Photosynthesis is the most basic phenomena. Just sit on the soil, your body will become so alive and agile. In two years' time, you will be six to eight years younger. Sathguruji, it is wonderful. Would it not be possible to take this across the country? Across the world. It's a very complex marketplace there. The large street is beneath your feet. Why am I sticking my life out? People should think. Because if you don't do it now, we will regret it so deeply. See, here we are. This is a small part of our arachnid, coconut and farm essentially. It's in Tamil, it's called totam. So along with that, we are now growing some pepper. Pepper is a very high yielding and high income kind of crop. We are bringing these two various farmers. This is more like a demo farm. If you just look around, people who have seen like European and American farms will think, what is this farming? Why have you not cleaned it? There is no nothing dirty out here. Everything here is life. Whether it's a new leaf or a dry leaf. Above all, what's on the ground, all the life, which people normally call as weeds. This is a tremendous amount of food for these trees. Nothing needs to be thrown out because everything that grows has life in it and it supports and sustains other life.  And above all, on the ground, the most important thing is the ground is not exposed to sun. Photosynthesis must happen. Photosynthesis is the most basic phenomena which is responsible for all life on this planet. Essentially, photosynthesis means you are synthesizing the power of the sunlight. So, this is a phenomena that is constantly generating this. It's capturing carbon from the atmosphere, making it to carbon sugars, passing it down. And from the soil, it is taking out all the other nutrients and letting out oxygen into the thing. This whole process, what the phenomena of photosynthesis is based is fundamentally responsible for the oxygen levels in the atmosphere today. At that time, they say a few billion, a billion years ago or something, the oxygen level was less than two percent. Today it's around twenty-one percent. Two percent means you and me. No, we cannot. We cannot, okay? Only fish could live, probably. But we cannot exist. So, this... today we are breathing oxygen here or anywhere only because of this fundamental phenomena called photosynthesis. And this is one important thing that we need to learn about soil is on every kind of soil, as much as possible, there must be maximum amount of photosynthesis happening. That means everything in the natural cycle is going well. So, Sadhguruji, I'll put it in simple language. Like, are you saying, so photosynthesis happens from leaves? So, you're saying increase greenery. Is it as simple as that? As much as possible, the land should be covered. Covered with what? Will you build a concrete building? The only way you can cover it is with leaf, isn't it? Yes. So, you're saying grass, you're saying leaves, you're saying plants. Anything. Anything, grass, bushes, herbs, trees, no matter what. But it must be covered. And that's true if you're just simply again speaking because I keep trying to simplify it for people like me who understand it, say visually when you're driving somewhere and you see barren land, how dry, how almost sandy it looks, how harsh it looks. But you have something like this covered with trees and greenery and the whole pleasantness is something else. So, very simply you can see the contra.  You sit here for one or two hours and just sit on the soil, meditate or simply sit. Yes, really. You will see that you will become, your body will become so alive and agile. If you do this every day, I will take a challenge that every day if you sit like this, let's say for two years. In two years' time, you will be six to eight years younger than what you are today. Satguruji, I remember you said in one of your conversations that to heal yourself, go and sit in your garden every day. Just sit on the ground, on the grass. Garden is, because they don't have anything else, I'm saying garden. Yes.  Oh, you mean...   Not on a rubber mat. Ah, yes, because the energy is blocked with synthetic materials, but natural materials breathe, I would say. And certainly this is also what I... In conventional terms, people would look at this and they think this form is not well kept. Right, because they'll say, oh, the leaves are here and... So, no, the choice is this. There are two ways of managing the world. There are two ways of managing yourself also. Either you can be like a manicured garden or you can be like a forest. If you have a manicured garden, three months, if you don't attend to it, it will be ruined. Yes. A forest has been here for million years and there. They are like a forest, so no management. Self-management. I would say now just three months, a few days you don't water your plants, they're gone. They're so dependent on that feeding. So, this is the difference. You've taken out all the life and you're trying to make one kind of life survive all by itself. That's not how life is made. Life is made in such a way all these lives are connected, including ours. The more you remove yourself from that, the more distant you become from the life process, the more life problems you have, variety of problems. Are you saying, so is it something like that industrial farming, those pictures that we see of perfect farms looking just... They're not perfect farms. I mean... Just that they got perfect lines. Lines. Yes. So, is that what you're saying that you're moving away from natural farming where... Just the way people are living is one thing is farming, another thing is the way we live. All right? So, how far away from the land are you? How have we built our cities? Is there any concern for having life around you? No. Do you think you can... You can exist in vacuum of life? No. The more you're connected with life, all kinds of life forms, the more alive they become. So, what is a substitute people have found today? Because they removed from all other life, suddenly they have fallen in love with dogs. All right? Because at least that one life keeps them little agile and okay. Right now in California, I was there in Los Angeles, just outside of Los Angeles. I saw an advertisement in the thing saying that they have cows. You can go and hug the cow. It costs whatever, some fifty dollars per hour. You can hug the cow. Hug that. Yes. Yeah, you're just... Yes, it's... Oops. Yeah. That's how desperate it is to connect with life.  You know, when you... I mean, I experience it very often when I move, come from, say, Mumbai city and have this travel to any path in the countryside. And when you just get off your car and you just look around, it's like as though you just heave the sigh of relief from inside. Look at this. Cool of life. These seeds have been thrown so that these are very nitrogenous kind of plants. So they've been thrown, they just grow and they multiply and they keep growing, keeping the soil very, very rich. And moist inside. Yes, of course. And moist... You talked about moisture. Yes. Just look at this. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And there's no rain happening these days. It's just, it's so moist. It's so... My goodness. Yep. That's how soil should be. Yeah. The soil in the world is capable of holding eight times. That is eight hundred percent more water than all the rivers in the world together. That's where water should be in the soil. But unfortunately, we've stored it in our tanks. That's a big mistake or in our dams. Oh, what? To be done. I mean one is Kaveri calling. Where you said... See Kaveri calling is happening wonderfully well. As you know, one hundred and twenty-five thousand farmers have converted to tree-based agriculture like this. Yes. See, it's not that you did not know, the previous generation knew. Yes. But everybody who is educated is telling them to do something different. So they started doing...  So now when we go and tell them, see there is a science like this, there is... it is not. Something that we're just telling you, here is the result and here are the farmers who have already benefited. Now it is going on beautifully and the government also has supported as well. Now Karnataka government saw the kind of development that's happening in these nine districts of Kaveri Basin. Now they sent a letter of appreciation and also invited us to do all the thirty-one districts in Karnataka. We've said yes and we will start from next year. I'm going to make a pause here because I have to say this. Just recently, like yesterday, met some of the farmers who have adopted. And it's so interesting to hear from them that at the beginning they also hesitated. They resisted. They thought these volunteers are coming from nowhere trying to tell us what to do and it's not going to work and they didn't think it would. But today in a few years, they've seen a dramatic change in their yield, in the quality, in their prosperity of the land. And I was amazed to hear how the land and the trees that you grow on it can actually be like your bank.  More, like instant cash, in a way. Bank is subject to inflationary problems. But here it's solid. Not like that. It was like, like one little story was of the girl whose farm we went to, a young girl who's been late twenty. She was trying to help her father because she's the only daughter. And she said all my life, growing up, I'm seeing that we're growing. They have a 10 acre farm. But they're growing bananas and turmeric and maybe something else. But she said I was always insecure that suppose whether changes, something happens, there's a crisis, there's need for money. How will I manage? This is not going to sustain me. She said when the volunteers came and told her that, you know, you can plant trees, certain kinds, go within, within your fields of the present crop. And then in the beginning, she said I was like, no, I don't think I want to try it. I don't want to take any risks. I have enough problems already. But then she did eventually listen because the Isha volunteers were so persuasive and kind enough supported them. And then when we went to her farm yesterday, Sadguruji, it is wonderful. It is wonderful. And she said, you know, if I ever need money, like she has grown 1200 trees on her 10 acre farm, which is more trees than I have on my little farm. And twice I have a bigger farm. But look at that. Just the intelligence with which they did it and how they've done it. And she said if there's ever need for money, I simply, a few of them, I have to cut maybe a mahogany, teak, something which are timber trees and they are very valuable. And sure I am secure. If you plant trees, still growing crops. If you plant trees smartly. Yes, smartly. I'm just saying, let's say per acre or per hectare what you plant, you're still cropping it. After 12 to 15 years time, if you cut a few trees... Yeah, a few trees.  Oh, definitely. You'll get that much money and you still keep the land. Let's say this, this land is worth one crock. You will get much more than that and you still have the land. Yes. That is the beauty of it. Most farmers who get into loans are ending up selling the land. They never have to sell the land. If they just sell the trees, it will happen.  