Digital asset news. So today just want to talk about a little bit of things that are going on in the market which is the first thing being that Bitcoin money operation core scientific is now bankrupt officially and they filed chapter 11 yesterday So we'll take a look at what is going on there Also, we'll take a look at which we've been talking about on this channel for quite some time which is contagion SPF SBF and FTX and how it's affecting everything either directly and directly and this is another one that just happened in Australia Where a super app essentially has been failed as a merger falls through Mostly because of the things that are happening here in the States with FTX and SPF and lastly I'm going to talk to you why I'm not too worried about things right now And the question is can we trust to masterworks? This has been a question that's to come up quite a bit So I just hit a little snippets with Alan Sokolitski and we're gonna talk about that a little bit And then we'll do a little Q&A. So first things first before we got the core scientific News welcome. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it just so you know that You can still get some pretty cheap Satoshi's what are Satoshi's well Think of those is like the pennies the dollar one dollar is a dollar a hundred pennies and a dollar But of course with Satoshi's those are like the penny versions of the total Bitcoin You don't need to own entire Bitcoin these days So if when you're sitting around with your family and friends and talking about here in Christmas Just know that a dollar can get you roughly 5,910 Satoshi's and actually I'm gonna refresh that because the price changes all the time. Let's see what it is now Wow 6,028 so in the future I think that will actually drop but that's just what I think could happen So let's talk about this core scientific it goes bankrupt and I mean When the shoes start to fall they fall hard and it's very Difficult right now for people to get ahead in the crypto industry, especially Bitcoin money operations I don't know like people like I remember the bear on the bull market people don't think about Rob You're gonna get into Bitcoin money. It's an easy operation. I'm like, I don't know anything about that Why would I even start? It just seems very difficult to me especially with the overhead and it's proven to be pretty right Depending on which one so right now this is what we got so Of course scientific the Texas-based firms cash flow is still positive even though it is just File for bankruptcy and here's the this is from PR news wire Of course scientific announces comprehensive restructuring transaction. That's a nice way to say that we are volunteering for chapter 11 bankruptcy That was yesterday December 21st almost 450 eastern time p.m And here's what we have so of course scientific does plan to continue mining While repaying the company's major debt holders, I guess this way the only way you can do it. Who are the debt holders? Yeah, you know, you'll get to kick out this in a bit It also flag doubts about its ability to raise funds through financial or capital markets core scientific said it expects Existing cash reserves to be exhausted By the end of 2022 or sooner now correct me if I'm wrong The end of this year is coming in roughly Eight days nine days So that's a that's a pretty tight timeframe and this wasn't just like this was just yesterday that this this piece came out Of course scientific said in October that it would skip upcoming payments on several loans If you're a loan holder, that's not something you want to hear and this is the funny part We're not funny for me for us Celsius holders the firm played host to bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Bitcoin mining operation and Claims to be owed five point four million and unpaid fees. So Celsius Who is trying to do this reorganization and for Bitcoin mining operation? It can't even pay these guys who are themselves bankrupt? Are you kidding me? So I know there's a lot of things about reorganization with Celsius. I just don't buy it I don't buy the Bitcoin mining operation either Especially if you have larger entities who know exactly what they're doing or you know could have That are falling by the wayside Of course scientific in in October with 32 million in cash and just 62 Bitcoin worth about a million dollars Which is pretty good. I mean for just an individual but not for a large Bitcoin mining operation This is much better than September when it held 1,000 Bitcoin 17 million and 29 and a half million in cash, which means they were selling the whole time because they had Overhead they had things to pay and that's just how it goes Now if you think they're doing not too great Also rivals marathoner riot have shed 88 percent and 83 percent from their share prices or stock prices this year Don't be confused though because just because the share prices go down doesn't mean that they're going down it just means that Consumers retail investors have lost faith in them and they are pulling out because they do not believe what's going on in those Organizations for Bitcoin mining operations. I personally don't myself. I think it's a very difficult business to have I tip my hat to you if you're into the Bitcoin mining operation That'll lead me to my next point though What's going on With hash rates and the finances behind there's a great website called lick into Bitcoin and we can take a look at One of my favorite which is the Bitcoin hash rates and Bitcoin hash rates Really what this is is of course the more Bitcoin miners that are in operation hire the hash rate goes because the computational power to To mint a block of Bitcoin every 10 minutes takes an exorbitant amount of electricity which costs a lot of money and also mining operation or computational power to solve these These complex Indices So we take a look here as far as the hash rate You can see that it's been going up pretty high since 2021 This is actually the very beginning December 17 21 is the hash rate was roughly 168 I don't know if it's X of hashes tear ashes. I was confused make fun of me later in the comment section But you can just see that we had an all-time high not in 2021 When we hit the the price of Bitcoin all-time high But I believe that people have started to go up forever, which is what we always think in the bit in the bull market We also think in the bear market. It will go down forever.  That means the difficulty level has gone down It's pretty cool because it happens every Say every couple weeks or 10 days always forget again make fun of me in the comment section But then of course, you know people turn on their their their Bitcoin miners to mine Bitcoin and guess what happens They're like, wow, this is super expensive to do and the price isn't going up Just saying flat and they turn them off again So there you go for that with the hash rate Also, we take a look back and take a look at the hash ribbons indicator Again, these are all free over at looking at Bitcoin comm Hashrate imbacate hash ribbons indicator use a simple daily moving average So identify when hash rates on a heavy downtrend All you got to know is when the 30-day moving average drops all the 60-day moving average It means miners are capitulating when it's one of the opposite That means that the good things are happening and you can see that in this Pinkish section. That's when you start to see miners capitulate and oh, yeah, and we had talked about this before This just happens the very 26th as we see is the 30-day moving average drops below the 60 And now here we are in a somewhat capitulation section So I don't expect the Bitcoin mining operation to pick up anytime soon unless we see a lot of Bitcoin miners just start to turn off and They're going to have to turn off at some point and that's actually good for other miners because that means that the difficulty rate drops they can keep chugging along and The bigger guy wins unfortunately, it's like that in almost every industry seems like the ones that plan ahead And the ones that can foresee the problems ahead and the ones that actually do things and are proactive rather than the Reactive are the one that wins the day and that's what's going to happen with these Bitcoin miners That's what's also going to happen For investors like you and me. I look at that the very next part. So much thing about that in the comment section Let's go on to some more bad news Contagion And look I don't want to talk about this bad, but it's just that's just how it is There's just a lot of bad news going on, but it's It's all how you look at things friends. That's what it comes down to So australian crypto super app canned along with the 2.2 billion dollar merger swiftx Had hoped to merge its crypto exchange with superhero. Here's what's going on australian investment platform superhero And crypto exchange swiftx have terminated a billion dollar merger That it would have created the country's first digital assets super app Now when I used to think of like super apps I started to think of like apps that can do everything all at once like Like china's line or whatever Wechat They have a super app where you can you can pay your bills. You can transfer money. You can order a taxi You can order food. It's like everything right in one app. That's a super app when I when I hear it So with this one, I'm like first. Well, what the heck is superhero? Well superhero You can invest in aussie australian and and us shares of companies And you can see like there's a little like tesla and apple and things like that And apparently you can also do this with crypto. You can start trading in minutes. This is pretty cool But in all honesty, I mean we have that here. It's called robin hood, but I guess over there. It's called superhero and If you sign up and you can do things like dollar cost average dollar per week you can control it Do all this great stuff, but you gotta you know kyc and aml stuff Which is great And what it was going to be was going to be swiftx, which is a crypto exchange Which I've worked with in the past good guys really good guys.  