Well, it's five minutes past seven, so let's get started. It's a beautiful day here at the Abyss, and in fact most days here at the Abyss are beautiful. I'm going to use the speakeasy text for the beginning of this tour, and as we move along, I'm going to stop using prepared text entirely, and just voice and typed text, but I wanted to make sure that everybody got some introduction here, and I do hope that you've had a little bit of an opportunity to look around, look around at the posters here, because it'll give you some idea of the vast number of exhibits that are here on the Abyss Observatory, both on the ground and up in the sky. So the title, today we're going to do something different. In the past we have started with the tropical area. There is so much going on in the Arctic and the subarctic that today we are going to start there, and we may not even get around to the tropical area, but certainly you can come back and explore that, and we will do other tours as well. So my second life name is Delia Lake. I know many of you, but not all of you. I've known for years and years. In the solid world, my name is Linda Kelly, and I work in consulting about sustainability, and particularly in enterprise ecology, which covers a systems approach to doing responsible business. Here, I have the great privilege of being a habitat curator for the Abyss Observatory, and work with Jan in producing what you see here, and many other people as well. This is truly a team effort to make the Abyss Observatory. So welcome, everyone. We're so glad to have you here today, and as you see from the posters, there are many, many exhibits and technologies highlighted here. So please do come back as often as you can. Somebody mentioned earlier they wanted to go swimming, yeah, I do too. So yes, some of us will certainly do that today, because we want to have this as meaningful to you as possible. We will be using only the beginning introduction in preparation, and then text chat and voice. So please do interrupt with questions at any time. We may or may not get through the temperate and tropical areas, but we will do as much as we can today and plan for other tours at another time. If you like swimming, and you feel free to change into a swimming suit later, or now, or scuba, or any other such thing. So let's get walking across the bridge, and then to your left.  Oceanus is an exploration and research ship in Second Life. We have the Oceanus always docked here at Port Canaveral in Florida. But in the other world, the solid world, she is on the second leg of a research program. And so she will be out until July 12th, and researching the deep water off North Carolina, way beyond the continental shelf. And this is an area we don't know much about. We have thought that some of the very deep water was basically vacant, and it is not at all. So if you want to follow the research, I gave a link to the Oceanus' live stream. And so you might want to copy that down. Because they have three cameras of live underwater showing what they're doing. When you return here, you might also want to walk on to the research vessel here and take a look around. But for today, we will continue our tour here. As we enter a colder area, you'll see that the vegetation is going to change to primarily conifers, so far as trees go. But I want to note that here to our right up the hill is a stand of red cedar, but one of them looks very stressed. That's because it is. That change is enabling the insects to travel further north to live through winters. And this is a really negative effect on the trees. It is stressing them significantly. Now, in front of me is a map projection. Well, actually, a series of map projections. I'm going to move ahead, but take a minute and look at the maps because that will give you an idea of the real world counterparts to what we're going to be talking about today. Yeah, it's hot here today. I mean, it's hot in the area that we are walking through as an example. It is, and I'll say this a couple of times, today in the northern part of the subarctic, today's weather forecast in most of the world is 60 Fahrenheit, 15 Celsius. This is a real, real difficulty for the plants and animals who call these areas home. Yeah, yeah. Whales are noisy this morning. Yes. Yeah. So the red circle is the area of where we are focusing today. There is land mass in the Antarctic. The majority of that, the vast majority of that is still covered with ice and people are not, researchers are living there part time, but it is not permanently inhabited. If you look around to the left side, you'll see the world's subarctic regions, and they're marked in pink, and the back just for reference, and I'll leave this set of maps here, is all of the biomes of the world. So we have chosen to focus on three of them here, the subarctic, the temperate and the tropical, but there are a number of others as well. So let's walk out a little bit further. I'll go up, but walk out to the rocky point there, and what do you see? Oops, I got stuck in a rock. Yeah. A stranded polar bear with a cub, yeah, and it's questionable whether that cub will survive. Polar bears can swim, of course. What else do you see here? Yeah, our polar bear here is pretty thin. The mother is pretty thin. For comparison, look at the grizzly on shore and cub. They're going to do okay. There's enough food for them. What about the landscape? What do you see? What kind of landscape is this? Enough salmon, yes. In fact, this grizzly mom is eyeing the salmon down below. There south, the salmon are very stressed. Right on the point here, what do you see? Right on the rocks. We have sea lions, we have seals, and way around the corner, we have a walrus. The walrus, as you will see, is on shore because there isn't enough ice. They're all being forced inland. The polar bears also are being forced onto land often these days because they can't fish on the ice floes anymore or in lots of places, in some places they can. Because of the heat, there is a fundamental breakdown in many of the old normal processes. We have very little of the multi-year ice, and that changes the whole circulation system of the Arctic and subarctic regions to only have a single-year ice, and it also doesn't support the weight or the activities of the polar bears. On both sides, where the Arctic and the warmer oceans, although for us we wouldn't consider the North Atlantic or the North Pacific warm, they have typically been warmer than the Arctic waters. Yes, there's a, this is changing the global circulation. It's changing the global circulation of the ocean water, and it's also changing the circulation in the atmosphere. Yes, yes, we have puffins. Yes, the changes are happening a lot faster than people had predicted. So in the Straits, now the Fram is in between Greenland and Europe, you know, it's warming a lot faster than the Arctic Ocean even. And the more the ice is melted, the more heat the water absorbs, and the faster it warms.  The nature will do what nature is going to do, and that is regardless of what any humans say we should be talking about. Well, you know, yes, asteroid climate change has always happened. So if you go back to the beginnings of planet Earth, we didn't have an oxygen atmosphere even. And so over the eons, billions of years, we have had warming and cooling and warming and cooling. But what's different here is that it is warming much faster, much, much, much faster. So that the last time there were trees in the Arctic, for instance, was about 3.5 million years ago. It's a long time. We're going to get trees in the Arctic in our lifetimes. So that is much faster, and none of the plants or animals are able to adjust at the speed that this is happening. As an example, not that many years ago, the world scientists decided to build a seed tank at Svardval Island. So that's Norwegian, but it is way above the Arctic Circle. It seemed like a smart thing in recorded history that had always been very solid, very frozen, but that's not true anymore. The ground on Svardval Island is thawing. The permafrost is melting. And although the vault itself is secure, the entrance, the entry ramp has flooded with water. They've had to pump it out. And this is where all the examples of the diverse and unique seeds are stored for the world. So the multi-year ice is disappearing everywhere. And as we said, it has a lot of consequences all around. One of the things that you can't see is the daily vertical migration of the zooplankton. So this has a huge effect on the circulation of the oceans, and you wouldn't think that something critters that are so microscopic would have that. But it is because of the zooplankton rising up in the day and rising up and falling down that you have a lot of the circulation of nutrients here. And all of the creatures depend on that, so that as a, for instance, the gray whales, Pacific whales, that they will go for birthing to Baja California to the warm waters there. They swim in the summer up to the Arctic so that they can feed on the nutrient-rich phytoplankton, zooplankton here in the Arctic. This is having a, because the, there is an invasion of species of zooplankton and from the warmer waters, this is having an effect on the nutrition of the whales. One would, you don't think about these things, but the copepods that are native to the Arctic are fatter, heavier than the copepods that are native to the warmer waters. And so what happens is that they don't sink as far. The invaders don't