You know, there are some perfect people in the country who never made any mistake because they have never done anything. So those people will say, oh, how can you cut the trees? Sadhguru is cutting the trees. Hey, it's a poor farmer's land. Yeah, yeah. If he plants something, he must be able to benefit from that. Otherwise, how can you even ask him to plant trees? Because of the silly ways you live, how can you ask a poor farmer to plant trees to save the planet? Hmm, yes. No. We are only... No, it benefits. This is an economic plan. Yes. But has significant ecological impact. That is what is significant about how we are calling it. Fortunately, now the central government has made 13 detailed project reports for thirteen rivers in the country. These thirteen rivers cover sixty-seven percent of India's land. Wow. Okay? If they do this successfully... This is how I was going to put it. It is a done thing. India is above the crest. This is what I wanted to say. I was coming to that, but my story became so long. But there was so many such stories which were like this. They are, you know, on trees, they put pepper, they've interspersed their crop with trees and fruits and... And they're yielded, their income has actually grown twofold, threefold. And I was just wondering that, you know, would it, would it not be possible to take this across the country? Across the world. Across the world, but first let's start with us. No, when I say as I mean the world.  No, it has to happen here, no question because here sixty-five percent of the population is in farming. Yes. If it doesn't happen here, one of the first countries other than the African nations, one of the first countries in India which will suffer seriously if soil crisis really comes is India because our population and land proportion is so unhealthy.  That is there but average land holding is just about a hectare which is 2.25 acres per family or person. That is a dangerous proposition. In the United States it would be 2,000 acres probably. Yes, they have land like that. But this really enriches this this whole movement in the way it's been thought through, so very calling. I mean one was I was supporting it and I will continue now even more. It was first just numbers on our screen for me because it was like, okay so many trees are going, they're being planted but actually seeing it on the ground and meeting those farmers was so... This is something we must convey. People are thinking, if you say planting trees, they are thinking we are doing afforestation. Afforestation, if there is land, yes it's good to do it. But there is really no extra land in the country. There is some degraded lands which could be planted. But first of all, see right now we've taken up a Namanandhi project. Namanandhi means our Nandi. There's a Nandi hill in near Bangalore where we are setting up a yoga center. So we've taken up this project. Here the forest department is offering us probably around Bangalore they're offering about three, two, seven thousand acres I think. Some of the Bangalore corporate, big corporates are coming out to help us with that. So there we are fencing the land, putting up a watchman and doing afforestation. Right. But there are problems. The villages are protesting. Okay? So we are talking to them how alternately we can do, because they are herding their cattle there. So if forest department fences it off then they don't have that land for the cattle. So we are seeing how to manage this, planting half of it and doing this and also planting grasses and other things for that. They don't have to graze the whole land, half the land is putting up for them. Once the trees grow, they can also graze heroes. Right, right. Because otherwise when they're small, the cattle come and eat up the... So I'm saying for everything there is a solution. If we have the necessary long-term commitment, that's all it takes. Unfortunately, most of the things that are happening are a one-day event. Some club will come and do it, some political leaders' birthday, they will plant this many lakhs of trees one day. Yes, yes, yes, but you have to be with it for a while, see it grow, nurture it. I'm also part of the Trillion Tree Campaign in the world, launched by the World Economic Forum. So I'm part of it, I've... Personally, I've told them, see if you are willing to give me the financial support and the political connections in every country, taking Africa and Asia together, I will personally take responsibility for hundred billion trees, billion. If money is there and politically you facilitate a few things, I will have it done. We know how to do it, I'm saying.  Financially, only what we have we can do. So the idea of Cauvery calling it to set up a large enough sample so that nobody can say it has not worked. All right? This has worked. So UNCCD feels that this is the top project right now in the tropical world. Wonderful. So they are our partners now in safe soil movement. UNCCD's official partner. And also WFP, the World Food Programme also is with us. Now UNEP is with us, all UN agencies joining because of the success of Cauvery calling on the ground. It's not just talk, it's taken a whole lot of work. Yes. The amount of resources the Foundation has put in and the number of young people who are working on it. Yes. It was a joy to meet the Nadi Veerans yesterday. Young, young people, professionals who just given up everything and... Oh, didn't you do anything? I mean they...  They were just trapped in some educational institution or some institution. No institution means either prison or asylum usually. Yeah. Yeah.  Their colleagues have gone somewhere else. These kids give it all away. Put it aside. No, no, I'm coming to it. I'm coming to it. Wait. So... And when I met them and like I was like, yeah, so you've been here for two, three, four years, five years and they said this is the most beautiful thing we've done, the most fulfilling thing we've done with our lives. And what have they given up? Or they got their life back? Yeah. This is, in fact, for all of them it looked like this is, this is like outside now things seem shallow because... No, I don't want to make any judgments like that. All I'm saying is this is one of the most needed things that needs to happen on the planet right now is to turn the soil around. Why I'm saying this is... On an average, the estimates say on an average per year about twenty-seven thousand species of microbes, algae, other aspects, you know, fungi, algae, everything is going extinct, extinct. Yes, you cannot revive that like that. So if you allow this to happen for another thirty to forty years, then you want to turn back the soil, it would take hundred and fifty to two hundred years. And what do we do now? That's like human populations will go like, you know, they'll go for a toss, half the population may go with that. But today if we start the process, you know, the fifteen to twenty-five years, we can make a significant turnaround. But as I understand it from you, it's got to be done on a very large scale. See, you don't think about the scale. Small. No, no, no. You should not think about the scale. What is needed is a policy change. See now, for example in Karnataka government, we brought about this policy change, sustained efforts. In the time that we did in seven and a half years, three governments changed. So every time you have to restart the whole thing. So in spite of that, we went on and fortunately the previous government sanctioned this and now this government is continuing. So quickly, a farmer is getting a hundred and twenty-five rupees subsidy for the tree based on the growth. Over four years. It's not just given. So year on year the growth has to be recorded. So it's geo-ported and recorded. So because the growth is recorded, we get the subsidy. If it doesn't record the growth, we won't get the subsidy. This is why I'm asking for a policy change. If there is no policy, I do something, you do something. Well, this is nice. The next generation may come and decide, you know, destroy the whole thing. Underneath there is granite, let us mine it. I know, I know, I know. I'm saying agricultural land needs policy. If you want to keep the soil alive for future generations. Because soil is a living entity, it's not material. Unfortunately, agricultural departments in India and almost everywhere in the world are talking about soil. It is like a chemical mix. Oh, it is nitrogen, phosphorus. This is that. That is another thing. It is life. If you keep it alive, you don't have to worry about nitrogen, phosphorus, nothing. All that is taken care of by them. It is not your intelligence which can do this. It is the complexity of all of them working together. See, for example, you know this, that even in our stomach, the food that we eat, we are not capable of digesting it by ourselves. Not with our brains and saying this, this enzyme, that enzyme, now manufacture this, no. So it is the gut bacteria which does that. Sixty percent of your body is actually bacteria. Only forty percent are your parents. Only forty percent is genetic material. Rest is all bacteria, right? Shear also it is the same thing. This plant cannot directly take nutrients from the soil completely. Do some extent it can. But the rest of it is all because of the bacteria from the eye or the eye, other things working full time. And they want carbon sugars which the plant is always capturing from the atmosphere. And this plant wants phosphorus, nitrogen, iron, copper, magnesium. So that they are providing. It's a very complex marketplace there. Suppose you take off all the leaf from this plant, all right?  Yes, yes, yes. And there is no photosynthesis. So now this tree or plant cannot give carbon sugars to them. They will stop your nourishment. Right, right. They will move on. They will move on. They will move on to another plant. So it is a hardcore marketplace. The Dalal street has been with your feet. And so it is for everything on... There's a circle of life as you see. Yeah, otherwise it is not sustainable. Anything that's a straight line is not sustainable. Only if it's a circular, it's sustainable. Right, right. And we seem to be breaking that circle everywhere now and again. But I don't know, maybe. I'll start about education and then Subguruji will fire me. So... But Subguruji, while you say soil... I'm talking about soil as a living mechanism. Right. And farmers may be familiar with this whole thing because they are on the land. City people like me, they will be like, what's that Guruji talking about? What's that?  But when you just say you are talking about soil, now be careful about how we're treating soil. How are they supposed to understand you? See, they don't have to treat the soil as their mode for the city. They don't have much connect with the soil, it's their misfortune. I'll leave it to them, that's their choice. But as a citizen in a democratic condition, the most important aspect of your life for the well-being of all around you is your vote and your voice. When voting time comes, you don't vote. When you have to speak, you don't speak. Everywhere else you speak. Now all I'm saying is, every citizen in the world for 100 days, not for the last of your life, for 100 days from 21st of March, I mean 2022, you speak soil.  