Meat Boy is back and in spirit of the Super Bowl, we are making a carnivore meatza, a pizza, and this can be carnivore keto depending on how strict you are with your diet. Let's go over the ingredients. The two base ingredients for this crust, if you want to stay 100% carnivore, are meat and eggs. I'm using organic brown chicken breast, very lean, you could use turkey breast, it's a little more affordable. Whatever meat you use, you could use pork, you could use beef, this will taste strongly of that meat. This pizza actually tastes like chicken parmesan. If you use beef, it might taste like a cheeseburger, you use pork, I don't know what it's going to taste like. I'm using chicken because it's very mild and we just need to blend one egg in it. If you only have access to supermarket eggs, I would go organic omega 3 eggs. These might even be better than the pasture raised eggs but of course if you can go to a local farm and get this stuff, that is your best bet. If you want to mix cheese into the pizza crust, you can, if you're allergic to dairy, you don't have to. I'm going to use some cheaper pecorino romano, if you're on the bougie side you could grate some fresh parmigiano reggiano, whatever cheese you have. You can even put quite a bit of mozzarella cheese in this. You could use half mozzarella cheese, half organic chicken breast, and it will taste more like a pizza because it will be less chickeny. One thing I think is mandatory is oregano. Oregano is a very classic pizza flavor. I put a lot of this in the crust and you could also throw a clove of garlic in here if you like. Depends on how strict you are with your diet, with your seasonings, and of course we're going to throw a little salt in here for the crust. For the toppings, I'm keeping it really simple today. This is organic strained tomatoes. This is my favorite brand that I've tried. Really delicious, nice and sweet, just put it on top and we're going to grate some fresh parmigiano reggiano and here I have some ruch header from a local farm. You could use a mozzarella whatever you'd like. The reason I'm not too enthusiastic about using a higher quality cheese in the crust is because this is going to get baked in a very hot oven for a long period of time whereas this cheese that we're grating on top isn't going to be heated as much so we preserve more of the integrity of the flavor of the nutrition. Equipment wise, parchment paper is kind of mandatory here for the crust. The food processor helps a lot, you might not need it, and we have a rolling pin. Now you could mix this by hand but a food processor makes it a whole lot quicker and easier. One pound of the ground chicken breast, this is actually like eight dollars. I'd rather use more affordable grass fed ground beef to be honest. But again, the chicken is much more approachable for kids, for the average person. One of the organic omega-3 eggs and we're going to add half a cup of the pecorino romano. And I'm going to add a tablespoon of dried oregano. Now we want to blend this up to form an emulsion. It's going to get really, really sticky. What that's going to do is after we bake this, it's going to have the consistency of a dough. It's going to stay together, it's not going to crumble apart. You guys can see it's like all balled up together. That means it's sticking together and it's done. As you guys can see the consistency of this, like glue. Very hard to work with, but that's exactly what we want. The parchment paper makes this really easy and simple. We just take our mixture, spread it out here. All that we do now is form it into a somewhat even rectangular shape and if you had a really large piece of parchment paper or perhaps used less mixture, you can make this a really nice shape and as with cooking for yourself, cooking for your family, you know it doesn't have to be perfect. If you're cooking for guests and you want this to be really nice, this is where the time investment matters. Getting this dough as perfect as possible on this parchment paper will reflect the upcoming aesthetic. Now we take the other piece of parchment paper and put it on top.  Now we're going to take our rolling pin and very carefully and gently start rolling this out. If you press this too much, what's going to happen is you're just going to flatten it in certain spots and it's going to be way too thin. So the goal here is just spread this as evenly and thinly as possible across the parchment paper. This looks pretty good to me and all we do is slide this onto a sheet tray. You don't really have to do this, but if you want a nice crispy bottom, you put the oven as hot as it goes. In my case, 550. We're going to put this sheet tray upside down like this in the oven and we're going to leave it at 550 for like 15, 20 minutes and get it as hot as possible. Park cook this and then slide it onto that to get it crispier on the bottom. So let's put this in the oven. 5, 10 minutes, we'll be able to take the parchment off. We'll take that out. Cool. And then we'll slide it onto the hotter bottom. All right. It's been a few minutes. Yeah. It looks like we can take the parchment paper off. The chicken has definitely solidified. So now I'm going to close this, we'll let that get hot and we'll see if we could like flip this over onto that. So this is the game plan. Take this really hot sheet tray, put it like this. You hear that sizzle? Flip this over. Take this top off, take that off at 50 on the hot sheet tray. And if that doesn't give us a nice crispy bottom, nothing will. It's been about 10 minutes. I just want to check the temperature of the dough. It's about 160. We don't want it to really be much higher than that for chicken breast.  So we don't really want to cook it too much longer. Otherwise it'll get really, really dry. So I'll switch the oven to high broil and we'll take this out. If we take a look underneath, maybe a little browning, nothing too crazy though. Now you can keep this pretty much carnivore. Everything so far has been carnivore with the exception of the oregano. So if you don't want to add tomatoes, you know, you could slice up some sausage. Here I have some Iberico sausage that would be delicious.  You can make all types of white sauces that are completely carnivore animal based. That being said, I don't think tomato sauce is going to hurt someone, especially, you know, bio nature, organic, straight tomatoes, really high quality stuff. And this is for my sister, not for myself. So what we're going to do here is just put this on top, spread it out. And just like you can add garlic and all types of different seasonings to the dough and you could drizzle some olive oil on here. You could grate some garlic on here as well.  I don't know. That's not pizza. I don't know what's up with you guys on that one. Some of you guys with the buffalo chicken stuff. And I'm going a little heavy on the tomato sauce because again, it's heavily chicken flavored. So we want to add a lot of tomato sauce and cheese. Now I'm going to take the oregano and I really want to rub it between my fingers to extract the oils as I drizzle it on the sauce here. Really reinforce that classic pizza oregano flavor. And this is where the quality makes a huge difference. This is DLP Parmigiano Reggiano, arguably one of the best cheeses to come out of Italy. This is a very classic pizza topping. It's usually put on in small amounts before the mozzarella in good pizza places. And when you grate it fresh like this, you really get a lot of that flavor.  You go tinier on the side. It's up to you guys. You could even do like chunks and pieces like that, get nice crispy, salty bits, make a mess, get cheese all over your counter. And yes, you do have to grate the cheese yourself. That's what makes it really, really good, really, really tasty. An all raw dairy, you know, has plenty of fat, soluble vitamins, minerals, elements.  So this is a cheddar we have on Frankie's three range meat. I didn't have mozzarella and you know, this is delicious too. So some of you guys might be thinking cheddar on pizza, well grilled cheese with tomato soup is pretty classic. Plus mozzarella is never raw. When you have a raw cheese, it preserves more of the nutrients.  And we want to cover up the chicken flavor. So that's good. Just high broil for a few minutes to melt the cheese. It's been about two minutes. Looks good. And the pan distorts from the heat just in time. That looks great guys. You don't want to melt it too much. You see the cheese is getting really oily. Here's our pizza boys. I'm still maintaining my garage figure, but apparently it was my brother's good cooking. I can't resist it. I could shove his whole face in every...  I like this. You ready to try it? If you guys are missing pizza, this will definitely scratch that edge. Honestly, I don't really taste the chicken. Nope. And if you don't put salt in the crust of the chicken, it will probably make it even more subtle as I could eat like this whole thing. Perfect for bodybuilding. It's very good. Very light. I could eat three, four pieces right now. It tastes so good. Second slice. I will say despite the crust being made from meat, it is very light compared to regular pizza. And there is no reason you couldn't eat this every night. Organic chicken breast, Parmesan cheese, eggs, raw cheese, all super high quality, super healthy ingredients. It's not like some past recipes we did like carnivore cheesecake where you have to be a little bit reasonable with it to not gain weight. I think you'll be okay with this. My healthy troubleship cookie recipe definitely packs on a few pounds. Just one more slice, Gina. We had a test pizza earlier and she ate half of it, so for her to eat half of this pizza too is... Let's see how many slices I can fit in my mouth.  Mm-hmm. Cakes are going to be so good. What's your favorite thing so far? This pizza. She says everything's her favorite. Last week it was the chicken cordon bleu. The week before it was, what do you have, cheesecake or something, Gina? You remember the cheesecake? I don't think you ever made me cheesecake, did you? Gina, you were on video eating the cheesecake like a month ago. Oh, now I remember. You make me more cheesecake. So she's probably not a reliable source of objective tasting, but... So good. I love the cheese. Look how gooey that is. And I just stepped in sauce. That was great. Yeah. That's right, Gina. You can roll around and like the piggy you are. And now I'm going to slap him with a slice of pizza next. So thank you guys for joining us today. If you'd like to buy some raw cheese, we have it available on Frankie's Free Range Meat. Rest of this stuff can be found in your local grocery store. Hey, maybe you want to try a beef crust with our local ground beef from Frankie's Free Range Meat. If you guys haven't seen it, definitely check out my collab with Blair Walnuts. I will be linking that at the end here. It's a really funny video, guys. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday. Bye-bye.


