Good morning. Hello, everybody. He here. Hello Viking.  Um, I am exhausted. I'm stressed out. Can't concentrate. Hello, Ty So what I'm going to do is I'm gonna continue this story Offline any chance I get and I will have it done by Sunday if nothing else the rough draft will be done Sunday Yesterday Power went out. Apologize for not being here. Um, we waited. We waited. We waited till about 10 30 I saw on the dash app dasher app That it was busy. So we decided to go out. Hello, Tane and Then we dashed from then all the way up and I had to stop at six to take Dan to work And then we kept going until nine o'clock that night So we were out for 11 hours yesterday Got home had a edible and went to sleep woke up Because I didn't get to sleep till like two o'clock in the morning woke up this morning still a little fuzzy But yesterday the day before we'd gone grocery shopping And then the power went out the next morning, of course now we live out in a rural area Power goes out all the time for whatever reason whether it's cold windy rain rainy Storming thunderstorms anything any big change in the weather the grid fails for whatever reason We don't even have an electric company really we have a we have a co-op Which is basically funded by all of the you know All of the people who live in this area because we live in such a rural area anyways So I was stressed out about that because we're already tied on money and the groceries We had just got but luckily it came on while we were out dashing nothing spoiled. So we're fine But on top of that We keep running into the same issue where we make a considerable amount of money on door dash But then the gas hits or a new bill or something else happens. So we keep having to add days We added yesterday today. We have to go out Dan has to be a work at 1 We're gonna run from 1 o'clock until they get off at 7 And then I'm coming home, and I'm going to sleep and then tomorrow But not tomorrow the yeah tomorrow is what Saturday Saturday will be gone all day Hopefully if we make we got to make $400 this week to make ends meet We've already made 127 which is what we made yesterday But literally the only thing on my mind, and I cannot get it out of my mind is Bills bills bills money money money, and I know a lot of you guys out there are struggling with the same thing It's like the more money you make The more money that goes out and that's the yeah, that's that's the crux of the whole whole situation More food money because we're out. We're having to go to restaurants instead of eating at home And on top of on top of that The gas money so it's just it you know you you make $500 and a hundred and fifty of it goes to gas for that week And then another maybe 60 to 80 dollars goes to food. It's yeah anyways So that's all literally all I'm thinking about But also I wanted to go live to tell people who are struggling with writing every day. It is okay Not to be okay. It is okay not to have daily writing it is okay and While I'm trying to rebuild this routine and all this could be coming off as excuses it is okay Not to work at least one day. I know we all have Responsibilities and things that need to get done But it is okay to take some time for yourself and I'm saying that as I know I have to go out this afternoon and work again But I also have to focus. There's a third order of business. I also have to focus on my family making sure my family is okay It's not just me. There's three other people is total four of us in this household And we have to make sure that everyone is okay Dan's job is going fantastically But I am not the kind of parent that my parents were or maybe your parents were That made their kids pay rent or made it or whatever I want Dan to be able to save up the money that they make so that they can go out into the world prepared If they decide to go out into the world, they're always welcome at home. It doesn't matter But that goes for both of my kids So I am no I am not I really like you know if Dan's working Why are you struggling so much not everybody but a couple people have mentioned it and it's because I'm not that parent They're the bills of this house not Dan's responsibility. They are mine and shells So that's what we're doing. We're taking care of that and we're making sure that they are financially stable So if they do decide to go and do something else and move out and whatever that they have that base that they need To do the right thing He just I just ordered a burger for dinner. I wish he would deliver it That would be a long dash and be probably about a $12,000 dash But I'd be happy to accomplish that for you Jordan. Anyways So I wasn't even gonna go live today. I was gonna shoot a video But I turned on the camera set up OBS and all that to record and I just kept stumbling all over my words And I was like, I don't have time to edit this. I'm just gonna go live but anyways, so it is okay to take a day off and Main reason I'm saying it is okay is I got a comment yesterday from someone that I Don't I don't know there was that there was a person who was upset Because they signed up for a membership on the channel memberships have always been for people who just want to support the channel There's nothing pay walled. There's no content over there That you know is going to make the membership worth it It is just for the people who want to support me because they asked for me to turn on memberships Same with the patreon patreon people the the it was the fans who wanted the patreon so on and so forth but They got upset and harassed me on Instagram the only place they haven't really got me is tiktok And I think there's just another one of their accounts, but I got a comment yesterday that said Something to the effect of I told I tried to tell y'all that he was gonna flake And he wasn't gonna finish the series because he never does first thing I got to say about that is I'm not dependable do not depend on me if you're a fan of this channel. You know, I'm not dependable I disappear for months at a time Sometimes there's videos every day for a couple months and sometimes there's nothing for several months Do not depend on me do not depend on this content because what comes first for me a hundred percent of the time Every single time is gonna be my family So but I am pushing forward. I'm gonna finish this story We're gonna keep on going it may not be live But I'm gonna keep on going keep on pushing and then on Sunday I will try and go live early in the day and You know read the story to you guys The editing will have to wait until next week. That's that's just it luckily next week story. I'm swapping out One story that was going to be much longer about the family stuck in the loop After the barbecue restaurant that I talked about in the last one I'm gonna be skipping that and I'm gonna be jumping to a shorter story that I can go ahead and knock out But that will end up being the third story in the collection. It'll be confusing, but we'll make it work Thank you tie for the hugs was worried yesterday that something happened.  I Instead finished listening to life at the Dane dude. Why did you do that to me? I liked her and Sven It is what it is. I don't know what else to say, but that ending boy whoo That ending something else and that ending just happened man, Richie. There's a hundred percent honest I don't have I'm not in contact with the two people who were with me while not really with me But we're reading it daily. I Had a friend angel and a friend Jill no longer in contact with either one of them But they were reading along every day. I wrote I wrote the book in nine days And it just kind of fell out of me. The only thing that was added was the part where Dane is hiding food my editor wanted me to add that because she she had that experience So then I had to write another chapter in modern time to balance that one So there were two chapters in there that were added later But nothing was cut nothing was changed the ending was just like that and it just everything just fell right into place it's It's one of those books that I have been trying my entire career To do better than and the closest I've ever come from my own personal You know taste is the sound of broken ribs and it's still number two. It's still under life after Dane Right every day advice. Yeah, I've always hated that right every day advice sounds like or else or else what? I'm currently trying to write every day. I can but if I can't one day, so be it, right? this this whole thing Really has nothing to do with the viewership or keeping the channel alive it has to do with me getting back on the horse and and The accountability of coming out here and working every day needs to happen, but at the same time You do not you do not build good routines By starting with burnout You guys can write that one down if you want to good routines do not start with burn out They never do so I'm going to ease myself back into this. I'm going to write whenever I get a chance Forcing myself only to write on stream is limiting And I don't want to limit these stories.  