That's how we warm up and we are live Live on the metal voice discussing the new track that Gonna be released actually it's been released in some parts of the world and other parts of the world like North America It hasn't quite been released just yet a Sphirley's new track from his upcoming album 10,000 volts The title track has been released. I like that. I like you really you really got the theme going The final in honor of the spaceman. That's right. That's right So Alan Jim I'll let you go. Well, I'm gonna I want to show you. I'm gonna show everybody the album cover It was released as well and you tell me what you thought of the artwork the album cover. Yeah, the artwork He looks he looks 24 years old he's got the space ships You got the Marshall stacks Looks great. I like this album cover. I like it too. Maybe the ace freely could have been more like one of the other albums You know a more I think his last album. I like the logo better You know look I agree everything you just said you were spot-on you got the spaceships, right? You got the electricity the shock me you got the 10,000 volts You got the Marshall stacks because that's what he does he plays a guitar his Les Paul You nailed it man. It's got everything when you think of ace really you sing think of this picture. I Like it So you asked me. Yes, sir. What this song reminds you of yes, okay? I'm gonna answer you it took me about three minutes to figure it out. Oh, I Keep expecting it here Mza a It's very derivative of the riff that was used in the chorus of these really song. I found the riff used for crazy nights with loudness Okay, so I'm trying to picture in my head that The song is it's got a groove, right? It's got a groove this song definitely. It's It's got a groove and it's like it's power chord riff groove and That's what you're saying about Mza day. It's like Mza day You know It's got that anemic go to the show. I'm gonna rock and roll you sounds like the chorus to This one, you know what I think Alan. I think you kind of you got you're on to something right there Anyways, I was like you this sounds so familiar and that's what I came up with that's the that's the song that I had in my head Was similar to again the riff is derivative of that. I'm not saying it's exactly the same like When it comes to the chorus time Yeah, yeah, and you have the one oh my corner was cut off I'd have the one with the corner cut off So you bought the cheap one for 90 exactly to the Allen. This is how old this album is I don't have the sleeve anymore. I thought I have the sleeve and the 78 78 I bought this so I might have got the cheaper version. At least it's complete Okay, here's a question to you when you listen to this album, and I know you know this out well Does it sound like it came off of ace really so well, I would say no Yeah, I would agree with that But what I want to know Jim because you're the big kiss fan.  Yeah, you thought this song is unbelievable It might even make your top 10 songs of the year. I mean this is unbelievable Maybe maybe maybe so why does it matter still like if I was to send you this song? Yeah, and it was Joe Smith experience Jimmy then to get a listen aside by Joe Smith experience or cattle pod up the anus. Here's the song You don't have the same reaction You wouldn't have the same reaction. There is something Something spacey about Ignimic what do you want to call it? There is something strange. There is something unexplained about ace freely because he's part of the kiss drama, right? We have gene and paul They don't want him but they want him, right? It's kind of we want the good parts of ace But we don't want the bad parts and ace wants to be in the band, but he doesn't want to be in the bed and you know in the press they're just like Try to outdo themselves Song-wise or try to outdo themselves. We all know that ace is a huge talent, right? But he's not the best person To conduct business worth in a band apparently, right? But Will you believe now when you look at nothing made gene sim is more pissed off Than to see that this album is the most loved By all the soul I can say that Gene will say his album roof I'm traveling around and still hear that on the radio. Yeah, I mean rip it out Speeding back to my baby, which has got it like a doo-wop. So the most successful the solo line and according to ace His book no regrets. He actually said paul actually said if you need help ace, give me a give us a call Yeah, I mean it bothers gene it bothers gene that the fans love this album the most Oh, it was the most successful It actually had a gene will say gene will say his album When hire in the charts or vice versa or it's sold more that he says something to the they're not playing radioactive on the radio They're not playing There's something they love about ace, but they don't like about it, but you're not answering my question I send you this song. Yes, and we take off.  I'm calling it The revenge of the toxic metalers or something. Okay What would your reaction be? This is the kind of music I like Alan. It's hard rockin got a nice groove like because it has ace freely on that cover Well, I mean look ace ace ace freely has got a distinctive vocal tone that I love. It's quirky Yes, his guitar playing is jimmy hen uh jimmy uh jimmy page style, right? It's got this very sort of loose sort of, you know, he's got you know, it's ace And he's so super melodic and he always uses harmonies and You know, listen to the song talk to me.  It's very hooky. It's got a super catchy song I could see this song been it could have been played In the 80s and it could have been a smash hit, right? That's how melodic and catchy it is. Okay And what do you describe his ace is saying, you know, I might not be the best guitar player But I've got feel and attitude that you can't just teach. So what what's your impression of his guitar solo and his guitar sound on this song? I think this is probably one of ace's Most melodic and accessible songs. It's hooky Like you were saying mza, right? It sounds like loudness What you're trying to say is it's got a groove and this song definitely Has like an awesome groove.  Yeah, yeah It sounds I forget that little vibe out of this to the way he's singing it, you know But that's what makes ace so special his guitar solos and his and his vocal tone, right? I like the outro solo Oh, yeah, it's great. It's great. It's it's jimmy page. It's all jimmy page man. Well, I wouldn't say it's jimmy page It's it's jimmy page alike, right? But it reminds me like if you know the song two sides of uh of the coin on unmasked It's so catchy. It's so melodic. It's so accessible. It reminds me of something like that Even though it's not and I would say Look at this, Alan. I'll show you my a stuff Okay, show me all I know the last one was called this is anomaly. It's like some sort of pyramid Let's say the way he did his ace freely was show me the anomaly Wasn't he do the late logo a little different? So when he was like this I think he did all the artwork himself That's what he should have put on the this cover when you open it up.  It's like some sort of thing that I can't really quite figure out I don't know what the hell's going on here. I don't know All right Now if you want to talk about The spaceman Look at this. That's kind of very similar to what he's using today, correct? Yeah, all right, right right now that you mentioned it's a pretty good album. It's okay. It's not bad I have this one here, which I do like a lot. It's called kiss icons So I just got this album just so I can listen to aces stuff. It's basically what's on that. How does that work? so Each disc has each member's best material in kiss So yeah, including the solo album including the solo album. So like so they're kiss songs like uh, yeah Exactly icon Yes, so it's studio songs. So like for example ace. I can't read. It's a rip it out shock me, you know rocket ride Talk to me. So basically Chris would have stuff like hard luck woman. Yes, exactly. I got icon So it's it's it's a great album if if you just like to have everything in one. So there's the guys right whoops There we are. So there we go. That's the icons and look at this little baby. I got here ace freely 12 picks So it's a greatest hits off of his 80s Albums, but it's got a couple of live tracks like you sings I think uh Deuce but freely's comic. So there would be this comment or anything else. Yeah freely's comic stuff and I have What else do I got I showed you the pyramid that doesn't really work And yeah, okay, I got a few more, but I don't know where they are All right back to the song I'm just showing my stuff that's all Look, you know the album the original album right here out All right, so what'd you think what'd you think you heard what I thought would you think? No, I just I wanted your impression. Okay Do you know what? why does why does Why does ace still matter right you're only peter chris hasn't released anything in decades and Ace stills matter ace still matters because The kiss army loves ace. Okay ace is probably He he represents rock and roll in kiss Right.  I love you. You love everybody. I love everybody a kiss. Well, paul stanley I'm not really digging in his songs, but I don't hate him paul stanley's solo album was the kiss album. I listened to their vocals Wow Okay, I love that out. Well, what'd you think of this song alan? Just a song. I mean, yeah Yeah, it's catchy. That's it.  I wanted your impression Well, my version means what? This is not off of this song does not have elements Of the ace freely solo album that album is more soul hard rock and And she bop And that sort of style and it's very popular right people love that album It's not as 80s trouble walking rock soldiers that era. It's not sort of reverb and glitzy and polished It's probably more of a continuation of spaceman but A lot better production A lot more hook here And a lot more catch here and I find like you it's a really well put together song And something you definitely can hear on the radio and like you said the solo Great solo. You got a solo there and he's got an outro solo as well. So that leads to my Next question. Yeah the intro to the song the guitar sound Before he starts singing. Yeah, would you know that was ace freely? No, I wouldn't no, I agree. There's something really different happening there Now when you hear the outro and the solo, yes, he said, oh, wow, that that sounds like ace And then if you put the vocals in then you know, it's ace as far as I'm But that beginning the intro That could have been anybody Could have been loud. That's something that's different, right? I mean, it's not I think that's a Different sound form is what I'm saying I agree with you and it's it's probably an evolution from this album But again, I want your opinion because you're the uh, your space ace Space Acer, yeah Well, I'm gonna tell you I agree with you It's got the power chords at the beginning the melodic power chords and that's what you're referring to and you go Wait, I haven't heard ace freely play power chords in a melodic way You know like sort of like mza like you said and it's got a groove It's got a groove like the ladies can dance to this right where you can dance if you like to Yeah, I'm dancing but it's not rock soldiers. It's not trouble walking.  