We have a few announcements. Hmm First first of which a lot of people don't know how to ask questions Yeah, thank you. This is very I was like what am I gonna say? So if you're watching a show right now all you have to do if you want to ask questions So the next asses and dudes is join our four week challenge. It's at zen dude fitness calm You can be invited to join a closed Facebook group where we do accountability You know we get down to those jump rope content. That's not anywhere else on the internet Get in the Facebook group. Don't just ask your questions in the comments get in the Facebook group Go from there. Second thing that we want to announce. We're moving to Los Angeles. We're moving to Los Angeles And I know some of you are probably like why are you announcing that you're moving to LA who cares It's actually a really big deal for us and we want to thank you guys first and foremost because So just a real quick backstory LA for us has been like the pinnacle of when we started this business We came to Medellin because it's a great place to shoot Columbia's also just super fun It's a beautiful country and the people in the food are amazing But it's also a great place to shoot videos because the weather is great and the quality of life is much greater The cost of living is a little bit cheaper So we were able to the ideal is we're gonna start our business here And then when we want to grow and get to that next level we're gonna go to a major market We hit that goal and we are super pumped to tell you guys that we are moving to Los Angeles because of that so I'm going back on the East Coast for a few weeks Brandon's going back to the West Coast and then we're going out there and we're going to LA patience and consistency is like them Is the one thing you have control over that is going to eventually allow you to go where you want to go Because what we did was just we took two years. We're like, you know, we want to go to LA We want to like really expand this movement in the US as well But we know we we have to build this up to a certain point to be able to do it in like a responsible way And we waited two years now we're rolling. Yeah, and I think You know, this is like also it's been this has been a chapter Like we've all gone through chapters in our lives and when Brandon and I first started extended fitness we came down here with a vision of wanting to build this movement and this is like a temporary close on this chapter so we can go to the next one and So we just want to say thank you and also guys for anyone out there who is like like we're total dreamers We totally believe in all that like, you know hippie-dippy like dreamer We're gonna go to LA and make it kind of thing and I would encourage you actually to think that way I don't think the world has enough people Just saying like, you know what I'm just gonna go for it Like we don't necessarily know exactly what's gonna. I love you, you know Like we don't know exactly what's gonna happen when we get to LA But we're gonna do it like we're going there for the ultimate like to fulfill this dream of starting this huge movement and helping as Many people as possible. Yeah, dude I remember sitting on the beach with my cousins Lauren and Ellen In in Venice and seeing the this is like three years ago I think and I remember like seeing the the mountains or something and I was just thinking like That's what I really want. I was like, I want to move here and I want to start like it's just crazy how like all that You you end up like manifesting the stuff you manifest exactly what you think about and take action about it crazy We'll be doing some meet-ups on the east and west coast Sure will so make sure you like our Facebook page because our Facebook page is gonna have all the events It's basically you want to see the tour or where we're gonna be what dates. Let's go to Facebook page. Yeah. Yep Dude, how about these questions? How about these preguntas? Wolfie dragon asks What's up, Wolfie? I like my fizzy drinks. However, I do try to keep off as best as I can Because I think that's a big part of the reason why I have haven't gotten rid of some of my belly So my question is there any zero calorie fizzy drinks out there that are really zero calories? My man Yeah, but fizzy drink I'm assuming you're talking about soda that has calories in it because it's not the diet variety So I do I think some of the best stuff you can drink that's like no calories is salsa water the different flavor, you know lemon lime Maybe a little bit of a croix. Yeah, get some salsa water man soda water We drink it a lot here. I know in the u.s. We're drinking a lot more because there's all different flavors You know I'm so psyched. It's a great option my dude. So psyched for the croix. Also, man Can't be real with you.  There is Soda to me is like that's the thing.  It's pretty poisonous I had a diet soda last night for the first time in a long time at the movies, you know Let me tell you though. I really enjoy every two weeks. I have one giant coke zero. Oh, dude That's what I had. Yeah, no, no, don't get me wrong. I enjoyed it But after I drank the whole thing. I was like, man, I should drink the whole soda like I had that It's not a good. Yeah, I don't know.  No, you're not No, you're not draw it out. What do you think on what is your take on caffeine? Some of us don't like coffee or tea, but we don't want extremes like Red Bull. I get you Do you all use liquid water enhancers that have caffeine or take for example a 200 milligram caffeine pill? If recommended when's the best time to use it or it depends on your body. Thanks. No problem. Yeah Would like a five hour energy maybe or or caffeine pill just a caffeine pills fine, too I think yeah, usually the 200 milligrams just cut that in half and have like a hundred milligrams Which is like the equivalent to a cup of coffee. What about Maka? Maki, I just don't know anything about it. That's true. It's like a mushroom all of the maca root Yeah, maca root maca. Yeah. Yeah, that's supposed to act in a similar way I think dude, I took maca and I didn't get hyped at all. Cool So I think it's one of those like things like there's a bunch of things that like people say will help with this For example, if I take like a B12 pill, which is supposed to be an energy. I don't get more energetic. Yeah, you know I feel the same about that or like like maca could improve energy. It's like, oh Am I gonna feel the difference when I drink a cup of coffee? I'm hyped. Yeah, I feel that difference. Absolutely That is true. That never goes away. My tolerance doesn't go down. Mm-hmm every day It's one one to two good cups of coffee. I'm hyped Jordan asks why are peanut M&M's so delicious Jordan last night I finished an entire bag of peanut M&M's not the self-serving but the big bag not okay Not that big. It's probably like I think it's three servings for the bag. I did it I put them in the freezer. I ate them and I felt great about it because they're awesome And then I don't do that every day. Yeah, but every couple weeks I'll do something like that where I eat a whole bag of those and I really enjoy it I think there's nothing wrong with that. I also was driving home from the mountains yesterday and stopped and had some peanut M&M's as well And I think I can answer your question. I'll tell you why I tell you why they're so delicious Peanuts and chocolate. Mm-hmm. Nuff said so simple. Dude. Do you think we can get a brand deal with them? Maybe like don't dude. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. We just have peanut M&M's all the time Dude like pre-workout coffee and peanut M&M's dude. I think that's the great pre-workout Chris how it asks coffee or tea. What brand and type? Why? Nice. I like those short Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. Is it gonna be a dense answer to it? Nice. Can I just say something about that? Guys, what I would recommend doing if you want to if you want us to answer your question Please try and make it as concise as possible and the reason I say that is because when I'm editing it I don't like to put a huge paragraph up and it's really long to read So please we're probably gonna answer most of the questions that are really short and to the point coffee Americanos from the cafes in Columbia Coffee Colombian coffee. It's my favorite. It really is my favorite. That's what I gotta say I don't know why the coffee is so good down here, but it really is the best.  