Welcome to the Bull and Bear Show episode number 10 and I have four very special guests. We got the Market Maverick, I got King Earl, I got Blaze and Nash Cowboy, how are you guys all doing today? Good, thank you. You're welcome brother. Hey man, I'm doing fantastic, hope everybody's having a great weekend. I got so many topics to talk about and why don't we just get started with the first biggest piece of news of the day and we'll get right into it right here. So the Dow Jones has been on a 13 day winning streak, 13 day winning streak for the Dow Jones. It was the longest winning streak since 1987. So we almost had 14 days in a row, it would have been the biggest record in a hundred years and then we had one red day. What do you guys think about this news? The market is absolutely on fire, we'll start with you, Market Maverick, what do you think? You know, I would have to say from where we were talking about it, how the tech sector has been exploding in the whole world and I think the tech sector would have to be the reason why. Okay, great. What do you think? Let's go with you King Earl. What was the question again? Sorry, I just got reestablished on connection. The stock market has been absolutely on fire. The Dow Jones is on a 13 day winning streak, the hottest streak since 1987. What do you think about this streak? Do you think the streak continues? Do you think it's a fluke? What do you think about this streak right now in the Dow Jones, the stock markets on fire? I think that we might continue to see a bunch of rise up within the stock market, especially since we had already bottomed out. So I mean, there's nowhere to go besides up as they continue to consolidate in hopes of the dream of knowing it's going to go up. Okay, and Nash Cowboy, what do you think about this news? I think there's a lot of factors that are going to play with it. The biggest being, we're moving into a whole new generation of technology and all kinds of stuff that there's so much going on that it's going to make this next bull cycle just explode in my opinion. I think it'll, like Earl said, they're going to consolidate. It's going to go down, it's going to go up, it's going to do that for a while, but it's still going to be on fire. And just like with Bitcoin, I mean, it's been on a consecutive up for since January, since the beginning of the year. So it's just, I mean, the stock market's going to do similar things. But we have a lot to explore that's going to make everything go up in my opinion. But there will be some consolidating, of course, people are going to take profits. It's going to come down.  There has to be some consolidation and that's healthy for the market as well. I agree 100%. What do you think, Blaze? You think this is going to change? Oh, it's simple, with change, you got people spending money. So the government is going to be changing soon in the United States. So a lot of people are feeling more confident. You know what I mean? So with that being said, I believe every time there's a big change like that, there's always a big uprise in my book, especially when we're in the bottom. You know what I mean? 100%. People are fighting back, buddy. You know what I mean? It's been a crazy, crazy streak in the stock market. And I believe that the streak will continue because the momentum is very, very strong. Now, the Fed did something today, which is going to affect everybody in America and everybody in Canada and everybody all over the world. The Fed raised rates after a pause and it leaves the door open to more rates. So what do you think about this? Market Maverick, the Fed raised rates again. What do you think about this news? You know, every time they increase the rates, the value of the money is lower. The Fiat supply, which means a decline in the crypto market as well as possible. We see this these red days pretty often in the crypto space due to the Fiat system. Because I mean, the only way for the crypto market to go up would be for the Fiat system to transition into it. And one of the primary effects of increasing rates is a decrease in demand for high-risk assets, including cryptos. So personally, I agree with who was it. I think it was Blaze who was saying, you know, if it's down, it's going to be coming up here pretty soon. Okay. Thank you so much. King Earl, what do you think about the Fed raising rates? Now we're at 5.5% interest in America. What do you think about this news? I'm quite happy about it considering we're only supposed to have two rate hikes this year. I mean, we're due for one more two or three more FOMC meetings. But what we're going to be running into is as they continue to try to drive the inflation down below the 2%, we still have a resilient economy out there as the markets continue to shift from goods to services provided, which is what a lot of people are going to be investing their money into is services rather than goods. So I mean, it's going to be a full market change and then on the investment strategy of what's actually coming up. But as far as them raising the hikes, I mean, one down, one to go, and then potentially a few more as our economy continues to fight back against the Fed and them raising the hikes for the banks. But we're going to fill it in the long run, even after the inflation as the banks raise rates continuously to try and make their money back that they lost out on with the hikes. OK, thank you so much. Nash Cowboy, what do you think about the Fed raising rates yet again in America? Man, that's such a touchy topic. I personally think they're going to keep raising them. But I think. I think people are going to overcome anything, especially, especially investors. I think we adapt, we survive. We just keep going now. Yeah, I agree with you 100 percent. And that's clearly been the case. Yeah, my mind. What do you think about it? It's it's their only move they can only do. It's all it's what they always do. So they go in with what works for them. They don't work for everybody out there. Yeah, the inflation is that and all these stories. But look at at the end of the day, that's what they do, you know? So it's it's not a surprise to me.  It's you get used to it, you know? 100 percent, man, they caused it. They might as well clean it up, right? Yeah, exactly. So it's like no matter what we say or do, they're going to raise it. Like Earl said, the one down, maybe one to go or a few more. So what do we got a few months left of the year? I mean, by the time we get to December Christmas time, everybody's going to be probably struggling or doing good. I mean, it's one of the others going to happen. There's no in between. Yeah, I think that we're actually going to have the one here in quarter three again, just so that they can leave quarter four just for evaluation and try to tell people that they're trying to give them a break for the holidays. And then we might potentially see more rises after the beginning of next year in quarter one. So yeah, building into the election and all that.  See, the thing that I'm trying to understand is the inflation, as you read this headline, it's smallest rise in more than two years, which means they are actually controlling inflation. We've seen inflation go from nine percent to three percent. So if inflation has gone from nine percent in one year to three percent, have we not taken control? Have we not taken care of inflation? Is it not under control? To me, it's under control like it's under control. What do you think about that market matter? Well, is inflation under control now? You know, I believe that I believe inflation was never a threat to begin with. I mean, they've got control of the whole fractional banking system. And since they raise the debt limit, I believe the fractional system of the bank sector sector is not going to be to blame for what comes next. Because I believe I was doing some research on how much fiat currency was physically floating around the world in 2019. And I believe it was about twenty four trillion dollars. And now when I check the research, the same research is showing that eighty trillion dollars physically floating around the world. Inflation to me has gone up about four hundred percent.  And all of this is just going to benefit them while it takes away from us and gives us more, more bills to pay basically in the long run. And maybe what they're doing now is going to open the doors, or should I say, the floodgates into central bank digital currencies because people are getting fed up with fiat and all the taxes and interests and these hikes and rates that are coming up. We're getting fed up as a as a society. You feel like prices in Canada are completely out of control. Trudeau just keeps increasing all kinds of different taxes and different fees on gas and food. It's like nonstop here. King Earl, is the inflation in America now under control? I actually don't believe so, that it's actually fully under control. I mean, we're able to actually move numbers around. Kind of like China does on goods and services kind of in a way. Because what you're looking at is that everybody is still fully employed, right? There hasn't been a way major unemployment here. There's actually more jobs than there is unemployment due to people not wanting to work, number one. But it's going to be one of those uncommon situations where we might have a slight recession from the inflation, but we have to hit that first. But the thing is, we're going to have fully employed people who are going to be fighting for higher wages. And since there's so many jobs out there, the companies are going to have to approve or set aside majorities of the pays for them and continue to fight for wage gaps, which is going to continue to fight or help the economy. The economy and hurt inflation numbers, but also with the market cap, not the market cap, but the debt ceiling that got raised. I mean, that money has to come from somewhere that they're actually paying in, considering what was we looking at, $44 billion in the Treasury's pocket before they raised the ceiling. So that money had to come from somewhere, and it sure wasn't from taxes. So they printed more money to pay in somewhere, right? Yeah, 100%. I don't think the real numbers have come. There's only one bank in the whole world that has a clean balance sheet, and that's the IMF. What do you think about this? Nobody wants to do business with it. Is inflation under control? Is inflation under control? What do you think? No, I don't believe it is. And I think the numbers are very skewed. However, I feel like it's all part of a budget. It's all part of a plan, because we are going to be going into the election. And they're going to, in my opinion, they're going to be the saviors and try and get very elected and, you know, make it look good. That's my personal opinion. That's what they always do. It seems like it happens every single election. Something happens to make people relieved, you know. And I think that's the angle that everybody is really playing in this, in my personal opinion. But, you know, gas prices are still outrageous. Groceries are still outrageous. Me having six kids, I especially know this.  