I want them to all have meaning and purpose so I will take care of Finishing this story. I don't know if it'll be good, but I will finish it and then The best cure for burnout is fog not today not today already. I have the heater on and I know the power out here can't handle both of them You said your editor felt you had to add a section about eating food seems weird if you weren't asking for that kind of input No, okay, let me okay. It's it's not It's about hiding food. There was a story I don't I don't want to name her because I'm not in good terms with her either But when I was working on the book I was looking for I I really just delved deep into my own childhood experiences So while my dad wasn't physically abusive. He was emotionally abusive and he pretty much had the same Sayings and lines that you know Dain's father had that Phil had And when I got to I got to a certain section and the editor said something's missing here We have not tackled certain things That I think would it would make the book better. I was like, what are you talking about?  So? She brought that up She brought up that it covered the theme. She was looking for and that it worked and it did work in the story Editors sometimes have great fucking ideas and she had a great idea She had a lot of bad ideas too, but that's where your own discretion has to come into play your own You know analytical critical thinking skills is like how does it serve the story? Does it does it make the story better or does it feel like filler so on and so forth? And that section really felt like it should have been there the entire time. It just fit the whole thing Looking back. I never hid food But I did have Certain things that I was not allowed that I would eat Outside of the house like I wasn't allowed milk at all whatsoever Because my mother was lactose intolerant. My dad didn't like it and so when I was at school I would literally they were they had a free milk table where anyone who didn't want their milk or didn't like milk They could put it in on this table looking back on it Probably a health cold violation, but I don't know because there was no nothing keeping it cold and I would literally I would take that milk and You know some in fact I held a record for how many cartons of milk I drank when I was a little fat kid so 1414 was the record at my school and that that was mine. Anyways, a little funny side story, but I thought that the scene fit perfectly and Just like Jimmy was bringing up certain things in the last dream that I was like that's a good idea That's a good idea. So you never know where inspiration and ideas are gonna come from And just give those people credit when they come up with a fantastic idea Give those people credit and while I'm not on good terms with that editor In fact, I got a pretty insulting check from that company. I haven't been with that publisher since 2016 Was the last time I ever spoke with them And I got a check for 75 cents recently 75 cents And I know they have to pay every single penny that I've made I understand that but that's 75 cent check was like the final Slap in the face with everything else. I had gone through with that publisher Anyways, but do not take that as the I I was forced into writing that section I enjoyed writing that section and I think it made the book better What's the next one of yours that I should audible crawl if you have not listened to crawl crawl is a Fantastic production. I'm talking movie quality production Eventually, I'll finish the talisman, but I need to change from it King pushed my patience with yeah I did I hated the talisman I got you that makes more sense was just curious if you felt you was overreaching if I thought I'm one of those People I won't say writers. I'm one of those people that if I have an issue with someone I'm gonna take that issue directly to them as soon as I have the issue I'm not gonna go behind my back and talk to other people and go what should I do about this? So on and so forth The only time I do that is when the issue doesn't involve me is like should I say something? Should I do something? I'll ask my friends that kind of thing But if I have a problem with someone I'm going straight to them I've done it several times on discord Sometimes it ends really really well my good friend lazy homebody that you guys have seen in chat I've had I've had to confront her about something Is several different people that I've had to talk to a couple of them I had the block because they were just so stuck in their hate that they couldn't let it go But yeah, if I have an issue with you I'm bring it to you directly unless you're not worth my time and all my friends are worth my time so if I have an issue I'll bring it directly and My editor at the time was a good friend of mine And if she whenever she did overreach I brought it to her I'm like, I don't think this will work at all because at the end of the day. It's my story I'm gonna tell it however. I want to And as long as it's grammatically correct Punctuation structure all that stuff then there's no reason why I can't tell whatever story I want to tell But I have gotten more good advice from editors than I have bad advice It and another thing I want to touch on that nobody ever talks about is Okay, let me let me say something. All right when When authors tell a reviewer What do you know about writing books? What do you know? Rada Rada Rada, you know You're gonna leave me a negative review. How many books have you written?  None of it matters I Would listen more to the person who is not a writer than I would listen to seasoned writers And yes, this is coming from someone who likes to give advice on the internet I would listen to people who read And that is their only gig is to read I would listen to them before I listen to a writer Because a writer is going to want to rewrite your story and change your story To fit what they think that story should be But when you get reviews when you get in-depth reviews that go Hey, okay, this didn't make any sense. Perfect example.  Okay, because they literally gotten a hand fist to fist fight with a homeless man The detective that comes to talk to this character about the beating never checks the character's hands never, um, I brought this up in a review and Funnily enough because I use so many different names The author did not know that I was a writer as well. Um, and made some comments Like yeah, well, yeah, but what have you done? Um, but my point is nothing changes the fact that that part of that story Should have been fixed Should have been any number of things could have happened. She could have been wearing gloves Anything could have happened. Um, she could have had her hands tucked in her pockets the entire time Like I do right now in my hoodie that that kind of thing any number of things could have been could have happened Um, and it's a it's readers that find that kind of thing writers Most of the times like let the story be the story um, or if they do Want you to change it they want you to change it to what they think this story should be So I would listen to a reader that only only reads does not do any Does does not do any writing whatsoever just like I listened to jimmy and jimmy swears up and down He's not a writer even though he has fantastic storytelling abilities I would listen to jimmy Before I would listen to chad. Um, and that's that's kind of bold to say but that's that's the honest truth Um, another reason is me and chad are completely two completely different authors Um trying to come together to write one book was a very interesting experience because I wanted certain things He wanted certain things and we had to try to meet in the middle so Uh constructive criticism is okay for review to be fair as long as you just shit As long as you're not just shitting on it. Yeah, yeah, but Also, I would say that reviews that are entirely negative are okay Also, if you didn't like anything about the book, tell me you didn't like anything about the book Um it and you want to point those things out that that's fine No, no piece of creative media is going to be for everybody I'm glad I was a reader first. I've heard of writers that don't read and what there's I will defend those writers For one reason what I just said Um, I'm gonna bring that back up. It's their story.  