So, welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast. I am so excited today because I've got my head chef extraordinaire, Kate Holtzauer, with me today. She is the recipe developer for the Plant Paradox Cookbook. She's also helping me come up with the recipes for my upcoming book, The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy, which is coming out this January. So, Kate, welcome. Thank you. Yeah, I think I just saw you a few minutes ago. I think you might have. I think so. So, we've got a 30-day challenge for people who wanted to try the Plant Paradox, but you know, they've been a little bit nervous about it, but we'll talk more about that later. But today, we're going to talk about how to adapt your holiday recipes to make them more Plant Paradox friendly. And so, I am so excited to have you on. Kate and I have been collaborating now for about over two years, and Kate really has been a lifesaver. Oftentimes, if you see my hands on one of the YouTube videos, I got news for you. It's actually Kate. And Kate and I just have this incredible relationship.   Yeah, you've had me busy. I have had you busy. So what's your passion? How did you get into this? Well, my passion for cooking started when I was a little kid. I've been cooking with my parents since I was five, six years old. And it was whatever they were making. Or as I got older, my mom was doing most of the cooking my dad was traveling. And she's vegetarian. I like meat. So I figured out how to make dinner. But later, I worked as a pastry chef at some of the best restaurants in LA. I'm trained at the Cordon Bleu. Ooh la la. As one does when eating nothing but flour and butter for years on end, I got really heavy. So I became passionate about creating recipes that tasted good and worked for me. I've lost over 80 pounds, kept it off. Wait a minute. Yeah. I lost 70 pounds. You're telling me you lost 80 pounds? Yep. Oh, shoot. We are going to have a challenge, ladies and gentlemen. And I'll get to that towards the end of the show. But now, okay, all right, 80 pounds. And you and I know how hard it is to do that. Really difficult. But it's not impossible, even if especially this time of the year, it feels like everything is stacked against you.  It's crazy. So that's a good way to get into this. So what do you like having lost all that weight and now keeping it off? What do you like about the Plant Paradox program? I like how it puts vegetables forward. Like I said, I love to eat meat. But for both ethical reasons and health reasons, I've been focusing personally on making meat the side and vegetables, the main part of my meal. And I think the Plant Paradox program is a really good reminder that things can be delicious, they can be filling, and they don't have to be a steak on a plate. They don't? No, they can be. As long as it's a grass-fed steak and you're not eating that much of it, but they don't have to be. Yeah, that's a really good point. So through the years, you and I have worked closer and closer and closer together. So give me a typical, what's a week like? How do you come up with these recipes? How does all this come about? Show me the magic of the Gundry MD kitchen. Well, sometimes it starts with you emailing me some crazy idea and going, hey, Kate, this looks good. Let's try to make it compliant. And I get in the kitchen, I go through our ingredients, go through what's in the recipe I can't use and figure out how to replicate flavors, textures, and the way it would cook with stuff that I can use. And often it's a couple things that are really gross before I come up with the good version and then I improve the good version once or twice and you get the great version. Yeah. And it's kind of like a scientific experiment saying, okay, we know, that's what we tried to do with the Plant Paradox Cookbook. We tried to give people kind of the foods that they love, but now we wanted to have the foods love them back. And your genius is that you can give people the mouth feel they're accustomed to, the flavors they're accustomed to, and it's actually going to improve their health. Right. There's no reason you can't eat mac and cheese or a slice of cake as long as you do it the right way. Yeah. I mean, that's what's so fun. Yeah. And it's also fun. I know we like to entertain friends and Penny, who is actually not a cook. I'm the cook in the family, Penny's my wife. She now has taken over because the Plant Paradox Cookbook and loves to amaze friends with, you know, like an olive oil cake and, you know, for dessert and they go, Oh, that's so good. It's really good, really good. You did a great job on that. That's a perfect example of, I said, you know, cake, you got to have an olive oil cake because, you know, olive oil has got to be in everything. And you know, how are we going to make this work and you did it. Well, if you remember, that one wasn't just me. That was one of the contest winners, but I went through her recipe, converted it from Metric because we're publishing in America, made a few tweaks to make it really full proof and it was a great collaboration all around. And you've actually taken the cover design of the Plant Paradox Cookbook, which was a great cauliflower pizza recipe from one of my patients and a great restaurateur from Burba. And you made it work for the home kitchen. Right. Not every chef recipe is something anyone can do just because you might not have the equipment or you might not have the knife skills. So what I do with recipes is I take them, I work on them and then I hand them to my husband who is great at following instructions but not naturally great in the kitchen. And if he feels like he can make them, I feel like anyone can make them. Love you, no offense. What's the craziest request I've ever sent you? Oh, weekly? Which one, huh? Which one? The 10 recipes? Hi, Kate. I need 10 new recipes this week. Was pretty crazy. That really was. That was a mad rush to the finish, but we got it done. I'd like cake and ice cream without flour or dairy. Yeah. Also. Yeah, those were fun. Fun but challenging. Definitely a challenge. And a lot of, when we end up replicating junky foods with healthy ingredients because you don't just want it to be kind of right. You want it to be addictive and delicious just like a mac and cheese or a stuffing. But you want it to work. Yeah, you want, again, the whole objective is to get what people are used to, to get them mouthfeel, the taste, everything, the look and not have it kill them. And it can be done. It can be done. That's the brilliance of the plant paradox cookbook. And I think people are going to see that in the plant paradox quick and easy. I think so too. It makes what we've already set out in the cookbook even simpler. And it's great for families. It's great for really busy people, which is exciting, because we've all got 5 million things going on and having less work at the end of the day is fantastic. Exactly. Okay, so it is the holiday season. It sure is. And what are some of the easy swaps that people can do to survive this season and still eat the plant paradox way? Well, one of my favorites is swap potatoes for cauliflower. Any way you prepare potatoes, you can prepare cauliflower, roasted, mashed, even fried. And you get the same starchy feel, the same flavor, but without the lectins. And another favorite. Anything you could do with beans, you could do with broccoli. You're exactly right. And I think the traditional green bean casserole with a can of mushroom soup and onions that are french fried on top of it may be one of the most lethal holiday foods there is. And everybody goes for it because, oh, there's my serving of vegetables. It's healthy. But why not take some broccoli with some caramelized onions on top of it, maybe even a little coconut cream if you want that creamy texture.  And it'll actually improve your health. Yeah. That's what we're trying to do.  