sink as far and there is less circulation and less migration of nutrients from the rich bottom waters to the top. We don't know what the real effects will be of this, but as we are humanity in the developed countries putting more carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere and less oxygen into the atmosphere because of cutting down forests, because of the reduced circulation in the Arctic, this is bound to have a detrimental effect on much of the Earth's life. Yes. Yes. It's that the migration, all right, so the migration patterns have changed in the oceans. With the warmer waters the prey fish are going farther north and so the sequence is out of whack. So the birthing and early feeding of many species is out of whack. The typical traditional prey species are not there in abundance at the traditional birthing spawning areas. So that's part of what has the whales hungry. That coupled with the less nutrient rich water here, so that the phytoplankton and zooplankton that are here in the Arctic are smaller. They're thinner, they're smaller, they're not as nutritious, so that eating, the larger animals have to eat a lot more. And we are seeing plastic pollution in all of the waters. So you have the microplastics up here in the Arctic waters as well. No nutrition in that. Yes. Yes, so the animals are getting diseases and stresses that they never had before and so that the evolution can't change that fast, it can't work that fast. Now, grizzlies and polar bears can intermate. There's only, they thought for a while that there were multiple examples, but there's really so far only one example of that happening. And so the research is very small, but they expect that that's going to happen a lot more as the polar bears must migrate inland. So either you can walk up onto the land and up the hill a little bit, or you can just cam up, but somebody mentioned the tundra and the melting of the permafrost. That certainly has happened and it's happening here in our virtual example as well. So if you notice up top, the only example they have, it did not produce infertile, you know, we're not getting mules, mule bears or whatever. But this particular one family set was more aggressive, but since it's such a small sample, they don't know that that's what is going to happen. They just is not data at this point. So the beavers is another really interesting change. There have always been beavers in the the southern part of the subarctic or there have been for a very long time, but they have not moved into the northern areas. But as the flying of the tundra, the flying of the permafrost, the beavers are moving north and they're making their ponds. So what does that mean? It means that there are now homes to a whole new set of plants and animals. So you're getting shrubs that were not there before. You are getting habitat for more moose, for more deer coming up. Yeah, the beavers are changing the whole landscape. So we don't typically think of one species being a pivotal change species, but this is one that is already making that change. Take a minute now start to walk off the point and let's walk along the along the coast a little bit more. Cass, in that this area, the human populations are very small. So there are the beavers are making a significant change and allowing other animals and plants to move in so that they with more water that these are well fed brown bears. They don't bite. So if you look around, you're going to see that there are wolves. There are elk, moose, more grasses, more insects. Somebody mentioned insects. Insects never survived the Arctic winters before, but some of the recent winters have been so warm that insects are surviving, which is just mind boggling. If you look down into the water here, you'll see that there is a cold water coral reef. Until recently, nobody knew that there were any cold water corals, but now we have found them all over the coastal areas of the world. And we're doing more and more deep water research and finding corals there too. So although the tropical corals are highly stressed and may not survive, there are cold water corals as well. Another thing here that will probably affect what we have done in this particular display, this particular habitat, is that they are finding more with the robot research, and they're getting more pictures of the deep water squid. And so they had recently a juvenile trying to pull off parts of a camera. But it was only the, I think the third ghost squid that they had ever been able to photograph doing things. As we said, all of the animals and plants are going to find their nutrient sources changing. Some will be able to adapt and some will not. So there's no way that in any virtual setting we can represent the entire habitat with all of the ecology. But we've tried to do representative samples here, so that in every habitat you will find a representative set of plants and animals, you will find both prey and predators. And while they might not all live in exactly the same place, they all live in these kinds of environments. So from here, for people who want to go underwater and swim, yeah, absolutely, that's a great thing to do. But for people who would prefer to walk, if you go up here in a minute, you can take the tube, excuse me, I'm going to swim, but other people are welcome to go down with tube. Oh, and before you go, you might notice that there is a brown bear, a grizzly, right above here, moving into a temperate coastal rainforest. And again, if you explore that, excuse me, you will find an entire habitat right there in that little coastal rainforest. I'm going to quickly change into scuba and get in the water. So this is a transition zone. It's a transition between the subarctic and the temperate. What you will see here is that the kelp forests are moving north as well. So either swim or cam here, kelp forests are one of the most highly productive areas of the ocean. They are not only spawning grounds, but home to many, many creatures, big and small. Yeah, the water is a little bit cooler here, yeah. You might want to cam down. We did not go down there, but do cam down all the way to the bottom here because in the deep ocean, mostly temperate, but some tropical, although they don't really know because they're finding more and more and more and more of the hydrothermal vents, the hot water ocean vents. You will see why it's important to have the phytoplankton move the watercolors because as things die and decay, decompose, the nutrients stay on the bottom and this movement of the circulation by the phytoplankton brings this nutrient source up to the top again. But you will find some of the tube worms, some of the clams, and some animals down there. There are sealocanths, there are a number of fish and crabs and they cannot go to the surface that they are so adapted to the very high pressure of the lower waters. Also there's no sunlight, so photosynthesis doesn't operate and they are able to use the hydrogen sulfide which would burn most creatures to do what sunlight would normally do for surface animals or surface plants, rather. So moving along here a little bit, what do you find if you go down here, what do you find here in the kelp forest? What do you notice? Yes. The thermal, the hydrogen sulfide from the thermal vents and the heat is providing an energy, allows them to convert energy, yes. Notice that it's not just one kind of algae and kelp, by the way, is a giant algae. It is not a plant like a land plant, no, there are no roots to kelp and in fact they float. Now because, excuse me, there is a sign up there and it has some information about kelp forests around the world, the sign is in the tube, but with the warmer waters kelp forests are also under attack and they have enemies that they never had before. So it's not just the water itself being warmer, it's that they are being used faster than they can move or adapt. I don't see it here, but usually there is a shark that comes around here. I don't know what happened to it, where it is today. But often when I'm down here I get nudged by a great white shark. Yes, so far I have not gotten bitten, but I have gotten pushed. Yeah, George there, I don't know, there are positives and negatives I think about the kelp farming. It may work, it may not, they are trying that off some of the southern Alaskan coasts because the fishing has changed significantly and they can't make a living with fishing the same way that they used to. So we'll see, we'll see, I think it needs to be closely monitored. Yeah, the thing is with the regulation, we don't really know yet and so the reason I say closely monitored is we have to keep checking it and reporting and checking it and reporting so that we know what changes there are because we simply do not know right now. If we move along a little bit further we come to another nursery area and this is the marine grasses and the different kind of algae and the eelgrass and marine grasses. So most of the shellfish, many of the smaller fish spawn in this kind of an area, usually people don't like this grass. And so when people build houses and resort areas along the coast, along any of the coasts, they dredge this, they remove it. The fishing by dredging, the bottom trawling also removes this grass and what this does is it takes away the habitats for clams, oysters, many of the smaller fish, lobsters for where they spawn and so that again makes a decreases the population. And that's in addition to the overfishing that happens and