Anyway, unless you're on the phone at least, I'm saying for you also, from now on till June, July of this year, whatever message you write, because it's not with Namaskaran, not with love, this is safe soil, that's your love. Everybody, say safe soil for 100 days, this means the governments we're writing to all the political parties. Every political party in the world in 192 countries, our letters are going now personally being delivered to them, and also to all the heads of state. So totally over 700 plus letters are going around the world to all political parties and all governments, all right? Because we want soil ecology to become a part of political manifestos. When you make your election manifesto, one of the important aspects should be soil ecology. If people don't speak, why will the government do it? Because they represent the people. People just want trinkets, people are asking for little little things, government is throwing those things. If you commit to long-term well-being of this nation, particularly to soil, because that's the basis of life, we are with you. People should see this, isn't it? So city people, this is all you have to do? Everyone of you have a smart phone which is smarter than you? Yeah. Yes, it is. Yes. So use that smart phone and tell as many people as you can, this is our thing. We can't go and fix the soil. Let's move the policy. In a democratic country, only value is... only currency is numbers. Please, you are one. So say it, you don't understand, it doesn't matter because this is the nature of democracy. Whether you have a full brain, half brain, no brain, you still have one vote. Please use it. Okay, so I... So now, I was asking something else, but this is what you would... It's almost like a call to action where you say, okay, wherever you are, this is what you do. Yes, one hundred days. Everybody talk about soil. Yes, speak of it.  Every day reach out to somebody and say, see, this is an issue. Please do this and close all your messages, mails, everything with safe soil. There is no more sacred duty for you now than this. I'm telling you, forty percent less food will be produced by 2045. That's the thing happens. I hope we won't allow it to happen. But if it happens, I don't like to do dome state production. I'm a very positive kind of person, but very easily you could kill anywhere between 1.5 to 2 billion people by 2045. Forty percent less food. Twenty to go in, that's just twenty to three years. Forty percent less food means that's what will happen on the ground. And the suffering that happens to all the others who are living, that can never be estimated. See, we just forget, just in forties and fifties, we have had terrible famines in this country, isn't it? One Bengal famine took over three million people. We just forget, just because for fifty years we've eaten reasonably well. Even now, 820 million people go to bed without food in their stomach in the world. Farmer goes to his field without the necessary nutrition for him to go and do that work.  This is what we're doing. 820 will easily multiply into a couple of billion in no time. They're expecting that to happen within eight to ten years. And you're saying this is because of the deteriorating... They do one thing. You look at the Google images of Africa today. Look at it ten years ago. Just see how much advancement of desertification has happened. Sir, Guruji... Because you're from Africa, I'm saying... Yes. No, you're right because we were flying over Uganda and truly, if you look for forest land, there's a lot of farmland, but forest land, tree cover, was... was... you could see it only in little pockets and this is Africa, heart of Africa, where the land is so fertile. See the... the 60s, 70s images of the Tarzan movies of Africa gone largely. Yes. Now largely it's brown Africa. So, I... But... But it can be fixed. That's the important thing. It can be fixed. Yes. Do we have the courage and commitment to do it or not? It's the only question as a generation of people. This is a responsibility and it's also a great privilege that you could actually affect such a change in this generation. Yes. The next generation which is here cannot do that. We can do it but it's still within those limits. So, will we use this as a privilege or will we shirk our responsibilities and be a way-in generation which did not do what it was supposed to do? Okay. So, one call to action is... Only one call. Only one call? Only one call. Okay. That's simple, straight. Just do it. That's right. If the policy changes happen, necessary incentives come, farmer will do that. You don't go and try to do that. Okay. Because in India, 84% of India's geography is right now farmland. Right. So, this is 84%. If you change, you don't have to worry about it. Like I said, based on Kaveri calling, now they made 13 detailed project reports. If you do this, India is above the crest. In the next 15 years, if you implement this completely, then you don't have to worry in India. Yes. You can see from what I saw yesterday on the farms, that the dramatic change... Yes. And this is true. I mean, look at this. The possibility is... is immense and... See now, for every... for every acre, which is covered in green, for 12 months in the year, if government say, hints of saying, I'll give you free money if you work for me. If you say, if you keep one acre of land throughout the year, with whatever you want. Okay? With whatever you want. Let's say, we'll give you two thousand rupees. If I have ten acres, I'll get twenty thousand rupees. You will see, every farmer will turn it green. That's all it takes. Why he's shipping it to a brown in summer, he... he doesn't want to spend on the groundnut seed or maize or something else, just to throw it to keep the land good.  This is just like saying, see, being Indians, in the food, we add a little bit of salt for the food that we eat. And if that is not enough, we serve a little pickle on the side so that we manage the taste, you know. People don't know, when I see, when people, western people are there, we serve pickle, they don't know what to do, they just eat it up. They don't know how to use it to enhance the taste of what you're eating at that moment. Right, right, okay. So that is what fertilizers should be. Just a little touch here or there. Yes. Where it's needed, you use it, some land is deficient in something, little bit.  That's all that's happening to the land. That's a nice, simple way to understand it. That's a nice, simple way. Yes. That's fertilizer. We just use that minimum, it's like vitamins. Yes. You can't be living on vitamins. You have them to just assist you in case there's a deficiency somewhere. Because nobody can eat absolutely ideal food. We eat this and that here and there. So just to take care of certain basic things they're taking care of, maybe one pill you take. Now no, they're taking a handful of pills, fifty, sixty pills per day. I met somebody who is in his 50s but he's super fit. He exercises and runs and cycles and does various things, very, very fit, like an athlete. But every day 60 pills per meal, eats the best, healthiest food. But still, because people have been promoting this. And at the end of the day, even those pills, they are chemicals. So somewhere they will create an imbalance inside or side effects. No, this talk my staff about chemicals. Because even the soil at one level is organisms. Another level, the trading is all of chemicals, okay, organic chemicals, but chemicals. But if you ask me, all chemicals are organic because you have not brought anything from the moon or Mars. Everything is from the soil you've taken. So it's organic. It is just the... But the balance. Yes, that's what I'm saying. We go out of balance. If you take this leaf and eat it, it has everything in it. Your body will take what it wants. Sometime something may not be sufficient. But now if you take that much of one particular mineral, that overdose, what all problems it will cause, you do not know. Yes. See, if something micronutrient is missing in your diet, for one day, it doesn't cause any damage. If it is absent for long periods of time, it causes damage. But the excess causes a different kind of damage. And it also affects the soil because human excreta and urine has become a big problem in United States and big cities. It's full of chemicals. Our bloodstream is full of chemicals. That's what I'm saying. It is going into the soil. Sir Guruji, you are going to be driving on a motorbike. Riding, riding. Riding on a motorbike 30,000 kilometers. What do you think also, man? Through some 25 countries to create awareness and to meet heads of states and, you know, bring this... We have organized the people on the social media and everything. We are planning to touch 3 to 3.5 billion people, which is 60% of the world's electorate. When we... When 60% of the world's electorate speaks, no political party or no government will ignore it. Numbers are important in our democracy.  It is a global movement. It is a global movement. Yes. Because you can't attend to just soil and think everything is fine. It doesn't work like that. Life is so very different. It's an arduous journey. I mean, 30,000 kilometers is not a... is many days, many nights through difficult terrain. Yes. And you're doing it alone. I mean, if... It's a lone motorcycle, but... the time that you have chosen is such that it's still winter in Europe. In northern part of Europe, it's still snowing in icy roads. So that's even more slippery dangerous off-road. And then... And then we go into Arabia, but temperatures are at least 36 to 48 degrees in May. We're driving through the desert. Well, and then we enter India in June, months and time. So I'll be so... So I'll have all the extremes of weather going with me. How did you think of this? What made you think of this? See, I want people to understand. See, for example, my life is such. I have done enough work. People are here to do everything now by themselves. We have set up large centers in the United States. We have a very large center. Literally, we're building a spiritual city.  What? Yes. A few thousand square miles. A few square miles. We're building a whole spiritual city and we have a center here, there. See, it's beautiful. I can just live nicely. All right? All my life I've worked twenty, twenty-one hours a day. I can just rest at sixty-five. I'm taking this trip for people to understand why am I sticking my life out? People should think. Because if you don't do it now we will regret it so deeply. Regret is not going to change the world. Action is going to change the world. Oh, okay. I know once all the action was talk, save for it. Is there any other way we can help you? Well, we are not doing any mass, you know, fundraising or anything like that because how are we calling you still in action? That needs mass fundraising. But this needs fund if there are corporates and others who would like to brand themselves with this safe soil movement or, you know, people high net worth individuals want to brand themselves or they want to donate to this. We are only contacting them. We are not making a large scale appeal for funds. Because the fund, the rally route, everything, we are a small group of eight to ten people. We have funded the whole thing ourselves We put our personal money into this to run the rally but to get the message to 3.5 billion people, we need help. The entire rally is being run because of just eight to nine people. We all contributed from our money. I just wish you great, great success and not for you you're doing it for us. You're doing it for all of us. It's... A life? Just for life? Life means every life? Actually that's true, not just for people living in... Human beings have forgotten that they are a consequence of the life that is throbbing in the soil right now. Not the other way around. Not because of us, they are there. Because of them, we are here. Even in the evolutionary scale it's only because of their activity we are here. We cannot do without greenery. Greenery can very well manage without us. So... Let's make it happen. Save soil, let us make it happen. Yes.