Um, she reads when she's not writing because she does not want Any outside influence Now imagine a writer like me who writes as much as I do or did I haven't been writing much at all lately But imagine a writer like me um, who spends You know a good chunk of their time writing um And then has to do other things doesn't have time to read. Um so imagine If I were to Hang on. How do I want to put this? I will point and I want to get there clearly. Um I can't I can't think of a good. Well, basically what I'm getting at is The authors that do that normally do it because they don't want the outside influence Um, and for someone who has like a full-time job and everything you also have to find the line between You know work and research work and entertainment that kind of thing So I understand the authors who say that but the ones who like never read anything I've never read a good book by an author who doesn't read something at some point in time There are certain fiction authors that only read nonfiction. There are certain nonfiction writers who Only read fiction. Um, so while you can learn from the process sometimes the process can be stunting Sometimes the process Will be helpful It it all depends on the individual. That's the that's the only defense I have for those people Uh, yeah, it definitely worked tim the uh, uh, uh, tim says, uh, yeah speak on that experiment which had, um Uh, final thoughts. Did it work it it worked? Um, is the book what I expected it to be? No Um, is that a bad thing? No, um, it is I will say the only piece of criticism I have for our book is that I was looking forward to more stuff in the middle about the carnival And we just kind of blew right through that. Um, there wasn't enough that I felt was there that Then we'll tackle this all at you know another time but, um What I signed up for Isn't in the book. Um, it's still a good book. It's still a great story. But it's not What I signed up for I signed up for the carnival aspect that you know The little slice of life here there there, you know that that kind of thing But the main the main focus became the cocaine And you know his and the the character Shane's obsession with it And how that turned everything and it should be I mean it's a plot driven story With you know character development depth and all that stuff, but I wanted more stuff in the carnival setting And we got a lot of stuff in the carnival setting, but I wanted more slice of life stuff Kind of bouncing around without meaning kind of thing. Um, at the end of the day It's such a short book. It probably would have suffered had I got you know what I wanted So there's that fly on the wall. Yeah, I figured you were here chat. Um, let's see here uh, I've heard of Writers though the ones I meant never read at all. They think is dumb.  It's like opening up a restaurant and then telling everybody that you know That you don't like food I don't I'm that confuses me that really does um You figured I was here. Yeah, like I've got nothing. No. No, that's not what I was saying There are 18 people here. There's a certain subsection of my my crew my you know people who watch me And if a certain number number of people are here, I can pretty much guarantee that those people are here um But yeah, anyways, I kind of figured you were here. Uh, let's see here. That probably goes for most art form. Oh, yeah any creative Any creative medium imagine directing a movie without ever watching one that would be an interesting thing Like I would like to read a book written by someone who has never read a book.  It doesn't matter. Just sit down and start writing Not knowing that she didn't even have a basic grasp Of a punctuation I didn't know what to use when to use a period and when to use a question mark when to use the exclamation point Any of that stuff it was literally 12 pages of run on Just rambling and I was like, you know, this is what this is why I say there's a difference between a storyteller and a writer A writer is a mechanics. They're down for the structure. They can learn they can adapt They can do all that stuff a storyteller Is just good at coming up with ideas.  No, it's it's yeah I know you're kidding, but it it had nothing to do with it has nothing to do with that um, it uh, it it has to do with Sometimes a project is not going to go the way you want it to And it can still be a damn good project And that's how I feel about planet caravan right now. Of course. I have not read the ending I still have not read the ending, but I I emailed chad. This is another reason why I figured you'd show up at some point I emailed chad last night and I was like the I'm giving myself the second week of march off to work on this book Whether or not we'd live stream it. I don't know probably Um, because I want to keep that I want to give people what they signed up for so We'll do that. Um, hopefully he hasn't emailed me back yet But I see how it is. You're gonna come into my stream, but you ain't gonna email a fool back Yeah, I got messages from all different kinds of people And you got nothing from chad.  Uh, I think it's in that it's It's in that space like almost unincorporated and I think that's why they were allowed to open it But anyways long story short, uh, they're always busy Always and I know sex toys are never going to go out of style But they are always busy.  Um Who is out here buying this stuff? I mean, I understand only fans like being able to ask for in you know pay is like, okay Hey, let me give you 50 bucks and you do this deed or whatever. I completely get that But why buy this stuff? Are there that or are there that many? Are there that many people out there consuming porn going I feel bad about this because I'm not paying for it Honestly, is there that many?  That's your audience right for them screw writing for the writers I will go one more and I'm gonna disagree with you to a certain extent I'm gonna I'm gonna explain why write for yourself Make yourself happy Period.  So I love the advice you said about trusting readers more than writers though I've heard writers say advice that makes the reader and me go what yeah, um, that that's the thing Uh You have people who are writers writers who write for other writers and you see a lot more of that in like the You you see a lot more of that in the literary side of things. You also see quite a bit of it in a community setting um Where people will get together and just share bad advice and then go do that bad advice And then you catch them on social media. You're going Why am I having so many problems? Probably because your little writing group on facebook Is just sharing the same bad advice that they've been sharing this whole time Um, as one thing that I had to hunt down someone gave me a quote That went against everything why telling is better than showing sometimes Um, and sometimes it is but the argument in the article was completely bad shit insane It didn't make any sense like people don't want to read about character development Just tell them why this person's in this predicament and go on about your business. It's pretty it's pretty much the the thing. Um, and Not not showing the emotional involvement that comes with why that scene is important or so on and so forth um And come to find out that the the quote that they were sharing from this article Was from an author who had written one book with a 1.2 star average on amazon And all of the comments say the same thing This book was written by someone who does not have a Grasp of the even the simplest grasp of the english language So just be careful where you get your advice from even from me. Don't don't take anything I say as absolute 100 fact. I can tell you what Works for me. Um, but I i'm also aware that I am rare in this business The way I work how I do what I do the many different names and you know Diverse products that I have out in the world.  It takes all the self out of it Um, I have a I have a phrase that I use over and over again. It's been so long I don't know if I came up with it or if I heard someone else say it But if mimicry is the failure of self If you are trying to be something else if you are trying to mimic something else You're not being You're not being your true self. It's it's pretty much what it comes comes down to. Um, so make yourself happy first It's like it's like you can't really love another person unless you love yourself. It's the kind of it's the kind of thing there but um Also, sometimes it takes another person's love for you to love yourself Um, but it all comes down to the individual is what i'm getting at What works for me is not going to work for everybody What works for you isn't probably not going to work for me because i'm old and set in my ways. Um, but It is important to make sure that you research the person who's giving the advice Um, go and check how many you know go and check their reviews check the positive check the negative check all that stuff It's important to do those those things before you take someone's advice Um, and just do your own research. That's it. Uh, happy new year. Dustin. How you doing? They buy there so they have something to watch on the laptop when the power and internet goes out Hang on They buy there so they have something to watch on the laptop on the power and internet goes I'm not sure what you're talking about richie. I I blow through topics, you know constantly so Different