we are severely overfishing the ocean. Yeah, that's if you are talking about real estate as an investment for human second homes, then the wetlands can be, they could say it's wasted, but all of the wetlands are the filters for the water so that they are both filtering the water to clean it, but they are also, most of the areas are also storm mitigators. So yeah, they're stabilizing in very real and important ways and you do read about that as the mangrove forest along the tropical coasts, but if you take a minute and you look up here, just above and to the left of where we are right now, you'll see a little point and this is a unique and again endangered representation of a coastal temperate forest. So earlier we saw the temperate rainforest that is, if you want to know more about that, look up the Great Bear rainforest that goes hundreds of miles up and down the Canadian Pacific coast, but this is more of an Atlantic coast area and you'll see that this is a oak and pine and cranberry, it's a bog area and again it stabilizes the land. And in most places oak or pine are not, they don't do well in salt water, but these have adapted over ages and ages to need the salt water and hence the spray that comes up, they are absolutely coastal forest areas and if you come back, there's a nice little cushion to sit under one of the trees there and just kind of look out at the water. Before we go any further and we have talked about plastic and the plastic pollution, but we can do a little better than that. If you go back toward the, if you put your camera vision back toward the northern, toward the Arctic a little bit, you'll see a small area that has sea otters, it has a log that Jan put out with turtles, there's a seal right now climbing up the coast, which they do and you'll see an area that is covered with, with, yeah four ocean has done some of this work, yes. You'll see seaweed covering a rocky area, you'll see dead trees, you'll see driftwood, so somebody mentioned the rise in the sea, the height of the sea, yeah there are places that have were forested and are now inundated and so the trees have died, this is one of those places there where the sea level has risen, but more than that we're taking this area as a demonstration area to show what happens because normally you don't see the plastic where we are in most of the developed world, the plastic that is in the ocean that is large chunks is either in the garbage gyres in the mid oceans or along the coasts of the less developed areas, but it's there and it's real and it's all ours so that we have done this, we really have made a, yeah it's conveniently not in our view, we don't see the mess that we have wrought, although if you look up a little bit just where that seal was going up just above the right hand part of the driftwood, you will see a carcass of a dead bird that was full of plastic and if you look a little closer there is no way, there is no way anymore, if you look a little closer you're going to see the plastic and it's not just the plastic bottles and cans and shoes and it's also the fishing gear, the nets, the wires and all of that is catching and harming the sea creatures so that you have turtles, you have seals, you have whales, you have dolphins and porpoises along with many other marine animals that get caught and strangled by this, this is our mess, we have made this mess and somehow we have to clean it up so I'm going to leave that out there you know as a reminder for people that this is real and it's everywhere, in fact recent research has shown that even in the Antarctic in the waters there are microplastics, we cannot get away from it anymore, it's up to us to insist that we do better not only at recycling but it has to start with the design process to start with a redesign so that we don't have this kind of waste and so that it does not get discarded anywhere because the plastics will be here for thousands of years, some of them, some of them will break down in hundreds of years but some of them will be there for thousands, yeah yeah we've already we've messed up the the sky too and the the CO2 will be around for thousands of years so even if we stopped what we're doing today we would still have an increase in warming of the atmosphere and the oceans for a significant period of time so every time from now on if you are swimming and you feel the the grasses tickle your toes or your legs, remember that this is not something to pull out and throw away but this is the the nursery area for some very important animals, look at that we have a horseshoe crab flying swimming above us, well looks like we are going to get over to the tropical area after all, you notice all along that we have had whales accompanying us, whales swim the entire range of the oceans, they swim thousands of miles so that you will find some kinds of whales in in all of the oceans, now notice how different the the corals look here, what do you think makes the difference here, yeah more light definitely is a change but the colors of the corals come from micro algae so we don't typically think of the role of algae in all of our ocean processes but these algae don't live in the colder waters so that the very cold water corals don't don't have the bright colors, there are so many kinds of algae, if Eve has had somebody's getting stalked by a moray eel but they do that here, the eels are again well fed no danger but but they will stalk you yeah yeah so the corals here are again under attack though they are under attack from the sure sure we can give the eel a name yeah but they they are under attack from the temperatures and from the composition the chemical composition of the waters so that when the oceans absorb the carbon dioxide and of all of the carbon dioxide that we humans have spewed out from our manufacturing and from our lifestyles you know we hear about what goes into the atmosphere but the vast majority has been absorbed by the oceans so what that does is turn the oceans more acidic and why is that of worry well it we read a little bit about the bleaching of the corals but it also is softening the the shells of all of the crustaceans of all of the mollusks are much more brittle so that it will take centuries or for the ocean to be more neutral and less acidic so all in all this is beautiful as it is it is another area that is under severe stress so the question one of the questions is you know what will be able to adapt and what will not you read about the the likely extinctions some will migrate some adapt some other species will move in and we just don't go all we can say is that it is most likely that things will be very different for our grandchildren than they have been for us there's much more here than I have gone over really I do invite you to come back and explore on your own yeah I hope the reason I do habitats like this the reason I want to build habitats like this is that we can read all we want about the science and about what's happening but being here having an experience even if it is a virtual experience gives a different sense than you can get from just reading the text so swimming with the whales being nudged by a moray eel riding a shark riding a swimming along with an orca makes just a different sense of what is going on under the sea then then you get any other way and for many of us we will never go diving in the arctic we may never go diving in the tropics but here we can so please come back bring your friends we can do more tours there are lots of things we did not cover we can have all sorts of conversations we yarn and I would love to have people come back and we would love to interact we would love to talk about what are some of the really important things that are going on in science and in human activity so thank you all for coming really appreciate it oh thank you very much you know we haven't done that and maybe we should maybe we should put this on the destination guide thank you for mentioning that but you're very welcome you can tell that I love doing this and yarn loves doing this too we don't have bleached corals here in the in the tropical but we could we actually could put some around the the corner a little bit and and that may be a very good suggestion to show what that would look like yeah so next time next time we'll have a little bit of an area of bleached corals so do feel free to continue swimming around or you know I'll hang out for a little bit if you have any other questions or things you want to mention or talk about yeah and do share the the video on the website I mean we have had here as an example we have had students from an English-speaking school in Germany come through and throughout the years with the marine habitats we I have had different schools from around the world either come to visit or to watch the videos of some of of these areas but as I said before if you can actually get here you'll bring your friends to to actually come and swim and walk around well George you just have to come back yeah and it was all videoed so that will get posted but if you if you come off around by yourself and you have questions you know please do reach out thank you thank you many of the places have note cards around signs with note cards so if I'm not around our non isn't around do do check out the the information that we have put out already