St. Lucia is one of four small island developing states in the Eastern Caribbean to benefit from a German-funded project to lay the foundation for the successful introduction of sustainable financing mechanisms for marine protected or managed areas. The Suframarine Management Agency, SMMA, is the local beneficiary of this undertaking by the German Agency for International Development, GIS. The project includes maximizing SMMA capabilities to draw down funds from the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund and other regional donors, also human capacity building, and drawing up national plans of action. Project manager for the GIS financing program is Dr. Hammond Volcker. He presented an overview of the project during a virtual ceremony to formalize technical cooperation between the SMMA and GIS. Mr. Rikki explained a lot about the revenues that are possible together from tourism, but besides that, and we have seen in the COVID-19 crisis that these are very volatile. So from one day to another, tourism almost went down to zero. So this might not be the only reliable or should not be the only source of revenue for the marine protected areas. This is why we want to support the SMMA in accessing funds from the CBF, the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund, or other donors that are active in this region and the sector, yet to diversify the sources of income. During the ceremony, Dr. Volcker was officially welcomed by the Government of St. Lucia through Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Barrymore Felicium. The official wished Dr. Volcker all the best during his tenure on the island and pledged a technical support from the Government in the rollout of this project. We strongly endorse the technical cooperation agreement between GIS and the SMMA. So that support is there and we'll commit the technical resources to make that possible. There is a need for more robust financing platform to ensure SMMA performance and protection of the marine space. We therefore welcome this initiative. It is timely now. It would have been perhaps even a little better if it had taken place before COVID-19. But now we have it here. We are pleased to have that support and the intervention of GIS, providing the support for laying the foundation, and it's important for us to make the distinction.  This when successful will provide the SMMA with the financial stability required to properly execute its mandate and boost performance. GIS's support to the SMMA precedes this 2021 Sustainable Marine Financing Program. It is a progression from the Caribbean Aquatorrestrial Solutions Program in its phases one and two that lasted until 2020, supporting marine managed areas with infrastructure and management tools as well as improving climate resilience through systematic resource management. SMMA Executive Chairman Ricky Alexander says the agency looks forward to the continued engagement with GIS. It is important to note that existing financial contributions are well below requirements and reveal a strong disparity in collection and user payments. All of which affect protected area performance. Establishing sustainable financing for MPAs is thus an essential exercise to help marine protected areas reach its effective management capacity. This is why the formalizing of this important partnership with GIS is critical as one of the important mechanisms to enhance the sustainability of the SMMA. The German Agency for International Development, GIS, has been providing support to St. Luccia and the Eastern Caribbean since 2013. It currently works with 120 countries globally and is funded mainly by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Corporation and Development. For the Government Information Service, I am Jesse Leos reporting.


Early records say that Ohio was 95% forested. By the time the settlers got through it around the first hundred years, it was down to less than 10% forested. So the state of Ohio put in a plan called the Woodland Management Plan. We're back up to about 30% forested. So I'm part of that plan, the Woodland Management Plan. The intent is to regrow our forests and to have some good, usable timber as time goes on. If you look up, you'll see a tree needs its individual crown space. But when they plant these pines, they often overplant. So the tree does not get enough light to really nourish itself well. And hence it becomes more spindly and straggly of less value. So that's how we justify cutting down a few trees. We're trying to get rid of the trees that are low or no value and let the ones that are larger flourish. With low impact logging, we're taking a small tractor like I have here and we can maneuver in some pretty tight, steep spaces and pull out heavy logs without making very much of a mess. We're also very, very low volume. I mean, the scale we're doing is sometimes a lot of the months, sometimes a few logs a month. It just depends on what the winds blow down and what falls down the hillside. I guess for me, there's a really tremendous joy of being in the woods. If you've had a very busy day, a stressful day, you can't take a walk in the woods. Your troubles just evaporate.  Amen.


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and we are live on the independent investor channel live stream here Friday evening it is just shy of 9 o'clock Eastern Standard Time we kick this project off every single Friday every seven days it is super important for us to continue to do that all what New Year makes for everybody in stock market investing and while everybody out there is trying to find that instruction or tutelage or that right person has all the right answers back to truck up a little bit you only go through downturns like this in the stock market once in a while and you don't want to learn the lessons that you take away from things like this very very important to self-assess take a look at how the portfolio performed during the downturn ask yourself if it was really worth playing the back-and-forth game trying to plan time the market for the for those of you guys who bought the market in early September you timed the market perfectly well and here we are in January still talking about everything under the Sun that is in effecting the stock market in a negative way and that somehow we're going to march into this inevitable recession so stand by for roles hurry up and wait so if you haven't invested on the stellar advice if everybody else out there in the world that seemingly has every answer for you for you you guys out there that actually stayed invested stayed true to the stock market if you look at a chart a one-year chart go back to the beginning of September you'll see exactly what I mean the Dow Jones industrials at 28 6 the S&P was below 3500 there was not one person out there under the moon that was talking about buying the stock market except for me and that makes me a stock market guru that means that I'm eligible to pursue hype and hype up my seemingly very simple approach just paying attention to what the stock market is telling me that's it and sharing those perspectives with people unfortunately during a time when a lot of people don't want to hear that type of thing hints and therein lies the lesson of independent thought independent application independent in all things that you do certainly for you guys that have been with me a long long time hopefully the damage that was done in 2022 in very very tough markets can be assessed can be built upon and they can be rebuilt going forward whether or not we enter into a recession is is yet to be seen I'm not going to sit here and tell you that we're not going to see those 29 or 28 6 lows that we saw in the Dow Jones industrial but do you want to be in that position to where you're not in the market here with the stock market up pursuing 3500 what do you do do you sell the market because you think that somehow you're going to get a better entry at some point in the in the future those are futile efforts and those of you guys that understand and have the courage to actually row over to my independent island and actually have a rum punch with me every now and then you'll understand the beauty of independent thought independent application and independent conditioning of your own application what it is that you learned what it is that you picked up what it is that you may be sold prematurely did you panic yourself out of the market it's okay if you did I it doesn't change who you are as a person doesn't mean you're less of a person doesn't mean you're more of a person it just means that you made a decision how did that work out now is the time where you want to deliberate around those decisions how is it that you handled a very very formidable test okay I'm not going to sit here and tell you that the market activity over the last couple of years has been enjoyable okay not going to do that it sucked all right but did you make it did you put your independent perspective to work how did it hold up how did you hold up were you able to keep your eyes on the prize and understand that this gig is a whole hell of a lot more than what most people are fixated on and that is the day-to-day movement of the stock market it's entertaining and there are millions and millions and millions of dollars of propaganda spent every single day to revolve around the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 and we'll throw the Russell in there for some icing on the cake every single day we've got our basket of bears over here we've got our basket of bowls all right today they actually had a bear and a bowl and they fought with each other right on TV nobody knew where the market was going maybe there's an inherent lesson there to be had with regard to nobody knows where the lessons going dare I suggest that maybe even the YouTube gurus no matter how cute they are have no idea of what five stock bits you should buy in your portfolio for the month of January how about we come up with a novel idea about that all right if you want to copy some good material what you need to do is you need to watch my channel over and over and over again and see if you can memorize and see if you can copy my delivery on YouTube there you go now we're progressing towards something that's actually meaningful teaching people how to think for themselves think about people too in the face of an adverse market to look at how they reacted to that market and see how the risk tolerance held up were they too over levered in a certain category did they need to potentially look at adjusting did they get a better idea of what their risk tolerance was was it different than what they understood it before the volatility in the market did they understand more about themselves I'm here to admit I'm going through a lick the wounds phase and I've gone through this before and I'm a tough bastard I will make it just fine now in all reality what I typically do during times like this is when the market starts to give a little bit of reprieve and it always does I'm up I'm up a lot right now a lot it's been a nice little recovery for the independent investor channel that could do nice okay I make independent decisions and I get independent results I do not succumb to the decisions of others I do not try to borrow for a little bit I'm going to deploy some of that I'm gonna put it to work for me and I'm gonna call it mine all right I don't do that different strategies that I've deployed to give me some level of indication about how much risk I'm taking on with a pretty good test that was doled out in 2022 most specifically my 401k test I dollar cost average the 401k pretty heavily through the downturn I increased my contributions to 20% for