people work differently and that is beautiful. Yeah The world would be a very very boring place if we all did the same thing and we all like the same thing and all that stuff I run on weed music and chaos and writing. I can't write when i'm high my everything Here's another thing I want to I want to talk about something real real here 33 minutes 34 minutes deep into this um, I write better when I'm not in a good mood when things are not going well and I realized that last night um, I realized that my best books were written during a time of conflict Um, and my worst books my worst stories the ones that I consider the worst were written during a time of happiness um And that that bothers me. Uh, it does but it's something that I need to come to terms with is I write much better when I am In trouble when I am in crisis, uh, and I am better at life when there's a crisis too um And so much so that I was you know drama king, you know on twitter and goodreads and all that stuff Because you know, it it gave me that I don't know it gave me that if I was in trouble I had something to fight. You know what I mean? Um, and when I don't have anything to fight. I am not a good creative person Foreign store got you got you When the power and internet goes out it's fair fair fair uh But you know, they still sell vhs in those stores that that's what I was getting at I I didn't even say that but they still sell vhs tapes in those stores Uh, I don't need to be high, but it doesn't stop me unless it makes me fall asleep You deserve to be happy and rest too. Yeah, the rest part is Is killing the because I went I literally went from having Every hour of the day free To I kind of stair stepped into it because it went from you know being on disability Uh, or actually before that it went from you know, me writing and making plenty of money with my Writing graphic design all that stuff and went from that all and that all dried up And went from that to having to take dan back and forth to work, which it's a it's an hour Uh round trip 30 minutes there 30 minutes back So two hours a day out of my life was gone and then it went from that then cutting off my disability I didn't have any income from the books to stories movies any of that stuff So that got cut off and then My disability got cut off, which was what I was using to survive in between And now I am dashing so literally every free moment It's gone from having all the time in the world to having no time to where I have to schedule a week Two months in advance to work on something that's already done Yeah, yeah, I know chad, but it's I want to be able to enjoy my work, you know and Using my work only as an escape as as an escape as tactic Uh It it pains me that I can't do this when I'm happy Um, or I can't you know, I can't write anything worth a fuck when I'm happy So unfortunately life doesn't want to let you rest right exactly. Yeah, that's uh nailed it Oh man It's already been a this this week has been a whole month and we're barely on the fourth We put this up here the story. I'm writing my initial plan was a short horror story What am I writing fantasy story trauma from me infecting it possible novel at least novella? Uh, I didn't ask to write trauma. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, I know um It's like so much of me is coming out in the in linda that you know, it's a little too close to home I'm enjoying the story. It's going to be good. It's going to have a positive outcome at the end um, but yeah, it's uh, it's a matter of you know getting through Being okay with sharing myself. Um, but it's really it's it's really easy. Don't get me wrong It's really easy to put yourself in fiction. Um, just your own and that's why they you know, write what you know that kind of thing so putting your own It makes sense that you know when conflict is interesting conflict is entertainment a lot, you know, there's a vast majority of the The media that we consume is about conflict That's why I say, you know, every story is a horror story at some point Because there's got to be lost. There's got to be conflict. There's got to be dread There's got to be that that feeling that you don't want anything bad to happen to these people and then something bad has to happen Because that's entertaining um Hang on Happy people don't kill people. They just don't your business is writing In writing involves killing people from time to time You can't do the work you do when you're happy because of that I can't argue that I can't I don't I don't have any I don't have any response to that Uh, try different genre writing when happy and see if that works. I did. Um, I me and darin cap off wrote two books together Um, and that was me writing when I was happy and while i'm proud of those books There was a lot of rewriting needed. Um on my end, uh darin was was fine But yeah, it was there was a lot of stuff that I needed to change and you know add more drama attention, whatever Uh, I think horror is exceedingly hard to write if you are a happy person Um, I I at least in my in my opinion that that's true Um, and I think that's why steven king has gone So far away from horror with his most recent stuff is because he's so happy and content being an old dude just fucking off And I'm happy for him. I may not like the new stuff, but I'm happy for him. You don't want to kill him Yeah, uh, this kind you're talking to someone who they has at least 40 40 novels out there that all have unhappy endings. So I I am I am all about affecting the reader Uh, I am all about manipulating emotions Uh, that's why I find it funny when, uh, I see negative reviews of books saying that That I don't like how emotionally manipulative this book is That's what a that's what fiction is supposed to be emotionally Manipulative We need to be able to lie to you to gaslight you into believing that these people are real So that you care for them so that we can break your fucking heart And maybe mend it by the end writing Just the creative process in general is all emotional manipulation That's just it Have you considered songwriting as a side thing? I know you play a guitar a bit, uh That that time of my life has long since passed I've written maybe five songs in the past decade and I just keep replaying them over and over again Um as far as songwriting as an option for income No, it's just not going to happen. I mean nowadays you even hear like, you know Beyonce and taylor swift complaining about Spotify Um music is so undervalued right now.  Do you hate it with a passion enough to give it one star? Awesome. Tell me about it. Did you love it? Five stars 22 star wish you could give it 22 stars. Tell me about it It's right there in the middle. The meh didn't do anything for me. That's where the bad writing is That's where the bad stories are right there in the middle. Now. I'm not saying a three star review is worse than a one or Whatever, I'm not saying that what I'm saying is if you leave your Reader or who or your viewer or whoever if you leave them with a sense that they have not been emotionally manipulative manipulated They are going to be mad at you They are going to and there is nothing worse as a creative person than hearing.   I mean you every time someone asks you what's the worst book you've ever read You're gonna point and say Bayes and by Edward Lorne Uh, the sound of broken ribs by Edward Lorne or cruelty by Edward Think about that every single time and then the person they're talking to is going to get Like how bad can it actually be they go check the look inside? Hey, the writing isn't bad. Let me go ahead and buy this Negative press sells books. It does but I've been saying that I'm just repeating shit over and over again For my own artistic expression No, not necessarily for money. Oh, yeah, I I'll sit down and tinker with with stuff But I don't have enough time now to do it. Um, unfortunately I prefer sad songs books to yeah me too Uh, and I really prefer sad stuff when I'm happy Um, if there's something there's something wrong up here that prefers it when I'm in crisis When I'm sad that kind of thing.  