All right, everybody. Welcome to the show. There is a lot of things to go over. So let's just jump right into it. First of all, thanks for stopping by. I do appreciate it. What we're going to talk about is there was a snippet, a piece from Jerome Powell, Fed Reserve Chair. And this is Jerome here. He is speaking at the Economic Club of New York. And this was actually an hour long piece. There's been different sections that have been cut out. But I think this one kind of resonated with me about what's going to happen and what's kind of going on in Jerome's head. And when we take a look at this, this clip is roughly about a minute long. You can kind of see that Jerome, in the beginning, he was very confident in what the Fed was trying to do by raising rates and they thought that the economy would act a certain way. And you can see that he's pretty much admitting that, no, this is not what's happening. And at the end, you can just pretty much just lay it all out and say, this is where we are going. So without further ado, I'm just going to have you listen to this clip and then we'll come back. Or a higher rate, they're not feeling that increase in rates. So the economy may be somewhat less susceptible to the effects of rate increases. On the other hand, if you look at interest-sensitive spending, these are very much the places where we expect to see and do see effects. So for example, in housing, the housing sector has been very affected by higher rates as purchases of durable goods. If you look at surveys, people will not say that it's a good time to buy a car or a house, quite the contrary. So we see policy working through its usual channels. It may just be that rates haven't been high enough for long enough. And again, it's all happening in a context of very strong demand. We've heard other people speculate. So there you go. I mean, pretty much he's just saying, he's like, look, we think this is actually going to work, you know, but maybe we just haven't gone high enough for long enough. And this is what he's been touting for for quite some time. But when you can see it and just you can I link this in the description so you're going to actually watch the entire interview. But when you see it, there's just kind of a little bit of doubt. And we don't know, you know, how this will affect. We don't know how long as far as like these these rates because it's not just like, you know, the Fed raises rates and all of a sudden, boom, off we go. And we we've crushed inflation, victory, everybody's happy. It does take a long time. I think that's why they're talking about being so data dependent. But what he talked about in there, and I always like to do this is just to take a look at when he when people start to state economic data, it's always important that you do your own research as much as you possibly can. So when I took a look at this, he did say about, you know, the housing, housing market vehicles and ancillary spending and things like that. So this is where I turn to Ben's website. And I just kind of verify something. What's great about it is, of course, you know, I just click on macro and just search for housing. So you can see here what he was talking about. As far as like, you know, people would say that this is not a great time to get houses just on just this sentiment. We can see that the housing units and there's two different things. We're going to take a look at housing units started, meaning construction is actually tipped off. And we can see that we tip we topped out in last year, March of March of 22. And it's been on a slow decline. And of course, as the rates, when do we start raising rates? Probably around that same time. Because why would anybody want to buy a bunch of houses as the rates are coming out? I think right now we're at a rate for mortgages roughly around 7.95, 8 percent. Check me in the comments section. Who wants to do that? People don't want to come in and pay that high rate. And of course, the people that maybe want to sell their house, why would they sell their house to get a new house at 8 percent? Now, I think they're missing the boat because as time goes on, the rates will go down and you can refinance, but that's a whole other story for another video. But we can just see here that, yes, housing units as far as started, as far as construction, it's kind of going down. Housing units under construction right now. You can see that they've pretty much topped out. Again, looking back to October 2022. And then if we take a look at, there's one more sales prices of houses sold. And I thought things were staying pretty high up there. We can see that, yes, with the rates going up, then people are asking for less money. Now, jeez Louise, 400, I didn't know it was a high, 479,000. It was a typical price of a house in America. Man, things have changed a lot. And of course, if we go on here, now we're looking at 416,000. So for the houses and of course, new houses for sales and sold ratio, obviously, you know, we are down as well. So we take a look at that. Now, let's also take a look at vehicles. Ah, sure, I didn't have it in. So actually, this is what's also great about Ben's site. You just type in what you're looking for and I'll just show you. So let's see. Yeah, total vehicle sales. And in actuality, for this one, if we take a look at it, let me reset that. It's actually not what I expected. And this is why I like to take a look at this. So as far as like total vehicle sales since 2020, we're actually kicking off. Not too bad. Total vehicle sales, 16.18 million. And there's another piece I want to take a look at from the Fred. New vehicle sales and auto price inflation since the pandemic. And we can just see that even though, you know, these rates are going up and this will obviously affect new car sales. What he was saying, maybe the sentiment is down, but we can see that total vehicle sales as of time 2020, there was 16.18. It's almost at a high, not an all time high, but you know, moving back, you know, you have 14s, 13s, 16s, 16s, 15s, 8s. This is April of 2020. Now it's a bit different timing. But so when he talks about that, you know, again, a little bit of confusion as to what actually is going on. I see that actually vehicles aren't as bad as I thought they were, but houses actually were. And this again, is why it's important that you do your own research as much as you possibly can, or, you know, at least watch some videos of people you trust. So the next question is then we'll have this affect the market. Well, of course, the market gets spooked as it always does. The S&P 500 took a little bit of a dip. Let me refresh this. Let's see what we have today. Oh, wow. See, look at that. And then again, I don't know why this is as a surprise to people. He said forever, I'm going to raise rates. I'm going to keep this at a certain level. And on top of that, we're going to be higher for longer. And he just, you know, reiterated that fact, although maybe some of that ambiguity or maybe some of that a little bit of uncertainty has crept into the mindset of the investor right now. We can just see that we're going down. Now, how does that affect for the crypto market? Nobody cares. Bitcoin's on a nice little rally in 24 hours. I mean, one hour it's up 0%, but 24 hours Bitcoin's up. Seven days, 7.6. Let's see some other winners out here. BNB, as they burn a massive amount of Binance coin, which sees you just released a couple of days ago, 2.7 for the week, Lido 2.5, Solana crushing it, 6% and 18% Tron. Hey, Tron, I will not say anything bad about Tron anymore. They've been in the top 15 forever and people use their stable coins, so I'm not going to say anything. Ten coin, 8.2. But you know what's cool about this? If you're looking at CoinGecko, let's take a look at how this corresponds. Oh, I do want this in English to the Bitcoin. Let's price everything in Bitcoin. See who's bleeding. Well, it's looking pretty bad, right? I believe Ben talks about this every so often, infrequently, but I mean, as much as we're up, we are still bleeding against Bitcoin, except for Solana for some reason, 9.8%. And there's always going to be a T. You can make that case, but you can see right here in the red, it's pretty damn red. Except for what the heck is this? Crypto Poccoin. You can look at that and YOLO, that's amazing. I'm not even going to talk about that. Have fun trading that, you degenerates. So that's all we have as far as the markets right now. It's crazy. And then also, before we go on to the next piece, we talked about business and Solana and staking. We did the NFA Live today. It was probably one of our better, maybe our best show. And we talked a lot about just the markets. We talked a little bit about war, which we're not geopolitical experts. That was very light, but I liked the last part where we talked about nuclear energy because Ben is a PhD in nuclear engineering. And then we talked about where things should potentially go as far as to correct just everything that's wrong with humanity. And I liked that talk. So there's a link in the description. You can check that out. And that concludes for that piece. So let me just think about that in the comments section. And let's move on to some other interesting pieces. Even though, I mean, we just talked about Solana up roughly 8% for 24 hours, seven days. Lido finance just recently dropped Solana staking after a Dow decision. I like to see these things because that means that Dow's essentially autonomous organizations actually are working exactly as they're supposed to. Here's what's going on. So Lido finance known for its liquid staking solution will no longer accept new staking requests for Solana. And I believe they just did the same thing for polygon. Correct me in the comments section, but I remember reading that. I just don't have the story with me right now. Whilst this decision was difficult in the face of numerous strong relationships across the Solana ecosystem, it was deemed a necessity for the continued success of the broader Lido protocol ecosystem. Notice what they say here. It was difficult in the face of numerous strong relationships. I need to make this crystal clear. It is a business. And it is your job to make sure that you are profitable. If you're not profitable, you are to cut ties and be blood thirsty and cut throat. Unfortunately, that's how it is. And why is that? It's because the members, the people that actually put the funds in demanded that you do that. And I have to applaud them for this timely decision. And here's the numbers. There was two distinct paths for consideration. One option proposed keeping Lido on Solana running with Lido Dow's financial support. Okay. Plan called for $200,000 every quarter for development. Then $600,000 per year for marketing and $100,000 for customer support. That's $1.5 million