No, I don't but I know the album's coming out in february in february. Okay. That was one of the questions I think came up here was now so ever so this is it. What do you think? I just want to give your opinion What do you think of this a lot of these bands releasing? a song Way way way in events of the album releasing by the time the album comes you might have three or four Songs floating out there. What's your what do you take on that? What's your take? My take is what I've always said that this is how so you can't sell albums after the first week Right, you can't sell physical product. You can't sell downloads So you have to sell the album in pre-sale So the longer the pre-sale period and the more singles that you release the more pre-sales More people will buy on a pre-sale the physical the lp. They're the cd So when they have to extend that pre-sale period to get as much money as they can To recoup because if you don't do that then you'll never recoup the recording costs of those albums. That's my that's what's what I think they're doing Plus, I think Alan they're doing something different. I've never seen singles so many singles being released in in december 2023 For an album in 2024 I think this is something new as well. We're into q4 where greatest hits and christmas songs are coming out for companies What we're seeing is singles being released in the last quarter of the year Tied into a new album In the new year, so they're trying to get the sales for q1 From q4 if that makes any sense. Yeah, okay And and now I got a question for all our millions and millions of viewers out there Yeah for The top 10 list this year Yeah Do we Jim and I are expanding We're going to include a top 10 songs Yeah, we always do the albums but this year we're doing the songs and I want to know from our millions and millions of viewers If a pre-release like this even though the album's coming out in february 2024 Since it's going to be released tomorrow Are we allowed to include early releases in 2023 as part of our top 10 song That's a very good question. They're released in 2023, but the album's actually coming on 2024 That's the question I have for everybody and then we'll build our list based on the millions and millions of responses and clicks we're going to get Well, I think it's pretty obvious. We can't put the album as a 2023 album of the year We can't have released the singles if it's a single and we're doing songs then I would say for me personally I would say yes But then it's hard to keep track next year when you're like wow that So that was released in february. I really love that ace freely song I'm gonna put that as my top 10 in 2024 Saxon saxon was released This month in november, right? That's talking about a different type of intro There but we're not gonna go there yet. Oh, no, we're not gonna go there yet Saxon saxon is releasing a song does that count and for an album in 2024? Does that count for this year? Yeah, maybe gives you a chance to squeeze one in in 2023 and a squeeze another one in 2024 Okay, so to be clear to everybody once again and as alan said we're going to do a top 10 album of 2023 And we're going to do top 10 songs of 2023 So the question becomes do we allow songs? That will be on albums in 2024 in 2023 and again, you know, when you were saying, you know, we're gonna pre-release it to Create the hype. I mean, that's the way it was always done with the 45s, right? There was stuff Yeah, you know, I made in a number of the beast They were trying to figure out what the hell was going to be the single and they said, well Let's run with run to the hills and that was definitely the right choice. So Yeah, but again, it's just to create an interest while they're all Wrapping up the albums and before that it gets out later in the year So were you excited that this song excites you say, you know what I'm going to go out and pick up this album No, no, I would if you didn't send it to me and say, hey, listen, there's a new song from ace frilly I don't think I would but again, that's okay.    So If it turns you on and gets your nipples hard, then that's okay. We're doing a show about it. That's that's fine But don't ask me if I you know No, the answer would be no in my case Okay, did you like the song like if you had to rate it out of 10? Yes, I like the song. I would say, uh, you know a seven and a half eight eight out of 10 Thought it was catchy.  So that's always a good thing Yeah, I love the I love the outro solo His guitar solo that you know the way he sings it is kind of catchy the beginning. I love it's very Very different. I thought that was a really different sound And then he starts singing. He's okay. Well, that's like, all right now. I get it It takes really and that's him and the way he sings it in his own inimitable style you know, but So I don't have all those things you know, I don't have all that thing that you flip open I You mean this I wanted to interview you. I want to get your impression If you like, but look, you know, this is the the pyramid or whatever the hell is this I don't think I can there's instructions too, but I still can't figure it out Put slot a into slot b.  I was like, where does it go? Like I was on my building a tent You'll be able to sleep tonight. I won't be able to sleep So overall Overall, I really enjoyed this song. I was more impressed with this song than the past few albums by ace freely I'm hoping the rest of the album is really good I think this song will give kiss a run for their money and notice how the farewell tour is sort of ending off now And ace is really releasing this this this single right to capture the sort of enthusiasm of the kiss fans, right as they're Or the hype I would give this I would give this a nine out of 10 And and from what you said it's ace But it's different You know, it's ace, but it's a little slightly out of the box Up in space with ace. It's groovy. It's infectious. It's melodic. It's got a bright big chorus It's got a big pre-chorus as well Some a great guitar solo in the middle very jimmy page like and the beautiful Uh extra guitar solo that you mentioned that it's fantastic. So I mean does anybody have any comments you'd like us to read Now is the it looks like uh quickly it looks like if it was at least in 2023 We're good to go to put it as part of our top 10 listen point if it's an official release Well, people are like this one, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. So people are saying yes. Yes. Yes Or saxin or remember Whoever, yeah, this is a popular thing like you said getting out these pre These singles early firewood. They were they've been releasing three Three singles. Yeah tanvi are saying it's officially it's released officially. It should be valid So tanvi is a lawyer. He is a lawyer. So no, well, then we have it. It's notarized Brian saying space invader was really good spaceman is a big step down Space invader was good and spaceman I I would beg to differ. I think it's a little different. It's it's a more Got more deeper tracks. I find but The production was a step down. This is a step up in production So everybody tomorrow depending where you live tomorrow could be now You could be able to hear the new ace freely song We have the pleasure of listening to it You're gonna love it Alan liked it. He gave it an eight or seven or an eight, right I would definitely put this at a nine out of 10 a good a great First single 10,000 volts album coming out in february Any last words, Alan? No, thanks for sending it. I enjoyed listening to it Wish ace all the best and success with this new album. Yeah interesting Timing like you said for the release. It's you know, if they kept waiting for I'm not sure it was plan jim because I mean this This is I guess we can call it the kiss never ending tour But now we're coming to the close of phase 12 of their Last tour ever So paul was sick paul was if ace was waiting to time it just right He might have been waiting another three years as well So I'm not sure it was purpose Maybe it was just due to to release some good music But you're you are right the timing worked out very fortuitously for mr. Field Do you think ace is gonna appear in the final show this saturday in new york?  What would you what would you say? I would hope so for the fans And they wanted there apparently yeah And I guess for the final if it is indeed the final final final final show Then I think ace owes it to the fans to do it put everything aside for Two or three songs. It doesn't have to be all night You know just do or even if it's one song just put everything aside and do it for that one song because that's what the fans would love to hear so And he's I've got the chops right we listen to this song. He's not like he's gonna embarrass anybody up there I would think he will I think he will I think he'll show up for shock me Will he wear makeup? That's another question. Well, we have two guys two space guys With the same makeup. No, I don't think I think I'll just go on with sunglasses That would be an interesting look. Yeah, I didn't think of that And what a great way to promote this single and his upcoming album by shot If I was him I'd go on stage now if they're gonna let him or not, but I would wear a t-shirt with that album cover And get on stage and you're killing two birds with one stone You're making the fans happy last kiss show ever major contributor founding member and also let him know that he's still alive still recording still releasing new music and And getting his little PR in it on the side But what I wouldn't do Is sell this album In this configuration In the last picture That's a good album though. It is it is it is but it's it's strange how it comes with an instruction Well, you gotta build an assembly Instructions it should end In a pyramid. It's not a pyramid. It's gotta end in a pyramid somehow. I don't know how if somebody can It's got pictures Jim. It shouldn't be hard Oh, and it's all right. It's all right, man All right guys, so well, thank you so much for tuning in around with that All right All right, thank you Jim. Thanks for the song. Thanks. Good luck ace. Good luck ace. Bye


Great welcome everybody digital asset news. My name is Rob. We've got a lot of things to go over. So let's jump right in We're gonna talk about the fourth largest Bitcoin mining pool pooling is Having a little issue issues with liquidity. So we'll take a look what's going on there Then we'll take a look at a story is as I as I term it is this really bad news as Bitcoin shorting fun feels Our season sustained interest and inflows Then we'll talk about some good news the Ethereum merge We'll talk about some more good news as there is potentially a soft landing in play This is by a Goldman Sachs economist and lastly we'll talk about Binance stops USDC trading pairs and why this is just an interesting story about how they plan to move along So first things first, let's take a look at the big story today pooling and if we take a look at it's I Can't say this is like the worst thing of all time I think we're kind of kind of used to the whole issue with liquidity issues as they call it, but Here's what we got which is going on today So of course the money pooling pauses Bitcoin and a theorem withdrawals citing liquidity problems What's going on and before we go on I actually reach out to my contact from coolings pooling and it said hey Man, can you come on the show and just talk about this and I didn't hear a response. So maybe Gentlemen is just too busy or maybe it's something more. I can't say exactly what it is It's just the reports that we have so pooling One of the largest Bitcoin mining pools by hash rate fourth largest has announced its temporary or suspended Bitcoin Ether withdrawals from its wallet service due to liquidity problems and a Monday announcement Pull and said its wallet service was facing some liquidity problems at a recent increasing demands on withdrawals and plan to temporarily stop payouts of Bitcoin and Ether So it's not just Bitcoin.  