So how about turkey and gravy? I mean, we've got to have turkey and gravy. What are we going to do? Well, we roast the turkey. If you check out Dr. Gundry's YouTube channel, not only can he roast the turkey, he can carve a turkey and he'll even show you how. I'm a surgeon after all. He's a surgeon. Yeah. Gravy is a little trickier. Traditional gravy is thickened with flour, but it doesn't have to be. I find heavy cream or even coconut cream thickens up a gravy nicely if you just cook it over the stove. Okay. Yeah. So that's a great swap out. Yeah. Ditch the flour, make it a little richer and more delicious, actually. And everybody's got to have their apple pie or their pumpkin pie. Any swap outs here? Sweet potato pie. Oh. Just make it with electing free crust. There's one in the cookbook. There it is. You can also just mix together unsweetened shredded coconut and a little grass-fed butter or coconut oil and pat it into the crust like a graham cracker crust. It sounds pretty easy. Yeah. Now, Dairy, a lot of people are worried about Dairy. As you know, I'm very worried about KCNA1. We're starting, we actually now have a test looking at whether people react to KCNA1 and we're not surprised that a lot of people do. So what do we do about Dairy? Well, this one's been personal for me. I'm not great with Dairy myself. So even before you and I teamed up, I've been doing a lot of work avoiding Dairy in my life, except sometimes ice cream. But if you're worried about KCNA1, you can do A2 milk. You can do heavy cream as the KCNA1 isn't in the cream. You can also use coconut cream or unsweetened almond milk, coconut milk. There are really a lot of possibilities that make even swaps that aren't problematic. Cranberry sauce. What do we do with all the sugar in cranberry sauce? Well, a few options. You could use swerve or monk fruit sweetener or one of the other Stevia, gundry approved sweetener. Stevia tastes a little metallic with the cranberries, I agree. How about just like sugar, one of my favorites? It's mostly inulin with a little bit of orange essence in it. And orange is really beautiful with cranberries. It's a little harder to find in a lot of supermarkets, but I find you can find it on Amazon. You can find swerve at just about any Whole Foods. So for people who are wanting to shop and store, it is an option. Yeah, and actually Whole Foods has agave-based inulin. It's a powder and it's perfectly safe, inulin, as you know, and I know, feeds good gut bugs. It's actually some of the gut bugs' most favorite fuel. They also have agave-inulin syrup now, which if you're wanting a really quick cooked or even a raw cranberry sauce, is a way to go. And since you brought up agave, agave syrup, not agave-inulin syrup, is very different. We talked about some recipes. As you know, one of my favorite recipes from the Plant Paradox Cookbook is the millet stuffing. And everybody's got to have stuffing. Absolutely. Stuffing is delicious. And we've got a YouTube video on how to do that, right? We do. Yeah. It's pretty simple. You take your basic stuffing ingredients, ditch the bread, and use cooked millet instead. I mean, most of the things in stuffing, celery, carrots, onions, whole other verbs, really fine on the plan. You could even use some pasture-raised sausage if you're able to find it, if that's your style, or a whole lot of mushrooms, like I do in my stuffing. We've got vegetarians in the family. And done. Yeah. I put a lot of mushrooms in ours. But there are actually pretty easy to find sausages from pasture-raised animals online. I'll give one shout-out. I have no relationship with them. Belcampo Meats. Oh, I love them. They are a wonderful organization that's a base of Mount Shasta. Everything they do is pastured. And they do have some sausages that are great, and they ship overnight, frozen, and they're actually... You're here in the LA area. They're in Santa Monica and downtown. Yeah. And they have locations in San Francisco and the Bay Area as well. But they do ship their sausages and their ground beef frozen, and that's a great way to get it. It is. Turkey. We talked about that. We got the gravy figured out. Okay, nobody's going to pay $100 or $200 for a true pasture-raised turkey. Probably. Probably. And they're hard to find even if you've got them on it. So what do we do? Well, we look for the best we can find, and we accept that if we're eating turkey like this once a year, it's not the end of the world. We go for a kosher bird, because those are available at just about every major supermarket. Or if a heritage bird that's not pasture-raised is available, go for that. There's a lot of options out there, especially if you're shopping at the Whole Foods or some of the higher-end grocery stores. But even my local Ralph's, which is part of a chain that's nationwide, has kosher birds. Yeah. So not the Butterball, huh? Not the Butterball. Butterball is injected with saline, which doesn't sound appetizing because it isn't. It's not flavorful. It's raised on almost all corn feed. And it's also injected with some interesting vegetable oils, which shouldn't be in there as well. Right. If they're their own fat, they don't need help. That's exactly right. Full disclosure, the Butterball turkey is my wife's favorite turkey. It has been banned from our house for over 25 years, but she's still every year says, can't I have a Butterball turkey? Well, you can get a similar flavor by really brining your own or even injecting it with your own homemade brine the way they do with their very synthetic brine. So we get a heritage organic turkey, and we brine it ourselves. But there are brine turkeys, Mary's makes a brine turkey now. So and most kosher turkeys are brined. All kosher turkeys are brined. So there you go. It's part of the law. All right. So don't sweat. It's only one day. And enjoy yourself. Or two days. A lot of people do it at Christmas holidays as well. Breads. Come on. You've got to have bread over the holidays. Well, there's a great lectin-free bread recipe in the cookbook. It was really hard to come up with, but it's delicious. I know. You really worked hard on that one. Yeah. We went through like 10 different flowers before settling on a good combination. Now, when you say flowers, are these flowers that the average person can go to Whole Foods or another kind of health food store and find? Yes. Make it a point when I'm developing a recipe to make sure things are available in every major metro area and available on Amazon and available at most Wal-Mart's nationwide. Because that way I know that no matter where someone is in the country, they can work within your diet. Yeah. Again, that was the whole idea behind the cookbook and also the plant paradox quick and easy. It's one thing to live on the west coast or the east coast in a major city, but I grew up in the Midwest in the South. I grew up in the Midwest. You grew up in the Midwest. That's correct. Those are really the people that matter. Quite frankly, when I visit my hometowns, they unfortunately are some people who need this the most. We've got to bring a good way to eat healthy to all Americans, not just us who have Whole Foods on every corner. True. The rest of the country, you matter too. Exactly. All right, sweet potato pie, how do we make it? We bake our sweet potatoes, not yams. If you're more of a pumpkin pie person, you season it with pumpkin spice. If not, cinnamon and lemon juice and lemon zest work, and there's a little more classic for sweet potato. You use a gundry approved sweetener, whether it's swerve, you're just like sugar, you're monk fruit, and thicken it with eggs or a little coconut flour and whisk in, I think I use about half a cup of coconut cream. I think you do. It gives it a really nice creamy texture, and the coconut actually tastes really nice with sweet potatoes. It's simple as that. If you're using eggs, you bake it. If not, you just chill it. In fact, there's actually a lot of Caribbean dishes that combine coconut and sweet potatoes. Indian food as well. Yeah, absolutely. It's a good flavor combination. It is. One of the things that's great about working with you is you and I are all about flavors. We don't want people eating twigs and bark. It's all about enhancing the flavor. Yeah, if people were stuck on a twigs and bark diet, they'd get bored, and they wouldn't stick with it. That's exactly right. So it's about making it for the people to actually crave. Yeah. All right, so what the heck is this delicious looking casserole which looks like something that should be on the table for the holidays? What have you come up with? It definitely should be on the table for the holidays. Like you said, everyone loves their green bean casserole. So I took the basics of that, creamy veggies, crispy topping, and I did a spinach and kale casserole with curried coconut milk inside it to really boost the flavor, topped it with a lot of high quality Parmesan cheese, and baked it. It's not going to be the prettiest girl dance, but it's going to be the most delicious. Ah, okay. So if you want to go ahead and try it. I do. Is this my spoon? This is your spoon. All right. Go. Dig in. Since I put the cheese on it, I'm going to avoid it for dairy reasons, but there's broccoli. There's broccoli. There's kale. There's onions. Tiny bit of spinach. It works with all spinach if that's easier for people to... Oh my God. Thank you very much. That will conclude Dr. Dunby's podcast on the moving. You can take that home with you. I'm taking it home. All right. Can eat it on the commute. Just set it in the driver's seat next to you. Set it in the driver's seat. No, that's great. No. This is exactly what we're talking about. How to get in all these great things that are going to make people better. They're not going to leave the table going, oh, I can't believe I ate that stuff. Why did I do that? I feel so miserable. Yeah.  