Murder by Experts. The mutual broadcasting system presents Murder by Experts with your host and narrator, Mr. John Dixon Carr, whose books have been translated into 17 languages and have sold over 10 million copies. An author of the recently published detective novel Below Suspicious. Good evening. This is John Dixon Carr. Each week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you a story of crime and mystery which has been chosen for your approval by one of the world's leading detective story writers. Tonight, our guest expert is the noted mystery novelist, Craig Rice. In keeping with the spirit of the holiday season, Ms. Rice, herself a witty and humorous writer, has selected a hilarious and suspenseful comedy mystery by Joseph Roscoe. And now we present Carl Eastman in The Case of the Missing Mind. Again, Mr. Andrews? Doc! Aren't we the troublesome patient? Oh, Doc, you're gonna believe me. It's all a mistake, a terrible mistake, you see, Doc? What's your angle, huh? I tell everybody the truth, the honest truth. So I'm a lunatic? What am I doing in a nut house? No, no. Now, look, our nice cousins are coming to visit all the way from two forks. So let's be a good boy and watch our excitement curve, hmm? Good boy, huh? This way till they show up. I'll tell them the way I got Shanghai'd here. They'll sue you for a million. They'll sue everybody. Meanwhile, if your hallucinations persist, those fantastic tales that alleged man you murdered... But it was all real, I say. You got cotton in your ears? All that abracadabra? Aladdin and the princess, Ali Baba. There was no Ali Baba? I never said anything about Ali Baba. Just Aladdin and the princess. I can't help it if nobody believes me. It's true every word. Now, we wouldn't like that at all, would we? Of course not. Pleasant dreams, Mr. Andrews. And remember, this is not the Arabian night. Oh, all this... all this can't be happening to me. Not me, Kenny Andrews. Everybody's known me before. I always know the right time. But I tell this story, they look at me queer. So it does sound screwy, so it's my fault. But I've got to drink this, buy it, I swear it. Listen to me somewhere, listen! All right. Only two weeks ago, everything's normal, see? Like always, I'm doing the best I can with an angle. Only the best wasn't so hot the last few months. I've been up the creek, the horses were dogs. My one unhacked suit was all ripped and torn by a Satan Broadway bookie. That is important. Keep your eye on that suit. I was absolutely from hunger, sitting in the lobby of a cheap hotel in the 40s. When low, this strange-looking character walks into my life. Good morning, friend. Do you ever dream? Just like that he began, this strange-looking guy with the purple hat. Do you ever dream, my friend? I'd noticed this character before shadowing me for days. On Times Square, I buttoned my shoe. How do you do? There he is.  And now his Mr. Queer's sitting beside me. Do I ever dream he wants to know? What is it you dream when you dream, my friend? I'm interested in wish fulfillment. Say, listen, pal, are you for real? What's the idea telling me anyway? Go take a long trap. I'd like a word with you. You see, Mr. Andrew... How'd you know my name? I am a mystic, sir. I know all. Oh, yeah? Maybe you know where I was born. Two forks, and now about your dreams, sir. Say, who are you anyway? Oh, call me Aladdin. Huh? Cut your kidding. Aladdin? Yes. Would you like to try my magic lamp? The guy is strictly from the nightmare, I figure. But let him talk. Look who's selling hood at Brooklyn Bridge. Answer, friend. You begin to rub my lamp the wrong way. Now look at Mr. Aladdin. Suppose you scram before I... Freeze, hello. Put up your hands. Reach for the moon.  Reach! What is this?  To throw away good fortune when it seeks you out. For the last time, sir, what is it you dream when you dream? The theme that keeps returning. Your heart's desire. Like a nightmare. Watch your step, Kenny, I say to myself. You're dealing strictly with a query.  Oh, okay, sure, boy, I get you now. I always dreamed that somebody suddenly handed me 50 grand and a beautiful princess. Ashkenasi! My gosh, I hardly get it out of my mouth when it happened.  This weird character in the purple hat, he whoops out a huge envelope, he counts out $51,000 bills, he hands them over to me, he shouts. The princess, my friend, will come later. And he disappears out of the hotel. The honor on my mother's grave. That's the way it all started. Once in my story it sound like a hothead's fantasy. I don't blame anyone looking at me sideways. I even examined my own head listening to me tell it. Such things don't just happen. A strange character in a purple hat, a green gun, and there it is. First I don't believe my eyes. A guy like me, sharp, knows what time it is. He's strictly from Missouri. Still them green bikes look like the real McCoy. I stumbled over to the bank in a corner and up to a bank teller. I had to find out. Would you kindly mind breaking this bill for me like a good peller? Well, let's... The guy stared at the bill, stared and stared, and then at me, suspicious. Say... Goodbye, Kenny Andrews. Ten years' stretch. A thousand dollar bill? Well... He's casing it, but good. Easy, Kenny. Keep that heart still. Keep that heart still. Keep that heart still. Will he? Here it comes. Yes, I... You know, we don't get these very often at this branch. How would you like to have your change, sir? Clean. It was clean. Fifty thousand cabbages. A minute ago, I couldn't crash a knee to stand, and now I'm king. My head spun round and round. I nearly passed out. Next thing I know, I'm spread out on a bed, back in my crummy hotel room. I feel in my shirt. It's still there. I count the bills again. All there. Passports to heaven. Hold on to that green. Hold on. All the money in the world and the world at your feet. First buy a new suit. Don't answer. Get rid of these rags. It's sweet at the Waldorf. Ignore it. You're not here. Don't talk. It's yours. Guy in a purple hat, he came over to you, so it's magic. So what? I heard of such a thing. I read of such a thing. You're such a wise guy. Maybe I'm dreaming. No. No, not that. No, no. Hello. Oh. Mr. Aladdin? You are not dreaming. Oh, wonderful. I am? I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. Aladdin's my boy, see? No questions asked. Who cares about front when you're healed with 50 Gs? Flaws make the tin horn, but when you're a prince, that's how all my troubles began and headed me for this joint. When I can't resist anymore and go and tell the strange events to the boys along Broadway to give me the quick brush of roux. It was unnatural. Am I dreaming, I say to myself? All right, if I am, I'm going to get rid of the silly sequence. Things must go. I enter a ritzy dog shop. My good man? Yes. I was just torn to shreds on the stock exchange. You know, the Harley Boiley. Ah, I see, sir. Yeah, you know the bulls? I understand, sir. A new shooter. Yeah, I want to order about a dozen, and I want them out of this world. Something with a little dash supreme. Yes, sir. Well, now, if you'd like to consider these numbers here. But just then, my eye caught something looking in at me through the window. It was another eye that had a mad stare, and over it was a purple hat, and a pocket was aiming at me against the window, and went out seeing it at all. I knew it was a little green gun. These charming summer worsted, sir? Look, pal, what are you showing me suits for? Who said suits? I said overcoats. You said overcoats? With a fur collar. A fur collar? In July? Are you mad, sir? Why not? If I got to wear a coat to cover my past, it might as well have a fur collar. I always visioned being one, but only in my wildest dreams. So, next with a lot of haberdashery and gloves, and this and that, and a walking cane, I'm ready for anything. I'm out to live, see? Come what may. Even a dog catch it. That night, Manhattan finds me slummin' at a private table in a midnight casino, the classiest spot in town. Where before, I could never even afford the bar. You're the monsieur? I already had a few quickies all over the stem. By now, I am a god. Champagne, Charlie, and a bottle for every lady in a joint whose escorts would claim a purple hat. All eyes were upon me with admiration, including the most gorgeous little number at the very next table. Big pardon, monsieur. It's the way to smile and not be very polite. You forgot to check your coat at the door, monsieur. It is a rule of the establishment. Yeah, we'll see about this. Call a headwaiter. I am the headwaiter.  Go drop dead. Gentlemen, please. That luscious brunette with the creamy shoulders sitting alone at the next table. Pierre, your manner. You disappoint me. But he's wearing an overcoat. Silence. Why do you not take this gentleman's order? But it is a rule of the house. Rule? Rules are for the riffraff. Can you not see he is perhaps an eccentric millionaire that he is moreover to be my guest? Oh, so, princess, be in that case, princess, a thousand pardons your imperial highness. Go ahead, say it, tweet, tweet. Kenny Andrews got the DTs. All right, don't swallow it then. But will someone please solve it for me? I am lonesome young man. Won't you join my table? So this is the princess I was foretold. We made it a twosome, this royal doll and me.  Each was too entranced. Now what are we doing? We're sailing along 57th Torque Park Avenue. Her head on my shoulders. Oh, kenyusha. In the sky blue limousine driven by a little midget.  Be kind to me, babushka. Here's a Russian that seems, princess Julie, from a branch without the head's cut. And she gives off like a rose. Promise you'll be very kind. Where we going, princess?  Don't you remember? We are on our way to my apartment. Sit close. Morvotka, my darling. It is the champagne of the Volga. Sure, my love. And what about some delicious joyva? What's that? Joyva is the love candy of the Orient.  Oh, wonderful stuff. Oh, this ain't happening. This ain't really happening, is it?   Where was I, princess, baby? Angle. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's all a matter of angle, see?   Not taking two forks. Two forks? Who is two forks? In Oklahoma, where I was born. Out there, they don't even know what time it is.  