Without further ado, I'm delighted to introduce Dr Nicole Meehan who's co-director and lecturer in museum and heritage studies at the University of St Andrews to talk to us about digital technology in museums and sustainability, digital technology in museums. Nicole joins St Andrews and is now the co-director of this course which focuses on digital technology in museums thinking broadly about the advantages and limitations of these and the impact of their use on diverse audiences and we're really excited and delighted to welcome Nicole to join us today. So I'm going to hand over to Nicole. Thank you so much and I'm going to stop sharing. Okay, hello everyone. Thank you firstly for the kind introduction and for inviting me to speak at today's session. I'm really delighted to be able to join you and I'm really looking forward to sharing some of my current work with you. I should start by saying that the project that I'll speak about today is very much in its early stages and so there's much still to do so what I'll share with you is some of the overarching aims of the project, some results from its initial stages which comprise a recent survey that myself and Karina Malm conducted this year before thinking through some of the necessary next steps. Okay, so my previous research has involved spending quite a lot of time asking how can we make digital museum objects and by that I mean digitised versions of collections items and born digital objects as valuable as possible to as many people as possible thinking around how they're situated in different networks and ecologies and what that means for access to these objects and when I was asking these readers questions most often I was answering them with doing more of something that might have meant meaning working more with communities and digitisation, interpretation and display efforts or amassing more information about the objects and plowing that back into content management and collection management systems and providing more interpretation around the objects when they're displayed. I should caveat this and say that the answer is not always doing more but most often that was where I ended up and that meant that most of what I was advocating for had quite the carbon cost attached to it and the speakers over the past couple of months in this series which I've had a great pleasure of attending and watching have all covered the themes that I will speak to in a number of ways so my presentation today will aim to bring together some of this thinking around digital decarbonisation, digital inclusion and sustainable development in the digital museum sphere. I am going to talk mostly about the survey that Karina and I conducted and the results of this which we did to establish somewhat of a baseline of kind of activity in the sector to think about any barriers to that activity and what the next steps might be in achieving a more environmentally sustainable digital output from museums. So in this slide I want to establish some of the context and actually the previous talks in the series have already done much of that. The context in those talks was around the kind of environmental cost of digital in libraries and archives which was discussed in a number of ways and today I'll focus mostly on museums but that context remains the same. Kate Gill and Senor Philip Session provided a really brilliant discussion of the current thinking of creating value through digitisation projects at Q Gardens so considering the accessibility of the collections and growing that research potential and Stacy Anderson's talk was really inspiring in the practical strategies needed in digital decarbonisation efforts and some of the the kind of resources she mentioned are highlighted on this slide here as well. I also think it's incredibly important to foreground the value of digital inclusion that Tina Hill and Edward Gill discussed in October and finally Professor Chowdhury's work on the value of leveraging the sustainable development goals for libraries was really instructive and particularly when thinking about how we might apply that to digital museums or the digital museum landscape so this session aims to kind of or attempts to bring together some of these strands and to consider how we might advocate for a digitally inclusive and environmentally minded approach to digital technologies and projects in the museum and so I'm sure many of you will be familiar with this JISC report published in 2022 which said that the carbon impact of digital technologies is huge and growing at an exponential rate which has been accelerated further by the rapid digitalisation forced by the COVID-19 pandemic and in Julie's Bicycle and BOP Consulting's Creative Industries in the Climate Emergency report published in the same year one of the appendices deals with digitalisation in the creative industries and we can see here some of the key considerations in that effort and I should also note that the international panel on climate change have signaled that the increasing carbon cost of digitalisation is definitely on their radar and something that is to be really considered in the future but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here so first I think it's important when considering what action to take to understand what the current state of play is so this is why Carina and I issued the survey and I just wanted to share some of the kind of headline results of that survey with you today and some of the thinking behind it so when we began this project we knew that there was lots of activity in the environmental in the sector regarding the environmental consequences of the adoption of digital technologies and we really wanted to understand that thinking and to identify any common barriers to moving the conversation forward so in this survey that we released we asked a series of questions which aimed to very gently inquire about the situation in the responders organisation at that current moment we wanted to think about how we could understand what was happening in those organisations without seeking to say that more should be happening just really to gather a contemporary picture so we gathered both quantitative data and qualitative data we wanted to be sure that we were taking a very light touch approach to the survey so none of the questions we asked were mandatory we know how busy everyone is and we were grateful to all of the people who responded to the survey it ran from the 21st of June to the 9th of August this year and in total we received 281 responses which was huge and actually quite unanticipated however we did deem that less than that amount only 97 of these responses was really worthy of analysis because there was actually quite a lot of respondents who didn't get all the way through the survey we wanted to make sure we could correlate different aspects of it so we have a sample size of 97 which is very rich for analysis in terms of in particular some of the qualitative data that we got back the respondents were international in scope and the majority came from the UK and the US but we did have others from Switzerland, Romania, Puerto Rico, Norway, the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia, Canada, Belgium, Barbados, Austria and Australia so this was the survey went far wider than we expected it to there is a limitation and that we only issued it in English and in the future I would hope to translate the survey and send it more widely we had institutions of all sizes and funding models respond to the survey and these included art museums, natural history museums, historical societies and archives and libraries and so the question you can see here on this slide and the chart that summarizes the responses was seeking to establish a very kind of general attention towards environmental sustainability and the level of that in different organizations and you can see here that by far the majority consider the organization prioritizes environmental sustainability sometimes or frequently in this second question we wanted to think about how the environmental impact was constituted and whether the respondent felt that their organization really fully understood this and we can see again that the majority of respondents feel that their institution understands their environmental impact to some extent so these first two questions are thinking very broadly about environmental impact and not specifying whether that's physical digital or both so it really is both although the survey header did talk about the digital impact but we wanted a comparator and then the next question is where we seek to compare this general sort of visible activity within an organization around environmental sustainability with the digital specific picture so is digital considered part of this overarching conversation and the chart shows that the picture established in the previous two slides changes somewhat and over 50% of the institutions or the people who responded noted that this occurs in their institution never or very little so we have a shift in how institutions are thinking. In the following two slides we wanted to dig into some of the detail and to think about the environmental impact of hardware and software and this specifically relates to digitization though the responses we got kind of broaden the impact out further from digitization to all of the digital technologies in the museum and I'll speak more to that in the qualitative responses in the next couple of slides so there are great variations in the answers here we can see that there's quite a lot of people who are unsure and I think that that's potentially to do with the fact that people who are responding were in a variety of different roles in their organizations and so they may not be involved in digitization or procurement the majority have said no but there are 17% who have noted that yes their institution is considering the environmental impact of the hardware manufacturing process and here we were thinking about how the production of hardware allows us to consider matters of digital colonialism that are intertwined with the climate crisis and so in that same 2022 just report that I mentioned earlier it notes that a vast majority so approximately 80% of IT's carbon footprint can be attributed to the manufacturing and distribution of the equipment itself and I'm sure a lot of us are familiar with that and we also know that the manufacturing of hardware does depend on extractive processes which are concentrated in the minority world's countries so the Coltan which comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo which contributes to issues of social injustice and so the technologies that are developed are contributing to these issues when we think about it intersectionally we also know that technologies are being developed with planned obsolescence in minds which perpetuates this process and Sightaffle is written very compellingly about that and so when we consider that the climate crisis is disproportionately affecting minority world nations we can see this divide kind of going further and further so there are human and environmental consequences to the use of these