Welcome to Dare to Dream. This is Debbie Dashinger, and I've got a little bit later on Lana from Montana, who is here, and she's gonna be helping us about food, around our food, because if you're like most of the population out there who's bombarded by what to eat, what not to eat, why that changed? Why now we can't eat it? Why now we should need it? And you get really lost in the minutia and the major of all the information that we receive, but maybe it doesn't really work for our body and we can't figure out why. Wouldn't it be nice to know what's right and light for your body? Literally, what your body is asking you for, for fuel. That's gonna be our conversation today, and it is something that, because I have been through that process personally, I am a firm believer is the way to go. So first, just a couple of housekeeping pieces. This show Dare to Dream is a finalist in the People's Podcast Choice Awards, and I'm very honored to be there. 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It's so funny to hear people order because they will be very particular. Oh, could you hold that? Could you substitute this? Oh, I don't eat that. No, no bread at this table. And I wonder how much you experience that or do that yourself. Do you have food issues? Is your body in some kind of pattern? Well, my guest today is Lana Nelson. She's a certified emotion and body code consultant. And she is author of the book, The Food Codes.  And it teaches you what your body needs for food at different times, different seasons, and when perhaps there are stressors affecting your life. Lana teaches thousands of people every year how to heal themselves with food and has developed one of the easiest techniques on the planet, which uses emotional clearing and energy healing techniques, as well as quantum biofeedback technology. Lana is also a licensed massage therapist, as well as a Reiki master teacher who counsels in nutrition, herbal, and homeopathic therapies. Her focus is on individuals, couples, and families who struggle with food, with health, and emotional problems. And if you would like to learn more, go to thefoodcodes.com. Lana, welcome to Dear to Dream. It is so great to have you.  Thank you, thank you, thank you for the invite. So it comes to food, here we are. And what I hear you saying is, it's actually about an inner wisdom, a body wisdom. And I think that's interesting because we live in a time that is filled with judgment about food. It's filled with conclusions about food. And I think it can be very difficult. Should I be doing vegan? Should I be doing keto? Should I be doing the carnivore diet? Should I be doing low carb, high carb? You're true, so true. Yes, yeah, we are pulled this way and that way. Do this, don't do that. No, this is good for you. That's bad for you. Same thing, so what do you do? You ask, this is what I do, what I sieved all of that down to. You do not have to be a nutritionist. You do not have to be an expert on anything. Just be an eater, be someone who eats. And you can even change that if you're an overeater or an under eater or you don't like to cook or anything. In my book, The Food Codes, I really teach you how to tune in to your inner wisdom so that you can ask the expert, T-H-E, the expert yourself what it is that you need. And with, like you said, it could be your foods could change from time to time, a stress in your daily workload, a stress in the seasonal changes, and anything under the sun. So the only person that knows or the only one that knows exactly what is good for you today right now is you. So I teach you how to tune in to that inner wisdom. And we can talk about that.  What should I be eating? How do you work with somebody? Well, I first just, very simply, my intuition or my inner knower, if you will, can tune in to their inner knower. We are all energy beings. Light beings, energy beings, everything that is, is energy. And that's been proved by quantum physics. We're vibrating frequencies. The microphone you have in front of you is a solid or appears to be solid. You could tap on it and you could hear it, but you can't visibly see through it. However, it is vibrating energy, vibrating at a very low rate of speed that it appears solid. So food, same thing, but our thoughts are also vibrating energies, if you will. So, and our intuition, our inner knower, which is our, like it's a record on button. When we come into this world, and maybe even before that, the record on button has been pushed. So our inner wisdom, our subconscious mind, which keeps track of everything. We don't have to, we don't have to do anything for it to work, okay? We don't have to be conscious of it at all. As a matter of fact, our consciousness is very little. We forget everything. If you ask, what did you have for dinner last Tuesday? It's like, what do you mean last Tuesday? When was that even? So we're in such a busy world, but our inner conscious, our inner subconscious knows. So working with a person one-on-one, either at a distance or with them, I basically tune in to their subconscious, their inner knower, with my inner knower, and how that is a super-duper easy thing. Some people have, they're conscious of their inner knower. They can actually see, feel, or hear things with their subconscious mind. Other people, it's like, I don't know anything about that, but how you tune in with your subconscious is by a method called kinesiology or muscle testing. A lot of practitioners are using it these days. Old times, ancient times, they called it dowsing. They would, you know, dows for water or dows for on a piece of property. Where do we dig a well? And that in ancient, it's what's been used since ancient times. And modern day, a lot of practitioners, energy workers, as well as neurologists and physical therapists use the method of kinesiology or energy testing. So long story short, I can test myself as a surrogate for someone else if they are at a distance. And how I would do that is by testing a strong or weak muscle. One method, now I give you lots of methods in my book and I also give pictures and really good descriptions, but one method I use is my finger. And I hold my index finger out straight, bring my middle finger over top and my intention is to have a strong yes or a weak no. So I say, give me a strong yes and lightly press down and just feel as it stops and then stop pushing. Okay, that's your yes answer.  It is a no. So that's one way that I tune in to my subconscious and I can then with your permission per se, your permission, I can tune in with your subconscious and say, are apples a good food for you? Yes, are bananas a good food for you? No. So I can do that sort of a thing. So that's how you would tune into that inner knower that does know your best foods. It knows your worst foods. It knows if you say yes, bring the bread on over to the table or anything like that, you bet. Oh, that's fantastic. You know, there's so many different ways to muscle test for those who know about it. And I think a lot of this audience does and obviously, you know, you can go to somebody and they can do this method or you know, there's this, give me a yes, give me a no. Yes. I really like that. That's a new one for me. I'm going to try that. No one will know what I'm doing. You know, exactly. You can be out shopping.  Oh, that, okay. That's the beans test really good for me. Oh, that casserole is it. No, so yeah, you can do that. That's amazing. And especially because you mentioned it changes. So this is not a static thing. You don't get a read. So for instance, let me show people what it is you create. So I've worked with Lana and of course mine's not color, but you can get a color, read out of this. But I mean, look at these pages of all kinds of foods that you get back and front, back and front, back and front. So this is many pages, very, very, very detailed. And so this changes. So it's good to get to check back in and clearly there's some healing that goes on over time. And there are certain foods that maybe you couldn't tolerate that you become tolerable of. So true. For instance, let's just take one of my clients. She had a lot of body pain. She was underweight. She needed to put weight on. And this had been going on for a long, long time. She had inflammation and you name it, she had been diagnosed with it basically. And so her food, her first food code plan was fairly minimal. It wasn't a lot of foods, but she was, she stuck with it. And at first, here's what happened at first. She was terrified that it was a diet. So she didn't even want to do it.  And because we've been groomed since before our grandmothers to diet. So we live in that diet mentality. One thing that the food codes in Tudib eating for every body is not is a diet. It is a way of life. It relieves you from the stress of dieting because you can actually use your wisdom as you go. And, but you can also test in advance. So using that food codes to test in advance. And so my client and her first test, she had just a few food foods and she was very, very good about it. And I think it was just a two, three, four weeks, something like that, that she needed to stay on that particular plan. And I said, this is not a diet. If you want to eat something else, go right ahead, allow yourself to do that. Your body will tell you by how you feel. And she said, you know what? I did, when I stuck with it, I felt good. And it was freeing. When I didn't, she said some of that discomfort came back. But anyway, her next food plan a few weeks later war was broader. Her last food, food codes plan, she could eat almost anything, okay? She literally could eat almost anything, of course with wisdom, but it broadens your, so her body eating the right foods was, should we say medicinal and healing for her? So you've heard of foods as medicine. It is really true. Yeah. Thank you so much. That makes a lot of sense because I have had experts on this show, speaking of quantum science, who say the body is a self healing mechanism. So you just put that together for me that when we put the foods in or body is actually asking for, it can rejuvenate, it can refresh. And I just want to tell the audience that we are going to take, we are going to have people come on, I'm going to keep it minimal because I really want to have yummy conversation with Lana, but I really want you to experience her reading and I want to gift a couple