This is Mises Weekends with your host Jeff Deist. Welcome back once again to Mises Weekends. We're featuring a video this week instead of a guest interview with Patrick Byrne, who's actually going to be the keynote speaker at our upcoming event in San Diego in two weeks. So if any of you are in the Southern California area, there's still time to register for that at mises.org slash events. Patrick, many of you probably know, is the founder and CEO of Overstock.com, but he's actually much more than that. He holds degrees from Dartmouth and Stanford and Cambridge, actually a PhD from Stanford. He's very deep on a broad variety of topics. He can talk about Eastern religion, Austrian economics, e-commerce and supply chain, but especially blockchain technology, which is where his heart is, and he's personally invested in some technology that's going to bring blockchain to a whole host of transactions that currently require titling and lawyers and that sort of thing. This is a fascinating talk longer than our usual weekend show, but absolutely worth your while. We think we're doing something quite disruptive, that we're building something quite disruptive. And I'll start with, there's a conservative writer, he's out at Hoover, Francis Fukuyama, who wrote a book about, called Trust that says that the reason, and this was written in the mid-90s, and it was the reason Germany and Japan and the United States do so much better than companies like Italy and China, is that it's a question of trust.  You only trust people in your own family. And so economic enterprises can't get bigger than, told her some, okay, great, can't get bigger than really one big family can run, and Italy kind of runs the same way. And the same way, and the theory, Fukuyama said, was that handcuffs the size of enterprises and hence the efficiency and the ability of the economy to grow. What's left out of his analysis, but what's left out of his analysis is the problem of centralized institutions. And the problem of centralized institutions is they get captured. Regulatory capture is much more a feature of the political process. Regulatory capture came out in 1972, I think, a friend of Milton Friedman's, George Stigler, wrote about this. I think that may, it's the first formal description of which I'm aware. But it's the tendency, we set up regulators to protect us from certain industries, not remembering that those regulators have a tendency to become captured by those industries and turned against us. The SEC being but one example that comes to mind. And there's even possibility of deep capture, which is that they capture not just the regulator, but the political process and the journalists and even academics. I have a website called, which Dr. Slano mentioned, DeepCapture.com, which investigates this in the U.S. and has won all kinds of awards for investigation of corruption in the United States. The problem with captured centralized institutions is that they generate what John Kenneth Galbraith called the bezel. And I'm reminded of somebody once said, all great economists are tall, with the exception of Milton Friedman and John Kenneth Galbraith, which the economists will get here. Galbraith was a terrible economist. But he did have this, he did have a, his idea of the bezel was that at any given point, if you could freeze time and ask everybody what they had in the financial system and add it up, you would get this and you look at what's actually there and there's only this much there and the difference is the bezel. It is the amount that has been embezzled from society and has accumulated the bezel. I became a believer about a decade ago that there's quite a bezel built into our financial system. The essence of the crypto revolution is that it can solve that problem. In fact, one way to think of it is for 6,000 years of recorded human history, we've always faced a choice. Do we want, when we have our consensual exchange, do we want to go peer to peer or in which case trust becomes a factor? Can I trust you? I'm trading you this camel for this gold coin. How do I know you've debased, have you debased the gold coin or not debased the gold coin? So there's, we can go that way or we can have a centralized institution. Somebody, there's a business model. Somebody who has the monopoly on force and this oasis has gold coins minted, stamps his face on them and then if anyone debases that, kills them. That's a way of, that's a business model of monetizing your monopoly on force in a situation. That's one business model, that's one way to do it.  Fortunately or unfortunately, there are a lot of social and political institutions which have as their business model now what I just described and this is going to disrupt them. So I think that this is unlike Al Gore, I was not around quite for the beginning of the internet but I was here a few years after the beginning of the internet and we had an idea we were doing something as big as the Gutenberg Bible. I think the crypto revolution is going to be more significant than that because of the accumulation of our centralized institutions which in one way or another are in the business of since you can't trust each other you need us and crypto and so you have to, you can't have peer to peer, you have to have a central institution. Well, we're going to turn them into a buggy whip manufacturers. We don't need those centralized institutions anymore. I'm going to give you a few examples. Well, there's of course central banking, the central counterparty clearing system which I'll be going into. Here's another, in development economics, there's a, well, long education summarize, I'll even skip this. I used to study development economics and decided it was much simpler than people made it out to be. It's not done from the top down, it's done from the bottom up, grass roots, funds are fundable, in other words, there's a whole lot of money sloshing around in the world of development theory and there's so much graph and it's about women. If you want to, if you want to help the world, it's about women. If you, I remember reading papers on an experiment done in India where you take a village and you take the, a very good way to measure increase in well-being in families. You look at the weight of children in a family and you take one village, you give money to men and you look for increase in the weight of children and the truth is you get nothing, you get no increase in the male income, you get nothing, but as this economist put it, three things, an increase in consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and hookers. And I said that to Buffett once and he said, yeah, yeah, and the rest of it, they're waste. But as a joke, Buffett is a very square, tea-toller guy. But anyway, you take an identical village, you increase the income of women and you immediately get this increase in the weight of children. Women bank calories in their children and the same experiments have been done in Africa and South America and such. It's, development's all about women. But there's a missing foundation. An economist from Peru, Hernando de Soto, who for years argued Mystery of Capital is his big book, that in the West there's a bell jar. Some people live within the bell jar of formal legal rights. And they include rights to private property. And with title to property, an entrepreneur can, you can have an incentive to improve your property to, you can pledge it to a bank and raise capital. You can use the capital to expand your business. However, much of the economic activity in the world goes on outside that bell jar. And there isn't an access to it. And he documents in Haiti and Peru and stuff, you know, in Haiti to get, you may have lived for three generations on a piece of land and built your home and your grandfather, great-grandfather built the home and you've added on. And you don't know, you don't, if you someday the local Generalissimo can show up and say, oh, you don't understand, that's our property. And you never know. And if you try to get property, it might take you 35 years and 400 steps, 400 stamps from petty bureaucrats along the way.  That, so in that kind of a world, there is no incentive to improve your land. There's less incentive to improve your land. And you certainly can't pledge it to a bank to raise capital. Expansionist worded, the capital is dead. He argues that there's, if you had good land titling systems around the world, it would create far, far hundreds of times more capital would be liberated in the developing world than has ever been transferred to the developing world through Western aid, that it's all there. That all we need to do is create land titling systems. Well, the implication for crypto, it is possible. So by crypto, I mean the blockchain. If you've heard of Bitcoin, I assume everyone's heard of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is just one application of a new technology that arose, was described six years ago. It's based on the mathematics of cryptography. And it's basically, just call it the blockchain. The blockchain you can apply towards currency, and you get a cryptocurrency, that's Bitcoin, you can apply it to, I recently was out in Silicon Valley at a company that's working through this. And they have a list of 180 things that the blockchain can be applied towards and that they think they're just going to step through and come up with a crypto alternative to each. It's possible to develop a land titling system that would be robust, incapable of being cheated, and everything would occur within the blockchain. Why that's, and who's working on this now, no one that I can find, closest I can find is Kate and I know some people who work on smart contracts, which would be sort of a step towards this. But the really big idea is combining financial capital with human capital, which is to say Wall Street. We can replace a lot of the functions of Wall Street, or a significant amount of what's done on Wall Street can be moved into the world of crypto. And I'm going to have to go through why this is important and why it's possible. First, you probably all know the efficient market hypothesis, even if I hope no one here agrees with it. But in the efficient market hypothesis, every security has an intrinsic value. And over time, its price is fluctuating around. And you can imagine under one regulatory regime, there's that much noise, that much fluctuation under a different regulatory regime, there's that much fluctuation. And if you add up all the area under the, in yellow, and you add up all the area in green, the area in green is less than yellow, meaning there's less noise in the system. So regulatory regime B is considered to be more efficient. That's the dominant paradigm of our regulators these days. That's their paradigm. However, and in that paradigm, it is not possible to rig the market. You can't manipulate the market. It's more than a, any more than people at a horse track who are playing games in the betting parlor, and I suppose they had some technique in the betting. That, of course, doesn't affect the underlying horse