again, so the stock market did not open at all. The point is the hurricane is expected to hit New York between 12 o'clock and 2 o'clock. So sometime now in the next hour and 45 minutes, if it hasn't hit already, it's supposed to hit there. That's the best thing that's ever happened in the United Nations. The Secretary was shown to remember yesterday at the commemorative meeting of the Security Council. The first statement of the meeting of the Security Council had not yet begun. By that time, everyone has been close to the Security Council.


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I'd like to now welcome back Dr. Aiden Sharkey to present a talk on transseptal puncture. Dr. Sharkey actually is very familiar to us in Toronto as he did his chronic anesthesiology fellowship here before he started on staff at the Beth Israel Dickens Medical Center as a staff anesthesiologist. He has published in structural heart disease and has an interest in both interventions as well as in focus, Dr. Sharkey. Hello, everyone. My name is Dr. Aiden Sharkey. I'm an attending cardiac anesthesiologist at the Beth Israel Dickens Medical Center in Boston. And I would like to start off by thanking the organizing committee for the invitation to speak at this conference. I myself was a fellow at Toronto General Hospital in 2018. So it is both an honor and a privilege to be invited back to speak at this conference this year. So the topic for today's talk is TE guidance for transseptal puncture. And I have no conflicts or disclosures related to this topic. The outline of my talk today will be to discuss the importance and give a brief introduction on transseptal puncture. I will then discuss choosing the right location and TE guidance, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional guidance for performing a transseptal puncture. And then I will finish up by discussing some challenging situations followed on by a case example. So the transseptal puncture is not a new procedure. And in fact, this procedure has been around since the 1950s when it was initially developed as a way of measuring left-aid drug pressures. And for the last number of years, this procedure has been performed very successfully using fluoroscopic image guidance. However, what has changed in the last couple of years is the reasons for performing a transseptal puncture. No longer are we performing a transseptal puncture for monitoring left-sided pressures, but we are now performing a transseptal puncture for doing invasive, very precise trans-catheter procedures on the left side, such as trans-catheter mitral valve edge-to-edge repair, trans-catheter mitral valve replacements, left-aid repented occlusion, paravivalent leak closures, and so on. And so the indication for performing the transseptal puncture is what has really changed and reinvigorated our interest in this procedure. So what this has meant is that performing a transseptal puncture has gone from being an imprecise technique to a very precise technique that needs to be both precise and accurate, and not alone that, but a procedure that is specific to the procedure at hand and also specific to the patient in which this transseptal puncture is being performed on. And so why is it important to perform a very precise transseptal puncture? Well, there's two major reasons in my point of view for being precise and performing a transseptal puncture, and that is, first of all, patient safety, and second of all, to increase our chances of procedural success. So first of all, from a patient safety point of view, and to understand this, we need you to go back to the embryological origins of the interatrial septum. And from a very basic point of view, the normal interatrial septum is made up the septum primum and the septum secundum. And the septum primum initially forms, which separates the primitive common atria into left and right structures. And subsequently, the septum secundum is formed, and the important point to note here is that the septum secundum is formed by infolding of the atrial walls, and it's thus considered and is a extracardiac structure for space. And so the septum secundum doesn't completely fuse with the endocardial cushion, and the area where there is no fusion is known as the phosphorvalus. And this is the only true interatrial septum that separates the right and left atria without going through an extracardiac space. So performing a transseptal puncture in the extracardiac space is not an option as this exposes the patient to the risk of pericardial effusion. And so what we aim to do whenever we perform a transseptal puncture is we solely perform this through the phosphorvalus, and this is our only point where we can safely cross from the right side to the left side. And so looking at this from an echocardiac point of view, we can see here that the thin portion of the interatrial septum or the phosphorvalus is a very, very small structure. And so this is why we need to be very precise, very accurate for these procedures to minimize the risk of going through that extracardiac space and causing complications such as a pericardial effusion which may turn into a tamponade and an emergency situation for these patients. Now the second reason for being very precise and accurate in performing a transseptal puncture is to try and increase our procedural success. As I alluded to earlier, we are performing very complex interventions on the left side and we need to be very precise where we perform our transseptal puncture because where we perform our transseptal puncture will determine the maneuverability of our catheters within the left atrium. And so really, this is why each transseptal puncture needs to be not alone patient specific but it should also be procedure specific as where we perform our transseptal puncture will determine the maneuverability of our catheters within the