of people with the experience so you can see what's possible and how different I assume everybody's body is going to be. You've got a quote in your book, which is, what about guilt? Ever beat yourself up for how you look or what you eat, ever compare yourself to others and feel ugly, thinking negatively about your appearance, eating patterns or weight adds loads of stress and sends you scurrying for glass of wine and jumbo order of nachos. So, so true. Cause we get really stuck in this perpetual self judgment, right? About how we look and what we're eating and what we're not eating. And so you have a lot of people it sounds like who have come to you and been able to step out of that and step into instead the idea of being fully healed for our food. Yes, yes. And if you think about it, one of my, one of my sayings is do your best and bless the rest, okay? So not judging yourself, not judging food, not judging others for what they're eating or how they look, et cetera, do your best and bless the rest is my mantra basically, my motto, if you will. Do your best, bless the rest. And that's blessing means give thanks, give gratitude. It doesn't mean that you have to be any particular, you know, religion or sect, but just give gratitude and thanks for that food. And you know what? Blessing actually saying a prayer or a blessing giving gratitude has been scientifically proven to raise the frequency of a loaf of white bread to a good for you food per se. Yeah, that's so great. I just had this conversation with somebody the other day and she studies, she's a healer who studies a lot the doctor and motto from Japan, principles he had worked on scientifically around water and changing water with thoughts and energy. And yeah, and that's true. You know, I've gone out to eat with people where we've just put our hands over our meal before we've actually ingested it. I know somebody who swears he can change bad wine into good that way. Yes. I wanna go out with that guy. Yes. So we've got someone here. I'm gonna bring her on. I'm gonna start her video here and unmute her. And this is Zhuzha Novak and Zhuzha meet Lana Nelson, Lana meet Zhuzha and welcome to the show. Zhuzha, nice to meet you. We'll handshake here. There you go, handshake. Great to see you. I am so impressed by your work and looking forward to learning more. Wonderful. Well, Zhuzha, do you have any questions about foods before we start? I thought I would do just an example with you of a quick scan of in the food codes and I actually, Debbie showed how many pages that you really can. I give you lots of whole foods to test. And so number one, what we'll be testing today is whole foods. But number two, if you learn the muscle testing and or your intuition, you can test foods on a shelf. You can test a casserole. You can test a soup or something like that. So today we'll be testing whole foods. Sounds good. Any questions? No. Okay. Well, I did a quick scan beforehand and I did test for you some of your top fruits and vegetables and it was interesting because doing a food codes plan, you can actually see where someone might be having digestive trouble or they might have some molds or funguses in their body. And I just in the fruits section, just a quick scan of that, I could tell that your body doesn't deal well with too much sugar or too many fruits. Is that true? Yes, that's true. I barely eat any sugar at all. Only in the form of fruit. In the form of fruit? Well, as I was looking at, you might actually have some problems with eating sugar so it'd be good to stay away. Because well, and fruit sugars are different than like regular processed sugar. But I find that blueberry and strawberry are really good foods for you. Those are your top fruits, okay? Right. And it was in the berries. So like apples, dates, grapes and so forth didn't test as your top foods. So top foods would be like on a scale of one to 10 and eight out of a 10. That's what I mean by top foods. A neutral food would be about a four through seven and a bad food, a food that you really should stay away from is below like testing one, two, three, four. So in scanning vegetables for you, I actually found that asparagus, vegetables, tested pretty good. You're very, very top vegetables for energy for you right now. And it is all about energy, asparagus, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and those are in the same family too.  The answer is yes. Can you eat it cooked? Yes, so cabbage and different kinds of cabbages are good for you, red cabbage, green cabbage, et cetera. Then lettuces, testing lettuce, oftentimes a person will just test for, oh, most lettuce is good for me or not so good. And romaine lettuce is your top healthy food for lettuces. And then also with leafy greens, spinach, tested good for you. And sometimes you might need to lightly steam or cook the cruciferous type. And do you need to cook spinach in order for it to be digestible for you? No, so you can have raw spinach as well. Also found that onions, garlic wasn't the best, but onions like a sweet onions are good for you. And you could eat those raw or cooked however you like. And then of course, pumpkin and squashes, the orange types of squash and zucchini tested really good for you. And an interesting thing, I also have sea vegetables because sea vegetables are in the category basically of vegetables. And you are testing that you really need some kelp and nori. And when I see sea vegetables come in, it tells me that you're needing some more really good minerals that your body can. And kelp and nori, do you like sushi? Love, my favorite food. There you go, there you go. Good for you, bring on the sushi, the sea vegetables. And so I tested vegetable broth for you and it tests okay, but not really necessary. I also went through the, I'm looking at the dairy milk, cheese and non-dairy section and really found that you don't do really well at this time with dairy, even like fermented dairy is a one, two. So dairy and fermented dairy, not your best foods at this time, but I did find that Dubliner cheese and Dubliner cheese is from Ireland. It's an Irish cheese and it's kind of interesting. I found a good food for you if you're really craving the dairy and cheese would be Dubliner cheese. So kind of interesting and very fast forwarding, I'm just doing some testing right now, real time, with grains and let's just check, is are you the person that says, bring the bread to my table and it's not. At this point, like a white bread is a one, two on a scale of one to 10, a wheat bread a little bit better at a four, but the bread is not as good for you. Your top grain or bread, and that doesn't mean you can't have it, okay? It really doesn't. If you really want some bread, have it with some good olive oil or a nice hunk of that Dubliner cheese, okay? Because when you eat a food that has a lower value and combine it with a little higher value food, your body can tolerate it better. Does that make sense? That's interesting, yes, absolutely. Okay, so let's look at rice for you. Rice is testing as a good food. Basmati rice, black rice, brown rice, all testing good for you. And sometimes when sourdough bread, oh gosh, listen to this, sourdough bread on a scale of one to 10 for you is a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So bring on the real sourdough bread. Okay, so, and nuts, just to a quick scan on nuts, your best nut is a walnut. So sometimes you feel like a nut, have a walnut. And fats and oils, just doing a quick scan on my list with fats and oils. Avocado oil is very, very good for you. I'm just gonna bring my fingers into test. Canola oil, very bad. Chicken fat, no, sometimes animal fats are excellent. Grape seed oil, excellent for you. Hemp oil, not so good. Peanut oil, very bad. Soybean oil, not so good. Olive oil, seven, eight, nine, 10. So those are some of your really good fats, okay?  I don't eat meat, I'm a vegetarian. All right, so we are going to look at, very quickly, let's look at sweeteners, okay? Cause some people like the artificial sweeteners or honey is a one-two for you, interesting. Stevia is a one-two, so not very high for you.  I don't sweeten anything, that's fascinating. It is fascinating cause sugar is not your thing, girl. Do you need some more salt in your diet? And no, if you were, so when you do salt things, testing that Hawaiian, no Himalayan pink salt, a very top food for you. Okay, so Himalayan is a great, and let's just check a couple, let's check water for instance, okay? Do you need distilled water? No, do you need a mineral water? Yes, now minerals knowing that, so mineral water would be good for you, purified water good, spring water good, your tap water is not as good, even if you have a, might have a something on that. But, so that is a really, really, do you have anything that you'd like me to test in particular? This has been fascinating cause so far, everything you test is a spot on how I eat. Oh, wonderful, that's a crazy thing. See, you're using your inner knower, your own intuition. That's fascinating to me. It's, I always liked to be honest, I wish I could take credit for the intuition. There were very few things that I had to factor out because I never liked sugar, not since I was a child, and I was never drawn to sweets and cakes, never ever, I was never a meat person. The issue I had was with the bread because I love, love, love bread, being a European girl, but I would get, interestingly enough, I would get loaded, except for sourdough. With sourdough I do as well, so that I find it fascinating that you tested that and that came in well. And I tried to eat gluten-free bread made with rice, and rice came in well, so that's wonderful. Yes, that is fascinating, I love it.  But good sourdough, and a lot of places are making sourdough, good sourdough now. Yes, they do, well thank you. I'm so impressed, even my dog agrees, sorry about that. You can test for dogs, you can test food for animals, you do that all the time. So good to know, well thank you, I am so impressed with your talent and with your ability to communicate it, and I'm very, very happy with the reading, so thank you for that reassurance. Thank you Lana, lovely to meet you, thank you so much, take care, bye. Bye bye. 