So I want to introduce Tom Power, who actually has, you know, like everyone, a bio in the, in what we hand it out, but I will just make this brief then. Tom is deputy chief technology officer for telecommunications at the White House in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Tom helps to develop and coordinate administration policy on spectrum and telecom issues, among other issues. And he came to the White House from the Department of Commerce where he was chief of staff at NTIA. Thanks, thanks, Michael. Good morning, everybody. I had to see you all here. Michael told me that he thought you all would be hungry for my remarks. I think I misunderstood that actually. You know, he's hungry, right? Because lunch is next, so. But I'm really happy to be here and talk about I don't know if it's the role of competition in auction policy or the role of auctions in competition policy. Did I just say the same thing twice? I meant it the other way. But either way you put it, I think, you know, we can all agree that promoting competition and sustaining the benefits of competition is the preferred default approach over anything overly prescriptive or ad hoc regulation. And that's important in any area of the economy. But it's really important in this area that so many of us are so fortunate to work in. It's been a great area over the last few years, even in the worst parts of the recession. The wireless ecosystem was very productive. And you can find these numbers in lots of different places. I stole a few from the letter that CTIA sent to Chairman Wheeler the other day. US wireless carriers invested $30 billion in their networks last year. And just to put that in scale, they pointed out that that works out to $94 per customer, as opposed to an average in the rest of the world of $16 per customer. We have at least half of the world's LTE subscribers in this country. We're about 5% of the population, but half the subscribers. And all of this is driving productivity and job growth, of course, not just for the carriers, but for all the related industries, whether it's towers or operating systems or app developers, a really great American success story where American innovation is leading the way for the world. I should also point out yesterday we had a great event over at the White House, celebrating the launch of an initiative called Warriors for Wireless, where lots of folks in the wireless industry are stepping up to hire veterans as they come back from Afghanistan and Iraq. It's a great initiative. They've set up because they found funding through the VA for the training programs that trains them to climb the towers and do the networking. And for the industry where there's a great demand for this kind of labor, these returning vets who are hungry to get back into a domestic way of life, it's been a wonderful opportunity. And it was the, I still don't know what research is looking into this, and whether it's Sprint or T-Mobile or Verizon Myles, any of the carriers, you can read about their great efforts to hire vets. PCIA was their American Tower in the 18T, who has really stepped up doubling their commitment to hire veterans. So congratulations to all of them on that great initiative. All of this good news, of course, is why Spectrum Policy has been a great focus and priority for the administration. Going back to 2010, when we issued the first president's memorandum directing the FCC, they're directing NTIA and the agencies to work with the FCC to find 500 megahertz of Spectrum to repurpose for Loyola's broadband. The president came up with a menu of Spectrum revisions in his American Jobs Act, which then largely were enacted in the form of the middle class tax relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, authorizing and directing more auctions at the FCC. Of course, the reverse incentive auctions. So we can hopefully have a win-win-win there, in terms of reallocating Spectrum, but also compensating broadcasters who relinquish their Spectrum, preserving FCC authority over on-licensed Spectrum. And Michael, I know others, but Michael in particular, recently issued his report pointing out the huge productivity gains through on-license. And of course, first net, setting up first net with proceeds from the auctions. And then this year, the president issued another memorandum on Spectrum, really promoting more efficient use of Spectrum by federal agencies and focus on Spectrum sharing, borrowing somewhat rather heavily, I would say, from the report last year from the president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology put out a report on more efficiency in federal Spectrum use. The PECAST happens to be in town this week, actually. Talking to some of the folks over there yesterday to update them on what we've been doing. And of course, the FCC, really busy in talking about the PECAST, though I just would mention the 3.5 gigahertz proceeding over there, again borrowed largely from one of the PECAST's big recommendations. And I also want to say it's been really encouraging to see how the federal agencies who are huge, in some cases, huge holders of Spectrum, how they have been pitching in here when the consensus started to build that it was time to look very hard at the 1755 band and figure out how DOD and the other agencies can move out of there and make room for wireless broadband. DOD, their