Is Tony Lerng the greatest Chinese actor of all time? Let's talk about why he's so influential and so unique because he just won a Lifetime Achievement Award. We got to talk about it. Andrew Tony Lerng just won a Western Award at the Venice Film Festival. The Lifetime Achievement for the Golden Lion Award Andrew. This is a very art house, you know, European smoke a cigarette with a beret on festival. What does it mean? Because very few Chinese actors ever win this award. I believe he's the first one. Ong Li and Ong Wei won it before, but only as directors. Right. And let me tell you this. You need both Hipster Art House Appeal and mainstream success to win this award, I believe. So anyways, guys, we are going to talk about why Tony Lerng is so unique and why there may not be another one. And we're also going to talk about how he impacted a lot of Cantonese and maybe just Chinese people's lives in general, Asian people's lives in general. But especially also ours as well. So please hit that like button, check out other episodes of the Hot Pop Boys. As this might be, David, kind of our video dedicated to Tony Lerng to why? Lerng to why? Let's take a look at the Wikipedia entry. Many consider Lerng to be the most acclaimed contemporary actor in greater China. He garnered international attention in the 1989 film A City of Sadness. And now Andrew 35 years later, he's got the Lifetime Achievement Award and he's been in a ton of stuff. He used to be in comedic TVB series before that. And but now he's almost like the modern day Eastern Chinese for sure, George Clooney, right? Yeah, I would compare him. I'm just going to throw out some Western actors' names that I think he's kind of like a mishmash of, not to say that he based himself off that, but they just kind of occupy a similar space. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Downey Jr. I think there's some Pierce Brosman in there. I think that there's some George Clooney in there. Possibly some Tom Cruise Brad Pitt. Right, and of the Eastern actors for sure, I mean, I would say some Hong Kong actors from that era remind me of him. The other Tony Lerng, Takeshi Kane Shiro, who's half Japanese and half Chinese. Yeah, basically Tony Lerng, you could best describe him as what? Super cool, calm, confident, suave. He is masculine, not full of western machismo, but definitely masculine. Eastern masculine or at least Chinese masculine. Chinese masculine, smooth, looks good in a suit, kind of has like some bad boy history, at least as far as the roles that he played, soft spoken in interviews, but just like still charismatic in a way. I feel like people like him because he represents how to be westernized without losing the Eastern soul. And I think that he's the first guy to really do it because you can't say that Jackie is like fully that fluid in the West, even though they love Jackie even more in the Hollywood than they like Tony Lerng. More people would want to be like Tony Lerng. To put it in perspective, Jackie Chan won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oscars, the Academy, which is the more mainstream, but Tony wins the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Venice Film Festival, which is still very reputable, but much more Art House and Hipster, also for a lot of the Wong Kai-Wheel, Wong Kar-Wai films that he did. Interestingly enough, Andrew, both people very self-taught, Andrew, but Jackie is more known for like Kata. Kata, nobody understand the West, they are coming out of your mouth. And Tony Lerng is more like, you know, I want to thank everybody. I want to thank the Hong Kong film industry for that is where I got my start. I'm very thankful for this award. I guess, David, let's go through his movies real quick. We'll pop up some images. So if you guys haven't seen these movies, you can get a feel for it. I haven't seen all of them, by the way, but some of them are very nice. Leading off with Infernal Affairs, Andrew, that ended up getting remade as... The Departed. The Departed. And the Departed won an Oscar, but they pretty much copied Infernal Affairs like 70% to 80% of the script. And Leonardo DiCaprio actually played his opposite. Anyways, Lust and Caution, Chunk King Express... Oh, he got Freaky Diki in both of those. Oh, In the Mood for Love. Got baddies, yeah. Hard-boiled. He sprayed up like 65 people with a Uzi. 2046, he also got Freaky in this one, right? Yeah, Super Future. Flowers of Shanghai, that was a freaky movie too. They speak in Shanghainese. I thought that was cool. Hero... Yeah, Tony. And her hero in Battle of Redcliffe, he kind of made the Wu Xiaopian, like ancient Chinese dynastic imperial stuff more interesting. It makes it more watchable to me. I'm not the biggest Wu Xiaopian fan. All right, I guess so. So here's a personal take before we get in the comment section and our overall takeaways about Tony, all right? I think that Tony learned to me growing up, and although I would say our household was not super, super Hong Kong cinema centric. Like, Mom and Dad were not sitting around watching all the Hong Kong movies. We watched some, but not all of them, right? So I would say being exposed to it though, I remember Tony learned the way he acted, and especially in Fertile Affairs, that movie was probably the most well-known to me personally, is like, man, the way he conveyed emotion and how confident and cool he was was something I had not really seen from an Asian person in real life before. You know, and... Yeah, especially if you looked in terms of what was available in terms of representation in the West. Exactly. They don't got anything close to that. And even the way he conveyed emotion to me felt cool, and I guess in a way Western, in my view, because he is slightly Westernized, Hong Kong being a British colony, of course you got to say he is, but... And I don't want to say that it's not that Eastern people don't show emotion, obviously, but I would just say he didn't like... He felt like, I guess, he had like a Western soul. Isn't he more the equivalent of Michelle Yeoh than Jackie is? Like, I'm saying he's way more of the equivalent because they got that British-y vibe to him. You're right. Well, like them being in Shang-Chi, playing the two, I think the opposites, right? The mom and the dad, they fit better as that pairing than Jackie would taking Tony Lerng's spot. Right, right, right. So yeah, like I said, people are always looking for the next Tony Lerng in the Chinese-speaking world, Andrew, but before we get into the comment section, real quick, we got to talk about something else that is also Paul Chinese and Paul Italian. I just want to say that today's video is sponsored by Smala Sauce from Sichuan, Sicily, get the pre-orders at SmalaSauce.com right now. Smala Sauce. I believe a lot of Tony Lerng fans will really enjoy this because especially if you are Cantonese and you like Mala flavor, but you don't want it too strong, then you may want Smala. It has some truffle in it. It also have onion, garlic, salt, and just a lot of other tastes. So check it out, SmalaSauce.com right now. First comment says, when Tony Lerng speaks Cantonese in interviews, it sounds so soothing. Definitely not how Cantonese sounded in my household growing up. What is this comment actually saying? I think it's saying that I think a lot of the Cantonese that you heard in real life, especially from the immigrants that came over to America. It's a little bit more crass, a little bit more... Thumb in its own way. Tony has a refined way of speaking, where it makes Cantonese sound good. It's like when I, you know, like the Vietnamese accent is sometimes considered kind of harsh to listen to, but I've heard and watched some Vietnamese movies and clips where it was a lot smoother and more like, I guess, refined. People like it in the TikTok song. You know, and I want to say like, I don't know, you can consider it as better or worse or whatever you want to call it if it's a class thing, but I'm just saying it sounds objectively smoother. He made it sound really cool. Like, just saying like some basic stuff that everybody knows, I feel like Tony Lerng will be like... Gong hei pha choy. Sun dai gìng, hong. Yeah, he said it, he said it. The man is smooth like some lai cha. He's smooth like some condensed milk baby. That's pretty funny. Somebody said most of the world who did not follow HK film didn't have no idea who he was until Shang Chi.  And then somebody else said, no, if you followed Art House films, you knew who he was from In the Move for Love, all the Wong Kar-Wai stuff, because even cinematically, even if you didn't even understand what people were saying in those, those are incredibly influential films from a cinematography, viby perspective, which sort of fits with this like super future hyper pop. You know how like everybody's into that like In the Move for Love, like neon type glow? What's funny is that I think Tony Lerng is more well known in the film scenes of Brooklyn than he might be even in like Upper West Side, East Side Manhattan. Right, you're saying he's not known on Sunset Boulevard. He's more known in Silver Lake Echo Park. Possibly. I mean I think Sunset Park knows him too because that's full of Chinese people, but I'm saying the Brooklyn hipsters who are non-Asian actually still, a lot of them know Tony Lerng if you're really in the film. No, I meant Echo Park. Back in LA, the hipster zone. Oh yeah. Yeah, somebody said that Tony embodies all that is quietly excellent in Hong Kong cinema. Please continue to bring us more world-class films. And somebody said, you know, he was really great because he never had any scandal about like cheating or scandals or acting crazy.  