Good morning everybody Welcome good to see you here. It is Monday the 20th, and I know this is a holiday For a lot of you so you may be off work or whatever, but we're gonna have a great session today I'm gonna talk about being a digital nomad. I didn't even know what that was I was on a trip one time and it was a guy and this was like gosh. I'm trying to think 2000 Maybe 15 6 probably 15 14 15 and the guy said he was a digital nomad and I said what the heck's that so We'll define what it is, but more importantly I'm gonna show you how you can actually do this and I mean travel the world be anywhere in the world you want As long as they have internet, but they do have to have internet and you can earn a great living And I'm gonna walk you through some of the things you can do how you can do this how it's done a lot of good information Today before we get started don't forget to subscribe hit the subscribe button down there Turn it from red to gray so you should click it it will change and then you want to ring this bell Turn all bell notifications to your notified each and every time I go live or if I upload a video and make use of that chat box guys The more you get involved the more you're part of the conversation The better off you're gonna be and the better results you're gonna get I've seen this time and time again the people who get involved are the people who actually make money and who are successful you Can't you can't be on the sidelines, right and let action happen It just doesn't work that way you got to get in the game and the best way to do that right now Since you're on this training is to talk okay introduce who you are where you're at what you're working on Maybe you've got a question Whatever it is, maybe you're a digital nomad you want to tell us about it You know put that in the chat box now if you're not watching this live You'll want to use the comment section below And you'll know if this is live or not obviously and then you want to put it in the comment section below in that way I can come back. I can answer your questions, which I'm gonna jump in there today, too So if you got questions today right after this session, I'm gonna go through and hit all the comments So make sure you go ahead and get those in there, too And we'll get started right we'll get started. We'll see what we're doing here You know being a digital nomad is an interesting thing. I met a guy like I said I think it was 2014 15 I can't remember but he said he was a digital nomad. So what is a digital nomad? Okay? It's really a Lifestyle more than anything and while a lot of people talk about life as a digital nomad is a social media glamorizes it You know few people really understand what it means and how it's possible to earn money while traveling So in this video what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you exactly what a digital nomad is and some of the jobs that they Actually do and the steps that you can take to do the same thing So if that's your interest you want to get out your pencil take some notes, okay? You know the travel bug is really strong right now people want to travel they've been locked up for a while You know and they've been planning trips and I'm really seeing a big difference now You know since I've been online Gosh since 2009 so I'm going on my 13th year now I've traveled a lot. I've seen a lot of different places and the cool thing about it was when I traveled I was still making money It's not like I had to get my car and drive somewhere and sit in the office for a certain number of hours I was still making money as a matter of fact in 2019, which is right before the world illness I don't know if we're allowed to say what it really is But I was in six different countries in on two cruises in one year, okay? And that's not a lot for some people for me. It was a lot But some people never stop or some people will live in one country for six months and then another country for six months And then another country I have a friend like that that's in Brazil now and I've known him for you know years And that's what he does or maybe every you know month or so you want to go someplace I would say to be effective You know and get set up and all that you should probably stay 30 days in an area just so you get to know it now A digital nomad, let's talk about what it really is a digital nomad is someone who is able to move around Whenever and however they want while using technology and the internet to make a living now They may choose to live somewhere like I said for a certain period of time before moving on or they make constant and wander It gets it gets expensive if you travel more than every 30 days, you know because travel costs money, right? So but you know a lot of people do that too I'm just saying usually 30 days is a good chunk of time or longer that way you get to know the area too And you can see some stuff But the term nomad can have a negative connotation as if a person is just wandering aimlessly with no purpose But that's not the case, okay Like ourselves so this this term that's used is really used as location independent Okay, which means that a person can choose to live or travel wherever they want and their location doesn't affect their ability to earn a living Okay, so that's that's how I would really define it Now there's a lot of jobs that will allow you to travel about earning money like you know You can be a flight attendant right traveling your earning money You can work on a cruise ship, but those are not necessarily a form of digital nomad You've got a job. Okay, somebody tells you when to be there when you can leave and all that Those are jobs that require you to travel, but a digital nomad Has a lot more freedom. Okay, they actually get to choose where they go and when they want to go And I think that's a cool thing too because you know, maybe it's it's hot in your area In the summertime and you want to go to a cooler location. You may go north Or vice versa. Maybe it's super cold your location. You want to go south and live where it's warm You can do that as a digital nomad There's so many different ways for digital nomads to make money while they travel But I want to go over a few of them so you can kind of get an idea so a Great way for entrepreneurs to make money on the road is to start some kind of digital business In fact, this is one of the most popular ways a digital nomad earns a living while they travel There are endless opportunities. I mean, there's different things I make money on To earn money and do it all online You just have to be creative and figure out what you can provide online that people are willing to pay for now Let's talk about some of the key parts Whether, you know, it's information that people are looking for like consulting advice e-courses To some type of professional services. It really depends on your skill set and passion and keep in mind Whatever your skill set is you can change it. You can learn these skills. Okay, so don't say well I don't know how to do this or that you can learn pretty much anything Cameron, what's going on buddy? I just saw you jump in there and more and more people are trickling in It's even better if you have some professional skills that set you apart from other people.  Okay. It's technically a hobby until you can make money at it It can be a great springboard into building a brand and branching into many different businesses And I did just the opposite, you know, I had a business online And then I branched into doing courses and you know, digital marketing and videos and all that stuff in fact You know, a lot of people who do that will have websites as well as a few other businesses Including, you know, digital media type stuffs or media and marketing consulting type things because people know You know how to do it once you get a brand online like I've had people hire me, you know for consulting type things So Once once you establish your brand a little bit you can go in a whole lot of different directions Now the question is is this legitimate? Can you really make money online?  Starting your own business is not easy. I'm going to tell you that there's a lot to learn There's a whole lot of entrepreneurs and business owners You have to master a lot of different skills from accounting to web design to seo to copy to writing to social media All a bunch of legal crap. You've got to know all this stuff. Okay It doesn't mean you can't farm it out one down the road, but I think you need a good grasp of all these things Um, so many moving parts to manage It's really easy to feel overwhelmed But the very nature of the internet is that you can learn about almost anything So there's a wealth of information out there, you know You can watch a video on anything you want and learn how to do it. So saying you don't know how to do something That's no excuse If there's anything you don't understand or particularly well at Then find somebody who does okay, which brings me to the next thing I'm going to tell you about And that's freelancers. Okay freelancing you can freelance if you want Which means you don't have one sole business You do all kinds of stuff if you're starting your own business And it seems overwhelming to you then consider doing something more simple like freelancing It's probably the most popular option for professionals around the world to make money while traveling Or even while living in various places around the world Many people who have specialized skills, especially in areas where other people need help can easily offer those services For a fee now that friend of mine. I told you that's always traveling around. He has a usa address So they think he's in the usa and it's it's just it's just an address You can buy these addresses you can have these street addresses And they can also afford all your mail and stuff to you too So if you want mail for it, you can do that The great thing about freelancing is that you can decide just how much work you want to take on And you have a greater flexibility And when and how you work to find work as a freelancer It's always advisable that you build your own network and get referrals that way However, there's a lot of sites you can go to also There's great sites out there. There's freelancer. There's up work. There's hub staff talent All of those advertise that they do not charge a fee to the freelancer There's also fiber where basically People can buy and sell just about anything example I need a photo of somebody jumping a limbo stick on roller skates Somebody will do it. I'm probably sure if you post that job somebody's going to do it It's crazy But it can be done Now I want to talk about some of the top jobs as a freelancer if you want to go that route I'm gonna just kind of go through a quick list the first one is web development Everybody needs a website no matter what your business is you need one It's probably one of the most popular services out there Let's see here. Let me put some of Cameron's comments in there Let's see here. He says my heart is in my mouth Okay What else do you say many tourists work online too? For their expenses. Yes, this is exactly true. And I know a lot of people do that I have several friends that are digital nomads and I'll see them throughout the year because they come through my town or I'll go through You know some meeting or something like that Yes, they use it to pay their expenses too. That's very true He knows he knows he's a young guy. He's 14 years old I think he's been watching since he was 11 or 12 something like that. Uh, and he's made money online So it's actually easier than you to do this than you think when you're doing let's say web development You don't have to go to school or have any computer training There's many platforms on the market such as wordpress that make it easy for people to use templates themes to create websites on their own But many people don't have the time or