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Lada Nelson is the author of the book, The Food Codes, Intuitive Eating for Every Body. So you thought it was fascinating what you just saw her do with Juzia. You can get your own reading if you wanna work with her directly, and of course this is many, many pages, of material and details about what's happening in your body, or you can learn how to do it on your own. She gives you all the specifics. Boy, there's a lot in this book. And Juzia, thanks for coming on the show. Thank you, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. So I just, before another guest comes on, I have so many questions for you, so we'll see how much we can cover, because this is so fascinating, all of this. I myself, I hate to point it out, because I really like to look good on camera, but I have been in distress for easel, probably going on three weeks, something. But something started, I was actually speaking in a bed, and I just thought, oh, it'll go away. And it was like this terrible itching on my throat. Some, I don't know if it's a hive or a rash, but it started to spread, didn't go away.  And I've tried everything. I've flipped foods, taken out foods, only had protein, only this, only that, like mama mia, and yeah, and more. So clearly I'm having some kind of reaction. I would love for you to let me know through your magic, if you can read on what's going on here. Yes, I will. Okay, so when something is coming out in your skin, it can be internally. It can be an allergic reaction or something like that. Sometimes it is your body just not processing through. If you think about your detox pathways, they're your kidneys, it's your digestive system, it's your skin. So your skin, actually, and your lungs, you're breathing, of course, you're breathing about 70% release of toxins. But I'm going to test you right now. And because we're talking about food, let's ask, have you had a food that you've eaten that has bothered you? Yes, okay. Let's ask, was this food, you mentioned, you mentioned it was at this conference or whatever. Is this something that you ate at, that you ate? Yes, because sometimes you could touch a food and it could bother you. So, you know, because you're, I had it before and I thought it would go away, but it was still very prevalent, a lot was there. Okay, so I was just going to ask, is this before the conference? And I was just thinking that it was yes, okay? So, do we need to know more than that? And we don't. So, asking this inner knower, do we need to know more? No. So, do you have, what my intuition is telling me is that you have a food intolerance. And is this a food intolerance? Yes, okay. So, just looking at a list of foods, is this a vegetable type of food? No. Is this a fruit type of food? I'm testing yes. And looking down my list, is it one of my, is it one of the foods on my list? And the answer is yes. Is it, I'm just going to go from the A to C column. Is this from A to C? Yes. Is it African mangoes? Is it apple, apricot, avocado, no, banana? And my knower might get in there. Is this date, is this, is this banana? Is this banana? Yes, okay. Is this an apricot? No. Is this an avocado? No. Is this a banana? A banana has bothered you. Maybe something that had banana in it? Or, so an intolerance can actually be from even like several months ago. An intolerance is something that your body reacted to and not, and it's so a particular banana.  And let's ask, is there an underlying cause to that? And the actual thing is no. So, what I can see, and I'm testing with my intuition, is your digestive system releasing? No, okay. So, do you have a digestive problem? Yes. So, what I'm just testing is, so let's just test your digestion from your mouth, down through your stomach, and then from there, and I'm seeing actually, is your liver happy? It is not. Did you have a problem with your liver? Yes. Okay. Is your gallbladder happy? It is not. So, in the liver gallbladder area, there's a little, there's some ducting called the cystic duct and different, some ducting in there. So, is this flowing properly? No. So, right now, I'm going to, and it looked like you were kind of itching. Is this itching right now? It's not as bad as it's been, but sure. I do feel it. Okay. Yeah. I'm going to give you, so we can clear this in tolerance, but I'm going to give you a little exercise, and let's see if this helps with the exercise, with the rash or whatever. Now, it's called the 30-second gut flush, and I have a video that you can see on my website or on YouTube, the 30-second gut flush. I'm going to stand up a little bit here, and it's right below the ribs. Just brush downward about 10 times on the right side, 10 times in the center, and you don't even really have to touch your body, but 10 times on the left side as well. So, brush down and get in there right to left, and just brush downward on your skin. You might feel or hear some gurgling even, and so what we're going to do now is how we clear, let's asking, is your liver becoming more happy? Not yet. Just on that right side, really get in and brush. What I've noticed with my clients, and over the past 25 years, actually been using this with clients, with patients, with my husband's practice, and it helps to balance the body. It helps the digestion, the digestive system. It also helps to balance your energy, like right to left energy, connect brain and so forth. So take a nice deep breath in and out right now, and let's ask, is your liver happy? It's much more happy. Is your gallbladder happy? It's much more happy. Is your cystic duct not so much? So a little more brushing on the right side, under your rib, and just lovingly, just imagine this whole area is opening up. And a nice deep breath in or two. Okay, and now, let's just bring your body into balance. And here's a good way to balance your body.  This is actually, Dr. Brad Nelson uses this in the Emotion Code and Body Code. This will bring your body back to balance. And our intention is bringing that body back to balance and releasing and clearing that intolerance. So there you go. It is very nurturing. It is wonderful, yeah. It just sends a message via your governing meridian, which runs from the bottom of your tailbone up and over to the top of your lip. There's a problem on board here, and let's get this balanced pretty much. So take a deep breath and just feel into your skin, into that. You might even touch a little bit on your neck and see if there's a change. There may or may not be.  I know my skin is raw, because you know, if you've been scratching such thin skin for three weeks, it's unhappy, so I guess that's not of right now, that's of the past few weeks. And just like in asking my skin, frankly, right here, are you better? I'm getting a yes. Okay. Well, it might take a little further for that, but keep doing that 30 second gut flush. You can actually do the gut flush while you're sanding, sitting, lying down, close on, close off. You can do it for animals. I've done it on a horse before. I've worked on a lot of animals, and then you would just brush their back with the intention that you're doing the gut flush and they love it. So yeah, babies, you can do it on babies.  A little, you don't even have to touch their body, just balance that and gas will start to pass and the baby will just start to calm down, so. Nice. Well, thank you. And let's see how that works. At the end, just let me know how you're doing at the end too, okay? Absolutely, yeah, I appreciate that. I feel very relaxed, I'll tell you right now. I feel really good. We've got Rob, Rob is here for a reading and let's see, start the video and unmute. And Rob, welcome to Dare to Dream. Oh, it's kinda loud where you are. We might ask you to go to a quieter place if you can. This is about as quiet as it's gonna get for an office building. Okay, well, welcome to Dare to Dream. We may do this quickly, because I don't know how noisy we can take it, but Rob meets Lana and Lana meets Rob. Hi, Rob. Hi, Lana. Hi, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. So Rob, do you have any problems with food or any things that bother you? Is there anything in particular you would like me to test today? Sure, I don't really have any types of food that bother me, I like almost all types of food. I guess if I have anything that I would like to change about my physical assimilation of food is the fact that I work out pretty hard at the gym, do a fair bit of cables, weights, hiking, and stay pretty active. And for various reasons, you know, vanity not being the least, I would like to build more muscle. And of course it's good to be strong as well in many aspects of life. So I have a lot of trouble building muscle. So I'm extremely lean and I think I should probably have more muscle for the amount of working out that I do. So I wonder if I might have a protein assimilation issue. All right, that is a great question, okay? And the very cool thing about using the food codes method is you can test if you have a program. If you would like to gain more muscle, if you would like to lose fat or whatever, you have 10K coming up. You can test exactly for that or you have exams coming up. You can do testing for those things. So let's ask for gaining muscle, gaining lean muscle and let's test first, do you have an assimilation problem? Is there a hidden assimilation problem?  