It's like way better To have that level of expertise on your side And you know, it's great and they were gonna buy this but just fell through here's why A tightening regulatory environment at home is being blamed for the de merger the cancelled deal comes amid A sensitive time for the crypto industry worldwide wrecked by fraud at ftx and the latest string in a And a bunch of scandalous blow-ups On top of that Because of the problems with ftx and the things that were being done unscrupulously by the geniuses over there Uh, this types of things happen and oh also You know, we see a bear market and to prepare for a prolonged crypto winter swiftx axed or Fired 90 employees at the beginning of the month. It's a lot of people Following up on initial cut of 74 staff in late august. So again When we talk about contagion, it's not just the things that we can see that where it's like, oh this person There's a loan out to the to these people and they didn't pay those things back and and oh, they you know These guys rug somebody directly It's also indirect and these are the things that are happening the things that we were trying to talk about which is why I've been so damn bearish so much because It's gonna get worse. I think before it gets much better and you have to understand that but that's okay. It's okay because These things don't last forever Bull markets don't last forever. We talked about that bear markets certainly don't last forever and usually bear markets Of course, there weren't when all the opportunities are made And I know it's you're you're tired of hearing that but it's just the truth And if you take a look at sunday's video I took a look at what would happen if you If you just invested in the bull run year Of 2021 how much you would make? I took a look at how much you would make if you dollar cost average into the year before in 2020 Which was the big one having and then 2019 and then the worst year was just 2018 I took a look at all those those numbers you can watch the video It's very clear that if you just invest in the bull run, you'll make you'll do fine You'll make a little bit but it's not like it's not like right now and So when people are talking about this these are the days these are the times So what I want to show you real quick is just what I've been talking about forever If you just go to this website dca-cc.com I linked in the description dca-cc.com I want you to notice this If we started on because everything's in four year cycles, right? Four year cycles where 2012 was a having 2013 was an all-time high 2014 was a major dip 2015. There was a reset 2016 having 2017 all-time high does an 18 dip 2019 reset doesn't 20 having 2021 all-time high doesn't 22 dip doesn't 23 reset Maybe you don't have that not for sure But also want you to know I want you to focus on this numbers right here January 1st 2019 Pick anything in crypto and it was awful in January 1st 2019 It was you were pretty getting you just got crushed in 2018 I mean it was just nothing but but bad news and and Government was gonna ban everything and and and of course you were losing and you were really looked at like as a complete moron if you were in crypto I must be honest But if you were to just put 10 bucks in a week into bitcoin Just bitcoin at an all-time high you would have invested $1,500 $1,500 And you would have gotten almost 10,000 back not too bad. I mean if you think about it Now let's take a look at this and I want you to pick any crypto out there take ethereum 10 bucks a week January 1st 2019 You would invest at $1,500 you had $24,000. Okay, let's go down the list. How about b&b coin? if you would invested $10 a week at the all-time high You would invest at $1,200 And you would have got back $42,000 Let's take a look at something else. How about xrp? Well, I shouldn't have gone up because there was a massive They just got sued by the sec. Well ripple not xrp, but you know what I mean You still be doing pretty good 10 bucks a week of xrp Starting in 2019 you invested $1,200 you got $6,800 back and that's in litigation with the sec Let's keep going What about dogecoin? If you had about 10 bucks a week at that's at its peak You would invest at $1,200 you would have got $203,000 back Let's go two more Cardano if you would invest at 10 bucks a week in cardano at its all-time high This cycle you'd invest at 1,300 bucks You'd have got $54,000 back And then lastly you can do this all day long if you want to polygon If you invest at 10 bucks a week all the way back in the day You would invest at 1,400 bucks total you got $153,094 so When I say like I'm telling this bad news to you It's because you have to understand the gravity of the situation that you're in in 2018. That was 19 It was the same things the same things going over and over again. I just thought to myself Well, I'll invest in some things now. There's some all coins that I invest into and uh It was like throwing sand of the ocean didn't really return too well, but that's the risk that we take But over time for me things work out. I can't tell you what to do. I'm not your dad I'm not sure financial advisor obviously, but this is the things that have worked in the past These are things are going on I don't know if we're gonna have a massive bull run in 2025 like everybody thinks it is could be a little later Could be a little bit sooner, but over time things work out now leave me to my last point Which is this one. Can we trust masterworks? There's a thing about diversification And here I don't put all my money into crypto. I think that's a recipe for disaster. You can do that I have fun But I like to diversify a little bit and I'm not talking about everything So what I did was I brought Alan Sokolicki. He is the cfa or the chief financial officer in here And we did a 17 minute roughly almost 20 minute interview I'm gonna play you four minutes from that interview because I want to get this out in the open The video will go live right after this video. You can watch the whole complete interview I just want to show you these four minutes About trust because at some point We're gonna have to drop the whole thing of going. Okay. Well, you know voyage yourself. See his bank block fi Ftx everything's a scam not everything is a scam Not everything's gonna be perfect. Not everything's gonna work out But i'm just telling you that this is what I have done and uh, we'll go from there So watch this this interview. It's four minutes. Then we'll do a little q&a. So let's uh jump into it Well So there's been a little bit of grumblings, especially with the The issue with trust especially in our markets Yeah, which spills over to other parts. So they're gonna go over just the basics First of all, what's masterworks and why diversification? Second of all, we go through proof of reserves We have some kind of proof of art mean that the things that you have bought as far as our pieces How do we know such things? Also 20 fee upon sale seems kind of cheap or kind of steep and then lastly How does the secondary markets work? So the first thing's first Alan just basically people have never heard of you or what's going on. What is masterworks? Yeah, so Masterworks is uh, it's basically the first company to make multi-million dollar works of art So paintings available to invest in on a fractional basis. So You can buy shares in a Banksy a Bosquiat a Warhol all the major artists You can come to our website. You sign up for an account And ultimately you can become a partial owner in in one of these multi-million dollar paintings Somewhat along the lines of how if you buy shares of stock on the stock market You're kind of a partial owner of a company to somewhat along those lines There are a lot of differences, but nevertheless the idea of being a partial owner is pretty much the same You know the art market. It's a nearly two trillion dollar asset class. So we're not talking about something small We're talking about something pretty gigantic You see it around us in museums everywhere And it's a it's a really great diversifier for a portfolio uncorrelated and we