Okay, great I think there were a bunch of good cases, but I think that I hate to do this What's between where's the gap What do you want to present? Yeah, we're looking at Sending a JSON failure, returning a JSON failure with the results. I'm sorry to interrupt, what were you saying? Yeah, so we're basically looking at Intermediating research By sending a JSON request And then the result would be A JSON request answer Down the line a player would be able To actually take that JSON So for when a majority of it's here Like if we would say like In power, you would say Come up and present What else would you want to pop in there To complete a video of the CLI Or to sketch a public code Or a diagram or anything Okay, so if you want to bring the Can you send the code? Or can you put it into a I can take a It's definitely yet I can also send snapshots Can you send a Can you put a link to the code where Snapshots are great Can you send it into the code You guys have the right version of the slides Can you please put a link to the I guess all the tools are linked to the GitHub repo probably Where it links to your respective projects And that way when you get up here You want to take the pages to the The link box to the code You actually have a branch for Hacktastic Okay, alright, thanks Are you guys here with me? I declare a second success Okay, so now the next one we have Is Endor Berkeley College of Music Goodness So could you think of a mic? Steve Carey Come over here So if you think a little bit So this will do that so far We've got Armstaking a little bit Look at the slides We've got some possible predictions That make sense in the context of The Berkeley College of Music And the Berkeley Contest We've got the data source Which is sweet How much data is there? It was roughly 20 gigabytes 20 gigabytes Which is more than a little Biotonite And how many rows are you using Yeah, something like that It's like a building where there's data So it's getting real up in here And it's And then we have your approach And then You extend the analysis In particular as you look At other data sources Is there anything missing in here? That you want to show? Like you mean flashing Out the approach or Everything is not so far Do you have something that we'd like Approximately visualization you give And it's meaningful You're asking for the slides Not for speaking right now The risk Currently at the stage Where we found the popular songs Trying to find the predictions of other them And find the more potentially Popular songs And show them all From the slide Okay, so what will we have to say If I want to give the slides a link From there Put it here Put it here in the slides In the slides? What are you going to give the slides That this is there? The results, the predictions Perfect, and is it realistic that you can Watch some of the slides in the next hour? We'll try I want to declare this A substantial success But there's still some residual risk But still we should definitely do that So now we've got one more Now come the days Of Anaco So we'll have Mr. S. Sure, so what is it You want me to try again? I guess first I'll say On the slide we've got the double statement And some basic obstacles We've got all statements You should look at So you could start with a slip So next steps Who the team members are And that's it What else Would they want to say? I mean it's a tie I think last time This change It's really important But I mean The premise of what it was Is that I did a competition A while back from coming to go Had such a huge increase in vision It's the time when we started I think one of the days That you'd be impressed In the music space How would we be able to connect With the actual Classification or just So much different So many different layers So that's really what it is I want to say this one The soundtrack Any idea of how easy Just like to change something Reduces the samples And how about James He's a developer He's a student What is very important To keep perspective Why are you afraid of this or that? If you were doing some favorite part I think it's going to be fun To see what it's like And if you're really I think it's going to be fun So is that That scene sounds like that one That would be useful Is that you realize that You're doing this for five years I don't think you can sketch something out of it In the picture of Trevor Soros I think It's got a lot of paper Some of my guys Explained how it's going to But I don't think so So I'm really going to say I'm going to weigh it up here I just added a few things Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper Paper There's join rest that's going to be a large event, and here's what we have to get for the work we decide to do, which is going to combine all the sessions together. So we're going to circle the chairs, and I'll get about 45 minutes or so, get the call outs from three dozen teams that are doing the cool stuff all year for the end of the year. And then, we're going to ask people to do up the solo, and kind of do your thing, to talk about music industry, and then we'll go right to the solo feed that we've discussed. And we'll just take it apart. For a period of time, and I have to be here. So, yeah, I think the value that I can make you bring here, Dominic, you're representative for Open Music Initiative. Open Music Initiative is a joint effort started between birthday and MIT, and we've got now several hundred members, including all the major labels and publishers. It's a non-profit, obviously an entity who was really, to my mind, into addressing some of the barriers of things like the DRD, and to provide standard to the open protocol for the music business, Dominic and I are trying to better facilitate licenses in open markets for rights holders. You know, for me, the failure of the music industry began, I guess, with the exception of the endemic racism and misogyny and systems created really to keep rights holders at best sort of under control, where it's just computer control. And there's a lot of misinformation in my mind about the health of the music industry. It's not hopefully at all. It's consolidated deeply. Spotify is in the free major, so I would applaud them. It's a deeply kind of relationship. Amazon, Apple, and Google are using music as loss leaders for their higher volume services. And the people that are being left out is really anybody who's not very high up in the music ecosystem, if they're performing or whatever. So what we need desperately right now, to my mind, is machine readable licenses where artists can create such rules for them. We need a decentralized marketplace that's not owned or controlled by any particular entity, and we need rules law. And doing that, we can facilitate new markets, and in no way does that obviate the ragers from being in those markets. So as many of you I'm sure were intrigued by blockchain as a self-straight layer, because it has certain attributes that we could potentially facilitate this. I think that blockchain and music is at a really pivotal time right now. People are going about it in a deeply wrong way, and that's sending a signal to the market that it doesn't work. Maybe it works