Welcome to the Peter Max show folks. Sorry for just a momentary delay. I'm getting my guests connected with me on Skype I'll be right with you. We're glad you're here. This is the first show of the new year January 4th 2012 See if I can get him at it here Ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the long delay. This is the Peter Max show I took me a while to get the two other parties connected, but we're there now So Stefan you can hear me, right? I can hear you very well Okay, Stefan Kinsella is an attorney actually a patent attorney in the Houston area He is speaks frequently writes frequently on the topic of internet of Intellectual property rights our broad topic tonight and the more focused topic and that is of the stop online Privacy Act which has to do with greatly limiting the internet. So Stefan I just thought what we would do is have you just talk a bit about Intellectual property in general and then and then use that as the the springboard for the discussion of the What's proposed for the internet? Yeah, we're calling it so pa and as you and I were talking about a while ago I just discussed as a step in mulling you earlier and Interestingly you and he both got the acronym wrong which is not surprising these things are complex You call this stop online privacy act Which actually is not a bad Description of it. It's the official name is the stop online piracy act stop online pride part Okay, I do that, but I I'm too flustered. Okay. The name is better actually because You know this is not though the act doesn't stop piracy piracy is when someone on a boat Goes up to another boat and shoots and kills people and breaks and steal things right And you know commit acts of real theft and mayhem and murder whereas the intellectual property advocates and the advocates of copyright in this case Have started to use the word piracy to refer to people who are basically Not really pirates but people that are copying information and using information and learning and emulating other people remixing and competing with other people so Right off the bat. You can get a little bit suspicious about this But let's back up a little bit There is a law pending in the US called stop online piracy act so pa in fact I read today that Spain enacted a version similar to it already. So this this is spreading around the world What's going on is that we have this mistaken? Part of our private property system in the West where we protect regular property like houses and land and cars and people's bodies Which are scarce resources under regular common law principles or under statutes that were based upon those so theft is illegal murders illegal Rape is illegal, etc Well, we have this concept of copyright as well and people have come to refer to it as Intellectual property. It's actually not property. It's not a property right at all It's just a government grant of monopoly privilege to someone which is based upon the Government grants of monopoly privilege in the age of mercantilism in England and Europe 1600 1700s and around that time And it was used originally in the case of copyright for censorship and to stop the spread of ideas that the church or the state Didn't want to be spread And it's morphed into the modern idea which is used for protectionism and for stopping competition and for thought control Because if you have a copyright you can sue someone to stop them from saying what you don't want them to say So the law is horribly unjust statutes. It's a statute law. It's not common law and It has been sold to the people under the idea that it's a type of property rights So when people started resisting this monopoly right the government was granting to some people Because it restricted their freedom of expression and their freedom of press Then the advocates of it started calling it intellectual property so that it sounded like a type of property right and What's happening is in the digital age is getting harder and harder to stop people from copying information because the internet is The world's greatest copying machine and actually copying is good learning is good emulation is good That's what the free market. It's about that's what civilization is about. It's about gradually Continually expanding the bit the body of knowledge and learning from other people and adding to it and changing it up and remixing So the only way to stop it now is to have increasingly draconian measures That basically threatens it ruin people's lives put them in jail killed them cut them off from the internet In an increasing attempt to stop them from doing what is natural It's very similar in this regard to the war against prostitution and the war against drugs where they can't win these wars But they have to escalate the penalties Higher and higher greater and greater to try to stop people from doing what really doesn't hurt anyone else Okay, let me interject here if I may because I think some people who may have not heard you before Stefan Probably have some questions at this point and for example most people know that when somebody writes a book You know certainly one that sells or sells well they it's copyrighted and that means Presumably that no one else can simply Photocopy the pages slap a different cover on it and sell it without their permission That's right. That's right. Okay. You also can't make derivative works with it Which means to make a new creation which is based upon it in a certain way, right? And everybody I mean I think even you and I agree that if somebody writes something in some sense We we we wouldn't copy that and say it's ours Well, that might not be theft in the sense of stealing, you know property that is You know limited nature Like a car or land and that sort of thing it still belongs to somebody So I think it's easy for people to say well somebody wrote a book and it's not proper to Copy an excerpt even from that book without giving proper attribution to the author Then why isn't copyright appropriate? Why isn't it appropriate to say that person wrote that book and no one else can sell it? You know a copy of that book without that person's permission Well, so and here's what the advocates of copyright are very slippery. They give a kind of a Group of defenses of copyright and each one is an incoherent really and when you challenge them a one They slip to the other so they go back and forth for example between plagiarism and Copying now plagiarism and copying are two different things and what you're really talking about here in part is plagiarism plagiarism is just an act of dishonesty it's an act of misrepresenting The person who was an author of an original work of art or authorship And that is nothing to do with copyright really and it's got nothing to do with the law That's handled by social norms and customs for example, if you take a book that or a work that is out of copyright like Plato's Republic or Aristotle one of Aristotle's works and there is nothing in copyright that prohibits you from taking the text of Plato's Republic and Publishing it tomorrow on as an Amazon Kindle book and putting your name on it, right?  So this is a very minor problem. It's not really the real problem and it's self-policing in the culture Already so plagiarism has nothing to do with copyright if I write a book I have there's nothing stopping me from selling it. I can sell it to people So the question is if I put this information out there and I basically reveal this information to other people Can I now complain if they're using it in what they're doing? And the typical copyright case is not an act of plagiarism. It's basically, you know taking the latest John Grisham novel or movie Or the latest the Leonardo DiCaprio movie and copying it Everything even the title of the author in the director You don't actually pretend if the different author otherwise you wouldn't sell any so piracy is Copying everything it's not Dishonest at all. It's actually just giving someone an exact copy of what someone else first presented to the market So the question is do you violate anyone's rights when you do that, right? And my belief is that you do not because the only property rights people have is in the physical integrity of Scourge resources that they own including their own bodies. That's how the Lockheed and Homesteading principle works That's how property rights have always worked. That's the basis of property rights We wouldn't need property rights if we lived in a world where there was no scarcity Where everyone could have everything they wanted at a whim where there was no conflict or violence possible no fighting over Scourge resources were possible Property rights arise to solve that problem and you allocate owners to different things in accordance with a certain rule Right, so there's just no room for allocating property rights to an idea or a pattern of information Right and and and I've been swayed by you, you know in years passed by that very argument But people that are perhaps hearing this the first time would say well if John Grisham wrote a book and he's making money off it and somebody else Photocopies the whole thing lock stock and barrel maybe puts a different cover on there But same titles same author and everything so it's clear that it's John Grisham's work Just you know different cover and makes money off it people will say that's the priving John Grisham of money That he's due for being the author of of those actual ideas or that actual text Right and so the way I would respond to that is Well first there's a subtle question begging there because when you say that the money he's due It's assuming that he's do it which means there's a justice aspect to this and so that sort of presumes your conclusion But it does well the way you worded it does put the focus on the right thing