race. That follows from efficient market hypothesis. Turns out it's not true. I'd like to show you what's, this is supposed to be odd. This is that scene in the matrix. Remember when Neo says you can, or Morpheus says you can have the red pill or the blue pill and you take the blue pill, you wake up in bed, believe it and then you want to believe it or the red pill, I'll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. There was a massive scheme. There has been, market manipulation has become a regular feature of our markets. And to give you just one example, if you haven't been reading the papers and reading about the LIBOR scandal and the foreign exchange scandal and the benchmark rigging scandal and so on and naked shorting, et cetera. One of my favorite examples is these are two lawyers, Bill Iraq and Marvin Melvin Weiss. They ran a law firm called Milberg Weiss. Then in 2000, they were the originators of the plaintiff strike class action suit. These suits you hear about where our stock share stock goes down and a law firm files a suit and against the company on behalf of all these plaintiffs. Well, it turns out that they were using shill plaintiffs and the DOJ indictment from 2006 refers to these shill, and you can't in the US law firms, you can't pay people to be shills. Well, the law firm, the DOJ indictment on page 29 says the plaintiff's purchase securities at issue anticipating the securities would decline in value in order to position themselves to be named plaintiffs and security class, fraud class actions. Well, there's something very odd about that sentence. Think about it for a minute. The paid plaintiffs, those are the shills. They purchased securities anticipating the securities would decline in value. How'd they know? It turns out these people were being directed to go out and buy stock in certain companies weeks or a month before suddenly they melted down and these lawsuits could be filed. How'd they know if the market's efficient that you could never have done that? And these guys, Bill Iraq and Marvin Weiss, they're not stock investors, but they were able to send people to specific companies ahead of time, weeks or a month ahead of time and buy their stock and then what do you know, the stock melts down and they could file their lawsuits because they were part of... these guys went to jail, the law firm, it was the eighth largest law firm in America melted down a green span in October 2008 when everything was melting down and they said, what's going on here? He explained to them this thing that the left has jumped on this quote from Greenspan, the left jumped on it to say, oh look, Greenspan shows that markets don't work. There are additional regulatory changes at this breakdown of the central pillar of competitive markets requires in order to return to stability, particularly in the areas of fraud, settlement and securitization. The real problems were particularly in the areas of fraud, say, burning made off, securitization that's mortgage backed securities, but settlement. Settlement is this really important issue and there's someone here, Caitlin Long who knows an awful lot about this, about settlement. It's dull as dishwater but I hope you'll stick with me for five minutes because first, who here owns any stock in any publicly traded company in America? Raise your hand.  None of you own any stock. It's not how the system works. How the system works is suppose you've got grandma buying some stock from a hedge fund who I represent as Gordon Gekko. You think it works like this. Money and stock change hand. That's called settlement but in fact, of course, we know that they don't speak to each other directly. Well, the systems are divorced in the US by which the system only changes hands and stock changes hands. They each are represented by brokers and we think, well, the money in stock goes between accounts between them. That's not even really how it works. All the broker-dealers in America are plumbed into a central organization you've never heard of called the DTCC and the DTCC is where the money and stock changes hands but the truth is it's not even that simple. What's going on is it's all within the DTCC and it just changes hands and accounts within the DTCC and in fact it's even one step more removed from that which is there's a company a subsidiary of the DTCC which owns all the stock in America. Nobody owns any stock but this company it's called CDN Company. This was all set up in 1973 because there was a paperwork crisis on Wall Street and it owns all the stock and then it issues contractual rights I used that stock and so when you have a broker telling you you own 100 shares of IBM what you really have if you read your broker statement the fine print you have a contractual right to some you have a contractual right to a contractual right to a company that actually has the property rights. We laugh at the Soviet Union for having tried to run a society without property rights how could you possibly do that but in our society our property rights have been turned into this system in the last 40 years and they've become our property rights have been sliced diced, circumcised digitized, hypothecated, rehypothecated losing track of who owns what and this shows up this is the common denominator of a number of the scandals you've heard about in the last seven years it comes back to the systems are losing track of who owns what I'll skip the why that had there is fault tolerance in the system and some criminals have figured out how to abuse the fault tolerance to play certain games why it matters is you as Austria will recognize this this is one paradigm of how securities get priced here's another paradigm as their supply demand they meet there's a price if someone can show up and using this fault tolerance create a parent supply in the marketplace they can shift a supply curve and if they can do it enough and especially against a financial company there's ways of breaking the back of a financial stock and that's part of what happened in 2008 and everybody was saying from 2005 to 2008 I had a lot of people saying I was crazy New York Post used to run photos of me with UFOs coming out of my head because I was saying look there's this stuff going on you don't understand and then in 2008 when everything started melting down the SEC went and did exactly what I had been telling them they needed to do for four years it's now become quite a problem the economists aren't writing about it actually I think that I think that in the last two years settlement failures have finally been addressed because it's a national security issue finally some people in the national security establishment have gotten that it's a national security issue and you can't count on the SEC which in my view the SEC is just towel boys for Wall Street they're not up to the game by the way that's why these guys were part of the ring of criminals who were taking advantage of this and because they're part of the ring that's how they knew a month ahead of time or two months ahead of time what companies to set their show plaintiffs up in front of so how can this all I started taking all this data and economists and insiders and people who were really inside baseball kind of guys into explain this on Wall Street and I'm reminded of a line of Bertrand Russell there's a story that Bertrand Russell was once in India teaching Einstein's relativity or something and somebody in Hindu stood up in the back and said I'm sorry professor Russell you have it all wrong the universe rides on the back of a turtle and Russell said okay well what's the turtle ride on and the Hindu cosmology professor said the back of another turtle and Russell said okay well what's that turtle ride on and the guy said I'm sorry professor it's turtles all the way down I started bringing this kind of information with hard data and respected economists explaining this to the NESD FINRA the SEC the US House Banking Services Senate Financial Services the New York Press Corps et cetera et cetera and what I discovered is our establishment was turtles all the way down up until 2008 up until 2008 I was just laughed after 2008 I got a lot of attention and there were a lot of changes and all kinds of actions brought and it's kind of funny because I'll look at some actions brought against people and they'll include whole paragraphs out of papers I wrote eight years ago explaining to some law enforcement people exactly how a certain thing is being done and you know five years later there's somebody you know arrested and there's whole paragraphs out of stuff I wrote that are used in their indictments so I'm happy about that um here's a recent you may have heard of the book flash boys flash boys this recent Michael Lewis book about the flash trading on Wall Street this is how much actual trading how much volume there is on Wall Street over the last tennis years now here's how many quotes there are on Wall Street the difference this is all the flash trading this this doesn't represent any actual activity this is all front running people are front running your orders this is this is nuclear powered front running 90% of the volume now in the market is front running of orders by these computers that are talking back and forth through each other 10,000 times a second so I don't think this is good have Warren Buffett refer to this recently see the regulators like liquidity because under the efficient market hypothesis the more liquidity there is the more selling back and forth there is the more those curves get squeezed down to the intrinsic value so any liquidity is good but Buffett recently said this isn't liquidity this is volume it doesn't really add anything to the marketplace but it's become 90% of the market in fact there was a recent Journal of Finance article that showed the US markets got saturated with liquidity beyond which no liquidity is actually helped in pricing sometime in the late 60s so all this stuff Paul Volcker said back during the crash that the last financial innovation that actually added value to society was the ATM machine nothing else you've heard about since then all these fancy complex derivatives and everything they don't really add any value to society so the current system and I'm drawing to the end Wall Street has centralized settlement high frequency trading its current regulatory environment the shortcomings of these are the centralized settlement is easy to manipulate and the bad guys have figured out how to do it high frequency trading is just a master nuclear powered front running and our regulatory environment has been deeply captured so the simplest solution is to take Wall Street as we know it and drag it behind the barn and kill it with an axe it cannot be fixed nor does it need to be fixed instead we can move this to the blockchain and in the blockchain the virtues of blockchain would be it's peer to peer settlement no centralized settlement, no manipulation egalitarian instead of front running and most importantly there's nothing to capture it's consensus based it's stateless now we have to get the permission