You know, I'm not on welfare or anything like that. So it cost me a fortune to feed my kids. I make a lot of money for people in this area with nothing left to spend. You know, I invest as I can, but it's really tight, because everything is just so stinking expensive right now. They caused it. We're here in Canada, guys. So it's, we're Canadians and Americans, we're getting squeezed. Right? We're getting squeezed. We're getting squeezed. So now interest rates are going up, which means we're paying more for everything. We're paying more for our car loans, student loans, credit cards, lines of credit, mortgages. We're paying more for groceries. We're paying more for gas. So we're getting squeezed everywhere, but we're not making more money. Yeah. So they print out. It looks like it's on purpose. They're printing up more money only to try just more to get it back. So basically they print it up. They put it out there. We're helping you out. And then later on we're paying two times, three times, maybe even four times for products to give it all back. And we got to give it back four times what they give us. So I believe inflation is under control, but they ain't showing it. What's that called where it's under control, but it appears to be a demolition? That's how I looked at it. It's a controlled demolition. It's a controlled demolition. My whole question on it is, if we're fighting inflation, which is just the rise on interest rates for loans for certain items, right? Yeah. Why are food prices going up? Like are all these manufacturing plants and farms just taking out massive loans? Did those truckers start driving again? The trucks are still driving. I mean, the problem is, is that we're not importing. We haven't been importing anything. We've been importing, but importing has been down 75% for the past three years, right? And here in the trucking industry, fuel prices have skyrocketed. The actual freight rates have went down. So it can't be blamed on the logistical environment or industry. So it has to be coming directly from the manufacturing. And if the only thing that's been increased from inflation is the loans interest rates, they haven't started paying their employees anymore, not yet. So why are goods going so far up? I think it's green. I think it's green. People take advantage of the fact that people are going to continue to pay for it. And if you know people have the money to pay for it and it doesn't matter what you charge, you're going to take advantage of that because you're greedy and you're going to charge more. And if people keep paying for gas, people buying the groceries and people keep buying houses, keep bringing the price up higher and higher and higher. And that's how you create a bubble. I could tell you exactly what's going on. That's how you create a bubble. Listen, what's going on is in the factories, they already have things that were way overpriced when they were hurting and they still have time to get rid of it at that price. Okay. So until those factories that built up all that during the bad pricing goes out the door and sold, then they're not going to go back down.  This is my language, but you know what I mean? 100%. So that's how it goes. They get a certain amount of time where they can keep on charging for the same thing to make up all the money they lost. And in the end, the government bills them out and that costs us more money too, right? Yeah. That's not forget it was our money to begin with. Was it really though? That money had its own serial number on it. Our dollar bill, our dollar bill in the United States as workers is probably worth 46. Not even. But it's almost everywhere and we pay all kinds of stuff and we get 40 cents to our dollar. Pathetic. Can't even lower. Maybe even lower because look at the prices like a cheeseburger at McDonald's say. Yeah. 49 cents. Come on. Yeah. That's why Mickey D stock was going up rich because people are going to a restaurant. Okay. So I'm going to change gears a little bit, but I want to give you guys a little explanation of something I think is going on. And I've been talking about Mexico for a while. The Mexican peso just hit a seven and a half year high versus the US dollar. I've predicted this. I've said this. I told you guys that I'm really thinking about moving to Mexico. The cost of living is a fraction of what it is in Canada, United States. Real estate is a fraction of what it is in Canada, United States. And the Mexican economy is booming. Do you think that the Mexican peso will continue to climb? Versus the US dollar. And does that affect the US economy? Does that hurt the US economy? Does that help the US economy? What do you guys think about the fact the Mexican peso is on a seven and a half year high? Is it just a coincidence? Is it lucky? Is there something that Mexico is doing? Cause I personally believe cause I was just there last year that a lot of Americans and Canadians are moving to Mexico. What do you guys think about this? Mark and Maverick. I believe a lot of the Mexican corporations are trying to. Go away from the US dollar. I mean a lot of countries are steering away from the US dollar. You got a big country countries like China, Saudi Arabia are now trading and digital you on away from the US dollar. A lot of the countries are actually moving towards the Euro and the United States normally would have been invading countries that don't trade with it. However, nothing's happened. Nothing's happened. So I believe something big is coming. I don't see much other countries sticking around with the US dollar. If the Mexican pesos climb in seven and a half years in a row, then obviously something's not right in the whole fiat system. If they're doing better than the US dollar. It tells me that the Mexican economy is doing well. Right? That's what it tells me. What do you think about this? The Mexican peso hits a seven and a half year high versus the US dollar. What do you think about that as an American? I don't know where they've been taking their loans out from. Which country? You know, we already know that they've been slammed with hurricanes every year. Where do they get their relief funds? You know, which countries do they owe money to that aren't collecting right now because of poor economy? Are they actually buying oil from other places rather than going back as the US does during Democratic parties owning it? Are they getting international oil from other places like Venezuela, which is very close to them? Are they getting things at a cheaper rate? And then how much is the US dollar actually boosting their economy while our manufacturers continue to go to Mexico for cheaper labor and cheaper living and cheaper costs? And have there been any natural resources found? You know, we already know they're working on the Bitcoin mining with a volcano token with just using volcanoes to provide the energy to mine Bitcoin.  Where's the other rest of the parts of it coming from? I mean, it requires much more of a deep dive in a macro strategy that goes up for, you know, an investor. As you're saying that I searched it up on Google and it says here in 2021 Chinese companies were responsible for 30% of foreign investment in Mexico. There you go. What do you think about this Nash Cowboy? I'm definitely with Earl on that. And, you know, a lot of the Mexican economy is still struggling very hard. Your bigger areas, there are a lot of permanent tourists going in there. And I believe that that also boosts their economy when we have a lot of people go in there starting businesses. And, you know, we've got a lot of business in Mexico. Carrier went there. I think they might have come back under Trump. I'm not sure. But Carrier is a huge air conditioning company. He used to be built right down the road for me.  And then I believe Trump was working on it and they might have come back. But we've had so much business go to Mexico. Which is John Deere, right? They just opened up an engine manufacturer in there. You guys get one very important thing. They opened the borders up. They opened the borders up. They're over here doing a huge offload of American money.  Yeah, that's another big problem. Our borders are wide open.  Right. They're taking out money, bringing it back. One month. So you have a lot of... They've got a lot of computer servers. Chinese companies have that with water. When I went to Mexico last year, I couldn't believe how American it was. They had Walmart. They have Subway. They have McDonald's. They got Burger King. It looked like America, guys. Like, it's not what you think. You've only been to that one city, right? No, but everywhere in Mexico, it's like that now. It's literally become America. It's not Mexico anymore. I'm telling you guys, it's more like America than you think. And now as a Canadian, who lives in Vancouver, it's three million dollars. I can go and buy a house there for like 50 grand. 50 grand. So it's not affecting us. Is there property tax over there? Guys, it's not affecting us. Okay. It's actually teaching us that a lot of us in Canada and the United States are doing the wrong thing. We're allowing ourselves to be beat up. So the smart ones are going down to Mexico. Yes. That's what's happening. Canadians and Americans that are buying real estate down there, we're building their economy. And I was there and I was watching people buy these 30, $40,000 properties that would cost like six, seven, $800,000 here in Vancouver. They cost 30 grand there. Think of how many American dollars are turned into that peso up there. Come on, man. Think about it. That's what it is.  I'm going to buy a second home in Mexico. It's like that in Lebanon. So kudos to everybody in Canada and United States brought money over there, invested, and making Mexico strong again. So here you need about $600 to live comfortably in Mexico. 10, 20 years ago. I got nothing wrong. I love Mexico. I got a lot of Mexico. 10, 20 years ago, you could buy a house here for, you know, two, 300 grand. That was normal. Well, that's what it is in Mexico now. So it's almost like you can start over there. It's like if you can't afford to live in. Exactly. Or Toronto. You can literally go to Mexico with a few hundred grand, own a home, have a good life, live in great weather and not feel house poor. Because here in Canada, if you want to get a house and let's say it's a million dollar home and for a million dollars, you can't even get a townhouse anymore. But let's just say it's a million dollar home just to keep it simple. You buy a million dollar home. You put 250,000 down, which average person does not have 250 grand, but somehow people find 250 grand to put down. You have a $750,000 mortgage.  Oh yeah.  