patience So it's easier just to hire somebody to do it And I hire people to do that kind of stuff all the time and I know how to do it But my time is more valuable doing something else If you do have a degree in computers, then obviously you'll be able to offer your clients a lot more And you may be able to get large deals with bigger companies, but for small freelancers There's still a lot of money to be made guys I mean six figures is not hard at all You need to work hard to make six figures web design Similar to the first option, but web design goes a little bit further to do this Most freelancers have more graphic design skills. They have expensive software such as photoshop And you know, it's not that expensive. It's 300 bucks or whatever They also have more technical knowledge because they need to know how to make the design and technical aspects work together So web design is a little bit tougher. Okay computer programmer. Maybe you want to do that Now this freelance job can get pretty technical But if you have the skills in this area, then you really do Will as a freelancer. I have a guy in india who works on my magento site Very technical stuff and you know, I hire him as I need him and he does stuff Many people who have websites want some custom work done whether it's creating custom design styles You know tweaking things whatever it is. They want somebody to do that stuff for them Uh cameras back in there. Let me put you up, buddy There you are He says It's one time. I want to do it millions of times. Oh, you made you made money one time Well, you can I mean I you can do the same thing. There's no difference There's no difference in any of its guy listening to this right now Um, there's also opportunities for programmers to make their own website plugins for people to use on the existing sites As well as making apps. So if you know, you've got that skill or you want to learn that skill You can do that the next thing I might tell you about is writing If you aren't a techie or a designer, perhaps you can write another big area for freelancers is offering writing services In fact, copywriting for companies can be quite a well-paid service There's people that make millions of dollars a year doing this. You may also Be able to provide help in marketing and branding in terms of writing headlines or other texts for use I mean if you write a headline For an email or you know some sales page and it makes them a lot of money They don't mind paying you money But it's more than just writing copies sometimes people need help writing presentations product descriptions reports You know, you could specialize in writing product descriptions for amazon I've seen people who provide essay writing help online They've been able to use their own writing skills to earn some cash to fund their travels around the world It's really pretty cool. There's um are even other areas where you can specialize your writing including rewriting text Basically taking existing copy and changing it completely while preserving the meaning This will often happen. Let's say a chinese company has a description of the product, but it's not written dramatically correct for the american audience So you can go in and do that for them scl copywriting This is a specialized and highly valuable skill for companies who want their websites to rank well on search engines like google um editing If you have a good eye for detail This is a great opportunity because so many people need editors from articles to websites or even a book Okay, I mean I hire a book editors to help me with my book Um social media content. There's a lot going on with social media today and for businesses It's not as simple as writing what you're thinking about in the moment Okay Many companies are looking for people to help them write their posts and create all that content that they share Another big thing and I see a lot of americans do this is teaching english online English is a language that you know the entire world uses so if you're a native english speaker Uh, then another great way to do that is to teach people english online um There there's this guy one guy knew he quit his job at the united states and sees english in china For just over a year. Uh, it was an amazing way to connect with another culture depending on the country and earn a really good living So you can also do that What else can we do here? What else can we do? Um, you know, it's cool to stay in one place But for a while, but you also get the experience of the culture Like a local like being a teacher can be time consuming And if you're not actually a digital nomad because you are tied to school location So another option is to become an online teacher. Okay, if you don't want to teach in a school something like that Every day we're seeing more and more online opportunities to teach english This is a really great way to continue your travels and to have more flexible lifestyle And being able to make money from wherever you are and you think about this if you're a native english speaker That's your skill right there. That's your skill the only issues that you must have really good internet Okay, not always easy to find in some parts of the world. So before you travel somewhere you want to figure that out Next thing is you can be a translator From my experience Is that while traveling there's so many countries that have tourists Our eyes have really been opened up to the need for language translation It's not just the speaking translation that appears in person Which they very well may pay you for also, but it's the writing translation So many companies are doing businesses in other countries and they need their product descriptions marketing materials Etc translated other languages. I see this all the time on amazon You know, there's foreign countries or companies that have a product on there But the description is not written. You mean it's obviously not written by a native speaker So you can approach those companies and say hey, I can work on this for you I can make it better and I can help your sales. Um, you can also be a virtual assistant, you know And you're going to do just about anything from scheduling to buying tickets to set up a hotel room Any of that stuff? Uh, let's see here. Let me get up here To some of Cameron's comments here because he is in there. Uh, let's see what he's got going on. He says Sir should I do course of artificial intelligence or web designing? It doesn't really matter, you know, I got to tell you I I couldn't recommend that to you because it's whatever you want to do It's whatever you're happy with is whatever, you know, church your chain Whatever you like doing do that thing because you're going to be a lot happier I mean one thing could pay a little bit more than the other But if you don't like doing it, why do that just pick the stuff that you want to do That's my recommendation. Uh, why should be anyone 18 to work? You don't have to be 18 You know that you know that nobody knows how old you are online Nobody knows if you're writing copy for somebody or you're doing editing or whatever you're doing Nobody knows how old they don't even care. I don't care if an 18 year old does my you know Copywriting or if it's 78 year old doesn't if it's good, it's good You know age is not a barrier of online and I see a lot of people do that They say well, I'm too old to this or I'm too young to do this not online. You're not they don't even know who you are Um other opportunities for freelancers. Let's kind of graze on those a little bit Video editing is a big one. Um, I I have a video editor and he does editing for me Um, what else social media manager? Maybe you're good at social media Maybe you're really good at doing posts and getting interaction. Well, you could do that for businesses and get paid Audio recording voiceover or book reading. Um, I hired a guy to read my book and that's an audio. Okay Internet researcher seriously, this is a thing internet researcher where they go out there and they gather information for people Content development is another thing. You could do customer service if you want Illustration animation. Maybe you're artistic and you can do design Accounting tax preparation sales of Software experts, you know, like maybe you're good at PowerPoint or Excel and people need work done in that Now let's talk about this remote work has really taken off and there are more companies than ever that are open to letting employees work remotely If you have a great job that is suitable for remote working Then another option is to see if you can take your job on the road Does it matter to them where you live? I have a friend who's a female She's been on the road for about three years now And she works for a marketing company and they don't care where she's at as long as she gets stuff done If you're already working remotely for your company, then this should be easy transition Why do they care what what town you're in? Okay? It really depends on your schedule And if you need to set time zone for meetings I know my wife's sister is an attorney and she worked for a law firm firm in Virginia And she moved to hawaii and they said that's fine. You just got to work from 2 a.m To 8 a.m. So that's what she does or whatever the hours. I know she starts at 2 a.m It's probably 2 to 10 or 11 something like that. They don't care. She's an attorney She doesn't do the type of law where she's in court or any of that If you're not yet working remotely But your job could be done off-site then you might want to consider asking your company if it's possible to work remotely There's plenty of people who are requesting this and having success with it Although not every company is okay with this and if they're not you can always apply to another company You can say hey, you know, I want to do this Being able to maintain a good and steady job that you enjoy and also being allowed to work remotely So you can travel is a dream scenario for some people You can do this stuff, especially for those of you who are not comfortable with being An entrepreneur running your own business and dealing with all the stresses of building businesses and all that If you don't want to do that, you don't have to There's a lot of opportunities for you One thing I really want to make clear is that a digital nomad lifestyle is not all about hammocks and beaches Okay, you're not going to be sitting on a beach with a laptop in a corona bureau on the side Okay, while being a digital nomad is often marketed online and through social media is a very glamorous lifestyle Most who are actually living well will tell you it's really hard work It's not always due to the work itself, but the lifestyle can actually pose a challenge for you. Okay I mean don't get me wrong I wouldn't trade it for anything as I know most digital nomads wouldn't either But it's really important to understand that you won't be sipping margaritas on the beach And you won't be chilling with your laptop on the beach for an hour a day You're going to have to go somewhere you're going to have to actually work But the trade-off is that during this time you get to explore amazing places You can spend you know your evenings watching the sunset on a beach on your weekends exploring ancient cities and cultures I mean you get to see the world There's never been a time in my lifetime or before that where you could actually travel the world and get paid And be your own boss. It's just never happened before I think there's some tremendous Cameron says gaming too. Yes, gaming is another big one. And I don't know anything about gaming. I don't game I don't know any about it, but you know, that's a way to do it You know, there's some really big benefits of being a digital marketer first off All right, and I think the biggest one is the freedom To live anywhere you want. I think that's pretty cool. Now. I I live anywhere I want I looked at the entire united states and I said, you know north of austin looks pretty good The the cost of living is good. I can build a nice house there. It's centrally located to the united states I can fly anywhere I want It sometimes during the year it gets really hot. It's really hot here now.  