Hi everyone, this is Chih-choo. Welcome to my channel. As you can tell with my voice I'm a little bit under the weather school starting sort of flu season, I guess and I'm usually pretty good.  Maybe sometimes a little bit longer. I just recently got my voice back So what is the first thing Chih-choo does when he gets his voice back? He makes an update video, right? But the plus side of that is it builds up your immune system and I'm pretty good at that But this year I ended up getting hit which is not a bad thing. You know, what is that saying that I think was Nietzsche That said doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't know if that's the case For every situation, but it is it is building it is for building up your immune system, right? So I thought I'd give you guys a little update of What I've been up to while we Sit by the fire and drink a little bit of soothing tea, right? Now the first thing is One thing I've been trying to do What I plan on doing and I will I will be doing is doing live live videos holding live sessions and Right now the system that I have My computer and hardware stuff that I have Is pretty old so I tried doing some of the live stuff on YouTube and it didn't work because my system was too old and I tried some of the other platforms as well and My system isn't able to handle The software needed It's basically my graphics card and probably my processor as well because I'm running on something It's both 78 years old right now processing all these videos and creating all this content and stuff like that, right? So what I ended up doing was Talking to some of the people on patreon or support me on patreon and we did a little test run With one of the supporters on patreon Matthew. Thank you Matthew for Helping me do that little Tesla test run doing a little live session and Matthew he's He's involved in his own projects as well. I brought a little link in the description of this video He's he's trying to put together a movie is called wretch and they just did sort of a Whole bunch of information sharing a whole bunch of information and participate in sort of Another platform where they were trying to get supporters and raise funds and I liked a little preview that they did So Matthew decided to you know help me out on that so we did a little through Google chat, I guess with this sort of live session and We've tried a couple other times to do live session with a couple other at least one other person on patreon But it hasn't worked out yet, and I realized that It's not gonna work out if I just keep it On a download right I do need to upgrade my system. So what I'm gonna be doing is next week Upgrading my system my hardware and my software So it's gonna be You know probably a couple of weeks until I get the stuff get the computer I'm gonna get a sort of a gaming computer sort of mid to high grade Decided to sort of cough up the dough for that because I definitely do need it And I do want to start incorporating live sessions into Into this platform into what we're doing right now because I personally I've learned a lot From you guys from all the feedback that I've been getting from all this content that I've been creating and trying to answer questions, and I hope You know it's also been reciprocated on from my hand I've been sharing a lot of information as well as much as I can And I hope that's been you know helpful to you guys if you've been looking for math content or whatever it is That you've been looking for right so again, this is sort of a P2P P2P for me peer-to-peer It's sharing information sharing Sharing what I love and you guys are doing the same reciprocating to me. So I really appreciate that From your end right So long long update regarding live stuff I am going to be upgrading my system next week and What I've decided to do is not all the live sessions on YouTube. There's multiple reasons for that one of the main ones being that Everything can't be shared on YouTube as you might be aware there's a lot of Censorship going on on certain platforms YouTube being one of them, you know, it is their platform and they're They have the right Excuse me. This is the longest I've talked for a few days. So It is their platform and they have the right to dictate Who they allow on their platform, right? As far as I'm concerned, it would be equivalent to me Inviting people to my home and if they're Misbehaving or they're not I don't want to say misbehaving because the censorship that's happening It's not about misbehaving. It's about not sharing the right ideas, but As far as they're concerned so As far as I'm concerned if I invite someone to my house and I don't agree with their philosophy And I don't really want that information shared within the community that I'm Creating then I have the right to ask them to leave and that's the way I look at it and that's you know, I'm going to ruffle some feathers right now, but That is the way it is and that gives birth to disruptive innovation and that's what's really happening right now, right? YouTube Has sort of a monopoly has had sort of a monopoly for a very very long time, right? But what's happening right now with them with alphabet ink because it's not really google anymore Alphabet ink working on on wall street, right? So they have their first obligation is to shareholder value, right? Not my cup of tea But that's what their first obligation is. That's what it means when you go public to wall street, right? you put out your you know business model and the first priority there is To increase shareholder value, right? I think they're going about the wrong way But it is what they want to do, right? And what that's doing is giving birth To other platforms that are coming up where there's a fair bit of people migrating to those other platforms Now I'm not going to completely go off youtube and I will never go completely go off youtube because as far as I'm concerned I will use every platform at my disposal to share as much information as possible, right? May be regarding mathematics or anything else, right? So I will continue to stay on youtube 100 percent, but what I've decided to do is to do the live sessions on twitch Okay, and I definitely need to upgrade my system for twitch And that's one of the reasons that I'm you know, I will be upgrading my systems and Or system anyway getting a high-end laptop gaming laptop because what I want to do is hold live sessions in different places Not necessarily just sitting down. Maybe sometimes in the kitchen doing some cooking sessions Maybe going out to the park and at some point I'm pretty sure once I start sharing my Putting the video together where I'm showing you some of the Gaming systems that I have some of the games that I've played I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the buck to start Getting into gaming as well. So I would love to love to live stream some gaming sessions as well Okay, so that's just uh one of the updates that we will be Holding live sessions, but it won't be on youtube. It will be on twitch And on twitch as far as I know there is no censorship being you know taking place Okay, and what I will be doing with those Live sessions that we hold on a twitch I will be saving those and editing out anything that is not allowed on youtube And loading those Live sessions onto youtube as well. So you don't necessarily have to go to switch or twitch to Get a feel for what the live sessions are like because I will Edit and load that content onto youtube but youtube as well, but most likely there will be Some sections cut out because what's going to happen with live sessions? Almost anything goes Really almost anything goes that includes politics Okay, because that's one thing I've stayed away from as much as I can anyway on youtube because You know, you could see the censorship coming up from a mile away, right? I've been blogging for a long time and You know, you could see it coming a mile away and that's one reason I sort of Adjusted The way I was sharing information and the type of content I was creating not necessarily The information but the delivery mechanism, right because the delivery the information that I'm sharing is pretty much Straight up the same way. I was doing when I was writing articles political a lot of political articles starting back in 2006 2007, but The delivery is a lot gentler on twitch. It might not be so okay so just a heads up and Right now I've created the content created the channel on twitch Okay, and I'll provide the link in the description of this video as well and the channel is chicho live, okay And there's nothing there right now. It's going to take me a little bit of time to set all this stuff up, right? I I'm not going to get the system until next week. Most likely maybe a couple of weeks Maybe they have to order it for me So it might take, you know, three weeks or so before three or four weeks before I even I'm even ready to do a test run on there. But if you're on twitch The The channel that I've created is chicho live. Okay, and the description will be in this video. Okay That was a main update that I wanted to share The second update is the comic book readings as you can tell You know, we have a whole bunch of readings that we still have to do and I And I stated I was going to try to get them all done in 2017 and that is still my goal But I'm going to I'm going to blow my timeline. I'm not going to the odds are I'm not going to get it done all in 2017. We're getting a whole bunch done in 2017 But probably we're going to roll over into 2018. Okay, and what I'll do is Just to compensate for rolling over taking so so long to do these comic book readings to compensate for rolling over to 2018 I might actually start adding in some other readings in there as well Okay, which I did for one, but unfortunately that had to be taken down For a reason But I'll stay away from the reason of that For future video. Maybe we'll cover that in twitch. Okay during the live sessions So just a heads up. There will be more comic book readings coming up but we're going to roll over in 2018 and The odds are before we get into the comic book readings. I'm going to do a pretty good serious comic book haul that I've been accumulating for the last few months from this one seller on ebay And we finally filled up a box and the box is on its way to me. So I'm going to do a comic book haul With you guys and before we do that comic book haul what I'm going to do most likely is find and Open Find some kind of Open spreadsheet platform creative commas platform somewhere where I don't want it to be on google Because there is censorship happening on google. So I will try to Find some kind of spreadsheet and if you do know of a site that is providing documentation sort of spreadsheet and and Documents that we can create that's going to be open for anyone to edit right sort of a wikipedia sort of type of deal sort of open source creative commas type of stuff What I'm will most likely try to do is take all the comic book haul All the comics in that comic book haul Video that's coming up and list them in that table And I'm going to create some columns most likely I'll try to get to it I'm not I'm so sure if I will or not, but that's the idea Create some columns on you know