Bro, you ever hear it going back in time? Back to the future. I heard about something interesting. Hold on one second. Back in time. So basically what's going on in Mexico is what we could have done in the United States and 30 years ago. So those that didn't get reap the benefits of when everything was good priced and easier for us, going to Mexico, reaping the same benefits as they would have 30 years, maybe 40 years ago in America. Yeah. They're living like we're in the 90s. We're complaining about inflation over here, right? So people going to Mexico get more for that dollar. It's simple. I seen a really interesting movie the other day about traveling through time. It was about radio signals traveling through time. And I was like, that could work. Send a radio message. This is a real life thing going on. People taking advantage of the Mexican prices to go back to cheaper prices, easier living. Yeah. China taking over the world, guys. China is taking over the world. My next topic, the biggest news of the week if you're in social media was that Twitter, Elon Musk has completely gone nuts. He's completely taken away the bluebird and the bird and the tweeting and called Twitter X. I like it. It's now X. So I want to hear from you guys. Do you like this? Do you not like this? I like it. Is this bullish? Is this bearish? We'll start with you, Mark and Mary. What do you think about this? I like it because, you know, I'm all about XRP, XLM and XDC. And in 2001, I believe Elon Musk started X and then turned it into PayPal, sold PayPal and 20 years later decided to come back with X. And now he has his own payment system. I believe, I don't think he's going to use Dogecoin as the payment system for this X upgrade of Twitter, cutting the neck off the bird, which is really entertaining to me. I like his character. It's a funny guy. And I can't wait to see where he goes with the payment system because there's videos of Elon Musk saying he understands the in-depth plumbing of the financial system. He knows how to write code. He created PayPal. He knows about ISO 20022. I have a feeling that he said, he also said X is going to be half of the world's financial system in the future. So let's see what he's really talking about there. Is he going to be the king of social media payments? I like it. I think he might. I think he's the richest man in the world, right? So he can make things happen. What do you think about this? Twitter is now X, exactly. Twitter is now X. Do you like it? Are you bullish on this? Do you care? What do you think about this? I mean, it's a marketing strategy. That's for sure, especially considering Twitter has been falling behind on the budget for the past two years. So it could be a social gimmick for as far as just getting more views in. But I mean, for a complete total rebranding, we have to get away from the bad vibes that was going on with the FBI using it as a weapon towards different groups or the Democratic Party using it. But then you have to look at, the news was Elon Musk bought Twitter. Well, what else did he do? He said he's going to create a completely true platform of his own for the people, right? Yeah. And he's always talked about, even during, what was it, two years ago, he was talking to the then owner and he was in a meeting with the lady from Anchor and he said, well, why hasn't Twitter already went ahead and set up payments within it? I mean, you've got Square. Why don't you just go ahead and set up where you can send money through Square? And Dorsky was like, well, we don't have the infrastructure for that right now. Elon said, well, if it was mine, I would. There you go. I think that's a little clue of what he's going to do right there. You guys have heard of WeChat, right? Yep. It's an agent. Elon has already said that he wants to create the North American version of WeChat. And WeChat is the everything app in Asia that allows you to buy things, sell things, buy things with your credit card, buy crypto, sell crypto. It's a social media platform where you have a profile and you can contact friends, family. You can make phone calls with it. It's literally a super app that does everything. That's what he's going to do with Twitter and he's calling it X. What was Facebook doing threads? Threads. Threads, yeah. I made an account there. Now I got to read. I'm trying to re-get my account here with Twitter and it's giving me an issue. I'm trying to get it in again. That's weird. I don't know what that is. Threads needs to upgrade your system. I think it's a very bold move going to X with Twitter being such a well-known name. But if it was anybody other than Elon trying this, I would say it's a horrible idea. Yes. Elon has the money to make it work because it's going to take a lot to transform into that. But if it was anybody other than someone like Elon that definitely has the finances to do it, I think it would be a death sentence to change the name of Twitter. Yeah. I heard that he's lost about $20 billion in real-world branding by removing this bird that everybody knows as Twitter. He's removed $20 billion in branding. Now he's worth $300 billion. So $20 billion to him is less than 10% of his network. Maybe he makes that $20 billion back times 10. Who knows? Time will tell. But I agree with you. It is a very bold move. And only time will tell whether or not it's going to work for him. Can I ask you a question? What do you think about this move? Twitter going to X. And changing the name is like Jack Daniels changing their name to something else, you know? You just don't do that. All right, buddy Rich. Elon has the money. It's going to do $20 billion, right? Yeah. But this new brand is going to make over $100 billion. Guarantee the look of it's better. There's a lot of people out there that love the look of that X. I like it.  You make it whatever you want to do with it. Yeah, good point. Can I ask you a question? It's time for a change, bro. It's time for a change. Do you still call it Facebook or Meta? They call it Facebook. But I mean, I didn't get over it. But at the end of the day, the X move is a huge move because it's a rebrand. And a lot of people do like changes. Okay. And especially companies that like to market and advertise, they want to be the first ones in to help build that new brand. So they're going to be competing to pay him to get there. Watch. So, so check this out. So this is something I found very interesting. I love to get your guys opinion on this. So he took the handle X from somebody and didn't pay them. Didn't offer them anything. Just took it from them. Do you think that that's right? There was a critical call back. He took the handle from somebody. Somebody owned the handle X on Twitter and he just took it from them. Didn't he do that before with the website or Tesla or something like that? You did it with the website. Sure. But I mean, I thought that's pretty rude that you would just take the handle away from one of your, one of your users and not even warn them or pay them anything. Kind of odd, right? What do you guys think? I don't think that the user had copyrighted their handle, you know. Just shows the spirit power of corporations. What they can do about it. He literally just took it from them. Didn't even warn them. I believe he figured. He'll do it first and then deal with the lawsuit later. He wants to guarantee. I don't think he's worried about the money that the lawsuit will bring. I think he needs to guarantee that he calls his company X. That's all he's got in the site. Hopefully, I believe it's XRP in my eyes. When I see an X that big, you know me, man. I'm all about XRP and X 11. I got, I got love for DMX when he says X, go and give it to you. Hey, listen, I like what you're thinking. I never even thought about XRP and maybe you're right. Maybe he's going to announce that XRP will be the payment processing coin and that's what X stands for. It's not a bad theory. And I never even thought about that. And it could happen. It could definitely. Hey, man. Anything's possible with Elon Musk. The guy's going to Mars. He's building robots. He said he wants to do it. He's going to send those robots to Mars. We're going to have, and he's also licensing his, his, his auto self drive Tesla to Ford and GM. He's literally taking over the car industries. GPS navigation system is being licensed out from Tesla. To the other big corporations. So he's going to be running the show in the future on all the tech sectors. Nash Cowboy, what do you think about this? Do you think it was rude for Elon Musk to just take the X handle away from one of his users and not compensate them and warn them? I'm trying to look at it right now to fact check it. Like, I mean, is that just a story or has it been fact checked that he actually did that for one? Because as we know, there's a lot of things said about a lot of people in our that aren't truly, you know, so I can't, I can't say. I think it is fact. They even broke down whose account it was. It was like a guy with some expertography. Like I'm pretty sure it is fact that he took it from someone. If it is 100% factual, I'm going to start that up. I think Elon is the guy that will compensate him for it. But I don't know. He might not. He might just say, I mean, if there's no, if there is no copyright on it, then, you know, that's just the way it is, you know, you don't need a copyright. You just have to be the person to use it with proof of date of when you did it.  This is going to be the cheapest marketing thing ever for him. It's going to be a lawsuit. If true. Okay. Hey, he, he does not have to patent it. Oh, trade market because X dot com on the internet guys. Yeah. It's Twitter. So basically this X dot IO X dot com, all that stuff. But at the end of the day, look at, you just, you don't have to trade market. If you prove, which this guy could do, go to court and he's going to settle up a short change. That's going to be a huge story and it's going to be new eyes on Twitter X, you know, so it's, it's very cheap marketing plan. So he hasn't announced he's going to help him and do nothing with it because he's like, bring on a lawsuit. It's just more marketing for me. Yeah. He doesn't seem to care about lawsuits. He's not afraid because it's more marketing. It just puts more hype in his name all across the planet. Oh, do you know that X is being sued by this guy? You know, oh, X, X, X free marketing, cheap money, easy done. I think there's going to be some crazy changes coming into how payments are going to transform the world. For example, right now, if Swift is sending money worldwide, they have to put back, let's say $250 million of payments into this freight train of 250 mil and then behind it another 250, another 250, 500 mil here. And these things transfer throughout the world's central bank system to reach commercial banks like a train is stopping between cities. What they're doing is they're upgrading the whole financial system with the ISO 20022 rich data messaging system, which Elon is familiar with and they're going to have something called micro purchases. This was invented by David Schwab, CTO of Ripple. What that allows for, your digital identification can actually get charged 30 seconds of time for looking at a newspaper online. So they can start having worldwide transactions of single transactions, each one of us single form sending out transactions worldwide 30 seconds here, $1 here, $2 here, $3 here on a worldwide scale with blockchain. It's going to transform the world. They're going to have social media and they even said video games like GTA 6. And I'm like, this is all possible with the central bank of your currency, Bitcoin, Ethereum and all the smart contract capabilities. The world's changing in the next few years here. Okay, I want to change gears for a second here. I want to know, will Bitcoin hit its all-time highs? I want your guys' predictions. Will Bitcoin hit its all-time highs by 2025? Mark and Maverick, start with you.  Oh, what's going on there? Oh, yeah.  It's not going anywhere. Where is it going to go? Up. 21 million coins available. 1 million locked up in Satoshi's wallet means 20 million coins available. What are we at now, Rich? How many have been mined total? You know the answer. Like 19.5 million? How much is left? The rest of the 8 billion people on earth that are not part of the 420 million current crypto users worldwide. I believe what? 5 or 10 million people own Bitcoin? Well, I know there's less than 1 million people that own one full Bitcoin in the world. 