I ran away when I was 12. More vodka, kenyusha. You tell me about it, I must know all about you. Naturally. I live with my uncle Iggy, see? Well, a poor yokely spends all his time digging, digging in his backyard. Oh, what? Worms? Here, can you tie that? How clean to go. You're my cousin, Your Excellency. Just as dopey, Joe and Fanny and all the rest. The cows give a milk today? That stifles me, get it? There's no room for a smart guy with a niche in a place like that. You listen? Yes, drink up, my love. So I get my first angle. I organize a cousin's club. I like myself treasured. You'll buy me a ticket to New York and shake the dust forever. That's a pretty good hack. You're grace. You're grace is who the room is turning sideways. Come closer, my heart. Kiss me again. Kiss me. It's hot in here. Then why not take off your overcoat?  I'm all right now. So, Princess, whose cane is that over there by the piano? It's not mine. No, no, my sweet, it is my husband. Some music. You what? Don't be alarmed, Kenny. He's out of town. Oh, I hate him.  He abuses me so. How he does, huh? Oh, babushka, who am I telling you all this? Because always in my lonely life I am looking for someone. In my dreams I have seen him and he has caressed my cheeks. But the days go by and the years and he does not come.  At midnight's love, one glass. Oh, you're right, man. Do you feel that way, too? Oh, Kenny, you do love me. Oh, do I?  With all my heart and soul and it's a great privilege I never visioned. I do anything for you. You do anything? Anything, just to have you. Would you commit murder for me? Murder? Would you commit murder for me, Kenny? What's that? Speak low. This is the speaker. My husband, it's his knock. Your husband? I don't just...  He's got his key. Oh, my God, take it. When he opens the door. Shoot. Do you love me, Kenyusha? Do you want me? Oh, my heart. Think only that monster stands in the way. What are you waiting for? Shoot, shoot me. Do you dream when you dream, my friend? I think I would be getting complaints about all day with Aladdin's lamp. That raggedy bum with the fur coat in July?  He's right here now, Chief. He wants to see you. Oh, my gosh. Okay, wild eyes. I can't stand it anymore. I'm going to give myself up. Casey, don't go away. I don't want to be left here alone with this lunatic. What's up? He says he just bumped off a guy a half hour ago. What? Who did he bump off? Aladdin. Aladdin? Ain't that a hot one now? I don't know what they be doing. I'd kill them in cold blood. I don't know what come over me. But she's absolutely in a clear eye to you, and I'm willing to fly alone. Hold on there. She. Who is she? The princess whom I was doomed to meet. The princess? Why, sure. I don't give me any more that Arabian knights.  I think you're crazy. I'm beginning to think so, too.  Stop shaking. What about that 50 grand fairy tale? It's gone. After we killed him, we ran out of a apartment. I felt my shirt, and it was gone. We killed him. Where's the princess? She had an appointment with a hairdresser. What? Sit down. You mean that murderous- What? Murderous. I absolve her. I turned her head. For once in my life, I'm going to act like a man. I killed him. Well, I can't stand it anymore. My conscience has been haunting me. It's like a nightmare. You expect me to swallow that hocus pocus? What do I look like? I swallow it, but please solve it for me. Where is the corpus, if any?  All right, let's go. But if you're dragging me along on a wild goose chase, I'll put you away in a padded cell. Now, come on. It's vacant, bare. No one even lives here. Where do you see a body? I can't understand. My gosh, officer, I was just here, but now it's empty. Hey, what are you trying to pull on here? Can I help you, gentlemen? Who are you looking for? Who are you? I'm Mrs. Podoski, the janitor. Well, who lived here last? You know a princess, Julie? A princess, which? I'm afraid, miss, that you got the wrong building. No one been living in this apartment for the last six months. What about it, Pierre? You're the head waiter in this nightclub. Do you ever know or wait on such a dame? Your princess, your princess, Julie. Yeah. But no, miss, your inspector. She is utterly unknown, and this is definitely one. That's a lie. You remember Don Welch just a couple hours ago? My fourth coat. She was sitting at the next table.  Take a good look at him. I have never before seen him in my whole life. Get back in my car.  Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. I remember something now. She gave me a piece of paper somewhere. A phone number. Look, look, look. The phone number. Her hairdressers were where I was to call her. Instead, I gave myself up, and it's, look. Let's see. There's a phone in that store. Go ahead, call it. Ask for it. See if I'm crazy. All right. Kenny, just one more chance I'll give you. But if you're giving me the business again, I'll tear you limb from limb. Come on. Is this a hairdressin' pilot? What's that? A ravishing boomer.  This is Inspector Ross, police department. Is this a hairdressers? My dear fellow, this is a private sanitarium for the insane. What? Dr. Bennett speaking. Tell him a tita like a pile.  Sorry, Doc, I guess this is just a bum steer. You see, I got a prisoner here. It told me that a princess, Julie. What's that? What's your prisoner's name? Kenny Andrews. Kenny Andrews. That's him. Don't let that man away. Get him right back here. He's an escaped lunatic. What? Well, I'll be. Now this makes sense. Look, Doc, give me your address quick. I'm delivering him myself in person and it'll be a pleasure. Is the princess there? What do they say, huh? What do they say? Brother, you're going home. Is this your man, Doc? Yes, that's him. He escaped from here two days ago. I never see you before in my life. Entertainment, give me a hand, quick. I'll be alone. What's your one? Hey, please, this is a terrific... Thank you, Inspector. It's lucky for the community you found him. Yeah, and am I glad to unload this baby. What a ride he took me for. What an imagination. He's definitely a schizophrenic, poor lad. Too bad. Well, of course, we'll just keep him here under observation until he's committed elsewhere. You know to fight his relatives? Yes. They're on their way now from Oklahoma. They haven't seen him since he was a child. I hope they won't ask for his release. That would be tragic.  Well, he's a menace. I'm sure glad you're taking him out of circulation. That's my story. See, the whole truth. I swear it, it all transpired. Listen to me, someone. You don't believe it, then at least solve it for me. I'll be out, you hear me? Open this door and let me out. Just while my cousins get here. That's Sorbo's alias. They tell the honest truth that we shouldn't have been doing. Who again, Mr. Andrews? Aren't we the troublesome patients? You just wait till I get here. Your cousins are here now. Let's calm down so they won't get frightened. So we can go home with them to two forts. Otherwise, we'll spend the rest of our life here. That's the boy. This way, please. Kenny is ready to see you now. Oh, I'm glad you guys came. If you only knew... You! Where is it you dream when you dream, my friend? Alive. You're dead! No. Cousin Joe. Alive. I promise you will be very kind.  Princess Julie! Who'd you rather? No, cousin Fanny. You're crazy. But my golly, what is this? Am I still seeing things? Hey. Hey, you two been taking me for a sleigh ride? Oh, no, cousin Kenny. How could we?  Not your dopey cousins from two forts, Kenny. The cow's giving milk today. Oh, my golly, what's your angle? I don't get it. I don't get it at all. You will, Kenny. You remember Uncle Iggy? Diggin' and diggin' in his backyard. For what, Kenny? Wives. Right. Uncle Iggy died two weeks ago. You know, from what, Kenny? What? Heart shock. You know what? Give him heart shock, Kenny. He struck oil in his backyard and became a millionaire overnight. You know who he left a six million to in his will, Kenny? Who? You.  You're crazy. And that's where we come in, Kenny. You see, his will also reads that when you die, all go crazy. The fortunes to be split among your other cousins. He always did suspect you'd suddenly do one or the other, Kenny. Wait a minute. Wait a minute! This has all been a frame-up. Sure, sure, I get it, everything. I've been framed.  So you put up this whole, this whole mishmash. How did you know where to trail me? Easy. For a smart guy with a niche, only one place for him. New York. And who met up with a certain bookie, the rest was easy. Oh, for the headache. I've got things pounding in my ears. That gun I plugged you with. Blanks. That waiter at the casino. Cousin Georgie. The shorebones. Cousin Hank. The midget. Cousin Lou. The janitor. Cousin Fessy. Oh, this should happen to me! You crooks, you swindlers!   Why not? I'll lose now. Who could do such a thing to your own cousin? You remember the cousin's club, Kenny? Now you angle your way out of this, baby. Come on, Fennie. He'll weep. Let's go. Make with the paper dolls, Kenny. No! Don't listen to your robes! You can't pull us on me! Never! You'll never get away with it! You'll see! You think you're pretty slick, huh? These guys. Make with the paper dolls, huh? Oh, God, I'll never keep me here. That Kenny Andrews. Such a thing shouldn't happen to a dog! What'll I do? Spray me someone? Listen to me?  Then so the curtain falls on the case of the missing mind, which was chosen by guest expert Craig Rice. Ms. Rice is the author of Having a Wonderful Crime. Next week at this time, Murder by Experts brings you a story of a New Year's Eve masquerade party, with death as a guest in disguise, selected for your approval by one of the foremost leading mystery writers of the world. Until then, this is your host, John Dixon Carr, hoping you'll be with us again next week at this time. Case of the Missing Mind was written by Joseph Rusko. In our cast were Carl Eastman and Shepard, Bill Zuckert, Ralph Komargo and Bert Collin. Music under the direction of Emerson Buckley, composed by Richard DuPage. Murder by Experts is produced and directed by Robert A. Arthur and David Cogan. Though talking speaking, this is the mutual broadcasting system.