different Different variables the you know the grade the price the artist that Created that the date And all that jazz because at some point we're going to take all the comic book haul videos that I've done And that is the plan and Put out put all that stuff in a spreadsheet and Take a look at how that stuff relates to investing and try to come up with some kind of system Where we can actually quantify investing in comic books other than Just slabbing them right I it's for the comic book Excuse me for For the comic book collecting Hobby but it's more a hobby investing we have to sort of go beyond The way it's been working out right now where it's very arbitrary where the price is as you can tell with the previous Comic book haul I did with the cgc Buy that I did with mystic number six where The price I got that it's amazing fantastic that I can get certain things that are worth In my opinion So much more than what I'm paying for them fantastic But I think what I what's going to happen in the future is this is going to be more quantified There's going to be less fluctuation in prices and more stable prices for collections, right? So that will be sort of the first step creating that spreadsheet Possibly putting on some mathematics on there and taking a look at different variables For each issue and see how the prices fluctuate over time, right? I'm really looking forward to it I actually have a lot of stuff laid out my apologies if I'm not going to detail with it and sort of Mumbling my way through this update, but I just recently got my voice back and my energy level is extremely extremely low but of I really wanted to share this information. I really wanted to give you guys the update regarding this Um, another thing is I almost finished there about a silver thorn, right? And I was thinking about doing sort of a Book review of silver thorn vice silver thorn riff or saga just for this, but I don't think they're going to wrap it up What's happening in this book in this amount of In this many pages, right? It's going to roll over So the odds are unless things wrap up in this This epic tale that they're telling Very quickly. I'm going to wait until I read the fourth book in the series Before I do a review of this Fantastic Really, I love the darkness of it. So fun. So fun. Thank you very much for recommending this Okay Fantastic fantastic Okay, uh, just a couple of more couple more things I wanted to mention One of them was the previous video that I uploaded which was sort of how to play monopoly the The sort of variant rules that we use with our gaming Group that we have and I love the way the video came out. Um, I love that game It's been with me for a very very long time. One of the first games I ever learned how to play and it will be one of the last games I ever played in my life, right? But what I did with that video and the rules I sort of typed out on on my blog Right and the tables are available on my blog as well. I sort of took that information and posted it on a Gaming forum, right?  And that was Flower gas that I was blown away. I could believe there was there were so many haters so many people that actually hated monopoly Right and I got in some discussions with some of the people and they were basically saying that The game is flawed in design, right? And everyone has already agreed on this They've done the analysis on this and all this jazz, right? And I went on to a couple of gaming forum gaming Gaming sites where they rank games and I saw the monopolies rank very low Right and there were those conversations I mentioned that would play a lot of diplomacy and access and allies and The main three games that would play board games that would play anyways access and allies diplomacy and monopoly And you know someone commented that you know on that forum They love access and allies diplomacy. They just don't like monopoly because it's a flawed game by design And I sort of kept on mentioning that that was the whole purpose of monopoly Because it was supposed to be supposed to be a mirror of our flawed economic system So our economic system is flawed by design, right? As is monopoly flawed by design, but that doesn't take away From the joy you can get from this game, right? It takes away from the fairness of The inequality that's present in our current economic system in our societies across the globe Right and I agree with that our current economic system is 100% flawed Which is one of the reasons that I started creating math videos regarding the mathematics of economics and investing and all that jazz, right? And that's the way we're going to approach politics, right? And I agree with that if this game Right the rules for this game were the rules for a current economic system, which they are Then I would say it's not a good game It's not a good economic system, right? But monopoly is a game and you can change the rules if you like just the way you can change the rules in our present economic system If you like if the power is there if we have the ability to do it, right? Monopoly is an amazing game if you know the rules if you know the flaws in the system and you can manipulate manipulate those rules, right? That's what monopoly is. It's a fantastic game. So for anyone that has You know played monopoly when they were younger Has graduated to more Intense games and I did as well one of the most amazing games I ever played I wish I could find someone to play with now Is Squad leader avalon hill squad leader, which would start the games on Friday night and end them on a Sunday morning, right? We're playing for like 40 hours straight. What an amazing game, right? It would incorporate The mathematics of it all it would incorporate the stress of war. It would incorporate all the different elements of Of Fantastic game, but that didn't mean I didn't still like monopoly, right? So for anyone that Really doesn't think that monopoly is a fantastic game. I highly recommend reading the rules Try some different variants put some people together Put a gaming group together people that love interaction Communication bargaining dealing rolling dice luck chance Counting money management and try monopoly. Okay, it deserves Uh a lot more respect than people are giving it. Okay The the last little thing I wanted to mention is that I mentioned in previous video that I'm going to start loading up Videos regarding, you know, just giving you guys some advice talking about the business model that I'm following And loading up videos on education. Okay I have some stuff laid out for advice and they will be coming up And I spent some time during my downtime right now where I really didn't have a voice And I laid out some videos to do or one Some topics to talk about regarding education as you can tell education is pretty dear of my heart And what I'm going to do with education is I'm going to create a playlist sharing some of the tools at my disposal Some of the tricks of the trade that I have for teaching mathematics, right? So education That's that information is going to go into education But it's also going to go into a playlist called How to teach mathematics? Okay, so how to teach mathematics videos are going to be overlapped with education And those videos how to teach mathematics are not going to really have my personal opinion on education To a certain degree there will be some on education or a current education system But there'll be more of some of the things I use to teach mathematics Right and one of the reasons I decided to do this is because I know over the years I've had a lot of teachers educators parents Even students tell me that they're using my videos to learn and to teach I've had teachers From multiple countries sent me, you know asked my for my permission to show my videos In their classrooms and by all means if you're if you want to show my math videos in your classroom with your group Share it with whoever you want. Please do so. That's my stuff is creative comments I'm doing this because I I believe the world would be a much better place If everyone in the world was literate in language of mathematics because well for multiple reasons One of the reasons Because monopoly because our current economic system is flawed Just the way the game of monopoly was designed to be flawed our current economic system was designed To be flawed right was the design to create inequality the caste system a class system Right, so please share that information a lot of mathematics videos I've done the syntax of the language of mathematics and the language of mathematics, right those videos I try to Put a filter on myself and I'm okay with censorship putting a filter on yourself If there is a more important point that you're trying to get across right and I've put a filter on myself for a lot of those videos to Make sure that it was More geared towards teaching math not geared towards giving my opinion about how math should be used Okay So there will be a playlist being created for how to teach mathematics And that will be overlaid with education And I've laid out some videos some topics that I want to talk about regarding education and that stuff is I'm going to remove some of the filters that I've put on myself That stuff is going to have a lot of my personal opinion In it Okay, I'm going to ruffle some feathers really I'm letting you know right now I'm going to ruffle some feathers and the more feathers are ruffled or ruffle. I don't know the terminology because I think ruffle The better in my opinion because as you know, I've mentioned this before our education system is designed to be flawed it's basically The same way our current economic system has set has been set up It's been designed to create create inequalities been designed to create a caste system a class system Our education system is the same way. It is flawed to the core And I'm going to talk about that. There's a few topics I want to cover and what I'm going to do most likely Is create long videos where I'm going to hit up a few different topics in an asmr Format and I'll talk about this a lot more once I get my voice back Uh, but they're going to be extended videos where I'm going to talk about a lot of different topics Okay, and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to break up those videos And specifically just really short videos on certain issues. Okay I don't know if I'll do for all of them, but I will do for some So that's my little update that I wanted to give you while I sort of recoup from From a flu season, I guess I don't know if it's a flu season. It's Back-to-school flu season Building up my immune system. That's sort of the way I look at it. And sometimes it's good to have a little downtime and just chill and Do nothing and let the mind wander dream delicious Herbal teas and give the Vocal cords a little break. That's it for now. I'll be back as soon as I can And I'm not sure what I'm going to start off with The plan was before I got hit before I got taken out right now Before I lost my voice to Do some ASMR math videos and I think I will do at least one ASMR math video And that one I think I'm pretty sure is going to be related on how I teach mathematics So that's stuff how I teach mathematics. Some of the will be Overlaid with ASMR math as well, right? As you can tell there's a lot of layering going on with the content that I'm creating because I try to Share as much as I can sometimes I share a little bit too much But I do try to share as much as I can sort of reciprocate some of the Love that I'm getting from you guys from this community and some of the amazing amazing Recommendations and information that's being shared with me may be regarding comic books readings mathematics science technology whatever it may be Okay So until the next video Bye for now