when it doesn't, but it's going to be first the right way. So I spent the last four or five years writing, researching, and building on the blockchain. I'm a JD, and I do a lot of work in the copyright space. So I'm happy to give my two cents and take it to what it is. I'm incredibly biased, and I don't trust institutions, so you'll have to just sort of take that for what it is. But I do know the blockchain space, I do know copyright very well. So I can be a person with questions about what's going on in the space, or sort of that what you all are doing. I'd love to for me, as I say, we're at critical juncture and we really, really need to get to a place where stakeholders can announce their rights and people on the buy side can find them. To me, the very, very best heuristic is the safer database, and it's going to continue to power the travel agency. It's obviously not a decentralized database, but if you know anything about the industry that it provides on the site. So, I'll try to back this up, but I'm here, and I need your help anyway. Thank you. So, let's welcome George. There's no way I would do a music hack to solve it. Incidentally, we'll get more announcements to follow up. Because we've been collaborating on this, and we find the right time to do it, we decided to make this not an end, but a beginning. And so, this will be used in the culmination of January, where we co-teach of course, at the media level, and the Berkeley College of Music, and that will be the fourth annual our blockchain and AI seminar here, on the complication of law. And we'll just really dedicate a full game to the music industry, and to learn more about the business world.  George is a resource, but people seriously can talk to you a little bit about your projects. Don't be shy. It's what I really take it seriously. It can pop on its own. And then in about 45 minutes, we'll pencil us down wherever that hack is at that point. That's what it is for today. We can keep doing it. Everybody's well on the course of January. So, you don't have to stop. You don't have to end your project. You just have to get to presentation. So, we'll get some quick presentations. George and I, maybe, or whoever, say, or maybe use some feedback on your projects. And then we'll go right through the discussion, and kind of synthesize all the issues. So, I'll be back in a few minutes. We don't know. We don't know this one. We can still expect it. So, you know, it's interesting. It is. It is. It is. So, this is about one of the things that I want to talk about. At this place, we'll say, Rob, maybe something like this. There's 12 actions. It's fine. So, we're doing what we want. We're doing what we want. We're doing what we want. We're doing what we want. We're doing this for you as an individual. And now, let's take it for granted. I have a lot of information that you need to know. You know, that's what I'm talking about. So, that in mind, I was thinking about making predictions. But if we go into a different sentence, we say that we are doing something. Google has an amazing way of finding ways to stay connected. They are doing something that's really, really useful for indexing the show. They are doing something that's really, really useful for indexing the show. We know that there are similar things that can be done. We're going to do a different thing. We're going to do something that's really useful for indexing the show. In such a case, you know, it's kind of like, okay, how could they say that? We're going to have to say, well, I mean, we're going to do like a Korean kind of thing. We're going to do a onespan build-out. And it's kind of like a condo organization. Because they're going to do a single video service. The way it's a matter of fact, the word I think is a science itself. So, it doesn't bring that. It's a matter of fact, for the first place, you can count the size. You can kind of say, well, it's 100 percent correct. It's good evidence. Yeah, it's not too accurate. We're going to do a website. We're going to do a website. We're going to do a website. You're going to see that in one of your class. That's how much material we found out we did. That's nice. That's a butch up with growth. As I said, really quite a challenge. Why did you end up sketch? I was scaling it all right. I think there was some math there. So this is the problem. Where are you taking the picture? This is the problem. Where are you taking the picture? I'm taking the picture. So this is the problem. So what's the issue again? I can't see the problem. You have to press the square key. You're right to go to the two back. You're right to go to the two back. So they take back what's in here. Or put it out there. And there's sometimes most people who don't have the same idea. You know what they don't. You're right. Of course they don't want to talk about it. But eventually, it's fine. If you want to talk to me, definitely I'd love to. I'll give you my a little call. Maybe some more juice. Maybe. And you can shoot me. Sure thing. And with regards to the Sandy Fandland's projects. I'll look it up. Of course. Of course. There it's It's It's It's kind of It's kind of It's kind of It's kind of It's kind of It's not It's it's It's It's It's Of course. Of course. Yes. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. Of course. I mean, it's really interesting because it's changed all the time for me, so should we allow the group to analyze what's selected to, that's always what I ask of them. And I think that's a really interesting challenge that I never really anticipated. I've always been aware of what we should limit, limit dating, so you can have more possible models for those who are still alive. I mean, of course, you can take three for some of the potentially harmful things like that. Yeah, and these are just too much. Definitely. I must say, in terms of logic perspective, I think that we're changing for a lot of years already and we're just talking to the developers, especially one of the individuals, we're like that kind of revolution of the products that we're not. This is this option of this. We don't really have a different variation in that sense. We wouldn't be able to create different products between really actually kind of, it's really an advantage to be able to do all these. We would say it's very, very nice to be able to be done. Yeah, right now, we're actually having a lot of people on the show, like two million people here today. So, isn't this great? Yeah, it is. It's a little scary, obviously, but it's a good process. So many of these candidates that are here, and they have their own scores, they don't have any expectations. It's very, very cool from it. The more beautiful it is, the more fun it is, and it's just as an option to have an energy supply and now we can store it, we can store it. It's going to be a problem. We'll say, wow, oh, we can store it. And I'll say, OK, we can store it. So now we can put food. I have money. I've been running out of insides. Should we do that? Is it something that we should do now? Yeah, it kind of feelfully takes them back. They're already angry. Yeah. We have this power of taking away anything. They might say, well, if