It's a trade-off for me Also the flexibility to travel Wherever whenever and however long you want I can do that which is really nice I have a factory in Ohio in the united states and I have a fulfillment center in utah in the united states But I don't need to go to those places. Okay. I can manage all that for my computer and my wife helps manage that in her businesses She can do the same thing Let's see here. Cameron's got a comment. He's upset about something. What are you upset about Cameron? He says, I'm really stress because of my youtube account. Well, fill me in. What is stressing you out about that? I want to know what's stressing you out. The other thing you can explore new destinations and cultures What else what else am I on my list here? You can try new foods? I love doing this Okay, new cultures have new foods that opens your eyes your mind your heart to new people friends ways of thinking You know, these experiences really do open up your mind a lot You can learn about yourself and confidence in your abilities You can possibly save money. For example, if you make, you know, us dollars live in Mexico Your cost of living is way lower. So you could really sock away a lot of money and you know plan for your retirement See the world in a whole new way. Now, are there downsides? Yes, there are downsides. Let's talk about some of those dealing with visas Immigrations always looking for great places to stay. That's hard And it takes discipline because it's not always playtime. You still have to work All right, you gotta work. It's not just hanging out on the beach Balancing work and travel is not always easy if you have to be at a meeting, you know Online even you can't necessarily be in an airplane flying somewhere The internet can be a real pain depending on your location time zones can wreak havoc on your routines Like if you have to have let's say a four or five a.m. Zoom meeting with somebody You get lonely sometimes, especially if you're by yourself feelings of loneliness, especially if you are by yourself That's tougher being far away from you know family and friends in case of emergencies or life events You don't have anybody to support you Constant traveling can be exhausting and difficult to get worked up. So there are downsides to this too It's important to know that you can see The digital nomad lifestyle being promoted online, especially on social media. It doesn't always tell you the full story Yes, so I'm kind of in between. So I told you in 2019. I was in six countries and on two cruises I don't travel all the time. I don't like to travel all the time But I do like to travel. So, you know, if I make five or six trips a year seven trips a year That's good for me. All right, so you could pick any level of this you want I always maintain a home. Some people don't maintain a home And I don't rent it out or anything like that, you know, I could get house sitters And actually I do have a house sitter but normally I don't but we have pets So and that's another thing if you've got pets, you got animals, who's going to take care of those pets when you're traveling You got to kind of work that out. The benefits are absolutely amazing, but it's not perfect You know, for me the benefits outweigh the downsides. So I do a lot of travel, but I'm not a total digital nomad But You've seen doing this for years. I've made changes to my lifestyle to help minimize the downside to it What about how to travel for free? All right, you hear about this. Is it is it possible to travel for free? And the answer is yes Let's see here. Let me put some of Cameron's comments up there What's he got going on? He says In fiber, I told you people sell their builds for money. Yes, fiber is a good site for that I got terminated for no reason on youtube. Well, you could dispute that Cameron, you know, and I don't know what why they terminate you or what's going on But you can dispute that so I would do that first off I always wanted to visit Germany Then you should do it, you know, if you've always wanted to do anything guys, I think you should do it now It is possible to earn rewards travel by travel hacking. Okay Your way to earning points with credit cards and things like that the other day some company I can't remember the credit card company But they said apply for a credit card and if you spend $2,000 in the first 90 days, we'll give you 100 bucks Well, I spend money all the time on my business and I always spend more than $2,000 90 days So I went ahead and got that card and when the card comes in I'm going to go ahead and put $2,000 on it pay it off and get a hundred bucks. I've done this a lot I think I have 21 22 credit cards right now And almost all of them came with some type of bonus points Or cash if I spent x number of dollars and since I spend so much of my business I can just grab those cards and the other thing it does for me is it builds up my credit because when I get these cards I pay them off. I don't I don't leave balances on them. So I've got a lot of money You know available to me in credit cards with that many credit cards However, you know, some of you may be asking the question because you've seen all those advertisements about how to travel The world for free and make money So a lot of people really think that it's a thing Uh, and I don't want to bust your bubble for this But they've used the term free to get your attention in order to sell their product or service and they probably make money selling that to More people than just you and that's another story, you know, nothing is really free I was driving down the road yesterday with my wife and there was a A sign that was stuck in the ground And it was a white sign that somebody had written on there Fixer up for properties just need investor and then they had a phone number there Um, and I know um that you know, a real investor is not going to look at that sign and go Gee, this guy's got a magic marker and a white sign So I think I'm going to give him my money to invest in real estate But that guy that girl whoever did that sign probably went to some investment Type seminar took a course and they said this is all you gotta do is put signs all over town And you're going to get investors. That's probably what happened to him So if it sounds too easy, it's probably too easy One scenario that happens a lot is that a hotel may offer? Let's say a free stay but in return they may ask you to write a review online or even write a blog post for your experience Provide them with photos Post on social media daily or make a video on youtube And you could do this stuff and that stuff's real But you got to be really careful for ones that say I'm going to give you a one week cruise But you got to come to our time share. You don't want to go to this You want to go to this unless you really want to be beat up. Okay, it's not fun at all Sometimes they also want you to provide them with footage And grant the rights to the use of those videos images, however They want in the future for their marketing. Okay, so they they may want it for that But you can make money doing that Plus if you get a free hotel room who is paying for your transportation What about your food your cell phone your student loans all that other stuff? So just getting a hotel room isn't enough Freebies don't pay the bills at the end of the day You need actual cash. You need money Don't get me wrong. There's nothing wrong with bartering or exchanging for worker services It's a wonderful way to get experiences to share Especially okay for those of you with low budgets. Okay, if you want to do that, it's a win-win and a great deal Now question I get asked and I'm gonna I'm gonna jump off here one second because we're right at 10 30 Can I just quickly make money backpacking? Okay, if you're trying to make a career as a digital nomad and you'd prefer to just You know make a little bit of money on the side because you're traveling on a budget Then that is totally possible. You could just pick up some odd jobs here and there You can do a bit of work exchange to help you or along your travels If you're backpacking on a budget Let's say there's many hostels that will offer work in exchange for lodging as well as tour companies There's even websites such as work away And there's one called WWF which will allow you to stay somewhere for a period of time and do some work to help them in exchange You could also pick up some odd jobs too And I want to go through a real short list here real quick of things you could do if you want to do that You could trade your skills such as plumbing or building or carpentry or whatever you could work that for a while You could be a bartender for a while. You could do gardening or farming You could do health and beauty skills. You could be a yoga teacher massage therapist You know haircuts whatever you want to do You could do event party planning for people become a dj or a host or something like that You could also sell stuff like graphic design artwork clothing that type of thing Guys, there's a lot of ways of doing this. There's a lot of ways to make money So if you want to be a digital nomad If you want to do these things Let's see here Let me look okay Let me look here or what is this one here? It says pakistan is having Taxes in china shut down our electric city. Oh, no, that's not good. That's not good Oh, and I gotta get to pakistan too. He says investment Uh, let's see here hug getting paid for chilling Yeah, it's nice to get paid for chilling, isn't it? Uh, but guys, I think i'm presented to you a lot of stuff Now you may not be watching this live and you didn't have a chance to put anything in the chat section Put it in the comment section. I'm going to go back through Today as a matter of fact, I am traveling At the end of this week here. I'll be on the east coast of america And I leave I think on thursday and I come back next tuesday something like that.  Thank you for all your kind comments Don't forget to give me a thumbs up. Don't forget to uh, subscribe to the channel If you haven't done so turn that red button break and ring the bell Turn all bell notifications to your notifications. I'm not bell's moving here So you're notified every time that I go live or if I upload a video Thank you so much for watching today, and I'll see you guys on wednesday