Hi, how's everybody doing today? I am your host Rich here on behalf of RichTVLive with our very special guest, Todd Corbin, the CEO of Odseum. How are you doing today, Todd? Great. Thanks for having me, Rich. Thank you for joining us. Can you please tell me a little bit about yourself, Todd? Yeah, sure. My name is Todd Corbin. I actually grew up in Las Vegas, but after undergrad at the University of Southern California, I majored in broadcast journalism. And through that, I got on with ESPN covering tennis in Europe. And through that, the Olympics in Barcelona that I got on that, and I was doing all the up close and personal stories. So, you know, like the best Greco-Roman wrestler in the world or fencer. And then before the gold medal, they would roll in a piece. And I was living in Munich where in 1989, I met my girlfriend doing that tennis tour. She was working at the Davis Cup as a host. And I ended up coming to Munich and, you know, learned the language. And after the Barcelona Olympics in 92, a brand new network was starting to kind of copy ESPN. And at a very young age, I was put in charge of bringing the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, NHL, and to Germany. And yeah, so not only helping with the rights negotiation, but the production. And I even, the first three years, I even had a show on television. And it was sort of a wrap around and a kind of a highlight of all the U.S. sports. And I was doing it in German, but with an American accent. So similar when you listen to English guys call soccer, it sounds more authentic. So I did that.  And I grew up in Vegas and my dad was in the gaming business.  And I grew up in Vegas, you know, and so when poker television was starting out at first was coming in Germany was the biggest, the new market, the UK was the first big market for online gaming in the world. And Germany was like the next frontier because you had 100 million people, great internet infrastructure, you know, the people made a lot of money, enough money. So and so I brought, we are company, the network bought poker TV, right? Poker. And I knew it because I played a lot of poker, I played in the World Series of poker, and I played a lot of cash games growing up in Vegas. And before people knew a lot about poker, and we'd wake up at like two in the morning, we'd be fresh and the tourists in Vegas would have been drinking since eight, and we would play very, you know, very classic poker. And we'd do all right. So I knew a lot about poker. And so I got put in charge of that. And then through that, I got to learn all these new online gaming companies about online gaming. So they're at the time, it was PartyPoker and 888 and D-Win and all of that.  So, you know, I made a decision, you know, through various reasons, our network had been re-bought and kind of the accountants and stuff were starting to kind of run the company. So instead of having a six, six camera shoot, it was only four cameras, instead of going two days before to do good journalist work, you could only go a half a day before. So it was getting more, wasn't as fun, right? So I jumped into this in 2000 and into 2004. And I was hired by 888 Holdings, which is one of the larger online gaming companies in the world before they became public and in charge of the German market. And one thing led to another and I became the VP there and I opened their sports book, ran their sports book and I had actually launched their brand in over 40 different countries, including bringing the US back in 2014. And then what had happened, I grew up in Vegas. They knew of me because I just launched the New Jersey. So they gave me a very good offer to come work for them. This is back in 2014. I brought my family from Munich where we were living and all the way back to the US to Vegas where I grew up and they knew Vegas from coming here and visiting their grandparents and all of that. So it was kind of like a second home. And yes, I've been in Vegas since around 2015. But in the online gaming business since 2005, I met and how I got to know to make, I bet Wayne was when we were coming in this early days, 2013, 14, when the beginning of online gaming was starting to get regulated in the US. That's where I met Wayne and we've stayed in contact with that. So when he told me about Vegas, winners and I said, well, you know what, I'm putting a company together. This is about three years ago with a partner of mine in Sweden. And we had always worked on the operator side. So we knew what operators needed in a sports betting aggregator, which is Aussie, which I'll tell you about. So when he told me about Vegas winners, I said, my God, Wayne, this is perfect. I need content. We have the technology. This is a perfect synergy. And then obviously I've been in the online gaming business probably longer than most people he knows. So he wanted me to help him, helping him, introducing him to operators and really understanding the digital, the online world of online gaming. And we both live in Las Vegas. So yeah, that's kind of how it happened. So yeah, I'm happy to be a part of it. But I really see that there's this really good synergy between the two companies. That's a fantastic story. I came from the same background of Radiant Television Broadcasting. Funny that we're all kind of coming together now on this project. Why have you joined the Vegas Winners Advisory Board?  And it's something, you know, if someone asked me and it's something that I can really, I think bring value to and it, you know, doesn't cut away from my main business of OXIEM and actually adds to it. I said I'll be more than happy to get involved because what I wanted is to kind of bring the companies working closely together. So OXIEM basically, what we are, we're kind of like, think of hotels.com, but for sports betting, we're an aggregator. So on one platform, one app, you can have your DraftKings, your FanDuel, your Fox Fed, all on one app, you see your wallet, everything. So you don't have to like click to six different apps. You don't have to then go to NFL.com to get an injury report. You don't have to see the table. You don't have to see that the, you know, the bucks of one, you know, whatever, two in a row, all that's kind of all on one app. Nice. And that's why we've been live for about a year and a half in Sweden, and we're in the process of, you know, coming to the US. We're licensed now in New Jersey, Colorado, Indiana, and we're about to get our Pennsylvania license. We're also licensed in Nevada. Wow. And so that's kind of why I said, listen, you know, Vegas winners, I need good content to help add to this.  And he gives a, he gives a, his idea of who's going to win and why you should pick that. So by going then to Hotsiem, it gives you even more of a reason because you might say, he might say, yeah, pick, pick the bucks at minus seven. But if you go to Hotsiem, there might be a book that's offering it at, at minus, at minus six. So it's even better. And then all the different bonuses and all the, the ease of using the app and whatnot. So there's a perfect synergy. So that's why I really got involved, you know, with Wayne and this project as well. Can you also explain to our audience what Vegas winners does? Okay, so think of Vegas winners is basically, you know, we live in a very busy world now, there's a lot happening. And to really to do in anything well, you have to really take a deep dive. It's a, if it's a poker player, if it's sports betting, anything where there's a skill, right, a golfer, anything, you need hours and hours of time to really go through the line, look at all of the details, look at history and history of what happened. So Vegas winners is basically a service that helps you make those decisions a lot easier and quicker. So think of it almost like, I would think of it like, you know, let's say you were going to buy stock or make something. So it's almost like speaking to your stockbroker or someone who does that for a living and can tell you why you should buy this stock, or maybe you should divest into Bitcoin, or maybe you should hold off and have everything in cash. So it's actually that's kind of what Vegas winners is it basically helps you make a smart decision because you're getting the, you know, the for people, that's what they do for a living, you know, their experts, that's what they do 10 hours a day. And not only what they do, but they have all the history to look at the back, you know, the back thing. So oh, yeah, Tom Brady, or, you know, let's say a perfect example might be like Derek Carr, you know, the Raiders have a history of playing bad in cold weather, and they can give you all the reasons why and all this all these different things.   And we do the same thing with stocks. So, you know, our community is always looking at me to do the research. But I always say to them, I'm not licensed. So do your due diligence and always consult a financial advisor for an extra opinion. So it's always good when you're making a bet, or you're investing in a stock to get other opinions, so that you're not necessarily making a decision 100% on your own. So I really, I like the concept. Now, what is the value proposition that Vegas winners offers its clients?  You know, now it's a little higher because it's, you know, a lot of people are in newer markets are excited about betting parlays and different things like that. So it's a little higher right now. But when the dust settles, it'll come back to kind of more of what Vegas is where the books are working on a 5% margin. So if you can, you know, win, you know, 56, 57% of the time and you got a two 3% edge, then if that's what Vegas winners can help you provide that, then that's the service. Now, they have to do that, they have to give you good advice, which they will. And by following the advice, you know, there might be there might be weeks where you lose. But if you look at it over the course of a season, or a whole year, if you're betting multiple sports, if you end up a winner, then that's the service that it's giving you just good advice. So that's how you have to look at it. And you shouldn't look at it as a short term, you know, short term, because at the end of the day, even though betting sports is a skill, they're still like picking stocks or anything, there's still an element of luck that does come in or other things that you can't factor in. But long term, a good handicapper, a good sports better is going to win. And that's why there's not that many people that do it for a living. So anytime someone says, Oh, I you know, I do that for a living, or if I play poker for a living right back, you know, I always they for me, they have to at least be doing it for at least five years. That's their primary source of income. And they've learned how to deal with this, you know, the swings, the highs and the lows. So, you know, there's very few people to do to do that. And because sports betting is becoming a lot more mainstream and a lot more popular, you know, this is really important because the the sports books, you know, they really know what they're doing. And they set the lines that are very, very razor thin. So you know, the sports books have a lot of data and a lot of things that they're working off of. There's no reason why the consumers shouldn't have the benefit to at least tap into some of that as well. How has the opportunity been enhanced due to the continued growth of the online gaming industry and COVID-19?  