think a lot of investors should consider it Yes, it's something to consider and this is just to get everybody's everybody's head perfectly is that it's not about Getting into masterworks and putting your entire life savings. It is a small diversification This is mine right here. I got mostly in cash in real estate But masterworks, I've you know allocated a little bit to it. I think that's kind of how I would like to do things It might be different for everybody else But in this day and age, I mean look the s&p 500 today is December 22nd 2022 And we're looking at almost a 20 drop This year alone in s&p 500 So if you're investing in s&p 500 and just saying set it and forget it It's kind of hurting right now same thing with the nasdaq down 32 and let's not forget our market Let's do this. Let's get into the whole trust aspect. So the first thing is this We've got an issue here in crypto world, which is people say I've got bitcoin I got a three on my exchanges and all of a sudden poop. It's not there. That's called proof of reserves proof of liabilities How do we know alan for everything with mashworks that you guys have purchased the art? You haven't just like said, hey, we've got a banksy and here it is. How do we know? Yeah, so, you know this this actually in some ways takes us back to early days in masterworks history because When we were first trying to figure out What is the best way for us to even fractionalize the paintings in the first place meaning? How should we go about making them available on a fractional basis? the route that we took which is to Have every offering qualified by the sec and have all the documentation documentation on the sec that wasn't the only option We had actually considered using blockchain But what what we quickly realized is because a lot of investors were sort of learning about art for the first time The way that we wanted to make information available about all of our offerings Was a way that would be as public and as transparent as humanly possible to give investors a lot of confidence in what we were doing So that's a lot of the reason why we actually decided we are going to Securitize these paintings. We're going to make them public vehicles with the securities and exchange commission So you can literally go you can either go to our website where you'll see a link for every single painting There's a link that will take you directly to the sec's website And you will get an extraordinarily lengthy document. It is going to talk about Everything related to that particular painting. It's going to give you a history of the artist a history of the painting Um, who owned the painting before and who owned the painting before that person it it's literally going to lay out In exhaustive detail Anything and everything that you would want to know and again The reason why we wanted to do this through the securities and exchange commission is because We knew that because this is an investment that a lot of investors have not thought about before We need to do it in a way that is most likely to give investors the maximum amount of trust And that's why we decided to do it this way Gotcha. Okay. So that helps out a little bit with the transparency part. Let's talk about this one 20% fees now Yeah, 20% fees is pretty steep However, Alan has laid out what those 100% fees are and what I'm going to do. Let me remove this So for this one the 17 minute the total interview with Alan You can see what he talks about as far as that the third Or the secondary market for liquidity for to sell your shares and everything else in between There's a video that we traded that's again about 17 minutes long. It's the whole entire thing. I'm going to make that public now And you can check it out after we do the q&a. So if that's something that interests you again, this is not for you This is not for everyone. There are some people


Hello, my people. Welcome to the SCORE channel. Today we answer a simple question. When should you start planning for college? I've got advice for every age group so you'll know exactly what you need to be doing every step of the way.  You're still struggling to form words and move around on your own. As a baby, you're almost completely useless right now.  When you're not consuming resources, you're depriving your family of much needed sleep as you scream and cry for no good reason at all. But hey, you've got potential. Maybe you'll grow up to be an architect or an engineer someday. Never mind.  Welcome to the wonderful world of education.  Sorry, Mrs. Smith. But don't worry, the animal-like nature of children will be your first introduction to this thing we call society.  Or more likely, you'll end up completely ostracized and come home every day to cry for hours, only to repeat the cycle day after day after day for the next six years. 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You need a job that makes a lot of money so that you can keep impressing girls and drive a Ferrari. But because most of you haven't aced a math test in your entire life you'll line up to become lawyers or get business degrees with dreams of becoming entrepreneurs and because of deeply rooted sexism in those two worlds you'll probably succeed. A lot of you should probably start learning carpentry or how to fix a broken toilet but everyone insists that you absolutely must go to college your parents don't want to be the loser parents whose kid doesn't go to college so they pressure you to get into a top university even though you're not really top university material and that's okay you'll end up somewhere decent and be just fine.   The smartest of you will be engineers and eventually unlock your inner Chad later in life. There's no need to do separate categories here because all women are smart but some of them only use their smarts for evil. 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and here we go. Welcome to the greatest night of the year. You ready for it, Alan? The long anticipated, I hear the event. There it is. There it is. This is the greatest night of the year. Look at that. There it is. How beautiful it is. Look at that. Look at this. Look. The top, the bottom. This weighs at least 70 pounds. Look at that. Greatest album of 2022, Jim. Where did the year go? Where did the year go? Alan, let's start things off. Every year we do this. What's your criteria to picking the best albums of the year? I don't know. No? You're just going to go with it? No. I mean, this year, if things stand out, sometimes it's early in the year, sometimes it's late in the year. But, you know, there's certain albums that stand out. I kind of scrolled them away.  Okay. And also, you know, there's some albums that I kind of put away and just didn't go back and revisited them.  I like to go back and listen to that often. So I'm listening to it that often. I like to put on my top 10 list at the end of the year. So. All right. So you scroll them away? Like? Well, there's some albums we listen to. We review. We interview the players during the year. So then, you know, some of them, you don't listen to them again, right? Yeah. Some of them you go back to time after time after time. So the ones I'm listening to time after time, hey, so there's good candidates for the top 10. That's that's how I do it, Jeff. You know, it's fascinating. The albums that were released early on in the year, you know, you kind of, you're excited about them. You want it to be on your top 10 list. And then as the time goes by, there's a different opinion, either it's still favorable or it's not, right? Because now you've had some time to sort of digest it and absorb it. See if it stood the test of time, even though if it's like three or four or five months. So that might cry sometimes. That definitely happens sometimes. Sometimes the albums I listened to early in the year, that's the ones I measure everybody else up against. So in the past, there's been some, the year we chose Michael Shanker, resurrection, I think the first one is Shanker fest. I mean, that's the one I measured up the rest of the year. Everybody else that came along last year, the dead daisies too. That was a good one that everybody else had to kind of try to beat. This year, I've got number one. That was the one that I matched up and said, Hey, is anybody going to beat this one as my number one? And it turns out nobody could. But we'll save that. So this is a two-part series like usual. Part one, we're going from 10 to six. And the next show will be in a week or two. We'll do the five to one.  It's because we've got so much to go through. It's a series. It's like a mini series. And that's what we do. All right. So my criteria, quick, quick is basically this year, my criteria is, of course, it's got to be a great song, a great album with great songs. And there's got to be a lot of consistency and momentum on that band over the years. Like there's got to be some sort of momentum happening. I don't want those one offs out of nowhere. And that's the end of that. I want some bands with some good, good momentum. And they've always been consistent in the past. Okay. So there you go. There you have it. But let's start off with some passing. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You take a band's history into account. I factor it. I factor it in. Like the Oscars. Okay. I learned something new. No, but criteria. No, no. But A. But A is. The album of the year is based on the band's history. No, no. What I'm trying to say is I first look at the quality of the album and the songs. Okay. And then I look at the history because there might be another album equally as good. But the one where there's more momentum with that band and there's more history of having consistency. Well, that tends to elevate a little more. Does that make sense? They manage your show. You know, you do it the way you want to do it. You do your thing. You do your thing. This is our list. Right. This is our list.  Okay. What's beautiful about when we do these lists, it's everybody else's, no, you should have chose this, this and this. And that gives us another opportunity to go and explore other albums. Yes. Exactly. We can't listen to every album that came out in 2022. We try our best. We do listen to hundreds, I would think, during the year. And these are the ones we scroll down. But yeah, feel free to send us your list because I'd love to check out some of those. And then hopefully some of the ones that we're suggesting, you'll check out and you'll enjoy as much as we did. That's the beauty of the metal community. We share. We love it. We want to hear more. We embrace. We embrace. But before we begin with the list, we should talk a little bit about 2022. We're out of COVID and the concerts are coming out, right? Right. John is saying, let's get on with it in a boxing guy's voice. So they don't like how I built stuff up, Alan. I built things up. First we got to talk about what happened.  This is Jimmy's form of the opening dance segment of the Oscars. Yes. Yes. But this is the walnuts. So, okay, here we go. The deaths. Let's just recognize these people that passed away this year. All right. I'll start off with February 1st, 2022. Johnny Zazula, co-founder of Megaforce Records. He died at 69 years old. Legend. I'll even put up his picture. Legend. I'll even put up his picture here just so we can remember Johnny. At the forefront of metal, thrash and speed, he brought this music to the masses. So, salute to Johnny Zazula.  There was also Randy Rand, bassist of Autograph, who died not too long ago. I believe it was April 26th. Nicky Moore, a former vocalist of Samson. Samson, the band where Bruce Dickinson was in as well at the age of 75. And here's a near and dear one to our heart, Steve Grimmett, vocalist of Grim Reaper. Died at the age of 62. I'm going to put Steve's picture up there with you. You and him together, Alan. Let it boom. There you go. Yeah, that was, that was still smart. So, yeah, that's the first time we were able to interview Steve on Steve Grimmett. So I think that was the, what was it? Walking in the shadows? What was it called, the album? I'm not even sure if it was released yet, but I do know he pooped that day. I think it was close to being released, I think. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. And he pooped that day, so. Yeah, so it was all good. He felt good. He had a great sense of humor, a great voice.  That's all. Anything else you want to say about Steve? No, I mean, the first time we tried to interview him was back in the old days when we were having him on a telephone interview and he kept breaking up. He really didn't have too much success. Jimmy could always release that on like a bonus, bonus CD or something. The Lost Interview. And all we get is Steve keep breaking up every two or three minutes and us trying to call him back. Luckily, we were able to interview him live a couple of times. In the early days of Skype, in the early days of Skype, and two other, you know, legendary guys, Gorda Kirchen from the Cult Metal Band Paul Driver. Remember this guy? He died at the age of, I think he was 60, correct me if I'm wrong? And of course, Dan McCafferty, vocalist of Nazareth. Yeah. What a voice. 76. What a voice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very sad. And that's pretty much it. I mean, there's other ones. And if we forgot anybody, please text the people that passed away this year. I know there's a long list, but these are the people that are sort of near and dear to us, right? Metal Acquisition is a classic, says John. I'll never forget Steve. He was a pioneer in Metal, says Rob Johnson. And already it's starting. It's already starting. The list, people says, Michael says, I'm late. No, you're not late because we're still talking about dancing girls are still, you know, still dancing away. And I like to show everybody who's late. This is what is going on. There will be laughter. There will be tears. Yet they'll only be one or two winners for the giant. All the votes were tabulated by the accounting form of a no-folk and way pal. As always, every year we hire them to count all our numerous and hundreds of thousands of votes that come in to help influence our decisions. We accept money as well. Yes. And Neil Turbin will be joining us in about 20 minutes to tell us his top three albums of the year. Or you'll give us his top 20. I don't know what's going on. Our West Coast correspondent. Good old Neil Turbin. Neil Turbin himself. All right. Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here, man. Okay. So I'll let you start. Okay. Because I got to do the controls here. Are you ready? Are we doing the honorable mentions? I think we should do the honorable mentions in the next show. Okay. All right. We've got a lot to cover, Alan. Yeah. People are really excited. All right. Let's get going. Here's my controversial choice at number 10. Hold on. Hold on. I'll do it again. Are you ready? Are you ready? Okay. Here you go. Now. Go. Okay. So number 10. I'm going with. Starracci. Starracci. Live and let live. Liberace. Liberace. Starracci. Mark Starracci of Crocus fame solo album came out. And this was one gym. I found myself for the rest of the year going back and enjoying listening to it. So it was a definitely a grower. And you know, great songs. Don't want to go broken wings. Time rates for no one. Those are my top three off the album. His voice is still as powerful and as great sounding as ever. And that's my number 10. It's slid in there last minute. And those are. That was one of the albums like you said before. It's sort of it started off early in the year and you kind of squirreled it away. And that was sort of like the bar for the other albums. Correct. Reaching for stuff to listen to and find myself always kind of going back to that one on numerous occasions. So I said, well, what the heck got to put it on the top 10. All right. So here it comes. Here's my number. 10. So, oh, by the way, we should have told everybody it's going to be 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Me and Alan, we pick one. Okay. Here we go. Well, impact is imminent. There we go. Look, a lot of people, you know, disanvil, but I understand Anvil. There's just something beautiful about their passion for writing songs, catchy songs. You watch them play live. They love everything you they do. This album, fantastic production. Guitar work is great. The bass work is great. The drumming is fabulous as always. I just think this album tends to be a lot higher than their last albums, the last few albums, even those were, those were good too. But this one, just there's something great about this album. I just love the playing on this. I love the energy and I love the melody. Every album that comes out, just the best Anvil album. It is. They keep getting better. So impact. I love the bass playing on that. Great drumming, of course. Rob Reiner, the one and only. And look at this artwork here. See, there's like an Anvil and there it is. There's the guys. Take a lesson. David Grohl starts things off on the album. Yeah. Yeah. Go Shadows, I love. Fire Rain, I love. And T-Bag and Gomez, if you know the story or not, T-Bag and Gomez is the name of Sasha, their friend. He had two names. So he decided to name T-Bag and Gomez as those were his nicknames that the band gave to him. So that's why they're named after that. Pick it up. Fantastic. Looking forward to their next tour, their next album. I'm glad that we got Anvil in again this year. We have to. We have to. It's a tradition here at the Middle Voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bring up Anvil as much as possible. Now, Mr. Rock and Dodge says, is that Anvil produced by Mateus? And I believe so it is. It's by Martin Matisse, Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer and George Urkin at Urkin Sound Lodge Studios. So there you go. If I butchered that name there, I apologize. All right. Let me get you ready for number nine for Alan. You ready, Alan? Yep, I'm ready when you are. Boom, done. Number nine for me is the Canadian band. I love them ever since I discovered them. Borealis after a four-year hiatus comes out with Illusion. So there's my little