question here about how do we maintain a structure a calendar structure, a life structure that we've designed. If you are having a hard time maintaining the structure keeping up with being consistent with it. There could be two reasons one is that the structure needs to be designed with more alignment with your actual.  So for example, if you, for those of you who have kids, right, like, if you say what I'm going to work. You know, the kids are home at 3pm, 4pm from school, 5pm, whatever. And I'm going to, I'm going to work from 5 to 6pm. It's really not realistic because, I don't know, I don't have kids but once they're home, they probably have to take care of them and make them a snack or whatever. And, or they need help with their homework or they need help getting to their homework or whatever it is. So that's an example or another example might be you had structure to do your to write the blog post at, I don't know. I'm on Mondays or something like that.  But then you find that at 10pm, you have all this energy, and maybe it's great writing time for you. So what if instead of 10am you structure your writing time for 10pm. And that's my bedtime. But, but some of you are night owls. And I know I talk about how we should all be early birds but that's not realistic. I think everybody has has a different kind of chronotype and sleep patterns and that's okay as long as you're getting the sleep. That's fine. But yeah, so, so one is design design is an issue of ongoing issue I redesigned my structure. At least every two to three months I'll make some significant change to my structure like oh my gosh okay I thought this was great at, you know, 3pm on Tuesdays but it really should be here. On Thursdays at 10am that means I got to put the Thursday 10am somewhere else. And so I redesigned it every two to three months given because my life changed my life changed my business changes. So, probably with you to it's not a one time design because otherwise you're not taking into account your evolution and not just your evolution but also you're becoming smarter over time about how to align your design with your actual life and your rhythms of life your rhythms of energy and all that stuff. Okay. And by the way there's also someone brought up in the TLC group or so I think it was started a thread about men, you know those of you with menstrual cycles, that's a real, you know, obviously a real thing you have to plan for plan around it so anyway. I don't have menstrual cycles at this time. So, I don't think about that but those of you do anyway so one is design is an issue the other issue is, once you have designed a fairly good structure, right, which takes.  And all this design right now, the best of what I can, and I'm going to take notes along the way go. I was going to do this at 2pm, but then. Now, this is the other part so you got designing well, and then the other part is sort of the in in the moment work routine or motivational routine. And that is also something you need to learn about yourself. And so it's like, how do you and this is the tricky part. How do you know, I don't feel like writing right now, George, it says writing on my calendar. I just don't feel like doing it. So is it a design issue, or is it a motivational issue. That's, I don't know. That's up to you. Because it could be like writing needs to be at 10am versus 2pm or 10pm. I don't know. So, so you need to experiment with the design, but you also need to say, I've designed this several times now I said I would write at 10am didn't work I said I would write at 10pm didn't work now I'm saying I'm right at 10pm. It's gotta be one of those, or 5pm whatever it's gotta be one of those so if I don't feel like doing it. Then it's a motivational issue. Right, then it's then my question is how do I motivate myself in the moment for me it's an energy reboot. Right I do energy reboot that gets that's resets my mindset resets my stuckness, because I'm stuck all the time I don't know about you. I get stuck all the time, all the time.  Because I get stuck. I get stuck. I don't want to do it. I don't want to do whatever I'm doing. I don't. Who wants to write.  I don't. Who wants to reach out to potential referral sources I don't. Who wants to make a video I don't. I want to show up for teach the TLC session.  The only thing I like to do is to show up and hang out with you that's the only thing I like to do everything done by myself I don't want to do any of it. I don't want to do bookkeeping I don't want to do writing I don't want to do making an offer I don't want to prepare my courses. I don't want to say I'm done preparing a course because of course could be prepared for another 18 hours and still not good enough. I don't want to do any of it. That's why when you work with me on focus man you see me doing this like every five to 10 to 15 minutes, because I like to read I got to get myself back into like no no no, I know I don't want to do it. But it's going to help somebody. And they need to set boundaries around stuff with myself. So let me do my reboot. Let me get back into it. It's a battle every day. Now, I know it makes sounds so dramatic right. I'm a warrior.  It's it's a battle every every moment of every day it's a battle, except once I wouldn't have the battles one and every second, the battles one in seconds at a time saying no, I'm willing. I'm uninspired. I'm uninspired most of the day I mean to be honest with you I'm not willing to do it. I'm not interested in doing any of the stuff I'm doing. George I thought you're going to true livelihood authentic business.  I'm going to write about this is enjoyment and fun are at a much deeper level. When we're talking about personal growth, right. We're talking about impact and serving world enjoying the fun is not at the video game. Not at the eating junk food with delicious food not at the watching entertaining videos like this. No, not anything. But like we find a deeper enjoyment of fun through the meaning of service and the meaning of personal growth and the experience of it that the visceral experience of I wasn't interested in doing this. I made myself do it and wow I'm so proud of myself. That's fun on a deep level. You see what I mean that's meaningful deeply mean deeply meaningful life is seeing yourself grow because you didn't feel like doing it just now, but you did an energy reboot or whatever and then you got back into it and you found again the love of service. You found again the love of stretching yourself towards creativity, everything I've written, everything I've written that you see me right. I didn't feel like doing it. Never feel like doing it. I never if money were no issue, and if impact were no issue I would be sitting on the couch not in this room, but on my couch all day watching Netflix and Amazon Prime and Apple TV or whatever. Okay, that's what I would do and be eating popcorn or an ice cream, both hands, one hand this and one hand that all day. That's what I would do. But wouldn't be a meaningful life. Right. So I think this is the this is the battle. This is the challenge.  Right, at the at the personal growth level. Now, of course I get I, I battle myself every five to 10 minutes. And I also feel proud of myself every five to 10 minutes because I'm like, I got back into it. Look at me. I'm now writing even though I don't like to write even though I think I'm going to get judge, even though I'm going to embarrass myself even though it's cringe worthy. It's whatever doesn't matter. I'm going to keep writing. So, so there's the design issue, and then there's the motivational. How do you get yourself how do you battle with resistance. How do you and you I don't you don't want to you don't want to be a warrior that's okay we could use a different analogy. How do you reparent yourself.  Take pick your analogy, pick your metaphor but it's got to be one of those or maybe there's a different one. So, so you have to find the design continual process and you got to find the motivational method that works for you for me it's like every five to 10 to 15 minutes. Otherwise I'm stuck again. Otherwise I don't feel like doing it again, all the time. Right. So, I hope that helps. And I think it keeps life vibrant. Because I think if I were to give in to whatever I feel like doing. I think I would age even faster. Or at least I would be out on the street because I can't pay rent, you know, that's what's more like it. I wouldn't feel that the joy of making impact anyway I think I'm done with this topic I think that's hopefully that's helpful. And yeah, and so, and those of you who who enjoy my writing thank you. But you know that every time you read it I'm battling, I'm battling every every paragraph I'm battling, you know, and I think that you've heard that that's true for other writers to.  I mean, it's great. The only thing I could do all day long was doing these kinds of calls I mean that's that's my superpowers I don't mind extemporaneously speaking, I guess, but I used to be super shy that's another topic. I used to be super shy I used to be so embarrassed I used to be bullied as a kid because I couldn't talk. And look at me now so I grew. And my writing I don't battle as much anymore I used to battle a lot more like every word I had to battle because I hated writing so much throughout my whole life and then now it's, I'm only battling every two two paragraphs and battling. So it's gotten better over time. The battle gets easier. You don't the battle doesn't end. You just get stronger. You just get better at it. You just become a better fighter, you become a better parent of yourself, you become a better creator, you become a better practitioner. That's it. But life doesn't get any easier. I found right so


Let's hear from the head coach now. Steve Nash with his thoughts on this loss. Coach, you're a message to the team after the game and your assessment of what you saw out there. My message was personal pride, connectivity and coming together, just resistance. Like we can't start the game down 10, be down 20 in the second half, expecting it to come easy. This is professional sports. The other team is talented and capable and we're shorthanded and we're small. We got to come out extremely sharp, extremely competitive and we're the real fire. And it takes us getting down 20 to find that fire. Is it any more disappointing or troubling when you had a rare couple of days off and to be locked in for this front end of a back to back and have this type of performance? No matter what, it's frustrating. No matter if it's a back to back, if it's a week off, you come to the gym, you got to want to fight with your teammates and make it extremely hard on the other team, make them miserable. And we didn't do that. We did it in stretches, approved that we can do it but we got a lot to clean up. And the number one thing is just that attitude and that competition level and that connectivity. Those are things that you can't draw up. Those are things you can't practice. You just have to bring it and I didn't feel that for 48 minutes.


A little Q&A and I'll answer all your questions. To the best of my abilities. Go from there. I gotta tell you, I didn't know that dynamic DCA could be so, I mean, with those numbers then, you're like, wow, 100,000 for just dollar-cost avenue and then 500,000? Yeah, who knows what'll do that? Maybe everything goes to zero, I don't know. Mr. Bopal, can't believe I'm here for the start. I just put a pizza in the oven. Yes, that does sound good. Your 20-hour prediction is still there as a big joke. No, I don't. I've deleted one video on my channel. And that was where I was talking about loans with Celsius because I didn't want, first of all, I just thought it was a ridiculous premise.  Now, I've left videos up for when I've interviewed Alex Moshinsky. I won't take those down because I want everybody to take a look at that and just see how people can lie right to your face. And people will fall for it, hook, line, and sinker. And I did, and I won't delete that video, multiple videos as a matter of fact. So I'll also leave up my predictions because the thing is you have to understand is that people will make mistakes. I know we put up these experts and analysts as like the ones that are like the soothsayers and can just give us the promised land, but they're all full of it. They can only get so much right. You can only get so many things correct and you're gonna screw up.  Not those, not the other people out there that say, do this and do that. And you just take like even this video, you take what you need from it and you discard the rest. Yes. Yeah, Al's world, it did a good day to be in the market. It's a good day to be right here. And of course, who gets to actually profit from that? It's the people that stuck around. It's the people that are like, look, and we've been saying this for two years. This is the time to accumulate. I know it sucks, but this is where all the millionaires are made. And like you say that and you say that and you guys hear it and hear it. But I know there's always that little voice or that there's the angel here and the devil here, however you wanna say it. And those are always in constant talk with you going, you should get out or you should put it. Or you know what? This isn't gonna work. This isn't taking too long. Is this going to zero? Like the government's against it? Like Eric Genders out there and before you know it, you're like, I'm out of here.  