over the next 12 months. Where does that come from? That comes from the users. That comes from the people who are staking. That comes from the Dow organization. You have to pay that. And that would be okay if you were profitable above $1.5 million. But here's the numbers. Since taking over the PDP team spent around $700,000 on Lido on Solana. They earned $220,000 and they faced a loss of $484,000. Right there, you have to cut it. You have to go away. Trust me. I've dealt. I've worked in businesses. I've owned my own business. I own my own businesses. These are the things that you must do and you must move along anyhow. Let me know as you think about those pieces in the comments. And also, I just wanted to bring this up because it's about price predictions. And I think I personally used to do this. I think they're ridiculous. And I want everybody to understand that these are just educated guesses and maybe someone didn't pull it out of their hat. But it's just a guess. So the spot Bitcoin ATF approvals could add $1 trillion to crypto market cap. This is very good. I believe the ETF, not if, but when, you know my position on this, but it has to happen at some point. That's ridiculous to say that ETFs will never happen. That's crazy. But to talk about numbers, I mean, come on, wait. So this, a specific quant said that if the issuers have been applied to list Bitcoin ETFs, put 1% of their assets under management. And of course, they're talking about the BlackRock, the fidelity arc, and so on and so forth. If they just put 1% of their AUMs to these ETFs, approximately $155 billion could enter the Bitcoin market. That's great. Should the scenario take place, it would hypothetically push Bitcoin's price to between $50,000 and $73,000. Now look, this could happen. It could not happen. But I don't want people to say, okay, it has to hit this number because this is the same thing that happened like with my price predictions, with stock to flows price predictions, with John Mac at these price predictions.  So again, I think these are just ridiculous predictions, but I do like the Hopium or the objectivity of looking out there and it gives us a little bit of something to shoot for.  And then also on top of the good news, I just have to bring to your attention a couple of things. First of all, there's a rumor going around the last two days or so that's Roblox, which is an enormous game. My grandson get to play that fun times, fun times. It's good. It's fun. Goofy game that XRP was going to be integrated into it as far as payments. Now, if you don't play Roblox, you have to use US dollars and you get Robux and you can pay for all these ridiculous things and kids love it. And for whatever reason, XRP was inserted into the conversation and this has been making the rounds on Twitter on crypto Twitter. But just know this has already been debunked by Roblox itself. So don't go out there and FOMO into XRP because you think Roblox is one of the biggest games in the planet. So of course, this will raise the price just hold on. That's not true. Also, another hack has happened. Unfortunately, this is the Phantom Foundation hot wallet was hacked for 550K. Here's what's happening. The Phantom Foundation developer of the Phantom Network has been hacked for about 550,000 worth of crypto. Now, there's been a discrepancy. If this is 550,000 or 7 million and keeps going back and forth, whatever it is, it's not a good look for Phantom. I must say, if your hot wallet has been hacked, this is not fantastic for you. Blockchain scary research initially reported 7 million. The Phantom Foundation later released an official statement saying that some of the wallets labeled Phantom Financial Wallet were mislabeled by block explorers and that not all the stolen funds were from the Foundation. These are the types of stories that I get into because when we keep having these hacks and these problems, it really sheds a negative light on our industry. Now, you can't make an omelet without breaking a couple of eggs, but it really does suck when those eggs are the financial liability of the people that put their funds into these projects and then they lose out. Now, in this situation, it was just the foundation, thankfully, but these types of things, they have to minimize or completely go away before we can grow. That is just my personal opinion. I'll let you think about in the comments. And also, I just need to make a distinction here and that is that as far as wallets, there's a difference between Phantom Wallet and Phantom Wallet. One is from Phantom, from the actual crypto project itself and the Phantom P-H-A-N-T-O-M Wallet through Solana is a totally different wallet and it is not what we're talking about in this situation. And then also to finish up kind of some negative news, but it is what it is, Gemini, Genesis and Digital Currency Group behind Grayscale, just been sued by New York Attorney General for allegedly defrauding investors of one billion. And speaking of things that we need to stop, I think these fraud and scamsters, this has to go away too. Just going to throw it out there. So the lawsuit alleges Gemini and New Genesis' loans were undersecured and at one point highly concentrated with scam Wankman-Fried's Alameda Research, but they did not reveal this information to investors. You know how Gary's always going on about, you know, we have to disclose this to investors and we have to get this information out. That's what he's talking about. So here's all we have. This happened today, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit today against Gemini, Genesis and DCG. James is seeking to ban Gemini, Genesis and DCG from the financial investment industry in New York. That would be a big load of Gemini because that is one of their big feathers in the caps that they're actually able to serve New York customers. Now if they're being sued, that's not going to happen. I'm not a lawyer. That's what it means. But before everybody says, well, how dare this Attorney General go after these great companies? I will remind you that not everybody gets it wrong. A broken watch is right twice a day, right? Today's lawsuit is the latest action taken by Attorney General James to reign in the crypto industry and protect investors. Citing her recent action against crypto players, CoinX, KuCoin, Celsius founder Alex Moshinsky. Hey, you got Alex Moshinsky, right? So don't fire the messenger. This is just what's going on and we'll see how it all plays out. And also about one more thing about horrible policy. I forgot about this one. Senator Elizabeth Warren, man. There's one thing that all politicians want and that is to be reelected and whatever they can run on, they're going to run hard. So Elizabeth Warren, of course, is building up her anti-crypto army, but she just called out with 100 other lawmakers, congressmen and women, to ask Biden, President Joe Biden, about plans to prevent crypto finance terrorism. There's a great twist to this. Just hold on. This is what they state in the letter. Congress and this administration must take strong action to thoroughly address crypto illicit finance risks before it can be used to finance other tragedy. Of course, she's talking about the invasion by Hamas in Israel and the horrible, deplorable killing, merciless killings that were happening there and they were saying that this was all financed through crypto or a large portion of that. Well, thankfully, I got a friend, his name's Guy from Coin Bureau and he's got a really great crack team and they hunt down a lot of information. And he states here, in the fog of war, it can be incredibly hard to verify info. However, there is one thing that can be immediately verified and that is blockchain data. The claim that 82 million of crypto was raised by Hamas as a lie, it was less, I think he says, it was less than 1 million. And here's his tweet. I link that in the description, you can check that out. And that is corpses from chain analysis. Now, look, we all know that things that are being run by terrorist organization, things like that, of course were financed by the US dollar and whatever different fairytale paper money that's out there for fiat. And that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying though is that these types of things are gonna keep happening. We're gonna keep hearing about illicit activity and we're gonna keep having it.  I think that is ridiculous. And I would hope that at some point, Senator Elizabeth Warren and her cohorts would actually understand that and work with us. But what am I gonna do? So that's what we have there. And then finally, I'd like to say congratulations to George from Crypto Zaraus. He got his YouTube channel back. And I guess it was taken away yesterday. We sent a tweet out and then I reached out to George and I said, hey, if you want me to talk about this and we could build up your other channel, I am George, but I never heard from him and he deleted his tweet. So I mean, that's good because we need more people out there.  And I think just YouTube made a mistake. So thanks to everybody who helped out with getting George, his channel back. However, there was a thing that came out that I kept getting tagged in again and again and again. And apparently, I Trust Capital, who was a sponsor of this show, they dropped George and they said, and this was what they said. They said, hey, George, I saw your post from earlier today about your YouTube account being taken down. Sorry to hear about that. My team want to reach out in regards to your monthly deliverables. Since it's halfway through the month and you may not be able to post for the rest of the month, we can just process a half a payment for the month in October and pause your contract indefinitely till you're back to making content. To receive half the payment for October, please run it with the integrations, so on and so forth. So George is like, I'm not going to deal with I Trust Capital whatsoever again because of what they did. And people tagged me in this, Crypto Airborne and then, hey, is Aaron? And then the Ewing says, I want to see what news asset thinks about it. And then people sounded off and like Joby and I don't know what this one is. Why would you burn a partnership? You didn't get your channel back and guessing they're done with you now. This is just business. Love you. I don't know about this, George. It's only they were doing business and this may not reflect on any personal affinity that may not affect you and the speed at which they were acting is consistent with being a shrewd business entity. I would make this crystal clear. So with this one, when everything went down, especially with FTX, with Voyager, with BlockFi, with Celsius, I had to come to Jesus' meeting with I Trust Capital. I said very clearly, I don't care what you guys have