I take everything that you do, every cell phone. Yeah. Every cell phone. Yeah. I can do that. If you would be with the model in the south, what is your tendency to be in the middle of things now and have a customer? What? Where's the guy? Would you do it? Would you do it later? It could be a real problem. So this is what you're doing. This is kind of the way it talks. Yeah, I'm not sure. You see? So this is, those are the questions. Because if you don't do that, there's no way to really trust you. Because it's coming this way. Because if you do that, now your type might be simpler. Yeah. And now you need to just be trusting. Correct. That's what I'm thinking. There's a lot of this. There's a lot of families and girls. There's a lot of reasons to use the formulation of data. Because now we can run the data very fast. We can take your theory. If you get some interesting talks and you can just put them in the comments. Very fast. Yeah. If you get some data. Yeah. Of course if you could go check it. No. I have two questions. So one of them, we'll get to a minute, which is about what I do. We're making this tool up for you. It's not good in bad ways. I'm sort of going to take a step back before deciding what to do with it. You want to ask me about that point in a similar situation. And the other question is, one I don't think I've explained very clearly about before you're going to talk about a different thing. Different things. It's not like you need to do something but it's just a little bit different. So this is an example of where as a human you might be able to do some analogy and look at the past in the end. There's no precedent for this working outline but I think that the way that we're making data or another, you know, you think that there's no precedent or any reason to look at the outline. You know what I mean? It's sort of like, it's a type of analysis that requires more than 1,000 people. Compared to that, where you see just a little bit of information that you can check out. And then a curious, I think you've read the book of why. It's like, it's on the list. OK. I'm sorry to interrupt you about that, because one of the premises of the book is that. I don't know how much I've got to basically say. I don't know if they've heard it. Right now, we're going to have a discussion for it. It'll never happen, because right now, we never want to have Germany in power. And we're just going to do a lot of things. We're going to make them find more relations, but to have Germany in power. And that's the premise of the book. That's interesting. It's a big business pass. Yeah, definitely. We've made a lot of progress. I guess that's one thing we have to do. I'm curious enough, because this is an area we need to talk to all of us, I think that in order for a candy or a real guy, let some people take a tour of this place. Thank you. Thank you. This is interesting, because one of the toughest things we're going to have to be happy right now is how the roof table is going to be circled, and the floor is going to have to be on the ground. And then it's going to be on the ground. You said when you've been in a few months' decision, I thought why are you doing it specifically? Are you H.C.Y. friendly? No, there are a lot of people on this thing. OK. I didn't mind. I just wanted to say that. I'm plugging it up there. Maybe he's not. Let me do a while. Maybe a thousand. Then we will be very motivated to try and deliver what we're so-so. Let's hope that all the different fields are looking at. I didn't even know that you were very good at this. I spoke to Chris this summer. I was speaking about the project, and I was like, you know what I mean? It's interesting. You were good. You were good. You said very clearly. It's interesting. It's interesting. Thank you. He's trying to blow it out. This is an example of what it is. Which I can see in the images. It's very, very cool. Just based on this. It's very cool.


Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to a new video. So in this one, we're gonna be looking at three really awesome products that you can dropship and sell on your Shopify stores. As usual, we're gonna be looking at their buying price, selling price, profit margins, where you can source them from, and the Facebook tag team options. You guys seem to enjoy these videos, so I am making it a weekly thing. So for your weekly dose of product ideas, make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel. If you enjoyed the video, please hit that like button. And of course, for your chance to win a one-to-one call with me, make sure you post your comment below. And I do read every single comment, actually. So if there is a question you want to ask me, post it below and I will answer it for you. Before we jump into product number one, just a quick note to say that this keynote that I'm gonna be running through that contains all the links, et cetera, it is actually downloadable to download it so you have your own copy. Just check out the first link in the description below. So that being said, guys, thanks for tuning in and let's jump straight into product number one, which is this, in my opinion, really cool rocket nylite. Now, this is something I've not seen around much. There isn't many people advertising on Facebook, hence why I believe it to be such a good product to sell right now. If you watched my previous videos on how to pick a good product, you'll know that one of the ideal criteria when it comes to picking a product that's gonna be successful on Facebook is picking a product that not many people have seen before and this product matches that piece of criteria. It's a new, cool and quirky product not many people would have seen before and therefore it's an ideal product to advertise on Facebook because nobody's seen it before so therefore it's going to get quite a lot of attention. The second point is, is the fact that there's a huge market purely because a product like this would be advertised at parents, obviously buying it for their child and the average Facebook user age now is 35 plus and the majority of the population at 35 do actually have children. So Facebook is kind of like the perfect platform to advertise a product like this and what also makes this an ideal product to advertise on Facebook is when it comes to video ad creative opportunities there's loads for this. So the first thing I thought of when I come across this product was if you've ever seen kind of like those 70s or 80s when the Rockets used to take off and they used to do like a countdown or I think it might have even been at the beginning of the films you'd have like a five, four, three. You could have something similar and then as the countdown reaches zero then if you had a good kind of video editor or video creator, you could have the flames kind of work their way down so it actually looks like the lamp itself is taking off. So something like that I just think would be a really cool ad and would get a lot of attention and when it comes to advertising on social media then obviously the more attention you can get on your product and your ad, then the better. The next point is the fact that a product like this