a lot of people that may seem really really light and they may seem that I'm just a pittance of a miniscule existence compared to their investing greatness but I did I increased to 20% and I can honestly say now I am up 5% year-over-year right now as we speak up I'm up can you believe that I'm up on my passive investments well how much trading did you do in and out of that to render that 5% as we speak 0 0 I held the indexes the S&P 500 the small cap index and a small piece in an international funds that hasn't done a whole hell of a lot for the last 10 years no problem it's all right it's kept some money static but I've continued to fund markets so what does that tell me and what do I want you guys to get out of this deal I want you to understand that there are certain fundamental baselines like risk tolerance and dollar cost averaging and let's just throw tax protection in there as well those three things okay should be the focal point of the conversation at all times okay for all retail investors and most retail investors don't want to hear it because it's it's boring because they have not bought into this idea that boring investing will actually make you money okay honestly I mean you you want to tune into the five stock picks of the month for no other reason than because the content channel is so elegant and delivers such a fantastic message right that you just have to consume that message whether or not you buy the stock is irrelevant right it's entertainment it's not going to do you any bit of good whatsoever you notice a digression on the independent investor channel with regard to the content that I push out and interesting enough when this content actually provides merit is he here's a thing is if I inevitably talk about companies that I wholeheartedly believe in like aduro clean technologies if I talk about those indefinitely and I fail and I fail and I fail and I fail and I fail and I fail and I fail again okay you got me you caught the tater you caught the tater I should have no business talking about companies that I'm evaluating because they all go down okay they all go down here's the funny thing about stock market investing when you think that a stock is going to do something it's probably going to do the opposite when you think that it's going to do the opposite it's probably going to be the do the do the exact opposite of what you thought that it was going to do the opposite of and furthermore when you think that it's going to do one thing and predicting it does another thing and you think that it's going to do the opposite of the thing that you predicted that it was going to do it actually does what it is that you think that it's going to do yeah think about that for a moment alright why do I present that in the way that I do, do not ask me to repeat what I just said, but the reason why I suggest these things is to understand that you have no effin idea and neither does anybody else. We can make educated decisions based on what it is that we know and love about certain companies. Large value companies are the easiest to value, and those are the ones that I contend are in that camp to where if you wanted to buy Coca-Cola, go ahead and do your due diligence. If you want to tune in to the best deep dive on Coca-Cola Classic that I've ever seen on YouTube, tune in to Ginex Dividend Investor. He breaks down Coca-Cola Classic like nobody's business.  And he only has 44,000 subscribers. The guy should have 440,000 subscribers. He should have 4.5 million. If indeed there are people out there in robes that actually want to learn about stock market investing, the problem is most people don't want to learn about stock market investing. They don't want to do that. They want to pick a little bit over here and pick a little bit over here and pick a little bit over here. And they want to take them and they want to put them into the bowl and they want to cook the investing cobbler. And they want to put it into the oven and they want to bake it and they want to pull it out full well knowing that it has nothing to do with what it is that they like on their personal palate, okay? And they want to eat said cobbler. And it tastes really, really good, all right? And they put it to work, okay? They put somebody else's program to work, irrespective of whether or not it makes any sense when contrasted against a spending habit, when contrasted against a budget, when contrasted against the income, the household income that comes into the household to understand what it is that you've even identified in surplus capital that you can even put to work. You can over-lever yourself without even understanding it, okay? Where are you within this journey? Has 2022 set you back? Or do you feel more optimism for the future having subjected your dollars to a downturn in the stock market only to set yourself up as more prepared to enter into the future that much tougher and you come out of times like these tougher.  I've gone through this before. I've evolved and I've changed as an investor. I've changed in my philosophy, all right? I have people coming onto the channel and they're like, Ryan, I don't understand this aduro clean technology. Well, okay, why don't you listen to what it is that I'm saying? I've done a lot of due diligence on my side of the house. It has nothing to do with hyping a company that would just as rather not incur hype on their story, but rather provide an introduction through a conduit through social media because unless you can find a better way to share information with people outside of smoke signals, okay? Or Morris code. I'm all ears. I am all ears, okay? Hype in and of itself, my friends. Hype is something that people want to believe. They want to believe it because it's exciting.  They cannot wait to go share. I've got this piece of news. I've got this new stock. I've got this new philosophy. I've got this independent investor guy. He's really charismatic. He comes onto YouTube and he's just all over the place, man. He's great. He gets me all kinds of motivated and I'm fired up to go and invest. I cannot wait for Monday. Monday we're going to honor MLK. Tuesday, I'm going to be in there opening my brokerage account. I can guarantee I'm with you, all right? I don't know what it is. Perhaps maybe it's my pedigree. And how I've evolved to this place in understanding, not only understanding, because if I understood what it is about myself that actually works and it didn't work, I wouldn't be doing this channel. No, I really wouldn't. But it seems like the more I devote to this idea of making my own strategic decisions, the better off I am. The better off I am. Completely contrary with this idea that somehow the financial planning institution has to have a say. So in your personal well-being, I'm not to suggest that there aren't financial planners out there that are really, really good, OK? A guy like myself, I'll take a tax accountant over a financial planner any day. Because if you think you're going to be more motivated to invest, more than me, good luck. Jack, you can sit across from me and try to sell me on your program, OK? But you're going to have to answer some really, really tough questions, OK? Like, for one, how much does your program cost? Well, what do you mean? We didn't take a downposit when you walked into the office. No, no, you're not hearing me, Spencer. All right? How much of your program is affixed to fees? And how much can you answer or disclose to me? How much kickback you get for selling me that American fund, that American fund that you sell to everybody else that walks through your door every day? It's as if you show up and you just want to sell the same mutual fund to the person because you get a kickback on that, all right? Vanguard's S&P 500 might have my best interest in mind, but you're stuck in tunnel vision, all right? Trying to sell everybody that because you get incentive to sell that product, all right? Where is the truth in that? Where is the ethical application in that, OK? Where is the merit between that? If you can find it, please let me know where it is, all right? I'm not looking to disparage the financial planning institution out there. I'm not looking to do that. And I'm especially not looking to disparage the individuals who are trying to make a living in that profession. Make no mistake about it. I'm looking to disparage the entire industry as a whole. It's atrocious, OK? And for most of the industry, it will take individuals, OK? And I've seen the same report released every single year talking about if you're with a financial planner, you stand the chance of earning $3.5 million over your lifetime.   Talk about just makeup statistics to fit your own narrative, all right? How many people out there do we have in this red ocean of self-directed investors that are as badass as me are actually deploying their capital in a smart, strategic manner by nature of their own decisions, OK? The fact that I can look at the S&P 500 and say, hm, that's interesting. I mean, if it had a 3% fee affixed to it, that might be really attractive. But I'm looking at it right now and it has a 0.0. It's pretty incredible. I mean, that is pretty incredible to look at. Now, I can make the decision to suggest that maybe 3% is actually more than 0.03, that of which I'm going to be subjected to if I own that product and I would rather pay less than more, all right? Matt Money's in the house. He's a big fan of SPY. So am I. It's a fantastic product. Me and him split hairs sometimes on going back and forth for the good of the discussion on whether or not SPY is better than VOO or IVV. It doesn't matter.  And they can't breathe. And they don't understand why they can't breathe. Well, I'm here to tell you that the very obvious fact is your head is in the sand. Your head is in the sand, all right? What is it that we do? I gave you three things that the 100%, I mean literally 100% of people who come into my channel and you're like, okay, I'll give this guy a freaking chance. I heard he's really long-winded and I heard he likes to hype penny stocks. I got this guy dialed in. I don't even know him from Wim or Adam, but I got him dialed in, all right? He's a hyper. Dollar cost averaging, it's the most simple basic principle in investing and is the most overlooked and quite frankly, the most bastardized of strategies that I could ever disclose to you. You wanna know the cool thing about it is, you don't have to be special to engage in this idea of taking a little bit of surplus capital and introducing it into Mr. Market, okay? Mr. Market gets cranky. I heard that. That's a new term that I heard on YouTube. Mr. Market, as if we want to like have some figurehead like some grim reaper or something that we attach to the stock market. Me, I keep it very, very simple. It's the stock market. That's it. It's the stock market, all right? Risk tolerance to the market. That will speak to the psyche. The psyche, the perspective and application with stock market investing. This will help you not lose your marbles, maybe disconnect from your money a little bit. Disconnect from it a little bit so you can sleep and focus on work, children, family, friends, personal health and well-being, your dental health, your insurances, your home, your advancement, your every spiritual, your yoga, if that's what you wanna do. I just took on spin. I got my new spin shoes today. I'm super excited. That was my New Year's resolution to step into a little bit more of a dynamic application. So I'm gonna be splitting up and doing spin three times a week. I don't know. We'll see if we can shrink the I do a little bit. All right, we'll see it. We'll see it. Look, this is the stuff right here to get you down, okay? That's all right. I'm treating myself tonight for you guys because I'm feeling saucy. I really am. Great to see the gallery in here. Oh, and the third thing, you take all three. Look, if I were to tell you three things to do and I gave you instructions on how to complete each of those three things, the success ratio with very detailed instructions would probably fall on a failure rate of less than 50%. I could tell you something really, really simple. Like, hey, take three steps in front of each other, starting with the left foot and make sure that when you get to the third step, take one additional step with the right foot. I could do that. 50% of people would do it wrong with very, very simple instructions. These three things are investing. Well, investing is difficult, Ryan. Investing is like gambling, Ryan. Investing, I need to seek out the services of a financial professional, professional, professional, right, because they wear a suit and pie. Three things, risk tolerance, dollar cost averaging, and tax protection.  