to do. You need to make sure that you're solvent. You need to make sure that you succeed and you survive until 2025. I can't have you screw over any of my subs that I have talked about this because we have a partnership and I use I Trust. You must make sure that you make it. I made that very clear. I go, I don't care what you have to do with me. Just make sure that you survive. Moving forward, I Trust is not perfect. I Trust has certain issues just like every other business that's out there. And of course, they reach out to people when they have complaints and I'm usually tagged in that and we always resolve it. So I will just say this. As far as what I Trust, could they have handled a little better? Sure, they could have been with more kid gloves and been a little bit nicer. I'm sure I could have done a better job but they were very ruthless, not ruthless. They were very concise and they were quick, just like the story that we saw with Lido. So for me, moving forward, I will still stick with I Trust and they just didn't work with George in that particular case because I told them and I think they have this in their mind too. They are here for the customers and if the marketing has a problem, they will move forward accordingly. And if my channel gets taken down, I expect them to do the exact same. And that's it. So thanks everybody so much for stopping by. I appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. We're going to talk about his time sensitive. Now, if you want to stick around and do a little Q&A, let's do that. I'll answer all your questions to the best of my abilities and we'll go from there. Glen, she helped with any money laundering and KYC, Warren will retire soon. Yeah, you know what? Elizabeth Warren, not everybody's pure evil. Not everybody's pure good, as for sure. Talk to my wife, she'll tell you. And she's done some good things. I mean, let's be honest, she's rollied against the banks. She hasn't taken money from them. And she wants to, I think she wants to do the right things. I'm just saying, I'm just trying to play devil's advocate. However, in this situation, I think that she's incorrect. I hope that she can rectify the situation and she can take a look at what is plausible and what is reality as opposed to the information that she gets. That's why I tagged her in my tweet. Not that she's going to read my tweet, but that's what I say. Crypto Westquare says, Yeah, I trust her down a bit. They could have. They could have definitely. And I think this is where the true contention. I will say like this.  We're here for you. Let us know what you need. Didn't say anything after that would have been pretty good. I trust. I know what their plan is because we talked about this. Me, we sat down their plan. And this is where I got it. Stay alive for 2025. They are making sure that everything they possibly can do is to get them to the next step, the next evolution.  Like look, I was a director of professional services at a nationwide home health company. And there's a lot of times when I had to lay people off and fire people and I was pretty brutal because there was a bottom line to take. Should it, could I have been better at it? Oh, most definitely. Could I would not have been such a jerk? Yeah, maybe.  And that's it. Cats. New moderator. Thank you for coming. We are not missing in the spice yet of the stream really today. If that was the NFA live, I really, really liked that chat we had because I've always wanted to ask Ben this question about why did we get away from nuclear energy? Why are we doing this in a global scale? What is going on with nuclear waste? As I understand it, we've kind of solved that issue. So why did Germany go away from it? Why did we go away from that in America? And why are we still relying on fossil fuels? And his answer was great. So just check out.  That's a good question. How high do you see quant by 2025? Let's do this. QNT. Wow, it's ranked 37. That's pretty good. Let's take a max. All right. So, oh, this is in Bitcoin, which isn't a bad way to look at things, honestly. 50 cents. Okay. And then it topped out a what? Three. Geez, Louise, $382. Over here, it's 85. Here's my prediction. It will be between a nickel and $1,000 by the next bull run, which the next bull run could be between 2024 and 2028. Nailed it. I'm 90% sure I'm right on that one. I have no idea. I'm sorry, Vatican. I don't know. I don't have any prediction. Oh, Roger. It's very nice. I must admit that's a very nice picture you have. Smart click-point headline I fell for. Hey, what are you going to do? But it wasn't click-bait per se. He made a bold statement. He was uncertain. And he is going higher for longer. And the thing that was surprising to me was just how much he talked about how these rates may not affect the economy like they thought it was. I thought it was a pretty reasonable title. I didn't say, hey, Bitcoin to a million, and have my O-face on, and then come on here and go, just get in 73,000. I don't think that's true. J-H. See, this is what we should be talking about. If we use nuclear electricity, cost goes way down. Can that affect Bitcoin price since miners break even? Could be much less than block reward, scary thought. It's all about supply and demand in all honesty. Nuclear power is, actually, I don't know, and enough of the data to really give an answer to that. I think it's all on how they process it. And of course, all on how they have to deal with the waste and getting it to the people. So I know that in Germany, they essentially cut off all nuclear power, which is why they're dependent on oil, which is why they're dependent on Russia, which is why there's a big problem over there. But here in America, coal, natural gas, that type of thing. And nuclear power is not as big as we thought it was. But if it could drop the energy costs, I think that would be a big boom for not just people in rural areas, people around the world, especially in third world countries, if you can do that. But again, that'd be a huge, massive undertaking and cost for a third world country to say nuclear power, but getting too much ahead of it. I feel like Ben is going against the DCA theory now. I'll let Ben explain it. He did say today that he's been buying Bitcoin every so often along the way. So I mean, it's a very stretched out dollar cost averaging. So sure, I don't know. I think in the long run, it's not, when we get to the next bull run, whether that's 2024 or five or six, no one's really gonna really think about and say, you know, Ben should have bought this or Rob shouldn't have bought so much of that.  So yeah, AI swing trader. Hey, Rob will the ETF be safe enough on a major exchange and not have to store your Bitcoin in hot, cold wallet? I'll probably sell mine and repurchase. I'm always worried about my seed phrase. It's a good question. And I will just say like this, in 2014 when Mount Gox happened, I wasn't around. I didn't hear about it. I heard about in 2017. And at that point, I thought, I don't need to do a cold storage device because there is more checks in place. And of course, these different centralized exchanges are a lot safer and there's not as many hacks out there. And that proved somewhat true. I mean, there was a hack on Binance, I believe in 2018. Correct me in the comments section. There's been hacks on our centralized exchanges. And then of course, there's another thing we should have seen, which was the centralized exchanges. It wasn't the hacks that screwed us over. It was the greed and incompetence of those centralized exchanges and the fraud that allowed for people to be scammed out of their life savings and everything else in between. So there is the narrative one of hacks. There is narrative two of economic mismanagement or portfolio mismanagement and them being fraudsters and Ponzi scheme artists. So the next one to answer your question trader, would it be safe enough to leave them on exchanges? What about a third reason? And we don't even know what that is yet. So I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no.  If you can't stand the seed phrase, which I get, I totally get you. There's a thing. It's called a tangent wall. It looks like this. I did a deep dive video as a link in the description and I explained why this works and why you don't need a mnemonic phrase. I think that's probably the future of cold storage devices for people who don't like mnemonic phrase, which I think will be the newer people coming in. Yeah, Dennis is right. Dennis says, Ben is bullish on Bitcoin. I'll claim against it. Just simple understand. It's very simple understand.   And then the next one is Ben and then a far third place is guy. Everybody loves guy, but they hate Ben because he talks about alts and how he doesn't buy alts. He believes they're going to bleed and they confuse what Ben's talking about as far as like the fundamentals of a specific project and the pricing of a specific project.  And he's like, I'm not going to do it again. And he's like, if I'm not going to do it, I'm going to tell people what I do. At least he's honest about it.  So I totally get where he's coming from. Nice. I like beer. Thank you. Sean with a tremendous mustache. What's the available amount of Bitcoin? What's the available amount of Bitcoin in the market to be sold right now? And there's different on-chain data. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think it's like only 2.3 million Bitcoin that's available. So we're up to the point of like 19.1 million has already been mined. The last Bitcoin won't be mined until 2140. So for that time, there's a very little amount. That's why people are always talking about how there's going to be a supply crunch. And it's just that amount that we're moving around which is what causes the price to move. So to be honest with you, it's not that much. The thing that I concern myself with is when we get this ETF coming in, you have to ask yourself, are the institutions because they have to carry the underlying asset. Will they be buying it just like you and me? No. Or will they be buying it like how MicroStrategy did it which is over-the-counter, OTC, didn't disrupt the market, kept doing it, and they bought it little by little. I think that's how they're going to do it. But maybe if they're a strong demand then maybe they OTC runs. I don't know how it works. I'm not for sure it'll move the price a great amount like people say. Ah, Jean-Louis. Hey, Rob, good tokenomics. Are essential to the value of cryptos? You seem to disagree with Sweatcoin and James with Injective. Any comment? So I don't know what James said about Injective, Sweatcoin. I mean, we've gone over this plenty of times. I still believe in the project to know people will say, well, you know, it has so much for the foundation and for what was the other one. The foundation and for, let's just look it up. Hey, everybody gets their wish. I get to talk more about Sweatcoin. Hey, let's see. Oh, it's quite red today. Yeah, about the same price. There's this thing called Tokenomics. Sweat allocation. Yeah. So community, this is when they had the TG, the token generation event. This was last year. And of course, this has been out on the Web 2 market for seven years. So all different tokens that people have actually built up over the years, because it wasn't even a Web 3 product until last year. All of those tokens got transferred to Web 3 and that went right to the community. Of course, with the ecosystem, that is whatever they say. That's 7%. But the foundation, the Sweatcoin Treasury, first of all, you got to keep the lights on. And also you have to pay for developers and also you have to pay for marketing. And the foundation Treasury, well, guess what? You still get... Ah, hold on. Sorry. You still have to pay out people because it's a free app, right? So when you walk, I think it's 4500 steps now, you get to pay them, you have to pay in something and that will be the Sweat Tokens. I know people will say, well, what about this? What about this? That's the thing. That's how it works. Now people will say, well, it's free. How can it be free? Well, are you down on YouTube right now? So with YouTube is the same thing. It's free, but you got ads. So with Sweat, they got ads, too. And you can use those Sweats to buy different products, so on and so forth. But the one area of contention, I know that people have talked about is this. They go, what about this supply schedule? Are you going to dump on me? And I told you, I told everybody very, very clearly. I said, look, when I got in in the private round, this is what I paid. And this link for this degenerate spreadsheet is in the link in my description. You can find this on all my videos. I purchased it at a penny and a half. Right now it is less than a penny. So when people are saying, they're going to dump me, they're going to dump me, they have no idea what they're talking about because I'm not going to dump when I'm at a loss. I could, but that would be quite ridiculous. So there's that area of contention and that's it. I've been talking too much about that. Let's see. Yeah. Well, good question, John. Stay away, better to buy on the way down than on the way up. No. I think it's just better to not try to time the markets too much and just take a look at indicators that would tell you if we are in bullish markets. So the big score, maybe the fear and greed index, maybe take a look at the NVRBZ score, maybe took a look at PyCycle Top as far as like for Bitcoin and kind of go from there. As far as like buying on the way down, and I did that, this is the thing that people, I think people know about me is I was buying like Cardano and Ethereum and Bitcoin all the way down and it was painful when it was happening in 2018, 2019, but I gotta tell you, it was still pretty damn good in 2021, you know, and you went from three cents of Cardano to three bucks and you went from Ethereum 100, 200, 300 up to almost 5,000. So it's just one of those things like it's your personal preference and my way is not going to work for everybody and your way is not going to work for say like Mullet. Ah, James like Injection. Oh, great. That really dumps it down and smart people don't get it. I need that, that's for sure. Hello, hello. Every coin is what coin are you? Yes. Oh, that's great. So we do want to meet up in the next two weeks in San Juan. We know that's a taste of smoke. I'll let everybody know and if you're in Puerto Rico at that time, come down and say hi. Maybe Ben's chair will be there. It would be great because every time I'm there, it tastes of smoke. There's not too many chairs available because it's packed. So that would be great if you could stop by Ben's chair. The wife is calling, pick it up. I don't know who it was. This is a good question. ABDCM, Robby think institutions are already buying Bitcoin behind the scenes. There are very few retail investors in market at the moment. Still Bitcoin keeps climbing up. I got to tell you, there's another stat to take a look at. There's a website. I have an affiliate link with it or anything like that, but it's a great website. It's called Into the Block. What I like about this is it gives you a bunch of different data pieces. And what I like to show about Bitcoin is that right now with the current price of Bitcoin, what are we at, 28,000 something or other, the people who are in the money, it's still 71%. I know if you've bought at the very top of 2021, I feel you, I did the same thing in 2017, but time heals all wounds. But if you take a look at this, people are in the money and we know that Bitcoin is deflationary. We know it's a good long-term store of value so I don't think a lot of people are going to be buying anytime or selling anytime soon, excuse me. And of course, you can take a look at the Holder's Composition by Time Held. 70%, almost three-fourths of people have held for a year or more. One in 12 months, 24 and 6%. And when I take a look at these numbers, and there's other ones that you can take a look at too, but people are not, let's take a look here, exchanges. Maybe if it comes up. There's a good one to look at is inflow and outflow. When things are moving into an exchange, that means people usually want to sell. When things are moving out of an exchange, 23,000, that means people are selling or excuse me, when they're outflowing it, they're holding into cold storage and there's been an uptick. Actually August 10th, not so much. Ah, the net flow. This is a good one to see because you can see like who's putting, how much is actually being put in, how much is being putting out. 24-hour change. See, this is something you need to know. Like even though we think that all this data, I just told you it sounds very bullish, but look at this, 24-hour change plus 152 Bitcoin, 7-day change. Well, 7-day change, negative 181, okay, 30, you got me on that one. So 2,230. So yeah, you can kind of see that the data will show you that it's looking pretty bullish for the long term. Now short term, I got no idea, but it looks pretty positive. And to answer your question, Sam, I think if anything showed us with the Cointelegraph fake article, I think it was Cointelegraph, correct me in the comments, was that there's a lot of demand and there's a lot of people on the sidelines for whatever they're waiting for. Even if that is Bitcoin going to 20K or 12K, whatever they thought it was going to do. And then when they figured out, holy smokes, this ETF actually got approved. I'm going to miss my opportunity. You saw some massive FOMO. So I think there is a lot of desire and it's going to happen. Just the question is how much? So I still think, yeah, people are probably on the sidelines, sidelines, slowly accumulating. If they're smart, they're buying OTC to not move the market, just like what Michael Saylor and Michael Schrader did. All right. Hello, everybody. Hello, Coin. Let's see. Yeah, John's right. Very sharp, sharp tie there in that picture. ETFs are not stored on walls. They will be housed by the provider, not say to participate in crypto ETFs. Yes, but I think with BlackRock, which I found something interesting. You go to Coinbase, and I'll show you. If you go to Coinbase.com, forward slash institutions and clients, of course, we all know that BlackRock and Andreessen Horowitz and Grayscale, actually Coinbase is going to be in the custody. That's their custodial service. So this has already been set in stone. I got to tell you, if BlackRock was my customer, I'd pretty much stick it right here, right here, everywhere. So everybody could see it. But yeah, they have to buy the underlying asset. They're on his corrects. All right. Let's hope not. When Maltz's doubtful ETFs will actually hold all the Bitcoin they're supposed to. Yeah. That's the whole point of Gary getting involved, right? He's to make sure he's the top cop. He's to make sure they're actually doing those things. Wouldn't that be something if it came out that they didn't? Yes, RetroBeast is correct. Rob, did you see the video of Gary Gensler finding a little softer on the ETFs being approved? Yes. And I keep messing up this statement. But I would rather be wrong and rich than right and poor. I don't believe I still have this nagging feeling that in a year is going to come and go, we're not going to have an ETF. I also have a nagging feeling that in March is going to come and go, we're not going to have an ETF. That's a 90% assurance by some people. Cool. Great. And I hope it actually works out. But yeah, there was an article or there was an interview. I think it was between him and I think one of the reporters for CNBC or MSNBC. And he pretty much said he's like, yeah, we're looking at 8 to 10. He goes on, you know, we're having the staff come through them and we're waiting for whatever it is. But he didn't seem like he was, he didn't say anything about manipulation. He didn't say anything negative. He just said, we're looking at it. I thought that's a pretty good way to offload some things by saying, yeah, with the other, it wasn't me. It was, you know, these other people in the SEC and we had staff do that and they gave me recommendations and then I took their recommendations and we approved it. Hey, if it happens, great.  Because I mean, what will Bitcoin be then? And all the alts. I'll be happy. Ah, let's see. Reuters got a point. Longer ETFs to lay, longer to accumulate. I've been, we've all been doing a pretty good job, I think. Except then, just kidding. Ben's, he's bought a couple of Bitcoin. I think Ben will be just fine.  I'm just going to start lump summing. And maybe you take a 10%, 20% haircut. Well, that would suck. But I mean, how much are we down on different altcoins right now? I'll tell you on Sunday when we meet up and I'll show you my portfolio, how much I'm down or positive and all that good stuff. Nope. There's one thing I will not do. That's one of them.  That's it. Yeah. Luxo says, your conversation this morning was hilarious. When asked about when you need to improve this role, the answer talks about kindness that's needed. And Ben talks about to yump the rock. Look, I was just talking about war in general, understanding. And like I was talking about, you know, like I was a medic in the army.  And I worked at ICU ER and the Bernie and when you're, when you see those, we take care of people and you have to scrape off necrotic skin because it's, it's, it's all dead.  And you realize just how awful war is. So I don't think it was hilarious at all. And that's it. That's it. Well, on that note, that's a good way to stop. So thanks everybody for stopping by. Appreciate it. And I'll see you in the next one. Bye.