Hey y'all, welcome to what Chelsea eats. Thank you so much for joining me today in this video I'm going to show you how to make this creamy Coconut almond yogurt. It is so delicious creamy and smooth and it's so easy to make right at home I have another coconut Yogurt video that I'm going to link below and up in the card so you can have Two variations of how to make this yogurt But if you're new here welcome, my name is Chelsea Knudsen I'm a certified holistic health coach and the creator of the 90-day walk to vibrate freedom group coaching program Where I help women shrink vibrates naturally using food as medicine There's a link down in the description box if you'd like to know more So we're going to start off with our blender. You need a blender in order to do this make this recipe I have a cup of almonds that I have soaked overnight They if you as you can tell they're a little plump and they look nice and juicy So we're going to add those to the blender You probably need to soak them for at least Eight hours. I like to soak mine probably 24 hours best, but eight hours is good enough So in my neighborhood sometimes it is difficult for me to get To the Asian market so that I can get the fresh young coconuts so this option this frozen option is the next best thing it comes with four coconut packets in this bag and They are frozen and what I do is I will take them out of the out of the freezer and sit them in the refrigerator overnight and let them thaw And once they have thought I take my scissors and I cut the top part off To expose the little packets that are on the inside of each bag So I'm using two bags of coconut and the one cup of almonds and this will make a total of four good-sized cups of coconut almond yogurt and so I take the coconut packets out and I snip the tops of the coconut packets off and then I get them ready to pour into the Blender, which you will see me do in the next step I will put a link down in the description box for where you can get these coconut packets now All you do is pour the contents of your coconut packets into the blender with the almonds and Literally, you really don't have to wait until this thaws to me. It's just easier to do it this way You can do it however you want Now the next step is so easy now that we've got all of our coconut into the blender We have one ingredient to add now you can add more ingredients, but this next ingredient is the important ingredient It is the ingredient that makes this concoction yogurt and that ingredient is the probiotic and not all probiotics are created equal So be careful which pro-biotic you actually buy this is an excellent brand There is a link down in the description box below where you can get this it's called life biotic and The reason that probiotics are not all created equal is because a lot of these companies make them with junk All you need is a Half a teaspoon I used about a teaspoon. It's just because I was being aggressive. There was no rhyme or reason behind it I didn't need that much. I Blended the concoction in the blender for about a minute I wanted to make sure that the almonds were really broken down now It's nice and smooth and all I have to do is put it in a mason jar let it sit on the counter for probably Four hours Or you can put it straight in the refrigerator so that it can culture If you choose to put it on the counter what you need to do is put it on the counter And let it sit there with a lid on it For about four hours. You can even leave it overnight and In the morning when it's done you just put it in a refrigerator for an hour or two and it will solidify Now as it sits in the refrigerator it will continue to culture My preferred method to culture my yogurt is to take it straight from the blender put it in this Mason jar close the lid and put it in a refrigerator for a couple of days and not touch it and Then after two days for me. It's the right taste and Then as you leave it in the refrigerator it keeps on culturing and it just gets better and better every day Now once your yogurt is all Cultured all you have to do to make your second batch is take about a quarter of a cup of this batch and Put it in with your new batch and you don't even need to use any more probiotics Did you hear me? No more probiotics. All you have to do is just use a little bit from your last batch And it will keep on culturing over and over and over again And the more you culture the yogurt the better and better it gets So the reason you want to eat this yogurt is because it's going to help with your digestive system and women with Fibroids or reproductive issues Even if they don't have any major Digestive issues that they can say that they have colitis or IBS or Crohn's disease There is congestion in the digestive tract and eating Almond coconut yogurt is going to help to clear that mess out of the digestive system So if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend. Don't forget to subscribe and until next time y'all Take care


بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والصلاة والسلام على سيدنا محمد وآل بيته الطيبين الطهرين بس بي أبوكم our dear viewers and welcome to a new episode of Shia calendar with me Ali Mashaash we send our warm congratulations to the Imam of our time may Allah hasten his reappearance and to the whole Islamic world on this happy occasion on the 4th of Shaaban which is the birth of Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas peace be upon him today marks the 4th of the holy month of Shaaban on this holiday the quencher of thirst the flag bearer of Imam Hussein's peace be upon him was born his father is the commander of the faithful Imam Ali peace be upon him his mother is Fatima bint al-Husama al-Kilabi who is known as Umm al-Baneen peace be upon her he is the brother of Imam Hussein and Imam al-Hasan peace be upon them he has various epithets that he is known by such as the moon of Bani Hashim the door of invocation the quencher of thirst the guardian of Zainab the courageous one on the bridge the flag barrier and several others he was born on the 26th after Hijra meaning that his brother Imam Hussein peace be upon him was 22 at the time of his birth Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas peace be upon him is an individual that the human mind cannot fathom history has not given us too much about him but from what we do have we are able to paint a beautiful picture my dear viewers the story of al-Abbas peace be upon him begins when his father the commander of the faithful Imam Ali peace be upon him want to his brother al-Aqeel to ask him to find him a wife that comes from a courageous family of valiant warriors and horsemen the Imam peace be upon him knows by the will of Allah that his son Imam al-Hasan peace be upon him will face oppression and so will his daughter Zainab peace be upon her henceforth the Imam peace be upon him is looking for the wife that has been raised by pious courageous and valiant warriors he wants a son to protect the Divine Command of Allah the Imam peace be upon him goes to Aqeel because Aqeel was known to have knowledge of the tribes and their lineages a great son must come from a great mother the Imam peace be upon him is looking for that mother that will raise al-Abbas peace be upon him to be one who understands Imamah means the Divine Authority and Command the report is as follows the Imam says to Aqeel find me a wife that has been born amongst the courageous and valiant warriors from the Arabs so that I may marry her and she will bear for me a child that will be a valiant warrior and a horseman Aqeel said for there is no one amongst the Arabian tribes that are known for their courage than her forefathers the Imam approached peace be upon her and married her she bore for him the valiant warrior al-Abbas peace be upon him and after him Abdullah from the book أم البنين peace be upon her fulfilled the request of Imam Ali peace be upon him and she raised her children under the veil of Imamah the outcome of this beautiful marriage led to four of her children being martyred on the plains of Karbala for the sake of protecting the Imam of their time حسين بن علي peace be upon him أب الفطل العباس peace be upon him was raised in the best of households a household of honor generosity humility knowledge courage any excellent characteristic found in humanity can be found in al-Abbas peace be upon him he was raised by his mother our lady أم البنين peace be upon her to never call his brother حسين by his name but always by master this is what makes أب الفطل العباس peace be upon him so special is the fact that he understands the true meaning of أولاية which is why when we look towards Karbala we see a shrine in his name wherein million of visitors visit him every year visitors totaling number not seen in history 23 million and counting in less than 10 days furthermore the holy infallible imams of the progeny of the prophet peace be upon him and his family have praised their uncle عباس and the best of praises using the most eloquent words we have a report by Imam صادق peace be upon him in which he says our uncle العباس had a penetrating insight into other matters of this world and hereafter he was strong and concrete in his belief means faith he fought the holy war جيهاد with أبو عبد الله peace be upon him and gained grand blessings in his sacrifice and died as a martyr from the book of مقتل الحسين peace be upon him ابن المخنف page 176 أبو المخنف الأزدي says العباس was a courageous and valiant warrior and a horseman wide shoulders and tough body when he rides his horse his feet touch the ground also from the book of مقتل الحسين peace be upon him ابن المخنف page 176 as you can see from the testimony of Imam صادق peace be upon him the great honor and status that أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him has the greatest test that before him was when he was by the Euphrates river and held the cold thirst quenching water in his hand he could have drank that water but his belief in Allah the Imam of his time overcame his desire to drink he threw the water and said this is not from my religion for me to drink cold water when my brother and his women are thirsty a grand test from أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him and winning this test could be one of the main reasons in which Allah has given him such a high status that those who have a request go to him and ask him which is why he is known as the door of requests and invocations the visitors today can all testify that he never leaves one who ask him alone and this could be because he never left the side of his brother till both of his hands were cut off and his heart was pierced with the lance أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him rejected the offer of safety from the enemy and this story is well known and narrated it is reported that when عبد الله ابن أبي محل ابن حزام who is a cousin to أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him said to him you and your family from the tribe of حزام will be in our safety will you accept أبو الفضل العباس said we do not need your safety for the safety of Allah is more better for us than the safety of the sons of sumaya from the book of تاريخ الطبري volume 4 page 314 أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him rejected this treacherous offer of this evil man because he knows that truth and honesty lies with his brother حسين and that he has a status and level waiting for him that cannot be reached unless it is via مارتودم what brings even more joy in reading about this incident is the incident that follows in which the cursed man شمر ابن ذي الجوشن said oh son of my sister عبد الله جافر عباس عثمان أمام الحسين peace be upon him said answer him even though he is فاسق فاسق means corrupt disbeliever for he is related to you through some of your uncles they said what is it that you need شمر said oh sons of my sister you are in our safety do not kill yourselves by fighting with your brother حسين and hold your ground by submitting to the commander of the faithful يزيد أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him said may your hands perish may Allah curse the one who sent you with this provision oh enemy of Allah do you ask us to leave our master and our brother حسين son of Fatima peace be upon her and go under the command of the cursed tyrant who is the son of the cursed forefathers after these words by أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him الشمر returned to his camp angered by the words uttered by العباس as you can see my dear viewers أبو الفضل العباس peace be upon him never left the side of his brother الحسين بن علي peace be upon him he stayed by his side until he was slaughtered in Karbala on the 10th of Muharram on the day known as عشورا he is buried in Karbala and was buried by his brother's son الإمام السجاد peace be upon him and his golden dome continues to shine with radiance of the divine till today عباس who knows عباس my dear viewers no matter what we say we cannot grasp his status henceforth I will leave you with some words of إمام السجاد peace be upon him concerning his uncle العباس إمام السجاد has said may Allah have mercy on my uncle عباس he gave all he had and sacrificed himself his soul for his brother to the point wherein his hands were cut off which is why Allah has replaced his hands with two wings in which he flies with them amongst the angels of paradise like جعفر بن أبي طالب furthermore my uncle عباس in the eyes of Allah has a status and level that the martyrs envy and wish to reach till the day of judgment from the book of أمال الصدوق page 548 what radiant and eloquent words uttered by إمام السجاد peace be upon him concerning his uncle عباس this gives you a picture and I ask from you my dear viewers to paint this picture in your heads that is all we have for you today my dear viewers until we meet in next episode of shea calendar peace be upon you وسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته


fair and just We have a guy here in Cleveland Tim Misny who uh his tagline is I'll make them pay and Then at the bottom it says doesn't have me. He'll make that pay This is not take a screenshot of that It's actually it doesn't say that it says like this is not indicate, you know Relaxing me. Yeah, right. Yeah, I'll make them pay I'm excited today. We're we're trying something out that we haven't done. I think I may have done it once before But we haven't done it in a long time anyway And it's pre-recorded interview So our main topic will be a discussion of technology in China and trying to bust some stereotypes about it with Eric Olander Who is a longtime China watcher lives in Shanghai is from the United States though gets back here regularly and He the time difference made it so that having him living in Shanghai having him on on during this is like super Early in the morning, right be the middle of the night So so we recorded the interview yesterday afternoon and we're gonna roll it into the show today Roger thinks it went well. I think it went well. Sarah thinks it went well So I think we're I think we're you're gonna like it Hopefully video folks won't be too weirded out that it's not got video because it was a much easier bandwidth wise to just record audio That's why during that time period Tom will be had be made up as former vice president dick Cheney You know, I have to say I he really is the chameleon of an actor Yeah, he is whether or not you liked vice. I I watched it. I thought it was well done You know, I'll leave it at that man He is he really he is he he can transform in ways that a lot of other actors cannot and what if you what if he's right now It'd be great if he's he's me Oh, he could slip into Batman while he's doing Cheney. That would be great He can't do that anymore. He's hitting the wall I can't really do that would be great or not. Yeah, all right So when we get done with the pre-recorded You'll there'll be an obvious ending Sarah where I'll say thanks again, Eric, you know And and then just jump right into your and thanks to all those who've just paid in our subreddit gotcha I Really hope Bohemian rap that he doesn't win best picture. Oh, I don't think it will I don't think it will I think green green book is the best chance to upset roma I don't think Bohemian is gonna get it. Maybe star is born with an outside shot, but not Bohemian, right? Don't you worry? Well, I'm not worried. You know these things are out of my control, but I'm just saying like I think roma is like The best movie at the last year like my car get director and it should get best picture Cinematography perhaps potentially screenplay though. I might fall for the like well if we're not going to give Spike Lee director Let's give him screenplay. So oh, yeah, right. You know, I think that might happen But yeah All right, you guys ready to break for some tech news Yeah, absolutely. Let's do it. All right. Here we go in three two Melissa Worster has supported independent tech news directly for five years be like melissa be lisa Become a dts member at patreon.com slash dts This is the daily tech news for friday february 22nd 2019 in los angeles. I'm tom merit and from studio feline I'm sarah lane from my home studio in cleven, ohio. I'm len paralta And i'm the show's producer roger chain I was tempted to say snowy los angeles because they're technically with snow In the city of los angeles yesterday. Yeah for I I I did see a photo from your roof that there was no snow. There was no snow in my roof Yeah, my mine either all but it was very it was very cold this morning, but no snow no snow Uh, no snow in cleveland either though. That's something cleveland and la have in common. Yes, it's beautiful here Or at least my area of la. I guess we don't because part of never mind Hey, today we have a special interview with eric olander who will join us To talk about technology in china He's the co-host of the weekly china and africa podcast that explores every facet of the prc's engagement on the continent Well, i'll be talking to him in a few minutes, but first let's start with some tech things you should know By do beat analysts expectations for revenue and profit revenue from its streaming video service I qui rose 55 off setting lower ad sales on search and also news By do plans to expand its ai offerings like smart speakers and autonomous driving to enterprise and government customers While revenue rose 10 it was the slowest growth in six quarters. So a rise, but also a fall Uh, so quick mac rumors reports apple plans to close its retail stores in plano and frisco texas On april 12th both stores are located in the eastern texas district court region That is that region that you might know as being famous for Kind of being friendly to patent holders A new apple store will open in the nearby galleria dallas shopping mall april 13th The mall is just outside of the eastern district's jurisdiction but fairly close to frisco and plano So the frisco and plano folks can still go to the apple store But without apple operating in the eastern district And this could prevent cases from being brought to the eastern district on the basis of apple having an established place of business within the region Facebook as we're moving its own avo vpn app from the google play store The vpn service will continue to work for existing users What will eventually be shut down? Facebook used data from the apps users to conduct market research, but it has stopped that practice Also, the company has also stopped Recruiting new users of the facebook research app for android Now if you're wondering what about the ios versions of all of this the ios versions of both apps were banned by apple So that's facebook stopping its own data collection. Sarah. Let's talk about them Dealing with other people sending them data Oh, let's the wall street journal reports that it found 11 health related ios apps that share info with facebook Even if the user of the app has no facebook account Now this is important. It's not necessarily facebook's fault here The apps track things like Ovulation or your weight or your heart rate and then they share that data None of the apps appeared to have an option to stop the data sharing Even if you would have known about it and you would have wanted it the apps use a facebook analytics tool called app events That can target ads by event the facebook app events tool advises developers not to share health financial Health or financial information or other categories of sensitive information So the company told the wall street journal that some of the practices discovered seem to violate terms And it will force those apps to stop sharing the data So I've already seen people uh taking facebook to task for this because that's the reaction right Yeah, facebook's at it again They're stealing our data. I would argue this is exactly what happened with cambridge analytica where they Someone violated the terms of service without facebook's knowledge. What was different about that? Is the question of wait, when did facebook know they were violating it and what did they do about it? That's what's got people legitimately angry. This it sounds like facebook I mean we could maybe try to find out if they knew about this earlier But it sounds like now that it's public. They immediately clamp down on it. They've learned their lesson there These apps on the other hand should not have been collecting this data and sending it to this analytics app without disclosing that It's anonymized for the most part But you should know you should be allowed to decide not to use this app because of that And you should probably be able to opt in not opt out of that Absolutely, and I also think that facebook has a user trust issue to the point where even if the company says Don't worry. We're not collecting your you know your monthly cycle information or your social security information or whatever I think that there are a lot of users who are like, we just don't believe that Yeah, I mean, maybe you're not doing anything with it, but you're probably not throwing it out Now facebook's even even saying like look, we didn't want them to send it We don't we don't want them to continue to send it and we're going to stop them from sending it and people are like Yeah, but you're still facebook and i'm mad at you so Exactly nvidia introduced the g force gtx 1660 ti graphics card based on its touring architecture not the pascal architecture unlike nvidia's rtx cards the 1660 ti doesn't include dlss or ray tracing support, but then a lot of games don't either So this may not be a big deal for some of you if you want to save the money It does promise power efficient performance for 120 frames per second gameplay at 1080p It's got six gigabytes of ram pretty good specs nvidia says it's about one and a half times faster than the gtx 10 60 Uh, the gtx 16 60 ti is available worldwide for 279 bucks roger. I know you keep keep abreast of this sort of stuff How does this one strike you it's it's a good price. It's uh, they're trying to hit a market that was sorely missing when all all the video cards were being snatched up by um crypto currency miners there wasn't a performance But low cost card that they had in the lineup, but amd did And so I think they're trying to fill in that gap and you're right ray tracing support in dlss Isn't in most a majority of games So there's no benefit for gamers to buy it right now and not really have you know Like you some would say like yeah, you're just sitting on 100 bucks That's burning a hole in your pocket because you're not seeing the benefit So this this would be a good move if they can fill the channels and make it so that you can buy it without You know having to resort to ebay or or resellers who are you know trying to Make a quick buck by buying a huge Cash of these and re-selling them It could go a long way to help uh, nvidia be more competitive in that's uh in that kind of um value category When we were talking to patrick dorton about the the video card market a little while ago He was he was hoping to have heard something about this card at the time So this is the other shoe dropping on that uh, and it's you know It's something when you're building a machine yourself Which I know a few of you do not as many as they used to uh, this this is a good option to have out there If like roger says You don't have a rate tracing or dlss game that you have to play Or you don't have to have just the the most future-proofed possible Video card out there if you're if you're willing to to get by with this. Uh, it's it's a good card It's a good card and even if you're not a gamer you're a content creator, but you rely on adobe's creative cloud Many of their applications support the gpu rendering that's available within a lot of nvidia's and amd's products. So You know, it's again, you know, if they can hit that value proposition And fill those channels so you can actually go to the store and buy one and not feel like you know You spent 40 more than you had to be great. Yeah, good. Good point Let's move on to space shall we the japanese aerospace exploration agencies hayabusa to spacecraft Successfully landed on the near earth asteroid rayugu friday It will be the