You may as well show them how much you love them. Well, you might as well make them make you miserable rather than the food. Your family's different than mine. That's a joke. That's a joke. Love you guys. All right. So what do you say to your family or friends who don't eat this way if you're hosting the dinner? Oh, I just cook it and I don't tell them. No one's going to know unless you go, oh, I did these crazy things. They're just going, oh, this is a really good meal. It's different than what we usually have, but it's great. Or you tell them after. Yeah, I think that's what we usually do. We tell them afterwards, what? Once we had some friends over and I put lemon flavored cod liver oil mixed half and half with olive oil for the salad dressing. That's a choice. And they said, oh, man, this is the best salad dressing. Great. We have the recipe. What's in it? And I go, cod liver oil. What? Well, don't they know Caesar salads made with anchovies? It's not super different. That's exactly right. So they didn't know that they were actually having a really healthy salad. You could probably make a great Caesar dressing with cod liver oil. Yeah, let's try it. OK, work on that, OK? I'll get right on that after the holidays. Now, what do you do? Here's the biggest problem of the holidays. You're invited over for a party or for dinner and your friends don't see this way. What do you do? Well, if it's a potluck, I say bring one thing that you find especially satisfying and delicious. Share it, but give yourself a big old helping of that. And then pick and choose. Always go for the turkey if you eat meat because it's not the worst thing on the table, even if it's the butter ball. And beyond that, pick and choose.  Like we said earlier, it's one day.   Yeah. And what we do is we'll have a couple of handful of nuts before we have those parties. Oh, that's smart. Which really helps us not eat as much or not sit there and go, I don't really want to eat that stuff. Just a fill up on the cheese plate, just skip the crackers. Exactly right. Cheese can be eaten without crackers. It can. All right. So you and I have been down these roads of weight loss. What do you tell people who think this is just too hard to do? Be patient. It feels really hard if you think of it as this one big thing you have to do all at once. Do you think I have these little tiny micro goals? It's not so bad because then the setback is just a tiny setback, not the end of the world. And you get to check a lot of things off your to-do list rather than one big thing that you feel like is never going to happen. The other thing that was interesting to me, and I've taught all my patients through the years, many times there are these almost psychological stop points. For me, 200 pounds was this amazing barrier. And I see it with a lot of my patients. They get to 200 pounds, they get down to 198, and then all of a sudden they're up at 204. And they go, what the heck? And they'll go again. It took me probably, I don't know, a couple of months to get off 200. My next barrier was 180. The same thing was like, what do I have to do? And looking back, these are actually places to take a pause and say, okay, let's not sweat it. I'm going to tread water. Turns out we have set points in our body that said, oh, you're starving to death and I'm going to do everything I can do to stop you from starving. And did you ever have that happen to you? I definitely did. One of the biggest things I did for myself was go, you know what? It's fine. You've come this far. It's already remarkable. Give it a minute. I actually would let myself eat a little more. And sometimes I found that just upping the calories I took in a day would re-jumpstart it. It was like me giving my body permission to keep going. About a year ago, I was lecturing in Phoenix and there is a blogger by the name of Kiefer. And Kiefer was really one of the original ketogenic dieters. And I've told this story before. He introduced himself to me and told me a story. He was almost constantly in ketosis. And a big exercise fanatic. And one night, apparently, as he tells it, he just couldn't take it any longer. And he ate a dozen donuts and several pieces of cake. And he went to bed. Oh my gosh. Am I going to pay for this? Well, the next morning he woke up and he was actually three pounds lighter. And he said, what the heck? And what had happened was that he was actually insulin resistant being in ketosis for so long. And this blast of carbs actually got fat to burn better than he did. So he actually cycles. And we talked about this earlier today with Dr. D, who also cycles on and off. So yeah, I think a lot of times just changing it up for a few days will make a big difference. But the important thing that you and I both know is don't sweat it. Don't sweat it. Be patient and celebrate little victories because it's hard. Yeah. And I said in my first book, weight off fast will never last. Weight off slow, you're good to go. Anything else about weight loss? There was a study that I was involved in years ago looking at people who maintain weight loss for a very long time. And one of the things they found is that you don't need to exercise to lose weight, but you need to exercise to keep weight off. Is that part of your philosophy or do you have a program? Oh, I have quite an exercise program. I exercise basically every day. I run. I do aerial silks. I do trapeze. And I do a lot of body weight exercises, both in my house and on the beach, because the sand adds a balance element that really forces core stabilization.   It keeps life interesting. All right. I don't get bored. I think we talked about this. The biggest challenge to developing recipes for the plant paradox? Just what I said already, I guess. Kate, I need this tomorrow. It's not as hard now as it was in the beginning, but learning how to substitute nicely. So finding a way to make flour work in bread, which is different than making flour work in a cake, which is different than using it as a thickener, and realizing that while coconut flour works for some things, it doesn't work for everything, and just learning how to work within the parameters. A challenge at first is fairly easy now, but I think I know your diet possibly better than you know your diet. I probably do. And I'm sure one of the challenges, I'm bombarding you with three emails a day with a crazy recipe I found. I said, hey, this looks really interesting. We just need to change this and this. Yeah, I get emails from you. It's like, this looks good, but it has flour, and butter, and eggs, and real sugar. And I just said, it does look good. Just the way it is. Yeah, I want to eat it just the way it is. All right. Again, it's been great having you all, particularly around the holidays. Happy to be here. Does this mind don't anybody touch it? Okay, we always have an audience question. So, Susan Lowy wrote in on Twitter, Dr. Gundry, what do you think about all the discussions surrounding celery juice, first thing in the morning, on an empty stomach for various health conditions? Well, so celery is actually pretty good for you in a lot of ways. It's got a lot of electrolytes. It's got a lot of magnesium. Quite frankly, I think when you're having celery juice, you're throwing the best part of celery away, which is the fiber. And you've heard me say this over and over and over again. If you're going to use a juicer, juice, whatever you're juicing, throw the juice away and eat the pulp.  You'll be far better off long term than juicing the celery. You're really throwing away the good parts of the celery and not getting a whole benefit from it. And I think Kate, you'd agree with me. Oh, I just eat it. I just eat it. Dip it in almond butter sometimes. It's pretty good. I use it dip in guacamole and just remember, true guacamole does not have any tomatoes. That's some American myth. Okay, so like I said, this has been one of my most exciting days for my podcast to have Kate here, even though I spent a lot of time with her. I want everybody to get to know Kate. Yeah, we hang out. Yeah, we do. So thank you again for joining us. We'll add the recipes we mentioned to show notes. And Kate, where can people find you and your recipes? Well, if you don't already have the Plant Paradox cookbook, that's a great start. Also, check out the Plant Paradox quick and easy coming out in January. And the Longevity Paradox, how to die young at a ripe old age coming out in March. And I might add that Barnes & Noble is going to have a special edition of the Longevity Paradox. Yep, you know those 10 recipes? You know those 10 recipes? The addition of Barnes & Noble will have 10 additional recipes that nobody else is going to have.  So speaking of books, the 30-day challenge for the Plant Paradox quick and easy, we're going to launch in January, probably January 15th. It's going to go one month till February 14th. Mm, Valentine's Day. It's going to be a 30-day challenge. People can try out our recipes. You can sign up for the challenge. And there's going to be some interesting prizes for the winners of the 30-day challenge. So stay tuned. We'll keep you informed as we approach the launch date. So it's going to be fun. So, again, thanks so much. Thanks for having me. Thanks everybody for watching. I am Dr. Gundry, and I'm always looking out for you.