Hello everyone, welcome to another video. I don't even know if I'm gonna upload this but Obviously you're watching it so I have but um, I just thought I'd talk about a few things like that are going on in the movement right now Very saddening to see now. I have been having these debates with people who aren't vegan For years literally, but now I find myself having these debates about word use with actual vegans now The majority of these vegans who are having problems with words all of a sudden For the most part now not that this is an exclusive but for the most part I'm gonna say When you go to their page, it's food posts. It's you know vegan for the environment It's other issues which I don't have a problem with people speaking up for other issues. I think that's fantastic All right, but they come over to you know our pages Start dictating how we speak for the animals Now there's a few things specifically James Aspie who's a friend a colleague of mine in the movement and He caused some controversy with a post Talking about animal agriculture being a holocaust being a holocaust now. This isn't anything new This has been around for a long time now if anyone knows Alex Hirschaft doctor Alex Hirschaft founder of farm animal rights organization Holocaust survivor who was literally pulled out of The Jewish holocaust as a child and survived suffered extreme trauma from this and it actually led him To animal rights and to starting his one of the first I believe animal rights orgs in the world has talked about the similarities For a long time. Okay, this isn't anything new Gary Orofsky a Jewish Vegan activist spoke about this a lot too for many years. There have been many other notable Jewish writers and philosophers who have made this same comparison But the thing is Not everyone who uses the word holocaust is making a comparison to World War two What I usually do is just say the animals are going through their own holocaust Now the word holocaust means slaughter or destruction on a mass scale Especially caused by a fire or nuclear war but slaughter or destruction on a mass scale describes It's actually the first definition describes exactly what animals are going through and everyone knows holocaust are bad and we should avoid them and we shouldn't repeat atrocities and histories But the difference between the animal holocaust is that it's a perpetual holocaust They're breeding more and more animals into existence to throw them into gas chambers and to execute them on mass to keep them in You know factory farms number them brand them Cut off bits of their body Exploit their reproductive organs and steal their children and murder their children and what is that? What is that? That's a holocaust I'm sickened to my core To hear animal rights activists Tell other animal rights activists not to call what the animals are going through a holocaust How disgusting how disgraceful now i'm gonna say i'm gonna say I have a lot of respect for a few of these activists um a lot of respect And that we just disagree We disagree We're gonna disagree on what's effective. We all the movement since i've been in the movement. I I agree I'm a newcomer to the movement. I'm a newcomer in in comparison to some of the people Been in the movement 40 35 years, you know 10 years. I agree. I'm a newcomer.  We can't call that rape now Because it's not effective because human beings won't think it's right. They might get offended And what you're doing is you're effect offending rape victims. Well, excuse me human beings aren't the only ones to have been raped Animals are being raped perpetually By the million every single year and the creators of dominion know this and I have a deep level of respect for Chris at dominion. I think he's done amazing things for the movement. I mean But we're gonna disagree there, which is why I'm not I would never allow anyone to disrespect um, the creators of dominion for their work for animals because you can't it the actions speak a lot louder than words and they've proved that but like this isn't just about the creators of dominion they've taken a position because The word holocaust they're saying only applies to world war two It only applies there. There haven't been other holocausts in history Of course, they have Armenian holocaust people are talking about now the indian holocaust where british colonials went there and Like killed I've seen figures between 30 and 100 million. Look, I'm not a historian But there have been obviously I knew about the Armenian holocaust and said alex has a good video on that There are other holocausts which have taken place now What grinds my gears to the fullest which makes me feel like this is just speciesism And I I wouldn't I wouldn't say I wouldn't say that about dominion I know they're not speciesists, but a lot of the people who are making these claims are clearly speciesist I would say that maybe the creators of dominion just think that it's not effective. Okay, which is a debate which is up for debate They're they're afraid it offends people Since when have we been worried about offending people? Do you know showing people graphic footage of what happens to animals is offensive? Inherently offensive and there's activists out there Long-term animal rights people who say you shouldn't show graphic footage to people It's triggering it causes trauma, but we're not allowed to use words to cause trauma But we're out it's fine to show graphic footage, which I agree with I agree with I do it constantly I of course I do but we shouldn't use words We shouldn't use words to describe the animals plight that we would use If there was another holocaust of human beings taking place right now That was a mass slaughter. Maybe even an extermination We would call that a holocaust and and it needs to end wouldn't we wouldn't we? But because it's the animals and the majority of the population are speciesist I don't think animals deserve the words that we should then panda We should then panda To the oppressor of the non-human animals because that word only applies to a specific part of history Doesn't it? No, actually wait a second. No, it doesn't it applies to anyone who experiences a mass slaughter like that Doesn't it and including the non-human animals now. What are you doing? Like as I see Look It's great. There's people that care about all these different issues. Okay I'm an animal person. I got into this movement to help the animals. They don't have a voice I'm their voice. I'm their voice and I'm telling you what they're experiencing is A mass slaughter of innocent beings and that's a holocaust now people want us to change the word I know this video is going to sound like I'm sporadic because I have been Really pissed off about this And excuse me if I get passionate about this because I'm really passionate about this We shouldn't be using different words to describe what happens to animals if we use those same words to describe atrocities that happen to humans Okay, how many look there's the amount of people that are offended by the words are the same You could bring up the same amount of people who agree with it like in the movement in the in the vegan movement We are trying to reach non-vegans who are speciesist and say hey Hey, guess what animals are victims too of rape animals are victims too of murder murders one like so it starts with holocaust Okay, it starts with holocaust. It's it's offensive right even though much of the jewish community prominent animal rights activists who are jewish agree But that doesn't bear any holding on the truth of the of the of the word It's true. Whether you agree with it or not. It's objectively true. Now the word murder My uncle was murdered. He was stabbed dozens of times and left to die On his couch in his unit and it happened when I was 14. It was deeply traumatizing for my entire family He left behind two children and a partner was as my father was devastated by this He used to cry himself to sleep a lot. It was I mean It was a hard thing for the family um Going to the funeral was hard. Um, you know, my father was hadn't I remember my father couldn't sleep properly after I used to hear him having nightmares and my father's passed away now and um, you know Look look I we experienced the murder in the family and many people out there have When a pig gets stabbed to death in a slaughterhouse, do you know what I say? That pigs an individual that were murdered and if another activist comes along and they say this pig's murdered And and and I say well come on. That's a bit offensive. My uncle was murdered. He was bringing up trauma for me That's not an argument That's not an argument whether or not another innocent being is being murdered Okay, and when you have a mass atrocity, the numbers are staggering. You cannot even The numbers are incomparable. The numbers are staggering 74 billion land animals 74 billion. It's talking about over 50 billion chickens birds innocent baby birds six weeks old a year okay now The numbers alone trillions of marine animals trillions. What's a trillion? You can't even imagine a trillion No one can it's it's a staggering number every single year one to three trillion Animals marine animals Okay, so we're talking about trillions of animals. It's it's a staggering number and this happens perpetually every single year We are supposed to be more worried about who these words offend versus actually using words that have gravity To explain something like murder Like robbing someone of their life against their will which is an atrocity. Okay We're supposed to worry more about Offending non-vegans who are paying for this atrocity to happen. If there's any non-vegans watching If you become aware of this you have to stop you have to stop But i'm not going to worry about if you're offended by this I'm going to worry about speaking the objective truth from the animal's position. Okay.  They are They're violated sexually abused have things stuck inside of their body to impregnate them against their will That their their piglets are kidnapped from them stolen from them executed We must be the only movement of justice who manipulates our language to suit the oppressor Of the victim that we are defending Could you imagine that? Could you imagine any other movement of justice manipulating their language so that it didn't offend?  