Do you guys get cold hands and feet during your fast? I may have asked this before is it's a bad thing and should I avoid fasting if it continues? This is a great question. I do I get cold hands. Yeah, and feet sometimes. Yeah, and I think it's like a completely natural thing It's just like what happens to your I think your blood just thins out a little bit right when you're when you're fast, isn't it? Yeah, I actually don't know the exact that does happen Also, it's not something to worry about do not worry about that my understanding was that it was like thermodynamics Because when I eat a bunch of food then I get super hot. Yeah, how you doing? How's the why? It's a great question Where do each of you feel like you're at your jump rope journey any cool milestones challenges and or tricks that you're working towards? Great you guys a great question. I would say I am an intermediate level jump roper The thing is though I don't think I'll ever become a super advanced jump rope or like I'm not gonna learn the tricks We're like I'm like doing stuff around my foot and flipping like I just don't really have an interest I really like jump rope as a fitness tool and it just makes more fun to freeze out of it Be able to like do a good amount of tricks Yeah, but they have to be ones that like our physical demand physically demanding So I was an intermediate right now and I definitely want to improve and that's why you know I jump rope so much is obviously the fitness but also want to improve so I would like to get better It's working on a day by day. Yeah, I would say I feel like Intermediate advanced not totally advanced but a little bit higher than intermediate and just like I would say so I did learn a new trick the one where you go bam Crossover back to it and you just keep going like this So I'll show you guys that actually that was a big milestone for me Because I think it's gonna help me learn a lot of other tricks But to be totally honest and to go off with Brandon said The main reason that we started zenud fitness was to help people lose weight jumping rope and to look sexy jumping rope So for me that is definitely a big priority over like if I can't do a flip with the jump rope Like there's tons of by the way shout out rope rage. There's this dude in London named rope rage He's an amazing jump roper and he does a bunch.  Yeah, I think I was moving to Medellin Columbia having really no idea like what was gonna happen. I was just like well, I'm just gonna go Figure it out most spontaneous act. I've done in my life Definitely the most spontaneous was moving to New York City with with 50 grand in debt and $12 like I remember Visiting my cousins and I was living in Washington, DC And I took a bus to New York and like I just like hung out with my cousins And I decided on that day that I was gonna move to New York in a month and I had no like honestly I had no money That's another story and a fun adventure, but that was the most spontaneous thing in my career Yeah, putting my job starting as a new fitness like absolutely because I was just like fed up with it Here we are Daniel nice name, bro Daniel dude, I love this question. Would you rather have the power to fly or the power to be invisible? I just have this discussion with Danny. Hmm. Would you rather have a time machine that only goes back in time or a time machine that only goes? forward oh This one both these are really easy I would much rather fly than be invisible. Yeah, like not even close.  Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, no, I'm definitely on board with Brandon I would definitely rather fly and go to the That sounds way cool You know what I bet that's an interesting question to ask someone to get an idea of who they are of How they view like the world and like their life Yeah, like their best days are behind them or if like the future's gonna be doper true man We have a Zendu debt. We want to shout out Cory Hulahan She got a tattoo of do the thing on her shoulder in cursive and it's awesome Dude, I can't believe people are getting tattoos of do the thing on the best thing ever I'm not gonna guys. It's awesome And we want the whole world to have to think yeah, and we send gifts to everyone who gets a tattoo, of course Theo just sent him a Zendu fitness Do the thing tank top right after you guys got to Cory. We got to ask what she wants She wants to jump rope. We'll send that. Yeah, we'll send. Yeah, what do you want Cory take top?  Like you always have issues, and I think It will resolve itself because energy goes where energy like flows another Another like way of saying this is that when you're giving it energy whatever thing that's bothering you and maybe you're participating in the confrontation or never it builds more energy and there's gonna be more shit later on so instead Just know who you are. Do you keep your head down, and it's gonna work its way out. Dude People like honestly The way I think about this is like just change your mindset I'm someone who's trolling a lot with self-confidence and self-esteem when I was a kid, and it was tough for me sometimes to Recognize like like I thought I thought it was the negative people's fault instead of my own But honestly man, like I believe you are what your thoughts are and I basically a couple years ago Started telling myself that like I just don't give people think and if someone's negative I just don't care and like I literally tell myself that all the time whenever we see a negative comment on YouTube I now see negative comments, and I laugh I like like them So my my my suggestion to you dude would be like start to just tell yourself every day that you don't care what these people think And eventually you're not you're not gonna care leave dude. I like your name, bro It's like Keith, but leave leave are you both still practicing intermittent fasting? If not, have you noticed any changes positive or negative and would you like to return the IF in the future cheers dude leave? What We are fasted right now. It's 1226 in the p.m. Sure or drink some coffee now. We're still fasting and I Don't fast like one day a week just because maybe I want to eat breakfast at breakfast. Yeah, I'd breakfast yesterday Yep, it's Sunday. It is Sunday. I think I do that Sunday actually a lot. So Sundays are like our Non-faceted day. It's true, but there's no rules around here. It doesn't have to be a certain day Rafael, where is the most weirdest fun place you guys have done the thing good? Ah, yeah Well, hmm, what kind of thing we talking about? But talking about jump rope In the volcano in a volcano Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and have to agree with Brandon dude I will never forget that day if you guys have not yet We made this series and we're in Hawaii called the jump rope field trips And we jump rope in a volcano Dude, that was like We've like poked lava. That was a fun day. That was a great day That was so fun. We had some epic eventches on The island on the big island of Hawaii dude, which I use Hawaii is such a great place dude I'm psyched to go back now. Okay, look on the his own We're gonna be camp counselors at this camp in Hawaii again this year shout out bubs or have me on Hawaii How's your book did up one time Ignacio? I love that name how to prevent shim splints or tibial stress because of the workout probably not bending the knees enough Brandon, what do we say? Well, I say two things number one go watch the jump ropes for that injury video Number two to make sure you are jump rope correctly go watch the seven-day begin a jump rope series. Yep Mm-hmm. Good jeet the sex or masturbation affect weight loss or weight gains Hmm talks about this last week.  I don't really see How it affects your weight? Yeah, I don't know.  We have the same love languages Love language is touch number one of two words affirmation. Yep. Yep. Yep.  Thanks for both being so inspiring. Cheers.   