So basically, not many people. So it's obviously terrible, terrible. But there has been in the online gaming business is silver lining. So even before when sports were closed, you know, the online gaming casino business was up 300, 400%. So the companies that had, you know, New Jersey and Pennsylvania had online, they were making a lot of money and they were off shooting because their casinos were closed. And then when sports came back on, you know, more people are doing it just, you know, personally, you know, I've always been obviously I grew up in the digital space and I've been in this business. But, you know, even when I visit friends and they're in town and they want to watch a game and they're in a sports book, I still bet from a mobile app, you know, it's just quicker. It's faster. I know that I'm going to get the bed in. I don't get blocked out. I don't, you know, the human error, the person at the window doesn't write down the wrong, you know, there's a lot of factors that go in. And so you still get the fun experience of being in the in the sports book. But, you know, COVID has definitely not just in online gaming, but in cashless payments in meeting like we are meeting right now, because it's definitely all these things were happening. It's just COVID just put this stuff on steroids. And just in my opinion, anything that was digital or whatnot, it made it happen two to three years faster. So, you know, it was a natural evolution. And, you know, COVID has actually been a silver, you know, silver lining for the online gaming space and online sports betting space. Now, Todd, as the CEO of Odzium, you touched on this earlier. Can you please tell our audience what exactly Odzium does and what makes you and your business unique? Yeah, so what we do is we are what's known as a sports betting aggregator. So as I said, similar to hotels.com or Travalgo, if you're looking for a flight. So if you're looking for lines in a game, they'll vary depending on sports book, they might vary, you know, anywhere from a half a point to a point to even one and a half depends on what the sports book is trying to do. Some sports books might want to be a lost leader and take a lot of action because they want to acquire customers so that they'll be able, they might want to lose on that game, you know, but they want to acquire customers. And then that's the same with the over and under as well. And that also with various promotions for signups and things like that. So what we do, we condense that all on one app that you see very easily, all the different lines, all the different promotions, you can connect, you know, from one app, you can connect your fan bill, your drafting. So because what what operators, what we've seen have been in this business and run a sports book is that the customers that everyone wants are the customers that usually have three to four different accounts with three or four different operators. So and what what our team does, unlike other affiliates where, you know, there's a lot of affiliates that will write content and and then they'll have like a banner and then you click it and then that's lost, you know, our conversion rate right now in Sweden is about 90 percent where that conversion rate the other way is only about 10 percent. So that's the first thing. And then by us being connected with the customer, we act almost like a mini CRM department for the operators helping them, you know, because we have all this data on what the customers are doing and how they're betting and everything. So that's a great thing. And then we feel that potentially OXIME with the regulators could be an interesting tool to use, too, because they have such a great overview and digitally, you know, in right in 24 seven, right, you know, righted in play what's happening overall. So, you know, it's it's there's nothing really like it. It took us about three to four years to develop. And we've been live for about a year, the over a year in Sweden. So we're really excited because, you know, if you look at if you look as a market matures, and people learn more about sports betting, they'll want to get better odds. And then if they're connected to someone like, you know, Vegas winners and Wayne and Wayne will says, well, you know, by all means, you know, take the Steelers, but only if you have to give five, no more if it's five and a half. So then by something like oxygen, you can look very carefully, very quickly at all the different operators. Oh, there's an operator 888, they're offering it five where everyone else is at five and a half and six. So, man, on top of that, if I open a new account, I'm going to get $50 in free play. So, you know, similar to other aggregators, there's aggregators, like I said, in the travel business, there's aggregators now in the insurance business. All of the, you know, there's a lot of aggregators. And so that's what we are, but for sports betting. How might ASEAN and Vegas winners work and make money together?  So how does that work and how lucrative can that be for both of you guys? Well, I think two different ways. I think obviously if people see about, you know, they hear about Vegas winners and they're, they're, you know, engaging with the content whatnot, then by, you know, Wayne saying, sign up with ASEAN and whatnot, then we would share in the revenue that way.  Because we break it down for you. You know, we show you exactly how much you're winning, how much you're losing on every different operator.  So we give you a lot of good information, but you still might not be doing well. And then we could then easily sell. Well, you know, you should actually look at the service Vegas winners and that would, you know, help you become a better, better. So, you know, there's just a very natural synergy because obviously we're, we were, we were different, but we're working on the same customer base. Oh, this is great. I'm really excited about watching you guys evolve and the company grow. Thank you so much for your time today, Todd, the CEO of ASEAM now working hand in hand with Vegas winners. Congratulations on all your success and our entire community will be watching as you guys continue to evolve. Thank you so much. Nice talking to you. Pleasure. Nice talking to you as well.  GOO is the symbol. GOO is the symbol on the OTC markets and Todd Cobrin is the CEO of ASEAM. Thank you so much for your time, Todd. Have yourself a great day. And thank you guys for watching. Bye bye. Thanks, everybody.


It's neither tragedy nor comedy, but its own thing, philosophy. And I think we'll just let the differences come out as we read it. But one important difference is that there is a focus on the arguments and the ideas, more so than on the plot and characters. There are characters. So this does have a dramatic setting where to imagine people standing outside of a gymnasium or outside of a public building and having a conversation with each other. And these are named characters. Probably all of them were real people. So Socrates was a real person. So was Gorgias, and Polis, and Calakles were probably real people, too. But it's a fictional dialogue in that Plato has created all of this and given all of these words to these people. And this is a point I really need to emphasize, that this is not an historical document that is somebody writing down a conversation that Socrates and Gorgias had. Socrates wrote nothing. So we don't have anything that he wrote. We only know what we know about him is based on what other people like Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon wrote about him, his contemporaries. But this is a work of Plato. And in a way, the Socrates here is a fictional character.  And these responses that he gives are supposed to represent the kinds of things he would say. But it's not actually historically what he said. So this is every bit a piece of fiction just as our tragedies and comedies and epic poetry was. It's just that this is fiction that is actually aimed at determining the truth about something, about some problem, some issue that exists in this society. And we're still talking about this democratic society of Athens, which is the setting. Now, I'll give you an idea of the overall structure of the work because it's quite long. You may have noticed in trying to read it. And the first point is that the exact genre of this work, we call this a Socratic Dialogue. And that just means that it consists of a series of speeches and speech exchange as in a conversation between Socrates and a couple of other characters. So for the bit we're going to discuss today, which is merely the first 14 pages, it's a conversation largely between Socrates and the title character Gorgias. And what we'll be discussing on Wednesday, the next 20 pages or so of the dialogue, represents conversation or dialogue between Socrates and another character named Polis. But over half of the dialogue is a conversation between Socrates and this character Callicles. And so notice for one thing that the reading assignments are escalating throughout the week and it will take longer each time to read it. But another question that arises from this structure and a question to think about is why the dialogue is entitled Gorgias if most of the dialogue consists of a conversation with Callicles and Polis. And I think there's a real answer to that. And those people who really grasp what this dialogue is about should be able to answer that question in the end. But at this point I leave it an open-ended question. Now a bit more about the setting and the title character. So the setting is somewhere in Athens, perhaps a gymnasium. We don't have much description of the setting. But this hotshot professor has just showed up to give a public lecture and a kind of display speech. And the time frame is a period of democracy in Athens, just like the Aristophanes works that we read. And I'll remind you that in this democratic setting decisions are made by a vote of the citizens, which is taken after hearing speeches on both sides of a certain issue. Thus, those who could speak better could persuade others about what to do in legal contexts, in political contexts, in military contexts, in business contexts, and so forth. Thus, being a good speaker was a means to legal and political power, which is why there was a market for people willing to pay to receive instruction. And remember in Aristophanes there was this idea that you'd go down to the thinkery and pay these people to teach you how to argue. And that is exactly what Gorgias