left atrium. And so wash could be a very easy procedure, maybe a more difficult procedure if it is a transseptal puncture is not performed well. And a very easy procedure could be a very difficult procedure if it is performed in the suboptimal location. And for optimal results, such as this patient, this is why we need to be very precise and accurate where we perform our transseptal puncture. And when we perform a suboptimal puncture, we may end up with suboptimal results such as these patients who ended up having a paravital or leak and also a dislodged of the device. So now moving on to choosing the right location for performing the transseptal puncture. And as I alluded to before, this is both patient specific and also specific for the procedure that is being performed. However, there are some basic rules that we tend to follow when performing a transseptal puncture. And the basic rules are that we always perform the transseptal puncture within the phasor valus. That is the thin portion of the septum. And we always try to perform it at a very specific location. And what I mean by that is that between the echocardiographer and the interventionist, we should sit down before and decide where exactly in the phasor valus we're gonna perform this puncture. Is it gonna be more anterior? Is it gonna be posterior? Is it gonna be higher up? Is it gonna be lower down? And what's our septal height needed for the procedure? So this is what I mean by performing it in a specific location. Now there's some rules as to where we do not perform a transseptal puncture.  We do not do this procedure blindly. We do not do this procedure through a PFO. And we also tend not to do it through a very lipometous or a very thick septum. So these are some of the basic rules. And in terms of exact location on the phasor, there are some very good articles that have shown where the ideal location is. However, one thing I will say about following these locations is that we tend to be more patient-specific and procedure-specific. So in this example here to the right, they would say that for a mitreclip, we should be performing our transseptal puncture in a very superior and anterior location. However, for edge-to-edge repair in a more posterior-medial location, we may need to perform this in a much more inferior and much more posterior location that is depicted here. So we really need to be very patient-specific and procedure-specific for this procedure. Now moving on to TE guidance for the transseptal puncture. And it's important to know the rims of the phasor ovalis with regards to our imaging planes for guiding these transseptal punctures. And for this, we need to know the superior, the inferior and the anterior and inferior rim of the phasor ovalis. And then we also need to be able to guide the interventionist with regards to septal height above the mitrevalve annulus prior to crossing the intra-atial septum. And it's only when we really dissect down the heart and we can see that the phasor ovalis, which is located approximately here, is a very small structure. And not alone is it a small structure, but it's very close in proximity to a lot of other structures. You know, we can see its proximity to the IVC-SVC, tricuspid valve, the coronary sinus. So it's a very complex structure, much more complex than we give it due regard to. So in terms of image guidance for the transseptal puncture, as I alluded to before, we need to know the rims of the phasor ovalis. And the superior, inferior rim is depicted here in our midisophageal bicable view, where we can see the superior rim to the right and the inferior rim to the left. Looking at our anterior, posterior rims, this is usually obtained in our midisophageal short axis view. And again, here we can see our anterior rim and posterior rim of the phasor ovalis. And then as I alluded to before, when we talk about our transseptal height, this is obtained in our midisophageal four chamber view. And this is the height from the septal indentation to the plane of the mitral valve annulus. And so using a combination of all of these views and very quickly going between all these views, we should be able to guide the interventionalist with regards to performing a precise and accurate and safe transseptal puncture by transitioning between all these views. Now, if only obtaining these views was the crux of the procedure, it is not. However, what is most important is not alone obtaining these views, giving the information back to the interventionalist, but the difficult part comes in, tracking the transseptal needle as it is moving across the phasor ovalis and tracking the needle as it moves down from the SVC into the phasor ovalis and then guiding the transseptal needle and the interventionalist to that exact location. And that is where the art and the tricky part of this procedure comes into play. And so like all invasive and complex procedures, it is best to break these procedures down into building blocks. And we have recently published a protocol that we tend to follow for performing the transseptal puncture. And we've called it the PITLOG protocol. And what the PITLOG protocol does is that it is, tends to, we like to break down this complex procedure into small building blocks for teaching our residents and fellows performing this procedure. And it's a methodical approach to performing the transseptal puncture. And it involves practicing, obtaining the views, identifying the needle, tracking the needle as it comes down onto the phasor, locating the needle on the phasor, optimizing the location and then finally crossing the phasor ovalis into the left side. And so what we do is we break down the steps. And so first of all, as I said, this is the practice phase where we practice obtaining our bi-cable to look at the superior and inferior rims, our short axis view to look at our anterior posterior rim and