No, I think that that's how a lot of cool suave dudes kind of act, you know? And he didn't come off as an eff boy. I mean, maybe some of the roles he was, but that was like acting. But then like, even in his interviews, he seems fairly soft-spoken for the most part.  He's just like, yeah, Tony, Tony Lerng, you know? Just, and that's all you'd have to say. And I think it's very Eastern because if you look at a lot of the Western movie stars, they actually have very messy personal lives. Like Robert Downey Jr., Leonardo, et cetera, Brad Pitt. Even Jackie Chan has his controversies, obviously, yeah.  I mean, still very smooth, but just like not anything crazy living these like drug-filled, party-filled lives. So compare him to Donnie Yen, which I think is a better comparison. Donnie Yen is kind of cool too, but if you watch Donnie Yen interviews enough, he's kind of goofy. He's just like, yeah, not in a bad way, but also just in a way that Tony Lerng is not goofy. No, no, he's not goofy at all. Somebody said, gone are the glory days of Hong Kong film. There's no more of these multifaceted legends like Tony Lerng on a serious side or Steven Chow on a goofy side. Now Korean filmmaking is taking the world by storm.  You're never going to see a new Tony Lerng because they're just going to take a Seapop guy who looks like Zelda the elf and then put him in everything, both music and movies. Yeah, and I think a lot of people got to recognize that I heard a lot of different Asian actors even from, what, Korea and different countries, Vietnam. They would credit the Hong Kong cinema a lot because back in the 80s and the 90s, that's the best Asian films. Those were the best Asian films. And Tony Lerng was probably the head of it as far as the drama side, Jackie Chan on the action side. And it was like, you got to credit them for influencing a lot of other Asian actors at that time. And thank God for the Hong Kong cinema because it was advanced. They were able to produce at a high volume and they did have that kind of Westernization so they had some Western appeal and influence in them as well, which helped them go international. Obviously now the Hong Kong cinema scene is not where it's at, not even close. And I don't think it will ever get back to where it was at. Yeah, it's really weird the decisions they're making in Chinese entertainment right now. They're just getting somebody who looks like Chris Woo but Chris Woo's canceled now to do everything. And they just like look like an anime character but they're just not good at anything. And you know, think about it back then, Andrew, they had Jay Chow who's not considered that good looking conventionally and he's a beast at writing lyrics.  And it's like, they just like gotten away from that. Yeah, yeah, I would say though some cool Chinese actors, I would point out right now that are more from mainland. I would say it's like, Zhang Wen is pretty cool. Yeah, because he's not, he's like, he's more authentic, right? He feels just like a man. There's this guy, Chen Daoming. There's a couple older, cooler, like non-pretty boy actors, Wu Jing, as far as the action goes. Yo, I got a hot take, man. I'm not a Andy Lau fan. Wow. I just say it, man. I don't know. I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I don't go against them but I'm just saying it just like, I don't know. You don't like his pop music? You don't like his stage presence on the pop music? You know, yeah. Some of the outfits. I think I like Tony Lerng more than Andy Lau. Somebody said Tony Lerng has the eyes of a man who saw a decade of sadness and still works hard to put food on the table for his family. Everybody's talking about his eyes, Andrew. And a lot of people are talking about his mannerisms. There's the ability to speak with his eyes. And that's what gives him the art house appeal, the film noir thing. And Andrew, you see so many bars nowadays and like Chinese, Speak Easy's, whether we're talking about in Sydney, Australia, Toronto, all the way to New York to LA, that are based off movies that Tony Lerng was in. Yeah, I think it's because Tony, to be honest, looks wise, like he is considered very handsome, but not like in the pretty boy model way. Like he's considered like... That doesn't look like Zelda, like the elf. Yeah, he has like a great smile and kind of has these like, I guess I would say like cute dog eyes.  He could do a whole silent movie and you'd still watch it and you'd be like, oh man, this guy's a great actor. You know what I mean? Like if he was, had more American hits, he probably would have won an Oscar by now. You know what I mean? Right. But yeah, and I think that that's what's so cool about Tony is that he doesn't look like this new school pretty boy actor that they're putting in everything with the sharp nose, elf ears. Yeah, essentially the Asian Timothy Chalamet look, right? Yeah, yeah. Like he does remind you of a Clooney. You know, Clooney's really good looking, but like, you know, in like an older guy way. And I think that's why he's gonna be missed when he stops acting. And that's why I think, I hope he keeps acting, but obviously he is getting to that age where it's like, who's the next one? Like, is there anybody that can follow in his footsteps? And you know what it is? I think there's gonna be a lot of people who look like Tony, but they didn't live the same life as Tony. So it's gonna be hard to authentically communicate. They might be kind of like just pushing it. Like some of these guys like. Pampered. Jason. Had an easy life. Jack, Yee. I can tell they're trying to embody Tony. They got some of it. You know, they can try to dress, you know, even having the 1930s dress that we had in colonial British Hong Kong, but it's going to be very difficult for them to bring to the stage what I brought to the silver screen. But isn't it hard to recreate Tony Lerng because it's hard to create that colonial British Chinese era? The one that like also Michelle Yeoh comes from in Malaysia. Bruce Lee came from it. The one that Bruce Lee came from. Tony Lerng. These are three people between these three and Jackie Chan on a different tier. But between Tony Lerng, Michelle Yeoh and Bruce Lee, you would be like, wow, they embody British colonial Chinese speaking countries. They're different levels of it. They're the peak of it. They're classy. They're suave. They know martial arts. They didn't lose the Western philosophy, but they also embody some of the West. I would say Jackie would be like Wong Kok, Mong Kok, British colonial Hong Kong. And then Tony, I'm not saying he's not from Kowloon side, but like he embodies Island side.  Yeah. They're more like, they feel more blue collar. But these guys, Bruce, Tony, Michelle, these are like the three like trinity of like the British. And I think people missed that era because it was the last time that people saw somebody was truly fluid in the West and almost taking some of that like Lord Barrington, the third colonial Hong Kong on the magistrate. That vibe and mixing with something that was truly like an Eastern soul. And you don't see that anymore. Obviously nowadays it's like F boys, like Edison and stuff like that. Or even whoever's after Edison, I don't even know who's popping now. And I think that that's just like not as like interesting. Dude, you know what a British actor that just popped in my mind that reminds me of Tony Lerng that he got a little bit is you and McGregor. A little bit of that. Yeah. Anyways, that just popped in my mind. But anyways, guys, you let me know down below, David, what's your final takeaways about Tony Lerng, the great Tony Lerng? I think it's really cool to see. And when I look into somebody's discography or not discography, whatever, like movie catalog, you know, like it's just cool to see its impact on the diaspora. Like you said, if you're Asian American and you were just looking around for Asian American role models, you weren't going to find any or maybe you would end up playing yourself out like a token, like all the other tokens that were in the Western media. But it's like you could look at somebody like Tony Lerng and he's so multifaceted. He's in Infernal Affairs, Andrew. He's in goofy stuff like Tokyo Raiders, Soul Raiders. He's in Wu Xia Pian, like historical stuff.   He's being like that business like stock guy, you know, more like Gordon Gekkoe type guy too. You know what I mean? But bureaucratic. Yeah. Yeah, I forgot. We forgot to mention this guy, Chow Yun Fat. I feel like Tony Lerng and Chow Yun Fat during that era kind of were the serious drama. Cool. And then there was the other Tony Lerng. Yeah, Tony Lerng Ka-Fi, but he he's like looks more like a model, but he's not. He's like, he got the same swag.  Michael B. Jordan is still cool, but Michael Jordan is the Michael Jordan. Anyways, guys, let us know in the comments down below what you think. I think Tony Lerng has had an impact on Asian cinema period, Asian cinema period, but you know, obviously, especially for Cantonese people, I would say he was such a huge role model, influenced a lot of people, influenced the way people acted, their personalities. Is there a reason why you're dressed like a 1930s Hong Kong Shanghainese barber right now?   Let us know what you guys think in the comments section below of Tony Lerng winning the Venice Awards, Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award, and until next time, we're the Hop Hop Boys. We out. Peace.