actually offered. In fact, Socrates did not accept pay from people. And as we'll see in the dialogue, he does not think you should train people how to persuade others without first teaching them how to reason and how to be good people. But this description of paid teachers of persuasion of the worse argument or the better argument is an accurate description of what Gorgias offered to do. Gorgias himself, real person from Sicily, the presentation that he's supposed to have just given, the dialogue starts when his presentation is ended and Socrates shows up late on the fringes of the lectures letting out and people are filing out and Socrates shows up at that point. We can imagine that he's given some oratorical display using his considerable powers of speaking and composition. And remember that it's always more impressive to be able to defend a paradoxical or absurd or counterintuitive claim than it is to defend something obvious. So if I was to sit here and I could easily give you a speech to convince you that it's Monday and that wouldn't be very interesting and you wouldn't be awed by my rhetorical prowess if I was able to demonstrate that point. But if I was able to demonstrate that Helen of Troy, who you all think is this evil person who was the ultimate cause of the entire Trojan War was actually a great, beautiful person that we should all be celebrating as being wonderful and a savior of Greece, then that would be an impressive speech. Or if I was to sit here and prove to you that you exist or that this classroom exists, actually that's a lot more difficult than it sounds. In fact, it might be impossible to prove that. But that would be easier to prove than what Gorgias tries to prove in this work called On Not Being where he tries to prove three theses I told you about before. Let's all ring them out in succession. The first one is that nothing exists. The second proposition is even if something existed, you couldn't know anything about it. And even if something existed and you could know something about it, you couldn't communicate anything about it to anybody else. Those paradoxical claims, he wrote a speech to defend and then gave this speech as a display to people to show, I can prove that nothing exists or I can prove that Helen of Troy was a great person. Therefore, I can prove people to make persuasive speeches about anything. So you wanna sign up for my school because while Monty Johnson might be able to prove to you that it's Monday, I can prove to you that nothing exists. And so I can give you all the power to persuade you to persuade people about anything whatsoever. So he teaches people how to compose and deliver speeches. And these speeches are delivered at public gatherings, but the most important public gatherings are of course court procedures and deliberative bodies like in making up legislative decisions or decisions about whether to go to war or not. And by the way, as usual, stop me at any point in time if you want clarification of anything I'm saying or if you want to ask about a passage in the text or comment on it. Now I wanna say a little bit more. Our translation I think uses the term oratory for the Greek word rhetoricae, which we also have just an English word that means rhetoric. And that is ostensibly what the entire dialogue is about. So in antiquity, the Gorgias was actually given the title Gorgias or on rhetoric or on oratory. And indeed the question of what rhetoric is and what it can do frames the entire dialogue. Now we no longer have teachers of rhetoric as such, like we don't have a department of rhetoric here that you can go study rhetoric.  Does not necessarily teach you how to compose rhetoric or oratory yourself. But that doesn't mean that we're no longer concerned with the subject matter of this dialogue. In fact, we now have many more specialized disciplines that teach you how to persuade other people and how to give the equivalent of oratorical or rhetorical display speeches. For example, attorneys. So it's a sad fact of the matter that a certain number of you will go on after college to law school and become attorneys or lawyers. There's no way to avoid it. And in fact, I'll end up writing letters of recommendation for some of you to go on to law school. But let's just focus for a second on what attorneys and lawyers actually do. Their aim is to persuade juries and judges about the guilt or innocence of their clients or those accused of crime. And what makes a good attorney is that that attorney is capable of persuading those people. He may be the most brilliant scientist in the world, but if he can't persuade people to either let his client off or to prosecute this person, then he or she is not a good attorney and not a good lawyer. Think of politicians the same way. Maybe I have a cynical view about politicians despite all these great ones that we have nowadays. It seems that other people share that view and public opinion approval ratings are very low, not just for the president, but for Congress and everybody else. And you might just think that the point of politicians is to persuade the public to vote them into office or now not even the public, but to persuade corporations to fund them so that they can buy TV commercials that can entice the public into voting for them or supporting their policies. They probably really don't care about the truth, they probably just care about getting elected and getting their own policy things persuaded. Even if they did care about the truth, they'd have to be more concerned with how to persuade people to go along with what they're saying than telling them what the truth is.  This is all pretty obvious for advertisers, marketers, business people, their goal is to persuade us to buy products or to buy more specifically to buy specific brands of products. They don't care about the truth at all of any of these claims, except insofar as laws make them have to tell the truth to some extent. But if you're wondering how much truth-telling and how much science and so forth there is in advertising, just watch a car advertisement or something where cars drive straight up cliffs and so forth and are able to fly and that you'll have a beautiful girlfriend if you drive this kind of car and so forth. Nothing to do with the truth of any of that. But it is effective at persuading you to buy the car. So it's a kind of rhetoric or oratory. Finally, public relations, which is an industry that was invented in the mid 20th century, prior to that it was just called propaganda. But then that got a bad name from the Nazis and various things that happened during World War II so that we changed the name of it to public relations. But again, the point of public relations is to persuade us about political, economic, lifestyle choices, things like that, no concern whatsoever for the truth. So I think it's clear that persuasion, rhetoric and oratory exist in our society at least as much as they did in Greek society at the time. And in fact, since they now have access to mass media like radio, television and the internet and so forth, newspapers printing if those still exist, but mass public demonstrations and so forth, then the role of persuasion by language has, if anything, massively increased in our society. In fact, we're saturated with attempts to persuade us. And this is the whole crisis over fake news and the legitimacy of journalists and everybody setting up their own echo chambers on Facebook and these other places that just keep telling them things to persuade them of their own beliefs and not really challenge them and certainly not seek out the truth. So I think that the basic problem that the dialogue is talking about is much worse for us than it was at the time. The fundamental moral issue here about whether you should teach people to be able to persuade others, whether they have good or bad motives in persuading is still a big deal. And so now we teach this art in the context of specialized fields like law, business, marketing, communications, journalism, political science and so forth. And so these arguments apply to all of those fields where these kinds of skills are taught. But fundamentally there's an ethical issue. It's not the dialogue isn't about how to do this persuasion. It's about whether teaching people how to do this persuasion is a good idea or not. And so the ancients realized already that the subject matter of this is much broader than just rhetoric or oratory. According to Olympiadorus it's quote, to discuss the ethical postulates required for social well-being. So what are the moral requirements for the society to be doing well and living well? And in general what is the moral basis for political action? And notice how the dialogue ends. The very ending of the dialogue. Here's a translation from 527e. Socrates says, let's use the account that has just been disclosed to us as our guide. One that indicates to us that this way of life is the best to practice justice and the rest of virtue both in life and in death. Let us follow it then and call on others to do so. That is to practice justice and the rest of virtue both in life and in death. And let's not follow the one that you believe in. And here he's talking to Gorgias, Calakles, and Polis, the way of life you believe in which is just persuading people however by whatever means you want. And let's not follow that and don't call on me to follow that because that way of life is worthless. So it ends by making an extremely strong moral point and a strong moral condemnation of the kind of activity Gorgias is involved in. So it ends up that teaching itself, teaching rhetoric, which is what the book is about, but teaching itself becomes morally problematic and there's a question whether teaching people is a morally neutral enterprise. So suppose I teach you a skill like how to use a firearm or some kind of martial arts, like I teach you boxing.  Well, then you could use that skill, use those weapons either for good or for ill. But if you use them more for ill, then you do worse both for yourself and for other people in the society than if I had not taught you those skills. So therefore there is a moral problem with teaching people skills like that. Like there might be a moral problem with teaching people nuclear physics because after all they could use nuclear physics to create a nuclear weapon and that could be a big problem for them and for other people. And if rhetoric really is the most powerful skill around as Gorgias and his students claim, then it can bring about the greatest ills and injustices if it's misused. And it seems to follow that I should not give any instruction in this skill without also giving instruction and in morality and justice. So the notion of morally neutral skills of rhetoric or oratory or in general skills in general, including martial arts or any other skill or technique that can possibly be abused in any way is highly problematic. And I think it applies to this very class. To what extent should teachers of skills like interpreting texts, like writing about texts, speaking about texts and discussing them, shouldn't we have to make sure that you're moral people before we teach you to do that?  