What what the person who's advocating copyright is saying is that if I? Copy or distribute copies of whether for free or for sale John Grisham's novel Then it's going to be more difficult for John Grisham to sell as many copies or at a high price So he's going to get less money. So what you're saying is I'm depriving him of money He otherwise would have been titled to but whose money was that that was money from potential Customers of his book well He doesn't own their money they own their money that they choose not to give it to him He doesn't have a claim on that And I would also say this we have to decide you know if I own a watch and I pass it down I can pass it down for generations to my great-great-great-grandchild. It's in perpetuity or a piece of land or a house So property rights do not expire So the question we have to ask is if copyright if the right in an intellectual work is really property then does it expire At some finite time, which is an arbitrary number like 50 years 20 years 70 years or does it last forever? Now if it lasts forever then I think you can see that we would have a stifled culture because you know Shakespeare himself built his plays upon already existing ideas that were around in the culture The entire history of art and creativity is one of remixing people blend and remix and copy and emulate and improve And recreate and there's really nothing wrong with this But if you start giving everyone a monopoly right that lasts forever and ever then you finally get to a point where we're also ensnared with tangles of These copyrights that will go back for centuries. You could never get enough permission to even act So we would just the human race would die off or at least be very bland and boring Right, so it's just a ridiculous idea, which is why everyone says no. No, we can't make it perpetual We have to make it finite Well, but then is it really a property right and then how do you know what the right length is? Should it be a hundred years 150 years, right? Nobody knows they don't have any evidence So I think this goes to show that there's something wrong with the idea of getting people to write You know, there's a famous anarchist Benjamin Tucker who said that you know if you walk around in public Can you spread your ideas out there? You know be like throwing a bunch of money in a crowd and then complaining that people picked it up If you want to keep your ideas private keep them to yourself But if you want to try to get some kind of benefit out of revealing information you have whether it's fame or just a pleasure of discussing with people or Or trying to make a profit well then you're revealing this information to people you're putting it into their brains And you can't expect them not to use the information that you've taught them right Well, and I just as a quick aside and we're due for a commercial here quickly And then then we'll have the last half to you know fully concentrate on the internet aspect but I am Writing up proofs to a book that I had in graduate school that was frankly very very hard for me And I've thought about this concept of a copyright and as you pointed out the Easily conflated concept of or at least I think easily conflated concept of plagiarism And if you think about a mathematical proof, and I know your background is in engineering, so you've been exposed to some of these It's often hard to tell who it's attributed certain proofs are well known like there's something called from Oz last theorem It's well known Andrew Wiles proved it in 1990s until fourth And so that's sort of a known theorem, but people take theorems and prove them and for example Pythagoras the Pythagorean theorem has something like 50 known different proofs So if somebody comes up with a new proof, it's pretty darn hard to say That it's original It's hard to say if you come up with a proof of anything in mathematics that you didn't in some sense rely on people in the past Oh, absolutely. No one has has not replied on anyone They always rely upon discoveries of others and of course these scientific discoveries and it occurs simultaneously Now this really goes more to patents and copyrights, but that's more about inventions and scientific knowledge type discoveries But I mean in science Unless you make a property right out of it You don't really need to have a rigorous definition of who's the Who's the creator of a given theorem or the discoverer? There are scientific norms that govern that and they don't have to be rigorous because there's not a right or law based upon it So for example, you had Newton and Leibniz, I think invented the calculus around the same time and the scientific community Analyzes what they're doing and they make a decision and they get recognized historically for their contributions, right? Exactly. Well, that's a good stopping out right here folks We have a short break I'm told will be a little shorter because of our my staff through at the beginning so bear with us You're listening to the Peter Maxwell on the micro effect. We'll be back here in just a moment with Stefan Cancella blood pressure This is Ernesto from Illinois. 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Double a the NP Double a all these lobbying interests and they depend upon this it for their life But and so that's one reason people are confused when you say let's abolish it because they're used to the system we have or artists go to these publishers or they go to the The big media companies or the movie producing companies and they're they're reliant for their income on that And then they have to back down on Paris and so it's a whole system and of course the free market has adapted or the quasi free market It's adapted to respond to the distortion of the market. Well when the internet in popular and we had mp3 movies digital music digital information email sharing Napster Then people started copying like crazy before that it wasn't so easy to make perfect copies analog tape recorders and things like this So the problem wasn't that widespread Well now we have the internet and we have the burgeoning online business and we have the increasing reliance of these media companies on Copyright even on the online world even though they don't go together So the online world is all about copying and copyright is about stopping cop. They cannot survive together So we're having this clash and so they're not able to stop piracy piracy is rampant people can do with encryption They can use bit torrent etc So there's a lot of piracy going on and let me just I'm sorry But that's an unfortunate as I think you pointed out maybe at the very beginning when I misspoke or about so but that's an unfortunate use of The word piracy then is yes, yes, there's nothing going on What the what they really mean is there's there's theft or piracy of the dollars They could have made but as I mentioned earlier, you don't own money that you could have made In fact, that's the nature of a free market if you think about it Any time you come up with a new business you wanted, you know a new idea for a new business you start making a product Well, if you make a lot of money, you're going to attract competition and you're just not going to be easy To make the same profits for a very long. That's the nature of the market That's the nature of competition and it's to the benefit of the consumers and the economy and Human society in the long term because it induces people to keep improving keep getting more efficient Keep coming up with new ideas. You have to keep innovating to stay ahead of your competitors Right, that's what's going on here It's just a little easier to compete here because you can copy an MP3 file fairly easily Well, in any case copyright laws already crazy. We had the digital Millennium Copyright Act in the 90s Which ratcheted up the penalties for copyright infringement and applied it to the internet They added a safe harbor at the time for online service providers and publishers where as long as you Respond to a takedown notice then you're not going to be liable for what your users did Now I don't think they realized that that safe harbor was going to be the lifeblood of the internet The internet probably wouldn't have flourished like it has if not for that safe harbor because the DMCA would have killed it And that's why we have this practice now these takedown notices because of the DMCA and because the music industry unwittingly agreed to the safe harbor And thank God they did We might not have had Google we've been I'm at a Facebook or YouTube or Twitter and now what's going on is There's rampant piracy the copyright laws already being applied in extremely draconian ways for example people Under the current copyright law an average person like you or I or even someone maybe not even as tech involved as you and I are It's theoretically liable for billions of dollars a year in damages for infringing copyrights and sending emails to people from sending links from copying articles Things like this so it's already terrible and the sofa is Poised to be enacted which would be even worse It would basically create turn the internet into a whitelist You have to be on the government's approved list to have a website and if you get on their blacklist Then an order will go out from the court or from the government to like Google and YouTube and Bing and ISPs telling them they must remove all the information for this particular offending website that has been accused of having pirated information on it and Disappiers it just disappears so basically it is giving in the name of protecting property rights Which is a travesty to call it that in the name of protecting so-called property rights The government is poised to have a tool of censorship over the internet Which is akin to what is done