is actually on the upper trend believe it or not, more and more people are searching for night lights. So if I just open a link to illustrate this. So night light is the search term we're looking worldwide 2004 to present you can see we're actually at peak popularity now. So a product like this would be ideal to stick on your store now, spend a couple of weeks creating some content around it some video ads perhaps even buy one yourself so you can film the video ad yourself and then you get kicked off straight away running ads for it. One of the beauties obviously with drop shipping is the fact that it's so quick to find new products get them on your store and start selling them immediately whereas with a typical brick and mortar store they'll have to do product development they'll have to do product samples and source the product and so on. So take advantage of the drop shipping business model and yeah get this on your store and start testing it. Now before we move into profit margins there's one point I forgot to mention that you should double check depending on what country you're going to be selling to then obviously make sure the product comes with the correct plug if it is one that plugs into all some of the ones I found are rechargeable via USB so obviously they're going to be universal. Now in terms of the profit margin on average depending on what model you go for you're looking at about 14 pounds 97 including ePacket which is pretty decent and then I actually found the exact same product selling on Amazon for 34.99 so you can actually compete with what's on Amazon when it comes to this product which is obviously a good thing. So on average you're looking at about 20 pounds and two pounds profit minus your Facebook advertising cost. Now if you can achieve a cost per purchase of 10 pounds which is pretty reasonable nowadays then you're looking at 10 pound per order or per sale profit which is very reasonable. If you sell 10 of these a day that's 100 pound profit per day, 36 grand a year minus taxes and expenses which is a decent wage or at least the average UK wage as it currently stands today. Breakeven ROAS wise then so if you do 34.99 divided by 20 pound or two pence is a 1.75 breakeven ROAS. So when you are running your ad sets as long as your ROAS is above 1.75 then you know you're making a profit. Facebook tags in wise then one of the most important points when it comes to advertising any product. I'll go for male and female obviously there's male and female parents I'll go for 21 plus and then parents with children of a certain age just so to show you then how you would target people like this. I've got my ad manager open here we can go into here add demographics and we can go parents and then it gives us all these different options here and to be honest I would probably run an ad set for each age group so I would definitely go one to two three to five, not to 12 months, six to eight and I would go nine to 12 as well even the one above that if there is one it doesn't look like there is so I'd definitely test each and individual one go fairly broad now I don't usually recommend going broad but in this instance I would to test it and then start narrowing down and focusing on what is actually working. So with that being said then that is product number one I hope you enjoyed it if you did then please obviously hit that like button and if you didn't if you don't think it's a very good product then leave a comment down below and let me know why it's always interesting to get the viewer's point of view anyway moving on to product number two we have this portable blender bottle now bear with me I know you've probably seen this before but this is super relevant for this time of year or certainly from January onwards now where the potential lies in a product like this is if you are going to go down this route then don't even focus about making a sale in the next three to four weeks focus on that second week of January onwards and take the time between now and then buy one of each color film your own ad even send one or two maybe even three off to quite small influencers that in return will send you three to five pieces of user-generated content because when it comes to selling a product like this if you can show people using it demonstrate how it can make somebody's life easier how it can help somebody be healthier which is what like the majority of the population do from January onwards then it's only going to help your case and help you sell a product like this it's all going to be about the content which we'll be speaking more about in a second so it's perfect for early 2020 onwards it's a super relevant trend if we just open up the Google Trend information now we can clearly see that blender bottles are actually approaching the most popular time that they've ever reached in the past 14, 15 years so there's more people searching for this term than there ever has been which makes this an ideal time to sell a product like this and the market is so huge it doesn't matter how many people are advertising in it there's always going to be room to make some decent money however to do that there's a couple of things you have to do so number one as it says here, no be unique it's a competitive niche, yes I accept that but if you sell it differently offer a USP give somebody a reason to shop from you instead of somebody else and one of those reasons could be if you create a recipe e-book that you email with each sale so they could go to somebody else like Blendjet who are one of the big names and buy this bottle or they could come to you and get essentially the same product but they get a free e-book with certain recipes for free which is just an added bonus and an added reason to get customers to sell to buy from you rather than somebody else with a product like this there's one product store potential a lot of people like one product stores they seem to be in demand at the moment or a lot of people are into them so if you do like that route and that strategy then a product like this definitely demands enough attention to be able to do something like this because there's just endless content you can create just for example then if I open up this link and show you the video ad just to kind of give you ideas of the sorts of things that you can recreate just the more content you can produce around products like this then the better the more ways you can demonstrate how you can use it where you can take it the amount of people buying it and using it then the better and that kind of leads me on to my next point in fact which is you can piggyback off big brand names so for example, Blendjet will be investing hundreds of thousands of pounds or dollars into advertising this product and not everybody will buy that product the first time they see it they might buy it the second time or the third time or fourth time they see it and that might be when they actually see your ad so for example somebody might see it once or twice from Blendjet just the bottle itself for 34.99 which is actually what they're retailing at but then the third time they actually see your ad see the fact it comes with a free e-book and that's