So about a nine on a scale of one to 10. Assimilating seems to be okay. Maybe it is the type of food that you need to incorporate. And also we just did a, we did a gut flush. We did a little video example of the 32nd gut flush. For assimilation, I suggest doing that every single day. It will balance your organs and gland for that assimilation. So let's ask for muscle building and your best health in muscle building. Do you need, do you have any top fruits? And yes, so I'm just going down quickly my figs as a top fruit for you. Figs are- Easy. So fig as a good food for you, okay? Grapes, no guava, jackfruit, lemon, no lime, yes. So lime over lemon. It's interesting, but they have different frequencies, okay? Let's see. So that is so pineapple, plantain, prune, rhubarb. Any berries, yes, okay? So let's see, I'm just going down a list of like cranberries, elderberries, Golgi, huckleberry, mulberry, strawberry. Is strawberry a top food for you? Okay, so strawberries would be a top food. Any of the melon family, no. So interesting, so vegetables. Do you have any top vegetables for bulking up muscles? This is going down. Let's see, artichokes, arugula, asparagus, beet greens, bok choy, broccoli. Is broccoli a top food for you? And the answer is a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, okay? So like it or not, broccoli is a good food for you. Cabbage, no celery, no collard greens, no corn, no cucumber. Most of the lettuces as top muscle building, Swiss chard, spinach, spinach, okay? Spinach as a good top food for you. It's a five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Think of Popeye, there you go. Popeye and spinach, okay? So others, olives, the onion family, how is the onion family? Garlic and the onion family for muscle building, not top. How is squash for muscle building? Pretty good. Acorn, yes, banana, yes, butternut, yes. So those are the yellow, wonderful yellow vegetables and that time of year now too. So yellow squash, sweet potatoes, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. So those being very, very good for you. White potatoes, not as good, but the yellow potato and the yellow potato is about a five, but a sweet potato or a yam about the same. So those are good. Let's ask any root vegetables for muscle building, not so much. And that doesn't mean you should stay away from these other types of vegetables. It's just we're pinpointing muscle building foods, okay? So legumes, yes, okay? So things like beans. Azuki beans, no, black beans, cannoli beans, chickpea garbanzo beans, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Garbanzos as a 10 for you, okay? Cranberry beans, great northern green beans, about middle of the road. Lentils, let's check lentils. One, two, three, four, five. So lentils, not as good, red beans, mushrooms, no seed vegetables. Okay, so let's look at dairy like cow dairy. Are you vegan or vegetarian? I'm a proud carnivore. Okay, all right. So let's look at let's say cow, dairy, cheese, et cetera. Dairy for building muscle for you is a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Okay, so like regular cow whole milk is not so good. Do you need it fermented? Yes, okay. So let's say like a buttermilk, kefir, yes. So goat and cow, yes. So those are all good for you. I would do the fermented sour cream, even sour cream. So fermented for you and do you have any cheese that is cheese and okay food for you? Yes, on a whole cheese is a five and more, you're better like, let's just look at double lunar. That one test good a lot of times, one, two, three, four, five. So cheese can be good for you too, but the fermented dairy is a muscle building for you. So any grains, any grains for muscle building for you, let's just check sourdough bread for you as a one, two. Not that you shouldn't, so muscle building it's a two, but is sourdough bread good for your body at this time? It's about one, two, three, four, five. So just in the so-so, as far as rice, rice is there, particular rice that would help you with the muscle building and yes, basmati rice, yes, black rice, yes, brown rice, yes. So rice being very good and wild rice being very good for you. Also garbanzo bean or chickpea flour, you can make some fabulous things with chickpea flour, garbanzo bean flour. Just checking very fast nuts, nuts on a scale of one to 10, about a nine to 10 for you. Okay, so almonds, Brazil's, not so much cashews, coconut, no pecans, no macadamia, yes, peanuts, no pistachios, yes, walnuts, yes. So nuts as a good and good fats for you as well. Seeds, just oils, particularly high oils for you. Any of those, yes. Avocado oil, yes.  So a 10 on a scale of one to 10. Butter is a five, six, seven, eight, nine. Butter and ghee, very good fats for you. Fish oil is not so much. Let's see, pork, yes, we're probably about the end here. Okay, sorry. We're getting close to the end, and I want to be sure, and if you just want to give him like, you know, a couple of quick, quick tips. Protein makes protein. So meat in general for you, for building muscle is a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine to 10, not so much fish or seafood. Meat and meat broth and those, some good oils is what I'm testing really fast. Got away from me there. Thank you. Wonderful. Well, that's very encouraging because that's mostly what I already do, but I'll keep those in mind and concentrate on those types of foods. I do love fish, but I'll gravitate more toward the four-footed animals of the world. Fish is good for you, but it's just not the meat, the muscle building that you, it's probably super duper good for your brain, so don't, don't stop eating fish. All right. Thanks so much, Lana. You bet. Thanks Rob. All right, sweetheart. I'm going to get back to work. Take care. Bye. Bye-bye. Amazing. Well, so I'm a little jealous. I just want to say, like, that doesn't seem fair that somebody has, and Rob, there you go. So it doesn't seem fair. Like he, he, you're talking about someone's body who's like, yes, your body loves this and this and this. I have such a sensitive body. I'm really over it, and I love food, like love food, but I have, I just have to be so careful. And even when I'm careful, I have stuff like this happen or my digestion will break down until I can build it back up. So I have to say, when I listened to like this reading with Rob, who's trying to put on weight muscle and his body is like, yum, yum, yum. It's a little bit, well, I guess the real question is, how can I have something like that? Just keep doing your food codes, okay? Just keep following the food codes, and you can use it in many ways. You don't have to use it as, this is all I can eat. Do your best, bless the rest, but you can, a good way to follow it is to just eat, sometimes to start following it is to find out what your worst foods are. What foods do I need to stay away from? And start there, because a lot of people say, you know, it's so much like dieting to me, and to just like baby steps into it, clearing emotions and things like that, of course, would be recommended. And just bringing yourself into balance, okay, this is not a diet, this is not a diet, this is not a diet, I can do this. No, it's a lifestyle. So stay away from those things that are not good for you. On your food plans that we had tested for you before, banana did not test good for you as a good food. So stay away from, start with that. Stay away from those foods that don't test good for you. Okay, and just so folks know with the sheet that I received, if you work with Lana too, that, you know, as she's saying, not forever. So you do this, and she'll tell you, she'll muscle test and tell you how much time. And then you can go back and be retested and introduce new foods. So the body changes. I wanna bring in, because I read this in the book and I thought it was so cool, muscle testing also can be done for supplements. It can be done for sunshine, for sunscreen brand, for grocery shopping, for animals. So this is really comprehensive. And if you want to get a copy of her 30 second gut flush, what we were just doing to take out the garbage and release the excess weight from your body, go to thefoodcodes.com slash gut dash flush.  So this is Dare to Dream, Lana. What are your next Dare to Dream? What are your future dreams and goals? Ooh, that is so good. Well, I have a huge family. Okay, I have 12 kids and a parcel of grandkids. And it's a wonderful blended family. And my Dare to Dream is vacationing with them, is seeing them as often as I want, is feeding them, is getting together and living life good with lots of good food. So those are my dreams. Well, that's a beautiful dream and you have like 33 grandchildren. Is that right? I do, I know. That just blows people out of the water. All on the food codes and look like Lana. Have a whole gaggle of grandchildren and look at everything. My husband and I married 27 years ago, I think now, 26, 27 years ago, and we combined a family of each of us having six children. So that's how that happened. And we have a happily ever after. You can read about it in the book. Very nice. What do you wanna tell people here at the end? I want to tell them to stop judging food, just stop. Stop judging others, stop judging yourself and relax. Breathe with it, eat what, stop eating when you're full. Don't eat when you're not hungry. Just follow your inner wisdom because as you do that little by little by little, you will know, you will know exactly what your body needs and you will be feeling good in your skin. Isn't that our goal? Feel good in our skin? Because we're in it anyway. Yes. So why not feel amazing fully in it and enjoying being in it as well? Yes. And so you can also help people like you help Rob with the bodybuilding and the weight gaining. You can help people with lose weight or help people with health issues, et cetera. You can, any of that, yeah. You definitely can even, you can help yourself by doing just following the book. You can help yourself with any of those issues too. You bet. That is my goal is to help you help yourself. There's a quote from your book I love which is most adults have tried one, two or several diets. Most are based on a cookie cutter approach. One reason cookie cutter diets don't work is because people are not cookies. I think that was very good and clever. Yes. Lana, thank you so much for coming on and sharing your brilliance today on the show. Thank you for having me. Thank you for your listeners. And people could go out and get the book, Amazon and at your local bookstores. It's the food codes. It's really amazing. And it does teach you everything and has many of these great exercises as well besides being able to self-test. And I end with these quotes. W.C. Field said, I cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food. And Orson Wells said, my doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there were three other people. Thank you for sharing your brilliance today. You're amazing. And next week on the show, I am featuring Simone Butler. She is an expert astrologer guide with more than 30 years of experience in helping people. And she's also going to talk about Astro Feng Shui and Astralocality, where you should be living, working, where in the whole world works best for you. Tune in to this enlightening transformation conversation. All the weeks ensuing on Dare to Dream with Debbie Dashinger. Remember, subscribe, leave a five star review and the secret of success is always having the courage to begin in the first place. Thank you so much for joining us today on the show.