in China and repressive regimes? This is why there's been an uprising on the internet in the last month or two which actually stopped this legislation It probably would have passed about two weeks ago But now it's been table for a few months and there's boycotts of go daddy for example right now because go daddy was in favor of this at first So the the young community the digital community the tech people They are really angry about this now They don't have a solid grounding for opposing the real reason to oppose it is copyright is evil You know if you believe it's copyright you have to believe in trying to enforce it Right so trying to do right at least they see that there's an excess here So Sopa is very very very dangerous It's one of the scariest things I've seen in a long time because in my opinion the internet is one of the greatest hopes of mankind For fighting the state. It's a great way. Absolutely. Absolutely. You have to be unregulated It this is this is censorship. This is scary and we try to stop it and certainly our government even Should be able to recognize it certain things that have been happening, you know recently like the so-called Arab Arab Spring right not have happened without the internet these people find out what's going on in the outside world through the internet And that's if that's all shut down And if the if the so-called freest country in the world shuts that down then that's gonna paralyze any other movements that are You know in some embryonic stage, isn't it? Oh, it's it's well Our government is completely dishonest and hypocritical, of course I mean Hillary Clinton the other day was was Camping me freedom on the internet saying has to be free and and saying how important it is for the Arab Spring type things Meanwhile the very Obama administration that she works for Has been shutting down websites under the current law with this thing called ice the immigration and customs enforcement service You'll go to some websites. It's just shut down on your copyright threats And there's even a guy the other day United an American citizen Sent it to a year in prison for uploading a copy of the Wolverine movie To a to some some illegal site. So maybe you should have done it But going to jail for a year.  All right, they did this already. It's so it's already horrible There's a brand-new book out by William Patrick a copyright lawyer called how to fix copyright Which has actually I think has a lot of problems because he's not really against copyright He just thinks it's gone too far but he has a good suggestion in there that at the very least we should have a moratorium on any new copyright laws because the Current laws are so screwed up and they're not tailored to the digital age at the very least We should have no more copyright law at all. We shouldn't Obama signed active the other day He signed it without congressional approval. This would be an or can't anything counterfeiting trade agreement. It's an international treaty He signed on his own authority and You know, I said we had to I thought treaties had to be approved by Congress by the Senate. Yeah, they do But he did it under he called it a an executive agreement But under international law it could have the same effect Right, this is why the Bricker amendment was proposed in the in the I think in the 40s to try to stop this dangerous you use of Assigning statements and a executive agreements by the executive to get around The Senate's ability to approve treaties because the treaties on the Constitution or the highest law of the land up there with the Constitution you could theoretically have the president in the stroke of a pen Rewrite the Constitution by just calling it an executive agreement. It's very scary stuff. What they're doing. Oh Well, yeah, I mean I the last couple of shows I've talked about the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Yep. That's another very scary one, right? Well, okay on the copyright then let's Everybody knows about copying text and emails and sending links and uploading things to YouTube and copying things probably from YouTube And of course people that put things on YouTube want their things to be copied probably. Yes, but what about code people People you know Microsoft their entire operating system Apple system. These are all fairly Well held tightly held secrets and people would it be under under copyright as you see it Well, there would be no such thing as copyright because people can't you can't own the information which is what a Software program is it's just instructions for a computer well, you know Computer software is a dysfunctional as you say and Originally, it was not covered by copyright because copyright is designed to cover Create acts of creative expression artistic type things Patent is designed to cover inventions or functional Dismos and gadgets and so actually software Is already covered potentially by patent if because a software is nothing but a process and there's you can get a process Patent right on the way you tell a computer how to do something right so so basically software is covered already by By patents and now it's covered for a couple of two three decades now It's covered by software as well because of court decisions saying well, I think we should include it In in copyright because there's an element of art There's an element of creativity in deciding like I guess we're gonna put the period in a code I think it's ridiculous. It shouldn't be covered by I don't think it should be covered by patents or copyrights Well, right. I was just gonna ask it has the same the same flaw as does copyright, right?  Yeah. Yeah, now that there's a technique that is used. There's some differences in copyright and patent Patent is better and worse in some ways It's it's it's worse in that you can be accused of infringing a patent even if you Independently invented your own technique. So if company a patents a process that's their software implements and company B independently comes up with software to do something similar on their own platform Which has a similar flow chart let's say they could be accused of patent infringement even if they came up with it on their Own whereas in copyright you if you come up with it on your own then you're okay But you have to be able to prove it It's just very unlikely two people are going to come up with the same thing on their own And in a copyright context so what they do is they have these things called clean rooms Which is not they not the the technical clean rooms where the guys in the suits like at the Intel commercials But it's basically an approach where you have a Chinese wall type thing and you can just prove that the You hired some software programmers They sat in a room with no access to any literature or web sites and they just did it cold So you can prove that they didn't copy it Which of course is an increase is an added burden and an added cost and in efficiency Why shouldn't people follow from each other's good ideas and techniques and continue to improve on them, right? Okay, so with Sopa then Who are the major Proponents of the passage of that and for those of us that understand what you've been talking about on the show tonight What do we do to keep it from getting passed? Well, I've got a lot of links on my my my site I started a center called center for the study of innovative freedom with the website of which is C for the number four sif.org and if you just search for sopa on there, you'll see lots of links to various Things you can set up a petition or whatever like there's a there's a boycott I would say consider boycotting companies that call for this like some of the video game companies like electronic I think ESA or electronic arts, maybe go daddy hasn't backed down completely yet I mean they've lost 80,000 domain or something already by people Away because they're just so angry that this is a tech company that ought to be savvy to the danger the good guys are already in Huffington at the Huffington Post and Sergei Bren and Eric Schmidt at Google and all these tech companies have signed these open letters and law professors have come out good against this Civil Libertarians have been good about this all the people that are in favor of civil liberties or that are really Into freedom of expression and the use of the internet and digital technologies are very wary about this But not necessarily for the same reason For the depth of the reason I guess I would say that you are right well, I mean I think I Think the reason is the same in the sense that I fear what the government is going to do in the name of copyright protection They're going to censor and they're going to hurt and everyone and most people that are opposed to you have that same understanding There they're sort of cognitive differences. Most of them still think we need copyright. So we're sort of saying They're left with saying this is going too far Right, you know, and I don't know I don't know I don't know maybe it's not too far If I you know, maybe we should have the death penalty for it Right, it's really a property for really trust us and maybe you should Samarily execute people right but if you pointed out that that notion of going too far is the same arbitrariness as you know 14 years for a copyright versus a hundred years. I mean where do you stop, you know? Yes, but at least there is things from there Right, I'm not I'm not damning them. I'm just saying they're not they're not as intellectually pure or strong as Your argument against the whole thing called copyright Yeah, but I think even the younger generation a lot of them are starting to see that this copyright ideas is nonsense I mean they they don't they know they might get caught and they might have a penalty if they get caught pirating a movie But