You just show up with the right uniform and you put in your best work and things pay off. Sean says, if you think Solana is golden after one pump, look, look, Solana works, Cardano works, near protocol works. A lot of these projects, they work. The question is, which ones are gonna get picked up? Cause remember in the market itself, like, you know, Warren Buffett talks about, in the beginning, it's all just a voting machine. But in the end, as things calm down and the dust settles, it becomes a weighing machine. Most the, I can't say that. Some of the projects out there are great and they do great things. The thing is, will they get adopted and will people start using them instead of just speculating? It's just like the great restaurant on the street that you go to that no one seems to frequent, but yet you found a hidden gem and it's awesome. And you love the food and the staff is fantastic and it's reasonably priced. And then you go there on the next Saturday and it's closed down.  It's cause for whatever reason, people didn't find it. But I will tell you this, people are lining up around the block for McDonald's. Why? The food's garbage. Well, it tastes good, but it's not good for you. And it's the same thing with businesses and crypto and digital assets and everything else. You can have a fantastic product. People don't find it and use it. It's not gonna make it. And that's why like, I know people will say, well, my project is this, my project, trust me. A lot of products out there are doing pretty good, pretty good things. A lot of them are scams too. It's just about adoption. Who's gonna make it?  So like in the days of the internet, we had a ton of different search engines. A ton of them. You go to Ask Jeeves, Dogpile and stuff like that. I know, I just said some of you guys have no idea what I'm talking about. But at some point, you know, Google's like, well, what does do this little tweak in how we search and query data? Now we use like, that's all it is. It's Google, maybe a couple, maybe one more other one. I don't know what it is. I've only used Google. So, DAO, people foolishly buy the pump every time. 30K is gonna sell off again. Yeah, why wouldn't people who are interested in shorting not do the same? And that's just it. Like, if we take a look at the price today, 29.8. I think the problem, not the problem, but people, and I even said this on Twitter. I said, hey, congratulations people taking profit. I talk about this every time. Probably got some sell orders at 30,000. Maybe people short it, maybe you wanna keep it down. I don't know. That's what we have. And then one thing I will say is that these prices look pretty good, right? I mean, seven day, 24 hours. You know, Sunday people taking profits. But look at this. If I switch this to Bitcoin, look how many are believing against Bitcoin. The last 24 hours, Ethereum is up 0.1%. Hey, Tether, BNB, man, USDC, Lido. Well, it's the same thing, stake deep there. Ten coin is up. Look at all this red.  So you got like 0.2, except for Chainlink. Man, I'm glad I DCA that. I do like that project. Working with Swift and everybody else. Digitizing real world assets or RWAs, sending them cross border. Chainlink's it. But look at all this red. It's a lot of red. And it's not like point, it's like a lot of red. Bitcoin SV. Although Bitcoin SV was up 30%. Why? Someone's got to explain that to me. Synthetic's up 2.6. But we still see a lot of red. Again, I'm not a Bitcoin maximalist. I think Bitcoin has its run, but like we just took a look at, the gains are in some alts. Some alts, it's just finding that right one. And who knows what that will be? So, good point. Good point, DAO. Canos is smashing likes, thanks. I appreciate it. Irrational meme, Shaolin. Money mom. DCA grew. Suspectable. That's a suspect. That's sus. As the kids say. News flash, you're not cashing out at that one day where it tops up. Nope, you are not. And that's why I like that tool. DCA and DC out. Because you'll never hit the top. But you know what's great about dollar cost averaging every day? You will time the bottom. You, I guarantee it. That's the one guarantee I can say. Actually, no, I can't 100% guarantee because if your DCA is at like 5 p.m. And then, you know, I don't know. Solana's at, it bottoms out at like five bucks, right? But then that was at 9 a.m. and now it's like $5.25 or six bucks.  The tops though, it's very tough. And of course, everybody runs around and says, I hit the top, I hit the top. Sure you did, pal. Not only that, they probably like, did they sell their entire bag at this one point? Or was it like they sold here, then here, then here, then here, and then they nailed the top that one time? Great, congratulations.  Oh, Red Panda's got a great point. Rob, DCA is difficult to do three, four, or five years because you're never sure, which also exactly. For Bitcoin, it's always a good strategy to weigh in and out at any time. Yeah, and that's just it. That's why 75% of my portfolio is in the Bitcoin. And I know like when I was in the space in 2017, then in 2018, I would hear the same thing from people in 2019. I'm like, why are you in the Bitcoin? You know, like I get it. You know, it's like the oldest battle tested and it has the most utility for right now. I know people will disagree with me, but it's true. And I was like, but there's so many gains in the alts. And then I figured it out when the alts came in 2021, I was like, shoot, I thought EOS was gonna be awesome. What happened to Tezos? And BitConnect didn't make it? Ah, man. So yeah, like you're gonna take a big hit. But that's just it. Like we just took a look at like, for every ADA, Cardano out there, every BNB, every chain link, there's gonna be those ones. There's always the lunas. There's always the decreds. There's always the salt. There's always the dash. Sorry, dash is true. They don't hit their all-time highs, but it doesn't matter. Because if there was like, like we just took a look at, if you lose a couple grand in those, because you have a dollar cost averaging, but yet you make it up in like a Cardano, like the ones I just talked about, Cardano's this chain links and stuff like that, and you make it a million, two million. That's what angel investors do, essentially.  You're spraying and praying. I see by Doge now, yes. Someone was asking about that. They go, why is Dogecoin ever gonna go back to its all-time high? Is it ever gonna pump? I was like, yeah, as soon as Elon Musk comes out and says that Dogecoin is the official currency of Twitter. That's when I'm a really pumped. But I'm scared because I think he might not, even though he has, if you look at Elon Musk's profile, he's got two logos in there. One is X and the one is Dogecoin. And I just wonder if he's ever gonna do it. I was gonna say, ah, we figured it's not that great.  Or we're gonna use a stablecoin as does. And that would be it. And then of course, I think, you know, you'd see a little bit of a bump downwards for Doge. Or it's a nuclear engineering, as I'm going to be using. It's not, Mollett, if you can do TA, you can do that. Lord knows I'm not smart and I figured it out. All right, here we go. If I give you an example, I made some decent profits when all the coin market's gonna perform as well as it did. So I invested the amount once, I invested the alt plus profit to put, yeah. And this is the thing, there's so many different ways to do it. And that's why like right now in the bear market, this is the time to get your strategy because it's when you're the most sane. When everything's going off and you start hearing about these, you know, next, whatever you're into, like remember in 2021, when Bitcoin was being adopted and everybody was into it, right? Michael Saylor gets into it, El Salvador. It comes to the legal tender. Then all of a sudden there's got an elite Elon Musk talking about it. Like God Tesla just uses it to buy their vehicles. This is gonna, this'll never stop. BNY Mellon's into it, the oldest bank in the US. Holy smokes. And then you start to realize, okay, well, it's going up but it's slowing down.  That's okay, pullbacks are healthy. You're gonna hear that constantly. And then it goes up in November, like I told you, now 69,000, I told you. 100K, 250K, 500K, here we come to the moon. And then it keeps dropping. It keeps dropping, it keeps dropping. Shoot, what was my plan again? It'll come back, never comes back. Comes back in four years. So you must have a plan now. And I just gave you a plan to take a look at and maybe potentially implement. Trust me, I've been there, been there twice. Going into my third bull run. So we'll see. Um, what gaming products do you like? I've had some pretty smart people on the show and I've had Kagi, I've had Classy Games, I've had Crypto Stash and Johnny Hussle from Crypto Banter. And the majority of them said the same thing. It was Gala, it was Upper Echelon, it was Immutable X and Big Time. And if you take a look at those web three gaming projects, it's true. So what I recommend is, if you haven't done them already, there's a link in the description, danteachescrypto.com. And on my, I'm gonna show you. Oops. You can look for them here on YouTube, but I put them all together for you. And over on my website, all the videos, they're not hosted on YouTube. So they're ad-free. And of course people will, I don't pay ads because I got this blocker. But okay, fine. But if you don't have a blocker and you'd like to go to danteachescrypto, it's 100% free, I don't spam you. I just tell you when I upgrade or update some things. Let me log in. One, two, three, four, five, password. And then you go to, and there's all different types. Basic safety investing reviews, how to line that up. Gaming, I do have to put Classy's video up here. This is Yatsu. He's the founder of Anamoka Brands. He explains what the heck is web three and why it's so important. There's Hustle. Here's his top plays, Qs and As. Gala, Eshalon, Dubs, that's right. Mutelex and Vulcanforged. Here's Stashes. Here's Caggy. And this is where Classy games will go. It's gotta get it up there. But yeah, just do that. Good question. And what I like about that is uncorrelated to the four year cycles.  But as time goes on, you actually need those tokens to play those games. You know, do we need, I don't know. Do we right now, do we need, do we need Chainlink? Not really. The banks need Chainlink more than we need Chainlink. They're just trying to implement it. Do we need, I don't know, do we need Solana? It's pretty cheap. And if you're looking for NFTs, I suppose so. Do we need Ethereum? Yeah, you need Ethereum.  Do you need Bitcoin? Well, if you wanna do a long-term hedge against inflation, yes, yes, yes, you do. Do you need Decred? Do you need Salt? Do you need Dash? No. What do they do? I will never DC out of my tomato coin. It's a pretty good play. Once we nail that partnership with Olive Garden, to the moon, Afonsis, XRP or Solana. You know, after those wins, I gotta tell you XRP's price is pretty depressed for what it is.  And I sold some when the lawsuit was announced, but I couldn't sell as much as I thought I should because I thought it'd be a quicker thing and then I figured out, oh, it's gonna take a long time. Now, here we are. I mean, the next bull run, it'll get its proper due. And it should. I mean, it's used globally except for America. A lot of banks are implementing it, so we'll see. And of course, Nostros, Vostros and the way that they move funds around, I can see that. Solana bull. Love, everybody. Blue blowfish, thoughts on possibly of a big pullback. There's two ways of thinking about this. One is there's a recession coming right around the corner. I don't think anything's safe when we hit a recession. I think at that point, traditional equities go down. I think, of course, the housing market's already kind of in the tank. No one's really buying, even though we are actually seeing a bit more of an uptick of people actually making houses. And of course, risky assets like Bitcoin and digital assets will probably go down in the recession, which I think is weird because it's supposed to be a hedge against inflation, but people just don't get it yet. So they're going to probably pile into bonds, T-bills, treasuries, and probably precious metals. Usually how it works before recession gets going.  