1 million more. Yeah, it's not even a percent. So Bitcoin's going up in my eyes, I think all-time high. I mean, when we're in the year 2050, when I have children that are 20 years old, Bitcoin's probably going to be sitting at like 2-3 million dollars. So let me ask you a question. So does Bitcoin hit an all-time high by 2025? I think Bitcoin hits an all-time high by March 2024 because the Federal Reserve's going live at the same time months apart, Bitcoin having the same time months apart, ISO 20022 is going live with Swift's full ISO integrated network with MX messaging. And I'm like, well, everything is pointing at the year 2024. For me, from now till 2024, March, before the Fed-Down system goes live, the whole crypto space has to be stable enough in order for the Federal Reserve to go live, use the whole crypto space. So I think we're going to see all-time highs much before then. So since you just said that, do you think the Quants Overledger system is going to be involved in that? Quants Overledger, I think Hyperledger, I think Interledger. I used to make a joke about something called Outerledger, but truthfully, I think they're all connected. I think Quants is going to be what makes everything interoperable with each other. You're going to have a payment system connected to that. I'm a private ledger. You're going to have a public ledger connected to that. Then you're going to have smart contracts connected to that. I always assume there's going to be one main currency that has the dominant market cap, and then there's going to be gold. Now, for example, Rich, I love Bitcoin. I love cryptos. I love XRP. But I got to say, how much money is in gold at, say, what, $73 trillion worldwide? How much market is there in currencies total? So the currency market is always going to be bigger than gold. So I'm like, there's going to be something bigger than Bitcoin eventually, and Bitcoin can sit on top of the Quants Overledger or the financial system like it does now. King Earl, what do you think? Do we see an all-time high by 2025 or sooner in Bitcoin? As far as matching the current all-time high, yeah, with the BlackRock spot ETFs, I do view that we could actually hit an all-time high with the money that's actually being invested. I think we're in for a heck of a roller coaster as they start to invest money into the markets because, I mean, we haven't had this any other year. We were looking at what, $4 trillion last year in the crypto industry, and now we're looking at potentially another $9 trillion being dumped on top of it? Massive. That's crazy. It's massive. Without new users, really? Entering into central bank digital currency through the Republic of Plow. Wasn't a huge bank that just said about a month ago that a $15 trillion earthquake was about ready to hit the crypto market? Yes. That's another one of my articles I was going to bring up, but we don't have that much time left. Yeah, let's get to this one. Nash Cowboy, will Bitcoin hit an all-time high by 2025? I think absolutely. I think right around the Bitcoin having, it could reach its current all-time high, not surpass it too much, but then by the peak of the bull market, absolutely. I think it could reach 150-ish, 140. I love it. That would make me very happy. Blaze, what do you think? Does Bitcoin hit an all-time high? Absolutely. Maverick said something about March 2024. I agree because the having is going to happen, but I don't think March, I'm saying April and May, I think it's going to smash because when is the new election? Cryptocurrency is used by the very same people that's against it, the government. So take advantage of all that government money being dumped into crypto and make some money out of it. That's my gut feeling. Nash, you were talking about this. 15.5 trillion simultaneous crypto earthquakes are heading for Bitcoin and Ethereum and Ripple. Price boom. Can you imagine $16.5 trillion going into Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple? What would the price be, guys? Who wasn't there stated that? Was it JP Morgan or? I can't remember. You're talking $600 billion. For every $1 trillion, that's what made me actually pay attention to it is because of somebody like Chase or maybe Fidelity. I saw one about Elon Musk today. Elon Musk talking about billions of dollars entering in the crypto space and he's saying he quietly brought that up.  Just $100 billion coming into the marketplace. What is that going to do for our crypto that we're holding? It's going to make them explode. Bitcoin will hit 800, guys. For anyone like watching, this is the time to get into crypto because we've seen a bull market in crypto so far this year and really it's barely moved. Yeah. Just the volume, right? Like crypto's barely moved. Like 100% for everyone is nothing. What's the most that's ever been in the crypto market at one time? It was $2.0 trillion. Bitcoin was worth $1.2 trillion. So if you go to $15 trillion, we're talking an $800,000 bitcoin. Yeah. So if that happens, which we can't predict future, we're not financial advisors. If that happens like is expected, good night. There's no limit. There's really no limit. I think it's going to happen. You know, the Federal Reserve's website, on their actual website, the Federal Reserve, they say single-day implementation for the FedNow system when it goes live, single-day. And then they also used to use a different type of explanation. They used to call it the big bank. When Swift goes live, they used to say the flip of the switch, the big bank, and single-day implementation. I'm sure it's circulating in my head. What do you guys think about this? We got 10 minutes left, 13 minutes left. Russia's Bitcoin mining industry is booming through war and sanctions. Russia's Bitcoin mining industry is booming. What about this? It's hard to say. You know, I thought mining Bitcoin was bad in Russia. Not anymore. There's some people that believe that Putin actually created Bitcoin. I've heard that from Dan Pina, I believe. Yes, yes. He's the one saying that Putin actually created Bitcoin. So here, Bitcoin use is limited in Russia due to restrictive laws of crypto, so including President Putin in 2020 said he has a law on digital financial assets which legalized cryptos but banned using them to pay for goods and services. So there's a lot of people that believe that BRICS might back their currency with Bitcoin. I was reading that as well. There's a lot of stuff going on that if different countries or institutions or organizations, and even Robert Kennedy Jr. has come out and said that he would back the US dollar with Bitcoin. So as Bitcoin becomes more mainstream and people start backing their countries and their assets with Bitcoin, it's going to stabilize Bitcoin and make it a superpower asset, which right now, we already know, I think all of us here own Bitcoin. We already know it's a superpower asset, but the average person doesn't get it. The average person doesn't get it. Do you think that Russia is using this war as an opportunity to benefit with Bitcoin acquisition, Bitcoin mining, because if they can't use US dollars, they're now using Bitcoin to pay for transactions. They're using Bitcoin for everything because they're being blocked by using US dollars. So it's easier to answer that question. Whenever there is war, there is always profit. There's a lot of money in war, no matter which country starts it, they're going to profit in some way. And that's what it always boils down to. So yeah, absolutely they could be. Russia is going to be using Bitcoin. Wouldn't that mean BlackRock is aiding the Russian currency with the ETF? I don't understand how this is all going to work and play. I'm reading right now that Russia plans to mine crypto for cross-border deals. However, XRP and XLMR cross-border payment systems working with Swift and the Fed now. So maybe Russia using Bitcoin as a currency is actually something the IMF doesn't want because the IMF did tell El Salvador you can't have Bitcoin as legal tender. Now Bitcoin is representing gold as digital form, but a currency I don't know. I do not know. Anybody else have any comments on that? Well, I mean, look at China. They just went ahead and kind of peeked in to saying that they might be potentially unlocking the doors of Bitcoin again. So when we're looking at the $15 trillion, are we looking at them actually pumping money in? Or are we looking at China's assets finally being unlocked from their government where they can start pulling and dumping? So it doesn't state which way it's going to go. So I would say be leery and be weary and do your own research. As far as Bitcoin being unlocked within Russia, they've been blocked from the Swift banking system. We already know Ripple was going to potentially be the next take place of the Swift banking system. Russia was in discussions of creating their own crypto currency. And now China is in there. We've got the backing and then we've got India already outlawing and listing everything as securities. 180 different ones. This is the Russian money in Cuba right now too. The thing is they have to set up and delegitimize different tokens. So when they pop theirs in with their own CBDC, where they can do cross-border transactions with it, it'll be fully legalized within their countries. And that's what they'll use as their legal tender as far as the digital currency because they don't really have to set up a currency and print a bunch of money and send it across the world. I mean, look at back at George W. Bush, right? Junior, before he got out of office, he was supposed to have signed a piece of paper creating an actual currency with North America that was supposed to have been like Mexico, the United States, Canada, and I think Greenland or Iceland, right? And that was supposed to be our own Euro kind of token. And there hasn't been anything that's been done off of that. And I'm still wondering if this Fed now is going to be based off of that idea or some of those legalities that have been set up since, what, 2002?  And as far as the mining, they're going to take all the money they can get right now because they're utterly broke. Their currency has been in turmoil since their early 90s when their leader actually got kicked out. And then they put Putin in charge. And then he came in back to try to stabilize Russia. I mean, you're looking at a whole different cloud of things over there with communism and you can't think about it like you would with a Democrat mine or democracy mine, right? Same with North Korea and China. Nash Cowboy, you got anything you want to say about that? I just think it's all up in the air. I mean, there's a lot going on with this whole war. And I can't even tell you who side I am in the war.  That's my personal opinion. And there's many countries profiting from it. So are they making money from Bitcoin mining? Sure, why not? Very possible. Okay, Blaze, what do you think? I think you want to say something about that? I think our voice, Sam, got himself tied up with the Russians a little too much. FTX went down hard with that war. And I think Russia has a lot to do with the Bitcoin decline and rise. So I always believed that the war, once that war was coming around right after the COVID and then Bitcoin started dipping hardcore. The Ukrainians and Russians both guilty on that Bitcoin party thing there. I'm telling you, it's a big mess. These guys, look it, Russia was the first to mine Bitcoin. China took it over, okay? And then they both said they won out of it. They're going to try and break it on a token. Now they're both going to lean on it. But both countries don't want to work with the US dollar. But if they invest in Bitcoin, they're back to working with the US dollar. So that's right.  