first reaction working with NTIA was to look at a couple different options, including the 5 gigahertz band, the 2025 band. And the response, not surprisingly, from the incumbents in those bands was some nervousness at having to consider the prospect of sharing with DOD. And what DOD did was really get down to the weeds and figure out what are their real needs. And as a result of that work, they actually then said, you know what, we don't need to be in 5 gigahertz. And they are working now with the broadcasters in particular on the 2025 band to figure out a way that that sharing can work. And I think there's sort of this perception or caricature of the relationship between the agencies and the industry as being this tug-of-war on spectrum with both sides not acting reasonably in the agency and supporting spectrum and all that. But if you look at the work that these folks are doing, and I'll single out DOD and Terry to Kai and her team over there, it's really, really been impressive. And they've got important missions to execute on in fact, but they are also focused on the economy as well. So I congratulate them as well. But it's never easy, and Chairman Wheeler and his fellow commissioners and his staff are focused on all sorts of things spectrum related, including the auctions mandated by last year's legislation. It's very comforting to know that he's got folks over there like Gary Epstein and Ruth Milkman on the job. But a lot of complex moving parts, including the focus of today's event, the intersection of auction design and competition, you may be aware that the administration has files and comments in an FCC proceeding touching on this issue in the proceeding where the FCC is looking at the possibility of reinstituting spectrum caps in the wireless market. I was amused, Michael, that the invitation you sent out included as one of the topics here does the administration fully support the DOJ's findings, because I had always thought that DOJ was the administration. And it turns out it is. I looked it up. Congress now gets creative when they come up with names of bills, so you've got a clever acronym. They didn't used to be, but there was the Act to Establish the Department of Justice. And the words from the statute described as an executive department of the government of the United States. So we can put that one to bed. So just for, of course, I just started looking at this, I got to throw in one more point. The Antitrust Division was actually formed in 1933. The DOJ was formed in 1870. Antitrust Division was formed in 1933. The first head of it, the first assistant attorney general in charge of Antitrust was Harold Stevens, who later went on to be the chief judge of the DC Circuit. And remarkable thing there, he was nominated to the DC Circuit by President Roosevelt on July 23rd, 1935, and confirmed on July 24th, 1935, the good old days. So yes, we support DOJ's findings. They are our findings. So what did the DOJ say? Well, you remember in Animal House, knowledge is good, well, competition is good. Pretty controversial. And we have seen the effects of good competition. Some of the numbers I just reeled off are a result of that. But DOJ also pointed out what we learned in Econ 101, which is that market power can lead to higher prices and it can insulate a company who has market power from the competitive pressures to expand service or improve quality. DOJ recognized that the four largest carriers compete nationwide on a variety of levels, whether it's coverage or network speed or price. And we want to sustain that with carriers having to reposition and react to each other in a dynamic competitive marketplace. Obviously, spectrum is key input in this marketplace. And DOJ recognized that auctions are generally the default approach, the best way to maximize the chances of spectrum being put to the best use for consumers. And I think we all know that when the issue of spectrum auctions was first developed, the goal was not raising revenue. The goal was efficient allocation of spectrum. So that's still in the statute. It's still the default preferred approach. But in some markets, a rational actor with market power would assign a value to spectrum that reflects not just the revenue potential, but also the ability to foreclose competition. And that means insulating itself from the competitive pressure that it would otherwise feel. So DOJ asked the commission to keep that rather basic economic theory in mind as they consider auction design. And this is not to say that the big carriers or anybody are bad guys. If you talk to the big carriers, they will tell you they welcome competition and it makes them better. But they're not in it to promote their competitors. Their legal obligation is to promote their shareholder value. That's their job. And so that creates incentives. That will be largely good. But DOJ and the I Trust Division were created in part to make sure things stay on the right track. DOJ also pointed out that not all spectrum is created equal. And they chose the 1 gigahertz dividing line to make the point that spectrum below that line is better in terms of coverage, better in terms of building, getting inside of buildings. And that's one of the arguments you hear is, well, if the lower spectrum is better for coverage, that means it's going to cost more or cost more. The higher-range