of the state to turn it on but we're building this and it's nearly built and when it gets built we'll be turning it on and it's stateless and there's nothing to capture and this is what trading would look like it would be a bitcoin or blockchain trading would look like this it's peer to peer based in the blockchain there's no DGCC to capture none of the games there's no flash trading none of the games that are being played in Wall Street now could be played so this is my next big ambition and I hope you see as a consistent team through this how much of my entrepreneurial activities and drives have actually been informed by the things I've learned over the years from studying Austrian economics so thank you very 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Hello everyone. My name is Dakao Indo, senior professional engineer in Linux development division at Fujitsu, and I'm also a CNCF government board member. At Fujitsu, I'm learning a Linux technical support team, and today I'm going to talk about sustainability transformation with open source. This is a five minute short presentation. Maybe you're trouble. Green one? Okay. Got it. Okay. At first, I introduced a history about the Fujitsu's contribution to open source software. I joined Fujitsu in 2001, and at that time, we just started the contribution to open source software. For example, we started with Linux kernel for mission critical server. And next, the virtualization become important technology, so we contribute to KVM and QM. And next step, the open stack and Kubernetes become a big important technology, so we contribute to open stack and Kubernetes. Especially, we focus on bare metal provisioning, so we contribute to ironing in open stack and metal cube in the CNCF project. And recent contribution, we focus on automotive grade Linux, Yokuto and ARM Linux. Especially, we and we can realize a supercomputer Fugaku based on Linux system. I share details this recent contribution related to ARM and Fugaku. Recently, news about the Fugaku worldwide ranking is broadcasted. Fugaku is successfully detained at top spot for six consecutive term in multiple high performance computer ranking. First place for HPCG and graph 500, and second place for the top 500, and third place for the HPL AI. And based on experience from Fugaku, we get back to open source community, what we learn from Fugaku. I don't have enough time to explain the detail, but we contribute to open MPI and PAPI library for performance improvement, and we also contribute to ARM Linux to implement NMI feature. So, what is the next area? The next 10 years, what we should do? The Fujitsu purpose is make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation. So, we think that driving sustainability transformation through digital innovation is important thing for next 10 years. So, here I introduce one of our challenge for sustainable world, that is Fujitsu monaca. That is called codename or project, which is realize energy efficient CPU under NATO program. The purpose of this project is contributing to realization of carbon neutral society. We will develop with open source software so that existing software can be available. So, through this project, Fujitsu will harness this technology to deliver robust yet environmentally sustainable digital infrastructure that takes full advantage of Fujitsu's strengths in area like computing and networking technologies. So, what I want to say here is Fujitsu challenges with open source community to create more sustainable world through innovation. Thank you for listening and enjoy open source software. Thank you.


Welcome into the Original Gangsters podcast, another quick hitter edition, some breaking news out of New York the last couple days. A global plea has been agreed upon by the remaining hierarchy of the Colombo crime family that were all indicted about two years ago. I'm your host Scott Bernstein, Jimmy Bucciolato will be with us, my co-host, the doctor, will be with us in the in the long form show this week, but today I just want to do a quick breakdown of these plea deals that wraps up 99% of the 2021 racketeering case that brought down the hierarchy, the top brass of the Colombos all tied to the extortion of labor unions. So the top defendant in the case was the boss of the Colombos, one of the remaining, had been one of the remaining staples of the Perseco mafia dynasty, Andy Mushrosso, Mushrosso died a year into the lead up to the adjudication and was locked up and died. He was in his late 80s, they were going after a lot of old timers. So the biggest three remaining defendants were really the meat and potatoes of this global plea and within that plea you have kind of this mystery that has gotten into the ether that is asking the question, who is the boss of the Colombo crime family right now in 2023? Andy Mushrosso died in 2022 and according to this, according to paperwork in this case, first reported on by Jerry Capace over at Gangland News, we tip our hat to the Dean, that the government got it wrong. They thought that Skinny Teddy Perseco was the new boss. It's now come out that he is just a very high ranking capo, very possibly a future boss, but he is not the guy that the government initially thought was taken over for Mushrosso, who he's related to by blood, the Colombo mafia dynasty or sort of say the Perseco mafia dynasty within the Colombo crime family, the patriarch Carmine Perseco, the snake or junior, depending on if you were a friend or foe, he passed away four years ago after leading the family for 40 years, pretty much most of that time being behind bars. He staved off just a earth shaking insurgents back in the 90s that ripped the streets of New York apart with the arena faction, Little Vic Arena challenging in prison Perseco for the throne, about a two and a half year shooting war. Now we have kind of the next generation that's been being groomed for this, which is Skinny Teddy, a nephew of Carmine Perseco, but it looks like his reign hasn't started yet, and the government believed it had, but let's just really quickly break down who else has pled out in this case, what they're looking at in terms of prison sentences, and then we'll finish up by speculating or I'll tell you what I'm hearing in terms of who's the number one shot caller in the Colombo crime family right now, whether that person is keeping the seat warm for Teddy Perseco or not. So with Andy Mushruzo passing away, the top three defendants in the case, Teddy Perseco just talked about Skinny Teddy, Underboss, Benji Castelazo, aka the Claw, 85 years old, and then the number three guy in the family, the conciliary, Ralph Di Matteo, who was about 68, and this is a guy that really kind of came out of nowhere in terms of mob watchers. One of these guys that you didn't even know they were a made guy, at least in terms of federal indictments and whatnot, and then something hits and you realize they're, oh wow, they're in the administration. So Ralph Di Matteo obviously valued counselor and advisor. So all three of those guys have caught please. It looks like Skinny Teddy and Di Matteo are going to do five-year bids. Well, Castelazo looks like he's going to do a two-year bid. And then you also have Vinnie Ricciardo, aka Vinnie Unions, who was the point man, boots on the ground for the labor union, racketeering extortion case. And a lot of these, or this global plea can probably be traced back to Richie Ferrara, who was a capo, who was the person directly overseeing Vinnie Unions, and Richie Ferrara flipped at the end of last year, and that kind of forced the hand, I think, of the defendants. A global plea, if people don't know what that means, it's when all the remaining defendants in the case all agree to a certain plea agreement, and it's done kind of in tandem amongst multiple defendants. So with sentence and recommendations going along accordingly, that's agreed upon before the plea deal. So if Teddy Persico isn't the boss, and he's only been out of prison for a couple years, and part of the plea deal is he's copying to supervise release violations, meeting with members of the Colombo family, well, then who's the boss? So, and I want to credit again, Jerry Capesi, who I can at least maybe two years ago, possibly at some point in the last two years, put out a column talking about the fact that the, if you want to call it the race to succeed, Mush Russo was down to Skinny Teddy Persico and Joe Waverly, who was a longtime Colombo OG, former conciliary, a capo, a guy that shed blood for the family, was wounded in that big war back in 92, and what's interesting is that Joe Waverly was a part of the arena insurrection. He was not, at least at the time of the war, was not a Persico loyalist. So there's a lot of people right now looking back at what Capesi reported two years ago and saying, well, if it's not Skinny Teddy per Capesi's own reporting this past week, then it's probably Joe Waverly. I talked to a number of people that have said that that's what they believe, guys that are either on the streets in New York, in parts of Brooklyn, or guys that are retired, either voluntarily or involuntarily, from the Colombo crime family that were part of the wars back in the day, that still kind of keep in touch with what's going on the street. The hot rumor, I guess, would be that it looks like Joe Waverly has taken the reins, and he came out of prison three years ago, and he's a guy that's been in and out of the can through his kind of bumpy road to the top, but that's what it looks like right now. I can't confirm it. I'm going to do a little bit more digging, but that seems to be the speculation and the best guesstimate, especially based on Jerry's reporting this past week. So keep an eye out for that. Joe Waverly is an old timer. I believe he's in his 80s right now, late 70s at least, and a guy that is, like I said, he's an old G, man. I mean, this guy dates back to the 70s and did some wet work for the Persicos, and was involved in some gangland murders and then some gangland murder conspiracies. He's done his time for that. It looks like he could have been rewarded for that and could be the king of the Persicos right now, but for my betting dollar, I would say it's probably, if we find out that that's true, that it's probably on an acting basis and that Teddy, when he comes back out of prison, Teddy's only 59. So I would predict by his mid 60s, Teddy Persico will be the boss, and the Persico mafia dynasty will extend into the late 2020s, 2030s. Teddy is, he's a gangster to the core from what we hear. A guy that, again, has been being groomed for a long time, knows the rules, has a lot of respect, people fear him, and he's got a lot of loyalists and just based on the fact that that dynasty's been up and running now for 40 plus years. So that's the update from the Colombo crime family. When I can get confirmation on whoever's the boss, whether it's Joe Waverly or somebody else, we'll be reporting it. For Jimmy Bucciolato, who you'll see later this week, I'm Scott Bernstein. Thanks for Ben behind the glass. OG pod, quick hitter episode out.