Totally great One thing you can do like just one strategy you could use is taking cold showers. That has been honestly Like we've already developed the ability like the mental toughness like Brandon said to work out all the time But taking cold showers for me is equally as uncomfortable every time I do it Yeah, and I still just dive right into it and I think that is that's a super important thing So you build mental toughness by doing stuff that makes you feel really uncomfortable Over and over again, you should do like come up with a bunch of these I think you do like cold showers every day builds a will power like every day Say you don't leave your house until you do 50 push-ups Yeah, something like that cuz like you're not gonna want to do 50 push-ups in the morning No chance you're not gonna move just like force yourself to do that Ruben do this next one's like yeah, that's a great question Ruben asks How to deal with the fear of success and not falling back into unhealthy habits? Hmm Fear of success I think fears of success come from Shit you haven't dealt with like you're afraid that if you get something you're gonna lose something else And so I think you need to figure out what that thing is that you're afraid of losing Once you identify that you can go into it and be like oh, okay That's not afraid of like a lot of people never take action with weight loss because they are terrified of what they're like Spouts will think of them or like how that relationship will look if they completely transform their lives And so you have to think about like what are you afraid of and then go into that take it head on Dude, I have a real serious question for you Does any part of you feel that the fear of success is made up I mean, I think you make everyone makes it up But dude the reason I say this is because like I thought about this and I was gonna answer this differently But then I remembered like I Don't fear success and like I think I've been trained to think like oh, yeah, what's your fear of success? Whatever I don't have one. I think my goal is to be like blow this up as big as possible And like that doesn't that really does not maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way But like I wonder if you're asking this because like dude What the hell's wrong with just becoming extremely successful and everything you do and like forgetting like what's what's wrong with that? Well, I think the fear of success is mislabeled everyone says the fear of success But it's really like the fear of something else that you're calling success. Okay, cuz we asked anyone you're like If you're saying I'm out of fear of success, I'd be like Ruben What are you afraid of? Yeah?  What are you afraid of man? Yeah, and if we get to that deep level sometimes it takes like going through like meditation like this thing You put a target like I'm afraid that like I'm not actually good enough And I don't have to work and if I go and I like start working out. I'm not able to sustain it I'm afraid that I'm gonna quit before I actually reach my goals Yeah, and there's a lot a lot why a lot of people like don't do a day and I are doing I like Create a YouTube channel and pour everything into it because they're like well What if I do it for a year straight and no one cares so I'm more fear afraid that it won't work and afraid of success That's that's exactly what I'm saying I think for me like I hate when people say like oh I'm afraid of success and like no you're afraid of failure It's not like dude. I'm not afraid of success at all like I'm I'll be honest with you bro Like I'm ready for more success. Oh, yeah, like I love that. So thank you for the explanation dude. That's good Darius asks what are the benefits of heavy bag training?  So I would say if you want to take your endurance to homey level like that's where I get back training comes in absolutely I'm sharing a new day Barry asks. I'm five eight hundred forty four pounds I stole some fat. I want to lose but I want to get to 150 with adding more muscle Should I eat maintenance calories or calories to drop weight since I want to burn more fat Barry? I can answer this question better Because Barry takes a lot of pictures. So I know what Barry looks like So it just if you're gonna ask this questions about your own body Please don't be afraid to post pictures because when we answer these questions We'll have a frame of reference of like oh go to this body type or this so yeah My dude if I was you I would get as lean as you want to get because that's gonna be like the fastest Fitness goal you can achieve you seem to have two goals here You want to get a leaner and then you want to gain more muscle? So I would get as many as you want to get see if maybe you're happy there You know, it's not about the weight the weight honestly doesn't mean anything right?  I guess like I'm good here And if you want more mass you can get as many as you need to get and then you can start to incorporate our gaining muscle Of course, I agree. I think you should always get lean first because I love it when people get I think getting a this is gonna sound kind of shallow, but it's very true The act of getting a six pack like the act of lowering your body fat percentage to where you get a six pack Mentally does something to you like yeah, you can have like veiny arms and but like the guys who get a six pack I've noticed from my own experience from many other guys That is like the pinnacle of like if I can get a six pack then I can do anything And so I would recommend very get lean lose the fat get a six pack And then and then start eating in a caloric surplus to build build mass from there ma If you couldn't jump rope, what would you do instead? I would kill myself. I do boxing. I Would just dance just dance. What's up, Zen dudes and do that I just want to know if you guys enjoy festival going like Coachella or Lollapalooza or Tomorrowland of those kind of events I really love going in the day after I feel like I should have died from the amount of jumping I did so true so just Want to know if you guys are festival goers. Are you implying that we take ecstasy is that what this is? Dude we love any place out of lots of music and dancing for sure Love festivals haven't been to any of the ones that you specifically mentioned in your question But would love to go and I encourage everyone to go to as many music festivals possible because just love it's moving your body It's all good stuff. We're definitely gonna make a send dudes do Coachella Video for sure next year Also, man, like dude, I remember you're so right go to if you want to like lose a ton of weight Bro, I remember going to electric zoo in New York City I swear to God I lost 15 pounds of water weight like I've danced for 10 hours in the summer Just like moving my body like a madman. I know I also know not everyone is like maniac like I am But everyone but most people around me. They're moving. Yeah, Kabir asks Marvel or D See that's not our preference. I may I'm DC. I'm a DC comic guy because Batman's my favorite dude So I Roll we roll it. We roll it. We roll it. We roll it. We roll it. We roll it. We roll it Jamie asks How do you guys find a place in a bounce between work and the business? I find myself always running out of time in the day and these end-dude tips would be much appreciate it That's the first time ever saw my question. Yeah, I think we should make a regular habit of that I agree. All right, Jamie two-part answer to your question and first part being Life happens in cycles right this cycles of going super hard balls to the wall giving everything you have and just like Letting your life go out of balance and letting everything else just go to the waist side for a while This is just how life works. We want to do anything like really special in one specific area So I would say just accept that and if you're going hard go hard But like a thing like moving your body is a habit. So that should just be embedded within whatever going hard at business is beyond that for talking about like social life and stuff like that Yeah, it comes in cycles like we've been going super hard and Dan is about to leave tomorrow And like there's gonna be a lot less businessy stuff for doing.  Just like think about that super true. I would also say Like and I also realized like Brandon and I are definitely lucky like I don't think like my advice wouldn't be like Well, just do something that you love. That's your life Like we started zen you'd fitness and we got lucky that like we basically just we don't honestly man Like I don't my answer to this is like I don't necessarily need a balance because it's all the same like I won't I was my girlfriend to a Weekend trip to the mountains, but I was taking photos and videos the entire time because like that's what makes me happy So this business I don't you know, of course we have times where we're not doing something or we take breaks but like You know part of me wants to tell you like find something do that you don't feel like there's any There's a balance that you have to make like I don't feel like I need to separate my mind From like man, it's been a tough day at work. I need to come home and like change my mindset for the people I'm spending time with it's just like one Continuous thing that doesn't make everyone happy.  I had to go work It's like no dude at a certain time cut it off You have to go do the things like you have to force yourself to find a balance Yeah, I think sometimes we feel like we go through it too where you feel like oh if I don't do this thing for my Work or my job like something bad is gonna happen But like nothing bad happens like usually almost always when we like take a few days off in the business like We come back refreshed with new ideas that gets where we're trying to go faster and we just feel better for sure Yeah, you gotta remember dude.  