technologies or software this chart shows that slightly less have considered this with respect to software and actually more are unsure and our process is also implicated in digital colonialism and so we as well as thinking around digital colonialism we asked these questions because we felt like they had the potential to speak to the joined up approach that is needed and many of the previous speakers have highlighted with respect to environmental sustainability and we can see through some of these answers that I'll go on to discuss it this is more successful when considered across an organisation for example between digitisation teams and procurement teams if your organisation is is big enough to have teams or people in different roles so I mentioned that we we captured some qualitative data as well and we had some really really rich responses here and here I've summarised some of the main practical steps there's many many of these that people responded with but these are some of the main kind of themes and there was a really a big range of varied and robust steps taken in achieving physical and digitally focused sustainability and these are in the following slides concentrated only in relation to digital and many of them were actually already discussed by Stacy Anderson but this shows a kind of a wider picture of what's happening in the sector so we've got a number of people reducing ways to digitisation options so what format they're choosing how they're prioritising the digitisation projects the number of images that they're taking and then in digital preservation strategies so active reduction of long-term storage and nearline and offline media related obviously to that is considering the server space and the cloud space and the energy it takes to hold these large images we have people who are very purposefully purchasing sustainable materials for photography studios for digitisation we have others considering offsetting strategies and then relating to the previous question we had a good few responses here really thinking deeply about the best practice around procurement someone had done an audit of their website which revealed a large carbon footprint due to lots of audio content and we know that that's one of the big ICT issues in terms of the carbon cost so they'd replaced the video content with still images and then we had a number of kind of responses thinking around emails so deleting obsolete emails sending less emails removing images from signatures we had someone who was modernising physical plants become more energy efficient reusing old computer technology but thinking about the contractual restrictions that can actually inhibit the ability to do this email volume and then considering the impact of devices being on for a long period of time so alongside these amazing and diverse range of practical actions there was a lot of responses kind of thinking about this as a strategic decision and one which I was particularly interested by was someone who's thinking around whether the the question about a digital offering and whether it is more sustainable and an analogue one and so making these value-based judgments which I'll return to in a second and organisations that are using sustainable development goals to encourage sustainable practices within the wider community so not just within the museum itself but more broadly potential that digital access reduces travel emissions and also an argument for keeping less objects because they've been digitised and the inclusion of digitally focused staff on environmental sustainability strategic groups so ensuring that those groups take people from across the organisation in these questions also became quite clear that there were barriers to moving forward and I've grouped some of them here so there was a gap in knowledge and understanding people who wanted to act but didn't know how didn't feel like they had enough data to start with and then to make informed decisions on a changing practice from there a lack of prioritisation of environmental sustainability so some people who felt that other initiatives always were higher up on that sort of hierarchy and that environmental sustainability always kind of fell a little bit below lack of resources was a big a big issue so the lack of finances to purchase high quality equipment that would last for longer the lack of time and staff resource to really consider how to move things forward and inability to start from scratch so how can we rebuild something when we already have a vast infrastructure in place and also the need to balance financial viability and sustainability so some people might want to take you know the best course of action but it might not be financially viable for them a few also cited reticence to contend with the issue by those in positions who were senior to them the lack of budget and other resources to take meaningful action and again a lack of data to evidence this the need to take that action so in my final slide I just wanted to kind of summarise things and to return back to the idea of creating valuable and inclusive digital objects and projects so the ultimate goal that was put forth by the United Nations and their foresight briefing 027 which was published in 2021 is that digital devices are built and operated using renewable energy resources and with recyclable components such as batteries this will help to improve human health through reducing pollution and climate change which in turn leads to more sustainable reinforcement of demand for digital services so a kind of systems driven thinking approach but I would argue that such a goal cannot be achieved by the cultural sector but it can be advocated for by institutions and by sector and government level bodies and funding organisations so I think we should return to the idea that or advocate for the production of robust objects and collaboration with communities in terms of quality so that they might be future-proofed and prevent the need to create more and more objects to avoid further environmental consequences and in terms of their interpretation think about how this can be as valuable to as many people as possible and accessible by the broadest possible audience so we're returning to the idea of valuable inclusive objects and projects we're thinking about value-based judgments that are made with inclusion as a guiding principle and that can be applied strategically to digitisation projects and digital projects more widely and I think that to support museum organisations of all types we do need a strategic approach which involves advocacy work and the involvement of sector body participation from ICOM, UNESCO, government institutions and funders. Thank you very much for listening to this presentation of the early stages of this project and I'm looking forward to hearing your questions. Thanks very much Nicolle that's that's really great and kind of really thought-provoking to see the range of kind of barriers and some of the potential solutions and there's definitely a resonance there with particularly around that digitisation for us across research libraries as well that feel very timely so I'm good to open the floor to colleagues if they want to raise their hand or put any questions in the chat for Nicolle just to pick up on some of these some of these themes and if not I will I have a question so thinking about the advocacy I mean it's really interesting there about what we can do at a broader kind of strategic approach but are there are there even kind of marginal gains or small things which individual museums and libraries could be starting to bake in to start to use some agency to at least move in the move in the right direction here. I think that's a great question and I think that these these two things go hand in hand right that there is a role for the kind of sector body to lead on the conversation but there's also a role for those who are doing the work who know that the ins and outs of the process you can who know exactly what those kind of marginal gains are to advocate for that together and I think that there you know the practical steps that many people have said in the survey that they're doing are something that lots of organisations can be considering in terms of the the hardware and the software that they're using their digitisation practices how they're considering storing their objects and I think for me as well in terms of museums it is considering very closely whether a digital project is really necessary what's the the data that you're underpinning that project with what's the kind of visitor studies are the audience facing side of them and is it do we know and it's it's almost an impossible question to answer right do we know that this is going to create value for diverse groups and if not is there another way of doing it that perhaps is not as environmentally costly and I'm not I'm by no means advocating for stopping doing digital in any way shape or form I think it's more about how we bake this approach into creating objects and projects that makes us think a little bit more about the consequences of it so that's a very long-winded way of saying that I can't concretely answer your question but I think that these two things come together in a nice way. No thank you so much and I think yeah I think that's always an interesting you know first question to ask you know whether it's a library or it's a museum around is this digital project really necessary and also that that value that quote that value question without kind of taking away from that we've had a question in the chat which was just asking if there were any of the organizations in the survey that talked about how using digital tools to communicate sustainability could offset the environmental impact of digitization? I think that's a great question there actually were a lot of people who talked about public programming as part of their responsibility and in wider kind of thinking around sustainability so having exhibitions and they talked about those exhibitions much more so in the physical museum space but not so much in the digital museum space and I think that there is a role for transparency around digital projects in terms of their environmental cost that we're saying museums bring in much more for physical exhibitions so for example we might see exhibitions that talk about using recycled material or less toxic chemicals but we might also be able to build that into online exhibitions to say that we've purposely chosen to reduce the number of videos that we're using in this exhibition for example and so using that as a tool to communicate some of the the thinking around the environmental cost of digital that is not so much kind of telling people what to do but thinking around how organizations can say what they are doing and informing that practice. I should say that we didn't directly ask a question about that so it may be that this is happening it's just not been communicated to us in the survey.