second craft to collect samples from an asteroid and return them to earth after 2005's hayabusa The original the landing and collection were made more challenging as the surface was made of larger than expected gravel Sounds like a lot of beaches i've been to hayabusa too will collect two more samples before returning to earth NASA's orisis rex arrived at asteroid bannu in december and that's scheduled to collect samples in 2020 We're mining asteroids We are literally mining asteroids. It's not we're not mining a lot We don't even know what we're getting until we you know four years later and get to say Yeah, Japan's done it twice now. The united states is about to do it Uh, this this is how it starts right and and the pictures are fascinating This kind of stuff always fascinates me because it does just look like gravel Uh, not not quite as uniform as you might see, you know on a gravel driveway or something like that But but it is it is there. They are big chunks of rock and you're like that's that's the surface of an asteroid That's what it looks like Well, I think I think a lot of folks think of asteroids is like they're rocketing towards earth to kill us all You can actually land a spacecraft on an asteroid if you do it, right That is kind of mind-boggling and I think what's so fascinating is the continued automation of space or exploration You know back when uh, the Apollo missions the idea was you send up a man there You land them and they can dig with a shovel and bring everything back you can do these with robots There's a you you basically drop the cost But you also broaden out the number of missions Really hard to put a person on a moving asteroid and then return them safely back to the earth very easy to do with the robot No, it's it's a good point That the flexibility is is important in the mission execution too that because they found that this was not like a powdery regolith on the surface They changed the maneuvers Which could have been impossible with the extra weight of a person or because they didn't have the time to to bring them back Alive if they changed the maneuvering You don't have that problem when you have a uh when you have a machine Or at least you you have a little more flexibility Following up on last week's story about the gan created human faces at this person does not exist dot com We now have this cat does not exist dot com and if i've warned anything from looking at this cat does not exist dot com Uh ai is way better at human faces than it is at making cats. Oh man. Do you speak the truth? You know, it's funny. This person does not exist dot com It it really got a lot of attention people being like wow I mean, okay as we talked about it on a previous show Sometimes there's a hairline thing or sort of a symmetry thing where you're like Doesn't quite seem right, but was for the most part Really hard to discern between real and fake Not the same with felines no not at all every single one of these cats I was like well, that's a weird cat like that would be like a cat at the shelter You're like something's up with that cat. That's not a real cat almost flip-flopped. Uh, I I I actually went to This person does not exist dot com several times Try to try to find ones that didn't look right and eventually I did after enough refreshing With this cat does not exist dot com. It's almost the opposite like you have to You're looking for the cat that looks real find one that looks like a real cat Yeah, you're like that's a that's a weird paw their eye is weird like that's yeah I just found a funny because Verge of a cat like there's just there's a second cat merged with the Well, which which kind of you know, it um It ends up being a question of like okay, are humans just Are they easily enough to sort of cobble together to the point that we don't know the difference we're humans But but when it comes to certain animals and sure there might be animals that work better than cats But this is like no it this doesn't this doesn't work I I think it's part of it is it the a face is a fairly uniform thing, right? It's always fairly oval It's got two eyes and a nose right perhaps cat doing the whole body And that's that's more complicated. You got more parts there So maybe also I'm sure it has to learn more about cats than it, you know Than a person why or no no, but we're just very asymmetrical and I just think they're at the stage where they haven't fed The machine the machine the machine learning enough kids I don't know if that I mean that'd be interesting to find out I would assume they they've got they've got access to plenty of cat pictures It is the internet like there's no reason that wouldn't have had enough training No, in fact the internet is actually the place to get all the cat photos All I know is these things will haunt me in my dreams. Yeah, that's for sure All right, folks, uh, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes Don't forget daily tech headlines.com exists just for you. Go get it at daily tech headlines.com China it's Very often misunderstood in the world of technology We do our best on this show to bring you some stories to kind of help you See what's going on there in a different light from what you might hear elsewhere and to help us understand it even better Let's welcome Eric Olander long time china watcher who currently works in digital marketing marketing in shanghai Eric welcome back to the show. It's good to have you. It's great to be back tom Now, uh, let's jump right into this because I think the biggest thing when people are thinking about china right now At least in the united states is the trade war Is that really affecting consumer tech buying habits in china? How much of what's changing in china is is just other economic impacts So there's a short answer and a long answer will stick with the short answer for time The short answer is no It's not having a dramatic impact in part because the way that people perceive the trade war here is I think very different than it is in the united states in part because the media here is so filtered Through government control and censorship and whatnot and the government's really trying to kind of keep passions down That being said Huawei of course is one of the big casualties of the ongoing us china trade dispute and in that sense chinese consumers are Rallying around huawei in some ways because they feel that the attack from the united states Is more political than it is actually on security grounds So in that sense there is this kind of you know emotional connection to huawei where people feel a loyalty and a passion for the brand that being said Huawei makes great phones the p20 is an amazing phone amazing devices And so consumers are also migrating to brands like huawei In part because brands like apple simply aren't catering to the local needs of chinese consumers And in this day and age with a market as big as china's that's a really really big risk for a company like apple So it has less to do With the trade war and more to do with catering to local consumer needs Now and samsung's falling into the same thing where you know samsung and apple are playing the parts of nokia and blackberry for From years ago right now if they're not careful How much of the perception Of american companies plays into these things What is the perception of the facebook apple amazon google within china by the consumers there There is no perception of facebook and google i mean google left china back in 2010 so in 10 years in tech In the us is like 30 years and in china it's like 50 years So it's just not relevant most people on the street today have no idea what google is I mean they heard of it as a brand the same way that we've heard about the moon, but i've never been to the moon Yeah facebook just doesn't exist So we have two entirely different operating systems of life That is and and that's something that's hard for us to understand that we think that the world wide web is truly international Well, it's really not because the tools that you use in the united states there in los angeles to navigate through your daily life Don't work at all here your mastercard your visa doesn't always even work here Your payment systems here don't work because they use we chat and ali pay The web is done by bydu and all of their time is not even on the web Web traffic here is actually quite low overall because most of the time people are spending on the super apps like we chat And so it's a totally different operating system of life And so in that sense the american brands just aren't relevant amazon's here But when amazon's up against ali baba, it's insignificant. It's kind of cute. That's the way that people look at it Nobody talks about amazon in china even though it's here, but it's just not even competitive with ali baba Well, that's why they want to merge To to be to with the better import brand right because if they're going to have any business They might as well ride the coattails if somebody else who does their business better than they do it seems like But at the end of the day, you know for american tech companies in china It's a long sad story because this is a very very difficult market to work in both because The complexity of the market, but then you have these other factors like the local players like ali baba They have a thumb on the scale in the form of the government The government plays a very very active role in society here much more so in the economy than it does in the west and whatnot And local players oftentimes have an advantage that being said that being said Oracle microsoft a lot of these big brands. They're still very very active here They make a lot of money here and the tech space is expanding beyond just pure tech Into automotive tesla setting up its first factory it's gigafactory here So the tech space and the definition of tech is growing and american companies still are very very active But just nowhere near on the scale and size of the chinese are now. Let's flip this the other way I think a lot of people have heard of tencent ali baba That by do maybe even bite dance now that the tick tock has has busted out With the acquisition of musically what are Our misperceptions of these companies from this side and and what are the big ones that that we just don't even We're not even aware of over here So I think the biggest misperception and it's a 20 year old misperception is that the chinese copy And that everything is just an equivalent you see in the news in the new york times the wall street general They'll always say, you know, this chinese site is the equivalent of this or this one is the facebook of china or the twitter of china And that's really a misnomer because weibo for example owned by syna is not the twitter of china Just the same way that we chat is not the facebook of china these things may They have started early on very very similar similar to the way that steve jobs copied the icons from you know The xerox park and it looked a little bit like what windows was doing, but then it morphed out, you know Unrecognizable sure to start it and that's where we are today is that these kind of the parallels are not there at all But what's interesting to me about Thinking about chinese brands that a lot of consumers in the u.s. Probably don't even know they're consuming a chinese brand So i'm always surprised when people talk about tick tock and the growth of tick tock and that it is It's bite dance behind it and musically as well And and so we're starting to see the arrival of chinese brands, but in very very subtle ways dji for example I thought dji was from texas for the longest time, but it's from shenzhen And dji represents a really interesting trend that we're seeing where It's the marriage of not just the low-cost hardware that china was so famous for for a long time ago But now it's the marriage of the low-cost hardware with Artificial intelligence very sophisticated