Don't don't think about like I'm gonna I'm gonna get to do more stuff with my family What whatever later? Don't do that Samson ask Do you have it have to cycle calories if you do a refeed or cheat day? I eat eating fewer calories the day after a refeed Yeah, so we've talked about it a little bit in past weeks, but we just say like if you're gonna do that like cycle We're gonna really overheat a lot on one day Just make sure you're in a deficit six days a week and then eat a hundred and fifty percent of like your normal calories For that day that you're going to like do a refeed on us personally We don't do it as technical as that like I kind of just like see saw a little bit like on a day-to-day basis Like if one day I know I eat a little bit too much like the next day I'll go a little bit more of a calorie deficit usually I'm just kind of in maintenance from day to day and that's kind of I just have an intuitive balance going on with my body Sundays usually always the day where I over consume and for example like this is my routine on Mondays like today I'm totally I'm probably gonna fast until like 6 p.m. Like my only meal is gonna be like 1500 calories So yes the day after I eat a big Over my calories and do a refeed day the next Monday I usually always fast the entire day and eat like 1500 calories Maybe 2,000 and then I go back to my normal calorie deficit of around 2,500 to 2,700 calories So hope that answers y'all question Santiago asks how sexy can I get by doing the thingy? Very sexy very You'll probably max out your sexiness by doing the thing.  You know look good Dylan my man see in Boston, bro I'm 23 and all of my friends live at the bar love them But it's tough when I'm not a bar scene guy and live a completely different lifestyle social life struggles Ha ha any advice. Thanks guys. No Dylan I was the same dude at 23 years old man for sure like my whole my whole circle I wanted to go do that and you know, I was a dude to sometimes just want to stay in and read a book But you know man, I think I like that age is still in this like Bubble of I mean and this goes on forever But just to a lesser extent we're like people are constantly comparing themselves with people around them are doing super true And you're like, all right, how often is my friend going out like okay? They're gonna the bar three times a week. Well, you know, I'm gonna feel bad about myself or guilty if I don't go three times a week I'm gonna go at least twice a week You know that game kind of ends a little bit as you get older and in general man I think you should just focus more like what do you want to do?  Yeah, because you there's gonna be people who are kicking and doing whatever you want to do. So just find those people Yeah, I don't mean to sound like I don't like acquiring new friends. I love having new friends But like I'll be honest one thing man is find a hobby that you're just totally obsessed with like Man, I feel like I haven't made as many friends because I'm so obsessed with like in my free time I'm like well dancing is my favorite thing and like taking photos and videos. So I like don't When someone I mean dude here in Medellin what's really funny is like I think a lot of people think that we're like super hermits and never do anything because We kind of don't like when there's like people going out like dude We never got with people and it's be it's not because we're we don't want to it's because like I just want to do this Other stuff that I'm obsessed with so my point is man. I think your friends Like even if they don't approve of it or whatever it doesn't matter because then you're filling your time with something You actually care about Also, dude, you're 23 like don't beat yourself up a ton. I'm glad that you have the self-awareness to start going down this path mentally But I don't regret like when I was 23 like I was just moved to New York It was like partying and like going out with my friends and like I don't regret that, you know Like I don't regret doing that But at the same time I did transition out of that mindset So my point is continue to transition out of that mindset continue to find things you want to do But don't be so hard on yourself for being 23 and being like man Why don't why don't all my friends want to go to the bar cross rope the jump rope we use every day jump rope You're gonna see in all of our videos to jump rope. We recommend 10% off in the description below. It's the best The best the best of course athletic greens take the protein They're green juice powder helps to boost our immune systems keep the zen dudes next and healthy Keep our muscles being built. 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Welcome to Digital Assets News, the top stories in cryptocurrency assets and bring them down to bite-sized pieces today. We had a lot of stories to go over, but I narrowed it down to just the one topic and this is the one thing that is really driving everything in the cryptocurrency assets space and it really comes down to the global economy brought about by a pandemic, quantitative easing and just basic uncertainty. If you think things were bad, they could potentially get much, much worse and this is the catalyst for cryptocurrency digital assets. Also that's going to lead us into the queue of the day which talks about Celsius and how to insulate yourself in these uncertain times. We're going to talk about their issues with customer service and how they plan to fix them, alterations to their app to avoid glitches and what the CEO thinks about interest rates, tax minimization and decentralized finance and how it all stacks up. Before we do all that and those lofty questions, let's take a look at what's going on in the market. So today it is September 9th, it's about 1pm Texas time and let's see what's happened so not a bad day. Bitcoin up to 10.3 looks like a 3.3 increase but again over the 7 days it's down 13% and that's the big number. Ethereum is busting past that 350 so at 357 maybe they could reclaim that 400 but I got to tell you Ethereum didn't drop too much I'm pretty happy with even though it's been down 25% for a 7 day mark, I'll take 7% up over the 24 hours. Fantastic. XRP is up to 24 cents. Wow. Chainlink 9% up. I like to see that 1250 but again everything this 24 hour part right here in the middle I mean it's interesting to see but if we really just take a look at the 7 day everything is just getting their teeth kicked in and that's just how it is in cryptocurrency assets. Hopefully we see a rebound and I think we will but that was a heck of a little pullback but what are you going to do? That's how it works. Anyhow I usually spend a lot of time on the markets themselves but there's really not a ton of things going on so I'm not going to delve into the price action. Again, over 7 days that's the big indicator for me. 24 hours we do see some reversal so I hopefully we will actually see that trend continue but again it is anybody's guess especially with the information we're going to go over right now. So I had my whole day planned and it was going to be pretty much a typical type of video interesting stuff that was happening I had a nice little article here about there was a guest Joe Rogan, Adam Currie to be specific and he just talked about how Bitcoin is you know everybody is going to need to own at least one Bitcoin or you're going to need to own at least one Bitcoin for the apocalypse which is ridiculous because there's only 21 million so good luck with that. I think he just talked about fractions of Bitcoin so it was an interesting one I'll let every other YouTuber talk about that today. Also there was a story about IRS doubling down investing another quarter million dollars into tracking crypto transactions so if in the US and don't think about paying or talking about your cryptocurrency holding is the IRS get ready. And also there was something you know good story about Bitcoin's correlation with gold hits record high and they're all fantastic stuff but really just comes down to the root the base and the base of what is going on is that there is just economic turmoil throughout the whole global community and like I talked about with the pandemic with the COVID-19 whether you believe it or not which I think is ridiculous if you don't you have to look at what is going on with businesses the GDP and the whole global economy in general and we if we take a look at that the uncertainty with the presidential election is going to happen in two months on top of what Jim Rogers here is talking about which is the potentially the end of the dollar dominance as US kind of tensions escalate. There is just a lot of problems