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Hey there friends thanks for checking in. A couple years ago I picked up a handgun online it was budget priced right around $300 it was called the Tissus Zagana PX9 and it was an okay handgun it looked like a cross between an XD and an FN509 but it performed well had some decent features on there I liked it but I didn't fall in love with it and I ended up selling it to my cousin for what I paid for it and he likes it to this day. Well I followed the line and Tissus dropped the Zagana name and came up with the PX9 Gen 3 series had a short stand with the Gen 2's and this is the top daddy top dog of them all I should say and it is the Tissus PX9 Gen 3 Night Stalker Tactical and here it is the top model in the line and it has this it comes with this trigger guard holster there all right it'll get the job done not a full holster but they made them all optic ready which the Zagana was not and they have nice magazine capacity and this one is the Night Stalker and it's branded with all gray they have some 1911's they call the Night Stalker they have a Gen 3 Night Stalker this is the Gen 3 PX9 Tactical Night Stalker so we'll take a look at what's in the case it comes with these bore brushes a flared mag well a 20 round magazine right here's a 20 round this is an 18 round a 20 round plus two base plate and also it will accept the sig mags p226 mags so this one's made by Sig Sauer it's a 15 rounder six flat on the base plate but it works the p226 mags will work as well so immediately I have a bunch of mags for it because I have a p226 many grip panels and back straps so these grip panels will come off back straps custom fit your hand size you know they they offer a lot in the case but the Night Stalker is called tactical because it has some features here that vary from the other and are improved over the px9 series first check out those slide cuts even on the top strap looks super cool it has a 5.1 inch threaded barrel a full pick rail already mentioned all gray some texturing with the trigger guard under cut there I like it that many modern firearms have that indentation there I first noticed with the sig sig models they started doing that with the p320x compact is what I have I noticed that the back strap and grip panels are fine for me right now it also has a tritium front night sight which is a nice touch serrated black rear sights and then optic ready I have a Gideon omega on there I'm going to talk about that but the overall feel fit and function is super nice I did shoot this at trigger con I did not record it but it is super nice with this same optic on there the Gideon omega well let's just talk about that this is a wide lens a lot of these let's just say budget optic companies are coming out with SRO copies and this is their version of it it's a green dot 308 green dot many adjustments it's a direct mount to the night stalker so it fits great easy install nice and tight in there it's aluminum housed shake awake and top battery compartment so it has everything that I'm looking for with a quality optic and from all the reviews I've seen Gideon optics are doing a great job and I like it that it's a green dot I love it that it's shake awake and I love it that you don't have to take the whole optic out to or off to change the battery but let's take a look at this I have a laser in there I see that little laser in there I cite in the I cite in the optic I just play with that to see if it's working well so that's why that's in there but the trigger it breaks right at four pounds I measured it several times four pounds and then here is the reset it's not an audible reset but I'm confused why that matters like an audible reset like the gun's going to be loud you're not going to hear the reset whether it's audible or not audible so some people like the audible reset they say I want something with an audible reset I don't get that but anyhow it also has a cocked striker indicator back you can tell that the slide has been charged it's red not super large but when it's no longer when it's fired or it's empty or whatever you won't see that overall nice feel many options to the night stalker let's go ahead and check out the internals to do that you just lock the slide back push this lever down and then we'll take the slide off we'll see pretty beefy slide rails right there and then a dual captive recoil spring all steel guide rod and there is the 5.1 inch threaded barrel and I'm going with threaded barrels lately you may have noticed if you watch my videos I like the threaded barrels because I have a very nice can coming in that is a multi caliber can I'm going to talk about that when it comes a little closer still waiting for the ATF to do their nonsense it takes 10 months to a year anyhow I think it looks cool I shot it and man I shot the lights out with it the target had to be 25 yards away and I was double tapping pretty good and hitting the target no problem I felt very very fine with this memory bumps right here and there I think it looks cool I think the the option with the the optic the various grip configurations the four pound trigger the 5.1 inch barrel the night sight the slide cuts I think it I think it offers a lot now you're wondering how much is it you talked enough how much is it 469 but the other tessus px9 models are right around 369 but if you go with the night stalker tactical then it's going to be a little bit more I'm impressed with it I couldn't wait to get it and now that I have it I have to shoot it shoot this one I already told you I shot the other one I need to shoot this one show you what it can do I like the 18 and 20 round mags has a lot pretty impressed with it hopefully you are too if you like videos like this please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button thanks for watching and you guys be safe


John of applause, yeah? This is the most episodes we have ever gotten through in a season of Wheel of 2K. Last season, we finished at 36 episodes. And this season, we're taking that all the way to 48. If not a grand finale for episode 49. Not sure what I wanna do yet, but it's the final season, season four. Also gentlemen, I completely forgot to make a notice of this, but I ordered my temporary tattoo for the six episodes and it totally did not come in. I've been having shipping issues lately. So I promise you that for six episodes of Wheel of 2K, I will have that temporary tattoo. It just isn't gonna be the first or second episode. I'll make sure, I think episodes three, four, five, six, seven, eight, I'll have it on. Just thought you should know. Now as you know, we're creeping up on August, right? And August 16th is when the new Madden comes out. So I'm ready to make my full flip, get into the football season and start playing Madden. 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I wanted to give you guys a chance to guess. My power up player has an end game and my team captain is a shooting guard. Those are the only hints I'll give you and I'll start it out with my power up player. My power up player for the final season of Wheel of 2K is a small forward and he is the greatest basketball player of all time. It's none other than LeBron James. I thought LeBron would be so fun.  That was just superhero LeBron. That was not end game LeBron. And the other good thing that I like about LeBron is he has a lot of options for the power ups. Like this isn't like a cheese power up. We really have to go through a lot of LeBron cards. So we've got Sapphire LeBron James right now and for every 10 points that we score we go up to the next tier. Next tier of LeBron is Ruby so we'd have 89 LeBron after that. There is no Amethyst which is nice so after that we would go to Diamond LeBron James signature series. After that we go to the 96 overall Pink Diamond LeBron James. After that the 97 overall Galaxy Opa LeBron James and after that we have this absolute God tier Cavaliers 23 LeBron James. Six foot nine, 240 pounds, 10 pounds lighter than his calves one. This season I do wanna make an offer to you guys. I know I play 2K really unorthodox and it frustrates you guys. So this season I wanna try my best to play the game as best I can.  So I thought going with an end game LeBron James would be a good way to do that. I definitely could have gone like end game Yao Meng or end game Taco Fall but I feel like if I did that I would just keep playing through my centers and not learning the other aspects of this game and either way, we keep on up LeBron, we get end game LeBron, he's absolutely disgusting. Maybe I spent like 800 KMT on this mans. 99 everything, freaking nature, 80 Hall of Fame badges, let's go. And that just leaves our team captain and our team captain is the other goat.  What's more controversial, huh?  Two goats on the same team? End game LeBron James and end game Michael Jordan will both be at some point on this squad.  Let me just put this in the most simple basketball terms, okay? Michael Jordan raised the ceiling for NBA players and LeBron James raised the floor, undeniable, undisputably. That's the only thing that should be discussed on this topic and I'm never talking about it ever again.  I've actually used Invincible Jordan before, if you guys remember we had the Invincible, Kobe and Invincible Jordan on the squad. The only problem I had with this was the fact that I've used both an Invincible MJ and a really good LeBron in the past. That was the only problem I had with it, but as far as end games go, there weren't that many good options. There's an end game Kobe, I already used him as your team captain. End game Taco Fall, I'm on the fence about that. I don't really care. End game Yao Ming, I had him last season. End game Shaq, I had him last season. End game Lamello, I had him. I'm praying this end game Michael Jordan can carry us to the promised land in Wheel of 2K. And I really like our progression through the seasons. You know, our team captain at first was Alex Yopoul. Then two Invincibles, now an end game. Kyrie will be our point since I can choose any amethyst to fill in the other slots. So Kyrie, I was Serge Ibaka and Deandre Aitin. Started to get weird with it. Darius Garland, Ray Allen, Scotty Pippen, Julius Randall and Wang Zizi. I have no idea who this is.  Wang Zizi bro, are you kidding me? Am I pronouncing it right? I couldn't care less. He's Wang Zizi and he's about to drop absolute buckets. D-Ros on the bench, Bam on a bio on the bench. And the Austronesian American Slovakian, Russian Filipino, Dwayne Wade. Now that's a throwback right there. D-minus inside, D-minus mid-range, C-minus three-point scoring and F for playmaking.  Is he actually good at anything? This is the New York Milf Hunters. We are ready to track down every single baddie over the age of 30. Really? Is 31 Milf though? Is 31 Milf at what age are you considered a Milf? I'm asking the real questions here. Nope, no one goes through my search history. It isn't about her age. Is she a mom? I disagree. If a 22 year old girl has a kid, she's not a Milf, I just don't agree. A lot of people are saying a Milf is any woman with a mom and a cougar is 45 plus. I just don't agree.  Under 35, not necessarily. Perfect example, Rihanna is 34. Would you really call Rihanna a Milf? I wouldn't even call Beyonce a Milf. Beyonce's 40. Nicki Minaj is 39. Doja Cat, bro. Doja Cat is such a baddie. If Doja Cat had a kid tomorrow, she a Milf. This is just not good criteria. What are we talking about?  