spectrum, less coverage, so it will cost less. You'll have to pay more for the tower, for installing towers and other infrastructure. It all kind of comes out the same. But that doesn't take into account the propagation of spectrum, the lower gigahertz spectrum, in inside buildings. Another thing that we've pointed out. There are just a ton of factors here, right? You want to take into account equipment, devices, and other infrastructure. Operating on lots of bands gives your customers more flexibility, but it also makes the devices more expensive because you've got to build that in. But the comments reflect that we know this is not a one-way street, and they actually pointed out in the comments that there may be substantial efficiencies associated with ownership of relatively large blocks of spectrum. Given the high fixed costs of building out a network, the cost of acquiring new spectrum and deploying it may be relatively low for the incumbent versus a new entrant. So the bottom line is essentially that the FCC needs to balance the economies of scale against the risk of a foreclosure strategy. It's a little more complex than that, but that's kind of the way I see it. Easier said than done, of course, but I think that's the way forward if we want to promote competition and consumer welfare. There were a few other topics covered, including the need to maximize predictability up front as much as possible. Folks going into an auction, like any consumer, want to be as educated as possible about the scenario they're walking into. That will itself help drive up revenues. And of course, for each carrier, it's going to be different. They have to consider the bands being auctioned in the context of their own holdings and how complimentary they are, whether in terms of the band or geography. So I would sum it up as follows. We think the FCC should consider the potential for an anti-competitive foreclosure, particularly in the low-frequency bands. But we recognize the efficiencies of scale. And there has been no call for any particular limit or cap, recognizing there are just a lot of details and a lot of complexity to this. Nobody has called for any carriers to be excluded. And as I said, we've even pointed to the benefits of scale. So then the question is, what about revenues? The auctions that are being designed now are being carried out pursuant to a statute that, among other things, seeks to fund FirstNet and other priorities. And of course, we'd all like to see further deficit reduction. But it seems to me that even if your sole objective is revenue maximization, economic theory can take you in different directions. I don't think that's a big headline. I think that is part of economic theory. So you say, well, let's just eliminate all restrictions and just let it be a free-for-all. And everybody can buy as much as they want and spend as much as they want, and that'll maximize revenues. Well, OK, I hear that. But there are the theories, right? There's the theory that says if you've got two big competitors who have 78% or whatever it is of the sub-1 gigahertz spectrum, that they will have an incentive to essentially overbid, that that will discourage smaller folks from competing, then you actually end up with fewer, not more competitors. And that could drive revenues down. So our urging to the FCC was you have to take all of this into account. And of course, everything that you said would be true if revenue maximization was your sole objective. But we know it's not. Congress has instructed the FCC that in designing auction rules, the expectation of revenues can't be the sole or predominant factor. And in the 2012 Act, authorizing and directing the very auctions we're talking about, they recognize the FCC's authority to adopt rules of general applicability, including rules concerning spectrum aggregation that promote competition. So there are no guarantees in any of this. There is uncertainty. And I think essentially what we've heard the FCC to do is what market actors do in the face of uncertainty, which is you've got to hedge your bets. You buy stock because you want it to rise, but you know it might fall. So you buy a put option so you can sell it at a particular price before it falls too far. You're on both sides of it. That's kind of what we're doing here is we're saying we need to get revenues. There's not like a directive. I don't think there's a legal obligation to raise a certain amount of money, but clearly we want to fund first net. We want to fund deficit reduction. And that's important. But competition is important too. And the folks at DOJ and at the I Trust Division, I think I have a pretty good track record at making these calls. And with the actions we've seen over the last few years in promoting a really healthy environment, we've circling back to the top, we have a great ecosystem here. It's a true American success story. It is productivity. It's jobs. And it's the competition that's driving that that we want to preserve. So thank you for listening. And I'd be happy to take a few questions unless you're hungry. Yeah, there's a few minutes if you are willing to take a couple questions. I don't know if you want to decide who it is. The press of any anything? We're going to have an auction to decide who gets to ask questions, so. Yeah. Sure. The question is, who owns the property that the government