throughout the world. I think we can all agree on that one subject but there is one positive which I mean if you look at as a positive it is what it is the uncertainty that you have in the economic forum is what is going to drive Bitcoin digital assets cryptocurrency even blockchain in general to new highs so the more that we see this uncertainty the more we're going to see Bitcoin go up gold go up because they are a hedge against the traditional market so this article really is to the crux of what is going on so what's happening let's jump right in so Jim Rogers who is this guy well he co-founded the quantum fund in 1973 with billionaire investor George Soros which was considered one of the most successful hedge funds in its heyday if you are in any kind of political circles you know the name George Soros so I'm not going to delve into that firstly Rogers explained that the US is now the largest debtor nation in the history of the world and it's getting higher and higher every day and I didn't mark this part but it's something to note the US national debt is currently more than 26.7 trillion that's trillion the T and this guy says traditionally US dollar has been the soundest currency in the world but tradition changes the US dollar is coming to its century or so of dominance and something else will replace it the only constant thing is changed there is no way the US dollar can stay on top and be the world reserve currency for a millennia it just does not going to happen moving forward I can only see the dominance the dollar going decreasing just like the buying power or purchasing power of the dollar going down because of the inflation and all this quantitative easing you cannot print this much money and have no repercussions just doesn't work like that investment girl pointed to the examples of the British pound and Dutch gilder which if you're sitting there going what's the Dutch gilder or you know British pound is that so much of a big thing in the global economy well here's the thing it was just like in a hundred years people were like well remember the US dollar that used to be big and now it's not moving on knowing that both are previously considered the most reliable currencies meanwhile the world's second largest American debt holder China is planning to cut its US debt holdings as tensions with Washington escalate and this is not just on top of China this is also Russia and we covered this story a couple of weeks ago where we had talked about the different economic powerhouses you know China and Russia being one of them how they are trying to kind of squeeze out the US dollar which is in their best interest and I talked about I don't see why they hadn't done that previously before because if you love sanctions and you're in your country well then just keep using the US dollar and that's what's gonna happen but here you see that Russia's ditching the dollar for book was expert of China and in this article and the next sense it sets its states experts in Beijing expect China reduce its US debt holdings by 20% from 1 trillion to 800 billion which if you think about it's like well you know it's 800 billion that's a lot of money 1 trillion but 20% that's a huge amount the paper further warns that it could even sell all of its US bonds in an extreme case like a military conflict so let's just play devil's advocate let's just say for one second that China goes you know what we're calling all our debts so pay it back America's like well so I'm gonna default so what do you think's gonna happen as far as the tensions go with that route I can only see economic uncertainty which again is only great for cryptocurrency assets finishing up Roder's emphasized that China reducing American debt will put pressure on US interest rates and that they should be going up it's a smart economic and investment move one that would strengthen the Chinese Yuan which he noted has already been happening for several weeks and he states if they sell us debt they sell dollars therefore their currency goes higher and why wouldn't you do that if you're a China sell all the debt get rid of the American dollar move to the Yuan especially the digital Yuan which is CBDC which is what they're trialing right now why wouldn't they do it and move forward to becoming even more economic powerhouse it only makes sense to me let me understand the comment section and let's move on so before we get into Q of the day I did a poor job of introducing Alex here he is the CEO of Celsius and there was three specific questions we'll get that in a little bit but the reason why Alex has credibility with me and with what he is doing is because what he's already done so real quick this is from the Celsius network website here's Alex's bio and it's just a very quick snippet so I'll put out the actual great stuff so to begin Alex one of the inventors of VOIP or voice over internet protocol so all the different zoom applications everything that you're listed to right now the voice over internet protocol this is the guy that created it he had a foundational patent back in 94 now working on MOIP money over internet protocol this is the same guy that says cryptocurrency digital assets essentially are going to swallow up the internet so why he has credibility with me is what he's already done besides that he's a serial entrepreneur founder of seven New York City Bay startups he's raised more than a billion and exited over three Alex founded two of New York City's top ten venture backed exit since 2000 one of those first companies air Bennett IPO in 2004 with a market cap of 750 million another venture transit wireless which valued at 1.2 billion at time of exit so this is a guy who has already done all the things and I have talked about this in previous videos where I talk about what will you do when money really is in an object if you don't really need money so what do you do so this is a prime example I don't think Alex is out there going you know what I really hope I can make my mortgage payment or I can really hope I can make you know pay for my apartment which is what a lot of people out there doing right now I must add it's not that he has that he is one of those guys who is just like you know what I think I can make things better I think I can improve things and this is why he has Celsius and this is why I was excited to get him into the office and it's asking some questions so let's jump in to the office right now somebody welcome back to the office for the cue of the day so today we have it's pretty much an aggregate of specific questions that were brought about from subscribers and it ranges from everything from and all has to do with Celsius the app the first one was about customer service and growing pains because we see that around a lot for the different areas especially exchanges and wallets there was a technical issue with a subscriber named Tiffany and there was also the third part which talks about taxes and interest rates for things like Celsius like a crypto IRA account and this magical thing called decentralized finance so I reached out to Celsius because I never have all the answers and they let this guy come out and here he is his Alex Mishinsky he is the CEO of Celsius Alex thanks for coming on how you doing so thanks for having me I watch it regularly I love the summary of the news and your opinion on it so definitely you do a great job for the community so a great question on the customer service look I first let me apologize to the there was a delay people got impacted we did hire we doubled the size of the customer service team and so now it's about 12 people but but unfortunately again the new people sucked up a lot of the time of the people who were there and knew all the answers so the productivity of the existing town and we were just not ready for that so we did bring it back down to 24 hours so all critical issues are responded within 24 hours and items that need the extra attention are within 48 hours that is seven days a week so that includes Saturday and Sunday and our team is based in Europe so they are actually of the clocks if you're disco based person you're probably not going to see an answer for a few hours but they'll handle it overnight and so on but just to mention more than it is a five days a week so we do we've seen a lot from our user base 165,000 people all over the world on the weekend and we basically made sure that agents are covering weekends and giving people immediate answers gotcha so it sounds to me I'm just gonna summarize it sounds to me like it's it's a growing paint type of issue which is a good thing right this is a good problem have the so you double you double is in six months and you're gonna have some growing paints