So we'll see how it all plays out It just would make me a little bit Concerned because if there was no issues and no problems, whatever else there wouldn't be any Pausing of withdrawals. So sometimes when you got to think about it, just think when there's smoke, there's fire They do go on to say that we'll make a snapshot of remaining Bitcoin Ether balances on pool on September 6 to work out the balances the daily mine coins after September 6 will be normally paid out per day other coins are absolutely not effective and Just to give you a Insight as to how big they are they're huge Firms responsible for roughly almost 11% of the Bitcoin blocks mined all Bitcoin blocks mined over the last 12 months and you can see here that you've got foundry USA by 18% USA All right, and pool F2 pool pool in and then you got and pretty close Binance pool is that 10? I didn't know that 10.7% via BTC 10.6 Slush pool SBI Luxor kind of rounding out to the little ones That is what is going on For that issue and I'm when I want to hear what's going on with Bitcoin miners the first thing I think about it is the Puel multiple and you can find all these Awesome charts at look into Bitcoin. They are 100% free and they're pretty awesome. I like I like using first of all What's the Puel milk? I think I'm saying that wrong Puel Puel multiple This metric looks at the supply side of Bitcoin's economy Bitcoin miners and their revenue Because you know it's kind of hard when electricity goes up and the difficulty rate goes up and all these things go up because it's difficult as a Bitcoin miner you guys got to remember that and of course Bitcoin miners, what are they going to do? They got to sell they got to sell at some point because hey, we have bills to pay, right? The Puel multiple is calculated by dividing the daily issuance value of bitcoins by the 365 day moving average of Daily issuance value and then just so you know Periods where the value of bitcoins issued on a daily basis has a store historically been extremely low when it enters the green box Which produced outside? Outsize returns for Bitcoin investors who bought Bitcoin here periods where it's in red That means it's providing advantageous profit taking for Bitcoin investors who sold it that's why I like these charts because I'm not that smart and I need colors to help me out and this really does help me out So what it comes out of this when it's in green you probably want to think about accumulating when it's in red You won't probably want to think about selling. I'm this is not financial advice I'm an official advisor, of course, but as we can see here over our last oh I don't know a couple months or so We've been in that in that range and actually we were above the range not too long ago 20,000 9th they're almost 21,000 24,000 24 24 19,000 and then here we are yet again September 1st. We were down there was good time to accumulate and That's what we have as far as the poll multiple. So like when I take a look at these things I take a look and say this could be a pretty good opportunity to maybe to accumulate but wait There's more Potentially bad news Bitcoin shorting fund sees sustained interests and inflows. What's going on here? Well investment products shorting Bitcoin sees record inflows. That's not good It depends on how you see this and I'll get to that in a second despite continued This is course from block works great website. Check it out block works.co Despite continued low trading volumes and declining assets and our management and crypto investment products overall money going into the budding short Bitcoin offering space reaching all-time high crypto investments products had roughly 9 million and inflows last week Which I didn't think it was that big of a deal my million. What's that? Out of big deal to big whales, but just so you know Short Bitcoin investment products now have a hundred and fifty eight million and assets under management a new high The largest such fund is pro shares short Bitcoin strategy ETF Bitty it's funny which launched in June after Bitcoin's price plummeted to less than $20,000 So just so you know is a lot of people out there that do not have the same conviction that maybe you or I have and They're shorting it and is that a bad move? Is that a good move? Well in all honesty for me But I kind of like it when they do these things because sometimes it pushes the price down and I can accumulate I always see it as this The next two years are gonna suck and it's gonna be choppy waters and we're gonna have a lot of problems And this is just a great time to accumulate so if it pushes it down I'm okay cuz I'm here for three five and ten years and that's the outlook One thing I will say that this next one. I'm gonna get a heck of a lot better at selling it Okay in 2021 But as time goes on that's the plan so to round out this article Bitty was up 20% from a month ago as of Tuesday as Bitcoin's price was just above 19 eight The fund is roughly 90 million assets according to ETF.com. Woof This follows the recent FOMC meeting at Jackson Hole Where Jerome Powell pretty much said that hey, it's gonna be a sustained effort to get down the Interest rates and they're gonna have to keep on it and he pretty much invoked Volcker And we talked about this at the last DCA show with me James and Ben And I know some people think it's not a big deal But I think it's the Fed is going to have to push hard and it's not about what the Fed should do It's what the Fed will do. I don't think they should raise that interest rates that that higher either But guess what they're looking a lot of data Retrospectively, we're just gonna push down a lot of different things in the economy and unfortunately what's gonna take a hit Probably risk on assets not investment advice just investment opinion and that's all we have for the article So let me know what you think about that in the comment section And then also of course as we're talking about the teeter tottering of the entire market Want to thanks masterworks for sponsoring today's show remember when one thing goes down in your portfolio You want the other thing to go up and back and forth and back and forth I like masterworks because you can invest in fractional ish shares of art. I have no idea. I have not refined at all But I do have a Banksy in a basket fractional ish shares mind you and I've done pretty good since October 21 I'm up 40% 39.6 to be exact. Here's the performance of annualized returns over these fractional ish shares of art Here's how masterworks is doing compared to the Russell Mazdeck and SNP And oh, yeah, it's beating the pants off a crypto as well And the reason why it does is because rich people are crazy and they like art and they'll pay millions of dollars for it Also, I know that people a little bit skittish about these things and that's why it's okay for this one It is registered with the SEC you can find that on their website and all the different filings there If you want to learn more there's a link in the description looks just like this and check it out And also as a little quick update There's a new painting out and I know some people say well Yeah, I need like tens of thousands. No like this one The price appreciation of similar works for this one Albert Olin I don't know what that is either But you can invest with $500 and here's the market risk adjusted appreciation because remember It's not much you make it's how much you keep and sometimes it's better to be a little bit Risk aversive so compared to all the art market and SAP 500 this particular piece Has a risk adjusted appreciation of 0.94 and just so you know, it's all done with the sharp ratio I had to look this up myself Sharp ratio all else equal a higher sharp ratio is better standard deviation shows the volatility investment returns Relative to its average return and they give an example down here But higher the better and this one looks like a pretty good I'm actually getting this myself. So that is just that little piece. Let's move on to some good news Ethereum merge this one I Know people are excited about this. I'm excited about this You know why because I own a theorem and everything I talk about this channel I own so I hope no one's under the disillusion that the things I talk about. I don't skin the game I'm super biased and that's just sorry. It's just how it is But this gives me hope but the question is is this gonna be a Sell by the rumor sell the news Ethereum's Bellatrix Bellatrix upgrade goes live this morning actually about nine Eastern time months ago. I guess I was 10 o'clock my time So here's what's happening and don't get too excited because there's another step to go So currently the Ethereum main net or proof of work chain and the beacon chain the proof of stake chain Operating parallel to one another the purpose of this upgrade is to ensure validators are producing updated beacon chain blocks that will set up the code base ahead of the merge The upgrade doesn't represent the entire the merge. It is the beginning of a two-part process But it did go through today at roughly 844 a.m And once the terminal total Difficulty has reached mining on Ethereum will end completely. Isn't that crazy to think about all the miners for Ethereum? I think I have to go to the theorem classic or whatever else I'm gonna do That's amazing And the merge will take place known as the Paris upgrade the merge itself again This is just the one of two parts is expected to occur shortly after 9 p.m On Wednesday, September 14th and remember for that to go to the next level e2.0 This is not the last step. You still have to go through sharding the sharding process. This is the beacon chain Proof of work to prove a stake now They go through sharding which could happen another year and also don't forget You can't unsteak your eith until that shanghai protocol goes through and that could be six months to 12 months later on But I still see this as a step in the right direction. I'm pretty happy owning a theorem myself Let me know what you think about that in the comment section and then uh, oh, hey, here's some more good news Shoff landing is in play Now on this channel I'm a little bit bearish I think with good reason as we take a look at what's going on Especially with the problems that are going on in europe not just the war but the ever increasing cost of electricity natural gas gas itself oil Well, actually always been going down and of course job markets For some reason has been has been pretty strong, but it actually is going on just a touch housing market looks like there's a little less demand And inflation isn't going on as fast as the fed wanted to so when I see stories like this I'm like I should probably talk about this So people can get a different perspective Goldman says fed has made progress toward a soft landing do tell So a goldman sacks chief economist has reiterated his stance that the u.s. Economy can still achieve a soft landing although he acknowledges The path is narrow Yeah, it is for this to happen though. What is required is sustained below trend output growth which I'll be honest with you. I mean we have had a reduction in GDP. Have we not A rebalancing of the labor market via sharply lower job openings And that hasn't gone away. We've seen more job openings, but it could still go down and especially as we have Unemployments stand on the same may a little bit. It's a uptick This is coupled with a moderate rise in unemployment. That is true and a large decline in inflation Which it has actually gone down inflation. Actually, you know what before I forget. Let me just do this You guys haven't seen this website. It is fantastic trueflation.com it uses 30 data pieces data set points Uses chain link as an oracle pulls in all these data points And what's great is it gives you real time insights into inflation, right? So when the government was saying that's only 8.5 in transitory, we're like, no, it's not true If we take a look at all these different areas housing transport utilities health care, so on and so forth It was pretty high But uh today, this is almost the lowest it's been so that's pretty good. Uh, unfortunately for the uk not so great sorry guys, but um And I still think it's a step in the right direction Anyhow to finish up the economy sees some encouraging signs As far as the recession is concerned He sees a one in three possibility that a mild recession will start in the us next year That's I'll take a mild recession and as opposed to a depression or heavy recession Overall, Goldman Sachs strategist sees market trading range bound meaning very boring I'm sorry for you traders probably going to shop sideways for some bit or even lower But uh, hey, I'll take it because I've been around when the crypto winner was and we lost 85 95% especially in alts But that's where we're at. So let me know what you think about that in the comment section. That's not bad news And let's finish up with uh, binance stops, uh, usdc trading pairs and my first saw this I thought I was a bit negative, but I've chained my tune on this one. Looks like it's just business as usual. Here's what I mean So binance is to rename all the stablecoin holdings to be usd so Binance And there's something about the stablecoin. I had no idea about I was actually pleasantly surprised and this might actually change my whole opinion on their stablecoin Binance is removing multiple stablecoin trading pairs and will automatically convert user holdings in usdc and other stables With the exception of tether Into its usd. So everything outside Of of uh, of their stablecoin b usd. They're gonna convert it into b usd So usdc packs dollar true usd will be converted into Binance usd on september 29th at 11 p.m. When I first saw this I'm like, that's not good because what is binance backed up with Will you be surprised and I was it's backed up by uh Everything competing stablecoins in their order books will be consolidated in the platform is native stable Now this is the big thing the move won't affect withdrawals However, and binance customers will still be able to pull out funds denominated in the three stables So if you're like, okay, you can change over to to binance usd. That's fine I can still do the trades everything will be like bitcoin to be usd e to usd b usd cardano I think the cardano is on it b usd And then of course you want to take it out and uh and usdc you can do that It's just that on the platform. It's going to