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Hey, Psych2Goers. What does it mean to be strong? Oftentimes, you may associate being strong with being physically strong. However, it's also important to think about strength in terms of mental health. You may underestimate what a healthy mindset can do for you. Here are 10 signs you are mentally stronger than most people. Number one, you allow yourself to cry. Do you sometimes cry to let out your sadness and frustrations? Everybody cries. And despite what some parents tell their kids, you shouldn't always hold back those tears. Psychologists have found that crying can actually help you relieve tension and stress. They also found it helps relax your muscles. Without this emotional release, your body may end up taking on more physiological stress, and it may lead to problems such as mental fatigue, higher blood pressure, and lapses in memory. So next time you feel like crying, go ahead and let it out. You'll likely feel better afterwards by relieving that tension. 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All right, we're back. Sadly, sadly we're back. Seymour and me, Seymour Kazimurski and me were doing a series called Bigotry in America and we're talking about anti-Semitism in the US after Gaza or during Gaza, I should say. Welcome to the show Seymour. Thank you, Jay. On the last show, we talked about what actually happened in the Gaza. But today let's focus a little bit on anti-Semitism because I think people need to understand what the terminology means. How it got all started. And how does it affect everyday people? And to do that, I'd like to give you my version of anti-Semitism. When I was a young boy living in a small town called Senegal de Mol, which is a French town in the province of Quebec, right outside of a vibrant metropolitan city Montreal, there were signs on hotels. And the signs were in English and in French. And they said, no dogs and no Jews allowed. And I understood that. I understood my parents explained that to me. They were Holocaust survivors and they said there was anti-Semitism still even after the World War, World War II, after six million Jews were killed by Hitler, there were still vibrant anti-Semitism in this little French town. When I would go to school, I went to a Protestant school actually, there was no Jewish school there at the time. And I go to this Protestant school and the principal, his name was Jacobson. I'm not afraid to say it.  Every time he would see me, he would pick on me. He would call me into his office for whatever reason and he would take that ruler and wrap my knuckles on it.  As it did it start with Seymour Kazimorski or World War II, no. Anti-Semitism has been around for hundreds of years. If people watch anything or realize what happened in the history of the world and they go back to the pharaohs, they go back to modern times in the 1400s, 1500s, 1800s, I could go on for an hour and a half and giving you examples of anti-Semitism. But it's a world problem that has been here forever. That's the true definition. How did it start, Seymour? It's an odd phenomenon. Just this one group of stiff-necked people and they get picked on for hundreds, even thousands of years. Why? It's called a common cause, Jerry. When you look at somebody who has something that you don't have and you want it and you can't get it, they are a bad guy. And that has really happened to Jews over the centuries. Look at what's going on today between Israel and the Arab. Look what's going on in Hitler times. Why did he use the Jews as a scapegoat? Ask yourself that because they had more than a lot of the other German citizens. And because they had more, he was able to say, the reason that you are the way you are today is because of the Jews. And of course, he used every name in the book to describe them.  It was a horrible, horrible time. Jews traditionally have been the natural scapegoats. You think England was easy? You think Canada was great?  Why? Poland, Hungary, it's a world problem, Jerry. It's not a problem just for Gaza and Israel. It's a world problem. And it's something that you and I and everybody else have to stand up and say, what are we going to do about it? Now, I have a personal theory that it started. I don't think it existed, per se, before the era of Christ. And somehow, the Catholic Church, as it spread, as it spread its dogma, its culture, the Jews were baked into that. They were the people that killed Christ. That's not true, Jerry. That's not true. The Jews did not kill Christ. But anyway, back here. It's not true, but there's a lot of untruses around these days. And the whole story of Judas and that carried on and as Catholicism and Christianity flowed through Europe, it was inherent in that. So it may not have created anti-Semitism right away, but it was a kind of an argo plate. It was an environment in which anti-Semitism could grow and find the legs. And it did. By 1492, they were doing the Inquisition and so forth. And it gives you an idea about how this thing had grown all around Europe. But here's the thing. We've had times of tremendous anti-Semitism, unbelievable anti-Semitism, to wit the Holocaust. That was the worst to date. There had been a lot of programs and violent anti-Semitic episodes up to that point, but it was all small stuff compared to the Holocaust. Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism has decreased. And probably because people in general say, my God, six million people were killed, we can't continue to do that. And it declined in the United States and the United States became a relatively peaceful place. And if there was anti-Semitism, it was a kind of anti-Semitism that you experience at the country club, but not on the streets, not with violence, not with murder and destruction and arson and what have you. But during the Trump administration, Seymour, it all came back, roaring back. And it's not the only racist thing that has come back during the Trump administration. You can think of African-American racism, you can think of Asian racism, you can think of LGBTQ racism, all that. It's all this kind of divisive this. Vladimir Putin would be happy to see all the divisiveness in our country. He's probably happy to see anti-Semitism. But if you look at the newspaper in the last week or so, just as the Gaza event was winding down, you see anti-Semitism in pretty much all major American cities. Sometimes it's breaking windows and sometimes it's yelling out of cars and sometimes it's beating people up on the street. I don't think there's been any murders yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. And it seems to be getting worse in terms of the personal security of the Jewish person and institution. Can you wear a yamaka on your head these days? Can you put a, you know, a Mizzuzza on your doorpost without thinking, gee whiz, is this gonna get me in trouble? Can you go to school on Saturday? Is this gonna get me in trouble? I'm thinking that it's never been like this in my lifetime. And I grew up in New York, I grew up in the melting pot, whatever, lots of different, you know, racial, cultural, religious groups all living together. And there was a certain amount of friction between them, but never like this, never like this. And now we have a loss, a lack, a decline of security. And I don't think that's gonna stop Seymour. I don't think, you know, they said, now they have a coalition government in Israel.  But bottom line is, I don't think that stops this process. This is a phenomenon, as you say, that has gone on for hundreds, even thousands of years. It's not gonna stop. And it's a great concern right now that it has been flowering out this way. What do we do about it, Jack? That's a big question. We should spend some time on that. Exactly. What do we do about it? People have to understand education is still the key to making sure that people understand what's going on. I personally, I'm a Holocaust lecturer, and I go and I talk to schools throughout the state of Hawaii. My sister's doing something in Canada with not just anti-Semitism, but genocide in general. If people are willing to put the effort out to teach, to educate, to help people understand what anti-Semitism is, then they'll understand that it's wrong.   