Daily Tech News Show is made possible by you, the listener. Thanks to all of you, including Michelle Sergio, Kirk Stephenson, Miss Music Teacher, and tune brand new patrons Daniel and Oswaldo. Daniel, Oswaldo, yeah. On this episode of DBS, Scott Johansson explains how NVIDIA went from a niche game company to one of the three most valuable companies in the world. We evaluate Mark Zuckerberg's evaluation of the Apple Vision Pro and why Netflix is number two to a local company in Africa. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 14th, 2024 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Animal House with lots of love, I'm Sarah Lane. From Studio Heart Shaped Box in Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johansson. From one of the rooms in my house in the show's producer, Roger Che. You know who my Valentine is today. Who would that be, Tom? Who would that be, Tom? The bosses of Daily Tech News Show. Oh, I was going to say I'd leave. Also, I lean. But yeah, yeah, the bosses always in my heart, bosses. Thank you. We love you. Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. Yeah. Will you all be our Valentine? We'll be your Valentine. All right, enough of that. Let's start with the quick heads. Samsung announced an update for the Galaxy S24 series coming this month, which will improve its display experiences, which some people thought were a little lackluster, with a new vividness slider for adjusting saturation. The update will also include several camera improvements, like upgrades to the device's zoom functions, portrait mode, nitography, rear camera, video shooting capabilities, and more. Sony lowered its projected sales of PS5 consoles. They expected to hit $25 million eventually. Now they're saying just $21 million. Not all bad news, though. Q3 sales for Sony's PS5 were up a couple of million from $6.3 million last year to $8.2 million this year. However, Sony had expected it to be closer to $9.2 million, so they fell short of their own estimates, especially with the success of Spider-Man 2. They thought they would sell more consoles. Anyway, Sony is calling this peak PS5. It now says it will move into the stage of every console's life when you look at your Medicare check and plan for retirement and focus on profitability and selling games rather than selling the actual hardware. Slack is launching a suite of built-in AI features for its enterprise paying customers designed to make summaries of threads and channel recaps easier to digest. The company first tested the features last year. Apparently, they went over well and now they're rolling them out to enterprise. Slack AI will also let you ask questions about a project that you've been working on or maybe your workplace policies provided that that information somewhere lives in Slack already. Slack says it's hosting its own large language models and that customer data remains siloed, so it won't be used to serve other clients. Slack AI is available in the US and UK in English, rather, to start with support for additional languages and plans coming soon. DuckDuckGo's privacy-focused browser has a new sync and backup sync and backup feature that lets you keep your passwords, bookmarks, and favorites the same across multiple devices. You don't even have to set up an account if you're like, oh, great, now I'm going to have to give it. No, you don't have to give him anything. DuckDuckGo says the data is end-to-end encrypted, should sync across most Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS devices, and include data you might import from browsers like Chrome if you want it to. What you do need to do is scan a QR code or enter an alphanumeric code to identify which instances of the browsers should be connected. Clever. Microsoft and OpenAI issued the results of an investigation of how bad actors are using tools like chat GPT. This is an expected result, but it's always good to see what the studies find when they look into it. Generally, seems like bad actors are testing the use of LLMs to improve scripts and social engineering techniques. One organization is also using it to speed up the search for known vulnerabilities. Right now, appears to be only in the testing stage with no significant attacks detected by the usual LLMs. A large part of the report also indicated possibilities of future vectors. As you might expect from a report involving Microsoft, AI tools for cybersecurity are being developed by... Who would it be? Microsoft to help you fight fire with fire. There you go. Microsoft says you know what the solution to this problem we discovered is? Us. Yeah, we got a tool for that. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a video to his Instagram account, which got a lot of attention over the last 12 to 15 hours on Tuesday, explaining why he was just not all that concerned when comparing the Vision Pro to the Meta Quest 3. Now, of course, the Quest has several iterations, but he was talking about the Vision Pro versus the Quest 3. Seth points out that the Vision Pro is like seven times more expensive. That's a good point. Also notes that the Quest 3 weighs 120 grams less than the Vision Pro. Also a good point. And has greater motion due to not needing to be tethered to a wired battery pack and also has a wider field of view. He also says physical hand controllers and hand tracking for input is better, at least for now. Though he did say Meta plans to bring back eye tracking after first debuting in the Quest Pro. I don't just think that Quest is the better value. I think the Quest is the better product, period. When I first set up the Vision Pro and I'm being totally honest, I was like, wow, this is so cool. The Quest feels like a toy. The Vision Pro feels like almost something where I'm like, I should become a developer. To make the most of this like very expensive. And oh, Sarah, that was a clip from our episode two of Apple Vision Show, which is about the Vision Pro, but it's about all things Apple that I co-host with Eileen Rivera. And I think I sound a little silly there. And perhaps I was oversimplifying the two, but if I have to compare the two first reactions, I stand by this.  Now, is the Vision Pro going to be something that you're going to love and need and use all the time? Maybe not. For a lot of people, they're sort of going, what's this for exactly? I think Zuck points out some varied interesting stats. It makes good points that the Quest is cheaper. It works differently. It definitely has a more robust ecosystem now. Scott, what resonated with you? This idea that there is room in the market for more than just one killer headset. And I realize this is even too early to decide who those players are. But what we have is two extremes. We have a very affordable, quote, unquote, entry level. It's almost made more entry level by the price of the Vision Pro. And I think meta benefits a little bit from that. And I think I'm getting out in front of this and talking about it in this way. He said nothing unexpected, but it does kind of help illustrate there are these two choices. And one is very good at VR and a few other things, but is kind of OK at AR, better than the last model. But a little better at AR, it's OK. And then on this other extreme side, you have this very expensive, but very good at AR display and pass through and all this stuff. That thing is like miles ahead of any other competition. But it's not really a VR device. And what little it does to remove things in your view to make it seem like you're in a place in a kind of VR way is not as good as what the Quest 3 can do. So it's just for me a good reminder that there's going to be a range. There is no one killer device, at least not yet. And even then, there will always be room for something that comes in and says, yeah, but this part of the market wants this more than they want that. Or the more affordable model is going to do most of what you need. So therefore, that's going to be the one you get. And I think it's probably a good sign that Meta will continue to be, if not dominant, at least be there all the time, nipping at the heels of whoever's next. And if Apple becomes the leader in this space with lower cost models and whatever they do down the line, fine. But I don't think we're looking at a future where it's a little like the iPhone. We're not looking at a future where they are going to absolutely dominate it and no one else is in. Other people will come in. There'll be good competition. I think this is actually healthy for everybody. This is a false comparison. This is just pure propaganda. Zuckerberg wanted to make sure that people talked about the Quest more and he got what he wished. This is simply Zuckerberg getting everyone to talk about the Quest because when you actually look at what he's comparing, he's not comparing the Quest to the Apple Vision Pro equally. He's saying, what does the Quest do the best and how does the Apple Vision Pro compare to what the Quest does the best? And he makes it feel reasonable because he's like, well, it does have better resolution and that eye tracking. That's pretty good. Of course, we have eye tracking. We have that in the Quest Pro. We'll bring that to the Quest 3. But this is a bit like comparing the Nintendo Switch to a Lenovo laptop. Right? The Lenovo laptop is heavier. And it doesn't have all the games that the Nintendo Switch has. Ah, the Nintendo Switch. Such a superior product to the ThinkPad, except the ThinkPad's meant for an entirely different thing. And I think that's true of the Apple Vision Pro as well. I mean, this Instagram video was, I don't know, two to three minutes in its entirety. Imagine if he had just posted this. Zuckerberg had just posted this to be like, reminder, Quest 3 is pretty cool. People would be like, yeah, I know.  