Those three things right there will be the single three things that will contribute to building more wealth across a YouTube or a social media audience than any of the five stock picks. I don't care if it's January or September. And I don't care how beautiful the YouTube content creator is. I don't care because it does not apply to the masses. It doesn't apply to the masses. I would contend that people out there, I could look at certain situations and say, you don't need single stock, okay? Ryan, I've got 5,000 bucks to invest, man. Where do I put my money? What do I do? Well, have you answered for yourself what it is that you wanna do in 20 years? What's your investment time horizon? What's your tolerance to the market? How much surplus capital do you have? Well, I don't know, we're in debt by $25,000. No kidding, very simple questions to kind of uncover your fitness to even be engaging in these questions. But Ryan, I'm just cross-checking you because I know you know your stuff, right? Because I caught this YouTube channel creator that didn't give me three. You gave me three ideas, Ryan. This channel content creator gave me five. Five ideas just for January, all right? You tip into February, man, it's gonna be old news, all right?  Stay away from that stuff. Five stock picks to buy in January, really? In accordance with what? In reflection to what?   Too much YouTube is bad for your health, guys. The sooner we can realize that, the sooner we will all be better off together. Welcome to the channel. I appreciate it. We're kicking off 2023 with a bang. I'm so glad to see each and every one of you guys. Oh! Oh! Ah, Cherie, this is the golden question. The short answer is no. No. At time to buy, Hylian would have been any time for the last couple of months, I guess, as it dipped below three for the first time, went all the way down to 206, which would have been your optimal low, that of which I did not buy shares at 206 or 210 or 215 or 220, all right? Anything less than $3, which I was a buyer of the shares below three. On multiple buy injects, here at 306, I'm happy to see a little bit of action in the stock. That's all great and plenty. Now is not the time. If you do not have a position in the company, I would not start to bandwagon buy this company. Now, if I was just an asshole, I would come onto YouTube and be like, yeah, yeah, buy this, yeah, yeah, yeah! And start acting like I can speak different languages and buy the stock and yeah, oh my God, and start jumping up and down and this and that and this and that, okay? I have been intimately covering this story for the last three years. Three freaking years for the last three or four days, I gave it credit for the last five days, five days. Three years compared to five days, the stock's gone up well. And I released my video tonight on Hylian and the up 30%, that's great. It is, that's just a fact. Why? I have no idea. Does it deserve it based on some of the performance that I've seen from upper management? Absolutely not. I'm very disappointed. I express some of those criticisms in the video that I released. I've seen this every single time that the stock moves and this is not a knock on usury. This is just an observation that I feel like people really need to understand and adhere to what I'm trying to say. What I am trying to say is that most people, and I know, look, if you're a multimillionaire and you're just looking for a speculative investment, et cetera, et cetera, and you've got a few hundred grand to throw around or a few stacks of high society or whatever, no problem by the stock year. I think between me and you, I think anything sub 10 is a bargain because if they do half of what they expect to do, this is a kick ass company and it's on its way, five to 10 to 15 to $20 billion in market cap, they can make it with some fairly conservative numbers. I've already run it, okay? They get up into the five to 10 to 15,000 units. We're talking about something far in advance of where it is now at 306. Now it's really immaterial. I would just be very, very careful. I would be very, very cautious. And it's a dangerous question to be asked of me on YouTube and people get, I appreciate you asking it, but I'm gonna spend the question in a way that really tries to help people and get to the root of asking is highly on the right company for you. Does it make sense in your specific portfolio as part of a speculative growth aspect? For me, yes. For you, I don't know the answer for that. And we don't base our stock buy and purchases based on a presumed start of some momentum in the stock. I would have just suggested that, over the last couple of months, I was speaking with a good friend of mine on this who covers this company with me. Very sharp, very intelligent. And I got to give some kudos. He called it. He said, we're gonna have an exacerbated sell-off and it's gonna go down to a number that we couldn't believe that it got to. And 206 looks like it might be that number. Will it go down to single digits? I have no idea. I mean, I just have no idea on this old girl. And the fact that the company has gone so silent and the fact that there's about three Twitter patrons that are providing more on the public relations front for highly on is really disturbing to me. Really disturbing. I mean, it's just, you know, Andrea said, why not just hire me? And I agree. I think Andrea should just get a job with them. Silent alert, phenomenal. These are both just phenomenal freaking people. Where is Hylian in all this, right? Okay, so be careful, be careful. Make sure that you've got a nice, satisfied base in your portfolio. And if that's what, and that's what you wanna do and you wanna start covering the name, just monitor it. Because if Hylian has proven anything, it gives you a multitude of different buy points and opportunities to own the name. If you wanted to own it long, certainly would want to make sure that you understand that if this thing does end up going up, it's gonna be a really tough ride. And to make sure that you even have the tolerance to realize what it's gonna take to get you to that end anyway. All right, that's a cool question. Thank you, Sherry, very cool. You got me on a little tangent. This is where the majority of my buys, I will disclose 13,000 flew into the Roth IRAs. Why is that? It's because I put that in my money, but in my mouth is when I talked about the three pillars that anybody can do, tax protect, the 13,500, it's 6,500 for the tax year of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, they increased contributions by $500, big whoop-de-doo. But times two, there you go. I went ahead and funded those now they're in cash. So I can't tell you what I bought yet. I'm still monitoring because I don't really trust this rally. I know, I know, I know.  The Dow is going to 40,000 next month. That's not gonna happen. Okay, for you guys that are just now getting excited about the stock market because the last five days, might I remind you that we are in a high entry interest rate environment like no other, okay? Jerome Powell is not going to sit back and allow the stock market to ignore the signals from the Fed for very long. And that's what the stock market has done if you haven't paid close attention, which bothers me because it makes me think that the stock market is subjecting itself to a break. And Jerome Powell has the tools to break it, okay? And there's been some conversation which would lead me to believe that that's where we are inevitably going. I hope we don't go there, but not fighting the Fed, that old cliche is a pretty good one to understand. And right now the stock market is not acknowledging what the Fed is trying to do. And so a little bit of euphoric buying here at the beginning of the year, perhaps maybe it's a late Santa Claus rally. I really don't know, but there's really nothing systemic here.  I'm telling you, there's nothing there. I'd like to hear Matt's comments on this, but I just don't think there's anything there to really get too excited about. Yeah, it's nice to see those investments kind of take a little bit of appreciation about for the most part, I'm being very, very cautious in 2023. Now the back half of 2023, different story my friends, different story, but I think we're a little bit premature. We need to see a couple of quarters of earnings to see how the earnings play out, see what the supply chain constraints are, see what headwinds these businesses are conveying on their earnings report and we'll go from there. It doesn't change my passive thesis on markets. I'm long until I'm 59 years old. I'm a young scrapping 45. Hell, I just told you, I started spin. I'm gonna live till about 117 or so. I think that'll work for me. I think I'll kick the bucket at around 117, 118, maybe 120, 121, something like that. That's a nice goal to shoot for. Yes, indeedy. SCHD was one that I added a lot to. I added a lot in the low 70s. I thought that that was a really, really good entry. I added the SCHD, that's the dividend fund and I really like this fund a lot. It's fantastic. I bought it in my corporate account and I bought it in the low 70s. I did channel it once, okay? I was a good boy, I channeled it once, made some really, really good profits, went back down to 72 and I picked it up on my long position. So I was able to put some profits to work and I'm really, really happy that I did. That's a nice long position for me but I'm trying to justify whether or not I'm gonna put the Roth contributions all into the VOO or if I'm going to do something else with it. I've been putting a lot of thought to it and I haven't decided what I'm gonna do. I own VIG, which is the Vanguard's Dividend Appreciation Fund and Mine. I own a lot of S&P already and I'm just not sure if it's really a place that I want to put heavy emphasis in I think right now the biggest opportunity right now, if I were forced to give you like where I think the softest spot in the markets are, it is in small and mid caps. Yeah, yeah, it's in small and mid caps. I think pouring into value right here is interesting. Everybody and their mother's talking about buying oil right here. I don't understand that either. Fleeing to safety. You're talking about the 60-40 portfolio being the sexiest thing out there. Bonds do not fit into a lot of portfolios out there. Let me explain. If you're looking for capital appreciation, the bond market is not where you want to go and you don't try to time a favorable bond market period because it is contrary to what a lot of people should be after in growing their dollars and growing their wealth over time. If you're looking to capital preserve and you're looking to pick up some of these funds on the cheap, you could do that now. I understand, but a 60-40 portfolio, really a 40% of your portfolio that is probably in historical sense has the most chance of underperforming the market of anything. Why would you do that? That has nothing to do with your plan. It just has everything to do with what is the flavor of the week or the flavor of the month right now and that's what's going on. They can't talk about, you guys remember, bang? When was the last time you heard that? Remember Kathy Wood and RQTFs? When was the last time you heard about that? How about Tesla? How about Tesla? Okay? Tesla, I've contended this entire time was an overvalued company in all fairness, but what's amazing to me is that Tesla gets a lot of the nod in a lot of cases and it gets overlooked in a lot of different categories. The autonomous driving feature caught a video just this week of the vehicle stopping in the middle of a tunnel and causing an eight car crash. I saw the same, another video just this week of a driver who couldn't get out of their car because the first responders couldn't break the atomic glass, the glass that can withstand a meteor coming down from the heavens and smashing into your windshield. We all need that, we do, we all need that.  