I have seen you when I have taped you. You're talking about the Holocaust. Very, very powerful discussions, very powerful, you know, footage and photographs that you show and powerful stories that you tell. But, you know, and there's a certain amount of benefit to the kids who listen. But I could wipe that out in 10 minutes with a badly framed news story on cable TV. Yeah. And that happens. Yeah. Social media, cable TVJ, that is where they sell news with negativity. Negativity is the key to how they want to get their rating. So if they can sell blood, they will get better news. It's a horrible situation. Social media, CNNs, Foxes, all these guys have one thing in common. We need to raise our rating. How do we raise our rating? And one point right now is anti-Semitism is hot. So they're showing a lot of it. BLM is supporting the Palestinians today. Everybody, what's that is? Tell everybody would be a preference matter you're talking about. Right. But you're talking about BTS. No, no. Well, you know, to me, Jay, the ability of groups to use the Palestinian issue against Israel is also a form of anti-Semitism because they don't want to understand the totality of the situation in Israel. They don't want to understand that 4,000 rockets were sent over Israel, 4,000 rockets to kill indiscriminately. Does that ring a bell? That word indiscriminate is like Hitler, indiscriminately. They just wanted to kill as many Jews as they could. What does Israel do to retaliate? So they send their rockets over Gaza, but what do they do?  So the event in the news is, look what Israel did. They killed hundreds of Palestinians. Yes, they did. They could have killed thousands. They could have wiped out all of the Palestinians. But no, morally, Israel is much more responsible than Hamas. Hamas has no morality whatsoever. And that in itself gives us the essence of anti-Semitism.  And it's a horrible situation that we as Jews and people in general have to stand up for. Jay, I have as many non-Jewish friends who believe in what I'm saying right now as I do Jewish friends. I have teachers in schools that beg me to come and do Zoom lectures to their students because they understand how important it is to teach that the Holocaust was the biggest anti-Semitic event in history. And why is that important? Well, you're only reaching a certain number of people when you give your lectures, when you talk to your friends and that's not enough to stop this. I agree. Because right now anti-Semitism has attached itself to both the left and the right. Going back to Charlottesville, Trump said some of the anti-Semites, they're nice people too. And the whole thing about right supremacy and the extreme right and attacking the Capitol with weapons and this and that. And then at the same time, you have a, and so in Congress, the GOP apparently likes Israel because Trump likes Israel, I suppose, or did like it. The GOP is not helping because they're conflicted about this white supremacy thing. And on the other side, you have the liberals, the activists, the cause-driven community that attach also to anti-Semitism. You're talking about the AOC, Jay. You're talking about- I am talking about AOC. You're talking about a lot of Democrats who I respect and I love as an independent. I like both sides or things I don't like about both sides. I don't like a lot of things about what Israel does too, just for clarification purposes. But when you get people in Congress like the AOC who are truly diehard anti-Semitic, my God, and they start convincing their constituents about what's going on in the world according to them, we're in trouble, Jay. It's not good.  Yeah. I do not understand that and his family is from Europe, just like yours and mine. So really extraordinary that he would be doing taking affirmative action to injure, to damage, to undercut the relationship with Israel, which is the only Democratic country in the Middle East. Sorry. The only- That's how it was set up, Jay. It was set up by the world, by the United Nations, to be a home for people who did not have a home. And Jewish people were able to go there and set it up. But you know, today there's a coalition of Arabs that are part of the new political structure in Israel. Today. This just happened today. I know, the coalition includes Arabs. Because that is correct. And that's the way- It's turning more democratic and out of 9 million people, some 3 million are Israeli Arabs who participate in the economy, who are doctors and lawyers and entrepreneurs. We don't hear about that. Well, we won't hear about it because it's against this negative issue that is out there about anti-Semitism and anti-Israel. Don't forget, anti-Semitism and anti-Israel are really two different issues that we have to discuss. Anti-Israel, people don't like it because they feel that what they're doing to the Palestinians is terrible. If they don't understand the whole story, I can't help them. But anti-Semitism is something that everybody should understand because it's been around for hundreds and, as you say, thousands of years. I think they're inextricably intertwined, Seymour. If you're anti-Israel, you're really saying you don't like the Jewish people. And I feel that one and the other, they're really all the same. It may not be in the same degree, but it's all just an expression of anti-Semitism. So back to the question, what can we do? What can we do to deal with this? It's not only a perception of what's going on with the raw meat and the news in Israel. That's gonna happen again and again. Problem is it ratchets up the hate and we have plenty of hate. We have hate and violence now in America, in America. This is unbelievable. My parents told me this, that I was lucky to be born in this country because this is the best country in the world. And now I'm wondering, there was a little piece in the New York Times story about one family with all the risk in Israel, they're planning to move to Israel. At least in Israel, you don't have anti-Semitism the way you're having it now in the United States. So I agree with you. We cannot do Mayer Kahane and go violent on the street with baseball bats. That's not a good idea. We have to speak on it. We have to get into the media on it. We have to straighten everybody out as to the facts.  That'd be simply because it's the truth and we like truth. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in this country don't like truth and they enjoy accepting the big lie. In my impression of it, they like accepting the big lie because it makes them feel good. It makes them feel they're part of a power group. It makes them feel they're taking a message and living with this message that gives them some kind of gratification but they know in their hearts it's a lie. That's why I also think people who are anti-Semitic know that it's wrong. They know it's a lie. And they continue to do it. Yes, you're right, but we have to get back to what do we do, right? What do we do? If we continue to speak, if we continue to educate, if we continue to have people come out and say that is not true. Anti-Semitism is a horrible thing that we as people have to change. We as citizens of the world have to do it. Not just me and you, Jay, but our Congress, our Senate, world leaders. It's not easy, Jay, because anti-Semitism has been around for so long. Every time, and you know, I travel to Germany quite a bit for my business. When I go to Germany and my wife, she's amazed. Sue always says, do you feel it today? And that's that feeling that I get on the back of my neck when I'm riding in a taxi in Munich or in Berlin. And I still get the feeling it's there. And what do we find out? Now the neo-Nazis in Germany are stronger and stronger than ever. There's a neo-Nazi party in Germany. What do you think their platform is, Jay? Get rid of the Jews, anti-Semitism. An actual platform, an actual party that is there to make sure that Jews are blamed for everything that's wrong in their country. Not good. We need to stand up, but it's not going to be easy. It's going to be so difficult because you and I are just, as you said before, we do our part, but it's not enough. And I don't know if we'll get leaders in the world who are going to want to do it. It's going to be tough. Very tough. Well, let's just look at options. I always feel that you have to look at options. That may not all be the best option, but at least to look at what the possibilities are and maybe jump off that somehow. So one is to write on the internet, to write on Twitter and Facebook, to write a blog, to have a website and to just keep working on it. The second thing is to go into the more popular media, like streaming, for example, with Think Tech or broadcasting on network media or cable media. And do shows, whether it be fiction or nonfiction, just raise the issue. And I guess the third is, it's not necessarily the same priority, but the college campuses, that's what Hitler did. He went in and formed the Hitler Youth and these kids were in their preteens and teens and they loved what he offered them.  Of course. And so- Jay, that's still happening, Jay. I gave a lecture at UH, University of Hawaii right here and I gave it to the political science class and there's a large auditorium, three, 400 kids there. And in the back of the class, there was two or three guys who were pretty rowdy and at the end of it, I always have a Q and A. And these two guys, I said, does anybody have any questions that they'd like to bring up?  