We've got to believe as a group of people, we all got to get together and teach each other away from what the governments are doing and take advantage of the government mistakes. And that's why Bitcoin is so powerful. Because Bitcoin allows us to do business without governments, without banks. This is why Bitcoin is a game changer. That's how we take the power back is by utilizing Bitcoin. Because it's decentralized. Centralized is something that is controlled by government. Something that's decentralized is not controlled by power. On the token going up and down, they're investing their money. Guys, we got five minutes left. So I just want to leave on this last topic. So these are the top 10 electric vehicle companies in the world right now. Now you can see here that the number one is Tesla. Do you notice, I don't know if you guys can see this, but there's a pretty crazy difference between Tesla and every other electric vehicle company. The market cap of Tesla, $885 billion. The second largest market cap of any other electric vehicle company is Ford, $61 billion. Tesla is more than 10 times larger than the size of Ford. What do you guys think about this? Will anybody ever catch Tesla? We'll start with you Mark and Robert. I think I'm really proud of Elon Musk for sticking it to those guys. Not one of them believed in him. Bill Gates shorted him. Warren Buffett did not invest in it. All those guys disagreed with what he was doing. Now he's number one with a 10X on all of them. I was looking through that list there. Other than Tesla, the king of electric vehicles, Neuralink, SpaceX, the boring company. This guy's going to be our first trillionaire, ladies and gentlemen. But I also love Lucid Motors on that list. I love their shape of their body, of the vehicles, their trucks. They have such an amazing design. Something that I would really like to get my hands on. Lucid Motors, I believe it's about 7th or 8th on that list there. I see them being maybe number two or three in the future. Definitely above Ford. What do you think? Does anyone ever pass Tesla in the race for electric vehicle supremacy? I would say there's potential because look at Elon Musk. He's such a nice guy. I mean, he gave all the different companies such as what's Chevy, permission and access to their charging stations. Another one, other electric car companies access to their charging stations where they can actually charge. Elon's more worried about just making it a greener deal and making the world a better place or safer as far as his motto on electric cars and leaving a green thumbprint. So potentially he could be helping other people. I mean, he was just helping a rocket company or a space flight company, shall we say, with their parachutes this past week where he went in and had some of his tax actually come in and was talking to them to try to help with their parachute deployment. I mean, he's such a good guy as far as leading all of his tech and letting some of it go and he's not just holding on to it. So he's going to let some of his information out there. They're not going to have as much test trials. They're not going to waste as much money if they can just help or have him assist them and help their companies. So I mean, we could be looking at it because I don't think he's going to monopolize the whole entire economy like Chevy or Ford would because they're not going to be billed out by the U.S. They already pay him for his GPS system subscription monthly.  And he's also got deals. He's also got deals to build charging stations for all of them. So yeah, he's monopolizing. Nash Cowboy, what do you think? Does anyone ever be careful in the race to electric vehicle supremacy or disaster number one? I think they're just going to stay number one. He's got such a wide gap on him right now and him going to be helping others in the race. There's going to be some payback on a lot of things. Obviously, they're going to get some technology and everything from him. So it's just like anything. He who has the most data wins. Elon has the most data. Elon is the data. We're in a technical world and that goes for anything. You build an app. He who has the most data wins because everything else is kind of built off of that. They've already had trial and error and we need to do it this way. It's hard for them to come up and catch up. So I don't think anybody will pass it now. With that all that being said, I love driving electric cars, but I don't think they're more green. I like combustion, man. I like the sound of that. Let's hear from you. This is the last comment, guys, because we're now in a world-wide influence. Number one in the world will not be beat. Contracting, charging stations, helping everybody out. People are going to be paying him. So the more that they make the more they're going to pay him and the more he's going to go up, not to mention his own program. I'm talking a four to five trillion dollar Tesla in the future. No problem. He's going to be ahead. Guys, thank you so much for joining us today. Everybody, guys, we've been live for an hour. Thank you so much for joining us today. I want to say thank you to King Earl for joining us today. Blaze, Nash Cowboy and Mark and Maverick. Thank you guys for joining me on your Saturday. I really appreciate it. I will have a link to all of your guys YouTube channels in the description of this video. So please whoever's watching, go and subscribe and follow all of our co-hosts. Thank you guys for joining us today, man. I really appreciate you guys and enjoy the rest of your day, gentlemen. Good to see you guys. We're glad to see you all healthy and tracking along. You know what I mean? 100%. And I just want to let everyone know that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we've talked about or discussed. Past performance is not always an indication of future results. And remember, there's always a bull market and a bear market somewhere. Our job is to find it. And over here, when you watch our show, you're going to learn about the most trending topics every single week on the Bull and Bear Show. Episode number 10. Have a great day, everybody. Thanks guys for joining and we'll see you guys next week. Peace. Later guys.


Hi, my name is Russell and I'm a librarian at the University of Alabama. Today we're learning how to create customized reports in Vivex, a database that allows users to see advertising expenditure by brand and other variables across 18 media types in national and local media markets. To get to it, start at lib.ua.edu and click on the databases link. Then, search for or browse to Vivex. From the Vivex home page, we can create custom reports or view previously created reports. Click on the new button under custom reporting. Let's build our report. Different users build reports in slightly different ways. Here I will be explaining how I've built custom reports, but if you are advised to build it differently, that is of course fine too. Setting aside the layout of the report for now, first we will select our media channels and market. The media market you select will dictate which media you can choose. If you pick only the national market, total U.S., you won't be able to pick local media like outdoor or local magazines. You can, however, select both national and several local media markets if you want to look at all possible media channels. For this demo, I'm going to pick total U.S. as my market. Then for media, I'll pick several national media channels. Network TV, cable TV, magazines, business to business magazines, national newspapers, network radio, and internet display. Next, we'll select the tab that says brand slash categories. Here you'll have a great deal of freedom to select a number of products, brands, companies, categories, and so on that will show up in your custom report. For the sake of simplicity, I'll be looking at just brands in this video. For example, if I'm interested in pizza restaurants, I can refine my search for brands and search for a big name like Pizza Hut. This search gives us four results, all of which Pizza Hut is in the name. To differentiate between them, I can click this information icon, which will display the brand's parent company, advertiser, products, and competitors. I'm really only interested in the Pizza Hut brand itself, so I'm going to click on it and hit add. If we want a list of competing brands, there are a couple of things we can do. I can go ahead and search under brands for dominoes and add that to the report. We can also see what other brands are in the same category. We still have dominoes selected in the top box, and from here I'm going to use the drill feature. Drill lets you move between the different categories and products from the search dropdown menu based on the item you have selected. From here I'm going to select categories. Vivex has three categories for dominoes. The one I'm most interested in is pizza restaurants and delivery services. To see what other brands are in this category, I can select it and drill back down to brands. After drilling back to brands, I can see there are 220 brands in the same category. This way you could potentially find other brands that you would want to include in the same report. I'm not going to include all 220 brands in this report, but I will select a few to add. After choosing the brands, we'll select our time periods. With calendar selected, we can specify either a fixed time period such as the first quarter of 2023, or a more fluid time period like the last six months. I'm going to select the year 2022 as my specified time period. Now let's return to the layout. We need to decide how the advertising data will be sorted and how it will be measured. I want to see how much money each brand spent on advertising their various products, so I'll select brand and product. The order of this sorts list is important, so I will put brand on top so that all of the products are nested under their designated brand. For measures, I want to see how many dollars were spent, so I'm only selecting dollars. This next part is very important. Under column slash type, I need to select media instead of time period. This will ensure that I am seeing how advertising expenditures were divided amongst the media types we previously selected, like network TV and internet display. The report that we will ultimately see will have the brands and products of pizza restaurants as the rows and the different media formats as the columns. Lastly, there is the report summary. Here you can look over the report to make sure it has everything you intended to select. You will need to enter a report name. While the report access is set to private, anyone from the University of Alabama who accesses this database will be able to see the report. Now let's run the report. At this point, if you've selected any media that will not work with the media market or markets you've selected, the database will give you an error. Go back and remove the media that's causing the error and try again. Once you run the report, you will be taken to the report results list, and you can see the report with the date and time it was submitted. After waiting a minute or so, hit refresh on the page, and it will show that the report is completed. To look at the report, click the drop-down menu under actions and select view PDF. Here we have the advertising expenditures by product from the brands we selected. When looking at the report, it's important to note that the expenditures are listed in thousands of dollars. If we want just the brands without the products, we can go back and edit the report under report specs list and click the drop-down menu under actions. From there, we'll select edit and make the changes we need before running it again. That's all for now. Thanks for watching! As always, if you have any questions, get in touch by going to ask.lib.ua.edu to ask a librarian.