is going to answer? We own 100% of this factory, not just the six megahertz that each of us have for APSD TV services, but the windfall that is part of the auction, the inspection flexibility for cellular to restaurant. So let's say that it shows up the total value of their spectrum as a result of this incentive auction is 100 billion, I think that's quite low. And that maybe 50 billion of it is the windfall from the inspection flexibility that goes along with the auction process. Does the public have any residual rights to those properties? Or as the broadcasters say, this is our property. Any money at the end really goes to the public. We're being screwed. Do you accept that view? And that's basically the whole subcontext, this man and the way the FCC and Congress is befriending it. Broadcasters have already won all the rights, it's just a matter of allocating efficiency rather than getting a fair return to the property owner, which might be the public. So basically, do you believe the public actually has any residual rights? You do, that's quite different than the administration has been saying and acting so, to do the spectrum in the auction process. You know, I guess if I were at the FCC and we're in the weeds of trying to figure out how to approach this, I don't think I would jump to trying to resolve questions of high-minded principle. I think I would be focused more on figuring out what are the implications as I move the needle back and forth. Okay. I would put it the way I just put it. In fact, I did. Well, there is a spectrum act after all, I guess that needs to be implemented. Yes, Paul? What was the last part about a rapper? Yeah, somewhat. I mean, that happens. People need to stick out their positions, but I will point out that it was AT&T and Google who came together to pitch a proposal in support of the 3.5 gigahertz proceeding, which was largely modeled on the PCAST. So, you know, I think views evolved. I think I'm very happy to see where we've come since the release of the PCAST report, the 3.5 gigahertz NPRM, the presidential memorandum, and I think folks are calming down a little bit in terms of seeing how those recommendations are really playing out. Okay. But it doesn't seem to be burning questions and we're a few minutes behind. So thanks for doing this. My pleasure. Thanks.


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Hey all hey all hey all so we're talking about a little fast This is gonna be fun, so I Went fasting for 14 days, so I got to take it back a little story Why would I ever even do that like why would you if you're curious if you know at all? Why would you even try that most people you know would have thought it was crazy and and here's the the honest truth Though is that I didn't wasn't starting for for 14 days I was gonna my goal was 10 days and But to really understand why I would do a 14-day fast you have to kind of go back a little bit I was 26 years old just a little over and I came from you know a military background I was a former recon Marine I was in radio reconnaissance. I did all this crazy fun crazy neat stuff, right and Then I went and played college football two years in my college career in football I was told that I if I don't stop I probably won't walk when I'm 30 It's kind of eye-opening experience and it wasn't long after that I just started my health are declining. I moved to Southern California from Minnesota, and I I couldn't walk around the block I was taking the ball and I was throwing down the steps of my dog and I knew something was wrong, right and it's like so Thinking about then if I would have thought about when I first started my journey if I was I'm not gonna eat for 14 days I would have said no way that's never gonna happen, but after a couple years of Trying everything You know anybody that's tried it all you're like I've tried everything I hear that all the time I'm like you probably haven't tried everything Merlin. You probably haven't I thought I tried everything I hadn't tried everything. I had tried everything that I could see in front of me, right? And I'd hired a naturopathic doctor holistic doctor a functional doctor now back in the early 2000s and late 1990s Those doctors really didn't exist much like it was kind of like voodoo doctors and regular doctors But you know Chinese medicine I tried that I haven't met a doctor from he was intranobal think about this I met this Russian doctor intranobal when we were talking about my liver enzymes and how that all these things of What was going on? I actually when I drank alcohol? I felt normal I was like and he's like trying to understand all this, but I didn't feel good. Something was wrong didn't know what it was and Not soon after that I got diagnosed with the condition and I was really I opened I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's And I just felt devastated. I was like, okay, maybe this was wrong, but how do you fix it? right, how do you fix this whole thing and it was crazy story crazy journey and After getting all these treatments done by holistic doctors functional doctors Chinese doctors Russian doctors Traditional doctors medical doctors What I realized is I need to kind of reset the button, right? I need to do a reset. I'm like what what about me What's my responsibility in this whole thing? I'm asking all the doctors to tell me what to do but I