And then this one guy in the back says, this thing never happened. This thing is just a propaganda thing that Israel has put together that the world is using to show that Jews were killed. And I was just about to answer. I was just about to open my mouth because I've heard this before. And all of a sudden, two girls in the front row, they were maybe 20, 21 years old, they stood up, Jay. And this is the key. They stood up and argued with those guys. I didn't have to argue. They stood up and they said, you don't know what you're talking about. This happened. This is all factual and so on and so forth. And you see, that's the key. The message mustn't come just from you and me and people like us, because we have a need to be able to try to fix the problem that's there. It's gotta be from everybody. It's gotta be people standing up and saying, you know what, we have to help to make sure that anti-Semitism doesn't grow and maybe even gets back down to a simmering boiling pot. Another option to consider, I'm incentivized by what you were saying, is running for office and becoming a voice in some legislative organization and being a watchdog. That goes from the neighborhood board to Congress all the way. So if I, I don't know, maybe these days you could even run on an anti-hate platform and say, I'm gonna oppose hate, any form of hate, I'm on it and I'm gonna do what I can. So when AOC gets up in Congress and makes an anti-Semitic remark, there should be five people that stand up and say, you don't know what you're talking about. And yeah. Just like those girls. Yes. Just like those girls. That's exactly right. Yeah. Exactly right, Jay. The key to it all, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Well, you got, you know, you have to say it in a way so that it's two hands clapping. And you're more persuasive. You have your playbook worked out. You know, I can tell you that in the BDS, I was talking to this boycott, divest, and sanction, which is all about representing the Palestinians. And I believe it's funded by Hamas or Hezbollah or both or Iran. And it's been going on a long time. And it's very sophisticated. It's in most American college campuses and it has taught a lot of American college kids they should boycott, divest, and sanction from Israel a long time. Exactly. But people believe that stuff and there's no countervailing force. There should be a countervailing rhetoric, if you will, because what happens is it gets to be more brazen and more propaganda-like and filled with lies like about the Holocaust. And nobody says boo about it. You know, it's like- Absolutely correct. Like this video in the street of these guys getting beat up. Everybody ran the other way. Nobody went into the fray. Nobody pulled them apart. Nobody yelled at the people who were doing the beating. And I find that really unacceptable. If you see somebody get at least you could do is shout at them or call the police or in this case, take a video. But there's a lot of things you can do. Running away, hiding, turning your back on it, ignoring it is really not acceptable. That's the way it grows. Jay, you just hit on the most important part of how to fight anti-Semitism. And that is you have to become vocal. You have to be willing to stand up. You have to be willing to do whatever is necessary to help the people who are doing these things, who are doing anti-Semitic rant, help them understand, teach them. They need to understand that what they're doing is wrong. If you can make them understand the difference between right and wrong, then hopefully some of them will be the pebble in the ocean that spreads. Because without that, Jay, we are gonna continue with this. We will continue having a boiling pot, a simmering pot of anti-Semitism for a long, long time. It's just the way life is today. So our job is to try to curb it, to stop it, to do it. You and I will not be successful in it because we don't have a lot of time to be able to do something. But hopefully somebody will. Hopefully people around the world in different countries will say enough is enough. Now we've got to educate. We've got to make it real. Well, we have to understand what motivates people. And I heard a very good piece. It was an academic Zoom meeting a few days ago, which really impressed me. There was a Holocaust survivor there. There was the chief historian of the Holocaust Museum there and there was an academician. And the three of them talked about what led to extremism in Germany and what lessons we could learn in the United States because it runs in parallel these days. Yeah, you keep saying that it's gonna be with us a long time. I'm more concerned than that. I think it's gonna get worse. And the thing is getting worse. So one of the things they talked about, Seymour, like to bounce this off you, is how did it work in Germany when these kids were in Hitler youth? Well, there were three ends, three ends. The first end was need. People in Germany were needy in the sense that their economics had gone south after World War I. And they felt that they were not realizing what they should be realizing. Their lives were not promising in those days. That's the first end need. The second end is narrative. That you have to offer the people who are needy a narrative to where they could get what they want. This is so reminiscent of what's happening in this country. A narrative to say, we're gonna replace all the blacks. We're gonna replace all the Asians. We're gonna replace all the Jews.  We're gonna do supremacy for you. And in that way, that will give you a narrative that you love. So that'll satisfy your need, at least directly. That's the example of the narrative, the end. And the third end is networking. And networking is happening now. It's happening with the social media. It's happening with Trump and Twitter or was Twitter. It's happening with the ability of people like-minded who can get together and form up and plan the plan attacks on Washington. Plan conspiratorial collections. And that meets the third end. So what we have now is an environment, a landscape that allows for the expansion of anti-black, anti-Asian and anti-Semitic hate more than ever before in our lifetimes in this country. In this country, it's going south. And that means that what we're talking about today, Seymour, it's more emergent than it ever was in this country. It's more important that we look at these options carefully and that we act on them. You're 100% right, Seymour. One of the issues that we have to have, and you touched on it several times now, is the education process of how people get to be the way they are. How does somebody become anti-Semitic?   I would go to school and one day at the end of the school day, we were playing some sports and this guy comes up to me, grabs me by the neck and he said, and I don't wanna tell you what moji means because you couldn't air it, but it's an expletive. And he said, and then he took me, he took my school bag, he hit me, he tried to beat me up and all that stuff. And who came to my rescue? My brother and he took care of this guy. And at that point in time, I thought it was over. I got home, Jay, and my father gets a call from the police chief and the police chief says that your son beat up somebody at the school. And we had to explain our position as to why it happened. Jay, my brother could have gone to jail for what he had done, to try to make things right, to do the right thing is such an important part of our life. And we as individuals, when you said before, you can't run away from something like this. Maybe you can't intervene, but you can shout, you can do things, you can try to make a better life for people, whether it's anti-Semitism, anti-Black, whatever the anti is, you have to get involved. And I'm asking the viewers if they want to get involved, whether it's their Rotary clubs, whether it's teachers, no matter what, by getting involved, we can solve a lot of what's happening in the world today. And that includes the schools. When you look at these schools around the country and you see the presence of BDS, without any countervailing organization to argue with them to equal the playing field, it's a great concern. And this kind of thing happens at UH, telling you now it happens at UH and there is no countervailing organization that can speak to it, that can level the playing field, that can give countervailing arguments. Very great concern. And it means that the people who have on trade at UH, including students, faculty and outsiders who may have some on trade, they should be looking for the problem and they should be dealing with it and they should be arguing against it. The campuses are such a vulnerable place for young minds who can be turned the wrong way. This has happened for years and years, but it's worse now. So we have to look for places where this is happening is what I'm telling you, Seymour. Much more than ever. Much more than ever. Much more than