Please, please do that, okay? Whether or not you can afford it or not, go borrow $60,000 from the bank, whatever.  That's gonna be awesome. And you can go buy a Tesla so you can't be rescued in the event of a fire. No, I just, look, innovation, yes, I get it. I'm a fan of the story. I think what Elon Musk has done has been fantastic. But I cover Tesla from a different angle and my angle is in direct competition to my company, Hylion, which is a far superior company with regard to what they're doing and the bottom line rudimentary attributes of what they're trying to do. Move product efficiently from point A to point B. Hylion beats Tesla all the way, but Pepsi opts for a name like Tesla because they have that name recognition and there I say hype, hype, right? And now the stock price has rolled off. I don't know, we've been talking about cryptocurrency for the last two years. Where did that end up? It's as if people aren't happy unless they're on this wave of momentum of just complete moronism. It's just completely moronic. How people go from wave to wave to wave to wave. And it's like, I'm gonna get in the next hype wave. Can we do the next hype wave? And when they don't have a hype wave, they can come into the independent investor channel and accuse me of hype. And it's like, all I'm trying to do is share a story on a company. That's freaking it. That's it. Look, if I was hyping, here's how hype plays out, guys. Here's how it is. I have ill intent. And I find that this is probably a lot of escape to thinking to people who are wanting to make quick money. And I don't have a lot of confidence in a lot of people.   I wanna make money really, really quick. And they don't have the foresight or the intelligence to actually think of a project and think about how they can work really hard and really study up and maybe do up a business plan and really come up with an idea about how they can formulate money. No, no, what they're gonna do is they're gonna start a YouTube channel and they're gonna take their 10,000 and life savings and they're gonna maliciously enter into a stock that is recessed or it's under short-selling pressure or whatever. It's fundamentally depressed. Maybe it's a good company fundamentally depressed. Maybe it's a bad company that's been driven down prematurely. Maybe the charts speak to a potential catalyst, whatever it is, enter into the stock and I come on to YouTube with the sheer intent of misleading you into that shares.  I jump up and down, I light money on fire, I yell and scream, you gotta do this, you gotta do that, I'm telling you.  Okay, that's hype. You enter into this and you manufacture this hype on a stock with the intention of observing that stock and the second it goes up to a point where I wanna exit, I sell the stock without disclosing to my audience that this is going on lawsuit within the last month of that very similar thing.  I just don't understand it at all. I just cannot understand it, okay? In my case, I own this company. I've disclosed that I can share the shares long. Now, if I decide to sell the stock, that's on my own prerogative, okay? But it is the intent by which you enter into a transaction like that where your sheer motive is to deceive and to mislead people for your personal gain. That is hype in a nutshell, guys. That is hype in a nutshell. And I'll be damned if six years I've been doing YouTube, I have watched so many hype trains come and go. It's been incredible. I've watched channel creators come, channel creators go. I've seen fads come and go. I've seen stock come and go. I've seen perspectives come and go. I've seen titles come and go. When is it that we're gonna learn that potentially maybe that's just not the way to go? If you wanna disagree with me about aduro clean technologies, that's, I don't know, looking to take and solve a problem of plastic recycling in the world, if you wanna disagree with me that that's not a noble cause or they're not gonna make money doing it or they're not gonna generate revenue, I can understand that. But it's such a stretch to come on and suggest that I'm hyping the stock. It's a far cry from the truth. It really is, okay? And I mentioned that only to understand that while we spend our time going tip for tat back and forth on this thing, we really might be missing the bigger question.  Sweet justice to watch aduro clean technology move from its $40 million market cap. And I don't know, I'll take a bill, bill and a half, that's two bill because it's worth it, okay? I've never seen an opportunity like this. It is an incredible opportunity. I obviously can't own the product. I'm investing in the IP and the technology and the patents that they have, et cetera. I'm investing in their ability to really leverage this deal that they have with Shell and their Game Changer program. They're not even listed on Shell's website yet, guys. They're not even listed. They just got accepted fall of last year. This is a big deal. And it's fallen on deaf ears in a market that has been very, very dismissive of the small cap market. Perhaps maybe there's opportunity and a renewed sense of opportunity being identified in the small cap market. Perhaps maybe that's why the Russell has moved and that's why Hylion has moved. I don't know. I'm not holding my breath. Every week has a new kind of a twist to it and an opportunity to kind of revolve around what we think is going on in the market. And these are just my opinions on what I see from my perspective. I don't get wrapped around the axle on week-to-week action, especially day-to-day action, but I'm happy to see the stock up. It's nice to see the stock actually does go up once in a while. I swear, man, this is the fastest 60 minutes on YouTube. There's no doubt about it, man. We're in at 45 minutes, man, and I feel like I've been going for five. God dang, guys. I gotta get down here to some questions. I'm gonna start at the bottom because somebody called me Mr. Ryan. Very cool. Hey, Mr. Ryan, what do you think of European financials they have outperformed? I'm bullish. Yep. I think this is a really, really good comment and thank you, T, for offering it. I think emerging markets look really, really good. And I think European markets are really gonna start to, I think my pulse, even with the domestic market, the way that it is, I think we're moving toward a little bit more normalization. I really do. And I think what piece I picked up on today is that normalization is gonna be really good for the markets. It really is. Cost of capital should not be arbitrarily low. There are great, great companies. There's great innovation going on abroad just as much as there is in this country. And I do think it's an area of opportunity. I think it speaks to the importance of having a globally diversified portfolio. I really do. I think it's important. I have a little bit of international exposure. I'd like to have more. The bulk of my money is in U.S. markets. I'm a fan of U.S. markets from the perspective of understanding that the laws and regulations that oversee U.S. markets, I've seen it firsthand. Okay. So it's something that I feel, I have that comfort factor in engaging in financial markets here in the U.S. But certainly those developed nations in Europe and some of those established markets in Eastern Europe specifically. I'm very, very bullish on. And I thank you for sharing that. That's a really, really good comment. Very cool stuff. He says, I'm still buying Ethereum. Fantastic. Call me crazy. I mean, to each his own, I think, look, the question is just not to frivolously buy. Okay. The idea is to look at your plan and say, okay, look, I've got a little bit of fun money. Okay. I've got some money. What percentage of my portfolio am I satisfied with devoting to this craft? If it starts to creep up to 15, 20, 25%, Jesus, I'd say, what's the point, Matt? Like, what's the point? What are you trying to do? You know, and that comes back to what your financial goal is. It's gonna be different than mine. I get to a bill, bill and a half, two and a half million. I'm happy. Okay. You're shooting for, and I've known you for a long time. I mean, you could certainly get to the eight figure mark if you stayed on course, but what is the risk reward? What is the opportunity cost of that risk? I'd like to see it look at 3, 2, 3% of the portfolio as opposed to 5, 6, 7, 8, because that 5, 6, 7, 8 that's going to Bitcoin and Ethereum could just as easily be going to other things that, dare I suggest, might even be considered guaranteed as opposed to this market, which is, gosh, man, it's all over the place. It can gain 75%, it can gain 150%. It can lose 75% of its value. So it almost speaks to a trader's mentality and that if you're looking to get in low here and potentially trade it off at a higher valuation later, sure, there might be some merit to that, but it really kind of comes down to that individual appetite for how engaged you wanna be in this, okay? I'm off, I'm not, I'm devoting my capital elsewhere. I'm not looking to screw around. It's as if, if I had to make the decision to invest any amount of dollars to justify to make those investments if I could justify owning. I got Ethos in the house, man. Very cool to see you, Ethos, man. Happy New Year to you, my friend. Very cool stuff, very cool. I got Metrodate in the house. Wall Street engineers, highly unfan boy, okay. Didn't give Tesla semi-credit for not carrying around 4,000 pounds of diesel, engine and fuel. I don't think you listened very well to what he said. I think he was pretty fair, actually. Look, if Tesla dominates the entire Class 8 space, I'm cool with that, but I don't understand this tit for, they got Matt in the house. I want to get through March FOMC, yeah, exactly. I mean, it's probably prudent to continue to monitor markets here and kind of see where it goes. All right, got James in the house here, working on building out three times ETFs. Very cool stuff, man. James, thanks for sharing that. Really appreciate that. So that is cool, agreed on the premature. I just think, you know, we've got the luxury of coming off some pretty rough markets. I don't think that 13 days makes a market. And if I was gonna be opportunistic, you know, I'm looking at these markets off of the lows that I disclosed, I think the markets are holding in very, very nicely. Now, whether or not we're gonna have a very soft landing, whether or not we're gonna end up going back down below the lows, I