wasn't really figuring out me and so I decided to go on this 10 day Fast and not eat food for 10 flipping days. I was just gonna drink water. I had mineral water I was gonna drink a lots of water Now I was pretty confident in my ability to do this I knew it was gonna be hard, but I was gonna go go for it go for a try because I was reading Yes, that's kind of crazy thing. I was reading about how fasting can create a kind of a reset state so five days into the fast I'm actually helping a friend move and We were they were not moving excuse me They were breaking up concrete and I was gonna go over there and watch because I felt so crappy that I wasn't gonna be very much Helpful and so I was gonna go watch. Well, I felt pretty good that day I woke up and I just like I feel good five days after no food. I felt really good I can woke me up. I felt completely different and And I started helping I out worked every single person there They ordered pizza and beer and everything else. I didn't even I just drank my water I had a big gallon jug of water and drinking it down. No, it was not a glass bottle It was a plastic bottle of water and I drank my gallon of water I just kept working and working. I moved so much concrete that day. I got home and I felt great I didn't get I didn't wake up the next day. I'll soar and tired and miserable. I felt good I'm like something's going on in this fast something is changing inside of me. What is it? At that time you couldn't go Google anything, right? I had to go out and start searching for answers and what it was is anybody know the answer what happened to me Does anybody know what happened to me after day five? Just curious just just curious Ashley Marie just curious anybody know what happened to me in day five in day five I went into Therapeutic ketosis. What does that mean? My ketones? I was in a deep ketosis my levels of ketones were elevated It took me five days Five days of no food. So I think about this. I am actually Considered a very high-level athlete depends on who you ask depends on who I'm compared to I was a former military guy that competed and did some really gnarly stuff. I Was extremely committed. I was in the fitness industry. I was I worked out on a regular basis. I ate clean I ate already ate low carb. I wasn't keto necessarily before this I was low carb. I was in and out of ketosis to some degree But I wasn't deep in ketosis five days of no food It took my body five full days To tap into the store and get this clarity and energy and focus and move and start feeling better When at the same time literally five days earlier, I couldn't even walk my dog around the block I'd have to throw the ball down the stairs just so my dog can go for a walk My dog is a black lab. She was a black lab and she loved to run and I felt like I mean I didn't hit kids yet y'all. I think goodness my wife asked me the other day She was Dustin she goes how different would our life be if you had had that happen to you now and I broke down Just crying. I was like, I couldn't even imagine. I couldn't imagine barely getting out of bed. I couldn't imagine Just going to the bathroom was work Not be able to go outside Moody edgy grumpy all the time faking it smiling when you're outside in front of people been coming home And just sit in the couch and feel in like miserable by yourself. That was normal life Until five days in deep ketosis once I got into deep ketosis it changed. I'm like, I'm going forever I'm gonna I'm never gonna eat food again. Well, that's not gonna be a recipe of success I'm never gonna eat again. Anybody ever thought that one. I'm never gonna eat again But I was deep in ketosis and I and all I thought to myself is I'm gonna keep going So I'm in I'm in 10 days. I hit my 10-day mark and I'm like, I feel good I felt so good that my clients are like, I want to do what you're doing I'm like, I don't know if you want to go without eating for 10 days I had a couple do it by the way and I went for 14 days and after 14 days when I realizes my body started shifting again And I felt some changes that I didn't necessarily like after 14 days So I started implementing food now. This is the story. I actually did a post about it earlier This is what I didn't tell everybody for an entire year after that 14 days. I added one food back a week Could you imagine like this is back in the early 2000s like 2002 This is before Anybody understood this concept that you could do a diet like anybody that mainstream knew about it and I had to add one food bag if I added back something like a banana.  I Didn't add any of it. Why? Because I'm crappy and I like this must be bad for me. That's what I actually thought I realized there was something going on I didn't understand it yet scientifically, but I realized something was going on and after one year I Eat that way today. I taught myself the ketogenic diet the hardest flippin possible way ever That's what I did. I taught myself the ketogenic diet ignorantly. I don't ever brag to be a smart guy I I got some knowledge, but I like to challenge myself and do everything back-assword in the hardest way possible And so I'm deep in ketosis I'm 14 days in and I started learning how to live in ketosis now for that year was a tough year by the way Because when you feel really good and then you eat something you feel really bad You kind of remind you how miserable