Rwy'n cael ei siŵr o gweld i dwi'n gweithio a'r eurill o'r AMF. Mae'n gweithio, fel roedd yma yn ystod. Yn oedd P.J. Evans yn ystod o boili'r Nemo ac ymwneud. Dyma. Ddau'n gwneud hynny. Mae'r CEO? Rydyn ni'n gweithio i AMF? Rhywodraeth. Oedd, yn gweithio, mae'n ulyg. Rwy'n gweithio, Cadwodraeth i'r John C i'r team i gweithio'r hynny'n gweithio'r ysgolion. As part of the content team I've been watching what's been going on in the background, and they, I mean, if you were at the opening talk, John T didn't tell the half of it, he was very, very polite about some people who should not be being very polite too, but we're just trying to work out how the screen works, just fun, talk amongst yourselves. Oh, I could do a plug, actually I could do a plug. One of the things me and my family are doing here is running the film festival, and yay, and we've got, oh there we go, well I've started now so I'm going to finish. Yeah, slightly distracting slide. Pixar were not consulted. So we're running the film festival. Tonight we've got a world premiere of Tempman, a 30 minute feature that was actually made here at EMF in 2014 and 2016. I know it's the world premiere because I haven't seen it yet, I'm told it's very good. And then we're showing Coraline, possibly the scariest animated feature ever made. It's absolutely brilliant from Neil Gaiman and the director Henry Selick, who directed Nightmare before Christmas. That would be a very different experience. But of course on Saturday night we've got our big presentation which is Hackers with Jake Davis aka Topery in attendance and the director Ian Softley answering your questions afterwards. It's going to be amazing. So I better get on with the talk. Boiling Nemo, Adventures or Misadventures in the Internet of Things. So bit about myself, my name is PJ Evans. For EMF camp purposes I write for this magazine. This is the new issue that's just come out. It's another slight plug for you. In this one I've built something to annoy my teenage son, which is his klaxon.   That gets through to him. But anyway, on with the show. I've been building Internet of Things things for quite a while now and I want to tell you a bit about my experiences and hopefully encourage you to go out and start building your own things. The story starts with this device here. It's called a Canary. Anyone ever heard of one? No, probably not surprising really. Now my boss at the time bought one of these and came in and said, oh PJ this is brilliant. It actually looks quite nice. You could put it on your mantle piece or on a table somewhere in your house and it's got a camera in it and a motion detector. When someone moves around it takes a little video. So if someone breaks into your house it takes a video of them and I said that's brilliant. Where's the SD card slot? So it doesn't got one. Oh right, so it's USB. You plug it in and you take the video off the device so you've got a video file on your computer that you can give to the police. He said no. And I said well how did you get to it then? He said well you connect to the cloud. My alarm bell started going off. I said the cloud, huh? Oh right, so okay they're trying to do it so it's easy to use. You log into your account on there and you download the video and he said no. No? Only if you pay a subscription. So you've dropped about 200 quid on this device and then if you actually want to download the videos you've got to pay another 25 pounds a year. Since he got the device that's changed now and you could be paying up to 25 pounds a month to get access to your own videos. Now things like this is why you know here's the cloud and here's me. I am suspicious of the cloud. I don't like it very much because it's not the cloud it's other people's computers. So I thought it would be a bit more fun to build my own things. Now I didn't really get anywhere until I had a problem with this. My fish tank, 190 litre tank filled with tropical fish, absolutely love it and it sits there in our dining room. I come down for breakfast one morning and my son's there and my wife's there. And I walk in, good morning everyone and my wife gives me that look. Now if anyone's been in any kind of long term relationship they know this look, especially if you've got kids. The look says, do not say a word, which was fine because I didn't have the slightest idea what she was talking about. So I didn't say a word and she kept looking at me saying, what? I haven't got a clue. And this went on and breakfast finished. My son went off to school. And my wife said to me, what happened? And I said, I don't know. And she looked over to the fish tank, which was a bit suspicious because of the absence of fish. There weren't any, where'd they go? We opened up the top and there they all were, about 60 fish beautifully poached. We had boiled nemo. What had happened was that the firmista that controls the heater had broken. And for some reason its default state was to leave the heater on. Over a number of days the temperature at the tank had risen and risen so the fish couldn't take it anymore. So I was like, right, can't have this happening again. I mean we lost seriously, we can joke aside, but we lost fish that were over five years old. It was actually at the time quite upsetting. So I went to work, kind of buy something that measures the temperature and lets me know if anything's all right. And the answer is no. No one's got something on the market yet. So I decided to build my own. And I thought I'd use one of these. I love these. Raspberry Pi's, I even write for a magazine about them. This is a Pi Zero, the best bit about a Pi Zero is this bit, the GPIO. A device, this is a computer you can buy from as little as nine pounds, twelve pounds if you want Wi-Fi on it as well. And then you can connect all kinds of devices to that circuit board. And there is tons of documentation out there and tutorials.  So I took one of those and I thought, right, I thought right, I need something that's going to measure temperature, something accurate to within let's say a thousandth of a degree centigrade Celsius. Something like that's going to be really, really expensive isn't it? On Amazon, nah, one pound fifty and free delivery. Awesome, I bought two. I've got the other one here. There you go. Cheapest chips, incredibly accurate for Mr and its waterproof. And it just has three wires at the end. Power, ground and data. Again, tons of tutorials and information about how to get this thing wired up. So I started the plan. Now, I should explain. I was in a bit of a hurry putting this presentation together and I'm no good with clip art. So what I did is I went to Keynote and they have a little search box for the clip art. So I just typed in what I wanted and took whatever it gave me. So here's my tank. Here's my fish in the tank. And here is my thermistor that I've put in there. So they're all in the tank and then they didn't have a raspberry so it's connected to my strawberry pie. That's reading every 15 seconds and taking a reading of the temperature. It then sends that and believe it or not, this is what I got for server. To a server in a cloud. Okay, so that's my network diagram so far. Here's what it actually looks like wired up with a raspberry pie. Incredibly simple, only need one resistor as an extra component to get it up and testing. And this is what the end result was. This is a website I built where you can see throughout the day what the temperatures are. And the two red lines are the high level and the low level that it's safe to be in. And as you can see, once I got it up and running, it was working perfectly well. So I thought, project over. The only thing is, how's it going to tell me? Well, I got it to send me an email. That was straightforward enough if it went out of range. But if I want my phone, I'm going to need to know about it. So there's me on the phone. So I went with push over. Now that's actually quite good out because there's no subscription model for you. You pay for the app once and then it gives you an email to notification gateway. So I can get things like that. That's when it's the actual thing crashed, which it did frequently at first. It tells me I've not had any reports in on the temperature. Go and have a look. So project done, all happy. Until I went on holiday to Scotland. Now, if you've read the blurb for this talk, this is the Scottish toilets emergency. And this is it. This is one of my favourite places in the world. This is the Kerngaum hotel. Absolutely lovely bar up in Avymor on the Highlands of Scotland. My wife and I on the sun, we're sitting there, quiet drink, enjoying the atmosphere. And I suddenly got the call of nature. And I thought I was going to be some time. So I took my phone and the phone had been off. So wandered off to the toilet, sat down, looked at the phone, and that stirred back at me. Oh, dear. And when I looked at the website, it was something along the lines of that. It had actually happened again. This is about six months on from when the project was finished. The thermistor had broken again and the heater was heating everything up. But there's a problem because there's my network diagram, but it doesn't account for me being on a toilet in the Highlands of Scotland. The plug socket is 600 miles away. Now in this instance, I was quite lucky because we had someone looking after our cat. And I was able to send him a text better saying, can you knit round just unplug the heater? It'll be fine. And we didn't lose any fish from that incident. But he did realise that I had a problem if that happened again and someone wasn't coming round to the house on a regular basis. So I got one of these.  