our four chamber view to get the septal height. Because not every patient is at the optimal, you know, 90 degree, 45 degree omni-plane angles for these. And based on the rotation of the heart in the medial stymium will determine where the optimal omni-plane angle is for obtaining these views. So this is why it's important to practice obtaining these views for that specific patient. Next, we move on to the identification phase. And this is identifying the transeptal needle in the IVC, going up into the SVC. And this can be tricky, especially in patients that have, you know, other catheters or wires in the right atrium. And so this is why it's important to track the transeptal needle as seen here as it's coming from the IVC, going up to the SVC. And so this is the identification phase. Next is the tracking phase. And we can see here that we are continuously tracking the needle as it comes down from the SVC, falls onto the phassovalus and begins to tent the phassovalus. And the, you know, the key portion here is continuously tracking the needle as it's coming down onto the phasso to cause some degree of indentation. So we need to keep the needle in view the entire time. And we find that, you know, if you're losing the needle, you know, we find that the needle tip tends to cause a reverberation artifact and just locating this reverberation artifact, if you're having difficulty locating the needle tip can be a good method to make sure that you're looking at the tip as opposed to the shaft of the transceptile needle. And so next we wanna locate the position of the transceptile needle within the phassovalus. And we need to locate its position with regards to the rims of the phassovalus. That is the superior inferior rim as well as the anterior posterior rim. So where exactly is the point of maximal indentation or the needle tip within the phasso? We then will, you know, because we've already predetermined where we want to cross, we will optimize our position within the phassovalus. So we can see in this example here, we were a bit too anterior to where we wanted to be. And so our interventionist was able to use this information and move the transceptile needle to a more posterior location. So this is the optimization phase of our pitlog protocol. And again, we always look at all the views. So again, we'll go to our four chamber view and we will look at our, you know, septal height with regards to where this transceptile needle is to make sure that we have adequate height above the mitral valve annulus for our proposed procedure. And then finally, we will cross the intreatal septum under constant visual guidance under TE guidance. So we can see here the image to the left, you know, we are using radio frequency ablation to cross the septum. And then not alone that we are tracking the wire as across the intreatal septum into the left upper pulmonary vein as we can see in the image to the right. And so that is what we tend to do for our transceptile punctures. We tend to protocolize it. We find this good from a, you know, a teaching point of view and also it breaks down this complex procedure into manageable building blocks. And so that is our pitlog protocol that again, we have published recently in JCVA. So now let's talk about, we've talked mainly about two-dimensional imaging with regards to guiding the transceptile puncture. But what about 3D imaging? Well, we also talked about, you know, an element of 3D imaging with regards to, in our previous examples, we did use simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging. And this is a very good 3D imaging modality that is used, you know, quite routinely for performing these procedure. And orthogonal plane imaging allows us to view a structure in two different orthogonal planes. And so this is a very good imaging modality for performing this procedure. And so here we have an example of us utilizing orthogonal plane imaging where we have our, you know, on our reference plane on the left here, we have our short axis view. And then we will use orthogonal plane imaging to have our orthogonal image on the right, which gives us our, you know, superior, inferior rim of the phosphor ballast. So using this imaging modality, we're able to see, you know, the anterior posterior as well as the superior, inferior rims of the phosphor ballast in the single imaging window. And not alone that, but when we're guiding our catheters, we're also able to use simultaneous orthogonal plane imaging for viewing our transeptum needle within the phosphor within two imaging planes. And so this is a very good imaging modality for performing this procedure. Now I will say that it is very important to know where your reference plane is, because the machines will automatically obtain the orthogonal plane at 90 degrees to your reference plane. And so if, for example, on this image, you know, we have an image of the mitral valve where we have our reference plane in the long axis view, we used orthogonal plane imaging to get a commissural view. However, it's important to know that this image is actually flipped. So what should be medial is actually lateral and what should be lateral is actually medial. So it's very important to know and not fall into what we call the orthogonal plane trap when performing this procedure using orthogonal plane imaging. Now what about using volumetric imaging for performing transeptum puncture? And really in our experience, we have not found that using volumetric imaging alone is useful for performing this procedure. While we're able to visualize the rims, we don't find it very good for image guidance. And this is because if we were to get the same image that the interventionists get when performing the procedure under fluoroscopic guidance, we would need to have extensive manipulation of our volumetric image. Not alone would the image need to be flipped left