Prague choice for this list. Fifth studio album. I love the guy's voice. I love the subject matter, the stories he tells, going back to fall from grace and everything they've done since. And I'm glad they were able to release another album this year. Typical Borealis, if you'd love the other albums, you're definitely going to love this one. I don't want to say their borderline. It's what they do. It's definitely what they do. Good orchestration. We interviewed Borealis back, back. Oh boy, now it's been, what, six, seven years? We saw them were open for UDO. UDO? UDO, or I said it was ever great for sure. And the first time, I can't remember. I think it was Saxon. It might have been Saxon. I remember all our members you were interviewing. What's the name of the singer again? Matt. Matt. I remember you interviewing Matt in the alleyway. Yeah. Yeah. Good band. Love the band. Glad they came out with a new album this year. Fifth album, fifth studio album after a four-year hiatus. Great Canadian prog metal band Borealis with illusions. Well, Rob Johnson says Alan's got some interesting picks. Look at that. Tanvir saying great pick Borealis were my dark horse. Oh, look at that. Oh, look at that. There we go. Look at that. The greatest night of the year. Metal voice top 10 of 2022. All right. Here we go. Okay. My number nine. Well, let me get it ready. See, I'm doing everything now. So it's a man of many hats. Okay. Here we go. Oh, razor Canada's own Slayer. I'll say cycle of content. I know Alan, you have a tough time with razor, but they're my go-to band. I'll tell you why I love razor so much. You love these guys. I love these guys because there's something there's like it's speed metal. It's thrash. It's dirty metal. It's fist pumping bar fighting metal. That's what it is. It's just everyone's scrapping.  That's what I want to do. You know, great artwork, great songs. A lot of people complain. Oh, it doesn't sound like before. No, it's supposed to be speed metal in and out, in and out, in and out. Razor, boom, boom, boom, like that. Hey, man. These guys sound great. It's been a long time.  These, a bitter pill. Great album was released September 23rd. Again, this is Canada's speed metal champs. A great legacy that they have. Yeah, a lot of people say, oh, it's the same thing over and over again. It's supposed to be the same thing over and over again. It's what they do. It's what they do. And you know what? It's these types of album that separate them from the pack of the generic metal albums. You're passionate, Jim. I am. Gabe is saying the Canadian top 10 so far. That's a pent-up anger. That's what I noticed about your list this year. It's anger. You've got some pent-up anger, my friend. I do. I do. It allows you this type of music. Razor and some of your other choices allows you to vent it. It's cathartic for you. You know what? You don't even realize, Alan? Okay. What was your number 10 again? Storaci. Okay. Well, okay. With the exception of Storaci, Anvil, Razor, and Borealis were Canadian. We're all Canadian so far. What's going on here? I didn't even realize that. Didn't I? It was not out of a medical order. Yes. All right. Neil Turbin is standing by. I didn't even realize that. Me neither. Let's see how many more Canadian bands we have. We're going to break that trend right now, Jim. Okay. Let me get it ready. Let me get the graphics ready for you, my friend. What number are we at? Eight. Eight. Here we go. All right. Now we're getting into where are we going? This is my melodic metal choice. I like to vary it up. I had a prog, right? It's a classic sounding. And now their third album, Nordic Union, Animalistic with our, of course, Ronnie Atkins and Eric Martinson of Eclipse and WET fame. This guy doesn't stop, man. He's like Tobias, Samet. I mean, he's in so many bands, writing so many great tunes. This is probably the weakest of the three I find, but good enough to make my top 10 list. Nordic Union's Animalistic, enjoyable. Check it out. That's my melodic metal choice. Just tell everybody, Alan, what does it sound like? Like, if you were to compare it to something. Oh, like. The Vantage, is that it? WET. I stumped you. A little bit of Eclipse in there, obviously.  So, but Ronnie Atkins voice is unbelievably strong yet again on this album. He brings a, he's got his style, man. I love that style of Ronnie Atkins. Yeah. All right. What he made to me. All right, here we go. I have the Nordic Union more like power metal. That's Michael who says that. So yeah, it is. It's like Aventasia. It's like WET. I don't. Yeah. A little more raspier, a little more raspier in the vocals, right? All right. Let's get the graphics going for the next one. What are we at? You're at your number H. Oh, scream for me, screamer. There it is, Alan. Look at that. I mean, I'm surprised the women's group didn't get all pissed off about that.  Unless that's her hand. And you know, it's a beautiful cover. I'm a rock believer. Look at that. Look at that. The Scorpions. The Scorpions. There you go. Look, again, this is about a good album with great songs and a great legacy. Who would have thought after a thousand albums that they've created, you know, they still could come out with something good. Now, we did the show when it came out. 19th. As usual, about two hours to listen to it. Then we had to review it. So I was pretty hard on that album when it came out. My first reaction was, oh my gosh, these guys are so middle of the road. Neil Diamond looks like heavy metal compared to them. Basically. And you know what? It's a grower. I mean, it's not my favorite Scorpion album, but I can see what Martin Popoff meant. It's a lot of guitar work. He thought it was one of their heaviest ones in a while. So I went back and listened to it. Been listening to it since we reviewed it. And it's not as bad as I originally thought. But that's, you know, sometimes your first impression. Mr. Rock and Dodge says, I love this album. Didn't expect that in their age. So I guess their age group. After so many years, they've come up with a very strong album. This is just to clarify. This is their 19th studio album was released in February. So we had a lot of time to really go back and see, was it as good as we thought it was when it first came out? I find this is more hard rocking, right? A lot of throwbacks. You know, there's like the zoo there. Is there anyone there with that reggae guitar work? Of course, there was the anthemic rock believer and peacemaker and gas in the tank. Dynamite. Dynamite, Alan. Dynamite. There's a lot of that. See them live. Jim, you and I had agreed at the time that the rhythm section with Mickey D seems like it had that extra boost of energy. And, you know, I hope this goes on. You know, I think it is what it is at this point of their career and we'll just accept it at that. Yeah. Yeah. Glad you made your top 10 list. Here's a plug. My eighth. This is Michael saying my eighth is Graham Bonnet's day out in nowhere. So that's good. That's a very good choice. Jim's a huge Graham Bonnet fan. There you go. He loves Graham Bonnet. But he didn't make the list, but I respect it. Tony Wade is saying Scorpions was a pleasant surprise this year. And yes, it was. And that's why he made my number eight. Yes, eight. Scream for me, screamer. Scream for me, Alan. Okay. It's hard to keep. You changed the list about 15 times. So I'm glad to... You should say one to five. I got the latest copy here. One to five. I kept playing the albums over and over again. I go, which one is going to be number one? Which one is going to be number one? There could only be one in here, Alan. See? Look at that. Look at that. It's like Pac-Man in a way. But it's not. No peaking. No peaking. No peaking. In the olden days, we used to pass it. We had this protocol. Yeah. We had a protocol. Now we're resuming it. All right, Alan. Neil Turbin's on standby. Neil Turbin's on standby. All right. Number seven. Okay. Let's get rid of that. Number seven for Alan. Okay. Ready? I'm going with Germany's own Devil's Train Ashes and Bones. All right. A lot of people don't know this album. It's not as popular. You know, Jim, we get a lot of albums sent to us by the various record companies who want to review. We can do a show on every band, right? Mm-hmm. So Devil's Train, even if we did a show, you know, might not have got too many hits, right? Ten. So it gives us a chance to listen to the albums and add them to it this time of year. Add it to our top ten list. So I mean, for me, this is down and dirty, hard rock and roll. It's kind of like Buck Cherry meets Pantera meets Steel Panther. It's got that feel to it. It's classic sounding. Just, you know, I wanted to pick out three songs. These are my suggestions of the top three. Every song in this album is unbelievable. And it's a band that, you know, again, I never heard of. I'm glad we do this show because we learn about new bands. So that's what it's all about. And I think this is their third studio album, first one in a while. So it could almost be considered a comeback album. And I was pleasantly glad that I checked