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All right. Let's get into Darth Mike. Darth Mike is a good point. At this point, everyone is just guessing with the market. We can go buy his past cycles for some kind of circle data and hope it continues. He's exactly right. That 250-day thing just really is based on the four-year cycle. So far they've proven to be correct. Are they going to maintain? Anyways, guess. But they're doing pretty good for 12 years and we'll see. But it could totally change tomorrow. Who knows? I just, when the facts change, I change. And so far it's been correct. Remember this thing called Stock to Flow? That worked out pretty well for a long time until it didn't. So just be aware. Real PC says the pump couldn't even last the whole day. I thought the pump's still going on. I don't know. But maybe I'm wrong. 1.05 trillion. Let's see. Yeah, still the same thing. The theorem is still up. So yeah. Maybe you're talking about NASDAQ and S&P. And then also from Darth Mike. When you zoom out, there really are no pumps or dumps. Let me show you this. This was a great this graph was in that grayscale document. So take a look at that. And this kind of goes over. It breaks it down into all these, the four different phases. It's every four years, but they kind of just break it down to where we are right now. And he's right. When you zoom out, that's Bitcoin's price, 20K. And yeah, it's not the 63K or 67K, but in all honesty, over the last 12 years, looking pretty good. All right. And what else we got? What? Ron says it right. Zoom out. It's been a good week. Take the wins because we don't really get them all the time. Uh-oh. Bobby, this is a dangerous comment.  I'm really looking for some help, please. If the next statement is from somebody, oh, go to Sheila Long on Instagram. I will ban you right now. Okay. Rob, where are you DCA now?  Yeah, me too, man. So Bobby, Bobby shouts. Photographer, I believe. Bobby. So I'm using, I am using Coinbase and it's hard to eat crow and go back to them, but you do what you got to do. So I'll be using Coinbase and also Strike, Jack Mahler's type of for the light network and works pretty well just for Bitcoin. But if you want to buy alts, you got to go to Coinbase. And I got to tell you, in 2017, when I got in Coinbase had four tokens. Really. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and one other thing. I forgot what it was. Bitcoin Cash. Actually, Bitcoin Cash came later and that was it. Now I look at Coinbase. It's like it's a never ending scroll. It's just there's so many cryptos on there. It's amazing. Let's see. Does the Fed raise next week? Of course the market go lower. It depends. Some people will say it won't affect them at all. Some people will say it's going to be a disaster. And remember, it's July 26th and 27th. So what I'm doing is instead of buying crypto every day, I'm just saving up my money. And what I would put in, I just accumulate that. And then on the 27th, when the actual numbers come out of what they're going to raise it to, I just sit there and wait. And if the super high, if they say one basis point, then I just wait. See what the market does. The market starts to crash. I wait a little bit until there's a little bit of an uptick and then I buy. If they come out and they say, okay, it's 75 points or a full point and nothing moves. And I just wait. And maybe as I see it, maybe it goes up a little bit. That's when I'll buy too. I'm going to miss out on one, two percent. That's okay. Because I think there's a downside. I'm just trying to do what I can do. Jason Kempos, Robbie talked about the Altair scheme with Dan DeGeneres just not handled. That's a great question, Jason. So let me, no, everything must be transparent as more as transparent as possible. So let me share some of them. Let me put this up here. Let me share my screen. Great. So this is the video you're watching right now. There's Jason's question. If you go into the comments section, another comments description, here's that Celsius Voyager timeline. Here's all the crypto essentials. You can find the trueflation app right here. If you think it's a scam email, this is how to check it out. Here's my website, 100% free and all that good stuff. When you scroll down, can you see strategies? Well, first of all, there's two channels, Dan DeGeneres, which is just straight up degenerative gambling. That is what it is. Well, we've taken a look at four different projects. And I have a spreadsheet, 5% Dan DeGeneres plays. You click on that spreadsheet right there. And here's the difference. God darn it. So sweat coin, hold on. Everybody bear with me. I'm going to do this right now. Sweat coin. There. It's always a third video. Should be the first one, whatever. So here is the deep dive. There we go. There. Everybody can find it. So there's the deep dive of Sweat Coin. So far we've done four. Gensokishi on December 15th. But that one, and I'll show you what I bought it at and what the price is today. Actually, I should update that right now. Hang with me. And so it's rank 29, 41 cents. So one from 42 cents to 41 cents. And that's on July 18th. Let's see how Everdome is doing. Everdome 185 and 008. So that went down bummer. See price today. I'm still up. Pretty good, which is very rare in this crap market. And then fame. Same thing. Two cents. So two cents. So yeah, then Sweat Coin isn't out yet. Sweat Coin, it's 100% free and they're going to do an airdrop on September 12th. And it's right here. So hopefully I answered your question. So that's all. As transparent as I possibly can be. Excuse me. And we go from there. Let's see. What's this? Do you think the Ethereum... Yes, I do. I mean, geez, they've had forever to get this right. So they're being very careful, which I can appreciate. So the real question is, do I think it will happen on, what is it? August 18th, September 18th. Always those two ones I get confused. Do I think it'll happen on that date? No. I think they'll push it back for something that happens out. And I hope I'm wrong. But it doesn't really matter, because like we talked about yesterday, there was two things we talked about. Ethereum, and I said I was feeling pretty good about that because everything's built on Ethereum and Polygon. And I said, you know, it's one of those buy the rumors, sell the news type of things and worked out perfectly. Rare does. And I said, Ethereum is going to start pumping because of this merge and people are going to get all excited about it. And then when the merge happens, the price will drop. It's going to happen with Polygon. After the Disney announcement, I said, well, there's that. And then also they have this big announcement coming out in two days in the 20th of July. So expect that to pump a lot too. Now here we are. I'm not chasing pumps. That's not my thing. Pumps are short lived and it doesn't really matter.   There's some company that said on Twitter that they were going to come to the aid of Voyager and they're going to pump that price up. And it did two, three days ago and it dropped like a stone. And I said, that's a pump and dump scam. And then here it is. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see. I don't know. Hope I'm wrong. Voyager token. No, it's up 4%. Yeah, but look at this. Over the last seven days, it pumped all the way up to 85 cents. I can guarantee people bought into that or down here or somewhere here. And now it's over here in their underwater. Sorry. Yeah, right. CDCs, CBDCs fly nice around the radar that they're solid. Yeah. Crypto McFly says it's going to be 100 basis points. I got to, I think it's a, for me, it's a 50-50 shot, which is kind of funny because like when I was talking about 100, a full basis point, people are like, you're dumb. It's not going to happen. Well, you're half right. Let's see. It's a great question. Juan Montoya, Rob, is there any hope for being made whole by Voyager? What happens to Sam Bakeman's feed saving it?  I'll let me do research and I'll let me do a limited that they're another holding company or another one of their companies. One owes Voyager like 200 something million dollars and one paid Voyager like 300 something million dollars. It's an odd thing. So to be made whole by Voyager, this is what I think is going to happen. They're in chapter 11. We know that. Sorry for the bumpiness. They're in chapter 11. The plan was to, for the crypto to be prorated for whatever you have, you're probably going to take a haircut. Let's just be honest. So like if you have one full Bitcoin that probably give you like 0.6 or 0.7 of the Bitcoin on the best thing, they're going to give you the VGX token. They're also going to give you shares of the public traded company. And that's what they're going to make up for it. So really what it is, is you're going to take a hit on your crypto, but you're going to get some other parts of it. Is that what you want? Probably not. However, that's what they're that's the game they're going to play to keep things going over there at the company. Not my thing. So will that make you whole? Well, you won't lose everything. And that's what it comes down to. And that's, that's the best possible scenario. I don't think it's going to be just being honest. I don't think it's going to be worth it. Going to give you everything back. That's the truth. I lost some. I lost some on Celsius. I'm going to get any of that back. Maybe I'm wrong. No, capo. That's my real name is Rob.  Not dead. That's a lot of paternity tests. I can only got so much to give out. I don't know. Look, everybody's ticked off and, and then they're really angry. So it's got to be somebody. So if it's got to be somebody, it might as well be me.  I'm a big kid. I can take it. And then like I said, it's just, uh, I show up every day for a reason because everybody's pissed. I need a punching bag. And sometimes that just me. So if you're angry, say in the comment section, why? And we'll go from there. That's it. Okay. This is a good one. So Michael paints this. Hey, Robert, you able to see us when we add you in the sweat coin challenge? How making me a mod? How about making people a mod? That's a great point. Let's get to it. Who wants to be a moderator? Who wants a wrench?  That's awful. Hold on. Okay. Let me share my screen. Man, is my head that big? Must be. That's not it. Where'd you go? Here we are. Aha. Okay. Gary, you're already a mod, aren't you? Son of a gun. Gary's a mod. Master Blaster. I remember master. Come on. Okay, everybody stop with them. I can't. I can't click on it fast enough. There.  Cam's videos. I don't know you. Sorry. You got to be around here for a while. I have to actually recognize you. My sorry. My mod and Michael Payne. Yorick, I don't know you. Let's see. Seattle peddler. Juan Montoya. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oprah. Oh, you're already a one. Gary Reid backing tracks. Aren't you one already? Gary? Yeah, you are one. Gary, you're already a moderator. Yeah. Travis got a good point. Gary Reid, you're already a moderator. If I could take it away. I think it's because that if you got the green tag, it won't show the blue part. Yeah. Orlando, no, I don't. Let's see. No, that's it. Where's the other person? Okay, I missed it. Don't worry. We do this every day. Modulator. Pat Murphy. Will crypto crash on 27th July? Is anybody's guess?  Army Piper. There is really not a way unless the exchange helps you out.  That's a good one. Army. You have to do that. Like, you just got to send a test transaction. I know like if you're if you're sending Bitcoin, there's no reason not to send a test transaction because it's super cheap to send Bitcoin right now. Ethereum, I get it. You're like, I don't want to spend five books. Well, you will if you're sending spending like 100,000 from one place together. Just send a small transaction.  Here's your money back. If you mess up, it's gone. Let's see. Where'd I go? Sell the new seller rumor. Yeah, Coinbase has Ada. I don't care.  Look, as a public person out there on YouTube and Twitter, I've been called much worse than Robert Dan. I think everybody knows that. Reef Club. I update on it. I trust viability. As far as I know, still viable. Remember, this is what they told me. It's supposed to be on the show hopefully next week. They said, we don't do loans. We don't put anything in the DGEN stuff. We just allow you to buy and sell crypto. We hold that crypto into Coinbase custody, which is the same custody service that Michael Sailor uses. We only make money on the 1% trading fee that you guys do within your Roth IRA account. That's it. We'll see. All right. What are you ever going to do a random type? No, that's a special occasion. First of all, this is a green screen. I am in my mom's basement. But when we do hit 100,000, I will jump into that green screen and make a splash. All is good. All is great. It's one o'clock. It's awesome. Ah, look at that. First, I just sent 80 bucks of ETH for $1.20. That's great. Is George hiding in your pool? No. I've never met George in person, which is a bummer. How do you storage your chain link? I just leave it on the exchanges right now. I think, isn't chain link an ERC-20 token? So I sold a bunch of my chain link before, and I have to take it off as a matter of fact. Chain link, I believe, is an ERC-20. So you should be able to put it on your ledger. But I don't have that much, though. Not that big deal. It is a nice green screen. Thanks. Do you still use Coinbase Pro? Coinbase Pro doesn't even exist anymore. It's like Coinbase Pro Trader or something like that. Thomas, how do you say I'm your father? I think it's your father. That's a great point. Joel says, do you think that regardless of whether the Fed does 75 or 100 basis points, maybe all the weak hands have left? Anyone who's afraid of 100 base points could leave now if they wanted to. I think a lot of the, and I wouldn't call them weak hands. I would just call them inexperienced hands. Everybody's strong. It just takes time to build up that strength of dealing with this extreme volatility and it's going, well, I know it's crap right now, but over time it'll be better. So I think with these 100 basis points, I think that's why you saw in our market when those CPI numbers come out, they came out. If it was May 2021, we would have seen a ton of downside because I think a lot of those times it's a bunch of crypto tourists who just numbers go up. Numbers go up, sounds good. I'll invest in numbers that go up. I like numbers that go up. Then when it goes down, I'm like, I don't like that. I'm out of here. And that's it. But I think right now, this is why I really appreciate these times on my channel. I don't have people telling me, oh, Robbie, you should get into this crypto because it's going to go to the moon. And you don't know what you're talking about because you're shell shocked and have PTSD from 2017 and Bitcoin is a boomer coin and it won't be used by anybody. You got to really get into XYZ and whatever. So all those people are gone. Thank God. And I just get to deal with, I just get to hang out with people like you who are in here for the long haul, who are really, in my opinion, the strong hands. So like right now is the best time and it's fun. I don't get as many views, but I could care less honestly. I mean, if I wanted more views, I would just do another stream or three or four or five streams a day. But I don't really care about that. I just want to do my little piece and get out of here. So this is the great times. I think this is the time when everybody's the strongest because they're like, I don't care. We'll be here for three, five, 10 years. So we'll see. I honestly don't think 100 basis points will probably affect the traditional markets, but you have to also remember that what market is open 24, 7, 365, it's crypto and we're always open. And a lot of those traditional market players and hedge funds have dabbled here and they are the ones that will probably drop. It's not me and you retail. It's those guys. And some of us will sell. Sure. I don't know. Daniel says, Rob Crudano is ranked 23rd in DeFi Lama. What do you expect to buy? But just so you know, Bitcoin is ranked 24th. So not too bad. Or it's right behind there. I see, this is what I see. When I look at Cardano, and I think to myself, how's this thing going to grow and where things are going? I just always look at this one. And you can also find this in the description too. This is my, I call it the Cardano ghost chain images. This is the ecosystem in 2020. Right? And of course, things get built. Here's the DEXs. This is April. Here's November. Then here's April. Here's the projects currently being built. So I don't see Cardano staying in this low sector. I will say though that, you know, have you used Cardano? It's fast. And it's cheap. And the first DEXs weren't fast. And the first DEXs weren't that cheap. But they're coming around, especially with that Vazzle upgrade. So I see it just only increase. And that's all I can tell you. I don't know where it's going to be, but it's why I have a stake pool. I've had a stake pool for over two years. And that's another thing. I got to start talking about that. Damn it. So if you have any of your Cardano or anything on an exchange, why are you doing that? Take it off the exchanges? What have they done for you lately? So if you want to secure the network as far as Cardano, put it into a Cardano stake pool. I wanted to show you. There's a link. It's in the description. And it looks like this, the Cardano stake pool. And when you click on that, it'll open up my website. Well, that's cool. I didn't know I actually changed that. And you watch the video and it'll tell you exactly how to do it. And everything is right there for you. Oh, look at that. And I had to show you how to do it on different wallets. And you can go from there. Now, if you don't want to use my stake pool, that's fine. It doesn't matter. Just pick a stake pool. And I show you how to look at all the different stake pools that are out there. I make it super simple. And what's great about staking with Cardano, it never leaves your wallet. It stays in your Cardano wallet. And there's no lockup periods. There's no slashing fees. If you want to talk about someone who did a great job with staking, that's Cardano. He did a fantastic job with that. Super simple. Love it. Soy tu papá. Sure. Vicky says, when American board of trade went under in the 80s, I had to percentage back from bankruptcy for my silver loss. How much, how much did you get back? That was the question. I know some people say, well, Chapter 11, you don't get anything back. Some people do get some back, but it's not everything. Yeah, it's not 100K for Bitcoin. It's not going to happen in 2023. Usually, that's not how it works. Usually, the having happens and then we, we don't hit all time highs until the year afterwards. I don't use FTX. I probably should. I'm waiting for Binance to get back to me. I told him that I would, one of their marketers reached out to me and said, hey, how'd you like to talk about Binance? You asked and I was like, well, I will. If you can explain to my audience why they should switch over to you and how you make things safe and how great you are, come on the show. And I didn't ask for CZ, I just wanted somebody and they haven't got back to me yet. So when it happens, I'll let you know.  How many years did you serve? Army for eight years. Good times. Good times. I'm French. I'm French. Great. Coinbase and Jack Mahler's strike. Coinbase is not the best exchange for fees. However, have you heard about, what is it called? Coinbase zero? Coinbase something?  It's not bad. If you're a dollar cost averager, that's something to look at. You don't pay any fees. So if you dollar cost average Bitcoin every day, the fee is going to be about a buck 50, buck 49. So if you pay 30 bucks, that'll cover that easily. I don't swear so much. You should have seen me when I was in the military. Yeah. Bronco says I followed Rob's link to sign with Voyager. Hopefully you also took a look at this right here. My rules and also, so I heard the video on June 22nd where I talked about take all your money off of Voyager. So I hope that worked out. It's pumping. What's pumping? This is a young guy question. Martin says you still work to stay in shape. Typical question, how much do you bench? That's a young guy question. I don't bench. I don't even bench press anymore. I used to do that a lot. But then, you know, once you blow out your shoulder, you stop doing stuff like that. I'm not a psychologist though. Let's see. I think that's it. I think we're, oh, we're at it. Viper, you asked for that meetup. Here it goes. So look, everybody, that's it. We're getting deep in the weeds type of stuff. Let me make sure. Yeah. Okay. So that's it for today. So look, I just need a favor. If you would be so kind, just hit the like button. That's it. And if you do that, I'll come back tomorrow. I feel my kid and I'll come back tomorrow anyhow. We'll do this all again. We'll talk about the good stuff, the hope, and then also the bad stuff. So you have a little bit of balance. So that's it for today. So look, like today's video, thumbs up, subscribe, all that good stuff. That's it for today. So thank you everybody for stopping by. That's great. I appreciate you. And I'll see you on the next one. Adios. Okay. No cussing while I hit the end broadcast.