The question is, when is that recession? We took a look at it. Indicators are pointing to Q1. If you take a look at the inversion of yield curve and you can find that again on Ben's channel or on Ben's website. And we took a look at it. And we also, a video a couple of days ago about recession, if you take a look from the time that we pause the actual fed raising of rates to only get a recession, it's roughly about a year or so. And that just happened in July or August, really September, if you think about it. So if we get one, I think, it's either gonna be Q, sometime next year between Q1, I thought it was, but looking at a data, it could be Q3. And in that case, you're gonna see a major pullback, but it doesn't watch the video because it doesn't matter. We'll have a Bitcoin having in May of 2024. Recessions usually last 10 months. However, the market recovers first before the economy. So you're looking at around next in 2025, I don't know, March, April, and that's when the bull run happens. So yeah, that's my best answer with data points. Whew, about to hop on the bike. The most fun exercise, I wish I could. Got a herniated disc. This is what happens when you get old. Now I'm taking a bunch of pills, so I can't do much. And of course I can't sit, so this is why I'm only standing. That is Rob is old. Rob is real old. Ben asks, is Rob, what does the S&P look like when Bitcoin is in its very year? Simileged cycle or completely unpredictable? Great question. The thing you have to take a look at is how correlated is it? And we can see that actually there is some uncorrelation actually happening, which, check this out. So let's go to charts, macro. Oh, this might be, oops, this will be in crypto. Correlation coefficients. So if we have a positive correlation, they do the exact same thing, right? If we have zero, there's no real correlation. And if we have in the negative, they do the opposite. Like a negative one, if Bitcoin goes down, the market would go up. So it's the exact opposite. And in this case, the market could go down or up and Bitcoin could do nothing. Or Bitcoin could go up and the market could do nothing. This doesn't matter. And of course this one is where it's proficiently, heavily correlated. And we can see that as times, and especially right now, if we, let's go here. We've had a big drop off since September in the correlations. Now it'll oscillate back and forth, but I think as time goes on, we'll see it become a little bit more uncorrelated. And we can just see, and you can take a look at the correlations between, let's see, heat, green, cryptos and stocks. And how it actually correlates to the big stocks. And actually, this is the one I'm looking for, S&P 500. So Bitcoin over the last 60 days is actually negatively correlated. And we take a look at the Pearson correlation coefficient. So negative 0.61, negative points. So it's actually doing the opposite. So I'll take that. So the answer to your question, it just depends on the narrative. And when people actually figure it out, will this be uncorrelated? Well, if we get the narrative out there, and I gotta tell you, the best cheerleader right now is Larry Fink. He went on all the big shows and talked about how great Bitcoin was and how there's huge demand for it and how it's digital gold. So we'll see if that message resonates or if he gonna be like Jim Kramer and go on like a month ago and saying, hey, Bitcoin's going down, you should get out. And of course, since he said that's pumped like 13%. So good job, Kramer. Jim Kramer. Just do the opposite. Let's see. Hey, from Brussels. Ah, see, Norman Derell. I guess it'd be 90% of you that made a little bit with Ape before losing 95% Bitcoin. I think you just start to make more money. And this is really what it comes down to. Like when you make more money, you get more cautious and you get into a little bit less risky place because that's why people are in bonds and T-bills because they're like, why the hell would I go into the stock market right now when we think there's a recession coming? I'll just go into the bond market, which is a $50 trillion market. I don't know if everybody knew that. $50 trillion in bonds in America. Globally, it's like $121 trillion. So like, why would I do that? I get 5% return as opposed to the S&P 500 is like 7% to 9%. I'll just make some free money.  Let's just do that. He's even said he's, that's what he does. Gary says, are you DCing riots? No, I've got stock in Mara. And that's just a very small position. I've got stock in Amazon and Mara and Tesla and some other different little things, but not much. It's there. It's like 5% of my portfolio. Muhammad says, why are you not DCing thing this time?  And it's the same thing with XRP. So like, I've got enough to stake it and it's making me pretty good returns so far. I talked to theta last week. I know what they're doing. I know their advancements are trying to do, looking pretty good. I think theta is going to do very well, very, very well. Next run, Rob's not going to make it. Don't worry about me. I'll be just fine. But thank you. Okay, I'll never hit the top. Neither will I. No one does it. Shrooms, what's up? And Mullet says it correctly. He's right. You don't need to hit the top or bottom. Catch the same percent.  I'm going to look, if you're between 50 and 70% of the top, congratulations, you're doing a great job. The question is, what are you going to do with that money? And that's really what it comes down to. Again, you can keep the money in a bank, but you know that the inflation is just going to keep going up. And especially, once we get that recession, you guys know that the money appearance turn on, right? They're not going to print a boatload of money. And then when that happens, everything gets inflated away. So whatever you get into it, I can't give you a financial advice if I can tell you what I'm doing. Once I get money in the bank, it does sit there for a little bit of time, but I'm always looking for opportunities. And those opportunities can be in land or in real estate or probably start doing what my wife does, which is do loans. And at some point I'll do a video on that, but pretty good business. All right. Green Mountain Tree says, Pysycle bottom is a great time to buy before Parabola, Parabola indicator and Pysycle top is a great time to dollar cost out. Yeah. So what he's talking about, let's see if I can bring this up over here. Or Pysycle bottom tops are right here. If you don't, this is a, on a paid one, if you don't want to go to Ben's, even though he's got everything that you really need, you know to look in the bitcoin.com, that's free. Charts and go down here, Pysycle top and what it is. And just so everybody knows, oh, this isn't a good one. What is a good one? I just can't refresh it. Reset is double click, I'm double click. Let's use Ben's real quick. Come on. There we go. So Pysycle top, it looks retrospectively. And if you take a look at it, it's where you have the 111 day moving average crosses over the 350 day moving average times two. And it's been pretty, pretty straight so far. As to predicting tops and some bottoms, right? So we can see here, like 2013 was a double top kind of, kind of play, he had a top here, they thought it was with Bitcoin price of a hundred bucks. But in reality, it was a 10X, like a thousand bucks. So not so great, but he did a really good job in 2017. Again, retrospectively looking back, it hit at 19,000. And then over here, pretty good. 11th of April, 2011, almost 60,000 for the price. And it said, that's the top.  I think the top was 67 or 69,000, I would have taken that. And in all honesty, on my site, in module three, I miss Chewy. This is the indicators to make it simple for you. Cycle tops, PyCycle, and UPL, Time and Risk Bands, Cycle Bottoms, I do a video about it. But yeah, you can see that, whoops, wrong one. Top's looking pretty, now bottoms, I mean, you can, but I like to use, let's see if Ben's got it here. MBRV, yeah, MBRVZ. This one's not as good as this one. Charts, where did it go? Ah, there we go, MBRVZ score. I like colors, makes things simple. Anyhow, so it's the market value, current price of Bitcoin versus the realized value, which is, instead of taking the price of Bitcoin, you think of the price of each Bitcoin when it's last moved. And for bottoms, it's really good because it goes in this area, you can see right here. Like, what was the price on, well, the number 22nd was the lowest Z score, negative 0.28. And I'm pretty sure that's when Bitcoin hit around 15,700, somewhere around there. But like, if you just accumulate in the green, right, then maybe sell off to when you get and start hitting the red, like above six, you're doing pretty good. So that's what I like to look at. So it's a good point, Green Mountain. Oh. Here are today's elections. Hey, John-Louis in Argentina. What's happening if Carlos Enrique Maier becomes president as a pro-Bitcoin? That guy's crazy, like a fox. Smart guy. I don't know, but what's... I think if you take a look at the Argentinian dollar, the fiat currency over there, isn't it getting massively devalued? I think if that happens and he goes in there, maybe Argentina picks up Bitcoin as a legal tender. He is super big. And the question I have, John-Louis, is how is he polling? I think he's in the lead, like, massively. But I read that on, like, some pro-Bitcoin sites. So I, you know, I don't give it much value to go from there. Yeah, so I'm not... I have an assistant who puts in together all my stuff for Twitter, sometimes it goes out. Also, we stream also on X, as well. Hey, crannies. But he did buy all the euros. Me and him, I still have some euros stuck in some wall or something like that. Any thoughts on Aptos? Didn't they have a shutdown or some kind of problem? Let's take a look. Even though it had a problem, I think it had a pretty good pump. Yeah, that's what it was. That was a five-hour outage. This was Aptos. Let's see what happened. Aptos hit with a five-hour outage on Blockchain's first birthday. And that was October 19th. And it seems like nobody cares, because if we go over here... It's up 21% for the week, so whatever. What's going on? I don't know about that one. I don't invest into it, so I don't really talk about it. Not to say that it's fundamentally flawed. I just haven't looked at it. Jeffrey, my second bull run. Congratulations. It gets easier. Let's see. 100K. I'll take that, too. Yeah. Galvao says, Famous quote from Plan B. Buy Bitcoin six months before the halving and sell it 18 months later and be fine. There's a chart. And if you guys look it up, it's pretty accurate so far. Let's see. I do a search for that, and this is what comes up. My video. So I did a video. Let's go there. I don't know what I'm showing here. Oh, wow. This is it, I think. Yeah. So what he was saying, what Plan B was saying was essentially this. He's like, yeah, if you... And this was the last one. Of course, retroactively, everything looks great, doesn't it? That's six months before the halving. So that would give us into... I believe it's April, right? So wouldn't that be now, roughly? You buy six months before the halving and you sell 18 months. So May 2020 was the... Wait a second. So six... Yeah, that's right. Because that would put you into... So you would have bought Bitcoin November 2019. Let's take a look. I'm pretty sure it was a pretty good buy at that point. Quite honestly. Yeah. Oh, no, no, no. It was May 12th. It was May 12th, 2020. Well, let's just do... Let's just do November 1st. Why not? So, yeah. Roughly six months before the halving. This is the price of Bitcoin. Whoa. $9,300. Well, if we want to be accurate. January, February, March, April... No, that's right. $9,200. And you would dollar-cost, average like we just talked about. Maybe you would have dynamic DCA'd instead of putting 10 bucks a day or 20 bucks a week. Maybe you put in 20 bucks over here. And 10, 10, 10, 10, 10. Or 2020, 15, 10, 10. Then down here you're putting in 30 bucks a day at 55, which is a pretty good deal. Right? And then we get to the halving, which is May 2020, May 12th. Correct me in the comments. You're over here. So whatever you did, great. And then you just stop. And then 18 months later, that would be, well, one year plus May 2021. But it's 18 months, right? So six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Yeah. November 13th. What a nailed it. Again, that's looking back retrospectively. Who knows if it's going to line up again, but it would have worked out pretty well. The question would be what happened in 2013. I don't want to go through it. Ah, we're talking about Ben. Ben in the super cycles, elongated cycles, which if you look at the chart, you can see why it would make sense for there would be elongated cycle. And I got to tell you, I am questioning the fact of whether Ben would have been right if it wasn't for the fact that all the shenanigans that was going on with FTX, and they even admitted in court and there were a pretty large exchange. Their goal was to suppress the price below 20,000 for a very long time. So I think to myself, I'm like, without that, the Voyager is the sell, mostly the Celsius, three hours capital, Luna and everything that was going on there, which I, there's a rumor that Citadel Financial was responsible for the Luna collapse. And the Luna collapse hit three hours capital and three hours capital hit FTX. There was a chain reaction. If all that stuff didn't happen, who knows where it would have been. I always felt like last blown was weird. It just didn't, a lot of things didn't add up for me. So who knows? That's just it. The data that you have, it doesn't matter if you have this data that's so, it's perfect because at some point some wrench can come in there, right? Like, here's a great example. Let's say someone drops a nuke somewhere because we're always talking about these wars. Do you think that we won't see a major volatile action? I don't care how much money printing you're doing at that point. Wrenches come in. Wrenches get into the system and it screws everything up. So that's why I delicose the average in and delicose the average out because I don't know. Hey, Robbie, you're going to jump in the pool in Bitcoin? Yeah, that's the plan. Big cannonball. I need a dash of salt. I need to get some food. Teen test has got a good point. Recession in an election year. Because somebody, Crypto or Carl would tell me this. Sessions. Presidential election years. The data was that there's never been a recession. Let me see if I can find that chart. There's never been a recession the year before the presidential election. We have one coming up in the U.S. Super Tuesday, November of 2024. Let's see if this is it. Crap. Yeah, here. So it has happened actually. I think the recession is in an election year. I remember in 1980, it was Jimmy Carter versus President Reagan. Well, Ronald Reagan. It was just a, you know, governor, I think, of California.  