software that goes into it that brains are going into it So those line scooters that you've got all over san harmonica and san francisco everywhere Those are made out of shenzhen and it's the combination of that hardware and the software And that's where china's Going next and we see those line scooters all over the place We never think that that's a chinese scooter sure people assume that it was manufactured in china But the software was also built in china as well and that's really one of the big next steps in innovation Now given what we've been talking about, uh, I think it's clear that it's not impossible But it's hard for a u.s company to come into china and be successful And and likewise it's no cakewalk for a chinese company to come into the us Especially these days when there's some prevailing headwinds trying to to push against at least some of them But They've got there's the the middle ground that i want to focus on india africa south america What advantages and disadvantages do you think the chinese tech companies have in these markets? So in let's take a look at southeast asia for example because ali baba is making big moves in southeast asia and also amazon is Moving aggressively into india as well So this is one of the big battlegrounds that we're going to see one of the key advantages that ali baba has Is that it brings together obviously this massive e-commerce platform and all the artificial intelligence all the big data that that goes with that It brings together logistics as well And it's got payments wrapped up into it So through ant financial, which is their payments arm and obviously ali pay and all of that technology and the relationships that ali baba has With its banks and so forth that process all this in the back end It brings a full suite of of applications into a market like vietnam or malaysia or even india amazon for its part is coming in with an e-commerce platform It doesn't bring the payment side. It's not necessarily bringing in the logistics side in places like india And so that makes it much much more difficult The second part of it is in the hardware space. So chinese hardware manufacturers the opos vivos huawei xiaomi lenovos They have managed to build phones and devices that are specifically made for this market And really there's no american equivalent apple is not engaging in these lower end markets They don't want to be in that bottom theater space But these chinese brands which now are seven of the top 10 global mobile phone makers by volume They're really competitive in building phones that are sub one hundred dollars And that's bringing the next billion consumers online So the marriage between a chinese phone that the vietnamese consumers getting on for the first time Mixed then with lazada, which is backed by ali baba and that e-commerce really shows the strength of the chinese value proposition In places like southeast asia that's replicating in south america and africa and a lot of emerging markets Yeah, it makes me wonder if if you know a few years down the road We start to see reliance geo or indian companies or companies coming out of kenya or nigeria Start to upset the apple card of the dominant huawei who's gotten complacent. It'll be very interesting to watch It will be but scale is really important here Remember huawei sold a hundred billion dollars of gear last year It will be very very difficult to get to that scale But at the same time local providers are going to be able to customize services in ways that the big ones can't Yeah, uh one last thing I want to get uh you to address before we go, uh, you you do the china africa project And I wonder if you have anything that people should know about the sub-saharan african tech scene That you don't think they would have heard of we've talked about in pace. We talked about the the drone delivery in urwanda Is there anything else going on there that you're like, ah people people should realize that this is this is coming This is the next thing It really africa is one of the most exciting tech markets in the world It's a continent that is the youngest continent midi ages 18 years old The growth of social networking is just huge bandwidth is coming in huawei marina is bringing in a new asia to africa Massive trunk line onto the continent. So we're seeing a connectivity boom as well But on the chinese side It's really really interesting because a third of the entire Cell phone market in africa is controlled by one company and it's a company You have probably never heard of transom which makes the techno brand And this is a company out of shenzhen that doesn't even sell here domestically in china It's selling purely into uh africa and asia into developing emerging markets So that's really interesting that one company controls a third of the entire market Now what transom is doing is they're starting to put on a layer of services on top of their hardware So we're starting to see the arrival of chinese music services E-commerce services and the arrival of ali baba and tencent is starting to come on the back of this chinese hardware That is really now pervasive across the continent So I think that marriage of the hardware and the e-commerce is going to be what we see in the future So how do you spell transom? transom is t r a n s s i o n and the brand that they have the phone brand It's techno t e c n o So we do a lot of coverage on tech on the china africa project So if you go to china africa project dot com and just search for those Those words you'll find a bunch of the shows that we've done and we're going to be doing a lot more of that in the future Eric, thank you so much for sharing your insight with us today really appreciate it It's my pleasure and uh, you just mentioned it but remind people again Where should they go to keep up with what you're doing? So we produce a weekly podcast on all things china africa including tech and you can find that over on our website at china africa Project dot com or where you subscribe to all your podcasts and you can also find me on twitter at e olander. That's e o l a n d e r And i'm tweeting all day about china africa issues and so i would love for your for your audience to join our discussion Thanks again, Eric Thank you Eric wonderful Wonderful insight into the chinese marketplace and also thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddits Sometimes there are china stories there sometimes not but you can submit stories and vote on others at daily tech news show dot reddit dot com Also on facebook if you like facebook groups, we've got one facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Let's dive into the email Shall we come a had some thoughts on our? conversation yesterday thursday on google glass and whether or not it should be called A failure and i think that there are a lot of different opinions on on what that means Comey says sure many cutting-edge products cutting-edge products rather don't succeed financially But i'm rather interested in using cool products rather than investing in the company stock So i appreciate it when a company is gutsy enough to release a brand new product to the market and let us all experience it Most of us don't have resources to even create a prototype We rely on big companies to make tremendous efforts to develop and mass produce a product So i think we should be a little bit more fair when talking about the significance of those products Many products were a failure of the marketing for exist for uh Example they should have labeled google glass as a developer kit like magic leap did for example But it was still a remarkable product of hardware and we all learned a little bit more about the potential of ar I think there are enough people who worry about the product's financial success or failure As a technology lover. I think we can rather focus on the innovation aspects and encourage companies to come up with more products In new categories. Oh very well said comey. Thank you very much. Yeah, absolutely very nice All right, shall we check in with len peralta? Let's check him with len peralta len I know you've been drawing up a storm. What you got for us. Yeah, it was a fascinating discussion about china By our guest, but of course I had to go back to Cat story Sort of a companion piece from last week Which is this person's now exists, but I so in this drawing we have a cat Who is being shown off by another cat?  He's a cool cat and he doesn't exist either neither None of these cats exist cat Now this is gonna make me want to like force a this dog does not exist Obviously so we can get a triptych from that's next right next week. Come on internet. Let's go. Let's go. This dog does not exist But this print you can get right now at len peralta store dot com Along with all the last four or five years of detain us drawings. They're all there You can pick them up today Len prompt store dot com Our goal each month is to get one more patron than last month We need six of you just six of you if you are a person Who makes up one of a potential six people? Who likes the show and isn't backing it yet become a member patreon dot com slash d tns You'll get a commercial free rss feed that you can put in your podcast reader You'll get special columns from roger updates from sarah about her product tests and today an editor's desk from me About my theory about asymmetry and how if we wrap our heads around the asymmetry of interactions online It might help us figure out how to have better social networks It's all available on patreon dot com slash d tns If you have feedback for us. 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I was like, okay, I'm not gonna write an intro I'm just gonna be like, well, would I say if eric was here? Yeah, I would always say. Yeah. Yeah No, that was smart. That was smart because you had already done the intro at the top of the show So why do it again? China? That's What is it good for? That's how I started the interview. It doesn't allow me to do a fun thing. China like that China All right, what should we call this crazy show that we had today? We should call it China Let's start the sound different Yeah I actually submitted a title that is boring, but it does promote what this episode is about which is what you don't know about china tech Well, I think that's fine. We don't always have to be clever. We can be on the nose We can are you eligible for the showbook? Yeah I don't know. Yeah Can you imagine if I was like check your credentials? Get out of showbot right right who who let you in here. Yeah, that's who do you think you are? We're gonna have to check your credentials mr. Merritt I was gonna say though, uh, even even though, uh, I'm going to assert my executive privilege For the title. We should give some attention to some of these good cat puns and facebook angry Things uh, you're still facebook and i'm still mad That is a great one. We you know, we have so many facebook titles nick with a c Yeah, yeah, you remember that for the next time we're mad at facebook because it will happen again. Um, sure fabricated feline photo fail Nice good work and to mdta uk yes You're still facebook so he brings bacon. That's no cat That's good. That's a good one. I'm gonna go ahead and vote for that one Cats are harder to make than people. That's no, I I was like borderline furious this morning where I was like, uh, I mean, who's this fooling? Like like if you don't want a cat, you don't want to be a cat owner. You're not a veterinarian Like there's no reason to have the I guess it would be like stock photography But like they were all like really messed up I'm half expecting this to turn out to be not the same people who did this person does not exist dot com And and it turns out that they're just running an open source tensor flow kind of thing And that's why it's not very good um And that actually goes back to what roger was saying earlier about like maybe it's not trained on