enough then to persuade them to actually make the purchase and they're buying it from you not somebody else. Moving on to the numbers then 1181 including the e-packet that's about average across the board and then retail price wise 34.99 and that's actually what Blendjet are selling it for themselves so if they can sell it at that then there's no reason why we can't which leaves about 23 pounds profit again, if you can achieve a 10 pound cost per purchase it's going to leave you a pretty healthy profit margin and that doesn't include any up sales or cross sales or anything like that. 34.99 divided by 23.18 leaves you with a 1.51 break even in ROAS so again as long as your ad sets are above that number then you're gonna be making a profit. Now when it comes to tags in the product of this it's gonna be pretty broad again which I don't tend to recommend so what it would do is go for female and male it applies to both genders in my opinion go for 35 plus I believe it's gonna be the older generation in comparison to myself that would buy a product like this it might be completely wrong you could perhaps test lower if you have the budget to do so and then I would go for generic fitness related interests for example like lose weight or running the reason being is because hardcore gym goers might not necessarily use a product like this or hardcore gym goers will be more aware that they can get a product like this from somebody else plus if you take into account the fitness industry as a whole most people aren't hardcore gym goers the bulk of the industry is probably made up from people who have a little dabble every now and again but aren't really that serious about it so generic fitness related interests I would also include the interests of online shopping past purchase behaviors and engaged shoppers if you can target people that have history of buying from Facebook ads then of course that can only be a good thing with that being said then that wraps up product number two I hope you enjoyed it if you did please hit that like button and moving into the third and final product then is this sofa cover now bear with me because this surprised me myself I weren't actually going to include this on the list but it was too good to ignore the numbers were really good and it was popular with customers in the comment section as well I found a couple of Facebook ads for product like this and people just seem to love a product like this and the more I thought about it the more actually made sense if you think sofas nowadays are pretty expensive like for something like this that is pictured you're probably looking at best part of a thousand pound a thousand dollars and if you've had it for a few years and it starts to look a bit shabby there's the odd rip instead of investing another thousand dollars into a sofa you can buy something like this which is 50, $60 and it makes it look like a new sofa like there's a huge cost saving to investing in a product like this versus a brand new sofa so yeah it's really popular with comments trust me do your own research on this and you'll see what I mean point three there's great Facebook ad capabilities I want to show you one ad in particular that gained my attention because it just illustrated the products really nicely and what I can actually do and one of the points I wanted which is actually on the keynote as well is that an ad that kind of like demonstrates the before and after like something like this where you have the original sofa this like time lapse of how long it actually takes to fit and the difference and improvement it can actually make then it's just advertising gold it just really is and it's going to get lots of good feedback and attention on social media which again is only going to be a good thing back to the keynote then and as I already mentioned before and after photos would work really well for a product like this now before and after photos aren't allowed in the fitness industry where you show somebody's body but when it comes to sofas there's no problem at all I've already checked that one out next point is there's not many advertisers on Facebook which is obviously a good thing less competitive a product is the better and it's actually on an upward trend and it's at peak popularity believe it or not so again I just want to prove this to you and show you the data so sofa cover worldwide 2004 to present as you can see from kind of like 2013 it's just crept up and up and up so nowadays there's more and more people looking for a sofa cover so now just it seems like the ideal time to get into a product like this there's a lot of people I talk to that are within the home niche and if I had a store within the home niche then this product would definitely be on that store right now moving on to the last couple of points then there's plenty of upsell opportunities which is obviously a good thing and the more money you can make per order initially then the better and there's great profit margins too so I started on the smallest one and then took the equivalent prices so i.e. 12 pounds 14 including an e-packet so that's including delivered to the customer 29.99 retail price so even for the very cheapest one and this was just for an armchair too so when you go up to a two-seater sofa three-seater sofa something like this and then you're making sort of pretty decent numbers per order anyway so this leaves you with 17 pounds 59 profit per sale which is a 1.7 break even ROAS Facebook targeting wise for products like this now I don't believe there's going to be that many people are aware that products like this exists so I would go quite broad and base it on past purchase behavior and engage shoppers, online shoppers, et cetera see what sticks and then start to narrow down and focus in like that for example though you can actually target furniture and home improvement at certain interests so if you are within the home niche and there are certain interests you've tested that have worked well definitely apply them to this because you'll be able to replicate the same sort of success now with that being said guys thank you very much for watching that is all three products I really do appreciate the sport in every single video if you enjoyed it then please hit that like button for your weekly dose for the same again next week three completely new products make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel for all my free ebooks and resources check out the links in the video description below and with that being said I'm just going to get into announcing the winner of the previous video for that one-to-one call what's up guys so this is my previous video then 80 likes which is absolutely awesome so 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Welcome to Books, Books, Books to Tech, Hawaii. I'm your host, Elaine Gallant, and here's where we'll talk about reading books, writing books, and everything in between and beyond. Today, I have a crime thriller that I can't wait to talk about that involves the Catholic Church and its ongoing problem with pedophilia. Now, I know this could be a very heartbreaking topic, but I have with me today the novel's author, Tom Hogan, to guide us through this discussion. Welcome, Tom. Thanks, Elaine, nice to be here. Well, I'm very happy to have you. First, I wanna say, I wanted this interview so very much because I was raised Catholic, and I seriously think I could have been your character, Carla Jessup. Okay. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Everyone seems to love Carla. I love Carla. I love the fact when they ask her if she's Catholic and she says, what did she say? I'm lapsed permanently. Yeah, lapsed early and permanently. There you go. I love that. I always say I'm Catholic and I'm upset about it. So, I'm with her on that one. Not to knock the Catholic Church. It's a very good religion, but there is a problem in the Catholic Church and I love the fact that you have made, you have written a crime thriller that uses this as its base. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself first and what might have influenced this novel and then we'll go into the novel itself. Sure. As far as the novel, the background, religiously, et cetera, I studied religion in fact for a year. I was in the Catholic Seminary, so I'm familiar with the system. I wound up studying in religion and getting degrees in it, bachelor and masters, working in biblical archeology. So I was in religion, but not in the theological. But in the process for one year, I also lived in a Protestant Seminary just because it was the only place when I was doing archeology that would hold me. So I've got experience with both the Catholic and the Protestant Seminary systems and how different they are. And then as a professor of religion, I obviously was exposed to any number of different religious types, including the priests who were at some of the schools that I taught at. So I was pretty familiar with the church as well as the people within it and then the Protestant side of the coin as well. Yes. And you have a very diverse background actually. You have written several novels, which we'll get to shortly. You've written screenplays and have won awards, in particular the Page Competition and the Austin Film Festival. You've also written for Newsweek and a number of political and travel publications, including the Jerusalem Post and the Bulwark. But prior to joining Silicon Valley, and I'm gonna just read this part, where your agency, Proud at Ocean, launched over 50 startups.  I just wanna make sure I have all of that and if there's anything you wanna add. That's all correct. There you go. Okay. So let's talk about the empty confessional. I've already identified with Carla. Do you identify with Father Michael or Father Gabe? You know, Father Gabe, definitely. Not because I'm 26 years old with a buff body and skilled in the martial arts, but because of the idea that you could have a calling, which I thought I did when I was younger. And yet, you know, the calling brings with it an institution, in this case, the Catholic Church, which has got some laws and some practices that even at 18 years old, you sit there and raise an eyebrow and go, you know, this may not be for me. And so, you know, that kind of internal drama that he had, as well as the idea that the Catholicism comes with it, the idea of celibacy, which isn't very attractive to a 17 or 18-year-old young man in California during the 60s and early 70s is, yeah. So I identified with him. I'm glad you identified with Carla, but had you identified with Father Gabe, we would have had a different conversation here. So, but yeah. All right, now, let's talk, there are, you bring this out in the novel briefly, that there are several kinds of pedophilia. Pedophilia being the preference for children ages under 11 to 14 and F ofophilia and Hebaophilia, which is a preference for children, boys being the first, girls being the latter of ages 15 to 16. I don't know where I wanna go with this because I just wanted to define it first because there are levels of pedophilia and we don't know how far the Catholic church has gone, the priests have gone with this and I wouldn't even try to figure it out. So I'm not even gonna go there. We're gonna stick with the book. Yeah. The first thing to know is that it's never called pedophilia, according to a conversation between Gabe and Father Michael Montgomery, which you don't know is really a priest until very late in the story, I have to say. So I was tickled to learn that. I hope I'm not spilling any y'all. Oh, no. You know, anything there, but it's always considered inappropriate contact by the Catholic church. Right. No, I mean, if you look at it and the reason that I parsed the different kinds of pedophilia was not because I wanted to be scientific, it's because as I was pointing out in the conversations between the priests who are investigating the scandal, there were times where the church used just those legal distinctions to end a case. In other words, you're charging us with pedophilia when in fact it's another one of these corner cases and the case was dropped not because of the merits, but because of the legalities. And yeah, the church basically has a playbook that it goes through when, let's say a 12 or 14 year old girl or boy approaches their parents and tells them what happened with father so and so, they will go to the church and the church has essentially a playbook where it will never use certain terms. It will always attack the, first off, gently attack the accuser and say, you know what kids are like, they can misinterpret, et cetera. If the parents or the child wants to stay the course and continue their charges against the church, then the church goes too well, you could damage a good man's reputation. We've seen cases where the people who charged the church become pariahs in their own neighborhood, lose their jobs, you really want that to happen to you. And then it's only the rare cases that stay with it that the church will actually open its checkbook. And if it does, it does with very draconian restrictions on it so you never hear about them in terms of the settlements, how much and what the charges were. And the church has got it down to, if not a science, a very strong craft. And even with the new pope, it doesn't seem like it's moved that far off what it's been doing for centuries, but only recently been brought to life. Well, I love how you laid that out in the book because, you know, we're curious as to how, you know, we hear about it happening and we're curious how all of these things, and you're very thorough in this book. I mean, it's a crime thriller first, okay? And believe me, I felt like I had to strap myself in the chair, the novel moved very quickly. It was very exciting. The fact that I know so little about Krav Maga, I had to look it up. I had to, I mean, I know it's from Israel, you know, the martial arts is from Israel, but I didn't know how it differed from other martial arts. So it was a very educational book in a lot of ways, but first it was a thriller that kept my attention. It was a vigilante justice. You call it vigilante and or pilgrim justice in your book. And we can talk about that because, Matt, I was thinking, this is like that Charles Bronson movie, you know?   