Um, also, I am pulling a massive audible on this season opening wheel spin. And that audible is this. Oh, oh, oh. This is NBA 22 Panini prism with none other than Wade Wantingham on the front. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna open every single pack and we will be able to take one player's best version and add it to our squad. Do you guys remember when I opened the world's most expensive trading card box? I did pull a diamond lamello ball.  Oh!  And I had to give it away to one of you guys. Now the reason for that is that video is sponsored by whatnot. Whatnot is like the goat of collectibles. You can buy and sell tons of collectibles like sports cards and you can go live on there as well. Well, whatnot is sponsoring today's video so you probably know where this is going. The box I'm gonna open is a 1986 Fleer which has a chance to have a Michael Jordan rookie card. I will also be opening a 2003 Topps Chrome which has a chance to have a LeBron James rookie card. So the only thing I'm ripping today is this. This'll help out our 2K squad, but if you want a chance at any of the insane cards that I'm about to pull, you gotta pull up to the stream. This stream will be at the national, the biggest sports card convention in the world and you can tune in live from your phone on the whatnot app. Saturday, July 30th, 2 p.m. Eastern. That's coming up. Download the whatnot app, make an account, it's totally free, and then pull up to the ripping wax account on whatnot. So to conclude whatnot, I love you. Thank you for the box. Let's absolutely rip to start out with a 2K and Saturday, July 30th, 2 p.m. Eastern. Pull up to the stream for your chance to win free cards and have a good time with the boys. All right, boys, let's hop in. It's gonna be a long season opener, I'll tell you that. Now, one thing I'll tell you about this box opening, I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for because I don't know NBA trading cards that well, so I know what I'm looking for to get a good 2K card, but if you guys know that I pull something really cool, if you let me know, that'll be awesome. Wow, that is beautiful. Oh my God, that's beautiful. The whatnot is so clutch. Boys, hook me up. 12 cards per pack, 12 packs per box. So 144 total cards. We're pretty much guaranteed to get somebody amazing. So here's what they look like. Oh yeah, I love how Prisms look. They look just like the NFL Prisms, so sick. I wish there was a way I could show you guys every card, but I'll just make sure I show you the big ones because there are gonna be a lot of silvers in here. Curry. I got a little Curry. I can pull up with Dark Matter Curry. Oh my God, oh my God. I'm sleeving it. I'm sleeving this. I don't care, I'm sleeving it. When's easy? What are the odds, bro? Should I talk about them? All right, two good pulls in that pack for a blue CJ McCollum. 148 of 199. Prism Zach Levine.  It's kinda sick. Ooh, look at this. 29 of 125. Carl Anthony Towns. Xavier Tillman, Michigan State University. The Grizzlies really loaded up on MSU guys. They got Jared Jackson too. Mindset Luca Donchich. I don't think it's a rare card, but it's nice for 2K because you guys really want me to have a Luca Donchich card. TJ Warren, 16 of 49. 16 of 49 is dope, but TJ Warren does not get me insanely excited. Ooh, I think we just got our first rookie. Our rookie, Otto. I didn't see who it was. Yeah, I'm gonna let you guys see it first. Trey Murphy for the Pelicans. I'll be honest. I might be a casual, but I don't think that's a crazy pull. I will take an Otto though. Trey Murphy. Not bad, boys. Wide screen. This is interesting. I have not seen this. A widescreen Zion Williamson. I hadn't even only had this in there. That's kind of sick. Dude, I just got a James Worthy. And there's actually a Patrick Ewing back there. And I guarantee Ewing has a really good card, so. Ooh, see like this, bro? Like, just a silver Giannis, but I could get end game Giannis if I wanted to. Prism Moses Moody. They're actually kind of crispy. A Prism Malik Beasley as well. I actually love this. A Prism Fred Van Vliet. Prism Tim Duncan. I like invincible Tim Duncan a lot, actually. Oh, this goes so hard. Prism Laurie Markinin. That goes hard. I like that. Jason Tatum. Damian Lillard. Bad timing for this one. Yeah, I don't need that. Two Final Packs, boys. I don't know. I mean, I don't know my NBA cards, but I don't think this has been too cracked of an opening. Mo Bamba, Malik Beasley, Hassan Whiteside. 32 of 99. Patrick Williams. I got all the Trey Murphy's today. Final pack right here. It starts out with John Wall. John Wall, Jaden McDaniels, Julius Randall. Kevin Love. Does Kevin Love have an invincible? Ooh, nasty, Eric Gordon. Eric Gordon? How do you say his last name? Is this guy German? Is it Wagner? He was a beast at Michigan, dude. It's actually a nasty card right there. 76 of 149. No shot. I just got this. No shot. I got this in the last pack. Let's go! All right, all right, all right, all right. Listen, it's not the most cracked card pull, but I have won at Vince Carter for so long. Remember that game last season? I had Vince Carter and then I lost him? That could be this game as well, except I already have LeBron and Mike. So maybe that's not the right pick.  I have a chance at getting him though. All right, boys. Hey, that was our Panini Prism opening. Let me know if I got anything crazy. I don't know if I did, but now I gotta decide what I want in 2K. Full disclosure, one thing I don't wanna do is go down this end game rabbit hole. I don't want my whole team to be end games. So even though there's technically end games that I could get from that pack opening, I think I do know what I wanna go with. Time! My decision is Luca Doncic. Thanks to this mindset pull right here, I'm taking invincible Luca Doncic as my player. Now the reason I'm taking invincible Luca Doncic is number one, I was trash with him last time. Whatever Luca I had, I sucked with him. I don't remember what Luca was, but I sucked with him. 75 all the fame badges, he's insane. And I do wanna get better at different play styles. I've been playing this whole game through my power forwards and centers and it's time to switch it up. And I think a demon like Luca Doncic should do well with that. I would have gone with invincible Steph Curry, but the closest one on the arch house right now is four hours away.  And it looks like I'll win this. And as we wait for Luca to get bought for this squad, let's go ahead and get our challenge wheel in right now. And the challenge wheel, as you know, has been very clutch. We get one pack from the store, if we can complete it. Let's see what we got here. Each starter needs 10, ooh. Okay, I perfectly grilled this one last time. Let's see if I can do it again. The only issue is I don't have nearly as much firepower this season. When I hit that 69 challenge, I had Yamming and Shaq and everybody. I have end game Michael Jordan and invincible Luca. That should be enough though. That's a lot of studs. And I got Wang Zizi. I don't care if that's not how you say it. I'm not changing how I say it. The New York Mill Hunters are adding invincible Luca Donchich to the starting lineup. So now it's invincible Luca end game Jordan, poverty, LeBomb, that's what he will be called until he is an end game. Serge Ibaka, Deontre Aitin as our starting lineup. Our challenge is to score exactly 69 points in this game. Sorry, I didn't explain that in the challenge wheel. Score exactly 69. P's got Mike, P Merovic, Damar, Shaq, okay. Honestly not scared really at all. That Damar is good. I'm not worried. I think we're gonna be all right. I mean, if he's really good, we're definitely not.  I'm playing another park player. And he's chatting too. He's on the mic. He's just wopped out of my face.  Oh, he's really on the mic. I can't hear him. He's not, you're not talking to me, are you? How can you hear me? How can you hear me? How do you hear me? Oh, he's talking to someone else. Stupid. He's not talking to me. Bro, play the game. What are you doing? They're weird, huh? Yeah, I've been well. How about you?   He's not talking to me, but it really sounds like he is.  Now I'm taking my win. I'm taking my win.  He had three points already. I got scared. All right, boys. We need exactly 69 points to complete the challenge. 10 with LeBron to upgrade to Ruby and a win to keep invincible Luca. He's got, I don't think I'm worried. A lot of those are like free to play cards. Not that like people who pay to play are any better. In fact, those are either worse, but I don't know, that's kind of a poverty lineup. You can get a lot better point guards than that Isaiah Thomas for dirt cheap.   All right, screen. Step back, Luca. I don't know if it's so sick for my opening shot with that new Luca. As much as I like being the Jets, I hate these Unis. These Unis are gross.  I might switch up the Unis. All right, Luca to the rack on LeBron, drills it. Yeah, I think I'm gonna switch up my Unis. I might go all just vintage Bulls Unis. Ooh, good move. Good fading shot. I'm gonna take off with Jordan. Oh, bad pass maybe. What, what? Dude, that was supposed to not go in, I don't think. Ooh, great defense. Great on-ball defense. Let's not force any points. Let's just score. I'm not gonna worry about forcing anything to LeBron right now. Ooh, great shot, Jordan. Gonna have a crazy good three-pointer. He'll probably have a decent one, a lot better than the Unis.  I'm... All right, Luca already playing quite well. Haven't done much with Jordan yet. Great defense.  Great work, great work. All right, get it up to Jordan. Pump fake. Get him jumping. Jordan to the rack. Time to six. Let's go. Ooh, nope, nope. Great defense. Out to Jordan. Pump fake, got him jumping. Wait, Jordan's post-fade's gotta be just gross, right? Ooh, that was all right. That was all right. Oh, I did not see that guy down there. He just blended in. Not because he's, because of his jersey color though, guys. I think Luca can just body Isaiah Thomas.  I like that match up a lot. Milfunter shooting a good percentage, having a good game so far. He's coming in on Wang. It's the poverty of Yao Ming on the real Yao Ming. And real Yao Ming won. All right, all right, poverty Yao Ming. Give him what's up. Don't even take it. Yup, poverty Yao Ming. No way. Wang Zizi.  I did not mean to come that far out.  