The energy in one is particularly good because it's quite cheap. It's only about £12 for a pack of three. But also because Energini make this. This is a little add-on for the Raspberry Pi, a little hat, as they call them, and they give you the software to actually send those transmissions from a Raspberry Pi. So what I was now able to do is put that on the Raspberry Pi and then complete my network diagram. Rather than being able to do this, I can actually get and cut the temperature and cool my fish down. I can actually do that. So when the temperature goes out of range, the Raspberry Pi itself can switch off the heater. So I've got a nice closed loop system there. I decided to take it a step further and get into microcontrollers. Now these things are incredible because a Raspberry Pi is a very powerful object and I was doing a very simple job. So it didn't really require the horsepower. I didn't really want to have to maintain the operating system. So I started looking at microcontrollers. This is based on the very popular ESP8266 Wi-Fi and sort of Arduino compatible chip. And it also runs a variant of Python. So it's quite easy to code. And so it's very, very tiny as well. It's only about that big. And I thought, God, something like that's going to be really expensive, isn't it?  Now it's £3.50. Sheepers anything. It's absolute bargain. So there's a new wire up of the Femister using the microcontroller. Only about 20 lines of Python to make the whole thing work. And that's been sitting in his little box ever since. But I couldn't really put a breadboard like that near a fish tank. So I'd drawn everything out in a freeware program or a public... Sorry, an open source program called Fritzing, which you can use for designing circuits. And you can draw it out as if it was physically there, which is what I did there. And then you can go to another screen and it will make a PCB layout for you that matches the circuit. This is obviously a few tweaks, but that's what I basically come up with. I thought I could make my own PCB. I'd never done anything like that before. But I was like, OK, you've designed it for me but how do I actually make it? And I looked at the bottom of the screen and it's a fabricator. That's impressive. So I pressed it and looked at my printer, hopefully. But nothing happened. What actually happened was it went to Germany.  And they just had a little socket so I would just plug in the little ESP8266, wire it all up, pop that in a little box to keep it dry because it's constantly by it. So you start with these little ideas and you keep reiterating and building them up. I think it started to get carried away. It started over engineering things. So next up was a doorbell. Now this is a speaker for a wireless doorbell. The circuitry is pretty locked down and very, very tiny. It's hard to look around with. But what you can do with those 8266s is you can read analogs so what you just do is you hook it up to the speaker. And when the speaker activates you plug it in. So it also can power it as well. So plug it in the ESP and it will power the doorbell, remote doorbell as well. And now I get a ding dong which means I can wear my noise counselling headphones and not miss the courier. It's brilliant. And now this is my garage door. I hope you all realise that. So I am terrible with my garage door. It's an electric one. It goes up and down on its own and I am forever leaving it open. So I thought okay, can I build something that will help me with that. Now what we used is read switches. Now these are incredibly cheap. You can buy five for five pounds. And what you've got on one side is a magnetically driven read switch. It just switches on and off. On the other side, which is dropped on the floor all you've got is a little magnet. And they both got little sticky pads on the back and you put one with the magnet on the frame or the door itself and you put the other one with the wires on the frame outside next to it. And then when they move away from each other the state changes and you can read that in with your microcontroller or Raspberry Pi. So I built one up and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi which you can see there and hooked it up to the garage door. And now my garage door has an API. You can talk to it. It actually lives up here. This is next to my solar panel inverter which talks Bluetooth for safety reasons. It's got four hundred of volts running through it DC. And you don't really want your plug-in things into it. So the Raspberry Pi sits there and chats Bluetooth to it getting stats out and uploading them. So it now does that and looks after the garage door as well. It also chats Bluetooth to Minisand Leaf which is parked outside so we can get stats and information from there. So it's quite a busy little thing. Now I realised at this point with the garage door that I was getting into another aspect of the internet of things that people talk about and that's big data. I wanted that to be a real good big slide. Never mind. So I've got big data now on the garage door. So let's have a look at it. So here's a typical day. The 21st of September last year. I need to say there were five door opening events all around 30 to 50 seconds. What I've learned from that is it takes me an average of 45 seconds to get a bottle of wine from the fridge. It's good to know. But when I compare it with the next week sorry, the next day, what's happening here? It's about 600 odd seconds it was open for. Why? Because I left the bloody garage door open again. But thankfully it told me not my neighbour so I was able to go out and do that and then what happened? I did it again later on but I caused it a bit quicker that time. Now this one's slightly more complicated but it does tell an interesting story. These data points, the axis by the way is at seven o'clock at the bottom, to 7.40 a.m. Between these two times my son leaves for school and he gets his bike out of the garage so he opens and closes the garage door. So these data points are at what time between 7 and 7.40 he did that. What we can see here is he is slowly getting later and later for school. So he can nip that right and he's looking at me now. So you see big data, very important. The latest project I've done is a rain sensor. Again, these rain sensors are insanely cheap. They're about a pound each and they're very, very simple. Just two lines, if it's raining it sends some information. If it's not raining it doesn't send some information and you can hook it up to a Raspberry Pi, no components required and there's plenty of code out there that you can Google to actually read the things in. So what I've done, as you can see here, is I used two sensors to get a bit more service area, made a little 3D printed case to hold them in place and then used a food container to give some water resistance. Then you've got a battery and the microcontroller inside there that is just constantly reading it and it's got a Wi-Fi connection so it can send an alert if it rains. Why have I built this?  So what you do is you put the laundry out and you just stick that out in the patio and just leave it there and it will alert us if it rains. What the? Backblaze, don't understand. Do not disturb mode. Naughty. Sorry about this. Sorry about that. If this is my network diagram now it's all getting a bit out of control and of course I want to be able to access that data in the cloud, on my laptop or on my phone, on a toilet in the Highlands of Scotland. So it's all got a bit much. So I did what every good programming engineer, software engineer does and writes through a messaging protocol and of course that was it and you can actually have a look at it now at wasit.org which is basically just a simple way in Python of getting devices to send and relay messages to each other. It's very much in an alpha state but have a look, see what you think. It's all on GitHub. So there we are in the Highlands of Scotland now.  So here's our lovely day which we've got currently now. I'm not just looking at my phone because I'm bored of giving this talk. That's not true at all. I'm just setting it up. Make sure it's nice and loud. Take it out and do not disturb. Right. Here's my phone. Here is my rain detector and oh dear, our lovely sunny day has turned into a thunderstorm. Now, we're going to use some high tech special effects to recreate that weather environment. There you go. So I don't know if you can see this but what I'm going to do is I'm going to spray this right next to electricity. Now I'm not going to do that.  Right. So we're going to, it's going to start raining on this device and nothing happens. It has actually activated and said oh it's raining but whether it's got an actual connection oh there you go, it's raining. Yes.  