to right, but it would also need to be turned upside down in order to get this representative image that the proceduralists get using fluoroscopic imaging. So we do not find that using volumetric imaging alone is of significant value when performing this procedure. However, what I will say is that we have found using multi-plane and reformatting a very useful imaging modality. And so in this example, we're able using multi-planar reconstruction, we're able to visualize all rims of the Phaserovalis, we're able to add 3D markers. So we have a volumetric image as well up to the left. And so we are now beginning to perform more of our transeptum punctures using live multi-planar reformatting in order to guide this procedure as highlighted in this case example here where we used live MPR to cross the intratual septum. And so this is just a still image where we can see where we're able to precisely locate exactly where and get visual feedback through multiple planes as to where exactly we were within the Phaserovalis. Now let's talk about some challenging situations. And the first challenging situation arises in that differing nomenclature between what the interventionalist is used to and what we as echocardiographers are used to. And so we have recently published a article also on the differing nomenclature between different imaging modalities of the intratual septum. And I would advise people to read this to get a more in-depth understanding of this. But to briefly describe what I mean is that when the interventionalists are viewing on their fluoroscopy, they're looking at the heart in the attitudinally correct position that the heart takes within the mediastinum. And they're also viewing the heart in relation to where the image beam intensifier is. And so what they are seeing is the more anatomically correcter, attitudinally correct anatomy. Whereas when we look at it on echocardiography, we are looking at a more Valentino description of the heart. That is, the heart is broken down into left and right sides. And so that is where our descriptive anatomy comes from. But this is not correct in terms of anatomically correct because if it was anatomically correct, the right atrium, the right ventricle actually sits more anterior, the left ventricle more inferior. However, in the Valentino description, we have the right ventricle on the right, the left ventricle on the left. And so differing nomenclature, it's important to understand between TEE guidance and fluoroscopic guidance. Another challenging situation could be in patients with very large atria. And it may be difficult to obtain adequate tending and it may require some interventionists to put excess curvature on their tracental needle. So this is information that they need prior to performing their procedure. Another challenging situation is patients who have a very lipomodous septum. And again, this is information you should be given to your interventionist as they may need to use radiofrequency ablation if they are to perform a tracental puncture in patients with a thicker or more lipomodous septum. And finally, patients with aneurysm septums may be at risk for sharing of the phosphovales from the septum or also causing excessive tending and what they do puncture through the phosphovales, potentially injuring structures within the left atrium if there's excessive tending. So now I'm gonna conclude with a quick case example of a performing a tracental puncture. And this is a patient who was undergoing a mitral valve edge-to-edge repair and they had a P3 leaflet flail causing severe mitral regurgitation. And so looking at where we are planning where we were to perform this procedure and if we were to perform this procedure where the guidelines state in a very superior and anterior position, we wouldn't have very good maneuverability to get at this more posterior medial location for the flare leaflet. So what we had decided was we needed to perform a very inferior and a very anterior tracental puncture.  And so this is what we set out to do. You know, we went through the practice phase of obtaining the ideal images. We identify the needle coming from the IVC into the SVC. We tracked the needle. We can see the needle tip here. We tracked it, you know, falling from the thick portion onto the thin portion of the fascival valus. We located the location of the tracental needle within the fascival valus, the location of maximal tenting. We then optimized our location with regards to all the rims, the superior, inferior, anterior posterior rim, but also the septal, the tracental puncture height above the plane of the mitral annulus. And so with this, we were able to perform very optimal tracental puncture for performing this edge-to-edge repair in a very posterior medial location of the mitral valve. And then we crossed on the visual guidance. You know, this was a very commissural edge-to-edge repair and this patient had a very good result. And this was in part to us spending a bit of time optimizing the location for the tracental puncture. So in conclusion, I will say that, you know, the fascival valus is a very, you know, simple yet very complex structure in terms of its relationship. It is very important to be very precise, very accurate in terms of where you perform a tracental puncture. You know, we traditionally use our four-chamber short-axis and bi-cable views for identifying all the rims of the fascival valus. We tend to use a very protocolized approach that is patient-specific, procedure-specific and for crossing the septal or for crossing the septum in a very precise location. And we tend to be, you know, moving towards using live multi-planar reconstruction for performing this procedure to optimize our results even more. I thank you for your attention and I look forward to a panel discussion and I'm open to answer any questions that may arise. Thank you.