Item – The Bed of Wealth Usage Precautions – Personnel are allowed to use the item at personal risk. All precious gems and valuables received are to be split between the insurgency and the personnel 50-50. Handling Precautions – Not available. Reported Anomaly – Possibly Extradimensional Usage – Object is currently used as a form of monetary income. All valuable items created by object are to be collected upon discovery and placed in the proper storage. See storage procedures. Report – Object is to be contained in a keypad-protected storage unit within vertical-class storage. Access to storage unit restricted the research personnel of delta clearance and up. All testing must be authorized by at least two members of beta staff before testing may be performed. All items created by object are to be and stored within fun storage. Object is assertive brand king-size mattress. Records confirm that object was manufactured in 2011 in a factory in ██████ USA. Object's anomalous effects will not become apparent until one human's subject entered REM sleep on it. Exactly two hours, twenty minutes, and thirty seconds after subject entered REM sleep, they will suddenly vanish along with any item they are in physical contact with. Close examination of recorded testing has revealed that a subject faded and vanished entirely over the course of two milliseconds. Exactly twenty-four seconds after the subject has vanished, they and any objects that vanished with them will manifest in the same location they were previously in. Subject will appear in the same position as before they vanished and are still unconscious.  Inside each bag is a varying amount of gold, silver, and many other highly valued minerals. Each item inside is covered in a blue substance similar in appearance and structure to sand. For a complete list of generated items, refer to Log A-1334-53672. Object was recovered after an agent embedded in ██████ reported a man within a station location claiming that a mattress was possessed. The agent interviewed the subject and tested the object itself for anomalous properties. After confirmation of anomalous properties, agent reported to command and a recovery team was dispatched. An identical mattress was attained and replaced the object and the subject's memory was erased through a music agent. Interviews of test subjects have revealed that each subject experienced an identical dream. Subjects have told interviewers that this dream involved them in a desert with dark sand and a purple sky with red stars. Subjects explained that they were approached by a humanoid figure with the head of Miss Bola Germanica and that it handed them the bag, then attempted to converse with them in a language that they are unfamiliar with. As all attempts to identify this language have failed, it is assumed to be a previously unknown language.


Every school has a narrative and every school needs the opportunity to be able to tell its story with the parent body. Our school is a fully comprehensive school and it's been useful to me as a school principal to be able to use NAPLAN data in I think a very authentic way to say when we are compared to like students that our school is on this growth journey and that's been extremely helpful to me to share a narrative with my parent community that's a narrative of school growth and to compete against the narrative of league tables. I think there's more than a little bit of evil in league tables and NAPLAN data and particularly the my school website in some of its degrees helped me to tell to construct a narrative that's very real and I can hand on heart speak to as one of learning growth within my school and I think that's been a real strength of the NAPLAN data. We're part of a system and so we're part of the Catholic system and we often use the information between schools at executive levels to talk about where the system's going. So for example we might identify a priority for the system which at the moment is numeracy and so working together that allows us to do some professional learning together and to have a focus for the system. It's particularly useful as well for parents because it's a really detailed form of reporting for them to be able to use an access and see how their child is going and then over the years be able to again map their own child's progress and see their progression. As a teacher and head of learning in a small rural school I have to work really closely with my community to make sure they're on board. Our school council are now data junkies you know and we have a very diverse school council met up with shearers, professionals and a broad slice of life but it allows our whole community to see how our little school is travelling on the national context plus it provides a very precise measure and defined language to discuss our school's performance. We can compare ourselves to our national means and our state means. So it's empowering for our community. It gives us a sense of where we are. We could be an isolated little school you know that is sailing by its own lights but we don't want that. We want to know how we measure up. Our community wants to know that we have a valuable and viable teaching program and that plan has consistently provided us with the feedback that we are doing so. It also provides us with our next level of challenge.


When you low carb you really don't need a snack, but what happens if you do? Hey there and Jay who 22.com here with another low carb keto carnivore chat and today it's about snacks And I just want to say like I said in my intro here When you do low carb or carnivore correctly you Pretty much almost never think about snacks ever you never get punchy or hungry or craving a handful of this or a couple Crunchies of that you know never I believe snacking is the fun phenomenon it comes along with poor eating choices We need too many carbs at each meal.  It's it's pretty much been proven both in some Studies and based on personal experience from hundreds of thousands of people like me It creates a desire to snack in between meals It's a self-created hunger and also the concept of three three meals a day is Ridiculous once you've perfected the low carb or carnivore Regimen you can get away with fewer and eventually then entire premise of meal time Starts to lose its necessity. Hey, it's breakfast. It's lunch time What am I gonna force myself to be hungry at lunch and just eat because it's lunch time My god, I haven't been in a in a work environment about 15 years I can't imagine what would happen these days if I was low carb or I am low carb and I was working in an office It's lunch time. I'm like, I'm what am I gonna do? I'm not even hungry.  I mean, I'll definitely sit there just to talk to the family for a short period of time But I just sometimes I just don't eat and you just become omad like we talked about for one meal a day That being said it doesn't mean you're you'd never get hungry because sometimes you you do work hard and your body Does ask you legitimately for fuel if you're smart if you're smart low carb or you plan ahead You usually make you know a couple pounds of bacon you have that leftover hamburgers You can make an egg if you're hungry so leftovers or egg and cheese usually work for us if we're hungry for a snack Or like legitimately hungry a leftover from the low from the high carb world are crunchy things you know like chips and Crackers and tortillas and stuff like that and there is a solution for that and that's called pork rinds And that's the picture I've had up here on the screen and there's usually two kinds is regular Plain pork rinds and there's usually some sort of spicy pork pork rinds and I have seen somewhere barbecue pork rinds, which I have never bothered to try And there's one thing you have to watch out with these pork rinds is that some brands like the really El Chippo like Bodega When you're getting at the bodega in the city somewhere they usually have MSG and you have to read the ingredients and they probably all have MSG in it I'm guessing but some don't say it specifically some say Minnesota sodium glutamate others say natural flavors Which probably have some sort of MSG in it and I I'm just hoping they don't these are great the plain ones I'm not a really big fan of the spicy ones. I really like I can eat those plain But what I like to do is I like I like making a pork rind nachos and by the way I keep about six to ten bags of these on hand at all times just to have an inventory because you what you do is you stick them on a plate and You you sprinkle some like shredded cheese or if you have thin thin sliced cheese you Melt the 20 or 30 seconds in the microwave and you have a little pork nachos and they taste really good And they have a nice satisfying crunch you could sprinkle some hot sauce I like the green chalula is probably my favorite and I still haven't done the recipe yet for my award-winning Spicy creamy dip here guys. You can also dip it in that and I like there's two brands I like they're like 80 cents a bag the Lidl brand Which is another German supermarket that's taking over this country. They have the best spicy ones I've ever tasted and they have the best texture without a doubt hands down I can't wait to get out there one day in the future And the Aldi brand is pretty good too. It's called Clancy's I think and the spicy versions of those are Very good. So if you need a snack other than your leftovers and the usual little Eggs and cheese and stuff like that Pork rinds are the best and melting cheese on them makes them a little bit more exciting I don't do it too often, but I highly recommend keeping them on hand for that emergency moment So if you like this video hit the bell and subscribe please and I'll see you next time