So if you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this presentation here's some of the places you should check out and there's some more inspiration ideas to build your own internet things and there's some URLs as well. Thanks very much for coming along if you've got time for any questions. I don't know where in earth the schedule is now but yeah we're saying yes to questions so if anyone's got any questions please fire away. Oh do we have the ball thing? Oh there it is. Right that gentleman over there I think. The gentleman lady can't see. I'm blinded. Hello. I thought it might be you. What a wonderful talk. No it was really so much fun. The bit of software where you hit fabricate and it magically came from Germany. How much did it cost to sort of print and then ship out? Yeah because it's bespoke it's not particularly cheap it was about £30. That's not bad. Yeah it's alright and I was quite taken back of how seamless the process was. It kept sending me updates saying right you know we're doing a run on this day you'll have it a few days later. So yeah I was quite impressed with it. Cool thanks. By the way I'm just going to say that that gentleman's name is Terence. If you enjoyed this talk or if you didn't enjoy this talk you might enjoy his talk which is called the Connected House of Horrors which is on Sunday. Sunday at 12.40 right here. Yeah so he's done something a bit different from me with the internet of things but it's a great talk. Anyone else? Have you noticed you wrote your own protocol? What's it? Have you looked at NQTT at all because that operates in a similar manner? Yes absolutely. Now this is the problem this is not what it was it solves because there are many different ways of the devices talking to each other. HTTP, MQTT which for those who don't know is a really data efficient way. So when you've got big data things like let's say in Milton Keynes they monitor all the parking spaces so 10,000 odd parking spaces you're going to want to conserve your bandwidth so MQTT is designed for that kind of application. That's not the problem it solves. That was it is going to support MQTT as a delivery protocol. The problem was there was no standard way that I could find for a device that's never known about another device to talk to each other. So it's more of a schema than anything else. So any device I build is going to obey these simple rules for how it delivers the data and that means that anything I build in the future will be able to talk to it natively. Cool. I don't really care how it does it by carrier pigeon, MQTT, HTTP whatever it likes to do it. Thanks. Anyone else? This is going to be good. I love this ball thing. It's fantastic. Oh, not bad. Not bad at all. Yeah, yeah. Round of applause for that. Hello. Hello. You mentioned they were tropical fish. Yes. What happens if the fish tank gets too cold? They're actually quite hardy with the cold. They don't mind it that much. It's not good for them. It's much better than being too hot. In fact, we did a couple of fish and they were called Daniels that did actually survive the extinction level of ends, as we call it. Because they don't mind the temperature dropping or indeed increasing. They're quite hardy. But yeah, it depends on the fish, but always better too cold and too hot. 21 to 26 for the record. Okay. Cool. Is that everything? Well, thanks so much for coming along. Listen to me rambolon and I hope you have a great EMF. Thank you very much. Thank you.


Abledonanaire Major Sponsorship was given by Green Mountain Support Services, Empowering Neighbors with Disabilities to be home in the community. Also sponsorship was given by Washington County Mental Health Services, where hope and support come together, and Champlain Community Services of Vermont. Welcome to this edition of Abledonanaire, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of the definitely able. I'm Lauren Seiler, I'm Lauren Seiler, and on this program we are talking with Alice Goltz, who was on our program seven years ago. She's a mother of a special needs child, but we're here today to discuss scams and people with special needs. Welcome, Alice, to Abledonanaire. Thank you, welcome. Okay, why don't you tell us exactly what happened, you know, why you got scammed, or how you feel you got scammed, and then that's why you're here to alert people of scams and people with special needs. Well, I went, my friend had called me up because they were going to look to get a car, and I saw my friend, she's both my friends, one's in a wheelchair, so I felt bad for them, so I came down to the dealership. The dealership had told us I wouldn't be responsible for the car, and then they applied for seven banks that we would deny. Why were you guys denied at seven banks, and then why did this one car company, who we are not mentioning, accept you? We think that they lied on the application, because they didn't ask the car company because they didn't ask for my income, they just said they wanted it on the credit, because my credit score was good.  Well, it was sort of like taking advantage. According to the paperwork, if you want to read some of it, from what you explained to Governor Scott in his budget this year specifically said, we're going to help vulnerable adults, but according to that, you got to take an advantage of as a vulnerable adult. Explain why you consider yourself vulnerable, in this case. Because me and my friend, we both don't drive, and the car title is under our name, and it's not under her husband's name who drives the car. Okay, just to let our guests know, there are other scams out there, car dealership scams, as well as a big huge scam in Social Security, which we'll get into later. Knowing that your friend or your group of friends didn't have money for this car, and then you decided in the kindness of your heart to help these people.  Why wasn't it settled at first? Well, I spoke to somebody about it, and they told me to go to Legal Aid, and Legal Aid is involved working on this case, and it's just a process.  It's okay. You can read some, just leave names out. Well, me and my friend, we both have, we're both disabled, and when they were handing us the paperwork, they didn't explain it to us. Okay, yeah, that's a big thing. According to this newsletter online, it's called the Special Needs Alliance. April 2019, it's the installment of the voice that was written for the Special Needs Alliance, financial abuse and individuals with disabilities. Financial fraud is among the fastest growing types of abuse for individuals with disabilities that are particularly vulnerable. In most cases, it involves exploitation by someone known to the victim, but in plenty of scams and stranger targets individuals with disabilities and elderly, because it also affects people with that are elderly, by phone or through... I think some of the card dealers took advantage of you, took advantage of other people with special needs, they took advantage of you. By phone and or other means. And by first instance, a family member or a caregiver, right, I mean you're not a caregiver or other close associates, takes advantage of the victim's trust in order to rate their finances. This may take many forms from convincing them to extract cash from an ATM, right? Well, they didn't go to your ATM. The card dealership didn't go to ATM and take money out. But it does happen, okay? And extract cash from an ATM to manipulating them to grant them financial power of attorney or outright theft of their valuables and other assets. This may be accomplished through deception or threats. Is this a large scale systematic plan arrangement for attaining some particular object or putting a particular idea into effect?  Domino effect? The definition of domino effect, because this is exactly what happened to you with the card dealership, is a domino effect, okay? Domino effect. No, we're not ordering dominoes, but domino effect, all right? What is an example? Some examples of a domino effect, many real life and behavioral examples in a domino effect, okay? We're not mentioning communist wars, but it has to do with, you went to the dealership, okay? These people conned you into, this was a con. They conned you into this thing. Yeah, right. Your friend, not naming names, conned you into, well not conned, you helped them get a car. Yes. He did not know, him and his wife did not know this was going to happen. Yes. Okay? Thus, dissolving the ending of the domino effect, it's still going to court or whatever the ending of domino effect, friendship is dissolved. Yes, dissolved. So, that is domino effect, involving you, paperwork with the lawyer, et cetera. May I see that for a minute? I'm just going to read one or two things off it, without naming names. All right. Okay? Because at the end, you showed me this, and it said, end quote, okay? Financial exploitation of vulnerable adult. That's end all and be all of this whole thing. It turns to questions. Yep. Any advice for people who are going through the same thing in terms of scams? Because there's a whole bunch of them out there. Ponzi scammed for one. Yeah. Look at what happened with Lehman Brothers. That is in New York. That whole thing is a whole another show. You know? They con people out of money, dissolving the company. You being a person with a challenge, any advice you want to give to other people going through the same thing? Maybe not this or something else? Something else? Well, to get help, speak to somebody that has more knowledge about it. Someone who knows better. Because I almost got scammed where there was somebody said that. You got scammed outside of this? Yes, outside. Said that they were putting money back into my account, and then they put a thousand dollars extra. That's what they said. They said they owed me 300, and then they were going to put another... Then they said, oops, I made a mistake. I put a thousand extra. Then they said, can you send the thousand back? They asked for me to buy these Google cards. I went to Ryde, and Ryde asked me, who are these for? I told them. Then they told me to go to the bank. Then the bank told me not to do nothing, because they knew this was a scam. How much did they try to get you for? A thousand dollars. $1,000. $1,000. $1,000? Wait, $1,000 or $1,000? $1,300. $1,300. Yeah, because you told me, if you want to see that, you told me that your friends, talk about another scam here for a minute, not mentioning names. Your