switch over besides tether And binance said this is a business decision to enhance liquidity and capital efficiency for users Binance usd, and this was what shocked me. I had no idea about this Binance usd is a hundred percent backed by cash and cash equivalents And a stablecoin Regulated by the new york state department of financial services and if you know about those guys They are a pain to deal with they are a pain to get everything across And if they're using that and it's been approved so much the better Users can be protected. I had no idea good for Binance one more reason to use them unless you're in taxes like me and I get suckered out of it FTX similarly aggregates stablecoin deposits of usdc true usd usdp and b usd as usd and its customers exchange wallets while accounting for usdt balances separately and you would think that The ceo of usdc germilare would be like I don't like that, but he did. He said this is good um, he said this prediction Uh, this move leads to a gradual net share shift from usdt To binance and usdc Maybe it will I have no idea, but I just found it interesting that they They don't move things from usdc packs and all that stuff And into tether, but they don't change it but Right now it's b usd and tether. So that's it for that story. Let me just think about them comments and then lastly just as a Little update. I know it's confusing sometimes to people When we do the show because we have the live right now. You're watching this live. I am live. Hello So when we do the live show we go right into the q&a and after that we immediately edit the video To where there's now two videos one video is the live show which today is about 18 minutes And then the q&a will probably take another 20 30 minutes or whatever else and we chop those in for a reason It's because the algorithm does not like Very long super long videos and neither do people who watch it So when they look at my video or our videos and they say hey, this is an hour long. I'm not watching that I'm going to go watch something else and the algorithm is like that So we chop it up to make it digestible for everybody bite-sized pieces, right? But to make sure we get it all right because guess what youtube is not notifying you that's just how it is We separated it and in the playlist from now on There's will be a playlist for the live streams and it will all be organized By date so you can find it and then the q&a which is chopped up So you don't have to search all over the place It'll be right there as well and I will link that in the description After today's video and that's it. So look, um, not too bad about 19 minutes or so and that's all we got today So look Thanks for stopping by on a tuesday. I do appreciate it If you like this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe all that good stuff Now if you want to stick around for the q&a like I talk about I'll answer all your questions the best of my abilities And we will go from there, but if not out of the os thanks for stopping appreciate you. Let's get into a little q&a


Russia has no plans to wage war against Ukraine in 2025. Ukraine's military intelligence. Ukraine's military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budenov, says that Russia has no intentions of waging war against Ukraine in 2025. He said this as part of the discussion 2024 challenges and prospects. The only thing I can tell you is that the Russian federation has no plans to wage war in 2025. Perhaps at the end of 2024 if nothing changes, but they will adjust this. But for now, they have no such plans. Budenov said, according to him, the Russians have problems with resources. They also have problems. The problems are not so much with the support of society because few people are interested in the opinion of an average Russian. The issue is resources because this war is very expensive and the resources are not unlimited. It may sound a little rude but we are fighting for someone else's money and they are fighting for theirs and they are counting their money even though it seems that they are not. And very scrupulously, the intelligence chief said.


The president of Sisters Empowering Hawaii, Hawaii's foremost women's empowerment organization is dedicated to the motivation, advancement, education, and empowerment of all women. So today, Sister Power, we are celebrating the sisterhood, the power of sisterhood. That's what we're celebrating today. In the mission of Sisters Empowering Hawaii, we provide opportunities for women to change careers, continue education for graduate degrees, and introduce them to women of accomplishment who have achieved success in their chosen profession. And a couple of weeks ago, Sisters Empowering Hawaii hosted a fabulous luncheon. Your vibe attracts your tribe.  So our special guests, they've been on the show before, Dr. Deborah Butler, welcome. She has on the shirt your vibe attracts your tribe, all right. And we have artist Kimberly Keyes and Kimberly Keyes Aloha Kimberly Aloha, thank you for having me. Absolutely. She, if you want the artwork of all of the fabulous phenomenal women, Kimberly Keyes is the lady that absolutely there it is, Harriet Trummage, Harriet Tubman, Michelle Obama, Justice Patanje Brown Jackson. And I just sent the pillow of the three queens that we had that you did. Kamala Harris. Tell me about this Kamala Harris, Justice Patanje Brown. Michelle Obama, Kamala Harris, and Kataji Brown. Get that pillow. Now, and then we have our attorney, our advocate, our legal head is here, Leslie Matthews. Welcome. Thank you so much, Queen. It's so great to be back with you lovely ladies. So glad to have you. You know, we had luncheon and our guest speaker for the luncheon was Judge Bowers from Maui and there's the ladies having a wonderful time celebrating women of character, commitment and courage. So let's jump right in and talk about the luncheon. I'm still full from it, very full from it.  I want to what was your takeaway from your vibe attract your tribe power luncheon for women. Thank you. Thanks again for having me again, Sharon. This particular luncheon was very powerful for me. Just the whole event.  We were also surrounded by great women who helped build this community celebrating sisterhood with love and mutual respect. There was so much energy, so much power in this room. But it was, for me, it came to the climax. When you read the poem, I rise by my antelope. And for me, that is when the earth cracked, a light went through the room, and I felt such an overwhelming power from women from the past, the present, the future. And I just weeped. And it was a very powerful event for me. So just thank you so much for putting on this event. Yeah, there was a feeling in the room that was unlike any other that I felt, you know, in a very, very long time.  First and foremost, Sharon, I want to thank you for taking the time and making this event possible. It was a powerful launch in celebrating women of character, commitment, and courage. And to be the presence of these beautiful, phenomenal women who are always moving forward was quite a treat. The theme, your vibe attract your tribe was right on point. And I love that's why I'm wearing it on my shirt. I really enjoyed the opportunity of meeting all the guests and individuals who attended the event. I just want to say thanks to you. I made several valuable contacts. It was a great experience, Tony, to Tiger say, great experience from the meal to our conversation, the creative dancing, the paintings and the networking. And I can go on and on and on. It was beautiful, magnificent. Thank you so much, Sharon. You know, thank you, Deborah. You were the host also, you were able to go to the airport and meet in Greek justice Bowers and Leslie Matthews, Leslie Matthews. We honored her several years ago at Women Making History. Leslie, give me your takeaway. I mean, just like you said, Dr. Butler was so gracious to pick Judge Bowers and I up from the airport as we flew in from Maui. And just whenever we got into the car, we already started this, your vibe attracts your tribe and just sharing about our lives and learning about each other. And that's what I really loved was coming together with all of these phenomenal women. Sharon, you never host a bad event. And as you can see here are some of the women there today. It was there that day was an amazing event. And what I love was seeing women from all different walks of life. We had young girls there up to older women. And it was just so wonderful to see just a diverse group of women come together and celebrate ourselves. And the venue was amazing. You know, there's so much that is being a woman as a whole or under attack and where we could be in a place where we could be celebrated in a beautiful place. You said dressed to the nine and we did. And it was just so beautiful to hear people's stories to be still connected to these women to join our tribe and let our vibe attract our tribe. And I can't wait. I must say it now here on your show, Sister Power, I can't wait. And so we host as host a sister's empowering Hawaii event on the island of Maui because it is so needed. And I have to say, when you read Still I Rise as Sequoia did interpretive dancing that was so moving because the words of Maya Angelou, they still speak past her death. They still speak and that was brought to life with your incredible reading and the dance the whole day was fabulous. It was.  And she said, I want, you know, I want to do Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. I said, OK, well, who's going to read it? She said, you, that's me. And I'm just going to read a paragraph here, Still I Rise. You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may try me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I rise. There it is. I rise. Still I rise. So, Kimberly, how did you choose the artwork for this venue? We were at the Outriggers Canoe Club. The backdrop was the ocean. It was absolutely gorgeous. Tell us about your artwork. Well, when you told me about the event, the first thing that I thought about is I need to get some of the fiercest, most powerful women that are in my collection. I have many more, but I got just what I had on hand. And and I was just so happy to put this collection together. And I think it really fit perfectly, especially having the very large pieces of Harriet Tubman and Maya Angelou and Michelle Obama. I just think it really, for me, brought those portraits to life, this particular event. So that's how I chose them. It did powerful. Harriet Tubman seemed like she came out and grabbed me at one time. You know, it was just so powerful, this powerful, the strength in the room with powerful, phenomenal women in the room.  Well, they are strong, they're independent women who doesn't need to try to fit in into a certain mode that society has created for them. They're confident and they believe in their abilities. They don't rely on other people for their happiness. And they all have the freedom and intelligence to make their own decisions. And I believe that people who you spend time with has the biggest impact on our level of success. So the people in your life, they will either help to support your goals and dreams or they won't. And it's important to surround yourself with people who do. So the networking energy of this event was about dreaming bigger and going forward.  