look at these markets and I see them in the vicinity of all-time eyes. That's what I see. I don't see recessed markets. I don't see that at all. And I don't see that after a week, I need to start, you know, getting crazy. If I had to go back and invest my Roth contributions at the beginning of the year, like I typically do, that usually crushes me. I usually invest the money and it spends the next six months just selling off and I'm not gonna do that again. I told myself, this was not gonna happen. All right. Who, my favorite troll? I have all kinds of favorite trolls on YouTube. It's all good. The majority of my time, spending very, very little of my time acknowledging that they even exist. Just, I'm a lot different than a lot of people out there. Guys, that's for sure. I got Tesla in the house. That's cool. Matt and Tesla are going back and forth. That's cool. Nice to see you guys in here. Could highly on new board hire be some of the reason for the exuberant run? I don't think so. I don't think so. I mean, it's the only news that's been released for a month and a half. So it's maybe, but I don't think so. I just don't think so. I think it's more likely that they've got something going on brewing behind the scenes that is causing a little bit of interest. But I would say that the most obvious is that the market's gone up since the new years. There is some anticipation that the back half of 2023 by all intents and purposes by the discussions from Thomas Healy, the CEO is going to be that timeframe where they're starting to ramp up and start to deliver on their promise to commercialization. What that means? I have no idea. Does it deserve to be at $3? No, I don't. Now, I don't think that it does, but we're gonna have to fight through 2023 and get to this inevitable first look on how successful I think that they could be. Did you see the video that I, yep. I released it this evening. I was a little late this week. It's no big deal. It's just very, very, very busy. All right. Becky's in the house. Good evening to you. Good evening, Ryan. Never want to hope 2023 is a great for everyone. 2022 was a good year. 2021 was a good year. 2020 was a good year. I just think the overarching theme of this new decade has been kind of tough, you know? And I think if I could just go back to the beginning of the last decade, I would leverage everything to the T and just invest everything and write it to 2020 and then sell everything, you know? We don't have such luxury, you know? More realistically is the application that I deploy on a day-to-day basis, trying to do what little bit I can do to inch my way forward, inch by inch, foot by foot, progress by progress. And that's just good enough. We'll make sound decisions based on what our comfort level calls for. And I think we'll just have a number of better days by making those good sound decisions, you know? And, you know, is highly on a good decision? I mean, it's too premature to make that decision. I always considered to be a prospect to get to the long-term phase of it. And we're just not there. We're premature of that phase. And it'll be interesting to kind of be around and see how that works. Stevie's in the house. Nice to see you, man. Very cool stuff. It's a stark dream within a dream, within a dream. Very cool. Kind of under the weather tonight, guys. Can't believe I was able to do such a spirited live stream. I always do a better live stream when I'm feeling kind of under the weather. I don't know what it is. It's like, I don't know. It's like Michael Jordan's sick, sick game that he had in Utah. Remember that? I'm by no means Michael Jordan, but he is one of my favorites of all time. Yeah, he's my favorite athlete of all time by far. Very cool stuff. That's all the comments for tonight, guys. If I missed one of you guys, I appreciate you coming in. I got Redmond all the way at the bottom. What are you gonna do a collab with Maryouche? I've done some stuff on the channel with Maryouche. Have I not? Had Maryouche on a couple of times. We talk weekly. He's a good mind. He's a good man. I enjoy his content. He's smart. He's well versed in his application. He does his own program. A little bit different than mine, which is great. But yeah, Maryouche is sharp. If I can kind of quantify YouTube's cool, and I'm making a little bit of money through social media, and I'm honored for that. I really am. It really helps kind of carry some of the expenditures I have for the channel and put a little bit in the pocket for the legacy. I mean, I don't render any dollars from my deal. I like it. But moreover, the social media experience for me is an opportunity to really meet good people. And I don't presume to know people through a comment that comes through, or even a well thought through comment. Because in reality, I don't know those people, right?  There's not a lot of good people out there. I think most people are good, but there's a lot of bad people. A lot of people who take advantage of the social media scene and they come on and they throw venom at somebody because they think that they can, you know. But it's the very relationships like Maryouche, some of the other content creators, Matt's in the group here and Kyle and some of those guys and a lot of others that I've met through the journey, pretty cool. It's pretty cool. They're kind of like-minded like myself. And I'm not suggesting that here, because I'm here now currently in New York, that I couldn't just meet a lifelong friend.  I don't have time to go do that stuff and I don't want to. I'm a pretty private person, but the idea to devote some minutes to this cause makes sense to me and it makes sense from that perspective. But yeah, no, I mean, it's a good idea. I think probably when I have Maryouche on myself and him or kind of right on the money, he's a much larger share owner than I am in the company.  I'm not Gordon Gekko here. I have some sizable wealth that's indicative of what I think if you followed the big three that I talked about tonight, you could have it too. So there's nothing special about what I do. There's nothing special. The inherent special piece to it is that so many people are dismissive of this information and so many people could benefit from the information. Maryouche, he is special. He's got a really large position and I don't want to presume what that position is. I think I have an idea, but I will not disclose that through my channel. That's for his discretion and disclosing those terms of his relationship with a company that's on public markets. It's on public markets. You can follow it every day. I do, I follow a duo. It was down all day today, only to dip up into the positive right at the close of business. And I've entered into the company. I've disclosed, if you look at my Aduro video, my Aduro video and interview this week was with Ofer Vakis. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aduro.  It was just awesome. The guy is awesome. He's devoted to his cause. His team is fantastic. You got Abe Dick. You've got Mayna. You've got the whole crew there. You've got Anil, which is their chief scientist. The crew is phenomenal. These guys are just brilliant. And Ofer talked about in the course of that interview, he was talking around reviewing the initial technology of the hydrochemaletic and the low-temperature plastic recycling process, et cetera. And he was talking about what he and his colleague were able to identify in the novel sense of what was they thought was being missed in the technology and the science behind us. Fascinating. And I'm just, I'm a student of the game. I'm like a kid in a candy store. And I'm like, I'm trying to understand why other people don't find that attractive.  No, no, it's not. This is another hype story. No, it's not. Well, because Ryan's being compensated for his time, it must be hype. No, that's not true either. People don't work for free, guys. They don't work for free. And I just so happen to have a reputation out there that helps people understand companies that they wouldn't have found or understood on their own. And I think it's a beautiful thing. It's a beautiful thing. If you think I'm gonna stop doing it, you're crazy. I absolutely love doing it. I absolutely love doing it. I like doing it the heck of a lot more than the charge of coming on and talking about the five stocks to buy in January, which I think is absolutely worthless. I get more scrutiny for doing the Aduro Clean Technologies video, which has just recently been validated by, I don't know, Shell Oil, no big deal, no big deal, right? And we will in time understand the implication of that deal. And then everybody will come back and be like, Ryan knew it all. He's just, he had a vision from the heavens, you know? And it's like, no, no. When it comes down to, guys, is just an access to information. That's all it is. Access to information, public information, which there is too much of it for any normal human being to scour over, it's impossible. So you've got guys like me who are a single point of the spear, a singular point of conduit to an audience that knows I produce this niche piece of content, right? So people come to me and say, gosh, this might be worth actually introducing to your audience. There's no promise that the stock is gonna do anything. Do what you will, all right? I disclose what I do and you guys do what it is that you need to do. If you didn't just sit through this one hour and one minute session on the live stream this evening on January 13th, Friday the 13th in 2023 and get that sense from me, you're really, really missing the message, man. But that's a hell of an idea, man. We'll keep that in the hopper. I absolutely think that that's probably a foregone conclusion in 2023. I enjoyed this company. He's a great guy and we'll look to make that happen. Thank you, Redmond, for the suggestion. Guys, we're a little bit over time here, man. We've got kid, my long-winded friend. When are you going to deep dive on Bitcoin? Fantastic. What an awesome question to end on. I'm just gonna completely ignore it, okay? Because if you, again, rewind, okay? If you paid attention for the last 60 minutes of this video, most people do not need to be focused on anything other than the three things that I talked about, defining your risk tolerance, dollar cost averaging the markets and tax protecting your money, okay? So long-winded, yes. Not very good looking, yes. Dry humor, yes. Drinking beer that most people find repulsive, vanilla porter, yes, okay? But here's the thing. If you'd like to try to copy what it is that I throw down on my unique content, good luck doing that. Because the content that I aim to strike accord with people is actually aimed at actually helping people create tangible results, tangible results, okay? I'm not talking about people maybe getting lucky on the acute with Bitcoin, okay? Not gonna do that. Popular on YouTube, yes. Popular with me, absolutely not. Because I'm aiming to strike at those fundamentals that actually will help people, okay? And those three things that I discussed tonight, 100% of the people out there, if they hear, look to interpret and actually deploy what it is that I'm putting down can actually succeed with a message. Guys, I appreciate you tuning in to The Message, man. Leave your comments at the end of the live stream, man. I don't get a lot of them. If you like The Message, subscribe to the channel. If you don't, go ahead and leave the channel, all right?  I appreciate you tuning in with me on this Fastest 60 Minutes on YouTube. We will be back with you next Friday on the Independent Investor Channel live stream. Be well, guys. Have a great rest of the weekend and we will catch you next week. Oh! Oh! Oh!