I don't think they think it's immoral To do things like right, you know So they're starting to see through the the facade of copyright and see that it's used by a bunch of oligopolies to protect their Protect their market, and it's also used literally for censorship. Sometimes there was a case the other day I've got it on my website where this guy, oh you remember the Forgot the name of the company, but there was this cell phone company that was taking data from your inner and your keystrokes It was kind of a controversy and one guy found out about this and he published on his blog the Manuals with from this company showing the instructions in these cell phones software and people were concerned It was a privacy issue and he was doing fair reporting And he actually the manuals were on their side. They were there were in pds on their site So he wasn't like revealing information. They weren't making public themselves. Well, their general counsel said this guy a letter Saying you got to take this down and apologize or we're going to sue you into the ground because of copyright infringement So this company was trying to stop legitimate You know journalistic criticism of their practices, which the public has an interest in on the basis of copyright Now this guy had some balls and went to the EFF the electronic frontier Foundation He didn't back down and they've made this public what they were doing and there was a groundswell of internet activists just Piling on this company. And so the CEO a couple days later Retracted the the cease and desist letter apologized to the guy let's cooperate with the FF. So it's good that we're Great, but the point is you can use this for censorship and it is used for censorship So we have to choose do you want copyright? You want to protect ideas or do you want to let ideas be free and let people have freedom of expression? You have to choose censorship or free speech and you know Stefan We've lived all our lives with with with copyright of books and so forth and and the argument is well known that I put forth that You know other people have obviously about the the claim that an author would lose potential money Yes, and so forth But we haven't really lived in a society where that hasn't existed So we don't quite know how that'll play out and and I think for example When I you know, I'm a little bit older than you but When photocopying was first starting to be the rage after like The carbon copies and stuff like that Xerox came out and people used the word Xerox Xerox that for me when they met for the copy that so in a way that was actually and Xerox I guess was the first or one of the first to have the machines to do that so that actually was I mean that could be argued that that was actually good for that company that people sort of Made the word Xerox to be you know generically mean photocopy. Well, no, that's that's actually another area of intellectual property That's trademark law. That's okay That's the issue of if you have a mark like coca-cola or Xerox or Kleenex Right, and it starts being used generically We call it that is to refer to the entire class then you might lose your trademark to it like Kleenex right Kleenex was lost So you Kleenex is now used to refer to any type of tissue not just Kleenex brand tissue Right, so that's why you have these companies trying to say please don't say Legos call it Lego brand building blocks or don't call it a toilet or call it a Toyota brand car or whatever You know, so that's a whole different area. There's abuses with trademark as well I okay, but I guess well I that's that's good you pointed out But my my point was that I don't know this and maybe you do that that may have actually helped the Xerox company because they were You've got a plethora of photocopy machines now, but they were the front-runner and maybe there's some There's some advantage even though you got 20 competitors to be the first guy on the block doing it Well, think think about what a miracle the original origin of printing and the printing press was we had First we had writing, you know parchment and then we made it more permanent You'd have to chisel things and rocks finally we started having books on some kind of reasonable paper But you had to have people hand-to-hand, you know scribes and I can't control it And of course then the church could tell all these scribes and and the state And control what ideas are being given to the people then the printing press came out and everyone panic for the church panic the guild panic the State panic and they started they monopolize it They started a stationers company to give a monopoly on what books to be printed so the government Could control what books the people would see because they didn't want them to become Protestant or whatever by the time Finally we broke out of that and we're in the modern age now and yet the remnants of this control over what ideas people print And the internet like I said, it's the greatest publication and expression and duplication and learning connection engine and subversive anti-state engine of all time and Copyright just gums up these works and gives the government and opponents of free space the potential to stop it Wow Okay, so your website is C for si f thought or Okay, let me say that again C for si f and as you said you can go just type in sopa to a Google engine and Another great site is tech dirt tech dirt calm has continual horror stories about proper intellectual property and how it's just harming technology and And this the business world in the economy and the internet and human freedom, right but And you mentioned several of these people you know well-known CEOs and so forth the companies that are opposed to sopa, but And my concern is and maybe this is a concern that should be down the road if we delay it at first is if they don't make a Solid argument against copyright and their argument is more of the of the nature of going too far Then my concern is even if sopa is not passed now It will reemerge in some other form that will satisfy some of these yes But we'll just set us up for this same battle 20 or 30 years down the road So here so actually sir, but is About three years ago. There was a law introduced called coica combating online infringement and counterfeit act and that went down to defeat and then what was called son of coica came up, which is I think it's called pro IPA the pro IPA and then that was replaced by tip-off the protect IPA Which is the counterpart to sopa in the house. So these things are sort of descendants of This legislation trying to survive and I do think the water down and it might pass but there's so much opposition to it now And the one the one silver lining is that there's a damn good argument with several law professors have put forth that Lawrence tribe for example Lawrence tribe has a really good argument that sopa is Unconstitutional because it violates the first amendment and I think it does because there's no due process There's no adversarial proceeding the person whose website is yank down doesn't even get notified They don't get to present their case to the court It's prior restraint. It's almost a blatant violation of the first amendment So even though the Constitution authorizes copyright in the body of the Constitution It also has the first amendment. So those two provisions are in conflict And it seems pretty sure that if they pass anything as extreme as they have up there now It's going to be struck down Whereas if they water it down, it may still be bad, but it may pass muster. I don't know All right But hopefully we can drag it out and we can have a lot of attention to this I think if you go to sleep or SAF and you search for petition like sopa and petition you'll see an online petition you can sign But we just have to be aware of this and we have to just fight censorship, right? By the way, there's an interesting argument Which I've been pushing which I haven't seen anyone else plan on to but if you think about it the Constitution was ratified in 1789 And the bill of rights was ratified two years later in 1791 So in a sense the bill of rights is newer became later than the Constitution And if and to the extent there's a conflict between the first amendment and the copyright clause And I think there is a conflict because copyright Does impede freedom of speech Well, then you would have to say that the newer statute or the newer provision has to prevail Which is the first amendment. So you have a constitutional argument There's not really a balance or a tension between these two In other words, the courts don't have to balance the first amendment against the copyright clause They can say that it actually repealed it or partially repealed it just like the 23rd amendment repealed or whichever one it was repealed prohibition later amendment Well, that was great Stefan. I'm sorry. We got off to a late start there But folks again the website c4sif.org and you can also Google Stefan Kinsella and learn about other writings of his thanks a lot. We'll have you on again I'm sure in the future and we'll do what we can to fight so quick. Thanks Peter. I appreciate it very good. Good night Folks see you next week. Bye. Bye