I got one right now Um at at least one there might be two there might be more I don't know. There's 11,000 people that that follow this this channel. Um, but that's winning When when you get under someone's skin so much that they have to that they invest So much time to create multiple accounts to come back at you over and over and over again You've won you have beaten that person without any effort whatsoever just by existing just you existing Ruining that person's day and that is amazing. It's like one of the emails I got when I when I did my Uh my stream about I need your help Um, the guy was like, hey if you come out and say, you know, trump is uh trump is god or whatever I'll I'll give you $500 right now. He also wanted to buy my first first of a carry for like $500 something like that But it was a testament to the one out of the hundred rule That so many people came out to support me and then there was this one person over here just Raging at their screen To the point that they wanted to pay me To make them look right. Um, and I just I laughed and deleted it. Um, and I know he's out there watching But the stuff that comes in yeah, I read it But then I delete it because you are one out of a hundred You're one out of 11,000 maybe you are one person And then I have all these I have 99 other people who are supporting who care about me It is a testament to kindness. It is a testament to human goodness That that happened that I did not even have to consider I wouldn't have anyways because I'm not your dancing monkey But I wouldn't have even considered doing it For for the money just because I know my people got my back And that's it. So I'm struggling with the book. I started literally only did a chapter and a half. Well, what are you reading bookable? Yeah, any publicity is good publicity kind of thing. Yeah, um, unless of course, you know You mess with kids or your murderer or whatever But even those people like well not maybe not the the kid the kiddie Fuckers, but uh, definitely the like serial killers and people who you know You know what I'm talking about.  So every time they see you succeeding or even they they find pleasure when you fail And when you succeed it just drives them absolutely nuts. Um, so, you know, I Watch me win. You can watch me win.  I've talked about it just endure Get through this and handle the next thing when it comes up Yeah, I'm too lazy for that too.  We focus on that 1 percent. We focus on this little random Rage machine and go and start questioning Are they right? Or that everybody must feel this way just because this one numbskull thinks this way Just because this one goofball said something that's negative does not mean that's true And that's the same thing I tell you with with writing if you're writing something and one editor says hey You should or let's say you send it to beta readers All beta readers come back and say hey, this is an issue That's when you start paying attention But when you have multiple beta readers and each one of them has like one little off Thing is like, okay. Well, I like the whole book, but I didn't like this if no one else mentions that It's probably going to stay in the book But if everybody mentions it then I think about fixing it I was like, is it a problem that I want the reader to have You're reading the dead zone right now.  Yeah Well, yeah, that's that's why they do what they do Jordan.  This is back when you know I was on my mother's 33 333 megahertz barbie computer. You remember those they had like hot wheels and barbie Well, my sister's got together and bought my mom a barbie computer 333 megahertz If you know what that means your jaw is probably on the floor, but anyways, um, so I was 16 or 17, I believe I could be wrong.  Sick and twisted to you Sick and twisted at you.     What does it matter?  I do apologize and we will get this done um And we will be back at it Monday at least Monday and Tuesday next week Um, I'm not promising anything beyond Monday and Tuesday anymore Uh, but these stories will get done You guys will be able to see the beginnings and if you're over on patreon You'll be able to get the read the endings as soon as they go up Um, so yeah, I know ties on patreon. I got a couple other people Oh, by the way here at the end these people are not going to see this but I want to give a huge shout out to uh, h michael casper for uh Following on patreon for an entire year paying up front for it and there was another person give me a second Oh, who was it? Who was it? Hang on. This is gonna bother me I'm sorry. I'm sorry. There's so much going on in my head. I want to give a shout out to these people Oh, yeah, um, let's see here. Um, michael fowler and uh Paid for an entire year also so Yeah, no fog No writing no fog. What kind of channel is this? Ah Yeah, um If I don't like something I see on the internet, I just keep scrolling. Yeah, I mean that's yeah Go for it. I know I know I've heard that a lot ty and it doesn't matter to me It's like if somebody wants to point at me and go yeah, dude's autistic I got a touch of the tism. Whatever. What can I tell you? I mean if I'm not for you to go away as simple as that I never know what I'm going to do or say to get in trouble I have no idea when it happens and anytime it does happen. It's always And here's here's a bit of advice Everything negative is a flash in the pan just like everything positive is a flash in the pan It's not going to hang around something else is going to come and overshadow that thing Move on.  Don't read your reviews Uh do whatever you need to do so that you can stay productive and happy You're not always going to be happy, but you want to put yourself into a position to where you are happy Um, here's okay. So peep this We all have negative thoughts We all worry constantly The thing is the future is make-believe everything we think is going to happen in the future Is not guaranteed to happen.  Why is that so difficult? So what I've been doing is every time I have a negative thought I come up with a positive response to it I come up with a positive balance Let's say today. Okay. Well, I don't I'm not going to be able to write My head is scattered. I'm stressed out So let's make a positive out of this and go live And talk to people about the struggles that you're going through because there's bound to be somebody out there Who feels the exact same way?  I'm gonna try and finish linda tonight or tomorrow Um, and then I will read positivity. Yeah, um And I'm not talking about false fake positivity You don't need to fake being positive to anyone Just like today, this isn't a very positive stream But I'm at least I'm trying to add some positivity to it by giving advice that you can take you can throw to the wind Whatever, but I would definitely don't listen to me blindly Don't unless you're seeing impaired and then I understand. Sorry. That was a bad joke, but uh, it's It makes me feel good that you guys listen But it also worries me that you guys are going to take this advice As the only way to do things. That's why I always back up. It works for me. It may not work for you so I've written down save quotes that I like motivational stuff and oh, yeah, definitely Um, I had like I said just endure my friend told me just endure and I come out here every day to look at that sign Um, and it's it's one of those things I've said for a long time Um, it gets better Is a lie sometimes it doesn't get better but the The purpose of that statement it gets better is to keep you here And that is not a bad thing It may not always get better, but every day you wake up Is a chance that it can get better Doesn't mean it's gonna be it might even get worse. Trust me.  Just like there's nothing guaranteeing That tomorrow is going to be better We just have to endure We have to endure Because otherwise What's this life about if you're like me an atheist nihilist all that stuff What other reason are we here for then the reason that we are here and that is to exist Beyond that everything that we do with the existence that we have been lucky to have Is icing on the cake And just because you're stuck at a dead-end job or whatever whatever wherever you think that you're stuck in life There is someone either more stuck than you Or someone who has given up and the only true giving up is the end Everything else is failure and you can always come back from failure always anyways I didn't mean to get my tony robbins on but You you you have been given advice that you didn't ask for I hope that you take it with a grain of salt like I said before It's just Don't search for meaning make your meaning There you go Make your meaning meaningful Whatever that might be Okay, we're an hour into this. Um, I'm gonna go try and get some rest Before I have to take Dan to work at one And then we have to door dash till seven tonight and then uh And then I'm gonna come home and now I found these wonderful brownies. Let me let me type. Let me type what they're called All right, so these these brownies are delta 9 thc They are they are dangerous.   Yeah to quote bill hicks life is just a ride. Yeah, and the journey is always More in my in my opinion the journey is always more fun than the destination Sounds dangerous. I like it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah Next book that he writes is a killer motivational speaker. I'm sure that's been done before but anyways, you guys have a fantastic day I love y'all. Thank you for all the support and everything. Thank you for Watching me go on my diet tribes today And once again Just because I gave the advice and you like me does not mean that it is right for you Uh, all right, so by jimmy by viking by tie by richie Um by anyone else who might be out there lurking Thank you for the support all the love and the patience while I figure all my life Shit out, but uh, yeah until next time. I have any you have been you This has been another episode of 52 and 52. That's a lot of rhymes. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye.