He was in my face. Nice to see him. Oh, Yao's a beast, bro. He just stole the in-bounds, but it gets stolen right back by Jordan up to, I don't know who that was, but I think Jordan will score this. Let's go, Jordan. I am actually above pace for 69 right now, and it's a close game, so it's actually not good. Because if I get to 69 and he's at 68 and I can't score anymore, I'm gonna be in trouble. Darius, oh, that's Amethyst Curry. Wait, that's good. We both got some Amethyst on this squad. Love to hear that. Oh, out to Lebron. He's jumping. Damn, this Lebron is tired. Oh, okay. I'll take the free bucket. Aten's got a good mismatch right there, but I gotta get Lebron involved. Zero points for Lebron right now. It's also got pretty decent. That was just a horrible shot. Great defense, boys. How do we get Lebron involved? Can I screen and roll with him? Oh, yes, screen and roll with Lebron. Caught Lebron? Yes, one second. Yes, with no time on the clock, Lebron, don't stop. Okay, that's two. Me 10 with him, that was not easy. He's gonna get an easy one right there. This game's a little too close for me to be dicking around, but whatever. Little screen here, mid-range. Ooh, Jesus, that is a sapphire. I'm a little too spoiled by these end games, bro. That shot's a lot easier on an end game. Come across with Lebron. Good defense, come back across. Ooh, okay. All the way to the- Oh, shit! Lebron! Sapphire Lebron pulls out the dog package, too. I guess I assume most of the cards can do that, but he's making it a lot easier than Yannis made it already. That Yannis was, that Yannis was just not it. See if I can get one more of those exact same buckets. He will not on-ball me either. Damn, that guy. Got a lot of clock here. Downhill Lebron. Oh, I gotta take a really tough contest to Jumper and getting over the back. And now I regret everything. All right, fine. Let's just go get a bucket, shall we? Ooh! Favorite ducks of all time, dude. And a rip. Oh, almost took it from him, too.  Damn, and I just got, I got lost. I got lost, right there. I need a map. Easy bucket for Deandre, and on the pick and roll, make it three! I'm not on pace for 69 anymore, and I'm losing right now. I don't know.  Not a good feature. Well, he's not a dark matter.   Yes, sir! Down to Ibaka.  Put it up with Deandre. Ooh, not a bad shot. Not a bad shot there. Could have certainly been better. But we save for last shot. Played a smart down by a point. 39 points here to land exactly on 69 and got a hold into less than that. Ooh, damn it. I did the slowest step back in the world, bro. And Ibaka just tried to put that back.  Oh, good rip. Oh, I thought I'd have that. He just greened that in Ibaka's face. Well, I know Yow's built like that, dude. I know better than anybody. Look out! Damn, I'm trying to go for the win right now.  Look at these defensive settings. Transition defense, no threes. And what universe are you camping the paint? Why would you ever do that? Not a good run right there.  But you gotta get it together as a horrendous shot. That's always nice. Jordan and one. Good free throw, Jordan. Let's get another good one, Jordan. Easy, easy. Okay, okay.   Damn, hey, one point game. We were just down by six. Now we're bringing it right back. Good work, boys. And now he's got a wide open three pointer once again. I almost got to like have my starters in at all times.   Another wide open three, would I have transition threes on? Like no transition threes? Get it to, just get back on the board, 37-44. And if this Therias Garland is so not equipped to guard Isaiah Thomas. All right, let's just bring the starters back in and just hope that they can do this. Great defense. Oh, of course.  Perfect defense, offensive board, wide open three. Bro, I literally subbed in my starters. What are we doing? Deandre Aitin, 46% contested, great shot. Don't know how I didn't pick that. Ooh, but I'll pick that all the way. He's gonna jump. Oh, what a move. That's a horrible shot. Great defense. He's jumping. He's still jumping. He's still jumping. Five seconds on this clock. Let's get a great shot. I'm going up with Jordan. Always my best shot, baby. We're making this a real game right now. Seven seconds on the clock. Step back, hurry, horrible shot. Let's go. Let's go. Come on, we can still do this. We can still win this game. Oh, he jumped, great shot. Oh, boys, 49 to 51. What a run right there. God, we're so piss poor without the starters in though.  So if I were to score 20 points here, I would complete the challenge in this quarter. It's not super realistic, but. Oh, he's jumping early, looked up, drills it. 52, 51. We just took the lead. How long's it been since I've had a lead? Takes a midi with Yao. Good shot. His Yao is taken over too. Surge, great shot, great layup. One point lead once again. Surge, oh, I thought I liked that. I'm staying awful. He is really trying to cook, but they are not budging. Get that out of there. Ibaka is nasty, Amethyst Ibaka.  Jordan all the way, dish it out. I don't know who this is. That's why I didn't take it. And it appears that I made a very good decision. Do you just miss that wide open midi?  He just had a wide open midrange, and he missed it. I'm getting a three. I'm getting a three with Luca.  Luca, you savage. Good day! Perfect jump step, that's six. That's six for LeBron, 59 points for the team. He overcommitted to the paint. Oh no, I need the starters still in. He's jumpy up here, dude. He's so jumpy. Oh, what? Debating myself with Luca so hard right now. Okay, three second offensive three. Didn't he, wasn't that offensive, or offensive five? He was just camping down there. He's just camping on LeBron over there. I'm gonna get a good screen here. Luca, I need a good one out of you. Luca, turn around! What a shot, Luca! Oh no, that's pretty open. Let's go, out to LeBron. Good p- LeBron is tired, I can't shoot that again. Into LeBron, let's go up, let's go up, LeBron.  Shit, that would've taken me to 66 and eight with LeBron. Good defense, Mike, he ain't hittin' that. Great defense, up to LeBron, underneath, yes! Geez, he is tired, 66 points. I've got eight with LeBron, James. Oh no, wide open curry. Wait, he has a foul, wait, he has a foul. Let's just get it into LeBron, and we're fine. Let's go, where's LeBron? Oh no, I gotta get it back to LeBron. Okay, go, back to LeBron. Shit, LeBron's the inbounder, I can't. Wait, now I miss this, I have to miss this, and I have to get the ball to LeBron next time. He greens a three, now we have to get this to LeBron. And then he fouls, and we hit both, we hit both, follow me. We hit both, we sit on 69! Come on, LeBron, no! Shit! God, that's horrible, horrible!  Wait, this is bad, I gotta let him have a three. I gotta let him have one. I let him have one, I gotta go to LeBron again. I gotta get the inbounds, and the foul, the foul, the foul, the foul. Oh no, but I can only hit one. I can only hit one of these, and then I have to stop my defense.  He kinda got open. Oh, he was open, he could have had that. He messed that up so bad. Oh, he just ran a perfect play. Now I have to score again. I gotta score. Toes it into the table? That's a season opener, ladies and gentlemen. That is a season opener. Box score, Isaiah Thomas, dude.  Granted, I gave him two wide open threes on purpose there at the end to get LeBron points, so maybe I didn't get my challenge, but LeBron James has 10 points, so that's a Ruby LeBron James we get.  Luca is absolutely insane. Game winning bucket, game winning defensive stop, 25 points, four assists, four rebounds, two steals, zero turnovers. Nine for 14, four for six from three, and the only free throw I missed because I made him miss it. Jordan was amazing too, six for eight shot, like shot the lights out, awesome release. 10 for LeBron, nine for eight, and did play really well. Awesome, awesome game. Gotta shoot my opponent, Gigi, because that was a subactacular game. He said it's just MMG. Gigi's my guy, I hope you see this video. We keep Luca, we keep Michael Jordan, no pack to open, but we do get Ruby LeBron James instead of Sapphire LeBron James. Cool, so LeBron is now his Halloween card, is that what that is, I think? He actually wasn't that bad just as a Sapphire. I did miss a three, but dude, he was slamming out there. He was putting up good contested shots. I'm not worried about upgrading him in the future. Ibaka was awesome, so that's sick. Amethyst are doing work. Also, I'm sorry, Wangzeezy, I'm as much as I love you, and you did redeem yourself. I'm gonna try out BAM as my backup power forward, as my backup center. Ooh, also Darius Garland, big liability.  I want something different. So I can choose any Amethyst, Amethyst point guards. I want something with A plus perimeter defense. That is Isaiah Thomas, but he's even small. Ooh, Dennis Smith Jr would be kind of fun. Yeah, I'm going Dennis Smith Jr right here. So now it's Dennis Smith Jr, Ray Allen, Scotty Pippin, Julius Randall, B.M. Audubio, Luca, Mike, LeBron, Serge, Ape. Good shit, boys, amazing season opener. We moved to one and O. No years of celibacy for me. Hope you guys enjoyed. I know this is a long one, but thanks for being here, and I'll see you in the next one. Peace.


That's it for today. Now, if you want to do a little just wrap about whatever questions you have, we'll do that right now in the Q&A. So, let's get into it, huh? All right. Silas Larson says, that's a good picture. Coinbase is conservative about what it carries. What's the exchange with the most choice of products? Binance? I think Binance by far. But it could be Kucoin. I'm not for sure. I don't get access to either of them because I'm in America, so whatever. Pepe? Memes? I don't own any Pepe. Does that mean Pepe's not going to make it? No, just means I don't own it. There's nothing because like, look, let's say that I have $10 that I have to spend every month. Okay, that $10, there's only so many things I can buy, you know? And I'm not the guy to really go really deep and all into like meme coins and weigh down the list.  And maybe I'll come over here and go down to these crazy, you know, Web3 games, which the tokens are actually paying off right now. You know, play a bowl and all that stuff. So, yeah, I mean, there's only so much I can do. J-Rick, Solana. I said Solana. And X1K says it perfectly. 7-1 bag is a lot to carry. It is a lot to carry. But you understand, a lot of those that I mentioned are just sitting in wallets. I didn't even know I had or they were just lounging around from 2021. And I have been, there was a video we did. Let me pull it up. Where we took a look at the tokens from 2017 and how many actually from the top 53, how many hit their all-time highs in 2021. Out of the top 53 in 2017, only 11 out of 53 hit their all-time high in 2021. That's 20%. It's only 20%. So people were saying, well, that's, then I have to really clamp down and choose the right ones. Not really. Because the thing is, and we took a look at it, out of those other 42, they didn't hit their all-time high. But from the low point to when they hit the high of 2021, there were some massive gains to be had. So if you were, even if you were buying a dollar cost averaging, your cost basis was going down, you know, like you buy some at 100 bucks, it goes down to 80, you buy it down here in 60 and 40 and 30 and 2 cents or whatever it is. So your cost basis is really low. And then when the next bull run came, yeah, didn't hit the all-time high, but went up pretty high. Next one. And that's pretty much where I'm at right now. Let's see. So no percentage of your crypto allocations. No, I wouldn't have more than 20 crypto. Well, okay, no, no, I will go against that. 75% of my allocation is in Bitcoin. 