Hey friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome to a brand new series that will be coming out Immediately right now. This is the first episode and that is my new barbecue series We are gonna talk all things on the grill all things barbecue all things for the beautiful Outdoors all the good stuff that you can cook on your barbecue throughout the summer. That is ww friendly I cannot wait to share some of my favorite grilling recipes with you wait until you see what I have in store So if you are a big advocate of one of those You're absolutely going to love this video So if you want to see the first recipe that I have to share with you on the brand new barbecue all about the girl series All you have to do is keep watching It's Thursday, and I'm going to get our meat marinating so that it can sit Overnight and all day tomorrow so that we can have our first edition of the summer barbecue series on this channel So I'm going to be marinating some steak So what you're gonna need to do your marinade is you're going to need a Ziploc bag You're going to need whatever meat you want. I'm gonna go ahead and use some London broil You're going to need a quarter cup of water Some olive oil and whatever marinade mix that you want to use. I'm gonna go ahead and use this grill mates mesquite I'm gonna go and chop up my meat put everything into the bag here And I'll show you exactly how to prepare the marinade so that it can sit all night and all day And we should have deliciously flavored steak to go on our kebabs So the first thing you're going to do is go ahead and add your one quarter cup of water to your Ziploc bag That way you can reuse the quarter cup for one quarter cup of olive oil Then you're gonna add in your mesquite marinade give that a good shake And then you're gonna add in your cut-up meat shake that all around make sure your meat It's nice and covered by the marinade so let me add everything to my bag And I will show you what the meat should look like before it sits in the fridge for it However long you want to get nice and marinated Once you add everything to your bag give it a good shake make sure your meat gets fully covered in the marinade I'm gonna pop this in the refrigerator, and I will be back tomorrow to show you our first edition of Our barbecue season. We're gonna make some steak and veggie kebabs So I just got home from work, and we are gonna get our kebabs on the barbecue So our marinated steak is looking delicious. You're of course going to need some skewers for your kebabs We are going to put zucchini Cremini mushrooms and red onion on our actual kebabs And then we are going to barbecue up some asparagus and yes some broccoli broccoli comes out delicious on the barbecue So I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna prepare the foil pack for the vegetables We'll get the veggies chopped up and get everything loaded onto the skewer So the first thing that we need to do is wash our mushrooms. We're not going to chop these at all We're also going to chop up our red onion into pretty good-sized chunks We're also going to chop our zucchinis And then we're going to just chop the stem off of our asparagus And then we are ready to get our foil packed veggies going and get all of this good stuff Loaded on to our kebab skewers Next we're ready to assemble our kebabs So you're going to need a skewer a tip on kebabs is you always want to put a piece of meat Both at the bottom of your skewer and at the top that just helps all the veggies and everything stay on So next I'm going to go ahead and skewer a mushroom a zucchini and Then you can just take a big chunk or a couple big chunks of your red onion I'll usually do two and kind of stagger them on my kebab So that is what my kebab is going to look like Loaded with everything and then I'm just going to repeat that by adding another big chunk of meat mushroom zucchini a Couple of good-sized slices of red onion and again I'm going to go ahead and kind of stagger those and then I'm going to top off my skewer with one more piece of meat and That is what our completed skewer is going to look like look at how delicious this looks I'm just going to set this aside here on my cutting board And I'm going to assemble the rest of our skewers and we'll be ready to foil pack up our veggies and There are the kebabs Look at how yummy these look We're going to go ahead and set these aside And we are going to get ready to foil pack up all of our veggies And then we're going to not only season our veggies, but we're also going to go ahead and season our kebab So grab some foil grab some seasoning will foil pack these up with a little bit of olive oil And then we'll be ready to get everything on the grill So to do our vegetables you're going to grab two even size sheets of foil You're going to go ahead and take your veggies I'm going to kind of spread out the asparagus and then we're also going to do some broccoli So I'm just going to kind of spread that out evenly on the foil I know once you spread out your broccoli and your asparagus onto your foil I'm going to go ahead and spray some of the avocado oil spray Just a little bit over the top of my veggies rather than using olive oil It'll make the arveggios zero points. I'm also going to sprinkle a little bit of salt over our vegetables Kind of season them to your liking I'm also going to go ahead and add a little bit of ground black pepper And then lastly I'm going to go ahead and add some of the Dax Which is a salt-free seasoning. It is so good. This is the citrus grove So this seasoning has no salt and what is in here is spices lemon peel lime peel and orange peel So this is a perfect seasoning for vegetables. If you're interested in picking up some Dax I do have a 10% discount code I will put that here on the screen and it will be linked down in the description box below But all of their seasonings are salt-free and they are all so good. So that's it for our veggies So you're going to take your other sheet of foil Place it over the top and you're just going to kind of roll that up and essentially we're making a foil boat or a foil pack For our veggies and then that way it's super easy to flip over as well On the grill once one side, you know, it's cooked for a while We can easily pick this up and flip it over to the other side. So our veggies are ready to go Next we're going to go ahead and season our kebabs just a little bit more You did see the delicious marinade that I put on there.  So again, it's going to pair really nicely With the mesquite that I have on the marinade of the meat So I'm just going to give the veggies mainly a quick shake of the Dax red mountain rub And we are ready to get these onto the barbecue Kebabs are on the grill. These are looking good vegetable pack on the top rack So we'll be flipping the kebabs and the vegetable pack as they're cooking Here are the completed kebabs for tonight So everything looks really good and then our foil packed broccoli and asparagus. So this is zero Smart points the only thing you have to count points for on the kebabs is the London broil Which is essentially one point for one ounce and then I am going to count an additional point For the marinade because I did use the olive oil. So let me get my dinner plated up I'll show you the completed dinner and give you the smart points So here is my completed dinner So I have some broccoli some asparagus and I'm going to have two kebabs I am going to count my kebabs as six smart points I'm not sure exactly how much London broil I have probably not quite six ounces But I'm going to safely count them as six plus one point for the olive oil for a total of seven Smart points. So this is going to be my barbecue grilled out seven smart point dinner Thank you for joining me on my brand new barbecue all about the grill series I hope that you enjoyed seeing these kebab recipe. It was so good. We are huge kebab people They are healthy. They're low points. They are filled with flavor and that grilled broccoli was Amazing. So if you enjoyed this recipe, I'd love it if you'd give this video a thumbs up If you're new to my channel, please take a moment subscribe hit the notification bell That way you won't miss a single Solitary barbecue video coming down the pipe as well as all of the other WW friendly videos that I share here on my channel Again, thank you for watching comment down below Let me know if you're going to try this kebab recipe and I'll see you guys Next time in the barbecue on the grill. Bye


Hello, welcome everyone to another International Relations Capsule for the Shankar IAS Academy. Today, we discuss the recent summit of the two most powerful men in the world, President Biden and President Xi. This happened last week, precisely 16th of November, and they spoke for 3.5 hours. Of course, the interpretation was not simultaneous, so the interpreters took half the time, but still they must have spoken for 2 hours and the atmosphere was reasonably good. What were the concerns of these two leaders when they decided to meet? It appears that it was President Biden who suggested it, and that too just a few days after President Xi was declared equivalent to Mao Zedong in Chinese history. Not only that, the possibility for his becoming President for life was made clear, and he was called the helmsman and the core leader of the Communist Party of China. So President Xi was at the height of his glory, while President Biden on the other hand had his rating very low. But the White House spokesperson said that President Biden was going to talk to President Xi from a position of strength, because he was building up his alliances in the last few months. So he was, according to the White House, he was feeling good about the kind of alliances that he had gathered in the last few months, and he was ready to meet the helmsman of China. So what is it that was achieved? In my view, there are two points very clear. China is seeking to be equal to the United States. It seems to have given up for the time being, winning over the United States was overtaking it, because repeatedly President Xi spoke about equality between the two superpowers. The second, they both seem to suggest that they both could control international affairs in the future. They kept saying that if we agree, we work together, we can make sure that the international situation remains stable. So in other words, a kind of G2, group of two, you know, we have what about group of 77, group of 20, group of five, et cetera, here, the emergence of a group of two. In other words, they are saying that they are the big powers, and it is their relationship which is going to keep a balance in the world. So these were the main trends that I saw in it, more than anything else. And also, one could say that what they settled was not for cold war, but for cold peace. Because both of them said that we don't want a cold war. But it was