you know so that's how it is and but but the big thing is we know about the issue or you guys know what's happening and you're gonna fix the problem as time goes on because you're like look this is what we're this is what's happening we're growing but we have a plan of action that's the big thing and we've also raised the caps of for example we had a $20,000 a daily cap of the amount you can withdraw without extra authorization meaning you didn't like if because if you withdraw more than 20,000 we want to make sure it's you we want to video authentication things like that so we raise that to 50,000 that really sure and the daily limit is thousand meaning you can do three transactions of 50,000 without a special authorization so we automated some of the processes as well to make sure that customers can handle their own issues and don't need an agent to help them with this or that that's huge yeah one of these days I'll be there 50,000 transactions like that okay so Alex thanks for answering that first one the second one it's it's it's more of a technical issue this actually came from Tiffany has a pretty good question she said hey I've been customer service issue again she goes I was trying to sell my OMG this is when OMG came about and they were helping out with the Ethereum fees so everybody was excited about OMG and the price went up she shows I tried to sell it I couldn't do it don't know what happened then a couple days later she came back so I figured it out myself when I hit the max button to sell the max there would be everything and it wouldn't go through because there has to be a little bit left over so I she said I figured that out myself can you ask Alex what they're doing for that if that's already been fixed it might have already been fixed yeah so we're actually releasing a new version today which has a new look and feel as well and we're also launching and so it will be a matching look and feel and part of it is also fixing a bunch of bugs like this one where again we we're gonna exclude the last three or four digits of your seven digit balance to make sure that there's enough there for the gas fees or some other fees so again we normally pay the withdrawal fees we don't we don't actually charge you the withdrawal fee so if you've seen Celsius you've never paid a withdrawal fee on Celsius right so so we have to really look and see what happened with OMG you don't pay any withdrawal fees on Bitcoin or Ethereum anything like that so it comes out of Celsius it comes out of actually the earnings that we have we cover all of your withdrawal fees that's huge okay make sense so it comes down to hey nobody's perfect but we strive for perfection right when you move fast you break things and the key is to fix them fast as well not just break them fast so so we are we experimenting we improving we iterating and a lot of it has to do with feedback we're getting from the community and sometimes that causes other bugs we actually for every release we have about 200 testers community people who test the app so like the version that's coming out today has been in tests for last three months already and and I think it's amazing it has again you can feel and I hope the community loves it but we would love to get your feedback tell us what we can do better and we'll work on it oh you know what my audience has no problems with giving feedback you got to take a look at the comments exactly and you know what not to get off track but this is this is the whole thing about entrepreneurs that are after my own heart this is Alex because he says the exact same thing that I truly believe you have to go out there and just throw things at the wall I mean a responsible amount to see what actually sticks and then go from there because if you don't it kind of slows on innovation so I can appreciate that Alex makes sense to me and it sounds like everything is going to try to work itself out as time goes on just gonna take a little bit of time because no one's perfect yeah and look we don't compromise on security we don't compromise on the kind of the foundational things what we experiment is more in the areas of enabling the users to do what they want to do so we have a very large a chunk of the community who just huddles and then huddle mode they never touch the coins and they just earn the yield but other people want to transact if they want to leverage they want to go against the asset so so it's a balance of kind of all of these different side the Celsius community the field that you're working for them yeah you know but at the same time you're delivering for everybody and I think Celsius has done that better than anyone else we kind of invented this category of interest income invented the idea that you can earn a token for deposited coins if you I know everybody thinks DeFi created that compound 2.0 is a copy of Celsius even even the Uniswap is a copy of Celsius because Uniswap effectively allows people to transact but then takes the fees and gives it to the people who are hudlers gives it to the people who are staking their coins as well which is exactly what Celsius does with the BTC pool with the ATH pool and so on so we love Uniswap we love and you know but I think still Celsius pays more than anybody else on any coin you know why well I'm not gonna I'm trying to stay on on topic Alex for the things you talk about are pretty good so like the reason why I believe in you I believe in Celsius it it's because the vision that you have and the same message that you have which is every single time I've attended an AMA I don't get to them regularly because I'm always so busy but it's the same message and it's on point and it's it's not just about that but it's also like you watching this video right now you're gonna hear Alex say the same thing every single time because that's what you have to do in marketing you have to let people know seven to ten times before they really get it and in every single video I've heard Alex say the exact same thing the exact same way well a little bit different and yeah but but but it helps to push it into the public consciousness and that's what you have to do so like I always talk about I have a one-two punch Celsius is what I do too I I store a lot of my crypto on there I don't put everything on there because I store someone in the Nano ledger and the other one is Voyager and just for you watching this video right now I want you to make mention or make note of who is actually on the who actually takes the time to come on these YouTube channels and actually talk to their customers you got Alex Machinese right here we had Steve Ehrlich from Voyager we've had people from Nano ledger we've had people from Unstoppable Domains you're not gonna see a Brian Armstrong get out there and be like hey everything's going good and just not gonna happen so when you're thinking about who you want to put your cryptocurrency with take a look at what's being done so by the way just Voyager is using Celsius Network so when you put Voyager they end up with Celsius Network but but Voyager has a lot of other features great app obviously that allow you to do things that Celsius can't and we have over a dozen partners like that like mode or Bitwala or we just launched with with line Japan right so we launched with their Bitfront with their US and so when you deposit with Bitfront you're actually putting coins with Celsius so so the fact that all these major brands trusting Celsius is a very important endorsement for us our business model is also I think is being validated more and more every day because it's sustainable we're lending to institution we're not lending to the retail guy who just re-deposits the same coin the farming look we're doing sustainable farming with versus this crazy farming that you're seeing of so Alex you're you're walking right in the third question fantastic work so this comes from this is from Thomas and I answered it myself but I wanted you to answer it and it talks about taxes and interest rates for Celsius he says Dan enjoy your videos that are down he goes I didn't realize crypto IRAs existed thanks for the heads up what's essentially saying this what should I do should I put my cryptocurrency into Celsius for for the yields for the APR or APY should I put it into a crypto IRA account or and I'm just gonna add this in for decentralized finance so Alex the question is is a very broad one but let's say you have $10,000 so look I'm not a tax advisor I'm not an investment advisor we provide a utility for many people and each person has his own unique situation to really think about for example if you're putting it in your IRA and you don't plan to touch that money for 10 or 20 years then obviously that is the most