10%, roughly 10% is in Ethereum. So take that from where you is, what you think it is. But remember, as you're in this crypto space longer, you tend to gravitate more towards a little bit of safety. But that doesn't mean that, let's say you have 10,000 to Bitcoin, and then you only have, I don't know, $1,000 into CASPA, whatever it is, right? Well, guess what? The 10,000 Bitcoin, it might double, it might triple. But do you think it's going to 100x? It can't. It can't by the next bull run. I mean, it can, but I mean, come on, let's be serious. Can CASPA 50x? Sure. CASPA can. These gaming tokens can. But that's why you don't like go heavy, like that's for me. And of course, you guys do what you want to do, right? Who's your dad? Not me. So whatever you want to do, where you want to put your tokens into or your money into, it might 30 or 40 to 50x. But remember, for every different low-cap gem that's out there, a lot of these won't make it. How many cryptos are out there? There's over 5,000 different cryptos out there. I know people will bombard you with, well, this one, mine went up and this one went up. Of course that went up. That's the one that you're focusing on. Let me take a look at the rest of your portfolio.  Liar? Not, you're not lying. But you know what I mean? You're not being honest with everybody. Nicky says, Rob, I wonder if you took a little time to set up some sell orders for much of your assets to make sure you don't miss out on any pros moving forward? No. And I know people will say, well, you should do that. You should set up the sell orders. I can do that. But guess what that means? That means I have to take it off of my cold storage device and I have to send it over to an exchange and I don't want to do it. I don't. It's very, it's just as simple for me to wake up and go, wow, like I just did this yesterday. Woke up and I was like, wow, there's a lot of, a lot of it in the green. Maybe I should take some profits off the table. 1%, 2%, something around there just so I can get that muscle memory. Very simple to do. I got this great wallet. It's called Tange. I don't know if you've heard about this, but when I want to send something, I open the app, I hit the button and I do this and then it's there. And then I sell it. That's it. And then, but people say, Rob, you're going to miss it. Again, I appreciate your concern for my economic well-being, but I'll be okay. And I have a plan. That plan, you can see quite clearly. There's a link in the description. It's, there's a title. It's a very top. It says, when I'm going to sell 80% of all my crypto, here's the indicators I'm looking for, and you'll know it because I'll do a video about it saying I sold 80% of my crypto. That's it. Tony, Tony Begg, you can put your Caspa on Tange. Yes, you can. And that's where I have a decent amount of my Caspa. Because remember, I've got, I got a Tangem, a Ledger, and an Elipal. And then also I didn't know this, but they just added, I don't know if they just added, but somebody asked me a question. Can you put a Pithe, a Pith, on Tangem? Yes, I just did it today. So I don't have to hold it in my phantom wallet. Marty says, Rob, don't keep that card in your wallet. Scammers can scan that card since it's got the TAP feature. Exactly. That's just it. Like people say, well, I'm going to, like I have four cards in my, in my, in my phone. I'm not going to show you what they are, but one is my driver's license. We'll say that. And the other three are just like credit and debit cards. I don't care if people get that. But this, are you out of your mind? Why would I keep it in there? Like, and then another thing I was thinking myself, is there something that I have to do? Like where I'm out at, I don't know. I'm out of Costco or something, picking up another 10 pounds of, of steak and bacon. And I'm like, you know, I really got a chance for that Bitcoin. I better do it right now in Costco. Thankfully, I got this card. No, I don't, I don't need to do that. This stays in a secure place. And that's just one of them. The other one's not even in this, it's not even Puerto Rico, the other one. There's Ben's hair cut. I got a Tangem and I love it. I'm opening a safe deposit box this week from the cards. That's beautiful. Good job. I see pieces holding CASP a long term. You lose your money. Eh, what do you mean long term? Like 10 years? No, that's ridiculous. 2024? Eh, depends on your definition of long term. Everybody's got a different definition. Where did you get your CASP, Rob? Tony has a lot of questions you're asking me. I'm just kidding. Where did I get it? Let's find out. I want to say it was a simple swap. I'm going to show you how I did this. So I messed this up last time because somebody asked me, how did you get Pythe or Pith or whatever it's called?  I was like, I did it on the website. No, no, I did it on Orca because you can do, if you're in America, you can't use Orca, which is a decentralized exchange on Solana. But if you're in Puerto Rico, hey, hey, there you go. But with CASP, my friend, if you scroll all the way down, down here, I use Change Now. And if you, Change Now is very, it's very simple to use. You just send. It takes a little bit of trust.  There's a ton of different things you can use. And you can just say, I want this for this token. That's how I got my CASP. And if you're looking like how to use Change Now, you can use Change Now or Simple Swap. I did a video on it and it said Dan teaches crypto in the how do I section. So that's, hopefully that answers your question. That's, that's how I got CASP. But I wish it would be easier, but it really wasn't. ICP, holding dot long term. Insane clown posse. That's funny. That's a good question. OrthoRDH, do any of these Coal Surge wallets keep track of your initial price when you send your tokens to it? That's a good point. So when I had, I had Nikita, who was one of the developers on when we did our deep dive video a couple of days ago on Tangem. And one of the questions that people asked was something along those lines, which was, Hey, how do I back up everything, especially for my taxes and be able to like download, see my cost based analysis, see my long term and short term capital gains. And I guess this would be the same thing with your initial price. And they said, well, we're working at it right now. I'm have a sit down powwow with coin ledger, which is a tax software that I've used two years in a row. They're going to roll out their new portfolio tracker, which is 100% free.  So I'm going to talk to them and have introduced them to Tangem. But as far as like your initial price. So the thing is, Ortho, if you're using the only way this would, this would be is when you're using Tangem, usually what it is you buy things from an exchange, I'm not going to use Tangem to buy things because the different, I think it's moon pay they've integrated, but somebody else, the prices are astronomical, don't use Tangem to buy your crypto use an exchange. And then, then you'll transfer it over. So your initial price will be located on the exchange. Now, there is a way to use a dex, which I showed you on the video, and how to do that. But again, if you're using a dex, that means that first of all, you bought the crypto someplace else. And then let's see, that's a good question. I wonder if you can see it. I have to look at it. The only way that work is if you integrate with with a portfolio tracker, I think, so using a dex with this one, I think it's going to work. But it could be wrong. All right. I use phantom for swapping what's hooked on my ledger. Isn't that smooth though? Seriously? I mean, everybody, everybody has their own tolerance. I personally hate using a ledger. Tony, you're welcome. See? Well, well, now we know we made it when we actually do want to crypto access at Costco. Yeah. Rob, do you have a video on how to actually put money from exchange interaction bank account? Every exchange is different. Coinbase is very easy. Like when I sold my crypto, it transfers into US dollars. And then you do, you do just hit the button where it says transfer. And then your bank accounts, which is connected to your exchange, and transfers the cash over to your original bank account. That's it. It's a wired transfer. So it takes one or two business days. But yeah, it's pretty easy on that one. If you're talking about Kucoin and Binance and BitHum and all that, I have no idea. I can't, I can't have access to those. Mark says, I didn't buy the third card because I didn't want to have to keep track of three cards. He was not good enough. Mark, I have two cards. I have two cards. I didn't buy the third one because I fat fingered it when I was doing it. First Coast Crypto says, you can't with a VPN. So shout out to meme because she sent me the terms and conditions for one inch. And one inch clearly states that you cannot access one inch, which is the decentralized exchange if you are in the United States and if you are in Puerto Rico. So if you do that, that of course is on you, which means that they could, I don't know actually what they could do to you, honestly, because it's not like you're going to hold your crypto there. But I guess they could report you. I don't know. Meme helped me out on this one.  I'm just going to do it anyhow. I mean, is that like, what are they going to do? Could Gary come out of hiding? Moon Walker says, hey, Rob, do you think a Bitcoin ETF approval will create more of buying pressure or selling pressure? There's arguments for both. A lot of people lean towards a lot of buying pressure, but some people said there could be selling pressure because, let's be honest, BlackRock is not the good guys. They are the heavy manipulators. I think it would behoove them to actually crash the price, to get it on a lower point. So when their customers come in, they can say, look, yes, this product is down 20%. But you know, the ultimate was this. So that could be it. But on the same token, you could say, let's say Bitcoin goes to 50,000.  They could say, look, it's at 50,000 now. The all-time high is $67,000. There's a gap here. Let's just do two, three percent of your portfolio, one to two percent, and you're going to do pretty well because we think it's going to go at 100,000 because it's going to be a new Bitcoin heavy. Either way, but the great thing about it, and we talk about this, is if you just look at the long term, it doesn't really matter. If they come out and say, if there is buying pressure, great, price goes up, portfolio goes up, everybody's happy, right? If there's selling pressure, great, price goes down. Guess what that means? You get to buy more at a cheaper price. And then of course, the halving actually comes in because if they do get approved, I think it'll be happening in January along with ARC and everybody else. That means you got January, February, March, April until the Bitcoin halving and until the end of 2024 to where you can buy a little bit cheaper Bitcoin in 2025 or off the races. And especially with Fed's cutting costs or cutting costs, cutting rates. No, that's pretty cool. Chris says, random, but I got chat GPT to write me a poem with my seed words and it's really good. I know it by heart now. Interesting. That is interesting.  