Like of course not you just you go you defend the victim how you would want to be defended And that's why i'm angry. That's why i'm upset about this It's not because like we can we we can all Have disagreements about what's effective. Okay, so some people just disagree with showing slaughter footage, which is What dominion is showing slaughter footage? And this isn't just about dominion. It's less about dominion. It's less about Um dominion to be honestly honest with you. I deeply admire The creators of dominion deeply admire and that will never change no matter what happens that will never change But what I do find troubling is that most of this is coming from people who don't speak for animals They don't speak for non-human animals. They might eat a plant-based diet And they're trying to dictate how activists speak because out of fear of offending people And I just think that that's a grave grave mistake And I will not stand for it. I will not stand for it. Call me whatever you want There's people who are going around calling people horrible names Horrible names in the movement. Um You know calling everyone racist calling people white supremacists and Disgusting things like this which is defamation of character because you're going to say disgusting things like that about people You know, you want to back it up because you know Lawyers might have a different idea about what you're talking about here but when you take an animal And you chain them up and you force them to produce milk for you or you cage hands up in small cages or in big barns and you Make them lay more eggs than they naturally would 300 more eggs and they naturally would a year Okay, so they usually lay about 10 or 12 a year now they're laying 300 You're forcing them to do labor for you so you can take what's that uh take what's theirs from them Okay, which puts an enormous strain on their body And then you're taking them to a slaughterhouse to cut their head off Okay, once you're done once you're done with them now if that's not slavery, what is what is You know people think these words only apply to human beings and they don't and if you want to make up new Words to describe what happens to animals or what you're doing is you're authorizing that group you're marginalizing them further That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. You think you're helping the animals. Okay. You're not okay.  I've been pretty successful I've been pretty successful and you could probably be successful without calling it rape I'm not saying you wouldn't but some of us are going because some of us view animals Not not maybe not on exactly the equal plane But we view them Worthy enough of these words and worthy enough to be defended like we were defending a human animals are more innocent You know people say oh you care more about a chicken than a human not necessarily. I care about them enough enough that they deserve Uh proper defense. I care them. I care about chickens more than your emotions more than you being offended That's 100 percent certain. That's 100 percent certain now Now I I employ you If you your animal people you care about animals, okay, and you might even be you might even care about other issues as well I ask you to use your logic and to ask yourself if If it were a human in their position Would you how would you speak for them? What do you how do you think they deserve to be spoken for?  You know, they couldn't move.  You're treating them as property a resource skin turning them into a jacket They have no rights. They have no freedom. They've known bodily autonomy. That's not they're not slaves Come on. Come on. This is I think that this just props up speciesism. That's what it does It just what you're doing is you're like look at the industry.   Well, i'm not You can if you believe it's not effective you go you go right ahead I don't always use these words, but I do when I need to Explain it clearly so that people understand that hey you switch roles with this uh sentient being That's rape that's slavery And that's and when you do it to a large group of sentient innocent beings On mass That's also a holocaust. Okay now I had to get that out um I don't think that just because we have a difference of opinion here That we can't stay in our own lanes and do our own things Okay, you don't have to advocate like that And you can still be effective you can still get people to connect you can still Describe rape without saying the word which I think okay. You've got a shortcut here. Just use the word but you can describe Forcibly penetrating an innocent being against their will and violating their sexual reproductive system, you know Traumatizing the poor animal so they don't know what happened and their innocent beings scared and terrified you can say that Okay, or you can say they're raping these animals with their fist to impregnate them on mass. It's a mass atrocity. It's a holocaust you know, um I just think people try to play politician too much too much trying to like censor and You know manipulate their language to suit You know people's emotions and if I worried about how people felt I wouldn't be out telling um dairy farmers that they're that when they stick their fist inside a cow Non-consenting animal who doesn't conceptualize consent that that's rape Imagine if I didn't you know, I got a lot of media like that too Imagine if I cared about what the farmers thought imagine if you cared about so much about the emotions of the farmers They're their mental health that you didn't want to expose the cruelty in their farm Because this is a slippery slope. This is where it's leading to this is where it's leading to and this is why I don't like it and um Yeah, like I just want to say like if we do have a difference of opinion You know and you are a good strong animal rights activist who does their part for the animals And you're not someone who's just posting food and then criticizing animal rights people for speaking up for the animals If you're one of those people who's you know in it for the animals and you speak about other issues And you feel like you're going to navigate your speech I really do I still of course respect your voice for the animals I mean, but when you're not a voice for the animals and you come into the movement and go Don't use that word bro. You know it's offensive like you're not going to get anywhere All you're going to do is reinforce the reason why we should be using these words because animals have been treated like nothing for long enough


What's up everybody on the mangoes, you are awesome at the day, SoulEve announced that they are changing the name of Overprime to Paragon the Overprime. What does that mean? It means that SoulEve now has the legal ability to use both the Paragon name and the logo. I'm sure there are a million thoughts and conspiracies going on out there and I think I can help clear the air a little bit. Long story short, this was a smart move that will indeed shake up the landscape but not as much as you may think. At least not for now. In the future, we'll see. My first question with this news was, if SoulEve has the rights to Paragon, then what about the other Paragon remakes? There's no real change here. SoulEve will not be forcing the other studios to change the names of the heroes or barring them from using the assets or anything like that. They have the rights to the name and logo, not the rights to the heroes and their usage. It does mean that none of the other Paragon remakes can use Paragon or its logo in their naming conventions. If there's a game out there that's going to be titled Paragon 2, it's going to be overprime, rightly so in my opinion. Out of the three games overprime to me feels the most like a sequel to Paragon instead of a remake of Paragon with some changes. That can be a good or a bad thing depending on what you're personally looking for. This also clears up a very common misconception. I often see people proclaiming that predecessor is the only Paragon remake backed by Epic Games. This is not nor ever has been true. Omeda Studios received a grant from Epic. Hundreds of games have received similar grants via the Epic Mega Grants program. None of those games are officially backed by Epic. Predecessor does have employees that used to work for Epic on Paragon, including the creator of the game himself, Steve Superville. That is not something to be taken lightly. It is of course fantastic for Omeda Studios and it bodes well for Predecessor's future, but it still doesn't mean that they are backed by Epic. Soul Eve attaining the rights to the Paragon trademark will hopefully put a nail in the coffin of that particular misunderstanding. Having the Paragon trademark also gives overprime something that has been sorely lacking in the Western audience. Legitimacy. People have looked at overprime as a meme for a very long time. I looked at overprime as a meme for a very long time, but once they started making real moves, I woke up real quick. Perhaps the renaming of overprime will stop people from sleeping on this title and encourage them to look up current information about the game instead of relying on word of mouth. Overprime has put up numbers competitive with Predecessor and the beta tests, however a vast majority of those players were from the Eastern market. There is obviously untapped potential for Soul Eve with the Western audience and this name change may give them the legitimacy they need to take advantage of that. Changing the name will also improve their search engine optimization. I don't think this is that big of a boon for them. I mean, who's searching for Paragon nowadays aside from the old player base? OG Paragon players may be useful to start the fire for one of these Paragon remakes, but it's the new players that are going to be the ones that sustain the heat. We've known for a while now that Soul Eve has been playing a Netflix graphic novel for overprime. This was the reason they originally went with their own names. Now that they have the copyright license, they can proceed with the Netflix project without any complications. They changed the hero names back to the Paragon originals months ago, which makes me think that this has been planned for far longer than any of us suspected. Soul Eve has already provided more lore for the heroes than Epic ever did and that lore is not going to change with the name. They'll proceed with the world building that they've already done. Soul Eve getting the rights to the Paragon name and logo may not change much right now, but the repercussions of this decision will almost certainly affect the Paragon remake race overall. Predecessor and Overprime have been neck and neck globally, but this may be the nitro boost that they need to pull the same numbers in the west that Pred does. If that happens, they will effectively double their player base. I look forward to what's to come. Strong competition with the Paragon-ish games means a better final product in the hands of the community.  Like the video if you found it informative, sub for more third-person MOBA content, but for now this is the Mangoo signing off. You guys, have a good one. Mangooos!