Welcome back, it's the Breakfast in Plus TV Africa and we're back here to talk about breast cancer, very important. And that's because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign that raises awareness about the impact of breast cancer. We just go straight to it because we do not have so much time. We have a health aspect who's with us this morning, Nesou Chi Ibukoi. She joins us all the way from New York. It's good to have you join us this morning. Pleasure to be with you. All right then. Can you quickly bring us up to speed with the month of October and the fact that it has been designed to be a month for the campaign raising awareness about breast cancer? Why and what should we know about this month? So the month of October is a key month that puts an emphasis and a focus on breast cancer awareness. Especially in a country like Nigeria where a lot of cancers, especially breast cancers are under diagnosed, it's a time for us to make the public aware of exactly what breast cancer is and what some of these signs and symptoms that might manifest in any individual to look out for so that you know when it's time to go and see a doctor for an evaluation. So first and foremost I think the general public need to understand what exactly is breast cancer. You have to have the fundamental knowledge first of what is a cancer in general. And in general a cancer is an abnormal proliferation of damaged cells. So in our body we all have these healthy cells and over time some of these cells can become damaged. When these damaged cells begin to grow rapidly out of control in various regions of the body then it can manifest as a cancer. So when this process of abnormal cell growth of damaged cells occur in the breast then one can have a breast cancer. It can start in one breast, it can start in both breasts, but the bottom line is there are these changes to the cells in the breast manifesting as a potential tumor. With that said the public needs to realize that breast cancer the majority occur in women but men can also obtain breast cancers as well. So I think the key thing is to recognize what breast cancer is and understand what your risk factor for developing breast cancer might be and what some of these signs and symptoms are. Alright so for those who are watching would like to know more about the risk factors and then for the signs and symptoms what do they need to look out for. I'm particularly interested also because we don't really talk about that much in the fact that men can also develop breast cancer which is quite surprising. So please throw some more light on the symptoms of signs and risk factors. Okay so in regards to signs and symptoms there are a couple of these red flag signs that everyone really needs to know about to kind of sign and ring the bell that you need to see your doctor ASAP. So one thing that most people know about already is noticing a new lump in the breast. So most people know about this kind of sign or symptom of a new lump. That is a red flag sign to see a doctor but other signs and symptoms include the following. Nipple discharge, nipple discharge outside of normal lactation in a woman.  So if you do note that that is a red flag sign that you should see a doctor. Another red flag sign may be thickening or swelling in part of the breast, any skin area of the breast. The skin can potentially develop into what appears to be the skin of the orange, the way that the orange skin peel looks. It's what we call Poe de Honge. That is a red flag sign that you might need to see a doctor immediately. Something else to note, if you now notice a breast change such as inversion of the nipple, that's another red flag sign that you need to see your doctor immediately. The bottom line is anytime you notice a change from your baseline that's pretty much an indicator that you need to get checked out. So with all of these potential red flag signs people need to also note that some of those symptoms that I mentioned can occur in other conditions. So that's why it's pretty much key that you talk to your doctor anytime you notice something outside of the ordinary of your baseline. Alright, so quickly, let's talk about the lump for every time you probably have like that. Does it really mean that that's a sign that you have cancer? So as I was saying, it's not necessarily a sign of cancer, but it could be any new lump or lesion that develops in the body warrants a full evaluation. You would go to see your physician or doctor and basically they can do certain tests. If biopsy is warranted, they can test certain cells to determine is this something that's malignant? Is this something that's a cancer? Is it something that is benign? I think the key takeaway is when you notice a lump or a bump or a change in this part of the body, it's not something to really sleep on. You need to get this checked out. It's not that it's necessarily going to be cancer, but if it were to be a cancer detecting it earlier pretty much helps your outcome. It makes it better to easier, I should say, to treat when these things are diagnosed at earlier stages. In terms of having a mammogram, how often should anyone have a mammogram? So in regards to the screening and mammography, first the general public, you need to know when we're talking about mammography, this is just an X-ray of the breast. So we're visualizing that tissue to determine and detect if we're seeing any kind of abnormalities. So different regulatory bodies have pretty much different potentially controversial guidelines about when we should initiate these discussions and this testing and screening, I should say, with mammography. So in general, starting from the age of 40, one should initiate these discussions with their physician. And around that age, starting at the age of 40, an annual mammography should ensue. Of course, there are various different factors that might change when you're going to initiate your mammogram, such as if you have a family history, which is a huge risk factor for development of breast cancer. So if one has a family history, meaning that you have a first-degree relative, mother, sibling with a history of breast cancer, that magnifies and increases the risk that you can also develop breast cancer. So the screening for somebody with a family history would earlier and sooner than the age of 40. And in general, what you also need to know as well, in regards to these risk factors, there are certain risk factors that one can control to lower your risk of breast cancers. And there are certain factors that you cannot control that you have pretty much no control over. And I can go through those factors as well, because these are pretty key points that everyone should really be aware of. Okay, very quickly, please. Sure. So there are factors that you cannot control. Let's go through the factors that you can't control. You cannot control your gender being born female. Of course, that increases the risk of obtaining breast cancer, because most of these cancers occur in women. Another factor that you can control, your age, getting older. As we get older, the risk of breast cancer also increases. Other things that I also mentioned and alluded to, a family history. If you have a family history of a breast cancer, that increases your risk as well. If you've inherited certain gene mutations, so one of the most common gene mutations that one can inherit that can contribute to breast cancers, what we call a BRCA1, BRCA1, BRCA2 gene mutation. So those who have that kind of mutation, their risk is basically increased. And of course, the personal history of breast cancer. We have to let you go now, and that's because we're out of time, but we appreciate your thoughts. And we look forward to speaking with you as we continue in the month of October with the campaign concerning breast cancer. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me on. All right then. Dr. Neso Chiokike Mokoi is a health expert and she joins us all the way from the United States to be precise. New York, thank you. We take a break now, and when we... Yes, we have some other guests joining us to talk about a personal experience as far as a cancer is concerned. It's very important for people to be aware of mercy and to also have the information to go get checked. Like she said, once you get to the age of 40 and above, you need to check regularly. Apart from that, I see young people these days having cancer, babies having cancer. So as she said, if you notice anything that looks strange on the breast, you have to go check it out. But one thing she said I never knew. One of the things, if you have any discharge when you're not lactating from the breast, then it's a sign. And I thought that was, you know, it's normal to have some sort of discharge even when you're not lactating. Oh no, this is normal. You know, don't ask me how I know. I research. I research these things. All right, so I think we... I research these things. I'm a journalist, so I have to do some research. I understand. All right, we have our next guest. Mercy, do us the honors, please. All right, so I think we have Dennis, a drawer. Dennis, a drawer joins us this morning and she'll be sharing her experience with us as a survivor of cancer. I hope I got that correctly. Good morning. Can you hear me? Yes, please. Okay, good morning. I didn't realize you were talking. Okay, good morning. Yes, you did share it correctly. That's my name, Dennis, a drawer. All right, so Dennis, thank you for joining us once again. Thank you. All right, let's quickly hear you share your experience about cancer and surviving cancer. And also good to know that you are a CEO of Komod Cancer Foundation in the United States. Okay, let me do some corrections now. I'm the CEO of Komod Cancer Foundation and we're based in Nigeria and we run a cancer awareness. Yes, thank you very much for inviting me and it would be nice to talk about cancer. So let me talk about myself but before I do that, I want to welcome all your viewers and thank you. This is breast cancer month and currently I am at the World Cancer Congress in Geneva. So we are actually talking to you from there. Let's go. Go on.  We'd like to hear your experience. I mean, how did it happen and how did you survive it? I survived it. I'm still in it. So let's go. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016. Methasizing in the brain, which basically means having breast cancer that has moved. So the tumors were found in the brain. I have had 12 tumors removed from my brain. I am in active treatment so I still take chemo. I still go through radiotherapy. I still have all the things that come with a cancer treatment. So someone who's going through cancer journey. I live with the disease and it's called living with cancer, which means that they cannot actually say this is going to be the final solution and we've got a drug that's going to work. There is no miracle drug. As a drug stops working, they have to find another drug to fight that drug. So I was diagnosed with it in 2016 and I have lived with it ever since. It has had its own ups and downs. It has resulted in me having three brain surgeries. That's, I mean, cuts to the brain of which one of them. The last one was done in March of 2022. It has a lot of side effects for us. However, whatever goes on in the cancer space, I will always say to anybody, you've got to fight. You've got to believe in yourself. You've got to be focused on getting through it rather than seeing the negatives in what happens with it. So I've had to learn to go through it because it brings about the mental health challenges, the financial burdens that go with it for cancer patients. And it doesn't matter what part of the world you're from. No matter where you are, everybody that has cancer has those challenges no matter what anybody thinks. It is one of those times when I think, I see the gratitude of God rather than the challenge in front because the surgeries have been very heart wrenching, if that's the words you use, where you really go through a challenge and you don't know if you're going to come out of it. And that's what cancer is. You really don't know what your prognosis will bring to you but you hope and you aim for getting through it. And that is by listening to your body.  If you've got a headache, you need to recognize there might be something wrong with you and follow it up. Cancer is one thing. The one thing I have learned from the diagnosis of cancer is knowing that if you have a persistent illness, a headache, a stomach ache, anything that is persistent, anything, it is advice that you seek help because it means that there is something seriously wrong. If there is, I mean, for those who are living in Nigeria, we know the access to the care, adequate care is not as affordable as, you know, at least for other people around the world. What are some of those things that you've noticed and you still need to be done to make it easier for people to screen and to also take care of themselves so they can, you know, be champions just like you are for this situation called cancer and also encourage other people as well. What needs to be done to make it easier for people to take care of themselves if they're diagnosed with cancer in Nigeria? First and foremost, I was diagnosed with cancer in Nigeria. There are a lot of hospitals and there are a lot of NGOs in Nigeria which, ours is one of them, that actually support cancer patients. The biggest challenge we have is the fact that because cancer is stigmatized, unfortunately a lot of people will not come out unsaid. But if we were able to all follow the rules and recognize when we are not in a good place and seek help then, then that is where it is easier to catch it at an early stage. If you look at breast cancer, which is one of the things, one of my two that I have, breast cancer in the early stages, if found early, is like almost to be said to be curable. And that is to a lot of cancers. If it's found very early, it is curable. However, when it gets to stages where it has moved and metastasized, that's where it becomes complex. So when I say to, if I'm saying to anybody, irrespective of where you are in the world, and Nigeria is not the only low income country in the world, we all have to take responsibility. When you see a family member or a friend who is saying, I've got a running stomach and it doesn't go, there is a problem. I have to address that problem and force the medical team to investigate rather than a doctor telling you, oh no, take this medicine and go away. Because that's what happened to me. I went to six hospitals in Nigeria, and that's in Abuja, Lagos, and Mina. And everybody just dismissed it as a headache until I did a scan in a hospital in Lagos and they said the tumors had moved. And I now had not one, but I have three. So it's important for us to recognize what I know now if I had known then, I may not have, I may have addressed it differently. So anything that is persistent, I'm not saying a headache, cancer is everyday disease. So it affects everybody every day. And it's just knowing that once one is, what do you call it, if it's persistent, go and seek help, seek help. All right, very quickly, because of time, for those who would like to reach out to your foundation, I mean with personal questions and maybe they need some support, how can they do that? They should go on to Nigeria Cancer Society, look for them on the website, on the website. Nigeria Cancer Society has the registered records of all cancer organizations in Nigeria and every cancer organization specializes in very different things. So it's to find what is most applicable to you and use it. We are Komod Cancer Foundation and we create awareness. So we are trying to stop people from getting the disease. We want you to understand that these are the signs, these are what you need to do, and these are how to navigate your journey no matter what it is. Okay, it's quite inspirational each time we get to talk to you, because I mean living with one cancer is a tough one, but living with two, it's quite heroic what you're doing. Also, I must thank you and commend you for coming out to say you want to use your experience to inform, educate, and enlighten others. I think that's admirable. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. Well that's it. Thank you so much for being part of the Shortest Morning, Dennis Edgore. We appreciate your time and we look forward to sharing more of your thoughts as we proceed in the month of cancer, breast cancer awareness. And that's the size of our conversation this morning. 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You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. You need to start paying really close attention to who the people are that you're hanging around with and how they affect your internal environment. Today, we're going to talk about how to always be positive. And I don't mean it from a standpoint of like, oh my gosh, man, let's just, let's just be positive all the time. And from a woo woo wee standpoint or any of those types of things, I'm talking about from an actual practical standpoint. How can I make sure that no matter what happens to me in my life, that I build the mental fortitude to be able to handle it no matter what it is? Because ultimately that's what we're really trying to build an incredible mind for, is to be able to handle everything that life can throw at us. And in reality, we know that, you know, there are some beautiful moments of life. There are some terrible moments of life. And we want to build a mindset that can handle all of this. It's like the phrase, a skilled sailor didn't stay inside of the harbor. You have to go out and actually literally go through and take some bumps and some bruises. And you have to get out of the harbor in order to actually become a skilled sailor. You know, a smooth sea never made a skilled sailor, I think is actually the better phrase. I think I just took two phrases and put them together for the first one. And so whatever, who cares? You know what I'm trying to say. And I mean, from a practical standpoint, how can we make sure that no matter what happens to us, we are positive? And I want you to know this from the very beginning. I'm not talking about how can we just ignore all of the negativity? I'm actually talking about more than anything else, besides ignoring the negativity is actually focusing more on the negativity to extract the positive from the negative.  You shouldn't just think positive all the time. I'm actually going to be talking about and teaching you how to extract positivity from all of the negative stuff that happens around you. And we're going to go dive into two aspects of your life. The first one is your internal negativity, which is just 100% you. And then the second side is going to be your external negativity, which is also you, but it's also other people that might be around you as well. And the goal of today is for you to mentally sit there, maybe even with a pen and paper, and to see how you can clear house in all of the different pockets of your life and pull the negativity out of it so you can have as much beauty and joy as possible. So when we're talking about the internal negativity, you may have heard me say this before, but I always like to talk about your mind as if it was a garden. It comes from a book as a man thinketh, and he says, imagine that you're the gardener of this garden. You're the only one that has access to this garden. It's impossible for you to plant strawberry seeds and expect that tomatoes are somehow going to grow, because you can't plant strawberry seeds and expect tomatoes are going to, that's not going to happen.   The secret to it though, is that you're the only one that actually has access to this garden. There's no one else. And so you can't allow that negativity to creep in.  And the reason why I say it once you notice it, is because you can't always control your first thought. You have to rise up until the moment that you're listening to this right now, or watching it, however you happen to be consuming this piece of content, you have a lot of patterns and habits and traits that were built into you as a person. So you might immediately have a thought of judgment against somebody. That might not be the thought that you want to have, but it's your first thought.  