I have the upgrade so I can actually click on it and I can talk to chat GPT. And I said, make me a picture of a bull riding a bear. And I just did it. On my phone, I uploaded it to Twitter. Very nice. Banners broke us. Hey, Robin, tell which month you're doing DCA. Really, this one comes down to time and risk bands. And you'll know what I'm talking about when you watch that video. The link's in the description. But just to give everybody a sense of what I'm talking about. Let's sneak into Ben's website into the crypto verse. And let's probably want to see this, huh? Hey, and if you'd like to sign up for this, I highly recommend it. 10% off the first month. Link's in the description. And he's having a sale right now. As a matter of fact, I think it's until until Christmas. I can't, I think. All right. So charts crypto risk. I'm in risk bands. And like I showed you in the video, the time and risk bands, it's really all just comes down to this. Can you see this? There we go. So there is the time in, of course, these risk bands or a time period of when Bitcoin stays in there the longest. You can see over here that 0.9 to 1.0, that's when things get overheated. There's only 18 days that's ever happened. 18 days. 0.9 is 80, 0.7 is 0.8, 125. Around 0.75, I'm stopping dollar cost averaging Bitcoin. What's the point? I know, you know, Michael Saylor was going to buy every day. He said he's going to buy the bottom by the tops. He can do that. But I'll probably lay off it. And then to give you a, there's two things I want to show you. Price. Look at this. Remember that number? 0.9 to 1.0. Only 18 days. Look at the days. Can you see this? It's not perfect, but 57,000. I'll take that. How about over here? 19,500 in 2017, roughly the top. 2013, same thing. Well, double top. But hey, what are you going to do? And you can do that for Bitcoin, ETH, ADA, BNB, Solana. Now, there's less data points for those. So just be aware. And then of course, if we're going to come over here for dynamic DCA, here's an example. So let's say you started 0.7, 0.8. For some reason, you got in late. That's okay. You put in 50 bucks a week. But then as it starts to, hey, there you go. And look at 0.6 to 0.7, which means that the price is actually decreasing. So it gets less risky. So you're like, well, it's less risk, I'll put in 60. Then there's less price, 70. Then of course, 0.4, 0.3. So at the point when it gets to 0.001, which has only been at 134 days in the 13, 14-year history, whatever it is, you're really going heavy. That is called dynamic DCA. And the same thing works in reverse. So I hope that answered your question. And then of course, which month? I don't know which month because it has to show me. It has to show me the indicators. And then of course, PyCycleTop will be very nice. And take a look at the MBRVZ score. You know what those are? Let me show you. So look at this. There is this website, looking at Bitcoin. And these are just one of the, one of the, or a couple of the indicators that I'm going to look at. It's not all encompassing. You should always look at multiple. But MBRVZ score, and you can look at this. Once things starts to get into the red, and you also overlay that with say like the risk factors, you can see that in the green parts. This is an awesome time to buy, right? I don't know what the price was in December, 19, 2018, but I know it was pretty damn low. And then over here, what else was it? Do you remember the price? Same thing. You remember the price was on, what is this? On November 9, 2022, I think it was like 15, 16,000. So these are good times to buy and then to sell once we get into these red areas. Now it didn't do a great job on the last one, but again, February 18, 2021, I want to say it was like 56,000. Correct me the comment section. And over here, December 8, 2017, pretty good time. Then over here in 2013, still pretty good time. So there's that one. And then let's look up it. Well, multiple. Again, colors. When you start to get into the red, time to think about selling. Didn't do a great job here, but it did a great job beforehand. Again, that's why I take these and the time and risk bands. There's a couple of other ones that you can find. So that's where I'm going, moving forward. Lovebug says you're selling 80% of your crypto, and mostly Bitcoin is what's most you have right now. You have to understand when we get in 2024 and 2025, do you really think that the web three gaming tokens are going to be worth what they are today? I expect the alt coins to massively outperform and become a higher percentage of the value of my portfolio as time goes on. I just gave you 71 reasons. Are they all going to make it? No. So does that mean that that's the end will be all? No, but I'm going to sell a lot. And people will say, you know, you should never sell Bitcoin. Look, they're right.  We're going to have multiple, multiple, multiple countries using Bitcoin. It's going to be the reserve currency for the globe. And we're going to also adopting it. That's great. Until I see that, I still think things will get overheated. People will get over their skis. They will buy too much and it will crash fantastically. I could be wrong, but hey, if you think about it this way, if you believe that Bitcoin, what you could, it could be like the next reserve currency. 20% of what I have right now will put me in the 0.001% of the entire world population. So I don't really care. All right. Well, maybe not that high. That's a little bit, that's a little bit boisterous. I shouldn't say like that. Colochios, why do you believe in sweat? I just do. So if you're looking at, I don't want to go over this because everybody gets bored when I talk about sweat coin. Here's what it looks at. It's a free app. You earn free tokens. You can take those tokens and you can actually turn them right now because they have a dex integrated in their wallet. And you can turn it into Neer and Ethereum and wrap stuff and blah, blah, blah. So on that part. But then you think to yourself, well, why is having value? Why do they give you tokens? Well, it's very simple. You're on YouTube. You're on social media. It's free, right? Yeah. It means you're the product. It's the same thing with the app. They're going to serve you ads. They're going to serve you different products that they have partnered up with these different places. And at some point, you're going to buy something. Not all of you. I personally have bought like some headphones and I forgot something else I bought. I just think like it has value right there. On top of that, if any like, let's say, I don't know, your insurance company wants your types of data for your activity and you could sell it to them, that'd be very valuable as well. There's a couple of different other reasons, but that's just the stretch of service. Also, it's built on Neer and seems to work out pretty well. Probably have a, I do not have a bird. Simple swap is the best. I thought Coinbase catch on super ACH. There could be a CH depends on how you sign up. What about dot? What about dot? I own some dot. If you're in the US, what countries are you guys using with your VPN? I usually set it to like, like UK or something.  First coast group says I'm 90% certain Bitcoin will have a 20% plus corrections late the last three cycles. Yeah. And I'm like, I know we're all bullish now, but who knows what could happen? Would you say tandem is easier to use in ledger and I think you can make tenor or tracer. I don't, I've never used a tracer. I know guy, Collin Burrell loves it, but as far as like a ledger, much easier and much cheaper. And tangent has been around since 2018 has never been hacked. So ledger has never been hacked either. True. Your personal data was hacked from their server, but on ledger, you've, they've never had any digital assets or crypto been hacked. And the same thing can be said for tangent. So yeah, not a very good to ask chat to BT and share your seed words.  Ta-da. Have the welcome. Thanks for answering out in your own nation for a portfolio tracker. Yeah. When coin ledger rolls it out, that's a good one. There's a couple of other ones that are out there, but I don't use them. I just use a spreadsheet. Wow. Tom says, I sold some of my 2010 Bitcoin. Holy smokes at 64K. I felt like I nailed it, but didn't expect the November high. You're still doing good, I think. Crypto Mike says, I've been taking cold showers for 18 months. Now I have FOMO. I'm waiting for a correction. Corrections right around the corner. Who knows? Hey, Rob, do you think we could see a double bottom before the Bitcoin having? Anything's possible. I'm just hoping to get through this, get through December. Hey, Rob, what about Theta? What about Theta? It is doing great. I don't see a, I mean, I think the rank 53 or 54 seem to be doing more partnerships and they still, like I said, they're still building on what they've accomplished already. Google is one of their enterprise validators for Pete's eggs.  Maverick says, Rob, do you think there'll be a recession in 2024? Statistically, it should happen because everybody's expecting a pivot by the Fed in May. And we know that on average, we took a look at this. We took a look at all the recessions from 1966 moving forward. And we saw that once the Fed pivots usually have about two to three months before you hit an official recession. But the question is, how bad will the recession be? And how long will it last? Recessions on average last 10 months. And you have to understand that the recessions that are 10 months, that is for the economy, that is not for the markets. The markets actually recover two to three months before the economy recovers. So the markets and the economy are two different things. So if you say like, well, let's say that they do it in May, then June, July, we saw the recession in July. And then instead of having 10 months of recession, let's say it could done in seven months. So July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February. So February of 2025 is when we get out of recession for the markets, March, April, May. Not bad timing. We'll see. Oh, I love this question. Well, you shall voyage through this bull market. So, Matt, to answer your question, no, but I will say this. I shilled Voyager quite a bit, I believe it. I talked about Voyager, I talked about Celsius. However, as a quick reminder, here's the timeline. On June 12th, at 11 in the morning, because I came back from Consensus in Austin, I heard something and I said, hey, it's time to take all your crypto office Celsius. I was able to take one Bitcoin off, but the rest got stuck. And on June 12th, at 9 p.m., withdrawals were frozen. And you can find the video because I linked it right there. And on June 20th, 2022, I put the five rules and I said them permanently in all my live streams on June 20th. And you can see those right there. It's all gone. Everything's a scam. 0% exchanges mean take it off and use a cold storage device. And then, on June 22nd, I told you to take all your crypto off of Voyager as soon as possible. And the reason why was because I discovered, because they were a public trader company, they did a $630 million loans of three arrows capital and it was uncollateralized. And I said, you can't do that. I said, take all your crypto off Voyager. I said, I will still keep using them, but I'll be able to take it off because I have a ledger. And then two weeks later, the withdrawals were frozen. And of course, we talked about NigerQ and NigerCrypto. So, to answer your question, Matt, I want to be 100% clear with everybody. No, I will not be talking about Voyager. Ah, let's see. I don't have paper or diamond hands. My hands flow like water. It's a pretty good comment. That's how it should be. I was dying into the bear market. Meme's got a good point.  