All right, there he is in the corner that he found. George Ying, eight year NBA vet from Cleveland. He is here and we are going to start the show, George. First of all, thank you for the early time, nicknames. Minivan, well, so that's a Donovan Mitchell creation. Why? What is that? No, I mean, so when I was fighting my way to make it in this league, as we all know, I wasn't in the rotation. I had an opportunity to get in at the end of the game and I had like a wide open dunk and I went up there and kind of like laid it in. You know, I got to the locker room and I think it was like Joe Engels, Donovan Mitchell. We're like, well, what the heck was that? And I was like, listen, I know you guys are like Ferrari engines. Wow. I'm like a minivan. I need a couple of laps around the block. I get the top speed and they're making T-shirts with my head out the window of a minivan. I hate to say it, Jordan. I mean, it fits. Do you like it? It's fitting, it's fitting. Has it turned into any sort of money-making opportunity? I mean, there are a lot of minivan companies, I guess, right? All right, let me tell you this. You put anything on a sweatshirt or a T-shirt and sell it, you can make some money these days. It's a great point. A minivan company would love to get an NBA player at the doorstep. We got to get you a minivan. We could cook something up right now. We got to get you a minivan, brother. Okay, I love the idea of nicknames. Lemonpepper Lou, which forever will follow you. Icy Hot down there on the end. These are just, I think they're fun. Is there a best nickname and a worst nickname that you can remember? I definitely have the worst, I for sure. Fine. I don't care for mine either. Nah, I don't care, mine isn't great at all. Really, you guys, nobody likes their nicknames? Nah. I've had a couple that were decent. Okay, give me the ones you do like. The Icy Hot one, no, I definitely hated that one. Okay, we hate Icy Hot.  Which one do you like? When I was at the Lakers, Deadshot was one. I mean, Green Ranger, everybody goes about like your Instagram tag, you know. We talked about Kelly Ubrea earlier. He had the tsunami poppy situation. So most people go by the Instagram tag, which aren't, which isn't bad. Villain, obviously Dylan Brooks. That one's good, self-pointed.  Yeah. It doesn't represent a great thing. Yeah, you know, it represents a time in the bubble where things didn't go well. I think it's legendary, quite frankly. It's legendary. All right, well, who was somebody who has a nickname out there? It could be an old one too, that really stands out. I like the Slim Reaper for Kevin Durant. I thought that was, I really liked Slim Reaper. Yeah, Reaper's good. Yeah, very fitting. There's one that comes to mind, the best one I like, but people don't know about it. I used to call this, Dylan, right? I used to call him Frozone. Frozone? All right, I like that. If you see him and look at him and how he used to play. That's hilarious. He kind of, like I skate on the court. Like he always strides. I like that actually. He had strides on the court. We're shams, because I feel like we need a good one for shams too. Although the internet has given him some shams. Gee, to follow up on easy, you guys went three and one. You guys went three and one in group play. You guys didn't advance in the end season tournament, but I'm sure you wanted that 500K. So how disappointing was that? And how bad did you guys want that money? I mean, yeah, it was frustrating when you saw how we were playing the last game against Atlanta, trying to get to beat the points spread. It makes you, you know, wish you could go back into games one or two when you had its team down 20 in the coach, subs in, you know, and you give up a lead. Don't get in any trouble, George. I mean, it's just a whole different, yeah, yeah. I mean, no, I mean, I'm just being completely honest. I mean. That's like a truffle. You're just, you're trying to get to the point where you could play in Vegas for a lot of money. And the point differential thing kind of makes it hard to adjust, right?  But at the end of the day, you need to get to a certain point amount, especially if you've lost games early in group play. So if there's one thing you could change about the tournament, sorry, Showns to cut you off. What would you change, George? I mean, I think through group play and everything like that, it's actually been pretty smooth. There wouldn't really be anything that I would change it. Maybe, you know, give six teams in each, so we can get it to you for this money. But other than that, I thought it was pretty smooth. I think they did a great job, especially for just, I don't want to say coming out of nowhere because we've heard about it for a couple of years now. But I thought it was pretty, you know, well run. Some of the courts were pretty hilarious. I thought it was a good job. It's a good way to describe it. Yeah, G, in that Hawks game, the Hawks pulled their starters down 20. You guys left your guys in trying to get that point differential. Was that awkward for you? Were you guys uncomfortable? Heck no, it wasn't awkward. I thought that if someone's going to give you an opportunity to continue to beat them, you want to take that opportunity, especially, you know, with the point differential. It made you think back, you know, to whether, like I said, whether it was Detroit or whether, you know, you know, we could have had a better ending to the Indiana game where do you not foul and just play it out and only if you're going to lose by four rather than fouling and lose by six. It just adds a whole different dynamic and excitement. And I can't wait to see what this week does, you know, definitely with the games tonight and then in Vegas.  We can't help it. I know it's well, as the viewer, that's all we see. But as a player, I mean, does it bother you guys at all? Has it been just sort of something to laugh about? The Indiana one, I thought we were playing the Indiana Cookie Monsters, because that was the craziest court I've ever seen. And that was our first look at it. But some of them, I don't even know who's usually when I turn on the TV, I can see who's playing. But some of the courts, I have no idea who's playing actually. Ooh, that one. But I think it was a good switch up. And at least, you know, the fans know that, you know, the game is meaningful when that court is on. And it's an in-season game. And I think the NBA did a really good job. And obviously there's room to grow. But I think this is a great, you know, head start on this. G, you played two scenes in Philly. What was your favorite part about playing for the Sixers?  And then obviously, you know, the type of fan support, what if I was good, bad, or indifferent? You know, they're going to let you hear about it. Danny can attempt to that too. And then, you know, just being surrounded by, you know, a solid group. I mean, you had young talent with Tyrese, D'Anthony. You know, even Paul Reed is, you know, up and coming. You know, so just being surrounded by, you know, those guys playing in Philly was great for me. It jolted my career to a new spot. And now I'm enjoying my time in Cleveland. It's crazy. You didn't mention me. I didn't mention playing with me, George. That's crazy. I thought you were going to say one of the best times I had was playing with Danny. I didn't want to do that because then people are going to be like, this guy's fake. And you know, that's not me. It's not real. We appreciate your genuine answer. So honest. I know Danny can speak to it as well. All of you in the corner, and it was a three. Yeah, man. We had great times together, you know. Dead shot. Yeah. Green range. I'd love to hear both of you guys talk about the Philly fans, though. How do those fans compare to Cleveland fans? Danny was just in Cleveland. How do they compare to Jazz fans? George, how do Sixious fans really compare to those fans? I'll tell you a story. When I first got to Philly, I think it was a pre-season game. And I, like, hump faked and dribbled to the side and dribbled off my foot and it went out of bounds.  Green, green, football. Shoot the ball. And I was like, wow, this just got real. They are one of a kind. They are. There are no fans like them in the world. But you got to love them. And they have gotten better over the years. I will say that. My first stint was rough. But over the years, they have gotten a lot better. And they've become more welcoming to the teams and have chosen different routes instead of booing us at times when they could have booed us. I appreciate the Philly fling. I'm actually glad that I spent my first eight years in Philly because it taught me tough skin. Tough. Yeah, it gave me an opportunity to learn what the NBA is really like. Very tough fan base. But I tell you what, you do your part. You will forever be legendary in Philadelphia. I've actually been in a restaurant after a loss. And they walk over to your table like, what are you doing? Go home. Y'all just got beat, bro. Like, why are you outside? Yeah, like, you shouldn't be human. You should not eat after a loss. That's the type of fan base they are. But if you do your job, man, they will love you forever. So I can attest to the Philly fans. I mean, if you watched the Eagles game yesterday, they're crazy. You and Joel and Bede are close. But when you first got to Philly, he said, I used to think he sucked. How did you win him over? Yeah, what is this, a roast? Fine. Just good information. Yeah. I think if you know Joel, Joel wants to be surrounded by guys that know how to play and can keep their defenders out of his way. So after making a couple of threes, I think I gained his trust. And we had a real good relationship from there. I know. I think Joel puts a lot of pressure on himself to be great. So he expects it out of everybody else on the court. And I don't want to say I was lucky enough because I work at it. If you can make enough shots and keep guys out of his way, he'll trust you. I know Danny can attest to that. I'll even walk up to you. I think after you miss a shot, be like, I need you to make that three. I need you to make that three. Nod, that thing does Joel's take on everybody when they first get there. Really? And then if you make a couple of shots, he will start to like you.  The first thing he'll say to you, you make shots. You stay on the team. No pressure. You also went to his win this summer. And I'm sure it was a beautiful ceremony. It was very classy, very nice. But you got to tell me about the after parties, man. What was the wildest thing you experienced at the after party? Wow, there's some things we'll keep this closed. But for the most part, I mean, at the after party, I remember I was listening to Brian McKnight. And I was recording Joel and his wife. And I'm like, dang. And I zoom in, and I'm like, holy smokes. That's Brian McKnight. Actually, at the wedding, I was like, I'm not. I don't really do a bunch of cool stuff like that. That was probably the coolest part. And then to see all the coaches and people that have impacted Joel's life from Bill's self, Arm Tellem, Leon Rose, all those guys, it's amazing that Joel still keeps those contacts. And they care deeply about it. We know how he is as a competitor. What's he like to party with? I don't think he does it often. But when he does, he does it big. He doesn't like the MVP, that's for sure. Gee, this is the second time you're playing with Donovan Mitchell. How has he improved since those Utah days? And what have you seen in his growth? You know, I think the biggest thing is when Donovan was in Utah, I think he was just so athletic. He'd get anywhere on the floor and do whatever he wanted. I think now he really realizes where his spots are. And has really turned into an elite three-point maker, whether it's contested, wide open, catch and shoot. He's really turned into an elite three-point maker. And I think he knows where he wants to get on the court, where Utah was kind of figuring out where I could get. I think he knows his spots and where he wants to get. And I think he's ultimately grown in the point guard position, whether it's getting his teammates involved early so that late in the game, he can take over. And he does an elite job at that. Was your familiarity with Don the reason why you chose to go to Cleveland? Was it one of the reasons why you chose to go there? Yeah, I mean, for sure.  