friends got a phone call from people saying they're from another country, and they want them to deposit money into Western Union or something happened with that, and money started disappearing, and they never showed up. That's another scam. It's a whole bunch of scams going on that we should alert the public about, because we're vulnerable adults. People calling, claiming they're from Social Security. People calling, claiming they're from HMFAC. There's a list of scams here. Okay, it's not only around holidays. The activity of professional scammers ramps up. This is according to disabilityadvisor.com. Around the holidays every year, the activities of scammers ramp up from ranging to emotional pleas to donate to the needy, or great sounding offers to double your money to help seasonal expenses. However, once the new year begins, fraudulent activity continues. Additional people falling victim to swindles without being scammed or distressing to anyone. It is especially financially, physically, and emotionally devastating to persons with disabilities. This is according to disabilityadvisor.com. With nearly 50 million people currently identified as disabled, a large percentage of American families are affected by crimes committed in the area of fraud against the disabled. The number of people in this category continue to grow each year to our aging population. In fact, that more females have been larger number of women becoming disabled due to illness, accidents, or disease. In fact, the Social Security Administration estimates, this is a real fact, the Social Security Administration estimates 20-year-olds face a one in four chance they're not able to work until their retirement age due to disability. We'll not be able to work until retirement age. Disabled people are prime victims of criminals who see opportunities to prey on those who are vulnerable or already at risk. Okay, so as soon as you can get your name off this thing, you said it's going, why is it taking the year? Is there a reason for that? Well, it has to be agreed upon by the bank and the car dealer. Right now, the lawyer for the bank is moving to another law firm, so that's what sort of is the holdup. And it was also the holdup because they wanted to try, they were trying to fight to dismiss the case, but the lawyer, the lawyer just told me yesterday that they did not dismiss the case, that we don't need my friend to be a party in this case. And other, according to, again, to disabilityvice.com, financial scams and identity theft despite the fact that the average person on disability receives only a few hundred dollars a year above the property, the average social security check average without a person being retired is 1,400 in something a month. When you divide that, you know, pay rent, food, if they're not on food stamps or whatever the situation is, it's hardly anything. Now, in terms of scams, right, well, in terms of situations, okay, talk about child support, for example, that's not a scam, but if a person's on SSI, which is a little bit different than SSDI, you can't extract child support from a person on SSI. No, you can't. Or pay credit card bills. Well, if a credit card company or creditor trying to call you to get money from an old bill, you can't get it if the person's on SSI or SSDI. Okay? So that gets you out of that hole, right? Or you can't pay a school loan, Department of Education. That's another scam.  I hate to tell you how many times this month, we've been scammed, people claiming to be from Social Security. One thing you got to remember, when you, in terms of, you got to know what you're signing. That's one. Always know what you're signing. Don't sign anything until you get somebody that knows contracts to a lawyer, somebody or somebody to look over it. Somebody has to look a family member. Family member is not available as somebody to look over it. That's number one. Never give your Social Security number out. Never give your address, your phone number. When you go to the ATM machine, never ever give someone your PIN number. That stops identity theft. There are agencies like LifeFlock and some others that protect identity theft, but you got to pay for some of those services. Okay? Anything else you want to say to people about what you went through and why this is so important while you're here today? I just want to say that, excuse me, that everybody needs to be careful and to get the help that they need. If they feel that they're being scammed, they need to talk to somebody that can help them work through it so that this way they won't get scammed. There's got to be a way for somebody to stop this. There's, I'm going to, I just had it. There's a scam that's going on with Social Security right now that I'm going to play and hopefully the tape gets it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm getting it. I'm getting it. You should call the national number because. There are, okay, the national, if you've been scammed against Social Security, there's a lot of police agencies that warn in terms of Social Security.  That number for Social Security scams for the real Social Security office is 1-800-772-1213. I'll play that. And they'll give you the fraud number on the recording. Just copy it down. They'll give you their fraud number. But I'm going to, yeah, okay, consumer information from the Federal Trade Commission. Okay, Federal Trade Commission in December said that they're growing scams against people with special needs in Social Security administration. And they try to get you Social Security number or money. This scam is now growing exponentially. To compare in 2017, we heard from the Federal Trade Commission, it has heard from 3,200 people about Social Security and policy scams, okay? And those people reported losing $210,000 so far. It's probably tripled by now. People have lost millions and millions of dollars. This is coming from the Federal Trade Commission. This is exactly what it sounds like. Okay, so this is according to the Federal Trade Commission. So if you've been the victim of identity theft and Social Security numbers, please call 1-800-772-1213. And we can get back to this. So people with special needs are vulnerable populations, right? Elderly people with disabilities, children can be scammed also. The biggest scam with kids, people pull up in a car. Mommy's sick. I need you to take you to the hospital and that kid is kidnapped. That's a big scam that was going on for years and years. John Walsh kind of stopped a lot of those things with missing kids and he's still doing a good job in terms of getting criminals off the streets. But scammers are considered criminals. So we need to put a stop to that. So what is the ADA doing about it? No, the ADA can only go so far. The ADA doesn't cover scams. For those that have been scammed in Vermont, which I'm going to give the number to the Attorney General's Office, General of Vermont. It's on State Street. I'll call Bernie Sanders' office, believe me. No. You get answers. You call his office. If you've been scammed, please call, if you've been scammed in Vermont, please call Contact Assistant Attorney General Shannon Salimber<PHONE_NUMBER> or Attorney General T.J. John Levin of Vermont. That number again is<PHONE_NUMBER>. So people don't go through this again, right?  Well, I think that they're working on a bill to be passed. What type of bill? I think I'm not sure it has got passed or not, but for dealers to show them the application for them when they're sending information to help get a car for somebody. Please contact the Commissioner, Monica Cassura-Hutt, the Commissioner for the State of Vermont for people with disabilities in elderly. Her number is, hold on, they can be reached at, for more information on disabilities aging and independent living, if you've been scammed, please contact Monica Hutt at the following number,<PHONE_NUMBER>. That number again is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Their fax number is<PHONE_NUMBER>, 241-0386. The Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living, their address is HC-2 South 280 State Street, Waterbury, Vermont, 05671. That address again is HC-2 280 State Drive, sorry, State Drive, not State Street, State Drive, Waterbury, Vermont, 05671. Their number again is<PHONE_NUMBER>. And the number for Social Security is 802-770, I mean sorry,<PHONE_NUMBER>, 772-1213. Again, this is important. Yes, you may. Call Bernie Sanders office and make your voice heard. Yes, please call your local politician's office, call your police department or anybody else you need to call, but call someone that you can trust. Alice, you want to say one or two other things that are important to this issue? Just get the help that you need, and if you don't feel that you're not sure, then call somebody, and they're not sure, then go to somebody else. And please, please sign, please make sure you're signing the appropriate documents in front of the appropriate people. Again, we would like to thank our sponsors, Green Mountain Support Services, Washington County Mental Health, and Green Mountain Support Services. Thank you to our sponsors for Ableton on Air. This puts an end to this edition of Ableton on Air. I'm Lauren Siler. I'm Lauren Siler. See you next time for the next exciting edition of Ableton on Air. Next week, or next time on Ableton on Air, we'll have Mayor, the Mayor of Montpelier of Vermont, Mayor Anne Watson on, and a couple weeks after that, we will have Community College of Vermont. Thank you again for joining us on this edition of Ableton on Air. Again, I'm Lauren Siler. I'm Lauren Siler. See you next time.