Hello everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody. Just hanging out. I got to work on some top fives that I'm shooting later today with Roger. So I need to go over them, do some final tweaks. Figured I'd do that with y'all while you guys work. I'm Tom here from Daily Tech News Show here on the top five kitchen gadgets. Whether you enjoy cooking or not, we can all agree that anything that can take some of the work out of making, hey Zoe, anything that takes some of the work out of making a good tasting meal of beverage is a good thing to make your next dish delish. We came up with the top five kitchen gadgets that you need every cook's arsenal. Smart meat and smart oven thermometer. Bio-Cow, F-R-E-D, good to see y'all. Whether you're BBQing, baking, roasting or broiling the key to any good result is temperature control. Control that temp. A good smart meat or oven thermometer. Up to the second accurate information can let you know when to turn down the temp or roast. 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Some models automatically use the best method to cook a dish based on what you enter in its companion app. I am not one of the unlucky ones who lost their Google drive. Hope you aren't either. Cooking is getting easier thanks to these kitchen tech advancement. Think we missed them? Download. I'm Tom Emmer from Daily Tech's News Show. Ah, it's that lovely time of year when we all make predictions about what will happen next year. I feel good about these. Let's dive right into my top five tech predictions for 2024. Predictions for 2024. Number five, quantum computing starts being actually useful in some industries, drug discovery, genome sequencing, cryptography, meteorology, material science. It's been coming for decades, but lots of smart folks feel like the momentum is finally reaching usefulness. Ah, support RCS in USBC. Good one, Cliff Singer. Hey, Web of Magic. Coming in at number four, generative AI becomes boring. 2023 was the year of fear and awe of large language models. 24 would be the year of accepting their limitations, getting used to using them for the things they actually do well. Up to number three, cyber resilience because of the buzzword emphasizing not just security, but contingency plans. Every company professes to take cyber security seriously now, so the next step is to show you're prepared to weather future attacks. Sliding in at number two, the beginning of the end of passwords is past keys gain momentum. 2023 was about implementing past key in the infrastructure like browsers and operating systems. 2024 will be about big services supporting it, educating the public, making it common. At number one, mixed reality and augmented reality in the workplace. Apple will enter the augmented reality space, bringing with it all the attention, let's call that mixed. All the attention Apple brings to its product spaces and all the people who've been using it for Meta and others will finally have people listen to them about what it's good for. All right, there are my gambles. What about yours? Make your predictions in the comments. 2023 is almost over. Time to survey the year in tech news and name the biggest stories. I don't know why we like to look back on the year and name the biggest stories, but we do inevitably some big story breaks in January and forget all about them, but maybe that's why. Maybe we want one last chance to remember. Here are my top five biggest tech stories of 2023. Number five, Twitter becomes X. Love it or hate it, can't deny, people talk about it. I lost count of how many times people abandoned Twitter and or X only to see it continue to plot along. Can't imagine it'll be as big a story in 2024, right? Right. I mean, at number four, Microsoft acquiring Activision, Blizzard, the drama, the court cases, the revelations, the fact that the UK of all places was the deciding factor. And now Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are Microsoft properties. Maybe I'll take of all places. I don't mean it to sound disparaging. It only took years. Up to number three, the EU DSA and DMA acts. Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act are the EU's attempt, I guess those should be capitalized, to rein in big tech and rein in they are. Meta, Apple, Alphabet and Amazon have all contested various decisions that require them to modify their practices in order to assure it open playing field. This one will echo well into 2024. Sliding at number two, the Generative AI Wars, ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, Bard, Claude and more. When ChatGPT launched at the end of November 2022, I don't think anybody, including anybody at OpenAI expected to become the dominant story of 2023. Certainly they didn't expect it to cause panic at Google, but it did both those things. And it's changed the way people think about work already. At number one, Sam Altman getting fired, just skating in under the wire as OpenAI's board, deciding to try to get rid of Sam Altman, turns out the guy's pretty popular. And OpenAI's biggest partner, Microsoft, thinks he's great too, as well as indispensable. It was definitely the Game of Thrones moment of the year. Lots of other big stories. What do you think was the biggest? Let us know. Oh, with old my bacon. Do I have kitchen tech tech stories? Predictions. Only tech support tips. Didn't have that one. No, I was missing one, cause I should have five. I know, Cliff Singer. I, it, holiday is a chance to get together with your family, eat, share gifts, catch up on gossip and tech support their PCs, laptops and smartphones. It's easy to do when you're physically there, but what do you do for the rest of the year when you're away? We made a list of the top five tips to help