I'm a civil and environmental engineer with a background in water operations. And today I will talk about how we need to improve the health of our rivers and streams. They're under pressure from urbanization and more intense rainfall events. So we do have the tools today, the digital tools that can help, and they're hydraulic models. And today I'll show you how we can use them to help improve water quality and prevent pollution from happening. I've changed the title slightly. It was river basins, and I'm making it catchment instead, which is a smaller area. And that's to align with some of the changes that are coming through in the urban wastewater treatment directive. OK, here's the agenda. There you go. I'll tell you what a CSO is, and then I'll talk about what happened in the UK and how it went wrong. And then I'll explain a little bit about what's happening with the regulation, and then finally show you how our digital tools can help you prevent pollution. But first, let me tell you who we are and what we do. Sorry. OK. Just over two years ago, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Innovize. Innovize has over 35 years of experience in hydraulic modeling software. We're civil engineers and water asset management professionals. We have over 6,500 customers in over 60 countries, and they include water utilities, government organizations, engineering construction, and consulting firms. And bringing Innovize into the Autodesk product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to water as critical to civil infrastructure. OK, first, what do we do? We provide engineers with software solutions that help manage the water cycle from impounding reservoirs and flood defenses all the way through to drinking water distribution, wastewater collection, treatment, and the discharge back into the environment. Our goal is to make water management sustainable, efficient, and safe for people and the environment. So this effectively expands Autodesk's BIM strategy into water, covering the plan, design, build, and operations phases of a product project life cycle. So our main solutions are physics-based hydraulic models. And that's what I'll be going to be talking about today. Models that replicate the physical assets and allow you to run scenarios to test what might happen to them under different conditions. So first, what's a CSO? Well, they often go by other names. It's a combined sewer overflow, in this case. But it could be a storm sewer overflow or a sanitary sewer overflow. But the clue is in the word sewer and overflow. And you never want to hear those two things together because that means pollution. OK. OK. Years ago, when we first designed wastewater systems, engineers were efficient. And they thought they could use the same pipe work for both stormwater drainage and the sewer network. These are combined pipes that take all wastewater away from the home into the treatment works. On the left, the system is working correctly. And you can see that it just drains away. And the pipes were sized for this sort of arrangement. But with changing conditions, like more population growth, urbanization, and the increasing intensity of storms, we're finding more situations on the right. Here, the system is overloaded. And you can see that something has to happen or it will back up into the house. So this is the reason why CSOs exist. They will release a combination of raw sewage and stormwater out through the combined sewer overflow. This is what they look like. And this situation is no longer acceptable. Some of their impacts are fish kills due to oxygen depletion, eutrophication. Wastewater contains nitrogen. Phosphorus, these are ingredients in fertilizer. It makes algae grow. And of course, there's the health risk to swimmers. It contains pathogens. Commonly, you'll hear about people getting ear infections or gastroenteritis after swimming. So my message today is that it's important to improve how we design and manage our wastewater infrastructure now before it becomes a problem, like in the UK, where I live. For the past three years, sewage spills have been in the media spotlight with news headlines like these. You don't want to see these. And the latest cost estimate to reduce sewage pollution is 56 billion pounds. Customers are angry. OK, so the answer from the Environment Agency is that all CSOs now need to be monitored with event duration monitors. These are sensors that will tell you when a spill is occurring. There are over 20,000 of them in the UK. And they're being rolled out now and should be completed by the end of 2023. And there's the obligation to report this information to the public. It's Citizens Science at Work. And what I have over here is an example from the Rivers Trust. It's a charitable organization concerned with the health of the rivers. And here they've used Esri to sort of plot how many CSOs are in each area. And if you go online, you can drill down and see each individual at CSO, perhaps the one near you, and how often it has spilled pollution to the environment. What they found out is from the status that during last year, there were an average of 825 spills per day for a total of 1.75 million hours. And that's a reduction from the previous year. That's going in the right direction. But the EDMs tell us a point in time when a spill is happening. What they don't really tell you is why or what you can do to prevent it. And this is where using a model comes in. The hydraulic model will tell you what is happening in the system upstream from this. And this is why it's important to have that. This is just a snapshot in time it's spilled. How do you prevent it? OK, before I go into that, let's talk about what's happening here in the EU because they are very aware of what's happened in the UK. And the urban wastewater treatment directive for the first time in 30 years is being updated. Last week, the European Parliament voted through the first update. This was a landmark piece of legislation when it first came out in 1991. And it created a step change in water quality. And its goal was to make sure that wastewater was treated to a high standard so it didn't impact the environment. But there's still a little bit of residual pollution there left. And a lot of it comes from urban runoff and CSOs. So there's some work we need to do to address that. They're taking more of a preventative approach. And what they're proposing is something called an integrated urban wastewater management plan. And what that is is taking together all of the aspects of a catchment in a holistic view, and that is considering wastewater collection, drainage, stormwater, and then looking at the impact of storms and how it impacts your rivers and streams, particularly if it's coming from a combined system where there's a higher risk of a spill. It's going to come into effect for any place with more than 100,000 people. So that's quite a lot of areas. And it also has another regulation to look at sensitive environmental areas with more than 10,000 people. So you'll have to assess the impact of storms. You'll also have to set some targets for reducing pollution from CSOs and stormwater overflows. And then you have to plan how you're going to achieve those targets. And one of the things that they want to see is more nature-based solutions and digitalization. So it'll be a combination of hydraulic models to prevent the spills from happening in the first place, along with thinking about things such as handling urban run-off using infrastructure such as suds. And here are some pictures over here on the left. We have a swale, some planting, and then a road median rain garden. And this is sort of the concept that they have here in Berlin with Sponge City, where they're trying to take 30% of the rainwater and divert it away from the piped network. So let's talk about hydraulic models, because that's what I'm here for. Water companies have been using them for years. They are not new. And we use them to understand how networks respond to changes. And the change can be not just a change in weather or storm, but it also can be operational control change. Or you're adding more properties and expanding your network. These networks are always changing. There's a lot of variables that need to be considered besides rainfall. And our product is actually called ICM, Integrated Catchment Model. OK, just a little bit more. What is it? It's some digital representation of your real world system, its elements and its behavior. And why do we need this? Well, most of your assets in your network are out of sight. You can't see them. They're below ground. So it makes it difficult to manage if