We got it. We got it meta. But to be able to compare it to something and say, and here's where they're different, and here's why you're thinking about this more, is a pretty good PR move. It was a little canned. You know, I assume he was reading off some sort of a teleprompter and it was sort of like, here I am just sitting in my living room with one of my best buds. Because the point isn't the production value or the content. The point is to get people talking. Right? Yeah, exactly. And it definitely worked. And I do think that the points he makes are valid. And for anybody who's like, Sarah thinks that the Quest 3 is just a toy, I think it feels like a, not like a toy that's made poorly, but something for fun. Yeah. Right, exactly. Exactly, yeah. That's just, those are the comparisons that I've made. The Switch is also a toy and a great one, right? So yeah. Also, you're talking about something that's been in development for a decade versus something that's been out for not two weeks now. So it's very hard to compare the two. They're just different. Yeah, and the Switch comparison is a really good one, Tom, because when I first got the Steam Deck, I felt that feeling of, wow, this is a solid state and heavy and like, wow, bigger, all these things. And it's easy to lose sight of the fact that, well, yeah, because it's a different category and the price is significantly higher than I'm going to pay for a Switch. So if anything, I think Met is best chance for what they do in the future is to always be more affordable. It doesn't mean they have to be dirt cheap. And I don't even think the Quest 3 is considered dirt cheap, not compared to the two anyway. But I think that's a part of the market that is going to need some good occupation and will drive sales. And it may be that Apple, if anything, Apple may feel forced, if they do that, right, to go down and not up. So, yeah, it's going to be interesting. He's canned anyway. That's what he does. So I'm not surprised about that. He doesn't know how else to talk about things casually. I'm just not in him. That's an expired can of cream corn. Yeah, kind of. All right. Let's shift our attention to the streaming world. Restofworld.org notes that a streaming service called Showmax has 2.1 million subscribers across the continent of Africa, as far as at the end of November.  Percentage-wise, across the African markets, Showmax has 39% of the streaming market compared to Netflix's 33.5%. And Restofworld notes three things Showmax did to get in front of Netflix. First of all, it beat them on international English language content, contracting with HBO and NBC Universal to get high quality content, not just from HBO and NBC, but also using the NBC Universal Contacts to get some BBC stuff and Lionsgate, etc. Landed English Premier League Soccer, so you got top quality international content, top quality international sports, and then having strong relationships with local creators in multiple African countries because its parent company, MultiChoice, runs cable TV channels and broadcast channels across Africa. The last was the most important differentiator. Showmax goes beyond paying for local content to fostering connections. There's a story in this RestofWorld article about having a documentarian pitching a show and having Showmax say, you know what, you're MultiChoice, I think, saying you should talk to this other documentarian. He's doing a similar thing, and then they teamed up and made something even better.  They'll eventually have to raise them just like everybody else, but it's an earlier stage of the market there. I thought this was fascinating because Netflix has been complimented, and I think rightly so, for doing well in regional markets by partnering with local creators in India, in Korea, in Germany, in Latin America, but as good as Netflix wants to be at that, they don't have the same experience as a company like MultiChoice who has been there forever and can say, hey, we want to get you on Showmax, our streaming service. Yeah, one of the things I think Netflix has done well worldwide is, as you mentioned, curate content that is kind of from all over the place. Like some of the most popular stuff on Netflix now are Korean dramas, for example, and other parts of the world that might be something else. And I think they know that's important. What it sounds like to me is the Showmax organization is just organically doing that because that's where they are. They're doing that automatically and they're bringing in stuff from other places, but they're so focused on local content, local culture, local programming. And by local, I mean African programming, whatever that is right now, I don't know, so I can't speak to it. And it varies from region to region within Africa, right? Kenyan programming is different than Nigerian programming, different than South African program. Exactly. If you go into a market like that and all you have is localized language versions of Seinfeld and Friends, you're probably not going to make much headway. How you do it is you say, where's part of the fabric here is anything? And so that will drive sign-ups. Also, I do think the 50% cut in subscription price is probably probably helping fuel this, right? That doesn't hurt at all. And for those at home, I know there have got to be people here at Showmax and go, what is this, a rip-off of Showtime and Max? We have no idea. That name could just be completely... It's actually a pretty good name, no matter what. I like it. Yeah, I kind of like it. Showmax, got it. Yeah. That's a good name for a streaming service. I also think, if we're talking 2.1 million subscribers and this is, again, a more regional offering than something like Netflix or Amazon, there is room to grow. That company can make lots of money if it keeps doing what it's doing and grows in the right way. And maybe that's the sweet spot. Not just for the African continent, but certain markets where you can just put together a package from scratch that feels just more like home than something that Netflix is doing. I feel like the magic sauce here is combining the international content with the local content. Because you see a lot of localized or regionalized offerings like Vicky or Britbox or Hotstar that are out there. But a lot of times, they don't bring the international. Now, Hotstar is an exception to that because it's Disney, right? But they said, we're not going to just do African content to compete with Netflix. We're going to get HBO. We're going to sell a chunk of our company, 30% of our business to Comcast, so that we can get that NBC universal content and connections. And I think that's the magic sauce. And that is a threat to Netflix because you could have a showmax of the Middle East. You could have a showmax of India. You could have a showmax of Southeast Asia. You could have a showmax of South America pop up. And then suddenly Netflix is fighting intense battles in every region and getting itself stretched thin. And in a way, it wouldn't against other global competitors like Disney, for instance. Yeah. And it's interesting that these conversations are always Netflix and something else. To me, that's just a reminder that there are other services there. I mean, Amazon announced they're downsizing their efforts across Africa and the Middle East for Prime and stuff. So, you know, as much as it's, I don't know, they have become the elephant in the room that we will now compare all this stuff to from a video streaming service standpoint. And it feels like they're kind of there to stay for a while. So. Yeah. No, that is true. It is always Netflix that they're up against in whatever region to look at. So that is a strength of Netflix as well. Well, folks, if you want to recap of the week's tech headlines with insights into how technology affects and disaffects communities of color, you need to check out The Tech John, where hosts Rob Dunwood, Stephanie Humphrey, and Terence Gaines dive into the top tech stories of the week, delivered from their points of view. Points of view you're not always going to hear in mainstream media. New episodes land on Tuesday afternoon, so there's a fresh one there waiting for you right now. Find it wherever you get your podcasts or visit TheTechJohn, J-A-W-N, dot com. Yesterday, we mentioned that Nvidia's market cap had been pushing up into the top five tech companies. Wednesday, it passed Alphabet to make it the third largest company behind Apple and Microsoft. All right. So today, let's talk about how a company, such as Nvidia in this case, most often associated with gaming became such a crucial player in the generative AI space in a short amount of time, really, using its chips to power servers that run chat GPT, AWS, Azure, Google AI services. Now, Scott, you've been looking into the space pretty heavily, so what can you tell us? What's Nvidia doing right? Well, one thing I totally forgot about earlier, and it just hit me, and we were talking about the switch, they make the CPUs for the switch as well, and probably will for the switch too, but yeah, it is interesting, right? You look back in those heady late 90s days of GPUs when that was just a brand new thing and really the two players were Voodoo and the newish company then, which was Nvidia and their GeForce cards, and they became so renowned for being the better choice so quickly that they wiped out Voodoo, basically, and went on to sort of dominate their market. They've had competition since in the form of ATI now owned by AMD, so AMD is their chief competition these days, but they don't even come close, AMD does, in the desktop department. You mentioned all these other innovations, and it got me to thinking about where they've positioned themselves.  