you are. You don't want to be reminded how miserable you are Does that make sense? Like it's never a good thing to be reminded how miserable you are It's never fun, but that's what happened throughout the year But I was catching on and I was starting to teaching other people Well, you don't have to go 14 days. What if you just start eating more like this? Well, I started doing some homework you couldn't Google anything by the way right back then Google You couldn't get Google the word ketones in the early 2000s Nothing came up y'all. There was nothing out there. It was out there You know, like it was in textbooks and like university books and Scientifically magazines and literature, but it wasn't in actually it wasn't in actual Google and So I started teaching more people and I started noticing the other people getting these benefits Well coming from having an autoimmune disorder having a brain injury having needing joint replacements I need it my knees replaced when I was 23 years old So my body wasn't responding well like my hip is really bad right now. It needs to get replaced really bad And so you ever see me limping, you know, why I just had both my shoulders had reconstruction And they did a they basically cut all the bones off and they had a reef structure them Like my body was a wrecking a long time ago So I started teaching people how to utilize this fuel source called ketones But then there was a challenge is that I felt better and I noticed when people were deep in ketosis They felt better, but they almost always quit and how disappointing this is when you can it's like you can show somebody the winning lottery ticket And they always throw it away or they rip it up if that makes any sense. Hey, Kathy Barry Hey, Kathy, what's your weight at am I gonna see you Kathy by the way and more I'm gonna be in Louisville, Kentucky next week Who's coming who's coming to town? So 14 days of no food changed my life forever, but it was day five that I recognized there's something happening that matters Well now fast forward all those doctors I worked with every single one of those every single doctor I work with now I was advising them on A new way of living their life It's kind of unique because it the teacher or the student became the teacher kind of weird, right? The reason why is none of these doctors were taught this concept behind fasting All these naturopathic holistic doctors were like forcing these supplements down me and I was taking all this stuff I'm taking all the stuff and I'm like, wait a minute. Like it's I'm not getting that much better, right? What if I just took everything away and started over clean and the number one thing happened was therapeutic ketosis And so I want everybody to know because I know I have some big followers in different places that Be any ketosis is really important Kathy buried down 243 pounds for Kathy that just inspires me. I'm telling you just amazing I know Derek's on Derek is doing some amazing things out there in Arizona right now And he's on a he's on a big journey himself and That also inspires me but what I want to I want to share with you all is that is people go all the time Like I did a clubhouse. I'm not a clubhouse guy. I'm not a clubhouse. I'm doing a clubhouse and these people are on there Like you got to eat. You should be eating your food from a farm I'm like, you don't live in America. Do you like there's a small percentage of people that can literally hide under a rock and eat organic grass-fed food from the cow from the farm But once you put three kids in the in International business and life and travel and everything else you got to find a way to do the best you can And so to for me today to do that that 14 day for 14 day fast probably wouldn't happen Well for me today to stay in ketosis therapeutically without having support and tools probably wouldn't happen very well and And so this is part of my talk is to tell people like if you're on your high horse Just do the diet you don't have I'm you either have the most basic life in the world And congratulations if you can pull that off because I didn't choose that style I chose chaos and a lot of fun things out all at once or You have a metabolic system that's a special meaning that you didn't break But what I found is the majority of America is Busy they're stressed. They're overworked. They don't have the wisdom and knowledge and their bodies metabolic system has been Affected meaning that you're not burning fat very well I was set up to burn fat y'all as an athlete as a Marine I was primed to be good at burning body fat and it still took me five days with no food to wake up Five days with no food to wake up.  What is my sister gonna need? What are my wife need? What is the world gonna need if it took me five days, which I was primed and ready to go So this is if you want to wake up and you're in doing a keto anything I don't care what it is if you're not doing keto if you want to wake your brain up get yourself into deep ketosis and Maintain it for a sustainable long time meaning I did it for a year and once I did it for a year I did it for another 15. Did I mess up? Yes many times. Did I make mistakes? Yes many times I've ever went to a bachelor party and try to stay keto at a bachelor party and still have fun Anyone anyone? Yeah, I was that jackass. I tried doing that and yes, what I didn't have any fun I was it was it was horrific. I was like you shouldn't eat that. Yeah It was just an emotional stress nightmare wouldn't want to recommend that to anybody. So Stay in deep ketosis. It's one of the reasons why I drink ketones every day. This is actually my favorite flavor I drink them every day.  