the on the right amount of Images, but I still think like there's no excuse for it not to be or or maybe cats are so beautiful That we simply cannot recreate them Can't replicate it. Yeah That's probably what it is. Yeah, it's probably the new touring tests. Can it create a cat? Yeah Well, we got you don't know about what you don't know about china tech or you're still facebook and i'm still mad Hold on to your face. You're still I want to use that someday, but I think we'll go with what you don't know about china tech. Yeah, I think given um The longer than usual and very illustrious uh interview that makes the most sense Yeah, for sure It was actually kind of fun to not be doing the interview with eric and being able to kind of chat along with people a little bit Uh while we were talking that was fun You did a nice job on the interview too. Oh, thank you and you edited it down at all or is that good? Live to tape straight nice very good. I did joke in the discord I was like the only downside of this is I have to hear myself and nobody likes hearing themselves. No, no I'm like what a goosey sound on your voice. Yeah. Yeah Two days a week when I do headlines. I am like sara. You are unlistenable So not true. Well, I know we all feel that way about ourselves, but it's like so not true No one should ever listen to you. Yeah, you know, like it's just it's it's it's very hard to like the sound If you're on voice There's been a lot of theories and even some studies that the fact that you hear your voice through your head Changes and the the dissociation of hearing it not coming through your own head Is why you don't like to hear your own voice played back to you Which is there like an uncanny valley kind of well, it's your your jawbone when you talk it The sound actually goes through here up to your ears. That's what I'm saying, you know, and it's funny this whole sort of Um Discourse goes way back to when we all got answering machines for the first time Back in the early 80s Well, I mean When machines became, you know something that you could buy and people were like, I don't sound like that I sound like that.  You got to leave your name. You got to leave your number. Wait for the beat That's right. This cassette of answering machine messages available early 1999 Those are the worst man Tom when you worked at the radio station. Did you make your own like? Uh answer machine message. I did that all the time. I did. Yeah, and but we also Had a cassette recorder when I was a kid in the early 70s because my dad was into it So we all knew what we sounded like from making cassette recordings My sister and I would do like variety shows and stuff So the answering machine coming along was not the big The big reveal for us that it that it was sometimes for other people But yes taking advantage of the radio station equipment to make like a mix with some music behind it That's what I did. I made Crazy crazy stuff people were so taken aback by that was they never left me messages Because they were like did I get the right person? I don't know. Yeah, this can't be led. It was way too well produced. It was way well produced Hey, um, it was weird. Well, go ahead. Go ahead. I would just you know We can get back to this in a second, but I was wondering um since we were talking about artificial intelligence On this show. Did you guys talk about dust or i'm sorry sunspring? On the your show at all this week. No No, okay, so i'm gonna share this in the Chat room It's uh, it's an entire Little short movie that was written by an algorithm Yeah, you know what? I saw some um some secondary opinion About that because they were um people were saying Oh, there was a philosopher who wrote a thing like nothing ai creates can be considered art because art is defined as human creation Etc etc Yeah, it's very interesting because it doesn't make any sense at all Mm-hmm. Um, it's it's like they just fed a bunch of stuff into an ai Uh, I'm going to share it right now. Oh, you are okay There we go. Yeah, that's a big old link. Yes Sorry about that ai week Yeah Sunspring Okay, but but it was human actors. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they acted it out and then create the guy from silicon valley to be in it Yeah, it wrote a script The ai wrote the script.  Oh, that's kind of cool.  It's really it's fun because the you know, the actors sell it like Like you think you understand what they're talking about because they're acting it's so right right But it doesn't make any sense at all. It's it's just like predictive text, right? Yeah, yeah Huh, I'll have to watch this later. Yeah, for sure. It's like 10 minutes long, right? Yeah less Well, it's got my vote for best picture. That's right. That's right. It's certainly better better than anything this year at the Oscar I liked the favorite. I know sarah differs with me on this I did not dislike it. I did not dislike the favorite. I thought that it was um I thought it was going it's going to be a comedy It wasn't your favorite It it was no. Yes. I with either spelling Nor nor did another movie send you a wrap. I thought I thought the movie was that I you know when it ended I was like, well, that was weird I thought it was supposed to be a comedy. It just it just wasn't what I expected And I only saw it the once so, you know, maybe maybe on a second. Um A second view I might feel a little bit differently, but For the most part I'm like Yeah, I don't think it deserves best picture, but it had great performances I think one of the reasons I'm still into the Oscars is because uh, well partly because eileen works at rotten tomatoes So, you know, she's just in that world but but one of our one of our best early memories of dating was Watching the Oscars and the Golden Globes in her little like tiny one-room apartment and out on ocean beach And so there's always just a little nostalgia Of like Oh, I mean, um, there was there was a time where I mean we don't live in the same City anymore or within driving distance of each other. So it's harder now But like my mom and I were like we're always together on oscar nights. Yeah. Yeah, that's what we do It's fun, you know, we'll have some food have some one You know talk about the movies that we liked even if we haven't seen them like it's it It was a bonding experience Was who do you think should win makeup and hairstyling blend? Oh, I think vice for sure Because of the transformation over the favorite. I mean the favorite. I think of the front That's kind of a transformation of christian bail. Oh, yeah. Well, we had we had on the but costume, you know, it's sort of Okay, you can make somebody look like somebody else, but the overall costume stuff is Yeah, yeah, I there's a costume is separate from makeup and hairstyle. Yeah, it's different. Yeah. Oh, I thought it was the same Which is different than special effects visual effect. It's a different right, right Um, hey, so was roma released on netflix? No, it was released in theaters In fact, it even had a short exclusivity window of like 15 days. Yeah, okay And it's funny. I I've um I've watched it a few times via netflix, um I think it's a very good movie But it's very heavy Yeah, you know, like to the point where it's like If people haven't seen it and they're kind of rushing to see it before the oscar is like I'd be interested to know what the Take away is because This is not a this is not a feel-good movie Right I mean, there there there are some things to draw from it for sure It's a beautiful movie. They're they're they're certain some social implications that are made during this movie that are um, uh, really good takeaways, but It is it's heavy I've got another question. So, uh, the ballad of buster scrugs is also nominated for something And that was just on netflix. I was released in theaters as well It just didn't have an exclusivity window Netflix releases most of their big movies in theaters usually landmark theaters and indie theaters pick it up and show it So that they can qualify for the oscars. They just don't usually give an exclusivity But in roma's case, they actually even gave it a short exclusive theater run. Well, that's pretty cool That's Very very different. I was wondering about that because i'm like How was that? I only saw that on netflix. How was that? nominated for academy award Yeah, because they do release it in theaters and there's only a few chains that will do it because Landmarks like we don't care about the exclusivity window. That's fine. We'll we'll get some butts in the seats, right? interesting interesting in some indie theaters art theaters and stuff will do that too Well, now you got me interested in this roma It's like it's everything sarah just said I I really can't have anything like it's great and hard Okay, all right, that's always good That have a like a like a message as long as it's you know, yeah, I think it's sort of like I I I've told a few friends recently where they're like, hey oscars and you know, we don't pay attention I'm like I think it's probably gonna win And you should watch it before sunday if you care about that, you know Because it's always better if like the movie that wins you have an opinion about Whether you wanted it to win or not So it's funny too when I was growing up in the 80s late 70s 80s My perception of the oscars was the hollywood elite Vote for big movies and the really good indie movies never win And that has totally changed like yeah now Something like roma granted, you know, netflix ain't no small production house, I guess but But something like roma, I I don't feel like that ever would have got a nomination It would have been too weird too off off in the cuff and it's not a blockbuster by any stretch, right? I don't know. I feel like things have changed a little bit over the years So so I think that's what keeps me interested in the r oscars too is is the fact that's like Oh, you know what there's really like good stuff being nominated. I want to see a lot of these movies You know, I um only just watch room Like about a week and a half ago. I had no idea that it was even like a nominated film like because I was like Because following up on captain marvel. I say brie larson wanted a a best actress for what and then uh, I saw it was room So Yeah, so I wanted everyone. I really like weird movies like that. Yeah, I thought It was great and she deserved it. Yeah. Yeah, but it was like I didn't even know what existed. Maybe I was like I need some ice cream. Yeah, right I think he was it really well I'm in my mouth like wow. Yeah Well, we like watching a lot of like uh true crime stuff And so it's sort of like that had that feel but much better a much better story I guess I don't know. It was really cool. I liked it. Yeah, I mean black panther got a best picture nomination That's a blockbuster black clansman got a nomination not a blockbuster Uh, bohemian rhapsody. Yeah, arguably a brought blockbuster type movie the favorite definitely not green book not roma Not stars born. Yeah vice not So it's it's it's an interesting mix and then looking at genres too. You've got, you know, superhero music weird experimental, you know spiky like Alfonso Cuarón Yeah Yeah, I mean after um La La Land lost moonlight in that very strange moment in oscar history Which was two years ago, right? Yeah two years ago 2017 I mean at this point. I'm like, all right. We don't know where we're going We don't even have an oscar host like no one really knows what's going on here But we know that we there there are a certain amount of people industry people and also people who just enjoy film and cinema and The craft of it who you know care about this whole thing I will be watching on sunday with pizza in hand Well folks, we hope you also will have pizza in hand. Whatever you're doing And the flavor you want Video folks. Thanks for hanging around and and watching us do an audio podcast and audio folks stick around. There's more to come