And you'll use these linguistic and skills for speaking, reading, interpreting, arguing. You'll use those to do harmful bad things. Or some of you will go to work for marketing or advertising firms and convince people to buy things that are bad for them. And so forth. So what are we doing here? We're just, we're teaching you how to have these skills without even making sure that you're good people. Isn't that kind of a problematic thing for us to be doing?  And we can almost be sure that many of you will go on to use them for ways that will be harmful both to yourself and to society in general. So that is the problem that this dialogue deals with is should we be doing that? Now here are some paradoxical claims that Socrates makes in the dialogue. So believe it or not, he defends all of these arguments. Number one, it is actually better to lose an argument than it is to win one. Now I say that's a paradox because that sounds very counterintuitive. You always wanna win an argument, right? None of you set out to lose arguments. I mean just arguments at cocktail parties or in run-ins. You always wanna win those arguments, right? Why would you wanna lose them? Another paradoxical claim.  And when I say it's better, I don't just mean it in an abstract sense, I mean for you. So it is better for boss if I wrong him and hurt him and commit a crime against him. That is better for him than it would be for him to wrong me and hurt me and do something wrong. And I really want him to believe that, but of course it's a universal statement that applies to me too. It would be better for me to be harmed by him than it would for me to harm him. And mark that in your text, better for me. So it's more in my self-interest to be wronged than to do wrong. Somehow Socrates argues that point. And finally, he argues that it is worse not to be punished. If you do something wrong, it's actually worse not to be punished than it is to be punished for it. It would be better to be punished than to somehow do something wrong and have people not notice or have you get off because you have a good attorney or something like that. Okay, so all of those paradoxical claims are defended. Now let me just give you a sampling of the way that Socrates argues. Here's a passage in which part of the argument in defense of this first paradoxical claim is made. But it goes like this. How could it be in my self-interest to lose an argument? So think about it like this. If we get in an argument, for example, about whether the earth is flat or whether it's spherical, and I think it's flat, and you're able to defeat me in that argument and prove that it's spherical, then I've actually benefited because I've learned the proof and the explanation and the argument for how the earth really is. Whereas if I win that argument and I defeat you, not only does the false view happen, but you don't benefit from it. So if you convince me that the earth really is spherical, that doesn't benefit you. You knew that all along.  But I've been improved because I've now learned how things really are. And so when you win arguments, it's actually really lame because you're just left in the same condition that you were in before. But when you lose arguments and somebody refutes you, then you actually gain somehow. And again, notice that is talking about my self-interest. Not that it's just better because it's right in some abstract sense that the truth should win out or something. It's more in my self-interest to get refuted because then I'm improved and benefited. Whereas if I'm refuting you, I don't get any better. You get better if I defeat you in those arguments. And we'll examine and do course more arguments in support of that paradoxical conclusion and these other ones. But you should be thinking as you read it, how is he gonna prove these points?  But he does argue them and arguably he does prove them. Now let's just go to the very beginning in the first question he asks.  I can answer, I can give a speech on any topic and it can be a long or a short speech and I can take a question, any sort of question from any comer and I can give in response to that either a short answer or a long answer. So you pick, give me any question and tell me how long you want the answer to be and I can deliver it.  So Socrates has the young student who's a charophon who's very enthusiastic about signing up with Gorgias. Wow, this is like going to Harvard Law School. I'm gonna be able to crush people in arguments if I learn from this guy. So I really wanna do it Socrates and Socrates says, well go ask him what skill he actually teaches, right? And so he does and it seems like a very simple question because if you made shoes and I said, what skill do you teach? You'd say cobblery. If you were a painter and I ask what skill you're able to teach, you'd say painting. And so the question here is what skill do you teach? And you say it's rhetoric. So we gotta figure out in what sense that is a skill. That's not as clear as making shoes or paintings or houses or cars or whatever. And in Greek the question is what is your technique? Technique means skill, art or craft. We can translate it in any of these ways. It's the root of a bunch of important English words like technology, which just means the science of mechanical or artistic production. The word technique, which means a mode of production and art, the idea of somebody being technical which means they're an expert or technocracy government by experts. So the fundamental issue is do we have here a skill, art or a craft, a genuine technique and if so what is it able to do? So here's how Gorgias replies. Somebody asks him what skill do you teach? What technique do you teach? And he says I teach the one that partakes of the most admirable skills. And then he says that's speech making which is the most admirable of all. And so then the question is asked will speech making about what? And he says well about the greatest of all human concerns. So Gorgias replies that he teaches a skill of composing speeches about the greatest human concerns. And Socrates points out that his answer is not as good as he thinks it is. First of all, he merely gives a quality of the skill. He doesn't say what the skill is. So if I ask you what's your major and you say oh it's the best one, it's the most powerful one. But then I'm probably talking to a business major, right? Whereas if you ask a physicist they say something very humble like I'm trying to find out more about nature or something like that, okay? But you know, political scientists. Yes, I'm studying politics, the greatest I'm doing the most important thing. Doesn't tell me what it actually is. Also everyone thinks that what they're doing is the best. So a doctor can say they're doing the best. They have the best skill because they save lives. And the banker can say I have the best skill because I make wealth. And the teacher can say they're the best because I actually provide knowledge or something like that. So everybody thinks what they do is the best and it doesn't answer the question. So Gorgias answers both of those criticisms. The first point that you merely told me a quality of the skill but not what it is by being more specific. He says I teach the ability to persuade by speeches. And he also says in the following contexts especially, judges and juries in law courts, counselors in meetings like bureaucrats or executives and politicians and assemblies, legislatures and parliaments. So that's his paradigm. I teach people how to persuade others by speech in those contexts. And he responds to the second point that hey everybody thinks what they do is best so you haven't really said anything there by arguing that in fact the general ability to persuade people allows his students to subdue or even subjugate all other skilled professions. And for this reason rhetoric is superior to all other skills. It's superior to doctors because if you have rhetoric then you can convince people that you're better and have a better idea about what's healthy than doctors do. That's what advertisers that tell you that eating fruit loops is good for you and contains nine essential vitamins and so forth. Totally false, it'll wreck your health if you do that. But they're better at persuading people on that than doctors are. And that's why half the country's obese and so forth because advertisers and people who don't care about the truth of this are a lot more persuasive than doctors who actually know what we should be eating. And same thing in any of these other domains. So a rhetorician if they're really good sounds a lot better than a banker and convince you to invest in some harebrained scheme. It would have been better to put your money in a money market or whatever but they convince you to buy this real estate at the top of the market or whatever. If they're persuasive they can do that. And the mere banker who says no, you ought to be conservative with your money doesn't sound as persuasive. So in that sense it is the best because it can crush all of the other ones and make them look bad. So then rhetoric gets defined as a producer of persuasion. Socrates offers that definition at 453A. And notice that this definition producer of persuasion works perfectly for all of our contemporary fields of rhetoric like advertising, public relations, marketing, lawyers, all of those people are producers of persuasion. That's exactly what they do. And so Gorgias agrees with this definition but he adds that the kind of persuasion he's most interested in is dealing with matters that are just and unjust. So Gorgias himself says that. He doesn't wanna make it seem like oh I'm able to fleece people out of their money or I'm able to convince people to eat fatty foods when that's really a bad thing for them to do. No I deal with these important things like law and order and justice and injustice. That's what my speech making power is about. Now persuasion, Socrates points out, aims at creating conviction among audiences and listeners that is convincing audiences. And again it does not aim to create knowledge. It doesn't aim to teach students things. It aims to give them an ability to persuade. Now there is a slight tangle here in that one could teach students how to persuade in which case I might be giving them a certain knowledge but that knowledge, what they would know is not how to teach something or about some fact of the matter but how to create conviction in others. So again a lawyer doesn't aim to teach the jury something she aims to convince a jury about the guilt or innocence of a client. And an advertiser doesn't aim to teach you about a product but aims to convince you to buy the product. Now contrast this with learning in fields like engineering, architecture, physics, chemistry, mathematics, et cetera. In those fields one doesn't learn how to persuade other people that one knows a lot about mathematics or chemistry. Rather you actually want to know and learn the truth about that subject area insofar as it is known. And if you have a really good teacher they also explain to you what isn't known in the field and what needs further research. But there is no rhetoric classes that go along with your chemistry classes. I mean there might be a general education requirement but you don't have to take rhetoric for that. Why don't we