it out. And it made my top ten list, man. You know what I like about our list, Alan? Our lists are different. You kind of look at it one way and I kind of look at it another way. And both ways aren't wrong, right? It's just different perspective and, you know, giving props to where props are due to different bands and different level of bands. Right? Not everybody's as big as the Scopians. No sir. No. That's it. We want to check out the little band sometime. And again, like I said, we can't, you know, we got to go with who's available and Devil's Train. At least we got the album we're able to do. And now we can promote it on our top ten list. That's what it's all about, Jimmy. That's it. Exposure. You know, this is our chance to, when everybody says, why don't you guys talk about the smaller bands and they need exposure? Well, here you go. Alan's list is full of them. You ready? You're ready for your number. What am I at? Your seven, Jimmy. Your number seven. Okay. We'll remove Alan from there. Okay. You love this album. You love it. Oh, there it is. Tony Martin Thorns. Yep. Here's a perfect example of an album that was released January 14th. Think about that. Still kind of on the cusp of COVID, right? COVID was still kind of happening. We didn't know what was going to happen. What was going on? Could we go out? Can we not go out? But this album's released. And to my surprise, it's probably one of my favorite black Sabbath Tony Martin era sounding albums, right? I just think this is the album he should have made with Tony Ioni. Not to say I do like his work with Tony Ioni, but I think this is actually a little bit better as the world burns. You could not, that's your neon lights.  Put the pedal down, car driving song down by you. The vocal delivery is outstanding. Black widow angel, another phenomenal vocal delivery. Then you have Pamela Moore on the song Thorns at the end. Oh my God, we're getting a little, a Queen's Right-ish kind of feel here, right? What a great track. Then you have the flamenco part. You know what? We did an interview with Tony. For this reason alone, his album was released early January. Like I said, people have forgotten about it in the past 11. They think it was like 2021. So we wanted to remind everybody, hey, Tony Martin's album's out there. Don't forget to check it out. And hopefully you'll put it on your list too. Jim, I'm glad you revisit it. Then we had a chance to revisit it with Tony at basically a week ago, I think. And I went back and listened to it. His voice takes you right back to that era of those Black Sabbath albums. A lot of songs give you that feel. And then he does other songs that are completely different and you enjoy them equally.  It's incredible how many albums he's performed on. A long overdue solo album. And it is absolutely a scorcher. It's really good album. A lot of people are agreeing with this. A lot of people actually put it higher on their list. I agree. It can go higher. It's very difficult these lists. Like you said, there's a lot of math involved. You changed this a lot. There's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of... And times like that. You've got to bring a calculator out. You know, we have to punch it, you know, the punch cards on the computer, giving us a readout, trying to read them out. Which one's going to do it? John the Veromatic, Verna was got his own great show on the Internet. I'll take your word, Alan. Check it out. Oh, that was in regards to Devil. Oh, this is what he said. Sorry, sorry, John. Yes, but though it made his top five. So if I confuse everybody, that's what I want to say. All right. Alan, Neil Turbin's on standby. We're going to bring him on. Hey, yeah, yeah. We got our buddy Neil on. We got two left. Should we bring him on now? Yeah, let's bring him on now and then we'll finish up with our number six each. All right. Yeah, okay. I can't wait because Neil always has some interesting choices. Yeah. Yeah, Neil, Neil. Here he comes. Bring on Neil Turbin now. There he is. There's Neil Turbin. There he is. Oh, he's got, he can't hear us yet. So all that funny business. Oh, there we are. There he is. Neil. Great seeing you, buddy. Do my check, my check, my check. Check, check. Can you hear me? Got you. Got you. All right. Neil Turbin. Hey, everyone. Yeah. You can't look away. The little end of the Great Walnut. Neil Turbin, Alan. There it is, Neil. Oh, there it is. You just want to touch it. I was watching, man. You guys were talking about the awesome people that passed this year. It's too bad. Yeah. Miss them. Steve Grimmett. We're all getting older. Yeah. Steve Grimmett, a friend of yours as well. You know, it's, there's Serenity Rand and there was, of course, Johnny's Azula, where you have a massive connection. You know, he started everything. You know, he really enabled our father to make it happen. A very touching moment, Alan. I'm not sure if you remember or not, but, you know, it's, since the departure of Neil with anthrax, you didn't talk to Johnny in ages. But Johnny, Johnny, he wanted to reconnect with Neil. You know, despite all the divisions and all the sort of, you know, things that happen, right? There was something in Johnny's heart that he wanted to reconnect with Neil. You know, he asked me, I know he asked Maria Ferrero to, because I need to talk to Neil and he did talk to Neil, right, Neil? Absolutely. And you had your moment with him. Johnny, he reached out and Marcia Z and Marcia Azula, Johnny Azula, and also I got to give a lot of credit, major credit to Maria Ferrero, you know, for adrenaline PR, because she was really, you know, there and made it happen.    I mean, it's about people always and it's about that connection.  He showed me that he didn't really, you know, he was in the business side of things, but he didn't really have much to do with things that went on inside the band. And that's a whole different arrangement.  So just like Elon Musk, you know, got to make some hard decisions, right? And, and, you know, some of them people don't necessarily agree with or understand, but, you know, he knows what's good for his business. I guess that's kind of, you know, what happens when you're running a business. And, but above that, you know, Johnny was a person. So is Marcia.  Yes. That's pretty outstanding. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let's, let's move from the sad to the happy and to the celebration of music. Neil, you got your top three. Don't give us a top 30. 40. Don't give us a top 30 deal. Yeah, wait here. You don't want to start with journey in top 40. All right. So, Alan, do you want to, do you want to take one of Neil's first and then we'll do, you now have two left. So, Neil, why don't you give us your bottom, man? What's going on? That's good. Neil's number three. All right. Number three deal. Come on. Use the number three. Okay. So as much as, as much as I'll give you three, but as much as gathering of Kings could have been number three, you know, excellent singer, Johnny Lakequist and also Rick Altsy. I mean, Johnny is a friend of mine and he's, you know, I loved him in nocturnal rights. Love what he did on the new album. But I have to give it to Hammerfall, you know, because I mean, that band is just a phenomenal band. They sound incredibly cohesive.   I mean, there's no band that I can think of that really exemplifies metal like Hammerfall because when they played at Valken, I think it was 20 or 17, 16, something like that. Who knows? I wasn't there, but I saw the video. You know, I looked at except I looked at all these other bands. Hammerfall was the band to be watching for that festival. And that's, that's something to be proud of.  And of course, being Swedes and, you know, being heavy metal, power metal guys. They just, I don't know. There you go. There you go. I think it's an outstanding album. And I think I have to give it to Hammerfall. Congrats to Hammerfall. That's great. You know what?  Beer drinking buddies from the heavy metal Hall of Fame. Absolutely. You know what? When I went to see Hammerfall and Flotsam and Jetsam in Montreal, and I was, I went to the show and I go, I'll probably be a lot of Flotsam fans. No, no, no, no. They're all Hammerfall. Not to say they didn't have their fans Flotsam, but you could see there was a big presence of Hammerfall fans. This is like a, you know, it was at Fafund, Alan, about what, 250, 300 people fit in there. Lots of love for Hammerfall. All right. Alan, you can swing it and bring it. They swing it and bring it. Hammers. Number two. You want to do anyone? Okay. All right. Well, Neil, go number two. You know, it's as amazing as Hammerfall is, you know, and as well as they execute things.  You know, they're not afraid to get in the dirt and get dirty and rock it, rock it out. And, you know, I saw them opening up for Motorhead. Of course, they were famous for opening up for Motorhead on many tours, bomber tour. So you must know that I'm talking about the one and only Saxon, the mighty Saxon and Carpe Diem. And what an album. Carpe Diem. I think, you know, these guys just deliver pure fierceness, fury on the music and on the vocals and the songwriting production.   