And this was important to associate yourself with OQP, OQP are only quality people. Remember that OQP, you need those people to pick you up if you fall down and to cheer you on when those voices are self-doubt creeping in. There's a quote that I love that says, you are the average of five people you spend the most time with. And if you're not inspired in your life, you need to check your tribe. If you're not growing, check your tribe. If you're not gifted and supported, check your tribe. If you're not loving your tribe, check your vibe. That's what you're putting out into the world. You need to check it out. Because what your body language says, you need to know what your body language is saying. Check your words, check your actions, because not only were the women at the luncheon phenomenal, there were also wonderful people. And I was just honored to have the opportunity to network with them. And I'm still excited about it. You know, send me that checklist there. We need that. Wonderful. So Leslie, what made the luncheon a great success? I mean, I want you to talk about it now because we're going to take it over to Maui. You heard it here first on Sister Power from Leslie. I think what made the luncheon powerful was the people that you had in the room. I mean, every detail from the flower to the place setting to the decor that you even had in the restroom that was there at the outrigger. I mean, look at this. Everything was so beautiful, the detail. And that's what I think that we have so many times. We're so in a rush, we're so in a rush, we're so in a rush that we forget about the details and so much can be done in the details of your life. The beautiful artwork that Kimberly had that was there that really just brought our ancestors into the room that we could invite our ancestors into the room because Judge Bowers and that we honored. Oh, thank you for showing that picture that we honored those that we've lost, the women, the pioneers, the trailblazers that have come before us. Every detail was so well thought out and that, you know, I heard something the other day and it said, you know, as Alexa and Siri, there are all these women voices where we are teaching a whole new generation that if you need something, a woman will be at your beck and call to give you an answer or to tell you something. And you can't really unthink that. So to be in a place where we could be waited on, where we could be served, where we could honor ourselves and our ancestors and the young children that were there, the young ladies that were there could see I can grow up and be anything I want to be. And what really stood out to me also sharing that you shared whenever you said sisters empowering Hawaii is a place where women can recreate themselves, they can come into new careers. We met women from all over the United States and they shared their stories. So it's hard for me to pick one thing, but the detail that you took to make that event fabulous, the details were not overlooked and they made us just feel special. And that's what we need every now and again. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You were talking about that we honored. These fabulous women, we honored Marsha Joyner and Marsha Joyner was one of the top hosts here at Think Tech of IE. I loved her. She was my mentor, Faye Kennedy, the author, advocate for civil rights and social justice. And my dear friend, Jerry Lange, she's an author from Oakland, but she moved here to to write all of her books here. She's the mother of Ted Lange from the Love Bowl. And then we honored Hanani K. Trask, Hawaiian activist, educator, author and poet. It just was so appropriate to give back the knowledge that they have bestowed upon us. So that, yes, you're right. And you know what I'd love to, when we did a toast to sisterhood. What did you think about that, Kimberly? We dare it is. We did the toast with Dr. Suzanne Hammer and there's Deborah, there's Nancy and Shirley and Holly and Louise. Let's talk about the toast. That toast really brought all of the power and the joy and the celebration together. For us to be able to toast and celebrate each other is not an event that we often have the opportunity to do. And it felt so good because not only were we toasting ourselves, we were toasting our ancestors. And like I said, we were toasting of future women of our community, of our world. And I really think that was a very, very special moment. And I really appreciate that moment so much. So just thank you for giving us that opportunity. Yeah, thank you, ladies, for showing us in Deborah. I noticed you are wearing the theme on your shirt. Your vibe attracts your tribe. What does it mean to you? Well, it means the energy that you put out in the world directly reflects on the energies you receive and that you're open to receiving is human nature to gravitate toward those who reflect the kind of qualities that we admire. And it's an unspoken and tangible law like the law of gravity. You can't see it, but you know it exists. What goes up always come down. What goes around comes around. What vides your spirit is putting out in the world is the deciding factor about who will come around you and who will click with you and jail with you and et cetera. You know, we have to remember that we're all spiritual souls at our core. God gave us bodies, but they're just the shell that surrounds the good stuff underneath our flesh and throughout our bodies lives our spirit. And it speaks before we even open our mouth. It's when we open our mouth that we tell the whole world who we are, for example, have you ever been at a party or any kind of a function and it was lighthearted and everybody was having fun and having a good time until a certain someone walks in the room and immediately the joy was just totally sucked out of the party and out of the room. They didn't have to say a word, not a thing, because their spirit said it all. It's good to know what your own spirit is saying. It's pretty much what it means to me. So well said, you know, celebrating women of character, commitment, and courage. And I want to take this time very quickly to think some of my thanks, some of my sponsors, you know, Kimberly Keys, the artist, Dr. Joanne Williams-Lazoya, Miss Susan Varice-Lum, major general retired major general USA, and she is the president of the East West Center and Sierra Moore from St. Louis, Virginia, St. Louis, Missouri, where Judge Bowers is from, as a matter of fact. Sequoia Brown, did she dance to Still I Rise? Did she dance Till I Rise? OK, thank you, thank you, thank you. Dr. Lori Tom, she's a diabetes specialist and attorney Daphne Barbie Wulton. I mean, these are powerful, powerful women. Oh, I cannot forget Charlie Latham. Oh, no, Media Services Bar, Latham Rowe. And I forget these fabulous pictures that we're seeing. They're from Charlie. So, all right, you know, ladies, we've been talking about sisters, celebrating sisterhood, the power of sisterhood, vibing and thriving. Let's change, you know, let's just change gears a bit. And we want to talk about the woman king. Now that, you know, the woman king.  It's a historical epic inspired by true events that happened in the kingdom of Dohuni, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When I was coming up, we called Africa the motherland. You don't even hear about it now. People, they don't even say motherland right now. So Leslie, I'm going to start with you. And then it's Leslie, Kimberly, and then Deborah. Share your favorite scene. And by the way, happy birthday, Leslie. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So I, my mother, Miss Rainie Dock Matthews, who I'm sure is tuned in right now. She's 71 years old and she's been having some health challenges. And I said, Mom, do you want to go see the woman king? And she said, yes, I do. So she rested up and we went and saw it. I had a function that opening weekend, but it's always important for me to go see a movie, you know, to support it in the first week that it's out. So we went and saw it. That movie was phenomenal. And talk about your vibe attracts your tribe. They brought women women into the fold. They they trained women. They they live together. They train together. They fought together. And the part for me that really stood out was the young girl that play that. And I won't give anything away. No, no, no spoilers here. But the young girl, when she saw that somebody else was in trouble, Viola Davis, this character was in trouble.  She went back and saved her and they said, why did you do that? And she said, I couldn't let you die. And I think that that really speaks to are we letting other women fall to the wayside because we're so ready to get to our next point or we don't want we want to be first or we want to do that. But that was within this young girl's DNA. Even when she was fighting and going through the trial that she had to become a warrior, she went back and got someone. And I think that especially now, we never know what women are going through other women, but can we go back and see about our sister? Can we go back and see about those in our tribe? That movie was so phenomenal. It took women from every walk of life, even women that weren't in the original tribe and said, if you want to fight for us, fight for us. If you want to leave, this may not be for you. But if you want to be here, we welcome you here, but you got to get to work. But it was a sisterhood and it was a beautiful sisterhood and talk about women, woman, king.  And if you have, go see it again. All right, Kimberly. Miss Tharber. Okay, I had many favorite scenes throughout the movie was a favorite scene. I ended up taking notes throughout the movie. There were scenes, there were script, there were words that I just had to write down. So I'm down there on my phone writing, but I'm also crying at the same time because every scene just really moved me. And one of the scenes that stood out for me is when Viola said, your tears mean nothing.  And here I am crying and Viola is saying this, you know, and I thought this was very moving because it talks about how we as women are always told to repress our emotions. Are we feel like we need to repress our emotions? And Viola was a very strong warrior. And I don't want to give away the movie, but I think that part about crying and opening yourself up and being genuine, I think it's okay to be able to do that. You can still be a warrior, you can still be a strong woman, but you can also cry, you can also shed a tear. And I just think this movie was absolutely magnificent. And I will be going to see it again. Yeah, yeah. All right, Deborah, we've got a few minutes left. Take us out. Why don't I like to urge all moviegoers and everyone to check your movie tickets once you purchase them at the box office so that the movie you purchase will get the box office credit because the system is rigged where a lot of Tyler Perry movies and black movies like Woman King won't get the box office credit because like when I went to the movies yesterday to see it and I purchased mine online when I got there, they gave me a ticket for another movie and I had to show them on my phone which movies I purchased it for. And I've heard a lot of other people going through the same problem. So it's just rigged where the movie won't get the box office credit. So always check your ticket because if you see where it's not the one you purchased, give it back to them. And I told them, I was like, well, I want the ticket that I purchased. They said, no, it doesn't matter which ticket you have. You can go see whatever movie you want. I said, yes, it matters to me because I want this movie to get the box office credit. And then they gave me the correct ticket. So you have to go through that sometimes. But my favorite part of this was when Naniska tells Oba that she said, you will not forget me. She said, when Oba, the leader of the army, the Oya army first arrives in the homie early in the movie to demand tribute from the kingdom, Naniska recognizes him as one of the men who sexually assaulted her doing her captivity. And that recognition makes her desire to kill him. Not only political desire for her country's war against Oya, but an absolutely understandable person of Vandetta now. The two, when they started fighting and they come to blows a few times throughout the movie, all the battles ends up in a stalemate as you're trying to figure out who's gonna win because the fight between the two is so exciting and often fighting to watch as there's a real push and pull over who has to up a hand at any time. But in the final moments of the fight, Naniska is literally able to turn Oya's own knife towards him and stab him with it. And then she asked if he had forgotten her. And before she pushed the blade into a sternum, she stared him into the eyes and declared that you will not forget. And as he dies, it's another moment that someone's shocking in its brutality, but equally satisfying to me anyway. But I want to say that when I lived in Mobile about 25 years ago, I worked at a volunteer counselor as a volunteer counselor for a rape crisis center there back in 1997.  The website is RAINN. It's the national helpline. And the number is 1-800-656-HOPE, H-O-P-E. That's 1-800-656-4673. Anyone you know. Thank you, thank you, thank you for that. Queen Kimberly Keyes, Leslie Matthews, Dr. Deborah Butler, thank you so much for your wisdom and for your expertise. And I want to leave our sister power viewers with a Maya Angelou quote. The thing to do, it seems to me is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.  I may not dance your dances or speak your language, but be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, aloha. Aloha. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com. Mahalo.