teach people how to persuade and we're turning them into chemists or physicists or mathematicians? Because it's irrelevant. The point of the field is not to persuade people that you know what you're talking about but to actually know what you're talking about. And that's a big difference. Now Gorgias holds that rhetoric will be useful in any meeting in which people have to make a decision but Socrates presses him on what kinds of meetings should actually need people that are trained in rhetoric. So if we're meeting to decide whether we should build a bridge or a house or an army then we consult engineers, architects and generals. Since those people presumably know something about bridges, houses and armies. We don't go out and consult advertisers and public relations specialists and attorneys and so forth. And that's because possession of those kinds of skills like how to build a bridge, how to make a house, how to outfit an army actually involves knowledge about these subjects and not mere persuasion. And Gorgias responds that politicians at least persuasive ones are really the ones that call the shots and in fact they do decide what public works get built. Whether housing developments go through or not. Whether the military is funded and to what extent. They actually do decide, it's politicians that decide whether we're supporting the F-18 or not deciding it. We may take advice from generals but it ultimately comes down to persuading some democratic body about whether they're voting for it or not. So the person who is skilled in persuasion can persuade audiences to follow his or her instructions rather than those of experts in a specific skill like doctors, architects, engineers and so on. But in response to this Gorgias says look, one shouldn't abuse rhetoric like that and he has this very almost naive approach to it. They should use rhetoric like any other competitive skill he says and not to just defeat anyone and everyone. And then he makes an analogy to boxing. If I teach someone how to box and they ought to use this skill against other skilled boxers or those who are training to be boxers, maybe they should also use it in self-defense but they shouldn't just use it against friends and family or innocent bystanders, they shouldn't use this skill, right? So there is a moral fact of the matter about who it should be used against and the teacher of that skill wouldn't seem to be responsible for making sure that the person actually is moral. But the fact of the matter is that pupils do pervert the strength and skills of the things we teach them and they misuse those skills. So some of those people who are instructed to how to fire a gun, for example, use it to rob banks or to commit murder and that's a problem. The question is whether the instructor is actually responsible for that misuse. We can all agree the student should use the skill to do good things but what happens if the student uses it instead for a bad purpose is the teacher to blame. Now, to look very carefully at the response Gorgias gives to this, 457B to C. If an orator goes on with this ability and this craft to commit wrongdoing, we shouldn't hate the teacher for while the teacher imparted the knowledge to be used justly, the pupil is making the opposite use of it. So it's the misuser who it's just to hate, not the teacher. So if I was a self-interested person I'd just end the lecture there. Don't blame teachers, it's students that are bad people. It's not our fault if they misuse it. But Gorgias claims that he can make a rhetorician out of anyone who wants to study with him, meaning that he can make anybody capable of persuasion on any topic, not by teaching them, not by teaching them how to teach people on a topic like we do in engineering and physics and mathematics but by teaching them how to persuade people. And the rhetorician will be more persuasive in a gathering even than a doctor. Remember this is crucial to Gorgias' argument that this is the superior art because you can make other skills look like idiots if you're really good at oratory and persuasion. Now by in a gathering Gorgias clarifies that he means among those who don't know because if the audience consisted of doctors then they could immediately detect that this guy's a quack who's just bullshitting people whereas this other doctor who's not as good as the speaker actually knows what he's talking about or engineering, if the audience was full of engineers then the rhetorician would get nowhere because people could tell he doesn't know what he's talking about whereas this other engineer who's not as good at rhetoric can. But if the audience is a bunch of people who aren't skilled up in that training and this is exactly the situation of a democratic decision making or being on a jury, you just have random people from every walk of life, they don't necessarily have skills in that, then in those situations the rhetorician can persuade the people to whatever view he has regardless of the truth. So to put it abstractly, when a rhetorician is more persuasive than some other skill X like medicine or architecture, then a non-knower will be more persuasive than a practitioner of that skill among non-knowers. So rhetoric doesn't need to have any knowledge of the state of their subject matter, it only needs to have discovered some device to produce persuasion in order to make itself appear to those who don't have knowledge that it knows more than those who actually do know it. That is the purpose of rhetoric and advertising and being a lawyer and being a public relations specialist and all of those fields is if you are in a situation where you do not have skilled people who can detect that you don't actually know the truth of what you're talking about, how do you persuade them to support your view? Now, since rhetoricians don't need to know about justice and injustice, for example, they only need to appear to those who also don't know anything about justice or injustice. They need to appear that they know more about justice than those who in fact know more about justice. So remember Gorgia said, well, really what my speech is about are these very important things about justice and injustice. But now given the structure of this field that he's claiming to be able to teach, we know that what he actually wants to be able to do is teach somebody how to persuade people that they know about justice and injustice more than some other person who might actually know more about it in the case that they're in front of a forum where people do not know about that area, i.e. a courtroom or a deliberative body like Congress. So Socrates again asked Gorgias, would you teach a student about justice and injustice if this student doesn't know about these things before he comes to you? And Gorgias replies, and it's important that it's a grudging reply. So look at this passage carefully at 460. He says, yeah, I guess I would teach them about justice as well. Okay, so this is like if you ask Monty Johnson, are you gonna make sure that all your students know about justice and injustice before you teach them how to speak and write? And if I said, well, yeah, I guess I would.  So yeah, I guess I'd make sure that they knew about justice and injustice too. I also don't wanna admit to Socrates that I don't know as much as everybody else does about justice and injustice. But we'll see that this concession is a fatal mistake that the rest of the dialogue hangs on, him making this concession. Because it means that he essentially ends up contradicting himself. And I can show this contradiction by putting into kind of propositional forms various arguments that he is consented to. One, if a student doesn't know anything about justice, then Gorgias says, I'll teach it to him. I'll make sure he knows about justice before I teach him how to persuade. Second, a person who has learned about justice will be just. Just as a person who has learned about music will be a musician and a person who's learned about carpentry will be a carpenter and a person who's learned about engineering will know about engineering, et cetera. So a person who learns about justice will be a just person. Thus, if teaching does imply learning, and I think it does, just flapping your lips in front of a classroom isn't teaching, if the students aren't actually learning anything, then no teaching is going on. If that's true, then any student of Gorgias will be just since he will teach them about justice and the person who learns about something will be a person of that kind. But earlier, Gorgias said that a teacher is not responsible if his or her student uses rhetoric unjustly. Just as a teacher of medicine isn't responsible if the student uses the knowledge not in order to cure diseases but create them. Like the student uses what they learned in biology to create bio weapons or poisons to use on people because they have that knowledge. And we think that the biologists that taught them how to do these things isn't responsible. It's the student themselves. But any student who uses knowledge unjustly will, if so facto, or for that very reason, be unjust. Anybody doing anything unjustly is by definition unjust. So Gorgias' students are both just and unjust at the same time. They're just because they must have learned about justice from him, but they're unjust because they go on to do abusive things. So Gorgias' position is incoherent. He produces both just and unjust people. And the important thing is that he teaches them how to persuade others that they know more about justice than people that actually do know something about justice. And so that is the problem. Now, which argument should Gorgias, where did he go wrong in his reasoning? How did he get led down this annoying path where Socrates shows up a master of argument and persuasion and I can answer any question that you put to me. How did Socrates trip him up and make him contradict himself and come up with an incoherent position? What should he have said or done differently? Or is it just, does he just have the wrong position? Does what he's saying not make any sense? Is there anything he could have said differently in defense of teaching people how to make persuasive speeches? Anybody have any thoughts on this? Yeah. So Socrates, if I could just repeat your answer, I think you're saying that Socrates treats justice like it's an absolute thing. There's just and there's unjust and there are clearly different things. But you say Gorgias was answering as if it's more fluid and there's not as much of a distinction between just and unjust. He thinks it's subjective. So as opposed to being objective, there's a fact of the matter about what's just and unjust. Gorgias thinks that what I think is just is just because I think of it that way. So actually you're giving a way that he could have gone. He could have made that argument. Now that's a smart kind of philosophy argument is say I don't believe there is any such thing as justice and injustice. I mean this is what people that go on to do advertising believe. I don't actually believe in any of that ethic stuff. I just believe in making money or whatever. That's not the course. It's very important that that is not what Gorgias said. Gorgias did play along with Socrates.