There's all this talk, and we may find out tomorrow how true some of this talk is, but this talk that Microsoft may be having a big brand kerfuffle, and we talked about it last week in a little bit more depth. We found out tomorrow on their podcast what they're talking about, but they may be getting out of the hardware part of Xbox. Maybe that's a long-term plan. Maybe it's a short term. We don't know any of this until we hear it, so without knowing that information, let's just pretend for a second that tomorrow Phil Spencer gets on the show and he says, sorry everybody, but we're not making an Xbox hardware after this Series X and S were done. That leaves a big, huge competitive gap in the market that Sony would then own, basically, Nintendo in a sort of a distant second, but they're very different markets, so really on the top end, cutting edge side of things, Sony would be standing alone. And many have said, well, that's not healthy for the markets, not healthy for gamers. We need competition. I agree with them. The company that seems the most ready to fill that void is Nvidia. And hear me out for a second. Not only do they have the market cap to support it and even just experiment with it without losing their shirt, they've also been doing a lot of things over the years to help shore up potential future entrenchment in gaming. And it isn't just their dominance of the GPU market on desktop and all of this infiltration into AI and everything else, but their GeForce Now service has been quietly plugging along, doing real well. People like it. It's a streaming service, but a very reliable one and they have a free tier and they also have paid tiers. That thing does really well. There's some issues, but they've got the infrastructure for it. Then when it comes to their, so my thinking is if you need a hardware replacement for whatever Microsoft provided for the market, who better to do it than Nvidia? They have experience with all these services and they have experience making their own hardware in lots of ways, not just GPUs, but they made GeForce devices that hook to your TV and do sort of a steam link sort of thing. I think Roger has one of those and has been enjoying it for years. It's not even a really a big thing they promote anymore, but they've got the experience with it. They have the logistics behind it and they could get that done and introduce a console that would be the premier technically profound console in the next console race. So with my fake theory that Xbox might be going away hardware-wise, you could see an Nvidia console going up against whatever the PlayStation 6 would be that would have built-in on-board AI, large language model, game affecting, who knows what all, plus just cutting-edge GPU technology and they would be going up against what I would assume would be another AMD-powered PlayStation, which is currently the case as it is with Xbox.  If they had that part of it, they'd be golden. This is where my theory maybe gets a little weird, but that's perfect for aligning themselves with Microsoft, which they already do. Game Pass is available on GeForce Now, by the way. To make this console, this fake console I've made up my head would be just chock-full of the Xbox services that Xbox is pushing so hard to have happen. So in a way, Xbox gets to keep their foot in the console race via this direction and Nvidia gets to embark in this brand-new direction for themselves and even dominate AMD in a space where AMD has beat them in consoles. They just keep getting these contracts and Nvidia doesn't. Now they would have it a dominant place in there. And now you're looking at all of those advantages as a direct competitor to the big dog in the room, which is Sony. I mean, that would be crazy, but it's possible, is all I'm saying. It's possible. Tom, what do you think? Do you think that I'm up in the night? Roger, you got anything? I know Roger loves this stuff. Roger, what do you think? I mean, if you were to ask me, personally, I probably would bet against an Nvidia console because for traditionally, game console ecosystems are very dependent on the disposable razor model, right? They sell you the hardware, but that locks you into the ecosystem, which then they can sell you the games that they take a licensing chunk out of from the publishers. I don't think Nvidia wants to do that. Nvidia has been very shrewed in using its technology. So GPUs are specialized microprocessors that chew on parallel data. So 3D graphics, image editing, data analytics, AI, these are all things that GPUs from their inception, they weren't focused on it, but it does do parallel processing. And over the years, Nvidia has looked, what is the next big market? It's not that they saw gaming going out. They just saw it plateauing. So they figured, why don't we pivot our technology into doing what we call GPGPU or general purpose GPU calculations? And you see the evidence of that with CUDA where you use it with Adobe products or any other kind of creative software where it accelerates things like encoding, transcoding, accelerates certain Adobe functions. And it wasn't a huge leap to go from GPGPU to AI processing. And in all those instances, their product just needed a pivot away into the new market. But it wasn't an overhaul of the design. It wasn't like we have to start from scratch. It's, we already have on paper a design to parallel process. Hey, guess what? Also parallel processes very well. Generative AI.  GPU is great for that, which is why NVIDIA is where it's at right now because they've managed to position their product is, hey, you guys want to chew, you guys want to chew down on all the images on the internet so you can you can feature your generative AI. We have this, we have the technology.  And that's what we're doing. And that's what they're doing. However, the wrinkle is that a lot of companies are like, well, do we really need to pay NVIDIA? Why don't we design these chips ourselves? And you see some of that with Amazon, with Google, with Apple. And NVIDIA is always looking over the shoulder, very dependent, but it's not that gaming will not be important. I think they see gaming as a service in the same way that Microsoft does.  Everyone's golden. Yeah. And the other thing to mention, regardless of my prediction or their future, the one thing that I think is certain is AI technology, as it matters to gaming, and that is like character behavior, NPC behaviors, the way a game reacts to you and interacting with it, whatever it may be. That stuff is only going to get more dependent on their technologies and technologies like it. So, the quicker they get behind that, the better. If it's just cloud gaming, fine. They want to be what's in the cloud doing that stuff on chip. If it's something in your living room and it's doing it locally, they would like to be that also. So, I think regardless, given where they're at and the potential verticals that they could jump into, NVIDIA is not slowing down by any stretch. NVIDIA's focus is on making sure they maintain the gains they have, right? They're going to keep showing Amazon, Alphabet, Meta that, yeah, you can design your own in-house stuff, but you're still going to need us. They're also out there talking to governments. We mentioned this yesterday. Like, hey, y'all should have your own large language models for every country. We'll help you build that. They're fighting against Sam Altman, who's going around to countries and saying the same thing. Like, you need to work with me to make hardware to power AI because I don't want to have to be relying on NVIDIA for everything. So, that's where the big fight is for them. But I don't think you're wrong, Scott, that there will be some gaming hardware strategy for them, whether it's building on the NVIDIA Shield to make it more of a console, whether it's working with Microsoft, because I just don't buy that Microsoft wouldn't come out with a stream box, even if they get rid of the physical drive. They're going to want to have flagship hardware, like they do with tablets and laptops that say the best way to do a game stream is on the Microsoft Surface Xbox or whatever it is. And NVIDIA can help power that, too. So, I think you're on to something, Scott, that NVIDIA is going to play a part in the consoles. But, Roger, you're 100% right that their focus is on making sure they expand that AI market, because it's what's made them, at least briefly today, number three in the world. We are now talking about Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Alphabet, and Meta. That's crazy to even hear it. But, yeah, I think your guys are making some really good points. The only final thing I'd say is, Microsoft's so in bed now with open AI that some of that's a bit of a conflict. So, part of my prediction is maybe Kibosh from the very beginning, given those conflicts. But, you know, we'll have to see. They're big now. Microsoft's good at playing two sides of the street, though. That's true, yeah. Yeah, that's true. All right, let's check out the mailbag. This one comes from Maurice, who says, I believe it's important to label edits. This is in response to our conversation yesterday about the Super Bowl and subsequent viewings of certain Super Bowl halftime shows soundin' a little different. Maurice says, ideally, to have pre-edit versions available so that historical references are clear. Reaction tweets make sense. In future generations, know the difference. We shouldn't have to rely on the audience to catch it and then inform people. I wonder how many new WWE fans remain unaware of the extensive edits that company has done in their past, notably swapping themes, many songs, and almost entirely removing certain players' existences after certain tragedies before their families, et cetera, et cetera. Maurice says, a voice tweak may not matter much, but the principle of presenting an unacknowledged altered history does. Yeah, if you want to find that full conversation, where we acknowledge Maurice's point and some others, become a patron and get good day internet. That was our conversation yesterday on that show. Thanks to you, Scott Johnson. Always a pleasure. Let folks know where they can find out your latest. As I mentioned, Microsoft is going to tell us what they mean about these business and brand changes. It may be nothing. It may be something big. We don't know, but they are going to do it tomorrow, sometime tomorrow, via the official Xbox podcast. When that happens, we are going to listen to that and then tear that stuff apart and figure out what it all means on the show called Core. You can find it at frogpants.com.com or wherever you'll get your shows. It is three guys who love video games and the industry around it. Talking about it each and every week. If that sounds interesting to you, tune in today. That's frogpants.com slash core. Don't forget if you are a good day internet person that we've got good day internet coming around in just a minute. We'll talk about the latest with Waymo autonomous cars and where some of the loaded questions are coming from patrons. Stick around. You can catch our show live Monday through Friday. 4 p.m. Eastern, 2100 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live and we're back doing it all again tomorrow with Justin Robert Young joining us. Talk to you soon.