filthy isn't it and it's getting a bit baggy now as well, bloody expensive though so we'll use it till it falls apart. I should get it laundered, maybe that's what I could do over the winter to get it off and get it laundered, it's got all those fancy batten and carb things, not easy to take off, very easy to drop and to raise but not easy to remove but I got the I got the head sail laundered last year so I should really do the mainsail this year although I got it laundered and of course the day that I put it back on the next day there was a storm of rain and filth and it was dirty again which is a shit but I did get a bit of stitching done on it as well I got a bit of a problem with that at the moment, this is continuous line, continuous line now can we see it, it's all oil up there, it's continuous line and there's a join obviously to make this a loop you've got to join it end to end, the way you join it end to end it's not quite perfectly the same diameter and everything and the problem is it doesn't like to go through the join doesn't like to go through the the furler you can see the furler up there the front so if I furl it the correct way with the uv strip on the outside it doesn't quite fully furl up by the time the join gets up there and then it gets jammed and I don't want to force I don't put too much pressure on it so I have to leave a rag end of genuine sticking out which doesn't look pretty and is not good so I'll be furling up the other way with the uv on the inside which defeats the purpose of having uv but at least it fails properly I can fix it I just need to take the sail off or take the sheets off and then wind it round a few times and then and then put the sheets back on but I won't do that now I'll do that when we get back to Valencia right that is your morning update on the morning of day three there's a boat over there another one oh no they're not boats marker boys or something yeah my eyesight's shot I had great eyesight when I was younger I used to spot submarine masks five ten miles away attack ends they called me well once but now I can I can barely read the the displays I have to use glasses now for reading and glasses for distancing and my right eye's got one of those stigma things and I see like a bit of double when I'm shooting looking through my telescopic sight I have two vision of two versions I have to decide which one is the real one to go for to aim for I think you can get an operation get it removed I ought to go to an optician really don't like opticians don't like doctors what do you like Dave don't know turn the camera off Dave you're embarrassing yourself now all right it's a nice mountain over there a case of big fish eating little fish jolly fun time skipping in and dancing in the uh in the cockpit as it were underneath the spray hood keep a scan do some nav chit chat on the radio send my position on the Garmin do something on the phone see that my chart table down there and I have to lean back but I can also see the nav instrument and the main thing is it's about 150 degrees centigrade out there and in here I'm in the shade it's a hot one Barcelona there and yeah it's on the starboard side because I've turned around I just got a I got the updated weather and the winds are such that it would be a real struggle to get across the Gulf of Leon and around Corsica it would take days and days and days and days because it's because there's so much so much calm air and they would be relying only on the sea breezes when they picked in most of the time and there's no way south easily to get into the the uh easterly flow that's running through the south of the Mediterranean again big black hole with no wind between here and Mallorca and I don't want to just plow through diesel just to get there um so we will do the same as we've just done except more upwind than downwind so the momentum's away the genoa is out and we're not close hold we're on close reach and we'll make the best of whatever wind we get I'll stay closer to shore I think on the way back just to get absolute advantage of those winds and uh it's what is it it's uh almost six o'clock on Sunday so Friday Saturday two and a half days to get here and I would imagine it's going to take at least that to get back so Monday Tuesday Wednesday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday Thursday um I guess I'll get back on Wednesday or Thursday have a look at the winds and Tuesday might be tricky well tomorrow is going to be tricky as well and if I if I'm really slow the good news is that on Thursday there were loads of wind to get me home so uh yeah there we go but it's you know five six days sailing and then I'll do a bit of work a bit of maintenance on the boat I've got so much to do but keeping an eye on the on the winds and when the winds are nice I'll go to the Balerics and back if the winds are no good I won't might even have a night in a hotel with some air conditioning just to cool myself down a bit because it's hot man that was one of my main considerations um I'm drinking three liters four liters a day and uh although I've got a ton because I've filled the main tank and filled my 25 liter emergency bottle and I've still got another four eight twelve thirteen fifty seventeen seventeen so that will be seventeen plus 25 plus about 50 in the in the main tank so I have got enough water if I take into account the main tank but that main tanks taste a bit cruddy so I didn't want to do it and I'm on my holidays so I'm not doing it that's Barcelona airport over there we're flying to there when I say we I mean Swiss right well let's see how fast we can get home


Priorities in planning with the clintial government. In terms of this interview, I've been involved from the beginning with the establishment of Tadat-Zitze, the clintial research and training institute. That was, we developed terms of reference in 2013, I believe it was, and it was established by the chiefs. And it has done a variety of, made a variety of activities and involved in a variety of things in those years. It hasn't been consistent, we haven't, we've kind of gone up and down based on the intention is to situate the research and training institute right within the clintial government. And so we've had to go through processes of setting up various departments in the government and restructuring and so on to allow that to happen, and that's still underway. But the purpose of the research institute, or just even the focus on research, was that there were all of these different activities that were going on in various places. Some of them were being done well, some of them were dying, all of them were important. So there was research happening within the region, primarily with the, I shouldn't say primarily, but largely with the clintial community services agency, I had been involved with that and we had been doing significant research there within the education side of things and also with health and social services. So we had set up groups, I don't know if you've ever heard of things like the CART team, which was the community action research team of young people that were working specifically on health issues in the region and we had also set up groups of elders that were advising in some of the work and some of the work was tremendously successful. There were two, on the health side of things, there was a community-based strategy dealing with sexually transmitted infections prior to foxy, in fact I think foxy in some ways may have been based on many of the things that were happening in the clintial region and very dramatic success rates in terms of what happened there. There was another, many of the activities there which were based on indigenous models of research that involved elders that involved action research methods within the community, they were applied again to another infection in the communities and very dramatic decline. So the methodologies were sound, other things that we were doing was research at that time were developing a dictionary and working with University of Victoria on the development of a clintial dictionary, Treaty 11, which was a predecessor to the clintial government, had been doing caribou work, they had been doing different activities with elders and so on. So there were all of these research activities that were basically projects, they weren't part of an ongoing systematic, well-funded activity. So we needed to deal with that and research seemed like a superb activity primarily because in terms of your interest with education and indigenous education, it's a wonderful way to, when you look at the methodologies of working through research questions and so on, it's a wonderful way to get out in the land with young people and elders and so research actually becomes a model of a strategy that you can use to further the goals of the clintial government which are to do those kinds of things. So we've had, just for instance, one of the big research movements at the moment is what's called our Boots on the Ground group which have been going the last few years funded by mines, funded by different governmental groups and the clintial government to get elders out on the land and collect traditional knowledge related to caribou. And so each summer you'll get groups of elders to go out, we'll have groups of clintial youth going out with them and so it's just a wonderful way to connect all of those pieces and then also end up with a research report at the end of it. So those were some elements of what the Research Institute was meant to do. If for years and years there had been literally hundreds, if not thousands, of audio tapes of clintial elders that had been collected over any number of years and there was a real need to digitize those audio tapes and get them preserved and protected. So there were various activities and strategies done to do that and now we've got a very basic digital archives going. It's got thousands of photographs, thousands of hundreds of video and film pieces dating back right into the 1930s actually and books and documents and also these audio tapes that are digitized. And that's another piece of what's intended to be the Research Institute and the basis for all of that material is an educational basis in the sense that the materials can be a foundation for the development of educational materials and so on that go into the schools. So for instance we have a grade 12 course that was developed by the clintial government for the high schools about the land claim and the land claim settlement in the region and it uses a lot of the materials that were in the digital archives and so on. So you've got those things, you've also got research that's happening from corporations and institutions across the country and they're looking for science licenses and approvals so they go through our research institute and we see it and it enables us to connect with other researchers that have things that they want to do. But all of these activities had been going on the last couple of years and in some ways it's exploded in the sense that because of the health research that I talked to you