And, you know, people don't know who Saxon is or they haven't heard their newer material. You have to listen to it because you might have heard Power in the Glory. You might have heard Denim and Leather. You might have heard Wheels of Steel. You might have heard, you know, so many albums, Crusader. But I mean, their current album, Carpe Diem, I mean, it's just ripped roaring. It's just full of fury and thunder and, you know, what can I say? It's great songwriting, great band, and they're consistent.   You know, like these guys, Biff doesn't mess around.   Leader. We should sell even a leader. I mean, this guy could be a military leader.  I mean, we want to go into the military, but I'm just saying it's just, you know, I've always admired Saxon for that and they haven't like let up one fraction of an inch since Wheels of Steel in my years. Agreed. Good album. Great. Great stuff. Okay. So, all right, this is what we're going to do. Alan, we're going to give you your, we have one each left. Okay. Alan, let me get your graphics up. I'll go with my number six. All right. Hold on, here we go. My number six, I called it the comeback album. The comeback kids! One of the greatest comeback albums. Okay, go ahead. What's up? The greatest comeback album since Blood of Nations. I called it at a time. Skid Row's, The Gang's All Here, New Vocalist, Merrick Gronwall.  Enjoyed Mr. Bach's vocals, but this album is that fine line of doing something new and respecting the past. I would say my interview of the year with the Snake Sabo, that was great. I loved that interview. Super guy. And to go out and get somebody that they've never even met to record a whole album and tour just hats off to them. I think that's a great album. And again, paying respects to the past, but sounding fresh as always. Right. A super solid singer. I mean, he did a great job with heat. Yeah. He was in heat, right? He was in heat. Not in wet. He was in heat. See what I did there. He's always been a solid singer. So I mean, they did a good job picking him up. And, you know, ZP, I thought was a great singer, but, you know, just didn't work out. Eric Gronwall is doing a great job for him. And, you know, their gig show, right? Yeah. He brought back the energy to that band, right? That they were kind of missing a little bit. And there's just, they've got a momentum. But you know what, Stalin? Neil is like me. We not only picked the best albums, we picked sort of the legacy behind the bands and their continuity and their upswing. See what we're doing? But it's okay, Alan. You're picking sort of the, hey, I didn't think about that band album. That's just good, too. It's good. Got to mix. I really, you know, Jim, since it's the top 10 list of 2022, I focused on albums of 2022, Jim. That's a good thing. I didn't, I didn't take it. You didn't take it to 1979 or anything like that. Okay. Okay. Good. Sometimes there's a sleeper of an album that comes out and it's like, wow. But, but the thing is also like, you know, there's certain anticipated albums. And some of these albums are because the band is huge. You know, you're going to put it on the list, but I didn't think that way. I thought, like, who earned it? You know, who, who did it based on merit? You know what? I think merit and competition is what it's about. It's, you know, what, what was there in the old days? Bands were competing. Even though they were, you know, there was camaraderie amongst bands that they were competing. You know, everyone wanted the top iron maiden or Judas Priest.  Just like a race car, you know, and that's, that's kind of what I heard when I listened to those albums. You know, I heard Saxon and Hammerfall, Gathering of Kings. I thought they were roaring, but there's one that's, I picked above those, those bands just because, but hold off, hold off on that just yet. Just yet. Hold off. We need suspense, Neil. We need suspense. I'm holding the reins. He's in a rolling batter. All right, here we go. I'm going to give. All right. All right. Here we go. I'm going to give you my number six here, my last one for today, because we're only doing 10 to six me and Allen. Right. So here it is. Blind Guardian. Again, it's one of those albums that were, was released earlier on in the year, not that early, but nevertheless, it was like maybe like six months now. I think it was September. Right.  Was it September? Not too long ago. It wasn't too long ago. No, it wasn't too long ago. The God Machine by Blind Guardian. Here's a band that it's kind of like to Neil's point, you know, they've always been bringing it. There's just something about Blind Guardian that really draws me to them. I think it's, they care so much about their music. They really do. It's not only about making money. It's also about caring about every note, every guitar riff, every drum pattern.  Deliver Us from Evil, Outstanding Song, Secrets of the American Gods. You know, it's like seven, clocks like seven minutes, just brilliantly written, Violin Shadows, Life Beyond the Sphere. It's got a little Battlestar Galactica theme. We got the, the, the creation of the universe on this album, beautiful album cover. And again, this is probably, they're coming back. They're coming back to more of a speed metal band, less orchestrations. Maybe it's a little in the back there, just a little bit, just to sprinkle, you know, just to get that cool, epic sound, but they've come back to speed metal harder and faster. An aggressive album. Yes. I almost had to have a shower after listening to it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Neil, have you heard that album? Yeah. Blind Guardian. I'd like to listen to it. I haven't heard it because I don't have the links that you guys have. I guess I haven't. We'll send you the link. I'd like to hear all of them. I mean, it's finding the time, but I definitely, you know, listen to quite a number of albums. And of course, you know, I can preview it on YouTube or things like that, but absolutely. But I think supporting the old school, of course, is important. I know that as an old school artist myself, you know, it's easy to dismiss the new school or the younger generations that come after, you know, they're not the the new school or the younger generations they're not the the pioneers, but they're the settlers. They come in the second or third wave. And I think that there's been Greeks and the Italians. Yeah, there's bands that carry that carry that torch that are that are not Judas Priest and Iron Maiden that are not black Sabbath and there has to be, you know, there has to be worthwhile bands. And the thing that, you know, kind of that I perceived yes, there's there is an element of what Uli Roth said to me, you know, things that might inspire him from a a neoclassical from a, you know, from a student standpoint where people are taking the time to learn and really get into being great musicians and learning their instruments. But what I find is that yes, some people are lazy, but there's other people that are so phenomenal, so, you know, during the lockdowns and all that, they spent more time working on their craft. Yeah, that's a good point. There's artists that were, you know, doing more recording. I mean, it depends on everyone's situation, but there's artists out there and I have one, I just want to put this in there before I mention, you know, there's old school artists too.  Oh, sorry guys. It was, I got, I got us cut off there. Oops.  There's old school artists also that have researched, made a resurgence. In other words, like the band around in the 80s, and all of a sudden, they came out with a phenomenal album. And I don't know if you know who I'm talking about. There's a lot of bands like that. There's a lot of tens. I mean, that they, that you never heard of them before, and they were around in the 80s and all of a sudden, they show up on the radar screen and it's like, boom, and that band that I'm thinking of, and that's not in my, they don't have an album this year because they have a 2021 album, but that may be well, what are we talking about here? Honorable mention. Honorable mention. All right. 2021 honorable mention. Or No, they have a video this year for a new song. Okay. Okay. I have a new song that came out this year in 2021. I'm just fooling around, Neil. I'm just fooling around. That's what I do. That's my response. I was quick, right? So at least I didn't, at least I was, at least I was in the pod guys. I was trying to keep up with Jimmy. Trying to keep up with Jimmy is not easy sometimes. No, it's not. So I can't keep up with myself sometimes. So this band that is, is a super honorable, honorable mention. And there was, there was a couple of other bands that, you know, really, you know, caught my attention and I'll just mention their names without going into it. Blues Pills on the blues rock side. And also a band called High Fade Band. And they're more of a funk rock, but Was this a 2022 release? These are bands that are, that have releases or they are in the process, but they're just, I'm just mentioning the name, but the band that I'm going to give honorable mention to, it's a band from Sweden called Nester. And that band is definitely going places. They're definitely phenomenal. You must check them out. If they had an album this year, I have no question that that would be my number one pick, but my number one pick. Okay. We're on track now, Alan. We're on track. Nester because of the vocals. It's like, it's like the heavy metal Inga version of Journey. It's like incredible. I can't, I don't know. But as far as as far as a number one pick, I wanted to give it to the new school, the next generation, the retro band that, you know, certainly, you know, a follow up wave of heavy metal.  