you tech support family. It's easier. Number five, a password manager. Common tech support problem as a family member having trouble logging into a website. Forgot their password login or left the caps lock key on. Whatever the issue, a password manager goes a long way to, they store passwords in an encrypted container ensuring safety while offering convenience. You can even share passwords just in case. Coming in for a delegating email. Delegating email means a family member is allowed you to access, you access, but you don't have their account. Delegating email means you can read, send and delete email messages, but you can't make changes to their accounts like the password. This is useful if you have a family member that might need more help with their emails. Up to number three, external hard drive. And hey, Clinton, what's up? Large external hard drive in connection with their PC or Mac's automated backup function will come in handy in the event of OS corruption or data loss, shared cloud storage, securely storing share files, FaceTime or Google Meet. Sometimes there's a tech problem with no phone call or chat messages can add a good face-to-face. So you can see what you're dealing with when you can't drive or fly to a family member's house. A video call can be the next best thing. They can show you what the problem is and you can help them sort it out. We're on a desktop. InkText for family members is huge, is a lot. But these tools can help you make that task easier and less stressful. And if you have a family tech support suggestion, need either. Share your family tech support suggestions. Four down, four to go. How's that mastodon feed looking? Let's take a trip back in time to the 90s. 1990s were full of software for me. I had to choose carefully though because things weren't free back then. There was shareware, but no open source. So our producer Joe suggested I count down some of my essential pieces of software that helped me make the most of my IBM PS2 3286 and Packard Bell DX. Here are my top five software for the 1990s. Number five, Word Perfect by Corel. I was very obstinately in my 20s so I plopped down the money to buy Word Perfect. And I tried to use it too, mostly I did. Though I still did use my Word 5.0 for DOS sometimes. Coming in at number four, Netscape Communicator. Well, Netscape Navigator first of course, but as soon as Communicator came out, it was my stalwart. I had built-in page editor so I could open any web page into the editor and see how the HTML saved the page with edits of my own. Even make. It taught me HTML. And I used its email client too. I even used its successor CMunkey before finally switching to that new fangled other air Firefox. Let's make that successor. Up to number three, Adobe Page Mill. Well, Netscape Composer and Communicator was good. I got to where I wanted something a little more WYSIWYG. So I headed down to Computer City and picked up a copy of Adobe Page Mill. I think he used it well into the 2000s. Not the 200s. Sliding in at number two, Quicken. From 1997 until well now, I have used Quicken to organize my finances. It's a much different program these days, but I really haven't found an equivalent I like. Plus it keeps my data local. And number one, AIM ICQ. Uh-oh, uh-oh. To be honest, I was only ICQ for most of the 1990s, but I did jump on the AIM train when AOL integrated it into Netscape. And it was the way to keep in touch, even if I derided them both as unnecessary compared to email. That was a punk. There was also real player WinApp, WizFTP, Udora, Encarta, auto-exec bat, sound blaster. What 1990s software would you add to the list? Let us know. Want more great tech news? Go find it. A Daily Tech News Show. Ah yeah, PaintShop Pro. I almost put that one on the list too. Failure, tech failure. You fail, fail, fail. No one likes to dwell on failure. What am I talking about? Everyone likes to dwell on failure as long as it's somebody else's. And nobody more than the tech community. So I asked the internet. Internet, one of the biggest tech failures of 2023. Here's what I found. Number five, Cruise. They started out the year so well. They were providing driverless taxi service. The dream was real, but then this happened. And this, and especially this. And that caused California to pull their license to operate without a safety driver, which in turn caused Cruise to pull toll fleet. Bad year. Coming in at number four, OpenAI fires Sam Altman. Someone thought it was a good idea to fire the world's hottest CEO who was almost universally loved by his employees and not tell your majority investor until minutes before the announcement. That ended up causing almost the whole company to threaten to quit and go work for Microsoft, which had said it would gladly hire them. Fire fail. Up to number three, hiring Sam. No, I'm just kidding. Silicon Valley Bank. This one doesn't feel bad as bad now as it did then, but when Silicon Valley Bank went under on March 12th, it threatened the entire tech startup landscape and brought up awful comparisons to the 1930s. It's now a division of first citizens, but not before suffering a bank run and insolvency. Sliding in at number two, Twitter. Depending on your perspective, there are all kinds of ways to see this as a failure. The majority opinion on X and threads was that it was a failure of operations by its opinion of the people who talked, who posted to me on X and threads was that it was a failure of operations by its new owner. Some noted, however, that Twitter failed and now under its new name X can succeed. Others noted the failure of people to call it Twitter or even for all of X to have changed all references to Twitter. See, plenty of failure to go around. Here you go, Fretty. At number