they're hard to observe. So models are preventative. They can help you identify the pollution risks. And you can run a variety of storms to see how they'll respond. Oh, sorry. Want to go backwards. And then you can test different scenarios to mitigate the impacts of pollution. You can also have a look at how you would invest in your network, where it makes sense to address population growth by expanding it, or look it in the context of a changing climate. And then the final thing you can do is once you have a model that you trust, you can add in real-time data, such as weather forecasts, any data from your sensors in your network, connect it up to SCADA systems and control systems, and turn it into a digital twin that gives you situational awareness and give it to your operations team for operational control so that they can take preventative measures before pollution actually occurs. OK, so let's do an example here. This is an example of ICM just running. One of my colleagues put this together, and he's using it on a GPU card, but we could actually run the simulations in the cloud. And what you see at the top is just sort of the layout of your urban environment with the network and the manholes. And the cross-session cutaway here is the pipe network. And what you can see is the pipes are filling up, and they're going to become surcharge. That means they're approaching hydraulic overload. And when it goes from orange to red, that actually indicates you have a spill. So you can see the spill location on the map as well. And then you can see it actually here in the cross-section too. And over on the graph, it's showing you the rainfall and how it's responding. So the software is good to assess where you might need to make some changes to your network, where you have risk, and also where you could plan your interventions in. And it doesn't necessarily have to be additional storage tanks or more pipes. It can be suds in this case. And you can test that later. You could put in some suds features, rerun it, and see how the whole model would change. OK, this is 2D. And there's been a lot of 3D here today. So I'll give you a similar view in 3D. OK, this is using the same sort of thing, but it's a different visualization. It's in Infraworks to demonstrate how it fits in with ICM. And here he's importing some of the information. And the next thing you do is you add in your ArcGIS. Layers to add real world context to it. Pipelines. And there you can see. You can zoom in on where your problem is. You can go underground, have a look at your pipes. Those are your problem pipes. These are your problem manholes. These are areas you need to be concerned with. And then you can actually see. And he ran a 1 in 100 year flood here. So that's quite a significant event. You can see where it's flooding. And you can see which manholes were problematic. So there's a lot that you can do with a model.  And I hope it makes you think about how you will prepare for changes in the wastewater directive that's coming up. But I also want you to think about the impact of storms on other infrastructure as well, because it's not just wastewater and drainage. The concept of climate adaptation applies to all civil infrastructure, road, rail, electrical systems. It's a risk that we need to be aware of and plan for. So please stop by our booth if you want to have any questions with the front near the entrance. And we'll be happy to talk to you about getting your model built and how to start or how to turn it into a digital twin if you're already there. We have over 30 years of digital twin experience. And we're happy to work with you and look forward to helping you with your pollution challenges or flood challenges. Thank you.


So look we'll do the Q&A I'll answer all your questions. That was everybody's favorite part I I can totally get with you on that also if in the Puerto Rico area on Sunday, we're gonna do a meet-up We walk shelter dogs at amigos de los animales follow me on Twitter And we do that every Sunday morning 8 a.m. Walk them on the board walk on the beach Something good to do we talk crypto. I treat everybody to breakfast afterwards, and that's it So look like this video thumbs up subscribe all that good stuff now. Let's get into the fun times which is Q&A. All right, let's do this. So let's see This was a good one from Matt. I like this one. He says And if you're new to crypto welcome, thanks for stopping by. Thanks for getting into Some asymmetric returns but a heck of a lot of risk Matt says when I was falling the stock market of 5% drop would be a horrible day and crypto I've become accustomed to it just being a Thursday That's exactly right That's exactly what it is man. It's uh, you know traditional markets 5% 10% is awful You know for us, it's like well, that's lunch. So maybe we'll see what happens tomorrow for breakfast And that's the truth. All right. What else we got? Julian this is a great comment, and it's something I've been thinking about a lot Hey, Rob, do you think there will be a sell-in-may-and-go-away event? This is a very Typical a very common expression the traditional markets sell-in-may-and-go-away, and I got to tell you if some things line up This would be the time because we were always talking about the potential for a recession to come in potentially q3 and q4, right? So if we sold in May that would be the middle of q2, right June be the end of q2 Maybe that's not a bad idea now I'm not saying for you to sell or giving you any financial advice I can't do that, but I'm gonna take a real hard look at what's going on and there's a lot of macro factors Which I use Ben's website Let me see And I do with it all right because like all these macro factors take a look at GDP debt Was it good stuff? Interest right now Here we go unemployment statistics Job openings and turnovers Sentiment I'm just gonna take a look at what the macro factors will will say. Oh, I like this one. How's prices index? Yeah, it's on some other stuff, but Yeah, I think it's it could be it could really play true if that's the case sell-in-may-and-go-away Not a bad time, so we'll see Becky hello looking forward to our interview on the 16th. I think it is True 49er for life Rob NFA, but are you investing in alts? Yes Thing I'm jumping back into Solana Aptos and Avax not sure if I go that route or keep investing in alts so look we did a video on this and I said specifically Here I'll find it It was just a couple weeks ago It doesn't matter but I started to micro DCA around May and then because my job was to just start stacking cash Which is what I did. It was very hard. It's very easy to buy and buy and buy it's hard to sell and it's hard to To change your your philosophy, but I did that because I thought there would be some more some major downturn and I didn't want to be underwater for so long and Here we are So just a couple weeks ago.  We're the same thing. I've always talked about here, right? So Bitcoin Ethereum, you know, these are like dailies and then you'll have like the avalanches the Cardano's the nears and I think it's a bunch of I and I talked about those in the videos But some are every day some are a week, right? I'm doing that because I'm in anticipation that I think we're gonna go lower at some point And some people will say well Rob Why why would you do that? Why wouldn't you just wait until it goes lower? And then it's our buying because I don't know for sure and I don't think anybody knows every time I think I know where the market's going It's like you don't know you're doing and then it does the exact opposite So I'm just tired of that game. So I just say okay. Well on this one I think we're gonna you know more of a downturn so I just micro DCA a little bit here And now I'm at the point where I'm like, okay Look, I think the next bull runs to two and a half years maybe three years away So I got two years of a runway to invest and move from there And that's it I mean even if we're in that like because I know like like like the gear of the Soloway's and the Paul Tudor Jones You know, they start to believe that or the drunken millers are like look we're gonna be in a 10 to 15 year type of sideways action and just like we saw for the real for the S&P 500 back in the 60s and 70s and I said that's true If you look at the at the charts, but also remember I mean to hit our all-time highs But also remember that during that time there was bull runs going on in that time frame So just like we took a look those indicators the time and risk bands and things like that You can just take a look at that and go well, okay, I didn't buy the top. Thank God But I mean as time as it goes down. I'm gonna start to buy The bottoms. I mean I bought Bitcoin in 15 seven because I was dollar-crossed averaging every day. This wasn't doing a ton of it So I'll always buy the bottom, but the next big question is when do you start to buy as it goes up? So you dollar-crossed average any dollar-crossed average out is it's not I'm not that smart. So that's what I do Meme hello question is there any way to hold abax on a hard wallet seems like you only hold an abax on my wallet I can see if my leisure but isn't my leisure you can connect. I correct me if I'm wrong here But you can just do this you can connect your ledger wallet to your to your abax Wallet that you can access I mean you you control your private keys though when you do it online But you can connect your nano ledger I believe ledger and a vax Yeah, so Take a look at this just ledger and a vax Yeah So you gotta have a third-party wallet whatever one that you use and then you connect your your nano ledger Which means it keeps it secure so no one can go in there and but to move things around actually did a video on that If you do digital asset news avalanche staking there will be a video on how to do that It was a long time ago. I did it. No, I was like six months ago wasn't that long All right a noob is a noob. This is just a pullback noob.  