about we put in proposals to Canadian Institute of Health Research and won a multi-year, multi-million dollar research grant for what is being called HOTISEDA here which is here and we've got funding to actually help with promote health research all through the territories but it's actually vested and nested within the clintial government. John's probably talked to you about the land claim one, two that it's again another multi-million dollar multi-year project focused on land claims and so on. So there's a lot of activities that are going on and it's kind of an exciting time. You ask what's the age group or target audience? So if you can just describe within the program what are your age group and target audience and sort of what the aim of the program is with the audience? Well I think generally the clintial government, the chiefs have goals that they want as many people out on the land as much as possible living traditional lives and they want young people to be connected with elders. So whatever age you can get people out, the research projects that we do they tend to be high school and university students that are going out with elders. I think I kind of talked about aims and what happens and how you measure success to some degree. I think part of it is just doing it. I mean we need to get people out and we're told by the chiefs, we're told by elders get people out on the land and so just by doing that it's certainly important. We've played around, there's been different research projects over the last few years about indigenous evaluation and so on. In fact we even co-sponsored an evaluation conference here this spring and we've done some things in that area but it's not what I would say that we're actually out there measuring the success of things with particular materials. So I guess the next one would be from your perspective what is indigenous education? Well I mean ideally indigenous education would be education that emerges from culture in the communities with language culture and way of life and I think I was I've been a teacher here 30 years ago in a principal and a superintendent and I mean that's really what the agency was meant to be all about the TCSA and to some extent it's been done well sometimes over the years and other times it's been done terribly and it all depends on who you've got at any given time to work with but clearly I mean the communities tell us the elders in the communities the chiefs tell us that languages and language revitalization is absolutely essential so in the schools and I don't know if you're meeting with anybody at the TCSA. I have met with Rosa and Lucy. Rosa and Lucy and I mean there's been a lot of work over the years in terms of the development of language classes and so on and courses for the high school kids and credits and programs that get kids out on the land and so on. So those are the kinds of things that the school has focused on and again as I say it depends very much on who's there and how much effort is being put into it. The TCSA is in between the GNWT and the clintial government but it's funded as a public school system under the GNWT and they're always being told to cupboard as bare and so for the years that I worked over there you are always struggling with no money or no resources to do these things or very little money and resources and the wonderful thing about the clintial government these days is that there is significant resources coming here and it's certainly unique in my career in the north where you you're working for an organization that actually has the resources to do things so if you have good ideas there's a large opportunity to get them funded because if the chiefs hear that you want to do something and push something forward there's often money to do it so in some ways that takes some of the I think the TCSA was more of a leader in the past but now the clintial government is getting stronger and building its capacity and is taking over many of the things that the TCSA used to do and part of that has been we've been poaching staff so for instance Tammy Steinwand is our director of culture and lands protection here and she was a colleague of Rosen and Lucy's and Anita Daniels is here and she's a director of our social programs and she was one of the original CAR team members over at the TCSA and were involved in health research and so on over there. Mason Mantla was a student from there I don't know if you know Mason or have talked to Mason but he was a young kid in high school that we brought over to the TCSA and trained in film and video because we wanted to reach out to young people using that medium and he's actually become quite a skilled filmmaker and he's back now working with the clintial government. What would I like to see achieved it's not for me to say in that sense we take our direction from the chiefs and elders and their goals clearly have been a strong desire to build a government that focuses on language culture and way of life and that's not easy in this world I mean it's it's a really difficult thing and when I started teaching in Wati 30 some years ago all the kids that came to school spoke clincho so you'd have little kids coming in kindergarten grade one and they were they were unilingually clincho. Today it's not the case and in all of the communities clincho is now the second language if spoken at all and even in homes where parents speak clincho and it's the language between the mom and dad often young people your age won't speak it even though their parents use it regularly in the home so those are huge challenges and they're not they're not just challenges in this region I mean if you go anywhere in the world where there are indigenous people they're all struggling almost to the same degree with those same issues and it's it's it's something with modernity and colonialism and all kinds of issues that cause that but the clincho government there's like three to four thousand people very small group but it's exciting because there's so many interesting things to to to capture and to have the kids proud of who they are and I think I think if anything that's what I would love to see achieved if if I did talk about it as a as a young teacher here I I started with John Trezzo or ancestors canoe trips and those were trips where we bought all of these canoes we took kids from the school and we matched them with elders and we went out on canoe trips and those trips the original ones anyway were significant in the sense that I mean I was on the first two and and I was gone six weeks with one of them and that's when you're out in the land for six weeks it changes you you it's quite an experience and when you looked at all of the stories that were happening on the land and the way that things happened I was I you know I was a very cynical sort of person and you I was the way to put it you look at this thing and it was wondrous it was absolutely wondrous you know and if you didn't if you you know I'm not necessarily what I would call a spiritual person but on one of those trips you know we had run out of food and there were 30 of us in these all these canoes and we had tea and we had porridge and the elders said okay we'll stop and we'll pray for for food and so you kind of say yeah right you know and I'm not a religious person but you sit there and you respect what they're doing and they were praying for food and got back in the canoes and went around a corner and there's a moose and not only did the moose not run away it came forward and so when elders talk about that animals give themselves you could see it you could see it you know and this elder and the canoe pulled out his gun and shot the moose and they cut it up and butchered it and people within an hour people were eating this meat and and I think after the weeks on the trail for a cynical person to look at those things even though it wasn't necessarily that I would I believed that I could see why elders believe those things because the world was acting the way they said it would you know and it it was very powerful and for kids to see that and my own kids are are clinch of citizens and for them to see the wonder of of that side of their culture to me is is is a real gift and so I I hope it survives you know in the next into the next generation but it's you know it's probably all over the place and John I'm not sure I should have talked to John to see what he was talking about first but it's it's exciting and I think I think one of the neat things about the clinch of Evermont is that because of the resources that are currently here and will be and seem to be continuing to flow they'll be able to ramp up and and build build things that maybe other groups in the territories that don't have their claims yet can't do so for instance part of the restructuring to hold the the research institute was this development of a department of culture and lands protection well there's over 30 people in that department now and they're core funded by the clinch of government I mean to me that's amazing you know that's that's a there's something going to happen there and it's a real it's it's it's a real opportunity to move forward with these things


my wife has done something remarkable well many things but one thing in particular you know my wife has done this is the first time in my life I've actually got excited that it's getting darker earlier I used to hate when that happened it's terrible yeah now I'm I'm actually I'm so excited about the fall and the time change and Halloween and the holidays I'm excited about it getting darker earlier I it's it's makes watching horror movies more fun in the dark that's a dumb reason hey welcome back to our stupid or actually a Corbett I love my wife and you can follow us on Instagram Twitter from all juicy content which is brew to everybody sports on patreon if you should try to count subscribing and like button how we doing spectacular all things considered how about you terrible all things wonderful good chocolate willing is a Navy SEAL who anything you bring to him of news that might be bad his response is gonna be good why because he said that's part of his mental discipline of trying to find what he knows is the good you will learn out of it so for example if you broke your leg good you're gonna learn some endurance and recognize that the blessing of walking is not given to everybody and you'll appreciate it more when you're walking after the leg heels what if your daughter was murdered good interesting today we are doing a watch along we are yes damn damn I thought we were doing a I'm not gonna say what are you gonna say watch a dong oh well that was some good comedy that right there textbook today we're doing a watch on the 20 I default to Anchorman a lot of the times yeah cuz you're an idiot yep today we're doing a watch on of the 2023 film my mom my mom my view run my view in the Tamil film and we wanted to watch this it wasn't available here in theaters but we saw the trailer we saw a song or two and we were very excited about it it's the kind of superheroish one where he kept looking up remember yep