And you can't control your immediate first thought right now, but you can always, always, always choose your second thought. And so if you notice that a first thought comes in, that is not the thought that you want, the same way that you would pull the weed, you got to pull it and immediately replace it with a thought that you do want. The way that you start to repattern yourself is to make sure that you notice the things you don't want and replace them with the things that you do want. Now here's another thing that you have to realize. A lot of times people will have a judgment thought, or a negative thought, or a thought that they don't want to have. And then instead of pulling that weed, they now judge themself for having that negative thought. That does nothing for you to just judge yourself for that negative thought that you now have. It doesn't help you in any sort of way. And in fact, it makes it worse. So it's like looking at the weed and going, oh my gosh, weed, why are you there? I don't want you to be there. That's not going to do anything to the weed.  That's what you need to do in your mind. Don't judge yourself for it. Don't get emotional over it. You look at it and you say, that weed is there. I need to pull that weed. So you can't control your first thought, but you can always control your second thought. And the other thing that makes it beautiful about life is realizing that negativity is going to happen no matter what, things are going to happen that you don't want to happen. Failures are going to happen. People that you love are going to die at some point in time. I'm not trying to get more of it. I'm just being very practical and realistic here.  Relationships are going to end. People are going to be fired. Things are going to happen in life that you don't want to happen at some point in time. Instead of allowing those things to get you to go down a path of negative thinking or judgment or fear or worry or anxiety, why don't you look at them knowing that it's going to happen. There's nothing you can do to avoid it and say, what can I learn from this? What can I learn from every aspect of it? I'll give you an example. My grandparents passed away a few years ago within 17 days of each other.  They have beautiful lives though. And so what I wanted to do instead of getting sad and depressed about it, and I'm not saying don't grieve, is what I did was I actually sat down and I planned out what I loved about them and how I could put that into my personality so that I can look at a death and something that I didn't want to happen but did happen. And I can try to figure out some form of positivity from it because ultimately you're either looking at the world one of two ways as if it's happening to you, which is like, oh, woe is me. You know, this just happened. This person broke up with me. This person died. I'm so sad for myself. That's woe is me. Or you look at as if something is happening for you.  As if somebody up there is just like, okay, now make it rain. Okay, now make this person break up with this person. Now make this person get fired, whatever it is. Because you have to go through those things in order to get to the next level of life. Imagine as if it's just a giant game and life is just a perfectly crafted curriculum for your growth.  Life is happening to you is a negative way of thinking of it. Life is happening for you is a beautiful positive way of thinking of it. It's your choice.   And so you could say, okay, yeah, these things are happening to me or these things are happening for me. So things are going to happen. It's never the event. It's your perception of the event and how you're actually putting it into your life. So that more people can see this message because it helps us get it out organically. So hit that like button and I appreciate you. One of the things that people really struggle with the most when it comes to negativity and positivity is that when these things do happen, they are almost resisting reality. Like they don't want this negative thing to have happened. And so they're almost resisting it and trying to fight it. Even though it's already happened, they're trying to fight it because they don't want it to be that way. And I will always say this. The amount of stress and anxiety and worry and fear and all of those things that you feel around something or that you're currently going through will be in direct proportion to how much you are resisting the way that the world is. Let me say that again. The amount of stress, anxiety, worry, fear, all of those bad feelings that you don't want that you're going through or will go through throughout life will be in direct proportion to how much you are resisting the way that the world is. The world is going to happen. People are going to die. Relationships are going to end. People are going to get fired. People are going to run out of money. All of these things are going to happen probably at some point in time. There's a chance that they could happen to you or someone that you love. And if you resist it, it's going to put you into more stress, anxiety, fear, whatever. But if you accept it, then you can realize that now it's time to move on and see this as a challenge in life and now you can go into it with an open mind, more positive in seeing it as a learning lesson. You know, if somebody passes away, if you try to resist that, you're going to put yourself into a torture chamber in your mind of resisting because you can't bring that person back. It's impossible to bring them back. So what can you do? You can grieve, but you have to accept. That's part of the grieving process is to accept it and then try to take the beautiful aspects that that person put into your life. If a relationship ends, your stress and anxiety will be higher if you are resisting that and wishing that it were different than it currently is. So you have to realize we can't control all of those problems that happen to us, but we can always control our reaction to every event in our life. So that's talking about the internal negativity. That's your job is to clean house in your mind. Now when we're talking about the external negativity, let's dive into all of the different aspects of it. First thing that we think about and I hear all of the time is Rob, what do I do if people around me that I love are negative? And we have two options and really two options that you have either number one, you let them go and let them live their life the way that they want to or number two, you have to figure out some way to spend less time with them. It's that simple. If you want to truly grow into the person that you could become and someone's bringing you down, either they need to be released and let go or you need to spend less time with them if you truly want to become the person that you can become. Those are the two options and whichever one you choose is your choice and that's beautiful, but ultimately you have to realize if there's external negativity around you it's crazy to think that the external does not affect the internal. So if it's really important to you to build a big beautiful life that's positive that you love full of joy, peace, happiness, all of that. It's going to be really hard to do when you have people that are bringing you down all of the time. So I'm not saying that you need to just leave your parents and never see them again. What I'm saying though is can you spend less time with them? If your mom calls you and throws all of her worries on top of you, can you tell her to stop doing that? Can you and you have to realize this, you teach people how to talk to you. So if that's happening, for instance, where your mom's calling you and throwing all of the negativity and all of her worries on top of you, just say mom, stop. I don't want to listen to this. Don't call me, call somebody else any time you want to be negative. Right? You teach people how to talk to you and you're an adult now. So teach people how you want to be talked to. You have to realize that because the top five people that you spend the most time with, you will be the most like. I always say if you want to be a millionaire, hang out with five other millioners, you'll probably be the sixth. If you want to be fit, hang out with five people who are really fit. If you're hanging out with five alcoholics, you're probably going to be the sixth. If you're hanging out with five people that are overweight, you're probably going to be the sixth. You are the average of the five people that you spend the most time with. You need to start paying really close attention to who the people are that you're hanging around with and how they affect your internal environment because ultimately you might start to realize go through your top five and say, okay, number one, two, three, four, five. These are the five people I spend the most time with. Okay. Three of them are really great. Three of them are really supportive. Two of them, I need to spend some less time with these two. Okay. So let me drop these two out of my top five. I can still hang out with them every once in a while and see them at family events or whatever it is. But now I can replace two other people that I know will support me and push me and allow me to think better and have them in my top five so that I can grow and expand into the person that I know that I can be. Now, some people say, but Rob, I still live at home with my parents. My mom is so negative. Then what do I do? Well, see it as another challenge. Once again, like the Truman Show, like I said a few minutes ago, everything that happens to you is a perfectly crafted curriculum for you to become the best version of yourself. So if you are in the Truman Show and you're just bloop, you're given a negative mother, as an example, then how can you see that as a challenge for you to become more positive in that environment? Right? How can you see it as if it's a game in order to get to the next level of life? You have to eventually get past this level that you're on. And that might just have a really negative mother as the example that you have in this level. Right? And you have to think about it.  