And Cleveland definitely offered that up. And then another thing that was exciting for me is they have such a young core group that, you know, obviously I want to win, but they've proven that they can, you know, win and get to the playoffs. And I want to see how long they can drag this thing out and signing a three-year deal, knowing that there's a young core here that, you know, we will have a chance to be good for a long time. George, I want to just apologize ahead of time. I feel like I'm getting the bad questions for you today. But here we go. It's all right. Is it true that DeMarcus' cousins once called you a teletubby? Oh, yeah, you heard about that. Well, I'm getting all these awful questions.  I do. I don't know why we got here. We have bad repos, but it's cool. He means it better. It's cool.   No, I mean, you know, I think Lou and Danny can attest there's some stuff that, you know, that just gets said on the court and he wasn't playing with the Warriors. I was a, it was like my second or third year in the league. Nobody had heard about me. I'm a, you know, well-proportioned. So, it's a great way to put it, George. Well-proportioned.  And so that's what he was saying. Let me tell you this. I was avoiding that corner by the Warriors bench, like the plank, though. I was playing like I was going down that corner. So it worked. Yeah, don't go, has anyone ever said anything, called you anything? And this, for all you guys, that made you actually laugh? Yes, for sure, 100%. Really? There's a lot of things, George was called. Danny, Danny, Danny's a culprit of this, too. And now that we're a teammate, he's a snake. When we were in the bubble, he went up and down the court and the whole Lakers bench would be calling me like Baby Duds, Baby Jared Dudley. He was calling Baby Duds, Baby Jared Dudley. When I was in Philly, we used to call him, but we were teammates, so we didn't ever tell the other team, but we would make fun of him, call him some funny names. I won't put it out there because people might start trolling you on the internet. But we had some funny, some good funny names for George. I liked that. Some from Sesame Street. I mean, that's cute. Oh, no. Some characters from Sesame Street. That is bad. Does it, do you do homework? I mean, to try, in the past, there've been some good moments from certain guys that they did a little homework and they dug extra deep. Do you guys do that when you come up with trash? No, I'm not one of those trash targets. We have a couple guys come through the past that done homework, but we weren't when those had to trash. Yeah, deep. Yeah, no. All right, fair enough. By the way, George, I am sorry. I really had so many nice questions to ask you about your hobbies and things you like to do. And then I just got the roast questions. Yeah, we put her up to it. Forgive us. I'm sure Danny would probably had you do something like that. But next time, next time. Next time. Make sure you get some good ones. We appreciate the time. I want my personality. By the way, good luck the rest of the way. We appreciate the time. Thank you so much. George, before you go, she had one more for you. I mean, the last one, I'm so glad we didn't get to. So, we're out of time. We are out of time. Gilbert Arenas, not this time, buddy. You're not getting us. Thank you so much. Good luck, Brody. Corona back returns. Appreciate you guys.


Okay, so without any further delay, I want to introduce our sponsor of today's workshop. It's Tony Guy Robertson from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, and he's going to get us all started. So thank you for the introduction. My name's Tony Guy Robertson. I'm a R&D scientist within the research director at NGA. And many of you may not have even heard of NGA because I certainly hadn't heard of it before I went to a conference and saw a booth there and then applied for a job. So if many of you are in the same boat as I, I will definitely impress to you why NGA itself is interested in things like groundwater recharge. First of all, I want to introduce to you our customers. Our customers are going to be the warfighter and the policymaker. So we are a member of both the Department of Defense and the intelligence community, which means that we support both of those mission spaces. And we do that providing what's called geospatial intelligence. This is also known as GEOINT. And simply put, GEOINT is really just the description of imagery and other geospatially related data in a way that provides and describes the physical and natural and man-made environment. And so the purpose of this workshop is looking really at the natural groundwater environment. And you may be wondering why are we really interested in groundwater itself. Venkat made quite a few statements earlier about really the different news articles that have been going around. And so I pulled up a couple of fairly recent news articles that touch in on groundwater and water quality. And one of the real things that pops out here recently is that just the number of really international trees that are governing transnational groundwater aquifers is really very few, right? So one of the things that we, since we advise policymakers that we're really looking for is provide them some feedback because these are opportunities for both conflict but also cooperation. These are areas that we can provide. The U.S. government can provide support, diplomatic support to nations to help be able to provide the information. And a lot of the reason why these transnational water, these transnational aquifer don't get wrapped into these international treaties is just a lack of information, right? We don't know where these groundwater aquifers really extend to. We don't understand how they're being recharged. So it's very difficult to partition these water rights. And so by being able to provide information to our policymakers to provide this information for those diplomatic missions, definitely is something that we're looking for to be able to help improve our engagement across the world. We can also look at things from a individual nation-state concern because these groundwater aquifers can have a direct impact on nation-state stability as well. In many cases, a lot has also alluded to is that we're now starting to actually mine fossil water, which means that we're now removing water that is no longer, or over-using water in areas that will not be available for future generations. And this is going to be potential flash points as these water sources become depleted and run the risk of having instability within these nations themselves. And lastly, the one thing I do want to also highlight is also not only are we interested in the quantity of the water, but we're also interested in the quality of the water itself. It's one thing to be able to understand where the water is, but we also want to be able to know that it's useful for things like personal consumption, agricultural and industrial uses. So we want to be able to understand that. And if we look here, this is just one example of an article that talked about radiation being found in the Nubian aquifer, but there are plenty of other examples when we look at things like biocontaminants and heavy metal contamination aquifers. One real simple example where the subsurface geology really matters is that if you have, if you look at like fecal bacteria contamination, that risk is reduced if you increase the resonance time within the aquifer itself. However, then you run the risk also of then now arsenic contamination, right, the heavy metals leaching into the water. So you have to balance and understand where the, you know, understand the dynamics of the aquifer itself to understand what the risk of water quality is as well. So this is kind of the understanding of where we see this in the public, but how does that really relate to our customers, right? I said our customers are the warfighters and the policy makers. And when we talk about the warfighters, one great case example is the first Gulf War. What we had was we had a lot of troops go in there, they were trying to access groundwater sources and determine that the water quality, so just the issue that I mentioned was not good enough for a lot of what they're looking at. So what they ended up having to do is use de-sanalization and also create a whole logistical network to bring water in from external sources. So there's a huge interest in being able to plan for where these resources are from an operational support for the warfighter. So we also, the warfighter also does, you know, diplomatic missions in countries and places like Iraq and Afghanistan where we help rebuild that water infrastructure for local populations and improve that. So there's a humanitarian mission that we do that. And NGA supports these missions by providing, we have personnel that sit in with these combat commands that provide these, this geoant, this geospatial intelligence to the waterfighter and being able to provide better information to these support teams is what we're really looking for today. So in addition to the warfighter, we also have the support teams in other areas in the U.S. government working with other teams to provide assistance to the humanitarian and disaster relief efforts. So we do work with other partner agencies in the U.S. government to provide geoant and provide intelligence that they can then be able to work with their partners and provide better use for information there. With that, hopefully I'm able to provide some context for us to be very productive here over the next two days. I'm really looking forward to the, to everybody's collective intellect on this. And I really appreciate everybody's patience dealing with the, have them have the delay from January to June. So I really appreciate the interest and everybody's attendance here today is a very exemplary of the interest and the desire to really kind of move the needle and prove this. What we're really looking for from an NGA perspective is that kind of three to seven-year research window. This is what can we, what can NGA put resources towards if we were able to fund something that could be done in a research that helps these customers, right? These are our warfighters. These are our policy makers that we want to be able to assist. What can we do to be able to get that done? With that, I'd like to turn it back over to Ben Katz, but thank you for your time and I look forward to a great meeting.