one, NFTs. Maybe it's too harsh to call them a failure. Some people are still collecting them, but they failed to achieve the glorious heights people predicted for them. And folks are now just bored of board apes and such. Look for them to make a comeback under another name someday, maybe. There were so many inventive dominations that didn't make this list. Many think of AI as a failure, which I found odd, given just how many people are using chatGPT. Among other ideas were the MGM hack, Russia's crash in the moon, cryptocurrency itself, we work so many more. What's your top tech failure of the year? Let us know. Good job. Good guess. It's a pretty obvious guess, but still a good guess. Cause it should. Smartphones are great. They're an indispensable part of modern life and they have almost everything you need pre-installed right out of the box. But to improve the security functionality and usability of your phone, you'll wanna make sure you have additional apps installed from get go. Here are the top five smartphone apps you need. A web browser. The default browser pre-installed in your phone is great. Why should you use an alternative browser? One word, privacy. If you don't want anyone tracking your web surfing activity, consider a third-party browser. Alternatives like DuckDuckGo, which has nifty one-touch clear all tabs in data mode, or Brave with its ad blocking engine. What's the Firefox one called? I'm gonna add that. Payments app. If you wanna use your phone to pay for things, you need to have the right payments app installed. If you don't use Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Samsung Pay, you'll need to make sure you have Venmo, Paypal, Zell, or whatever service you use before. Up to number three, VPN app. Data privacy also means using a data network you trust. If you're roaming or using public Wi-Fi and want some extra security, get a trusted VPN service and download their app. Sliding number two, password manager. Two-factor authentication is crucial.  That code typically expires 90 seconds after it's issued. Smartphones are only as good as the apps you have installed on them, and remember to keep them updated. Is there an app you think should be included? What's your must-have app? Let us know. Let us know. You know, some of the ones that say they require a certain one, don't. I have discovered this. Now, some do. That's not always true, but that's a good point.  Don't use an app. Just turn the phone off. Want to build a PC? You need these tools. Building your own PC is a rewarding experience, but you need to make sure you have the right tools. So, Roger put together a list of must-have tools, built many a PC in his time. Let's count them down. Bye, BioCal.  Number five, telescopic magnetic pickup tool. Because so much of a PC is put together with tiny steel screws, you know. Sliding in at number four, screw tray. Did I mention that PCs are held together with tiny little screws? When you're installing or replacing a component, you're going to have a lot of screws lying around.  Any small dish or container will work to keep those little pieces from getting lost. Coming in at number three, anti-static mat and wristband. Static electricity is the bane of people's hair and the health of your PC. Large enough charge can damage the sensitive electronics on motherboards, hard drives, and expansion cards. An anti-static mat and wristband will help discharge any static charge. Up to number two, flashlight.  The inside of a PC case is often dark and it can be, flashlight helps illuminate.  Instead of getting a goose necklight or a head flashlight as they'll free up your hands to hold and position tools. Number one, multi-bit screwdriver. A multi-bit screwdriver is just like a regular... I want to be successful, you need the right tools. Do you think we missed a must-have tool? Thanks y'all, that was nice having you along for that. I usually am talking to myself while I do this bit. Bit, get it, bit. And you got a little preview. I just need to upload these to my finished top five edits and uploaded to the prompter. To the prompter. The essential app is the flashlight app. What else is up? We got Patrick Norton coming on the show today. He's gonna tell us about tech for long drives in case you're doing a drive for the holidays. That's mostly like mapping resources, weather stuff. Makes sense. Helps you with the tech you need for any long winter drives you have coming up. Plus, new chips from Amazon? Why you won't? And why your hand will be your employee badge soon. Well, either my chat crashed or you all went silent. I feel like I wasn't getting all of the chat messages too because I saw people saying things to each other that I was not seeing in the... Oh, Clinton's still there. Okay, just drinking coffee. So it's still okay. Good, all right. Coffee sounds good. I've had two mugs already. That's probably enough. Oh, okay. Did y'all get the substack? I don't know if you subscribed to the substack.  Maybe you don't wanna hear it. Oh, cool. Why the magic? Let me know what you think. Zoe brings bacon. But really, really what she brings most often is coffee. Bacon is just the highest value item. Not the most frequent item. Oh, good. Thanks. Well, I should probably take out the trash. That's literally what I'm gonna go do right now.  Most volume. There you go. That's a good way of putting it. Thanks, y'all. Good hanging out with you. Tour of my hat collection is a great idea, Zoe. I do have to take out the trash though and then get ready for the show. But remember that next time I'm like looking around for something to do, bring that up. Cause yeah, oh boy. I don't know if we can do it all in one go either. Yeah, son bun. You too. All right. Talk to you guys in a bit.