That would be quite interesting because the topic is so, not unusual, but so taboo. Nobody thinks of writing a book and having this as the basis for it, except for you. I think that's fabulous. I appreciate what you're saying. Yeah, I liked very much the direction that it took as well. I was just on the phone this morning conversations with people out in Hollywood or a dime a dozen, et cetera, but there is some interest in this being like a mini series or even a series because it's such a, if you think about buddy movies like Lethal Weapon or whatever, this is a weird buddy movie of a priest, a young priest and a cynical middle-aged woman detective. And what are they joined by? Well, they're both joined by a desire for justice or vengeance depending on your definition. And if you think about it, she wants to get the people, this is, I don't think I'm spoiling anything. She's frustrated by the people who walk in her world because of a court.   And in the case of the pedophilic priests that are part of his world, he's looking to exact vengeance that the church should be doing for justice and isn't. So yeah, the idea was with all of the novels that I've written is someone came up with the term, these are educational thrillers. I'm good with that because as you said, you learn a lot about the Catholic church, but not in a textbook or a nonprofit document or a documentary of sorts. It was the same thing with the Holocaust novel. It was a crime thriller set in Auschwitz, but you learned a ton about the Holocaust and how the camps work. And my first novel was about sexual violence in prisons. Again, a thriller, but in the process, you learn quite a bit about violent offenders and prisons, et cetera. So the idea is always to combine or impart a certain amount of knowledge about a setting with, but always keep it within the context of a thriller. So what do you know about the current Catholic church of stance on pedophilia? Has anything changed? I mean, there's been cases, there's been investigations, there's been charges filed. Has anything changed? It's a great question. I mean, I think the biggest issue is there's a new pope who seems to have his heart in the right place.  I think the bottom line is, if you looked at this from the standpoint of zero tolerance and encouraging the church to share all of its files with the local authorities, the church is a light year away from that, even with the new pope and his good heart. And I think the reason for that very simply is the church is still the foremost guidance that the church has is self-preservation. And there's a part in the book where the guy says, when he's looking at Gabe, a 27-year-old guy, he goes, I was looking for more of an Irish guy with a drinker's nose in his fifties. And he said, nah, those guys are kind of gone if you're more likely to get a Filipino guy than you are the old Irish guy from the thirties. What that means, it's the same thing as with nurses today.  And so there's always this recruiting. It's the same thing with the church. They're having to go offshore to get their next generation of priests and they're just trying to hold on and they're afraid that they decimate their ranks if they took a zero tolerance and went after the known pedophiles within the church. So it's self-preservation number one and number two for them. Yes, another good thing about your book is you have Gabe fighting battles of his own. I'm not gonna give that one away, okay? And I don't wanna give away the ending either because I loved what you did. I'm just gonna say that, I loved what you did. I have to say, I enjoyed the read. I'm so happy that this novel came my way to talk to you about it. So thank you very much for writing it. I wanna ask you about your other fiction books and that is, you've already briefly mentioned them. One was Left Alive, Left For Alive, about missing persons, rape and murder in Northern California and a group of ex-cons and political refugees living in an abandoned Luggenburg camp. You wanna talk about that one real quick? Sure, I mean, and here's the people say, write what you know. And I've written three novels, one about pedophilia, one about the holocaust and one about sexual violence in prison. Well, I've never been in prison. I wasn't in the holocaust and I've never been defiled by a priest. But I know a bit about all of those in the case of sexual violence. My wife was the, when we met was the head of the rape crisis center and for Northern California.  And the husbands quite often have no idea how to deal with the crime as well as when and how to approach their wife as the healing goes on. So I learned enough about that to write that book. As you pointed out, I was a lecturer or an assistant professor at holocaust studies. Something that I had studied while I was over in Israel working on digs. So when I came back to the US, I taught that for a while in 2000, I walked away from Silicon Valley for five years to teach again, this time holocaust and genocide at UC Santa Cruz.  It's the star of the show. It's blaring at you and, you know, in 64 point letters, six million killed, et cetera. And I thought, what if you backed off from that and used a form that more people find attractive like a thriller, but set it in Auschwitz so that you learn about Auschwitz, but you don't have it hammered right into your forehead saying, feel bad, you know, learn everything that you can, et cetera. So that was the idea behind that. And that was the title, The Devil's Breath. That's the Devil's Breath. And that set in Auschwitz in 1943. And the idea again is, I think some people know about this, but there was a gold operation at Auschwitz where they would harvest from the corpses from the gas chamber. They would harvest the gold from the teeth of the victims and smelt it down and then provide it to the third Reich. As well, they would take out the jewels that were either in the luggage or quite often with the victims, they had started secreting them in their anal cavities to avoid having something to barter with in the camps, but then boom. So the idea was, well, what happens if that whole operation gets compromised by a murder and the commandant has to solve it and recover the gold before the SS comes for its next shipment. And he can't do it with his guards because they'll all report him to the SS. So he has to do it by finding a detective team within the prison population. And that's what he does. He finds a husband and wife team where the husband was the head of detectives in the Warsaw Ghetto and the wife was his right-hand person and an investigative reporter. And he threatens them with not just their death, death of all of their cabin mates up to 1,000 people if they don't help him solve this crime. So that became the basis of the devil's breath. Okay, so I'm gonna ask you a question you get asked a lot. And why do you write about such grip topics? Sexual violence and prison life and left for alive, the Holocaust and devil's breath and pedophilia and the Catholic church and the empty confessional. Why do you write about such grim topics? Well, I mean, and this isn't intended to be a flip answer, but if you hear actors, they'll say, drama is easy, comedy is hard. And they get, they comment