obvious that they were not going to have peace, peace itself, but some kind of an uncomfortable peace, but neither of them was wanting to go to war. Of course, we don't have any full account of what they talk to each other, but we have only tidbits from various conversations, various reports, various articles, et cetera. So a couple of quotes have come out from all this. Presidency is supposed to have said to President Biden that China and the US should respect each other, coexist in peace, pursue win-win cooperation, and manage domestic affairs well while shouldering international responsibilities. So there is not suggesting any kind of conflict, but cooperation, common responsibilities, and respect each other. President Biden, on the other hand, talked about our responsibility as leaders of China and the US. Again, more or less the same sentiment that the competition between our two countries should not veer into conflict, whether intended or unintended, just simple straightforward competition. And he asked for what he called guardrails so that any competition does not descend into any kind of conflict. Another point which came out was that President Xi questioned the claim of the United States hitting the democratic movements of the world. He questioned the ideology of democracy itself and explained that democracy is not mass-produced with a uniform model. So he said that democracy, no country can claim a patent for democracy. In other words, President Xi believes that his own rights has happened because of the will of the people and as much a democracy as anybody else. So these are the some fundamental points which have come out from various statements at various courts which we have received from the conference. But the main theme of the conference or both sides were trying out each other's position on Taiwan because recently a United States team of lawmakers visited Taiwan to discuss supply of new advanced arms and ammunition to Taiwan. So the problem is that the United States believes in one China policy like we do. In other words, Taiwan is theoretically part of China. But at the same time, United States says that Taiwan has the right to protect itself and it will not allow the situation of two units of China remaining as they are. No change should be brought about by unilateral action by China. So it was very clear from China's probing President Biden. He got the impression that if China were to attack Taiwan as something to believe it might, there would be definitely a reaction from the US. And that message, he got it clear. But at the same time, they did not go further into that. And that's why I said it is kind of cold peace. Both understood the dangers of confrontation. Both understood the value of maintaining the status quo as well as Taiwan and China are concerned. And therefore they measured each other and decided that there was nothing to be done at the moment. But China made it very clear that it has now become second most powerful in the country. And China expects that the United States will understand it and realize it. Of course, both of them agreed that there should be economic competition rather than trade wars. Cold war or trade war would be detrimental to both. Which of course is good news for the rest of the world because neither of them is thinking of war at this point. President Biden has a record of not having created any crisis or conflicts in the last 10 months that he has been president of the United States. And therefore, even in the case of North Korea, he has not taken an aggressive position. So on the whole, he has taken a peaceful face. And even when he talks about a different opinion with China, he doesn't think that there would be any kind of conflict. President Xi also wanted to cooperate with the US if it did not interfere in its internal affairs. President Biden is supposed to have raised the question of human rights in Hong Kong, which is now part of China. And also in Xinjiang province, which is within China, and President Xi naturally opposed such ideas. And he said it was a kind of interference in the domestic affairs and it will not be accepted. So there again, neither of them came to any understanding, but they understood each other very well. But what President Biden understood very clearly was the President Xi's statement that any interference with Taiwan will be playing with fire. These were the exact words he used. So he gave a very strong warning to the United States not to intervene in Taiwan under any pretext. So both sides have been very sensible, one can say, that this exchange did not result in any aggravation of the situation. In fact, one report that came out was that after the summit, the shares of arms manufacturers in the United States and China went down. In other words, people began calculating that there would be no war and therefore people were not willing to invest more in arms manufacturing. That's a good sign. Even a cold peace creates some kind of good feeling. So on the one hand, President Biden had strengthened his alliances, Quad is there, AUKUS is there. So he spoke from a feeling of strength and warning to China that he was now fully prepared to meet in a challenge. At the same time, he did not want to go into that. So the quality is that they spoke about and it is the idea of both of them keeping the peace and keeping the balance in international affairs by their behavior. So they accepted that responsibility, not because anybody is asking them to do so. But between them and the world, of course, is looking at it with some second sense of realism because there is no third country which wants to interfere in these affairs. So as the world's largest economies and permanent members of the Security Council of the Yuan, China and the United States should build, cooperate through better communication is what President Xi asked for, better communication that is what President Xi wanted. And the guard rails, which is President Biden wanted and both these are fairly reasonable and a sound and steady US-China relationship needed for safeguarding peaceful and stable international environment. So even though on the question of Taiwan, there were some strong exchanges of words, perhaps, and also on domestic affairs, human rights etc., there are also strong words. But both of them did not indicate there was going to be a worsening of the relationship between the two countries. So China sees Taiwan as a breakaway province to be reunited with the mainland and on the United States, on the other hand, as a one China policy and therefore cannot claim that Taiwan should be allowed to be independent. So reunification is a desire of all Chinese according to President Xi, but this did not descend into a kind of arguments, I don't know what kind of words they used, but what came out of it was a kind of reasonable acceptance of each other's position. On trade matters, there are very serious issues, but they don't seem to have discussed trade because President Biden had said recently that he was not looking for trade agreements and arrangements for a little time. So maybe they did not discuss it, but apparently President Biden talked about the promise that Chinese have made about importing more American goods because there is a big trade imbalance between China and the United States. But Xi did not protest that, she did not say that they will not import, but at the same time he warned that using the excuse of national security, Chinese companies should not be oppressed. He was probably referring to the arrest of the Huawei leader's daughter who was arrested and kept in Canadian jails for several months. So he considered that as a kind of national security being used in order to suppress Chinese companies and that was also fairly reasonable request. So whether China will import more Chinese goods, it is yet to be seen. So on the whole, this visit was, this conversation was much more reasonable and much more polite than the last meeting of senior officials, including the Secretary of State in Alaska, where the Chinese and the Americans appeared to be on the brink of conflict. They were using strong language against each other and there was no kind of understanding of any of the issues. So in that sense, in the last few months, both seemed to have stepped back from conflict. In the brink of a conflict, they seemed to have stepped back, understood each other's position and deciding to cooperate and not confront each other, not to create war situations. But assuming that both of them have become the leaders of the world and have a heavy responsibility in keeping the peace in the world. And for China, the most satisfying thing is that President Biden treated him as an equal. And he apparently made a request for the conversation and not China. So all this indicate that what we have, we can expect is as I called a cold peace. Nothing very extraordinary about cooperation, but at the same time, not going to a trade war or a cold war. Of course, we would like to know whether the word India came up in these conversations. We have no indication of that. President Biden asked him what President Xi wanted to do in the dark. Maybe not. We don't think they wanted to bring in any other country. But as they say, India was the elephant in the room in a sense, because both of them were very conscious of India's position. India is more or less tied up with the United States for its security. And that would mean India not being particularly friendly to China and they would make their demands. And therefore, when they spoke about peace, security, war, conflict, etc., I'm sure both of them had in mind also the situation of India. So from India perspective, India's perspective also, we can feel comfortable that they are not going to launch into any kind of conflict. And all of us would be allowed to continue peacefully after the pandemic. Because pandemic is a big issue and what kind of trade relationship would be developed between the two countries. And in fact, when the pandemic end are all big questions. But for the time being, the post-COVID, we can't say post-COVID yet. But as we are tapering into a post-COVID world, the signals that have come from United States and China are hopeful. That's all that we can say about the summit. It was a reasonable discussion. They exchanged ideas. They go to know each other better. And they realized also that there was no point in any kind of conflict. But at the same time, they stuck to their positions, particularly on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Xinjiang and so on. So no spectacular successes, but certainly a sense of comfort for the world. Thank you. Russia seems to have given up that dominant role long ago with the collapse of the Soviet Union. So the Chinese leaders keep reminding their people about Russia. They said, we should not make the mistake that Soviet Union made. Because