efficient and tax efficient way to defer the taxes we also allow you to borrow against the assets so you can also borrow in case of emergency without triggering any tax events which is most IRA programs allow you to do that anyway but but here you don't have to sell the coins to to get access to that cash so the only reason to go straight into DeFi is if you first you have time because it takes tremendous amount of time and you know you're very very technical because you know everything about everything you have to know who passed and ordered and who didn't you have to make sure that you know like we've seen many many situations where again if you you sat on your tokens for too long didn't matter if it was sushi or yams or something else you ended up losing a lot of value right so so part of what Celsius does for you is really automate all of that and gives you 80% of that value but because we also blend our earnings from DeFi with most of our earnings which comes from institution and retail dollar loans we have three sources of income our average in our average interest that we pay to the community is actually higher than what you could get by yourself because you cannot lend to institutions no institution is going to work with you as a retail user because you just don't have enough coins right these guys bought 10 20 million dollars a pop so Celsius is the only one of size that can fulfill these type of words right so so what we've done is aggregated 165,000 retail users pulled all of their assets and then landed out to the institutions or exchanges and we charge them higher and higher fees the reason we're raising our fees raising our rates right we're charging in interest is because there's such high demand for these coins we raised stable coins to 11 and a half percent right this is you paid you are paid in USDC or in USDT but if you're earning in sell you can earn 15 over 15 percent right no one has ever seen the rates like this on stable coins and you can deposit 10 million dollars Celsius one deposit we're not gonna say no it's not it's not like it's only working like on Binance you can earn a little bit of money but it's for the first 200 people who went through the raffle and got selected to do the deposit right so and there's a max amount that you could put in so the beauty of Celsius is it's for the community by the community again most of the value is being captured by the users and you get to select for each coin if you want to earn in kind you want BTC on BTC or you want to earn in sell and 41% of our users have chosen to earn in sell and that's why sell is outperform Bitcoin by 800% in the last 12 months so if you earned in sell you earned a higher and it outperform any you would have held otherwise so the model is proving that the fly with again unlike DeFi DeFi only works as long as a showering those free tokens on you right Celsius works day and night seven days a week high markets low markets side markets and so on because our source of income is different than guys who are trying to copy us exactly and that's why they call them a sheen right there ladies and gentlemen because there was the message on point again same type of thing Alex thanks so much for for coming in I really appreciate it I think that answers with without going into the tax advisor situation that was a it was a well put answer as far as what you would do as far as Celsius as far as DeFi yeah yeah I'll just add to that the what you what you want to do is really maximize the yield by the same time you need to diversify aware from the dollar meaning that for example if your choice is oh I see a 15% yield on stablecoin on Celsius earning in sell but I'm only seeing 6.2% in Bitcoin and it's not that it's three times better it's the because Bitcoin is non-correlated asset and most of your assets already are your house your car your your income is all in dollars you need a non-correlated asset so actually even earning less in Bitcoin assuming Bitcoin doesn't move I can doubles triples of course it's great but if it doesn't move the diversification is one of the most important things so it's less important if you put it in IRA or you put it in in directly from your from you did an ACH and bought the coins and put it in the key is to look at analyze your financial situation your savings everything else and ask yourself do you have do you have enough gold do you have enough crypto because those are the things if if what I think is gonna happen is going to happen meaning the US dollars gonna lose another 50 to 90% of its value and we're gonna go through a massive recession or depression that that pool of capital is gonna be what's gonna save you because your dollars your home all the other stuff is not gonna get you you know out of the out of trouble it's gonna get you even deeper into trouble if you have a mortgage or loans or credit card debt and all that stuff so my recommendation is put as much as you can in these non-correlated asset if one passes and I'm wrong great nothing happened but if I'm right you will be happy that you did that yeah and I've always said once small businesses realize what's going on and they say hold on I can put it in the bank or I can put it into Celsius oh I didn't get loans against that oh it's good it's really much lower after jump of the hoops when small businesses like mine figured all out I think it's game over it's 1% interest per year 1% right so you can't be bad and and I think you know a lot of people are recognizing this all over the world and and look this community is growing super fast now I'm very excited to see fresh faces when I see a lot of basic questions it tells me that we're not just talking to the same people every week right so I'm very happy to come on the show answer any question and and help educate the newbies and make sure that they're they're doing making the right decisions because we don't want to burn them we don't want them to get caught in the wrong project or in the wrong you know protocol and lose their funds right because then they'll never come back and and for us to make this mainstream and make this the way that most people earn their their income or yield it is we need to convert them one by one yeah make sense to me all right Alex I do not want to keep you because I know you can go for another hour thanks thanks for doing this and keep doing what you're doing all right Alex thanks all right so that's it so like we talked about there was two things first of all if you're looking for the my one-two punch which is Celsius and Voyager in the description of every one of my videos there's gonna be a link it's gonna look just like this it's gonna take the exchange fees and wallet information and these are all the different exchanges and wallets I've ever used and if I recommend them or not and everything from Coinbase to you know Celsius and Voyager Gemini Binance Uniswap Abra Kraken Cash App I mean everything yeah I don't eat recommend tour but it's all right there it also gives you all the different fees and rates and everything else that you want to see as far as the breakdown if you you can you can go to dreaded it to the exchange or to the wallet and sign up that's fine but if you want to use the affiliate links they'll give you between 10 and 25 dollars so it's whatever you want to do also just like me now if we're talking about as far as a cryptocurrency specific IRA fund there's a video I did recently which talked about how I pay zero in cryptocurrency taxes which you can find the link to that video right here which is also in the description so you can check that out lastly if you couldn't tell I'm a big believer in Celsius and I really like how it's all put together here are the rates for this week September 4th through 11 2020 if we're gonna get if you have these cryptocurrencies in your Celsius wall you don't do anything just have to be in your wallet so Bitcoin you get 6.2 each 6.2 USDC 15% gold 6.13 to the gold Celsius and everything else you can see it right there now every place is gonna fluctuate and I'm sure you can tell me oh this one has a little bit higher here this has a little bit higher there that's fine go ahead and do whatever you want for me I but I don't believe just in Celsius I believe in the people behind Celsius and that's why I'm gonna stick with them and that's why as of today September 9th 2020 I put 25% of all of my crypto assets is now in Celsius so I'm not gonna put everything into Celsius but I'm gonna put a huge chunk in there because if you're looking at the some of the top interest rates it's not doing anything and especially if you have any type of cryptocurrency on another exchange why is it on that exchange just what I would do which is what I did is I took them off all those exchanges and stuck them on this other Celsius app because I'm gonna gain interest now since I live in Texas I can't gain interest on any stablecoins but once that hurdle is released on my three businesses I will probably put a huge chunk of the money that is in there into stablecoins and accumulate interest on Celsius because it only makes sense and this to me is the death of the banks so that's there for today's video I want to say thanks for checking it out really appreciate it if you like these types of videos and be too much gonna pop up in your left and right not sure YouTube kind of controls all that stuff and go ahead and check this out so that is it really appreciated and I'll see you on the next one