I don't want to have to go five days. I do 24 hour fast. I do a 60 hour fast once a month I don't want to go five days. I don't want to track my macros every day I don't want to analyze everything every day because guess what? I have three kids at home We hope to expand our family. I want to travel. I'm getting ready to travel next week I want to I want to stay up late one night and not mess up my system, right? I want to have I love corn chips I want to have some corn chips and not not worried that it's gonna kick me out of ketosis. Yes I like corn chips. Yes. I do if I go to Italy I want a piece of pizza and not for track it But here's the thing if my body because of my joint replacements because my proneness to having degenerative joint joint challenges because of Hashimoto's because of my brain injury if I'm out of ketosis Everybody in the world or everybody in my world. Sorry, and I'm not that that famous Everybody in my world is affected by it and I owe it to them to stay there And so what I do is I this is what I do I eat Usually around 11 o'clock each day 11 to 1 depending on today. I was almost 2 o'clock. I eat usually stop eating by 8 I usually eat with dinner 6 or 7.  I focus on proteins I eat a variety of low carb vegetables and I drink ketones twice a day Every once in a while. I have a brain shake. I call it. I have a brain shake that I make for my kids and myself And that's what I do and then 90% of the time I'm on target 10% of time I Went to a birthday party and I had two core tortillas and then everything else was just protein based That's what I did, but I still drink my ketones every day and it was a recipe for success now seven years later I'm very confident that I can stay in deep ketosis continuously Thrive and live and help other people live a better life So y'all appreciate for plugging in with me, but 14 days no food It's funny because you know, you've been doing this for a while and you know obviously I promote a product because I want to help people. That's all it is I just want to help more people and And every once in a while I get people that are just like they want to find the hard way but sometimes you have to do it the hard way to realize it easy ways more enjoyable and in Sometimes you just need to have faith and trust in somebody else and just give it a shot And I'll be interviewing somebody. He doesn't know I'm gonna do it I'm gonna be interviewing somebody soon. His name is Dave David Derek small small man And he's inspired me somebody got to meet really recently and and watching his journey and what he's done in his commitment I don't know if for a 14-day fast could he could have accomplished it in the state of mind He was in and in the life he was in but he could do one thing. It was just something basic Four four four he could do that he could do the core for he could do steps And with that it created momentum with momentum It gave him hope with hope he could he could put more effort into it with success He gets more smiles with success it starts driving biochemistry to reimpurpose that that success And it's he's in a transition to change his life forever And we need to be able to do that to more people and we need to really give that to more people Because the right now the world is sicker than it's ever been. It's more frustrated It's metabolic more challenge obesity is on the rise and if we don't step in and stop it our kids are screwed And I mean that literally like it is they have no shot And it's sad and it's truly sad and we can do something about it We just have to wake up the side and we have to stick together for us as people that have struggled with energy problems Us have struggled with weight problems us have struggled with health problems I said I struggled with just life problems We got to stick together and say okay How can we collectively together go out and change more lives because there are the some people who looked at me as like This healthy guy and fit guy and he's always in shape. He gets buffed muscles I was sicker than almost all my clients almost all of them I just faked it better. That's all I did.  Everybody's got a problem. The reality is what do you want to do to change it? And let's go do that the recipes here Let's go change it and if you put the work in your life will forever be different and guess what those problems You're gonna learn from all my challenges are now strengths moving forward in my life Because I've honored them as part of my journey, right? Thank God. I got sick in my 20s. Thank God I lost the use of my legs in my thing. Thank God. I forgot my friends in my 20s Thank God my my body was falling apart falling apart in the 20 because guess what 40s way cooler when you're feeling better When your 20s were miserable, right?  Otherwise, you don't learn anything from it. So y'all have an unbelievable night I do have to go put the babies down Actually, my wife's doing most of that right now, but I'm gonna go support her. So I Will see you guys all in Texas or not in Texas. We're going Louisville next week. Cheers y'all