ever. If you look at the college campuses and you look at schools and you understand, we did a show once on bullying, I don't remember how long ago it was, but that is prevalent in schools. Bullying is just the beginning of hatred. It's just the beginning of being able to use a scapegoat for something that's wrong with you. And if we address bullying and we address anti-Semitism and we address this BDS that you're talking about, it'll help all of us live a much better life. It's not easy, Jay. I can only tell you because I see it myself when I go into schools. The teachers who call me are always the same teachers who call me to lecture. There's hundreds of teachers that should be calling. When I go to the military bases, I think you actually came to a military base with me when I did a lecture. When we do lectures to the military bases and we have thousands of soldiers understanding what the Holocaust was, it helps them be better people. And I just think it's so important if we could take that education component and make it something that every school and every university and every college does, we would be able to curb at least a lot of the anti-Semitism that keeps growing, just as you're saying. It's growing every single day. Everybody wants somebody to hate because they're not happy with themselves. Tough. Exactly. So it seems to me that if you run a parallel between what is happening in the United States now after Gaza even before with what happened in Germany and what has happened in other authoritarian developments, I mean, evolutions in history, it starts with the bullying in school as a very young child. It goes to rhetoric that comes out of a playbook, comes out of just standard phraseology, hate phraseology. And then after a while, people are emboldened who start touching and pushing and beating up and going to violence and even murder. And so it's a continuum, you know? And we have to be very concerned about that. One day it's bullying or it's making, you know, silly critical remarks and the next day it's murder. So this is something that must stop.  It must stop for anti-Semitism. It must stop for all people who are the other side of the diversity aisle, so to speak. I think the most, sorry, Jay, I think the most important part here is to understand that anti-Semitism starts at a very, very young age and a very young mind, which means when the mind requires some type of affirmation of what they're doing is right, it grows. It's like a mushroom that keeps growing bigger. Once bullying starts, you brought that up. Once bullying begins, anti-Semitism is very easy to come in. Anti-black, anti, whatever all the anti's we have. It's anti-Semitism, if we could work on anti-Semitism, we will be working on a lot of other anti's as well because they all start from one thing and that is the need to hate. And that's very important, we need to teach that. We don't spend enough time working on that. How do we eliminate this need to hate, this need that social media, I mean, did you see all the posts over 5,000 posts on anti-Semitism in just the last week alone? 5,000 posts. I mean, is there that many people that hate Jewish people that a lot of them don't even know Jews, but they like the idea that they can blame Jews because they're unhappy with themselves. Big problem. It starts with that, goes into the network phase, so to speak, and then it goes to organized violence and I think we have to be very concerned about that. So Seymour, I take a lot out of this discussion. I think it's very important for people to have this discussion. I hope somebody listening will realize how important it is and maybe take a primitive action to avoid the evolution of this disintegration of our decency in the country. Absolutely, Jay. Thank you so much for inviting me. It's not a topic that I'd like to discuss. I'd rather talk about some of the other wonderful things that are good about this world, but unfortunately, right now, this is very, very prevalent in your mind and my mind. Many others were extremely worried. Thank you Seymour, Seymour Kazimarski and my old friend distinct that we really appreciate you coming on. Aloha. Aloha.


Hey, everybody. Thanks for the opportunity to speak with you all today. I'm going to talk about an open source project called Kubeflow. And it brings some of the great things that you see in the DevOps world and traditional software development to the world of machine learning. So the first point I want to make is that machine learning and software development are really kind of blending together. So a lot of the algorithms that were invented for machine learning really are decades old. But over time, through incremental improvement and some bigger improvements, especially with improvements in compute and storage capability, in the last decade, we've seen sort of this threshold being crossed, where machine learning is solving all kinds of new problems that it wasn't able to before. And so now what we're seeing is that most recently, machine learning is just another way of solving problems. Instead of having a rule-based approach, you're inferring the rules from learning by example. So just one more way to do things, more and more businesses are using AI. And so one of the open challenges is a lack of lifecycle management. And what I mean by that is that machine learning modeling is really one small piece of the overall process. You might have many data sources. You need to clean them, transform them, validate the data. And you need to do that in a deterministic way. Secondly, data science is all about experimentation, trying new things, experimenting, seeing if this works or that that works. And so tracking each run is really essential. And so what we're seeing now is that, like in the academic world, one of the largest conferences called NeurIPS is now not just taking results from papers. It wants to see everything that went into creating that result, the data, the process, the infrastructure that was used. So it's great to see that this issue is receiving some attention and growing visibility. So with that, I want to introduce Kubeflow. Here's the mission statement for it. So a few things that I want to point out there. One is that it makes it easy for everyone. So beginners that want sort of some sensible defaults, as well as advanced practitioners that need to customize things. It allows you to do the full lifecycle of machine learning on a Kubernetes infrastructure. So it's portable, so you can run it on-premise, in the cloud, multi-cloud, and it's distributed. So you can kind of run these large training jobs with it. So here's the dashboard. Really, this is just where you kind of see the main activities that you can launch from. And the main sort of capabilities are everything from developing a model to training that model, kind of spreading it over your whole cluster, and serving the model, which kind of can be overlooked. Once it's used in production, you might be having a heavy workload. It provides you a rest endpoint that your cluster can basically serve up the model with. And finally, orchestration. That's kind of the main piece that we're talking about today. So it's all running on top of a Kubernetes infrastructure, most recent release uses Istio that gives us metrics and authorization capability. So what's a pipeline in Kubeflow? Really, it's just a set of predetermined steps that you define in code. And you can use some components that we have to basically perform all kinds of capabilities, downloading data, training, et cetera. Or you can write your own custom code in those. So here's an example of a pipeline written in Python. This is actually something I used in a recent blog post for retraining a model. So as new data comes around, it will do a three-step process to download the new data, retrain a model, and then redeploy it. And you see that there's a Pipelines SDK that converts that into a GUI in the Kubeflow dashboard. So you can kind of see what's going on. And this sort of all comes together when you look at the results of your experiment, where you can see all the different runs that you've made, the accuracy, was it successful, so on and so forth. You can even add your own metadata to each run to kind of track what's going on. So in summary, what we saw today here, we learned about Kubeflow, which is a cloud-native, multi-cloud solution for machine learning. It provides you with your own pipelines that you can build to sort of match whatever you're doing in your business. And if you're running Kubernetes, you can run Kubeflow. It's an open and inclusive community. We're looking for people to just take a look, maybe get involved. The main way to access Kubeflow is at the website, but you can see there's a GitHub, Slack community, et cetera. If you wanna try it out today, here's a link to a lab to use it. And that's it for today. Thank you very much for your time.