that is something that rings in their ears because both of them have followed the same kind of route to communism. And suddenly a superpower, a recommended superpower collapsed and disappeared, collapsed and disappears. So the Chinese must have been studying whatever was done in the Soviet Union. And they do speak about it also occasionally as a kind of model that they should not follow. So Russia has no reason to feel offended by the Chinese position. And in fact, President Biden seems to worry more about President Putin rather than about President Xi. Because of the possibility of tension in Europe, there are talks about Russia invading Ukraine and things like that. And also Russia has been developing its nuclear weapons. And suddenly China is also expanding its nuclear armaments, some of the reports say. So Russia is not a player anymore. In this G2, we cannot aspire to be a G3. And so Russia will be as comfortable as the rest of us in cooperation between these two powers. You're asking me. I wish I knew. They did not resolve with themselves. Sorry, the United States and China did not resolve it. They cannot resolve it because of the fundamental difference. China believes that that is a fact too. China believes that it's a breakaway land from mainland and should be united. But just as they have accepted separate status for Hong Kong, what they are thinking of would be that. Final solution would be Taiwan will remain an independent or semi-independent state, but at the same time follow Chinese policies and Chinese international view. That may happen. But at the moment, I think both United States and China will be happier leaving Taiwan alone and not provoke any kind of conflict between them. Taiwan itself has been following a policy of a steady relationship with what they call the mainland. But basically they have the intention to be independent sometime or the other. So that cannot be resolved easily. Well, this is an old issue. It's not a present issue or anything. I don't think there was any kind of discussion on such things. But UNSG, sorry, NSG, we have a permanent waiver. And therefore there is really no reason for us to fight for membership of the NSG. Because I remember I was engaged in those negotiations when the United States informed us that they would welcome India to NSG. Originally all NSG members were against India entering. But the United States said that they will try to get India into NSG. And in that context, they pushed one or two other groups on us, which we were not particularly interested like the Convention of the Convention of the Australia Group on Chemical Weapons, Chemicals, etc. We are not very keen on that. But they promised all these together, four of these groups including NSG and then found that the other three went through while NSG remained because China vetoed it. Because China said that unless you sign the NPT, you cannot be in NSG. They are right in that sense because NSG is based on NPT. So unless we become a member of the NPT, we cannot be in the NSG. And my personal view is that we need not worry about it because we have a permanent unconditional waiver of the NSG conditions. So what we think is that we join NSG that will also be party to the decision-making of the NSG. That may be good, but that is not achievable. China is always a direct threat to India. There is no question about it whether they cooperate or not. But they are cooperating is better for us because there will be an atmosphere of peace rather than war. And if they are in conflict, naturally we will be drawn into it. So China being a threat to India will remain whatever be their relationship with the United States is. But if the atmosphere is that of peace, then China will also be perhaps more amenable to settling our border question and becoming friendly with India again. That's a distant future. But the Chinese threat to India will not be affected either way by this summit or US-China relationship. Well, our approach will definitely be that these two countries should coexist. President Trump's approach was more helpful to us because he was openly supportive of India. And at a very crucial moment in Ladakh, he forced disengagement on China by supporting India to the hilt. He and his Secretary of State were very open. And at that time, Quad was also emerging, not simply as a dialogue but as a major military alliance. So that was what President Trump was pushing for. And therefore, we got a very good support at that time. And that may be the reason why the Chinese agreed to disengage. But now we know that they are not so able to disengage. So that means what suited was President Trump's approach. But we have no quarrel with President Biden's approach either because if he is proposing coexistence, India would also be very happy as long as there is no interference or there is no aggression. And gradually we can move towards the demarcation of the border. And that is our objective. Demarcate the border and have a peaceful cooperative relationship with China. But how realistic it is, we will see. But that has nothing to do with the US position. But the Biden approach has made China less, shall we say, friendly to India. Because China's position on the border has not changed. We have some assumed talks at the commander's level again. But we haven't heard anything much about this engagement because that is very important for us. And therefore, that is what we will be pursuing. And so if President Trump was there, perhaps China would have initially more cooperative with India, I feel. But anyway, that is an academic question now. Now we have to deal with Biden's approach. And that does not seem to be against our interests. Yes, but definitely we'll order more arms from Russia. That is very clear because Russia expects us to maintain a balance between our arms from the West and arms from Russia. And it is when we reduce our arms purchases that Russia shows its disappointment. It happens the last time, two or three years ago, when Putin was in India. There was some unpleasantness because we had not purchased new arms. And with the S-400, that complaint has disappeared. And without provoking American action or sanctions, we'll probably remain within the limits of those possibilities. But S-400, it appears that there will be a waiver for us. That is the indication. That is why the Russians have announced that S-400 missiles have started arriving in India. And by the end of the year, the first batch will be assembled. And the Americans have not reacted to that yet. So we can believe that S-400 will be no sanctions. And we will continue to purchase arms from Russia. So there's nothing else. Thank you very much. We'll meet again next week.


That's Kathy Rayleigh. I'm gonna bring in Hannah Ash first because Kara's been up before this season. So Hannah Ash gets to be first on the hot seat this afternoon. She joins us after a Mustangs win. What you just heard from your coach about what it is that she's so appreciative of you for and what you do defensively. What does that mean to you? It definitely means a lot. I've learned a lot from the girls before me from a lot of the upperclassmen so I'm glad that I can kind of step into their shoes a little bit this year as a senior and as a captain. These girls are young so I'm just trying to teach them everything that I know before I have to head out of here and they're doing wonderful things. We had a talk this week after the hood game which was a little bit disappointing about just getting it together. We all need to step up. These are huge games ahead of us and we need to be very very much prepared. So you guys suffered a tough one on Wednesday. The bounce back. Tell me what the last couple of days were like. Tell me how it is that you came out pretty much out of the shoot in the first quarter and looked like a completely different team today. I guess starting from the beginning we were all very like disappointed in the loss against hood and you know like that happened sometimes. It's very much a learning experience. We learned a lot. So having a talk as a team and really setting goals for ourselves is what we did like coming into this game today. So we had three goals. Improvement on 50-50 balls. Free positions and 1v1s offensively and defensively which we felt were our shortfalls in the hood game. So coming out today I think we really did meet those goals and I think it's important that going forward we do need to set these kinds of goals for every game and everyone stepped up to the plate and did their job today. That was clear. That was clear right out of the shoot. Now you know what's coming up on Wednesday and it gets no easier for this team. What is the message? So job done today. What's the message now coming out of a win to make sure you're ready for a huge game on Wednesday? We definitely can't let our foot off the pedal. We have to keep rolling and we have to keep coming out strong. I think the most important thing for us right now is watching film and reading our scout and really understanding what the game plan is going to be. Once we have an understanding of that and I think we did that very well with minor today. Once we have a really deep understanding of that what we need to do reading our personnel. I think that that's going to really just propel us into these wins. I think we need to think smarter and be supportive of our teammates which is something also I think that we lacked at Hood which we made up for today. So we've been trying to get to know everybody better this season. First of all I learned and I don't use it enough. I learned that it's just hash is what everybody calls you right. How long has that been going on? Since I was a freshman there were four Hanna's so each Hanna had like their own name and I just got hash because my locker said H-Ash. What's Zimmer's then? What's like which one is hers? Zim. Alright okay I mean these aren't exactly like. Yeah, no. Not super elaborate. Just something to go along. I want to know from you what is your so during the rain delay the staff up here was making TikToks. What's your go to what's your favorite TikTok dance craze? I can't even say that I participate that's more Kara's forte. We're gonna put her on the spot then in a second so I'll give because I've given Kara this before give me the last show that you binge watched. Game of Thrones. Okay all right that's not a bad one. That's not a bad one. That's not bad. But it's okay. Really disappointing at the end. Alright and then who do we need to give a shout out to? Who do you want to make sure you say hello to? Thank for everything they've done for you. I'm very grateful that my parents were here today. They haven't made it in a couple days so looking up in the stands and seeing like my parents there was really nice. That's awesome. Hanna H-Ash congratulations and a great win. We'll see you back Wednesday. Thank you.