If that's what you have and there's nothing you can do about it right now, it's like walking into the gym for your mind. Right? How can I go and lift as much weight as I possibly can to get my muscles as big as possible? That's how you grow. If you want to get bigger biceps, you do heavier biceps curls. Right? If you want to get more positive and build a strong mental fortitude, you're going to have to put it under some strain. Here's your challenge. If you choose to accept it, go into there and realize that you're going to be surrounded by negativity and you need to build this mental fortitude of positivity because that's what you're given. You got to figure it out. So who do you surround yourself with? Who do you spend the most time with on a day to day basis? And do you need to shift your top five a little bit because you're going to become the people that you surround yourself with. It's just the way that it works. You will hold yourself to the same standards that everybody that you surround yourself with as well do. As well do. I don't know. That wasn't even right.  So you have to think about that. So that's part of external as the people that are around you. Other aspects of external that you might not think of. Well, number one, how about the music that you listen to? This is a big one for me. I didn't really realize was was actually affecting the way that I feel like I have music that I listen to now. I have music that I used to listen to and I don't listen to as much anymore. Sometimes I'll indulge. You know, when I was younger, really didn't like hardcore metal. Then I moved in and had a roommate and we were both musicians and I started to really appreciate it because hardcore metal, like they are the best most talented musicians in the world. Incredible. But for me, I've come to realize that music makes me really anxious and it's super negative and about killing and death and all of this stuff. I can appreciate them from afar, but I don't listen to it anymore. Right. I've just realized that that music and that's just me. It might not be you. It's okay. I've just realized that that music, the external of that music affects me. Some of the music I used to listen to, hip-hop rap music, it's not the way that I live my life. And I don't want to say out loud some of the things that they say because anything that I say out loud is an affirmation and going into my subconscious. And if I don't want to treat people the way that they treat people, I'm probably not going to listen to that music. Do I still indulge if it was 12? Yes, as much as I used to. Absolutely not. So I try to literally listen to music that I can feel inside of me is raising my vibration, I guess you could say, because music is a vibration.  And so you have to realize that's going to come into your body and make you feel a certain way. The words will, the music will, the vibration will, all of that stuff will. I'm not trying to be weird and we have like your vibrations, but really essentially, music is a vibration.  There's no way around that. So that music is affecting you in some sort of way. So think about that. What else external affects you? What about the stuff you watch on TV? The news, stop watching it. It doesn't, it doesn't really inform you. It doesn't keep you informed. It keeps you conformed. That's really what it does. Right. There's other ways to get your news. The new stations, probably not the best, especially if you live in America. Right. So news, reality TV. Oof. And some people are like, oh, but I just watched reality TV because it's just mind numbing and it's just fun to watch what people do. No, you're watching people. I've seen a lot of reality. I've walked in the room when it's on. Screaming, treating people that you would never want to treat. That external, that's coming into your eyes. It's coming into your ears. Everything. You are consuming it. The same way that if you were to eat your shoe, it's going to in some form of, some way come into your body and make you not feel good. You're still consuming all of the stuff that you see in here. Think about it that way. What about games you play?  I had a friend that literally, he was on this podcast where he was playing video games that were just hardcore games that kept him anxious and it clicked a part of his brain over and he wasn't able to sleep for a year and a half because of all of the anxiety that it created. And that wasn't just the video games, but that was the straw that broke the camel's back, which shows you those things come into your internal environment.  Really deeply think about that and start to reassess it. What you do is your own prerogative, but really start to think about these things that you do. You know, I was playing VR the other day, played it like for a few hours with one of my friends, so much fun, so incredible. But when I was done, I realized my level of anxiety was so high because I was literally in VR, in reality. Shooting things and it was just like, things were popping up and it was scaring me, it was keeping me on the edge of my seat. It literally raised my anxiety. And I was like, I can't do that again. Was it fun? Hell yeah, it was fun, but it literally made me feel bad after. Something to think about. Just think about the games that you're playing. How about people you follow on social media? Think about that. Just think about all of the external pieces of your life because ultimately, everything that you consume is going to affect you in some form of a different, like whatever it is that you do, no matter what it is. If you drink cyanide, it's going to affect you because you're consuming poison. Think about how many forms of poison that you're consuming that's not actual cyanide.  Ultimately, the best thing for you to do is take a pen and paper out right now and actually plan out what your life looks like, the positive side, the negative side, and what you need to do to clear house of every aspect of that negativity because ultimately, there's nobody in control of your life internally and externally except for you. You need to sit down and actually plan it out as if it was a business and you were creating a business plan because internal and external environment are going to affect you in some form. That's just the truth. You have to see if it's something that you want to be consuming or if it's something that's poisonous to you. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you want to learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as well. You're focusing on all of the input and your input is just negative, negative, negative, negative. The output of the way that you think and the way that you feel all day long is going to be negative. That's just a fact.


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Hello everyone, Basel Chapman on this Friday, the last day of the week, and just before the long weekend, Labor Day weekend, have a wonderful long weekend. Let's look at the Dow. This is the 10 a.m. Tiger Financial News Network update, and we're looking at the Dow down 147,000 to 35,295, for subscribers to my opening call, I've been showing this particular pattern, the oval pattern, is it going to arch over and break to below 35,150 in the next couple of days, be quite negative, or is it going to break to the upside, get to the 35,600, well this is kind of a test right here, down 147,000 to 35,295, stalling within the range, but stalling, look at the S&P made an all-time high, and I do call this a leg C, maybe a peak C today with one little pop-up perhaps next week, and then I think we start to chop, chop, chop, with slightly lower highs and low lows, that's the thinking right now, in the meantime back at the ranch, down 8 at 45,28, we'll see what happens by the end of the day, day is young, look at the leg D in the weekly chart, look at the wonderful leg B in the monthly chart, we're looking at the QQQ, also taking a little bit of a breather yesterday, but today's coming back, although it's below yesterday's high, and the all-time high of 382.71, it's a 381.38, it's just an eye blink away from making that leg D in the dating chart, we'll see if it's able to do that leg E in the weekly, leg G stash C in the monthly, and we've got IWM, this is going to be the one that really tells a lot about what's happening in the rotational aspect of the market, it's down 92, at 228.05, the IHS Russell 2000, can it get to 232 by next week or will it start to slide under 225? We're looking at gold because of the jobs number, gold is up 14 at 1826, leg D underneath the previous highs, we're going to be watching this good action, I've been saying all the time, gold is okay, and the gold stocks are really not following, we're looking at crude oil right here, crude oil is trading down just a little bit, holding in that 69 area, next week we're going to have to watch the 71.5 upside or is it going to break the 67 support, TLT we'll have to talk about as soon as we return because the TLT is down sharp, you see yields up, this is an important moment, there's a lot to talk about, I'll be back with my Tiger technicians hour in a few minutes and check out my opening call, a dating news editor, we've had some really nice trades there, I'll be back.