and a lot of people say we like the trailer a lot of people in the song we really enjoyed a song yeah a lot of people said it was a lot of fun and a really good entertaining kind of a superhero superhero action with some comedy maybe yeah especially for India in terms of since they're still very new to the superhero yeah style of films you say this and this was Tamil Tamil yeah and a the director is Madonna Ashwin I don't know if that's Madonna or but no day but forgive me if that's mispronounced and it's starring a man how mispronounced this to forgive me Siva Karthikeyan which I'm not sure we've seen a film of his if we have please let me know what it is but yeah so this will be a watch long if you're watching this on YouTube it'll be you'll see it in a couple different parts we can only use about five to minutes a very cut-up footage in each part because of copyright reasons obviously if you'd like to see a full-on cut version though you can head over to patreon comment and let's just get into this okay okay when's India gonna have a dinosaur movie am I right I know really the world is dying for that true smoking causes cancer what smoking kills what prove it what what conception of alcohol is injurious to health not always be safe don't drink and drive fly instead like the pilots do you know what else is injurious to your health what injuries who knew well I don't believe you did you hear about what they did in China what's the thing well I was reading that about the you know the any portrayal of anything with flags or anything about the government or politics there's now I don't know if it's all of China but there's a segment there's parts of China that have a law in place that if you happen to be wearing anything that they find to be injurious or hurtful toward the government's image that you can be arrested for it if they deem the clothing you're wearing to be in any way injurious to the sentiments of the People's Republic of China not surprising about China yeah yeah hey thanks to look ash it said oh I'm was waiting for the thank you to Amitabh Bachchan we might have missed it we may have I'm gonna put that on my headstone thank you don't just after everything at the bottom of saying a special thanks to Amitabh Bachchan oh wow did he meet him no he just really appreciates Maria this is the music I play when I go to the bathroom every morning some of these like a production house intros yeah they're bigger than some TV show intros not kidding if you see the intro to Hannibal it's very short and small as is better call Saul these are longer and bigger than TV show intros it's true ah yes I like it by the two come along haha thought he racked him head it to nice that's nice I enjoyed that. It's a great warrior. That's the name of the movie. How'd they do that? Great opening. If I drink water in the house, what's the difference between a bottle and a bottle? Sister, what are you looking at?  I don't have anything to say. What are you shouting? I'm talking about the bottle. What's this for? Where does he come from? From Vagailand. Singer, Zani Rud. Did he do the music? He's just one of the vocalists. Oh. Run. Really digging the score so far. Nice shot. You can do anything. Hire him. Just like actors and auditions. Can you do it? Yes. Anybody here ride a unicorn? Yes. You want to talk to me? No, I don't want to talk to you. Cheer up. Oh, you're OK, Babu. That's good art. Yeah, really good. They're not studying in the same place. They're trying to get out of there. If there's a new job here, just come. I'll tell you. He just steal his work. I think so. I think it was his signature on it. And then he changed it to his signature. You know, like the AMPTP. Wow. What a scab. Take a closer look, friend. I like the corkiness of the score so far. Me too. Very much. I love a good corky score. I'm going to be honest with you. I always have. Do you have a dream? What? Why are you standing here? Shall we tell you what we're going to do tomorrow? Really, you were here. Are you Subramanian? I've put it in the paper. If you ask me to get out of here, where are we going? We're going to fight if we can't get out of here. He's giving us a 1BH for the 1BH. Keep that aside. We have to leave without you. Watch this. The bathroom is attached to the house. We can go for a while. There's no space. The house is cramped. The child will sleep peacefully. Everything is gone. You won't understand how many times. Why should I come? This is my house. My place. Take the slate and leave. Don't come. What do I have? Come, sir. In America, we call it gentrification. Correct. Oh, my God. I like it. They've made a really nice segue from the lighthearted, comedic feel into the seriousness of this without it being herky-jerky. Yeah. Really nice. That's called justification. What's it say on those? Because it's not telling us. Yeah. I'm assuming their name... Yeah, their name, the property, the address. Date? I don't know. Let me know, because they're not telling us. They've also done a very good job of making me begin to care about him and his family. Already. Yeah, already. Already early on. That's good. Wonderful shot. Nice imagery. That, too, makes you feel something without being over the top.  Well done. Great shot. Did they build all those? Or at least those in the CGI round. Or they knew a particular place was going to be demolished, so they got to use it prior. That's a lot of building. Yeah, it really is. So, did they give them a house? Errr... Something tells me this is supposed to seem nicer than it actually is. Like, there's a catch. Yeah. A heck of a draft. Oh, they're outside. My guess is this is also something that's an actual problem. Oh, jeez! Shared bathroom. What was that? So, okay, maybe it wasn't a shared bathroom. He just came and used it.  Yeah. Oh. The new neighbors. Wow. Heck of a voice. Have we heard that voice on our Coke studios? I don't know. I'm sure we've heard the voice, though. Yeah. In fact, we might have heard this song. Oh, I think we've seen this part. Maybe. It's looking familiar. Yes. We saw the song. Yeah. Yeah. Really enjoyed it. That's Ani's voice, by the way. I probably commented on the reaction, but as always, watch the full investment of the background dancers. Yeah, you did comment on that. Yeah. South India, man. Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Here we go. Yeah, those aren't fixes, brother. See where this goes. Yeah.  If you don't drink, you can leave. If we pay the tax, we'll be in this Lakhs. I've given the seat to him for you. No complaint should come until the election is over. Okay, sir. Tell them to fix everything. Put Indikaran and show him the way to work. This is how the election ends. Okay, sir. I've spoken to him. Mom, come and give me the letter. Tomorrow Indikaran will come. I feel something is going to happen to mom. Hey, nice shirt you're wearing there. Is he wearing that shirt to prove he's a Northeer? Yes. I love Gully Boy. I'm a Northeer. Clearly. I'm the thai Mahaka. Yeah. I'm assuming he's trying to write in Hindi. Where he did write in Tamil. What is this? Show us where to patch work. He's going to be the patchwork. He's more in the little patchwork. If you find a Tamil letter, you'll find it, right? Go and work as soon as you can. Let's go to the patchwork. Okay. It's time to go. If you were ready, you would have seen the patchwork. Nice. I like his mullet. You don't see mullets too much nowadays. I'd love to have seen some of his other work and my suspicion is he doesn't always play such a soft, shy and kind guy, right? I don't know. He's like... I didn't do anything, man. I don't know. She's the sub editor. Oops. It's what you deserve. Don't steal artist's work. Yeah. Yes, studios. Is this the singer of the... Go away, bro. You're not a nice guy. We don't want you to be around. You deserve to get fired. It sounds like her. Maybe. It sounds like her, right? Yeah. It does. We've seen her before. Mama's proud. And I like her. She plays a feisty mama. Take it at great job. How do I get a story?  That's your story. This is great. It's going to start resonating with the people. How does he become the warrior? Right. I don't know. Or does he? I don't know. I do think it becomes life imitating art. He writes the story out. And then he becomes the hero. How do I write this? Okay. She's okay with it. She likes the storyline. I'm assuming she's... Oh, she said take me to your palace. Oh, I'll take you to my palace. That's right. And I'll take you to a pound, honey. This is where you got your story from. Oh, no. Piece of the building hitter. Oh, because the ceiling fell. Yeah. Wow. Ow. Go, girl. This is our problem. We'll take care of it. Don't worry about it. Hey! Stand up. No, you go. You need to stand up, man. No.  That was cowardly. I think something's going to happen to mom. And that's going to turn the table for him. He'll flip a switch. Is everybody else that short or is he a tall man? I was having the same thought. I think he's a tall man. He's the reluctant hero because of something with his dad, obviously. He said his dad died because of that, right? Yeah, but I love that they haven't told us any of that yet. Uh-oh. Oh, it's this guy. Come on, baby. Time for defiance to rise up. She's not interested anymore, bro. You've disappointed her. Doesn't want to. Man with no backbone. Clearly, there's something about the dad. Something's about to happen to his family. Coward. Yeah. Coward. Yeah. Doesn't want to hear your little... It's very much William Wallace. Who's that? This is very much William Wallace. Who's William Wallace? From Braveheart. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, sorry. He doesn't want to be involved with the British or oppressing the Scottish and everyone else around him. And he's like, I just want a peaceful life for my family until it hits home and his loved one is hurt. She's going to say something about you're not like your dad. Yeah, she's great. I believe her. She's not indicating. She's not playing things. She's being. Everybody is. Oh, great shot. It's his fault. He did that. Does that his pencil that he's got? Yeah. Very well written. Got tough enough, boy. Got tough enough. Not how I would have handled that situation. No. There, yes. Mom, what are you talking about? You're saying that you left him alone. Truth hurts. Truth hurts. This is so well written.  And that's how his dad maybe saved him. Yeah, yeah. Correct. It'll be supernatural intervention. Time to get electrocuted. Oh my. Ow. That's a bad day. Nice stunt work. That's a bad day. Wonderful score. Come on. The very incarnation of his work. That was beautiful. That's Vijay Sarapathi's voice. I think you're absolutely correct. That's definitely Vijay Sarapathi. And that'll be part one. Reaction to Maviran. Yeah, we're doing this in parts. Just like Hannibal Lecter. And if you saw this on YouTube, obviously it's all very cut up version. If you'd like to see the full on cut version, and also the other parts that are already on Patreon, you can head over to Patreon. I'll put the link in the description below in the pinned comment. On to part two.