So I remember in 1980, that's why he won. And then we had another, and Carter became a one-term, I believe. And then of course, so he had Reagan, Reagan, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush. I think I'm missing somebody. Oh yeah, Bush. He was a senior. And then Clinton, and then Bush, Bush, and then, okay. And in 2008, this was Barack Obama, and there was a recession at that point. I don't know why that wasn't. That was George Bush Jr., W, and 1216. So it does happen. But what's more interesting, and this could actually play out to what could actually be, is that the year after the elections is when they kind of let things fall apart. And it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Yeah, so who knows. Cat with a K says, should I get this tangent wallet or the newer one coming out? So the original one is easier to use. It depends on what you want to do. There's a link in the description. I do a deep dive on a tangent. I have the old one. Seems to work out pretty well for me. The only difference between the old one and the new one is if you have to have mnemonic phrases and you can't stand just saying, my private key's on here, which is what it is. And you have to have that mnemonic phrase and you have to write it down and you got to get the version 2.0. If you want the older style, it's cheaper, and you don't have to deal with that.  It's two or three cards. I screwed up and I got the two-pack, get the three-pack. Don't be cheap. It's like $46 to $53. It's something ridiculously small. And just know that if you lose that third card, all your money's gone. All your crypto's gone. So just make sure that you keep the one that you're going to use around. Hide the other two. Put them in different locations. And then if this one, something happens to this one, which I gotta tell you, I've had the same debit card from USA for like four years and it still works. But it does happen, right? Someone steals it and off it goes. And of course your questions are like, what if someone steals it? Can you use it? They have the app. What if they just download the app? I'd answer that. So once you get the first one, that one gets gone. You can use the second one. That one's gone. You get the third one and you don't do anything. The first thing you do is order a new three-pack. And that's what it is. The other one, if you're okay with the mnemonic phrase, get the 2.0. And also you can import other wallets into Tangium with the 2.0 version. So I'm just waiting for them to update the app. The app is, it's good, but it's much, much better. Steve says, use an inversion table. Yes, and it's not working. So I'm using this inversion table behind me from my herniated disc, and it doesn't really work too well. I'm going to have to go do something else. I've already got the injection and stuff like that.  It takes 9,000. Hey, mountain man. Mole's probably right. Larry Fink already bought all the Bitcoin needs. Yeah, probably his buddies too. But that's not it. That's the whole point of these... I always look at it like, why can't these super-rich people just hire somebody to buy their Bitcoin for them and say, hey, custody of this, I think it's going to be worth a lot of money. But no, I think people are just generally lazy and they're just waiting for this ETF to go through and they can say, well, I trust BlackRock. They're going to handle everything and that's it. Maybe that's it. When you get so rich, you're just like, I don't want to do anything. Just make me money. Probably what it is. We're not like us, right? We're like, oh, we'll custody it. All right, this mnemonic phrase down in five different places, put one in the freezer, one under my bed, one here and there, maybe one in the backyard. Thanks. We're all going to make it. When profit. That's the thing. I got to tell you, everybody, it's not hard to dollar-cost average. It's not hard to buy the dips. It's easy for us. And dips of like 30%, that's a Tuesday. Dips of like 60%, 70%, well, that sucks, but been there. Dips of 97%, 8%, well, if you've been since 2022, that's what Cordano pretty much is doing and a bunch of other different alts. Who cares? The hard part is selling because we buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, we hold, hold, hold, hold for so long to come second nature. That's why I'm always talking about take some profits so you grease the wheels, muscle memory, you're like, oh, that's how I do it. And I remember I can do it instead of holding on forever and diamond-hanging it.  And what happened? Didn't sell. But I got a bunch of Luna Classic. Troy says, this is a good question. When you take profits, where do you put it for safekeeping?  You get your limits increased, right? Because right now if you sign up, and this is what happened in my 2017 version, when you sign up for an exchange, they only let you do so much as far as like to transfer funds or to sell funds. Maybe it's 10,000, whatever it is. Or maybe it's 150,000. I don't know what you do. But at some point, you have to talk to the exchange and send them an email like, I want my limits increased. Because if you do it when everything's going parabolic, it's too late. Like Coinbase is going to be overblown. It probably has a problems like it always has. Maybe it doesn't. But if you do this early, you won't have this issue when you're trying to sell. So that's the first thing. The second thing is if you're going to do fiat and fiat to cash, that's one problem you're going to have with your bank.  Are you a terrorist? Or are you a drug dealer? Or are you something else? Trust me, I know that's what they asked in the last bull run. That's a true story. So the next thing you got to think about is maybe I just want to put in the stablecoins. And the question is, what stablecoin do I want to use? Does it want to be USDC? Do I want to use Tether? Want to use the one that's on Tron? Whatever it is. If you can do that, you don't have to deal with the banks. And your stablecoin can go right into your cold storage device. You don't have to worry about it. But then the thing that you really have to think about is this, even though it's a stablecoin and it's attached to the dollar, what is the dollar doing? And how strong is it actually? And should I probably put this into other assets? Whether that be, like we just talked about, into precious metals, into real estate, into your business, whatever else. Then you got to start to think about how do I get these stablecoins, or this crypto, into whatever this person wants to have. Whatever magical fiat paper money that they want. And hopefully you can find somebody that takes crypto. He says, I'll pay in crypto. But that, if I want to go deep into it, that's the whole point of Bitcoin. The white paper says peer-to-peer transaction. And it doesn't matter if it's just a Bitcoin to someone who accepts Bitcoin. If I didn't want to do a transaction, to me, I think to myself, because when I, you know, like my Amazon business, like if I have to pay China, when I used to use Chinese, manufacturing plants, I don't do anymore, then I have to send over money. Right?  So the same thing with Bitcoin, right? If you say, hey, I want to buy that house, the house is half a million dollars, or probably in America, it's like the average price of 450,000. See, you say, okay, well, we don't take Bitcoin. Okay, well, let's exchange it for dollars. You know, it's going to cost me some, and then you just exchange it, and then you buy that asset, and you own the asset and do whatever you want with it. So that's a very long answer for what you think is best for you. But yeah, I wish a lot of more, a lot, I wish a lot more places would take stable coins. It makes sense to me. Tay Waste is correctly so, also probably should have sold some alts when we ran early in the year. I did not, that's okay. A lot of people did the same thing. I did the same thing, my first one. I got better on my second run. And this third one, I should do better as well. I won't be perfect because I'll get greedy just like everybody else. Yeah, gotta have a plan and stick it. Louise says, Rob, Ben, Colleen? Oh, Cowan. Seems to, maybe Ben, seems that, I don't think you say that. Seem to think that Bitcoin will not go over 100K in the next cycle because of dimension returns. Here's what I'm going to tell you. And I said this yesterday, price predictions are worthless. And people who are doing it are just doing educated guesses. That's pretty much it. There was an article from 2020 that I tweeted out. And it said, the majority of economists now believe that recession will not hit with quantitative easing. These are economists. And they're like, no, no, we won't have any kind of inflation because of the massive amount of trillions of dollars that we're printing. So the same thing goes with price predictions. I don't know if it's gonna be 100K. I don't know if it's gonna be 80K. Maybe we don't even hit the all-time highs. I don't care. What I care about is the indicators I just showed you. And those indicators you can find on the website. And if I take a look at those multiple indicators, I make the best guess. It doesn't matter about a price prediction. If we don't hit 100K, I don't care. I'm pretty sure alts, some will overperform and some will underperform. If I take a look at those, and I dollar-cost average and I dollar-cost average out, I don't have to play this game anymore. It's a huge relief. So just take a look at that.  But I thought 100,000 was reasonable last time. That didn't happen. You guys, you guys trading or DJing gamblers. Look, everybody's a little DJing. Let's be honest. If you weren't a little bit a degenerate, as far as a gambler, you wouldn't probably wouldn't be here. Just a little. And there's a wide range of degenerates out there. Like Mollit, probably 70% degenerate. Gambler, Tesla, maybe 2% degenerate. I don't know. But yeah, there's nothing wrong with trading. I used to knock on it, but if you want to do it, it's fun. It's like going to the casino. Sometimes you knock it out of the park. Sometimes the bells and whistles start going off when you pull that one-arm bandit. Most times it doesn't. Rob, no offense. Ben was running along a good cycle. Last run he goes in the box to take everything with a grain of salt. Ben's a nice guy. Yeah, he was wrong on that one, but he always says he's wrong. Look how much, but you know, we're all wrong. And that's the thing. Like look how many times I've been wrong. I mean, look, I mean, I talked about a lot of things that did not work out. I talked a lot about like these different all coins, talked about Voyager, how it would never go down because it was essentially the hotels.com. And of course, who knew that they were behind the $630 million loan to three euros capital? Actually, we did know. There's a link in the description. It's called the Celsius Voyager Timeline. And the day that Celsius collapsed, I had just come back from consensus in Austin and I put out a video at 9 in the morning, 11 in the morning probably. And I said, hey, I've heard a lot of different things about Celsius. Probably want to take your money out. It looks pretty bad. I tried, but you can see it's public record how much I actually have there. Still have there. And then with Voyager two weeks before it collapsed, there was a filing because it was a public traded company, $630 million three euros capital uncollateralized. And I said, look, this is not happening. I'm going to still use Voyager, but I'm going to use them because I like them as a cheap centralized exchange.  