Welcome to Church of the Chair, where we love sharing the news about new books. I'm your host, E, and today we're talking about some new releases in August. Let's get into it. This August, I am excited about three books, but right up front I want to let you know this is pretty much a discussion video, even though it won't be in the discussion video playlist, because it'll have its own playlist for monthly releases. I want you to put down there in the doobly-doo, and I will do a follow-up video on this same topic showing off the stuff that you guys are excited for, because I can only find the stuff that of course I am interested in because of the algorithms and what not. What not? What night? I don't know. Tomorrow night? Tonight? Whatever. Moving on. The first book that I'm going to be talking about is a book I already have. It came out on August 2nd. Amazon broke the release date and shipped it to me on August 1st, but we ain't gonna say nothing.  And that book is David Joy's newest release, Those We Thought We Knew. I'm excited to get to this, but I still have, well, fortunately, not unfortunately. Unfortunately I haven't been able to read this, but fortunately I still have it left to read, and that's the last book he came out with when these mountains burn. He always tends to release books in August, and August is my birthday, so it feels, you know, serendipitous. But anyways, so I picked this one up, I pre-ordered it ages ago. This, I don't know what it's about. I am going to read you the description, but this one right here, I want to point out upfront that it is 100 pages longer than any of his other books. Most of his books are between 200 and 250 pages. This joker clocks in, what, 350 I think I saw? No, 386. So it's considerably longer, and I've been waiting for a longer-ish David Joy book, so I'm really looking forward to this. Let's jump in to the description. Toya Gardner, a young black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in North Carolina, in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger. Meanwhile, local deputies find a man sleeping in the back of a station wagon, and believe him to be nothing more than some slack-jawed drifter. Yet a search of the man's vehicle reveals that he is a high-ranking member of the clan. And the uncovering of a notebook filled with local names threatens to turn the mountain on end. This sounds so good. After two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations, richly drawn and bracingly honest. Those we thought we knew reckons with an urgent, essential question. What do you do when everything you ever believed crumbles away? I am... I got... Y'all... I got goosebumps. I got goosebumps. This... This is gonna be my jam, but because of my OCD, I gotta read when these mountains burn first, and I hate it because I really want to jump into this one. Maybe I can convince myself that is okay. No one is waiting for my review of when these mountains burn, so maybe I'll just go ahead and jump right into it. Next up, we have a book that's coming out on August 8th, so this coming week. I am not a huge fan of the author, but I am a huge fan of this idea. The book is Whale Fall by Daniel Krause, and when I say I'm not a fan of the author, all I mean is I haven't been able to get into his other books, especially not the one that he, I believe, partially wrote with George A. Romero. It's one of the Don of the Dead series books, I believe. I can't remember what it's called, maybe Land of the Dead, no, that's a movie. But anyways, whatever that one's called, I couldn't get into it. I did try something else. I believe it was about teddy bears, I couldn't get into that one either, and I don't know if it's because Daniel writes YA and I'm not down with that style or whatever, I don't know what it is, but this one I'm getting on audible, so I will be listening to it instead of reading it. But here is the premise that truly sucked me in. Jay Gardner has given himself a fool's errand to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lip the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes that he has only one hour before his oxygen tank runs out, one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale. I love that this is a, of course it feels like Jonah, a retelling of the Jonah story, and I love when biblical stories are retold from a fantasy or a sci-fi thing. It's kind of one of my down low favorite kind of things when someone takes a biblical thing and kind of turns it on its head or makes it modern or what have you. So I'm really interested, super excited for this one, and if I end up loving the audiobook I'll definitely pick up a physical copy, but I want to let you guys know about this one in case you didn't know about it. This is an amazing premise and I'm looking forward to it. The next one is a new favorite author of mine, Catriona Ward, has a new book coming out. It's called Looking Glass Sound. I have not read Sundial yet, but The Last House on Needless Street was one of my favorite reads the year that it came out. So I'm really looking forward to this one. Also there is one other book of hers that I'm missing from my collection that I got to find. Also I don't have the title off the top of my head, but we're talking about Looking Glass Sound today, so let me just go ahead and jump in the description and maybe you'll see why I'm so excited. In a cottage overlooking the windswept main coast, I love anything that happens in Maine, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. Love stories about authors too, so that's two things right off the jump. It is a story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay and the bloodstained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay and how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades forever shaping their lives. But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can't be real. Notes hidden in the cabin from an old friend, now dead. A woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help. Entire chapters he doesn't recall typing, appearing overnight, who or what is haunting Wilder. No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does. It's definitely giving Stephen King not to discount anything Catriona Ward is doing, but it's definitely giving King and as you know I'm a huge Stephen King fan, so I'm exceedingly hyped for this one and I'll probably read that one before sundial. Once again, if my OCD can be staved off long enough for me to enjoy it without constantly looking at sundial. Anybody else have that problem? Anyways, moving on. Those are all the books that I'm excited for in August, remember to leave the books that you're excited for only in August. Let me know down there in the doobly-doo and I will do a follow up video with viewer suggestions because like I said I can't find every genre out there and I can't find everything I'm interested in, especially not nowadays when there's close to 50 books coming out every single Tuesday, it was ridiculous. I went through several online lists of the best books coming out in August and each and every one of them was different. It's insane how many books are coming out nowadays, I love it because it gives us options, but at the same time it takes me quite a while to read one book. But that's the book worm dilemma, I'm sure you all feel the same way about that. That's all the time I have for you today. If you have read any of these books like ARCs or what have you, let me know whether or not you liked them down there. If you're thinking about picking these up, let me know that too. Leave all that stuff down there in the doobly-doo. But until next time, I'll hail the chair.


Live Mood's here live with Luke Keekley-Luke. Fandall is live in North Carolina, so I'm gonna ask you about some available things that people can bet in the Fandall Sportsbook and you can let me know how likely you think they are to happen. First, Panthers to win next year's Super Bowl. We've got a long way to go, but I like where we're at right now. Good common direction that we're looking for this season. Hurricanes to win the Stanley Cup. Now they're pretty dead going good. I've been to a couple of playoff games up there and their energy and the atmosphere up there is awesome, so I like that one. UNC or Duke to win March Madness. You know what? I'm gonna go, I grew up a Duke fan, so I'm gonna, I would take, I would take Duke. If I'm gonna bet on one of those teams, I'm taking Duke in it. Hornets to get the number one pick. We were close this year. I thought we, we had the number two pick this year. I thought we were gonna be in the, the Wemba and Yama sweepstakes, but I don't know what the numbers are on that, but hopefully, hopefully we have a little bit better year this year and we're a little bit further away from the number one pick. There you go. If you're in North Carolina, head to the Fandall Sportsbook app right now to tail Luke Keekley.


Good morning. My name is Yvonne Donald, Deputy Director of the James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation. Welcome to City Talk. Well, we are excited because this is our 13th year of our annual James R. Clark Sickle Cell Walk. This walk is held to honor families and individuals who love dealing with sickle cell disease and to provide scholarship funds for our students who are graduating and already enrolled for schools of higher learning, whether it be a four-year college or a two-year degree, or achieving a two-year degree to bridge to a four-year college. We are trying to make sure that our young people are ready and prepared for the future challenges that they have to face and prepared to live their life to the fullest. Our Dr. James R. Clark Walk will be held on September 8th at 1300 Pine Street, St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Gymnasium. Our on-site registration begins at 7.30. At 8 o'clock a.m. we have our Walk Kickoff celebration and at 8.30 the walk will proceed. Our Walk Ambassador this year is Dr. Lonnie Randolph. Dr. Lonnie Randolph is our South Carolina chapter NAACP President Emeritus and a retired optometrist. He's a former board member and a longtime advocate and supporter of the James R. Clark Foundation. We're excited to have him on board and we want to invite the community to please come out once again. Registration is only $15. It's been $15 for the last 13 years and we've done some wonderful things with those funds. We have actually awarded 28 scholarships to date. That's 28 students who have been able to take advantage of these funds that we raised for the walk. So please come out at $15 per person.  So please come out and support us and help us to have another wonderful walk because we're doing good things with the funds that we're raising. The $15 includes a commemorative t-shirt. And every year we have a special design reflecting sickle cell disease and our fight in the cause for sickle cell disease. So this year come out and get your commemorative t-shirt for $15. Also, if you create a team of three to ten individuals, you get a t-shirt free.  So come out and join us. We always have a wonderful time. It's so much fun. High energy, great crowd. So please come out and join us. Our walk is actually held in honor of Dr. James R. Clark, who is a pioneer and advocate on behalf of individuals with sickle cell disease. And our visionary is Ms. Peggy Rohn. Peggy had this vision over 13 years ago and went about to set in place everything to make it happen. She's done an awesome job and we're just thankful to have her on board on our team for so many years. She has a child with sickle cell disease and they've been both longtime advocates of our foundation. And so we're just happy to keep moving forward on behalf of Dr. James R. Clark's legacy and to fulfill the vision of Ms. Peggy Rohn. And at this time I want to introduce to you Ms. Visya Jamison. Ms. Jamison is the son of Draylan Holmes, who is eight years old and a student at Rice Creek Elementary School. Draylan Holmes is our new poster child for the James R. Clark Memorial Sickle Cell Foundation. And Ms. Jamison is actually the founder of a foundation in her son's name, Dray 365. Good morning City Talk. As Ms. Yvonne said, my name is Visya Jamison and I have a son who is a warrior with sickle cell disease. I met Ms. Yvonne in 2012 and she has been such a great, great inspiration and where she introduced us to James R. Clark Sickle Cell Foundation and we have been supporters of The Walk since then. The Walk is amazing and just seeing the work that James R. Clark does and The Walk and everything that's done in the community, it also inspired me to create my own foundation in honor of my son called Dray 365. That's during reach and power 365 days a year. Our warriors fight every day and so should we. So one of the reasons we have this Walk is to honor these individuals to hold them up in honor for those that are facing the daily challenges of sickle cell disease to bring awareness and to just let everybody know that we're all in this fight together, that this is another disease that needs your support and attention. So thank you so very much for all of those who participated in The Walk and the Path and those who have already registered. Registration is only $15 so please again come out and join us.