on it. And I think you commented on it already in terms of the empty confessional. I have a kind of a sardonic or a black sense of humor that I use in all three books so that it's not so heavy handed, but I couldn't imagine sustaining that for 350 pages. Right. Whereas the themes that you were just talking about are easier to write about in the sense that they are are so fascinating. I mean, to give you an idea, and I never came up with an answer for this, but there were two elements that I could never get my hands around in writing the empty confessional is. Number one is how would I as a pedophile priest go about recruiting other priests, which is how it happens. There's gonna be that moment, even if I think that you're leaning in that direction where I've got to reveal myself to you and say, hey, how would you like to join us tonight and rape 12 year old kids? I mean, I could never envision that moment as a human being. And the other one was when that priest, even if he cultivates the kids with, oh, God is special and here's why I'm so in need of release. There comes that moment where he has to cross the line into abusing a small child that trusts him. And as much as I wrote it, I finally had to write it into the book and say, I can't get my hands around these two things. And I like how you handled that because it also, because the reader feels the same way. They don't know how to get their hands around this. You know, their heads around it. You know what I mean? They just don't know. No, I agree. It's horrendous and it's not accepted practice in the Catholic church, but it sure as hell has winked at and has been probably for as long as there's been a Catholic church, but certainly in the 20th century when we have files about it. Well, I'm glad you wrote these books. Somebody has to approach the subject.  And this is a fabulous way. You put it into such a fabulous format, not format, you put it into a genre that makes it, I didn't know whether to focus on the thriller part or be angry over the other part, the Catholic church. You know, I kept flipping between the two and I ended up on the thriller side. So kudos, you did it. Great, thank you. Okay, so you're also asked this question a lot. You're a professor of Holocaust studies. How did you end up running corporate marketing at a company like Oracle? And well, no, I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna wait for the second half. You answer that one first. No, and yes, you're right.  And you know, number two is how did it happen? I can guarantee you that it would never happen today. What happened was, in fact, I was speaking at a retreat for a human rights organization and when I was still teaching Holocaust studies and one of the people on the board of the organization was a really, he was the CEO of a large company, not Larry Ellison at that point. And he came up to me after my presentation, he said, why don't you ride back with me to San Jose? And I wanna talk to you about something. And he said, this valley, it wasn't even known as Silicon Valley, I don't think at that point, you know, is about to explode. If you're done with teaching or if you want to make a different change, et cetera, you should get into it now. And that was it. It's the basically, they were hiring anyone who could put a noun in front of a verb. It was early days of Apple, et cetera. So I went with his company and then went from that company to Oracle. And I joined Oracle when Oracle was 90 million in sales. And, you know, I was the only corporate marketing guy and then the great thing about Oracle is, I don't know that I would recommend it as a business practice, but it doesn't trust outsiders. It does not want Elaine Gallant to come in and say, you know, when I was at Xerox, we did it this way. They wanna hire people who are inexperienced, but that they think are bright. They were determined to be the number one employer of Harvard, MIT and Stanford graduates. And in fact, they did, you know, those people would even be working the front desk and then move their way in kind of like people starting in the mail room, in the agency business in Hollywood. So the point was I got there early. They hired beneath me and kept promoting me until all of a sudden I'm the head of corporate marketing for a billion dollar corporation, but it happened for two reasons. One was that early hiring talent drought and then secondly, Oracle's refusal to bring in experienced people above me. They'd rather promote you. That was how it happened. It would never happen that way today.  We could probably have a whole show just on that, saying I wanted to strap myself in, but you did write, can we show the website, please, Tom's website, Tom Hogan's website because you have several books. And I do want to just take one, 30 seconds, talk about the ultimate startup guide, marketing lessons, war stories and hard-won advice from leading venture capitalists and angel investors. And then I want to mention your new one because I love the terminology you're using. Okay. There's your website. There we are. So the ultimate startup guide came about, you know what it is? Well, number one is we were introduced as the people who wrote the book on startup marketing because we'd launched so many of them.  Then probably we should write the book and then we can be introduced formally that way and people will buy the book. What had happened was my partner in crowded ocean, Carol Broadbent, had been my counterpart at Sun Microsystems back in their early days. And she had put Sun on the map the way that hopefully I had helped put Oracle on the map. And then we met later in life at another company and then we both went off and did other things and came back together to form crowded ocean. And what was great about crowded ocean was we didn't really prospect for work. What would happen is the VCs, the venture capitalists who knew us from Oracle and Sundays were delighted to have people that they knew and trusted that they could bring in to the startups that they were investing in and say, hey, listen, I love your stuff. The technology is there. By the way, you've never run a company. You've never organized a sales team. You've never built a website. Here's the people who've done it at Oracle and Sun and for at that point, 20 of our customers, many of whom had become famous by then. Someone gives you $8 million and then recommends that you use crowded ocean.  Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there, Tom, because we are out of time. I didn't even get to mention your new book. Doug got it, but it's called Timmer Humor. It is? Just go to the website. I appreciate all of the time, Elaine and both. That's a great download. Great download. Tom, you're very diverse.  I'm so happy. It shows in your work. It is of such a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for joining us. I wanna thank everyone at Think Tech, the technicians, Jay Padela producer, all our supporters, our underwriters, our viewers. Thank you so much. We can't do it without you. Tom, come back and visit us sometime. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


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