And that was two weeks prior and then two weeks at the collapse. So look, we all get things wrong. We try to correct as fast as possible, but this is just it. Don't take anybody with like 100%. Like they're perfect. Like I like Ben. And so far he's been right about the altcoins. But I still dollar cost average. So I have a plan. Rob, my chain link isn't the grandest in this color. What do I do?  You know, you say, yeah, I took some profits. Still okay. I think I'll do pretty good next year. That's it. Me and Puerto Rico next week, I'm not looking forward to this because with this sciatica, I got to sit for so long in an air. It's going to suck. I'll just load up on meds just to get there. I need a good therapist when I get there, that's for sure. Meme says I was not able to import Keystone in the old tangent. Yeah, the new one, that's what they say it is. But just to be sure, contact them, customer support. They're really good on the website. They have like a live chat option just to make sure and say, hey, I got a Keystone. Are you sure I can import it? That's what I would do first. RWA, real world assets other than chain link, Rio thoughts, no thoughts on Rio. Again, I don't invest into it. So I don't know about it. I invest in a chain link. And I'm not going to say there can be only one, but again, like some of the younger upstarts that are getting into it, it's hard to really break in. Maybe they'll do well. You know what? Probably do fine. I don't know. I'm just going to stick with chain link because it seems like they're being implemented in a lot of different banks. Like I said, Swift and so on and so forth. Tase said I saw a guy doing work on a garden one time. That's an upgrade. Love it. Ah, that's nice. I crushed a disc, but now it's healed. It takes a long time. I'm going to guess over a year. That's what they keep telling me. So we'll see. Tangent mallet. Yeah, good. Now remember, and I put this in the description. Everything's an affiliate link. Let's not get it twisted. You don't have to use that affiliate link. But if you don't, you don't get like the 10 or 20 or 30% of whatever else it is. You can go right to the website. So just so everybody knows, all affiliate links. But I don't have deals. Well, I have some deals. That's a good deal for tangent. 10% off is diamond handing Bitcoin for three. Havings. Okay. Yes. If you want to do that, it's up to you. Like I think and Simon Dixon is a prime example of this. Simon Dixon has been buying Bitcoin. He said since like 11 bucks or something like that, eight bucks. And his whole goal is to have more Bitcoin every month than what he had before. Now, whether that means he may sell some as it goes down and buy some afterwards, I don't know for sure. But, you know, check out Simon Dixon's channel.  And he's invested in some small startups like Kraken and Coinbase and Ethereum ICOs and a little stuff. And he's got his, his company's got his hands in everything it seems like. So worked out pretty well for him. Oh yeah. You think there will be a Visa card where the tax will be deducted automatically. That's a pain, right? Because that's just it. In different jurisdictions in terms, in different jurisdictions across the world, it is different for how you do it. There is like a threshold. So what you're talking about here is Michelle saying, okay, look, if you have Bitcoin and you buy it at 10 bucks, right? And then it goes to $15 and use a Visa that allows you to pay for whatever it is in Bitcoin I don't know why you do that. It seems like kind of expensive. Maybe unless you're using a Lightning network. But at the point that you sell, you have a capital gains tax depending on how long you, you have held it in America. It's short-term capital gains under a year. After a year, it's long-term capital gains. And that could be, I think it's 20, roughly 21% plus the state that you're in. In Germany, it's totally different. In Germany, after a year, correct me in the comments, Germans, it's 0% for long-term after one year. So then now you got to take a look at, okay, well, if it's 10 to 15 and it's less than a year and my tax bracket, 33%. So I'm going to get tax 33% for that from the $5. And then the tax on top of whatever the actual thing is and the transaction fee and go from there. That is a nightmare. So if they do it automatically, that's someone smarter than me. That's a long answer for a very simple thing to do, right? XRP is a Trojan horse. Could very well be. My prediction is 2048. I don't know what that is, but okay. Yeah, Adrian says, Rob, remember you selling theta back in the bottom on like nine bucks. So there's a link in the description at the very bottom. It was my old price predictions and my cash-out strategies, which was right here. Yeah, this one. And this was just me just thinking, I think this is going to happen and it didn't. Well, some did. Like I went through Ethereum, Chainlink, and I thought this is the price. That's why I say like price predictions are pretty bad. I thought it would go to 150,000. Why is this not? So I had Ethereum, Chainlink, Bitcoin. As much fun as I make of EOS. I did pretty good. I mean, at EOS all time, I was 1422. I thought I hit 30, but I hit 14. But of course, my price was 1327, so I missed out. But theta was the big one. And shout out to Digital Dave for turning me on to theta. You don't hear about him too much because you know what Dave did? Digital Dave, he took his winnings, his profits from crypto. He lives in Thailand. And he's opening up a pickleball restaurant in Thailand and it looks beautiful. I can't wait to go there and see him. So that's what, that's not a bad life, trust me. That's a pretty good, sweet life. But anyhow, he's the one that said about theta. And I thought it would hit 10 bucks. This was back when it was like under a buck. And these were my price points. And yes, I did sell around the 896 mark. But I didn't hit the last one, the 10. And yeah, I mean, I did pretty good in this one. I did horrible on Cardano. I think I only sold up to 220, not the 260, not the three, even though I called it right. EOS, I didn't, I didn't do a good job. Ethereum, I didn't do a good job. Chainlink, I only sold, I think the, I only sold 26 and 28 marks. I missed 30, 32. I could have sold out, but I didn't. And remember, like all the things that I'm selling, this is just 80% of my total amount. So I'll always have a little on the sidelines in case something goes parabolic, because you never know. So yeah. Maybe I should have looked more at indicators, whatever. Black diamond. Any tips to become a hole coiner? Yes. And it was easier back in the day, but really it just comes down to time. And I hate, it's like a simple thing.  I don't want to, I don't have time. You have got time. And when we start to feel like nothing's going to turn around and it's a bear market, that's the best time to accumulate. I remember when the Surveyset virus came out and everybody was like, this is it.  I didn't buy it that day, but later in like the week, I think I got it like six or seven. I was like, yeah, it's pretty good. So really the thing I can say, it's like for all things, is that when everything is massively depreciated, is it time to buy? Now the question is what is that asset? Just because, and even Warren Buffett talks about this, he says just because things are massively depreciated doesn't mean it's going to have value as time goes on. Maybe it's just a bad product. So he said people and investors, they'll keep buying up depreciated assets even though they really have no value. And that's why he's anti-Bitcoin, I suppose, because he didn't see the prospect of it. So just be careful. But with Bitcoin, it's the most battle-tested. It's been around, it was the first. And for all the talk about a decoupling or a shift or whatever, where Ethereum or something else is going to overtake it, it still doesn't happen. Matthew says 100K is bearish. It is somewhat bearish, but who knows? I don't really look at the top-top. I'm just looking at the indicators now.  Maybe I should try that in a different way. Ben's analysis is by far the best. Yes, it's pretty good. I listened to most of his videos. Pretty good. Yeah, Dave's got a good one. Have a plan, DCA in and out.  Well, now you know. I can't put that up. The shallon says, Ben has not been right all the time. Dominance is not at 60%. Yet, we will see. I mean, look, I think the Bitcoin damage has gone from like 40% to over 50%. Now, maybe it's like 51%, 52%. It's pretty close. Panda says, Rob, I think psychological factors and investing is very important. Would you agree to say first buy into the market is the worst? No sales take profit if you're agreed. I think, I don't know who said it, but it's buy first, research later. Sometimes you just kind of want to get in, and this is what, again, not financial advice, but sometimes I hear about a project, sounds very promising. I'm like, okay, I'll buy a little bit. And it forces me to do the research, because then I'm like, shoot, I got money into it. So I got to research it now and see if I'm going to keep putting money into it. And it kind of works out pretty well. Sometimes I put money into a project and didn't work out too well, but it's just a small kind of kickstart to go. So I got to tell you that for us, I think for us, everybody here, it's just the psychological part is easy to buy. It's hard to sell because we always think it's like, we're always saying these phrases, it's going to moon, Lambo, it's going to go up crazy and you're like, and then you keep thinking that it'll never stop. In bear markets, everything goes down forever. It feels like in a bull market, everything goes up forever. It feels like it's not really how it is. Never going to moon. Honest guys, yeah. Yeah, that's also true. Momento mori. Just remember that at some point we all will die.  No, I walk. I walk every day. That's why I'm crushing it on sweat coin. Yeah, it's just like, but like my leg goes numb. So it's hard to walk when you can't feel your leg. It's $699, the price for three tangent cards before, after the 10%, I don't know. I don't know what the prices are now because like the first tangent was like, it was $44 for the two card. And then it was, I think 50 for three, but the 2.0, I don't know how much it is. But remember, it's, it should be 10%. And the code should just be Dan or the link in the description. Talent is great. I love it there. I'd like to go there. Sounds nice. Tehwei, I studied crypto in 2021. Didn't buy. It's okay. I studied crypto in 2012.  Now here I am with the channel. Go figure, gambling mindset. Don't blame others. Very true. Anything about polygon? I think it'll be great. It's, because I have a lot of partnerships. That's why a dollar cost average it. Almost every day. I missed the day show. What are you DCA? DCA these. Solana, Chainlink, Bitcoin, Matic, Cardano, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Arbitrum, Dot, Algo, Adam, and Neer. Now I still have a lot of other cryptos like XRP and Ave and stuff like that. I just don't actively dollar cost. I've averaged them there in some, some wallet somewhere. Yeah. Ben always talks about it. No, no, no. Yeah. Like I know it's, I know it's there. Hang upside down. I do this decompression. And he's exercised the archer back to get it in. It's just, it's going to take some time. And favorite gaming token. I don't have a good one. I would like to get access to a Luvium in big time and go from there. I don't really have a favorite one. But again, just watch those videos with, with Classy and Caggy and Stash and Johnny Hussle. They're the ones that really know what's going on. And yeah, that'd be it. Holy smokes, one hour and a half. So everybody, it's time to get out of here. Sunday, truer some football on, probably some beer to be drank. Yeah. That's it for today. So thanks so much everybody for stopping by. I appreciate you. If you liked today's video, thumbs up, subscribe on the way out. And that's it. I'll see you guys mañana. Have a good rest of the day. Thank you.