And of course, Meme, let me ask you a question. What can they do to us if we are accessing it? Because let's say we do use a VPN. Not that I'm saying people to do that. That would not be, that would go against terms of conditions. But what can they do against us as far as a dex? Chris says, Rob, get on early on sweat. I got on super early on sweat, matter of fact. I was on the seed round and you would think that that was a pretty good price. And it was. Do you want to know how much I paid in the seed round? Show you. There is a document called the DGEN sheet. And you can find it. There's a link in the description of all my videos. It's at the very bottom. And these are the ones that I degenerate, degenerate into. Gensokishi Everdon fame and sweat coin. I got it on June 23rd, 2022. And I bought it at 0.01. And the all-time high price was 0.09. Unfortunately for Rob, he had a one-year lockup because that's the fair thing to do. And what happened to it? It went all the way up and went all the way down. Now, drink number 367. This isn't bad. And it's worth barely a penny. I'm not even breaking even. So people would say, oh, Rob just wants to dump on people. He was going to dump on us. Never had the opportunity. Never did it. And when it comes to when it doubles in price, I will take profits. I think I've been very clear on that one. And that's on everything. That's on the other 71 tokens that I own. So anybody in YouTube world or Twitterverse or any place, they're like, I'll never dump on you. They're full of it. At some points, they're going to take profits. I don't try to be. Rob, what do you think of GRT? H-bar and file? I want to say H-bar is one of those projects that are going to be ISO, SS 2022 compliant or whatever it's called. They probably do pretty well. I just don't own any of them. Darren Wolk says, Rob, we always keep at least one Bitcoin. Give 20%. I don't see the point of me spending all of it. You've got to hold on to it. Hey, you've got to let some people get it, right? I sold my Bitcoin at 10 bucks that are buying at 80 AK. You're close. Pretty close. Theta, yeah. Theta, Zap, Zoom, Cap, Zoom. Can you pick three gaming related coins and do a deep dive maybe by calling someone from the respective?  Everybody. There's a website. Dante Descripto. It's free. I don't even spam you. I just sent you an email when I uploaded a new video, but you go to module seven where it says gaming. We did a deep dive on Web 3, what that is with Yatsu. He is the head of Animoca Brands. Did it with Johnny Hussle. This was on September 21st, and we talked about Volkan Forge, Immutable, Dubs, Echelon Prime, Gala. Stash, we mostly just went over like what Web 3 is, what it's going to take. Kagi, we went over Ronin, Aluvium, ImmutableX, Gameswift, Avogaci. These ones crushed it since we talked. And September 1st, just a couple of days later, I had Jesuson, and we talked about Gala, Ronin, ImmutableX, Aluvium, Avalanche, Polygon, and Myria. And then we did it again just a couple of days ago, and we talked about studios and notes. So just sign up for the website and go there. Or you can try to find them on YouTube. Kwakansolana. Yeah, I heard Kwak's going to be a thing. Is that undervalued? Yes, it is. It means the sweat wallet asked you to certify that you are not in a restricted country, which includes the US. That's incorrect. For sweat wallet, they just rolled this out on November 13th or 14th, and the United States is not a restricted country anymore. That was the big push. If it's in terms of conditions recently, then let me know because I'll talk to sweat, but that was the big thing we were talking about. Tendril is easier. Darth Michael, though. I know Darth. Jared Sonner says, you think Tendril will bring out a debit card in the future? That's one of their plans. I'd rather just see them work on the native staking, though. That would be much, much more appreciated.  I added another random 12 words to my seed phrase, and they are not in order either. Very nice. What's your opinion, Injective? I own some. Or is anyone planning to swapping the render to render Soul? Interesting. After having Max Payne income, perhaps. I like coin yoga more than coin market cap. I have to agree. Best off coin. I don't know. I don't know what it is. Best is like price appreciation or what it can actually do. There's a lot of things that do pretty well. If you're looking at the easiest most streamlined experience for staking, it's Cardano. Hands down. It's the easiest. If you're looking at TPS and throughput, so far, Solana is looking pretty good. If you're looking at also what has a ton of transactions and never goes down, mirror. Or if you're looking at some of the best partnerships with the gaming solutions, Avalanche. It just depends on what you're talking about. I think a lot of things will do very well. It's just all about timing. Mon is essential in it. Oh, trust me. Robbo, don't you own. You'd be surprised. In this comments, I'd be like, I can't believe you don't own XYZ.  That's it. I'll dump on my mom if I get the chance. All right, everybody. Hey, cornucopia is up on that note. That's a good game. On that note, it's been an hour. This is way too long. Everybody, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. Like today's video, thumbs up, subscribe, all that good stuff. And let's see what the next week holds. Stay strong. I think we're in the right place at the right time. And thanks for stopping by. I'll see everybody on the next one.


There are quite a lot of conspiracy theories I have time for. Often elites really do collude to defend their own power by telling elaborate lies. But some conspiracy theories genuinely are quite silly. And when you're a Labour MP, you should really be careful that you have at least some evidence before alleging any sinister plot. This was Valerie Vaz on Politics Live. Dominique was at the right hand of the Prime Minister at the time. I remember the Prime Minister was in hospital for a while. Not quite at death's door that we were led to believe. But he was there, and I think it's quite important. Valerie, that's a extraordinary thing to say. Are you impugning the Prime Minister's integrity in that way? I think it's quite important that we don't forget the 127,000 people. I mean, really to say that, I think it is genuinely wrong, Valerie, to question how sick the Prime Minister was. He was in intensive care and very, very ill. And I think we shouldn't allow that to pass without comment. That was simply wrong to say that. Valerie, do you want to take back what you said? I mean, there's no evidence is there that Boris Johnson wasn't seriously ill. He was, or he was? I don't know. None of us were in the room. None of us, he was in intensive care, Valerie. Okay, so he was in intensive care. I don't know. I can't. I can't honestly. I'm not his doctor. But what's the point of saying that you're not sure? People have died. Dominique Cummings was at his right. And we're talking about Dominique Cummings giving evidence, aren't we? We are. So where you seem to imply that perhaps the Boris Johnson... When the Prime Minister was in intensive care. And I don't know. I mean, honestly, I don't know. But that's not the issue. The issue, he was there and running the government and he will have made judgment calls with or without the Prime Minister at the time. And yeah, quite frankly, the Prime Minister was actually left there. It was left to carry Simons to alert the medics to look after the Prime Minister. But that's not the point. Why are you making it, Valerie? That's the right hand of the Prime Minister at the time making important decisions. And he was there. There are 127,000 people who have died. Absolutely. Then why are you making the point? You know, she had no evidence for it. She admits she's like, I'm not his doctor. You know, who am I to say? I kind of think British politics needs more of this because it does make it way more insane. It's a very Trumpian thing to do. It's to put out this crazy theory, which is that Boris Johnson wasn't actually that sick.  I mean, it is completely implausible because Occam's razor, which is to say the simplest explanation is probably the best one. The simplest explanation here is definitely that he kind of overweight and he got COVID-19. Not that there was this elaborate plan which involved all of these nurses in guys in St Thomas's Hospital to pretend that he needed to go to ICU when he didn't. But Ash, what do you think about this?  Do you have any reason to say that? She's like, I don't know. I'm not his doctor. Who am I to say? I'm not his doctor. But, you know, questions have to be asked.  Like, that's your favourite genre of politician. It makes much better TV.  Whereas I personally, I like my conspiracy theories to at least have, if not a shred of actually existing evidence, at least Valerie tell us that you played a Black Sabbath record backwards and it said Boris Johnson faked it, something like that. Just some crumb of, you know, imagined connection or causality. That's all I'm asking for. I mean, look, I think that what this speaks to is an unfortunate tendency amongst Labour MPs to snatch a negative headline out where they could have had a positive one. Here is an open goal, which is a former ally of the Prime Minister really going in on him for his handling of the pandemic. And instead of joining in and saying, yeah, this confirms what we knew all along, Valerie Vaz decides instead to step on a rake on national TV. And she's just like, seeing that segment unfold, it is like sideshow Bob just again and again walking into it. She can't just go, yeah, you know, I tried that. She has to go, I'm just asking questions, just raising it. But I'm not making that point. Somebody else is making that point. They pulled the string on my back and now I am incapable of saying anything other than maybe the Prime Minister wasn't at death's door. And obviously, you know, when you have a very, very ill Prime Minister, it's a useful moment politically because it provides a kind of buffer for criticism. For that time, people did have to tread carefully about how hard they were going on the government's handling of the pandemic because you couldn't look opportunist when the Prime Minister might be gravely ill and indeed his life could have been hanging in the balance. We didn't know how severe or not it was at the time. So of course that was something which was, you know, I think taken advantage of by senior people within the Conservative Party, by cabinet ministers. But that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.