Okay folks, Larry Pesavando for TFNN and we have the stock indices moving higher once again. Not totally unsurprised about that because it's been going up ever since the 28th of October and we continue to go higher as we speak today. Now what I've done today is I put up a couple of these lunar cycles that we've been watching for quite some time and all I'm going to do now is just to go and let your folks take a quick look at them because you can see that sometimes they work pretty good. They're usually off by a day sometime and that's what you'd like to see. But what we're watching here, oh dear, I think I just, I hope that's right. My beeper's going off folks, sorry about that. Anyway, what we're going to be watching here is this really key day that's coming in here tomorrow and our guest today with great timing is Mr. Norm Winsky from Astro Trends. He'll be joining us from Naples, Florida here in just a little bit. The home of Larry Bird who celebrated his 67th birthday on last Monday. So anyway, let's keep our powder dry folks because what we're going to be seeing here in the next four or five weeks is what I think is something that's going to be quite spectacular. It could go straight up and it could have a tiny bit of correction. It might go down. All I know is it's going to be very volatile. I can say that by just looking at all of these things and how they're lining up and the news that's out there and just the overall environment that I'm listening to on Bloomberg and CNBC. And I think we're going to be scheduled to really make some hay. One thing for sure is we might give a little grass back, but we're not going to get a lot of hay back. So that's the one thing that we want to keep going. The bonds keep working lower. They've been now they're two and a half handles down from the high and everybody's now they're talking about lower interest rates instead of higher interest rates and the bonds are saying, well, maybe not yet. But that's still a little bit more to go to the trading gods, i.e. at the Federal Reserve, decide what they're going to do. I've got a really good human interest story to tell you when we come back from our break here from my daughter and I think you'll get a kick out of that because she was very very funny today when she she called me stay tuned folks we'll be right back<PHONE_NUMBER>


What's good you guys? This is your boy Chihuahua back at y'all again with another art video and today I'm drawing a character that will be added to my fishbowl head club collection, man If you're new to this channel go ahead and hit that follow button Make sure you keep up with what's going on make sure you hit that bill as well So you'll be notified every time I drop we back on schedule you guys I will be posting every day and if I miss a day trust me I'll make up for it the next day with two videos. I'm finna try to stay as consistent as possible The the main thing I want to talk about in this video is Introducing you guys to my project because a lot of people is looking at it right now and thinking it's just artwork and a lot of people don't understand what NFTs are NFTs are non-fungible tokens and I will be teaching a lot of you guys about this project I'm working on and all you have to do is follow me on discord I got the link under this video or you can join me on clubhouse as well I go live every day where I'm speaking to you guys and answering questions Anything you need to know is like we're we open to tell you anything inside a clubhouse I go live every day 7 30 p.m. Central time. So make sure you join us there this project the The main focus of this whole project. I'm working on this fishbowl head club It's to create a club where everybody who invest in one of these fishbowl characters Will receive passive income in the future because that's what the main focus of this project is trying to do We're trying to create passive income for the holders So the value of the art will always grow and it will never lose value a lot of NFT projects If if you if you buy into them and you don't flip them immediately You can be in a lose lose situation But with this project we created a way where you can win either way if you want to collect the work Or you just want to hold it to to trade You'll win either way because if you hang on to it it'll create you passive income and gain more value over time Only 10,000 of these NFTs will be made once we sell out all 10,000 NFTs We would no longer make any more fishbowl head club NFTs, man So that's how you know we will make sure after we create the value inside of the cards We locked the value inside of the cards and the value will only grow and become more rare over time And even if you can't afford one of these NFTs, man, but you you're very interested We would still love to have you a part of what's going on So all you got to do is join me on Discord become a part of the community because also we will be having some giveaways You know I'm saying so all you have to do is be very active in the community, man Make sure you share ideas and you you're communicating and you you participate in a lot of different things We got going on in there because we got like a rank system Where a bot will keep up with who's very active in our chat room So that's for the people who want to be a part of it, but they truly just kind of for a NFT you still can be a part of the family man We would love to have you on board and just a quick heads up the next Thousand videos you see me post will be a fishbowl character because I'm trying to draw a Thousand one-on-ones characters for this collection that will be a part of a bid and these will be the last Thousand that's sold in the collection man So I'm drawing them live so you guys can watch me create it Thank you guys for all the support you've been showing me over the years and To all my fellow artists out there make sure you stay grinding you stay working hard man and You stay elevated. We got this thing


Hello, my name is Peter, and I'm in Washington State of the United States, and I have taken the I-TTT 120-hour TEFL course, and I would just like to say that I am very thankful and appreciative about that. It was I leave a good choice and just out here in the middle of my walk for the day really quick, and so anyhow It was excellent, it was very helpful. I think even though I haven't seen some of the other courses, I feel like I made not only a right choice, but probably a better choice. I like how the content is very organized, the layout and the appearance, the material and the lesson plans are very clear and correlating to the test. I was able to just put the test on one screen, put the lesson plan for, you know, reference on the other screen and was able to basically get through the material really well. I, you know, being from, I guess, some of the studies I've been through, I can understand that this is, you know, teaching English should not be trying to figure out how to teach rocket science or something. So I appreciated that it was very reasonably laid out. I feel like I could recommend it to basically everybody that I know and in an encouraging way that they can be able to converse this as well. And just to look at the outlook on the need for teaching English around the world and how important it is and reaching other cultures, getting to know other cultures, getting to share a little bit with others, you know, where you're coming from as well. It's nice growing up in the States, however, you know, it's nice to be able to learn other cultures and this is a nice way to do that, I believe, and as well as, you know, wherever you are from, I think this type of interaction is very important. So anyhow, I appreciated that and I appreciated being able to go through it in an easy format and not that it has had to drag on, but that there was also ample time to work out the schedule. And I think basically the lesson plan at the end was a great challenge and I think for me, it was just a matter of being able to understand clear understanding of the wording and what it was asking for, but I also appreciate the tutor help and I would say that I definitely would like to consider continuing on and the courses that ITTT has to offer looks like they have a great program of material set to offer, so hope everybody gets a chance to take a look at it and hope everything goes well. Again, I appreciate it very much. I'm thankful. All right.