My question involves deplatforming and freedom of speech. Have you heard of a fellow called Mike Masnick? No. Okay. I hadn't heard of him until a few days ago when I saw. I think it was on YouTube. An interview he did with Nicholas B. From Reason magazine. Yeah. Now, Mike Masnick, about over 20 years, created a blog called Tech Dirt. And he found he's founder and CEO of the Coppia Institute. His interests are tech technology. Particularly as it relates to freedom of speech. Privacy. And business issues and legal issues confronting technology. Okay. Happily, he seems to be on the right track. And I don't know what he knows about objectivism. But what I heard. Was good. He's. He won't, he, when he uses the word censorship, he means he limits it to government. But he's not in control. So that's refreshing. Yeah. The balance. And he's very much. Support section 230. In fact, he advocates expanding it to provide better protection. For intellectual property rights better than the digital millennial. Millennium copyright act does. He seems really on the right track. Now here's where I get to my question.  Now he took a different position. He said that the practices that the different platforms follow, the decisions they make when they moderate their content, the content is very much context specific. And he thought it was impossible to actually come out with rules that wouldn't have to keep changing based on the specific. And I thought, well, that sounded legitimate, sensible, but I also thought that it might be possible to state their rules in terms of principles that would not have to be changed rather than make them very specific. You may not say this, but you may not say anything that would in our soul judgment cause such and such. For example, now, he's actually taken this, so I want to, I'd like, part A is like your opinion of that. Part B is he wrote an article in 2019 for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and it's titled, Protocols, Not Platforms, A Technological Approach to Free Speech. I haven't read it yet, and I guess you haven't either because you weren't familiar with him. I can send you a link to the article because I'd be interested, yeah, I'll email it to you. I'll be interested in hearing what you think because it sounds like he's taking it to another step. You know, to try to find a solution when solutions are tough, everyone, I mean, every good person agrees that the government has no role to play, but it doesn't mean it's still easy.  So I think the important thing to note here is that whatever the solution is, it's very difficult to get to. And I have a lot of sympathy for Facebook and for Twitter and for others who are trying to figure out what the balance is. Now, I think they're biased, and I think they ignore their bias because they live in a bubble where they don't know that not everybody thinks like they do. But no matter what philosophical perspective you have, to try to write up a code that is objective is going to be hard, and I don't have the solution of what it is. And it would have to be a series of principles that could then be adapted to various contexts. So there's no question that a lot of what you say, its meaning is contextual and whether it violates in terms of services contextual or not. So that is all I think absolutely right. But I don't think that precludes being able to have a set of principles that can guide you. It's important for content creator to know, well, what is crossing the line with these guys? What can I say? What can't I say? What can I do? What can't I do? You know, we talk about the importance of having objective laws. And I think the same thing is true here, less so, of course, laws are more important because the government can actually use force against you. But just from a business perspective, it's crucial in order to keep your clientele to have clear rules, clear guidelines, clear principles that allow you to determine. But it's hard. So I was on a call the other day with, it was a private call. So I'm not going to tell you exactly who it was, but two people on the call were people responsible for content curation at two of the largest social media platforms in the world. And they were, I'd say both of them were probably mildly left of center. They weren't rabid progressives. One of them said she used to be a Republican and she's not anymore, but she's not a wacko either. And the thing that came across from having just a discussion with them is that they are really struggling with how to do this and how to do it right. What constitutes, in citing what constitutes, now put aside the legal definition, but what constitutes for their purposes in citing what constitutes the kind of speech they don't want on their platform. And they are struggling, they don't know, I think that's true of Zuckerberg, I think that's true of, I mean, I don't know if you saw the internal memos at Twitter around whether to take Trump off the platform or not. And there was massive disagreement about whether to do it or not. The CEO, I forget his name, the CEO didn't want to take Trump off. He wanted to keep Trump on.  And there's a whole exchange and then he does a whole stream on Twitter to try to explain why they did it, why he accepted his staff overruling him in a sense. These are difficult decisions from a business perspective, difficult decisions to make and try to stay consistent. I don't think they do necessarily a good job at it, but I appreciate the difficulty that they face in doing it. And I think Republicans and some objectivists and many libertarians are way too dismissive. Oh, they should just allow all speech on. I remember when Jordan Peterson was trying to create his own platform about a year ago before you got sick, was trying to create a competitor Facebook. And I heard this from Dave Rubin, I think, and Dave was telling me that the real challenge that they were facing was not technical. It wasn't even marketing. The real challenge they were facing is how to create terms of servers that would allow a maximum of speech, but wouldn't allow everybody. They don't want everybody. They don't want all speech because some speech would make the platform non desirable to beyond. For example, pornographic speech, right? People just wouldn't want to be on. So how do you set the guidelines? How do you set the limits is not an easy problem. And people are way too quick to criticize and to make fun of and to trivialize what's involved here.  And I think they would admit that some of the stuff that landed up on the platform shouldn't have been there. And then the question is, how do you police that? So this is a very complicated issue that one of the beauties of markets is that the different players do it differently and over time, and maybe it takes a decade. The market kind of figures out, motivates the right set, the set that actually is has stable and is workable. And part of that is different companies have different standards and push and pull and all of that that happens in a marketplace. Now, the problem we face today is that government is involved and that's what distorts and perverts the whole thing. But if just markets were working on this problem, we would solve it. Given the government's involved, that's where it gets challenging. OK, thanks Roy. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think, meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, women's or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of despair, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist, Broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes. That should be at least 100. I think at least 100 of you actually like the show.  But but at least the people who are liking it, you know, I want to see. I want to see a thumbs up. There you go. Start liking it. I want to see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. And you know, the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. 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