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. In India, a massive farmers agitation is going on where tens of thousands of farmers are camped on the various highways connecting the capital city New Delhi to the rest of the country. These farmers are demanding that the far-right Narendra Modi government repeal the three agricultural bills that were made into laws earlier this year. To talk more on this issue, we are joined by Ashok Dhavle, who is the president of the All India Kisan Sabha, which is a national level farmer's organization affiliated to the Communist Party of India Marxist. And it's also one of the primary organizations mobilizing the farmers for their struggle. Thank you for joining us today. So can you first briefly tell us about these bills, these laws themselves, you know, which are so worrying for the farmers that it is causing them to agitate in this cold weather and in the middle of a pandemic? You know, see these all these three laws that have been very undemocratically got passed in parliament by the Modi government. They are first of all totally anti-farmers, anti-people and pro-corporate. That is the bottom line of these laws. The first law is regarding they want to actually eventually totally do away with the existence of the APMCs that what we call the Mandis and start private Mandis that is be led by Ambani, Adani and all these other big corporates both foreign and Indian. So they want a parallel structure where the farmers can sell and the APMCs which are there will slowly be gone out of commission. That is the intention of the first act that they have passed. The second act is about totally encouraging contract farming all over the country and they have given a certain listings of rules etc. which are all very heavily weighted against the farmers and in favor of the corporates who will be doing the contracting. That is the second important act. The third important act is the amendments to the essential commodities act which means that where they was earlier limit to the stocks that the traders can hold. Now they have removed all the stocks on rice, wheat, all other cereals, pulses, cooking oil, potatoes, onions. So therefore now the corporates and the big traders have no this thing regarding keeping stocks they can keep as much stocks as they want and this will lead to tremendous black marketing which used to happen earlier before the essential commodities act was actually promulgated many decades back. So that amendment is removing all the stock barriers etc and this is going to affect not only the farmers but the people as a whole because the cost of all this is going to rise tremendously and therefore the people who are buying all these goods that means the consumers in both cities and rural areas are all going to be very badly affected. So these are the three laws which they have passed and which are actually affecting the farmers very badly. None of these laws they are mentioning that the purchase should be at the MSP. The word MSP does not occur in any of these laws at all that is one. Apart from that the whole weightage of the laws is basically favoring all the corporate lobby and against the farmers and that is why the farmers bodies have all come together. More than 500 farmers bodies have come together now under the banner of the Sayukta Kisan Morcha and they are now actually agitating at the Delhi borders in a very huge way. And multiple talks have been held till now between these farmers groups and the government. Another round is scheduled for later today. So what has been the government's response so far? What has been discussed in these talks? What are your key demands and what are you expecting today? See in the very first talks there was nothing that the government offered. In the second talks they tried to say that okay we will make some amendments in the laws, minor amendments etc. Then yesterday we had a meeting of the leadership of the Sayukta Kisan Morcha at the SINGO border and there unanimously all the farmers organizations decided that there is no question of accepting any amendments. We will not be satisfied until there is a complete repeal of all the laws. That was the unanimous opinion yesterday. So therefore today in the talks that will be happening with the government the whole Sayukta Kisan Morcha delegation will take the stand that there is no question of amendment because the entire laws are flawed. All the laws are very heavily weighted in favor of the corporate law and therefore just making some tinkering in those laws in the form of amendments is absolutely not acceptable. We will not rest until all the three laws are repealed. That is going to be the stand of the farmers organizations today in the talks with the government. So now let us see what happens in the talks today. And one of the main criticisms that has been pointed out by the farmers is that these laws will lead to the eventual dismantling of the APMCs as you mentioned earlier. But the government has been countering saying that you know this is not going to happen. The APMCs are still going to exist. So then what can you tell us about that? Then what then the government is asking what is the reason for farmers to agitate? So what can what is the farmers response to that? See the response is this they are making all these statements. Now if the APMCs are not to be dismantled then what is the need of the law itself? You know that is the basic point that we are raising. If you are going to continue with MSP, if you are going to continue with APMCs then why do you at all bring in a law which actually leads to dismantling of APMCs and gives a full weightage to the corporate lobby to indulge in agricultural trade? That is the basic issue that we are raising. Therefore if you are saying that APMCs will remain etc. Then you just repeal the law simple as that. That is the main point that we are saying. You understand the government is very actually double forked. They say on the one hand APMCs will remain but the effect of the law will be eventually to dismantle the APMCs. That is what the farmers realize very well and that is why they are taking such a stern stand on this issue of the repeal of the laws. Can you also tell us about the vilification campaign that is going on about these farmers that there is only a certain state which is protesting Punjab and these are raising other anti-nationalist demands as well. All sorts of things being said to derail the movement. Can you tell us more about that? You know see these are all canards being spread by the BJP and RSS against the farmers movement. Number one on the 26th of November we know that there was a whole nationwide upsurge. It was not limited only to Punjab and Haryana. The entire country, the working class and the farmers came together. The working class came together for an all India strike on the 26th of November. They were protesting against the four labour courts that were passed in parliament just after these three farm acts were passed. Now these four labour courts are absolutely again totally anti-working class, totally promulgated to help again the corporate lobby. So therefore the working class of protesting against that all over the country in the form of an all India strike, they came on the streets also in millions of numbers. All the farmers bodies had given a call for an all India road blockade on the 26th of November. Now this happened in several thousands of places all over the country. Not only in Haryana and Punjab but all over the country there was huge upsurge of farmers against these three farm acts. So therefore that is one major point that must be understood that on the 26th of November the entire farmers of the entire country rallied against the farm acts that is number one. Not only that you see now after that we had given a call for intensification of the agitation all over the country. So right from 1st December we are seeing all over the country huge actions are taking place. Now day before yesterday I was in Maharashtra. Third December we had given a call for very big actions all over the country. The all India Kisan Sabha, the all India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee and the Sayukta Kisan Murcha. We had all given a joint call for big agitation. So there in Maharashtra and all over the country thousands and thousands of farmers came on the streets even on the 3rd of December. So this is a nationwide struggle number one. Of course there is no doubt that the farmers from Punjab and Haryana especially Punjab have taken part in a massive way and before the vilification campaign let us just point out this the way that the central government and the Haryana government both of the BJP have dealt with these farmers coming from Punjab and Haryana. Such a thing is unprecedented in the history of independent India because the government has been acting as if it is waging a war against the farmers and that is exactly what was seen at the Haryana border where they employed tear gas shells where they employed water cannons where they put up barbed wire they put up barricades they in fact dug up the highways 10 feet you know to create those trenches so that the farmers and their tractors and trolleys could not come and they also arrested hundreds of activists in Haryana. So this entire repression by the BJP central government and the Haryana government is something unheard of in our country for the last several decades. So therefore they are actually waging a war against their own people and that is the main point that we are stressing in all our this thing this thing in the all over the country. So therefore all these tactics are being employed to vilify the farmers movement but they will not wash because everybody realizes that this is not going to be successful anymore. This is the main line this thing of the farmers who are coming on the streets and lakhs of lakhs are there now in the Singhu border Tikri border now we have seen the farmers from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand having come to Ghazipur just outside Delhi so that there that highway is also being blocked etc. So therefore there is a upsurge now which was never there before for the last several decades and where all the farmers organizations have actually sunk all their differences political and otherwise in favor of this United struggle so therefore these vilification things will never wash there is no doubt about that. And finally can you tell us about the struggle so far you know how have all these different organizations managed to organize and come together and also what's next if the if the demands are not heard today by the government then what are the next steps the farmers are planning how long are they prepared to stay here for. See this will be from our point of view a prolonged struggle unless the government repeals these laws and withdraws the electricity bill that's also a very dangerous bill because it in effect removes the cross subsidy given to farmers and to the ordinary people staying in the juggies of Delhi all over the country etc. And they are trying to see to it that the industrialists and the people and the farmers are given a similar rate of electricity tariff so that is the whole law and also totally encouraging privatization in the electricity sector. So that electricity bill 2020 has been placed it's not yet made into an act so that is another of our demands over here that withdraw the electricity bill 2020. So this now will be a long strong struggle yesterday we held a press conference where we have given a call for the 8th of December as a Bharat Bandh all over the country in support of the agitating farmers. So therefore we are intensifying the struggle much more we are giving calls to all the nearby states to mobilize in even greater strength in and around Delhi so that call also has been issued yesterday. The nation for farmers led by P. Sainath and others they are mobilizing intellectuals cultural artists literary figures and so many other people from middle class to come and stand staunchly in favor of the farmers. So that front is also doing extremely good work all over the country. We are prepared the farmers over there Punjab and Haryana they are saying that we are willing to stay here for even three months or six months if the need be because we are not going to go back without a repeal of these laws. So that is very clear now and this actually the numbers at the border both Singhu and Tikri they are actually growing day by day. I mean farmers are actually coming even more in thousands every day and are converging over there. So therefore if the government thinks that all its you know these maneuvers and all will help to sort of dissipate the struggle they are dead wrong it will never happen and the farmers are extremely angry at the entire neoliberal policies of the government which is leading to these kind of laws number one and they are also very angry with the kind of repression that the BJP RSS government has rained on them as a result of this whole their whole strategy. This time they are coming into a lot of trouble because they tried it with students they tried it at the Delhi riots they tried it at the CAA, anti-CA, NRC agitation but here it is the main line farmers who are actually coming into the path of struggle and they realize that going for repression beyond a point that will be very counterproductive to them all over the country and therefore all this you know they are on the back foot today the government is very clearly on the back foot and we love to just push forward the advantage even more all over the country because this is this started as a national struggle and it will have to be intensified as a national struggle in the days to come. Thank you Kamrat Dhavali for talking to us today and that's all the time we have for more news on the farmer's struggle keep reading and watching both people's dispatch and news click.