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Team keeping clean Gotta start this video off by saying I love y'all and I really just appreciate all the positivity on this channel I Appreciate any conversation that I've had individually with anybody Whether in the comments on Instagram Facebook, Twitter, whatever if we've talked know that I appreciate you Whether we agree on a topic disagree on a topic. I appreciate you and I appreciate y'all showing respect I appreciate y'all not only showing respect to me, but each other And just really showing love man Pete keep being good to each other Keep being good to people keep just being positive man I'm not trying to start this video off on just such a somber note, but I just had to um Had to talk to y'all real quick because I Just found out last night Y'all know me I've been cutting my hair for the past two years Cuz I stopped going to the barber like really a little bit after um I got laid off from my last job stop going to the barber But the barber that I have been going to I've been going to him for about three three and a half years because I remember He I remember when I first told him that my wife was pregnant with Carter He was like, oh man, congrats and all that I so and then I had been going to him for years after that So yeah, so for about two three years and I found out yesterday found out that he died he was like Maybe he couldn't have been older than maybe 36. I don't know what happened, but he leaves a wife Three kids he had two sons and he just recently well, I guess two years ago when I was still going to him He had just had a daughter and It just sucks when it sucks when I know fellas know I mean ladies know too with you with your hairdressers with your Your your beauty person, I guess For fellas with the barbershop for ladies with the hairdresser That's somebody that they open up to you a lot because they you know, you could be in there for hours you the whatever you got going on it could take a couple minutes, but you could be in there for a really long time and But they they express a lot of stuff to you how they're feeling You are sort of a sense of comfort for them and it can work both ways too if you were going through anything you could tell them and Because they they have a gift most of them have a gift where they just they love to talk Because they deal with so many different people from so many different backgrounds with so many different experiences and whatnot And you know, they could talk for hours, you know, we could talk for hours on here. They could talk for hours But I just felt bad man I felt better in it and I felt bad for his family too, man So but but it is a good thing to know that the last time when we did talk all positive vibing So we never had no problem nothing And he was always a super positive person a very uplifting a very positive very encouraging So y'all keep doing that to each other keep being encouraging and keep being good people So sorry to start off like that, but I just I had to get get that across So anyway Robert Griffin the third course the story came out a couple days ago That RG3 he wants to be a starter in this league He still wants to be a starter and I remember the comment section of the video where there were some people saying oh man is too late He's old. He's washed up. He's this he's that da da da da then there were some other people saying hey Well, no, he still deserves a shot. We hope he gets a shot. We're rooting for him So, I know a lot of Ravens fans are torn on one RG3 And I feel like with him There's some players with It's just like this you either love him or you hate him And that that's how it is with an RG3 with Ravens fans I feel like I feel like Ravens family that really like RG3 other you really don't like RG3 at all but either way I think that When that conversation came up and again, like we said in the video the other day, it's nothing new It's not new feelings from him. It's not a new perspective by him It's not something that just all of a sudden came about because he even said the same thing last year But I think this year It holds it holds more weight because Now I can't really envision it, but at the same time a now I'm thinking yeah, you never know you never know because you have a Tyler Huntley and you have a trace McStorley as a backups to in an RG3, but as we said I could see a scenario where RG3 him really wanting An opportunity to be a starter and him really like trying to get on this wave because Lamar Jackson sort of reopened the doors for a lot of mobile quarterbacks because I mean mobile quarterbacks They're still that stereotype that they don't last and they gonna be done in a way with it yet again and Lamar Jackson He'll only be here temporarily, but um He reopened the doors to mobile quarterbacks getting more opportunity. So with with that being said RG3 could be trying to ride this wave and you can't blame him So that made me really think like hey, he could possibly ask request his release So he could be a free agent so he would have the option to choose what team he went to Now of course, you know Eric the cost and Ravens I'm sure that they would rather try to get something for him Like even if it was a low draft pick at it But if it's a fifth round rapid, you know, they're gonna flip it for somebody with first round potential But anyway with RG3, I think that it would be sort of a Hayden Hurst type of thing Sort of Joe Flacco-ish but As far as a release to where it's a respectful agreement of the parting of ways With Joe Flacco, he knew a Lamar's the guy. I understand. I've been in the same situation before time to go So I understand that y'all gonna trade me. Okay, Joe Flacco. We trade him to the Broncos Respect respectful team, respectful organization respectable. I mean, excuse me. They did that Hayden Hurst I want to be a starter. I'm not getting any opportunities here. Hey Hayden. We understand Yeah, you was the first round pick things happen We're gonna trade you put you in a situation where you'll be straight in with RG3 And it could be the same thing same scenario, but this time like I said a mutual agreement of parting ways So we'll see what happens with that But I think that I'm RG3 would he would look at it like hey, I did put these guys in a good situation They have trace McSawley. He was under me and under Lamar last year and hey, I think and Lamar He's good to go. He's really a starter now MVP and so he's good. They're good I've done what I had to do here. I've helped you guys with the transition now help me with the transition So we'll see what happens with that but He was still putting in work With the backups and it's it's it's a beautiful thing to see And I love how RG3 seemed like there was a little bit of pettiness in there But I said oh, it's it's all good the tweet from RG3 It said my sources are telling me that James Proshay Antoine Wesley and Devin Duvenay had been working with Griffin for weeks now They also were kind enough to provide video So RG3 breaking his own news that he's been working out with James Proshay Antoine Wesley and Devin Duvenay for weeks now For weeks now and I believe it was in Texas So I like that. I like that because he I'm sure RG3 knows He knows how people view things And it's not necessarily a bad thing But it's something that especially in this day in social media It's made people feel like hey if it's not right in front of my face, then it's not happening Like when we talked about this a couple of weeks ago We likened it to how people are at the gym again me I don't go to the gym But I sure if I'm going up and down my instagram feed I see people who where it seems like they more worried about putting that putting on their story at the gym Then actually getting it in at the gym Because some people feel like hey, I can go to the gym all day every day But if I don't post it then no my workout was pointless No, then that's not the case But with people with football players with us as fans We we sometimes look at them and and we wonder like if we don't see anything on social media sometimes we wonder Oh, man, what are they doing? What's going on with them? Are they staying in shape? And again, that's just the day and age of where we are right now But I do like this For all three of those receivers Because all three of those receivers will be fighting for either a roster spot more So just Antoine Wesley, James Prochet and Duvenay. They're good. Um, but they're fighting for playing time too They each have an uphill battle and rg3 He has his own uphill battle that he's facing to where he wants to still be a starter And this could be a nice way Of showing teams like hey I'm putting in that work, baby. You see my arm. I still got it. I still got it. I just need a shot. That's it So this is a good look for all four of them all four of them Of course pro shade. Oh man, somebody I forgot who it was my apologies I was just talking to them the other day. Um, I think it was either on twitter instagram either way But um, they told me that They heard that a nickname for James Prochet is magneto Just the way that the the ball comes to his hand and he don't drop it. You call it magneto So I like that one. I like that one So I'm just I'm I'm really excited to see these guys, man and As we get closer and closer To the season, um, it just it gets more and more excited, man It gets more and more excited And just to know that the ravens they added more speed. They added some more skill to the receiver position um I'm just I'm hoping for big things for for all of them No, everybody came pick up all the big numbers in the world, which we understand that Uh, but I I am expecting all of them to make a significant impact From top to bottom And I'm not trying to um my impact my expectations are still tempered.  I don't expect that I expect Hollywood to But I really don't I don't expect anybody else besides Hollywood to put up a stat To put up a thousand yards I don't expect anybody else for Hollywood to do that this year for the raven that receiver I wouldn't be mad if anybody else did But I just don't expect that um But we're breaking For him, I think a good bounce back season will be anywhere from like 650 to 750 yards About five six touchdowns Just to be a consistent guy and again, I still expect them to trade for a wide receiver now depending on what wide receiver they trade for My expectations may change Um, but and as far as pro-shay, I expect him to be a big in the return game and a punt return game And still get involved in offense too But I expect Devin Duvenay to be more involved in the offense than pro-shay But it is nice to have those options, man Uh, and then of course, there's Willie Snead as well, you know, he'll be involved Especially with all that guarantee money And this being the last year of his deal man, shout out to Willie Snead, man Um, but this team man, I just I I appreciate this team the ravens and I appreciate team keeping clean Um, I appreciate that y'all, uh, like I said, y'all are just been willing to listen um Because I know sometimes we can go on tangents about stuff. Uh, that ain't got nothing to do with football But I thank you all for being willing to listen I can share my stories with y'all can share personal life with y'all And y'all are always down. So I love y'all. Um, I appreciate y'all and um Just like I said, man, keep being good to each other keep being good to people Um, and appreciate people man Tell tell somebody just tell somebody that you appreciate them Let somebody know that let them know that you appreciate them So I appreciate y'all We up


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