You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Today in History, and I'm going back all the way to 1976 to tell you what happened on the 16th of June this year. And this story was a very dark day in the history of South Africa because lots of school children came out to protest in their thousands against reforms in the education system that didn't seem like it was dead at progress, especially of the blacks in South Africa. So what happened was that in South Africa, it was during the heat of the apathide era in the country. So the government had just said that the language Africans would be used to teach in schools as well as English. You know what, they didn't really love the idea because they decided to focus them, or to force them to focus on the language rather than the subject matter that's been thought. Imagine being thought in, for example, even though it's to be a great idea, exactly, imagine being forced to be thought in a language you don't understand. You would, you know, it's a bit sort of like a barrier to learning the subject. Because I want to concentrate on learning the language before even learning the subject matter. Exactly, exactly. So about 2,000 students participated in that protest. They say they must be taught in English that they already understand. You know, they went to school that they had to protest. Even those who went to school without having any knowledge of the protest, they volunteered to join the protest. You know, the plan was for them to all match to a stadium called Orlando, the Orlando Stadium in Soweto, South Africa. You know, so when they began this peaceful protest, peaceful march against the imposition of the language in the school curriculum, based on the Africans' medium decree of 1974, the police, you know, stopped them on the way, you know, enlisted dogs at these school children.  Some of the children were killed. You know, some new sources would tell you that as much as 176 school children were killed. Others would tell you that about 700 school children were killed. So it really just was a time when the political consciousness of everybody was high, especially that of children, because they were able to see first-hand desegregation that was happening in the country. Education was free, supposed to be fair, but for indigens of South Africa, it wasn't so. There was lots of discrimination in the quality of the education that they got and now in the language of the medium with which, you know, school work was going to be thought. So people didn't really agree with that. You can see pictures on your screen. You know, a man there carrying a boy, supposedly dead. You can see people screaming. You can see the look on the faces of people. About 2,000 people coming out of protests. You know, the injustice, so to speak, that were faced within that country. So eventually, this uprising, this event in Soweto, June 16th of 1976, was adapted into a movie in 2003 called Standard. And it was just basically, oh, you watched the movie? Yes, I saw clips of it. Fantastic, so it just basically, you know, went on to describe the events of that day. Now, this day in history has been remembered as a youth day in South Africa. So yes, youth day has been celebrated right now in South Africa to say this is the day where, you know, black children were killed in the hundreds because they were protested against Africans being used as a medium of education in the country. It is also today in history, in 2019, Hong Kong is our next port of call where they experienced the largest protests in the history of the country. Basically, the issue was, you know, extradition of Hong Kong to mainland China. It is reported that about two million people, you know, participated in that particular protest that they, you know, they just sat in. I remember, you know, monitoring that particular story during 2019 and how almost every day the numbers were increasing. Even when police fired tear gas and, you know, shot at some protesters, they were not, you know, deterred. They kept on at it. Let me just reel out some of the highlights of what happened at that particular time. Nearly two million people, like I've said, took part in the mass protest in Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill. It would be the largest protest in Hong Kong's history. A police said the tenant was 338,000 at its peak. The masses turned out despite the suspension of the bill which would allow extradition from Hong Kong to mainland China. The demonstration began early in the afternoon in Victoria Square with many wearing black. The progress of the march was slow as the large numbers of people blocked men's streets and crowded train stations. As darkness fell, protesters started to take over major roads and crossings and surrounded the legislative council building. There was skepticism among some protesters about me's lamp's decision to suspend the bill. The residents of Hong Kong actually came out in one voice. They were not deterred at all and they marched for several days. It wasn't just a dating. For a very long time. So when we had the end stars and protests that when Nigerians were all united, I couldn't help but be reminded of what happened in Hong Kong in 2019. So this Hong Kong protest in 2019 then was a very big issue of controversy because we know that when you're talking about Hong Kong former British colony 1841 and how they eventually reached the agreement in China, one government, two systems fighting for their autonomy. And there was this extradition bill to say that criminals in Hong Kong would be extradited to China to face the judicial system. They have to face trial. People were really opposed to this. They said that if people who have been accused of any crime would be extradited from Hong Kong to China, it would lead to a gradual erosion of the judicial system in Hong Kong and that people who are critics of China would be easily targeted. And just send them over to China, face the judicial system. And these were the fears that people were having and they were angry with Carrie Lam then for her support of the bill. So that basically was what support this protest. And just like you mentioned, it was the largest protest in Hong Kong's history. Two million people came out from that early afternoon to Victoria Square. You know, protesting against that extradition bill to say that they refused to let that stand. And then when the bill was repealed, the protest continued. That was to show you how determined and how they actually spoke with one voice and they just wanted to work in unison. Exactly. And the great thing is that on this day in history, the protest that occurred June 16, it was relatively peaceful because unlike protests that we've seen in days leading up to June 16 where police and protestors clashed, this one police didn't really, you know, the police was not violent towards the protestors and it was, you know, nearly two million man demonstration in Hong Kong and they didn't have some impact. Some countries and population coming all out at the same time to protest that alleged injustice as it were. So yes, that's all we have for you today in history. 1976, this is a way to uprise in where estimates say 176 or up to 700 children were killed in Soweto when they were protesting against the medium of language and then medium of teaching in South Africa as well as in 2019. Nearly two million people came out to protest. So yes, that's it for you today in history. We'll take a break here and we'll delve into our first conversation of the day and it's about insecurity. What happened in Platte Street about 12 people, 12 men who were reportedly killed. So we'll have discussions with both sides. People who are saying, Headsmen did it and the Headsmen grouped the Mieti Allah saying no, they didn't do that and just the accusations, counter accusations and just what the details were about that killing and attacks in Platte Street on Sunday. This thing would also be right back.