And this band doesn't have the same production, but they do have the creativity and they do have the talent and they do have, you know, songwriting and execution. So I'm going to give it to Riot City.  You heard the album. Canadian. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. I heard the album. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. From the West Coast. In Alberta. No coast in Alberta. So just west. We'll just say west. The prairies around there. Mountains. Riot City. Yes. You know what? Neil surprises us yet again. Every year it's a choice. It's a great to have Neil on because his choices is, it's a learning experience. And sometimes he picks albums. And sometimes he picks albums that weren't even released this year. Look at him. Well, no, Riot City got it. Saxon does. And so does Hammerfall. Yes. And the single that came out by Nestor was in 2022. They have. Okay. Fair enough. Early next year. Fair enough. Fair enough. And by the way, the Nestor album is called Kids in the Ghost Town. Check it out. There you go. Neil. I just want to thank you for all your work this year. We're coming through the close of 2022. And I was your, you're our West Coast correspondent yet again. Here's to another 10 years together. Thanks for all your hard work, Neil. It's greatly appreciated. Thank you. I got no money, baby. That's right. I got no money. I got no money. Yeah. Well, I wore it because it's a special occasion. Right. I wore it. I wore my jacket, which I haven't worn in a long time. Number one, Riot City for Neil Turbin. There you go. I think that's pretty much it. I have to get you guys some of these shirts. This is one my artists did up. It's not the actual original art. It's my art. So it actually says Neil Turbin, right? It doesn't say anthrax. It's a different person there. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, that's like a picture of Neil with that, that fistful there, right? Yeah, you know, but I have to get you guys some swag. You know, very nice. It's very cool. I love it. All right. There you guys tune in for the top five. Top five coming up in a week or two. Thank you everybody. What's in the wall? Oh, got something there. There's nothing in the walnut because we can't reveal. The big reveal is actually in show number two. Okay. A quick recap. Neil, Neil said, number three was hammerfall. Number two was Saxon. And number one was, I just forgot. Right city. Right city. Yes. Alan, your number. Okay. I went with Marks. Yeah. And then Borealis, Nordic Union, Germany's Devil's train, and skid row at number six. And I went with Anvil, Impact is imminent, Razor, Scorpions, Tony Martin, and Blind Guardian. That's the recap. So, guys, it's been a pleasure. It's always a pleasure, Neil Allen. We'll talk later. You got to put some of that green stuff in your walnut, Jimmy.  Or some, or some chocolates, like some, yeah, I could pass them around. Not Easter. Christmas. Like, it's like bedtime over there in Canada. It is. It's 622. You're getting sleepy on me. Come on. All right. Neil, some of that coca-cola or something. Neil, we'll talk soon, buddy. Thank you so much. Thanks, everyone.


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Welcome back to the podcast. My name is Ben Neighbors. I'm the founder here at BuildMySportsBiz.com. Now, in today's episode, we're going to be talking about closing clients who invest into your program between $3,000 per year and $10,000 per year. And I'm talking about private one-on-one training clients and clients who commit to your small group training program. Everything I talk about here is 100% going to come down to the value that you provide and it's going to require you to change your mindset. If you do not have high value in your program, forget what I'm about to tell you because it's not going to work. If you don't change your mindset, this is not going to work either. When I talk about selling $3,000 to $10,000 per year commitments, I'm talking about annual commitments. So, let's get that straight. If you are selling by this session or by that hour or you're selling blocks of sessions, this is very common in the sports training industry right now, coaches will have you could buy a block of 10 sessions for $400 and you could use those sessions whenever you want. I'm not talking about that either. And what we want to break down though is very simple. This is where you have to really understand how are your clients going to get the most value of your program. Is it going to be them training with you for a small amount of time or them fully committed to your program for a year? I know for me personally, if I can help a kid for a year, they're going to get great results. If I only have maybe four or five chances to see my client, I can't guarantee their parents' results. And that puts way too much pressure on me as a coach. I'm not a magician. I'm a trainer. Okay? That's why we need to have longer commitments set up. Okay? If we have longer commitments set up, not only is your client more committed over the longer period of time, you're going to end up making way more money than you would if they're a client who's committed for a very short amount of time. And I've done the math on this. And the math all points towards $3,000 per year to $10,000 per year. And this is what our clients in our consulting program are charging anywhere between 3K and 10K per year. Okay? And let's break it down on the 3K per year. If you take 3,000 divided by 12 months, that's how much the investment would be over a 12 month period of time. Okay? That's going to be like a little bit less than $300 per month. That's very affordable if you think about it for parents. If you have a high value program, it's very affordable. But there's two ways to sell it. You could set this up to where let's say it's $300 a month for 12 months, that'd be $3,600 of the course of a year, or parents could prepay. And that could be a $3,000 upfront annual investment. Okay? You could have option A, which is $3,600, or option B, $3,000. If they choose option B, they get two months free. All right? If you can see how simple I made that, that's exactly how simple you can make it over the phone with parents. Because now you're giving them two options, and you're telling them, this is a 12 month program. In order to be accepted, you must be committed. If you want results, you've got to be committed. Okay? Again, that's $300 a month for 12 months, $3,600, or one investment of $3,000. All right? That will cover the training for the entire year. Now, you could take that same example and apply it towards numbers that are much higher than that. Okay? Could you sell a $10,000 per year program? Yes. Does it take you a long time to practice and get confidence? Absolutely. Could you do that today? I don't know. You got to try it first. Okay? But you got to know what you're saying. You have to have a flow with your conversation. You need to understand the power of asking the right questions to prospects over the phone. When you do that, you can pre-qualify them into a program like this where you can command fees between $3,000 and $10,000 per year. I know that. Personally, I've done it. Okay? Coaches that are in our program that are absolutely crushing right now, they have their program set up to where they're either 6-month minimum commitment or 12-month minimum commitment. There's a coach I'm also helping right now. He has 2-year commitment minimum. Okay? This is all about how you frame your program. Now, here's the next step.  Residually. Either way works. If you want to get to that next level, I have an awesome program for you. Our program is set up very specific for you to go from where you're at right now, which is probably selling everything by the hour or session by session. And what we do is we transition away from that model towards the model I'm talking about where you can command investments from clients between $3,000 and $10,000 per year. If that sounds something like you want to do, what I want you to do, the next step is very simple. Shoot me a quick text right here. Once you shoot me a quick text, I'm going to schedule a 15-20 minute phone call with you where we can walk through your business, we can understand exactly what you need help with, and I'll show you step by step how to get to that next level. That's it. I'll see you on the next podcast.