Yeah, I'll go I'll go around I DCA I think that's one of the ones I do for once a week. Yeah Andre says a Rob, I keep hearing he has to go lower blah blah blah I think most Ben are missing the flationary aspect of ETH and the insight So my big concern was the Shanghai upgrade and I correct me if I'm wrong But that gets get delayed again that I hear that right. I just saw a snippet somewhere anyhow So that was my concern is that people were going to when the Shanghai upgrade came about then they were able to sell their Ethereum and there's gonna be a sell-off and we go lower. I'm like great. I'm dollar-cost average Fantastic timing but unfortunately It looks like when people, you know Locked it up and staked it because they couldn't unlock it They were at a little bit of a higher price. So now when they unlock it It's not like they're gonna be in massive profits.  So yeah, I don't think it's gonna be I think it'll probably Well, who knows I think it will be just fine. It'll stabilize and actually probably increase a little bit as people figure out Oh, they're not selling but you know, if it does that Not super happy about it. It's Whatever. Ah, good question. Hey Rob, you still believe in meld greetings Cedric in the corner. Yes from the coin beer event We'll be there in London June 8th. I think it is for the next one Yeah, matter of fact, I just talked to Ken. I just text Ken not too long ago from from meld and They're going through some growing pains and working through the the bear mark You don't hear too much about him because they're building and then he updates me every so often I shouldn't just have you know what I'll do. I'll have Ken back on the show I'll just do it give us an update about what's going on. But yeah, they're still working out and go from there TT says Rob, do you still do the DCA live? We did so the me James and Ben DCA live it got replaced James is still doing it with CTO and Ran and they're doing the DCA and it's because like it's like I'll say it again Like our community is never really we had a clashing of communities and the whole goal of These when we get together is to alleviate some stress and when you guys got together with like Like the best answer to group it was a lot of fighting So we're like maybe our tribes don't really work out too well or our message So we just I said I'm gonna step away and James like that's cool I'll get a couple guys and then and me and Ben weren't gonna do anything and that then was working with guy to do some he does like these weekly videos with with guy from coin Bureau and guys like hey, would you like to because I'm trying because guy was trying to build up his his The clips channel coin Bureau clips So he was hey, he wasn't gonna do a weekly show. Why not? He said sure good and guys like who else you want to get I know this guy. His name is Rob And that was it so we just did it like that way and it's just it just it's fine Like I've watched the DCA show looks like a good show because they're doing good things And I think those communities jive better than our communities That's all about it is The guy with the least worries at the end of the day is the winner, that's right Skept it's a good. It's a good handle. Do you use it? Do you use a centralized exchange without naming names? Have you used any decentralized exchanges? Yeah, I mean, I'm an American and I mean, I'm in Puerto Rico, but so as far as like exchanges I pretty much only use Coinbase and it's because they've stood the test of time They're still around and I use this thing called Coinbase one. It's like Always get this wrong It's either 20 bucks or 30 bucks a month and you don't and it's up to $10,000 for fees So you don't have any fees. You just pay that that's that price since I buy every single day it more than Makes up for for the cost of the Of the rates of the fees, so that's what I use and as far as like dexes Yeah, I've used the many I've used Gosh, I mean uniswap is the big one Let's see other Let me see Sunday swap. Yeah, if I can pull it up, but I think the question you're probably asking is do you trust them? Well Dexes are doing a lot better than when I first got into it and They seem to be a little bit easier to navigate and to actually use so yeah Yeah, uniswap v2 and v3. I've used sushi swap a couple times, but Just sometimes I have liquidity that I like and that's about it But again, I don't really have to use it until I'm you know doing some D gen type of stuff Usually most of the things are done with Coinbase. I buy things on Coinbase.  It's very simple and if you don't know how to do that It's okay at some point. I didn't know how to do it either. So I made this website It's a hundred percent free. It's Dan teaches cryptos link in the description I show you exactly how to do that step by step bite-sized pieces, right? Mmm Rob thoughts on me malts Shiva, you know and doge still kicking is that a sign more dumb thing? I gotta tell you as much as I'm like, I don't understand the meme coins They seem to have resiliency. So who am I to say anything? And that's it So is it still kicking? How long has doge coin and Shiva you know been in the top 10?  Let me see. Maybe I'm wrong pop up up Well, there's doge. It's always been in like top 20. It seems like there's Shiva, you know and Say what you want there's resiliency there Does that mean I'm gonna invest into it? No, I mean that's not my play But does that mean that it's an awful project? No just means that Rob doesn't invest into it Rob Has passed on a lot of opportunities and I will miss a lot more opportunities than I will get in there So that's it Aaron says do you hold in the uniswap? Why do you think it hasn't gotten more attention since the central as exchanges collapse? So I still own uniswap. I remember when they had the airdrop. I think I sold some But I always had that original like I think it was like 300 uniswap that they gave you But the question is why haven't they gotten more attention since the central as exchange collapse? It's because people are lazy though There's two reasons it's because people are lazy and I don't want to learn new things and I get it and then of course They hear about the hacks that are going on and and the different if you look for certain Crypto's on there. You don't know if it's the right one or if it's the right smart contract and people don't want to lose Their money. It's not about how much you make it's how much you keep right? So I think that's part of the reason also people need an on and off ramp Okay, so if I have a I never carry cash, but let's just say for example This is my dollar, right and dollars is my archaeo's card And I'm trying to find and put this into my decentralized exchange Well, I need to some way to take that dollar and put it into crypto in some way so I need a centralized exchange and do it and Unless I'm a miner and I mine Bitcoin, right? Which would be pretty awesome, honestly So then I have that central exchange it it Integrates with my bank and then I start to do the trades before you know what I'm just sucked into that system That's the problem. If there was a way It's just an easier way to for my like if my This would be great And people aren't gonna agree with me on this one. She's like, ah, you don't they're gonna track you They're tracking anyhow. They're tracking you right now. Who cares? So if my bank could in some way just be like, hey, we got it Well, here's your cash and your checking account Do you want that in dollars or Bitcoin or Ethereum or dogecoin or tomato coin or whatever? You know, you can you can do a straight swap and there's no fees. That's the magic of USA. I'm not saying that's what they're doing I'm saying wouldn't that be cool if they could if they could do that And then I could go to a decentralized exchange and swap things. That'd be that'd be great That'd be great Yeah, Tesla, do we all smash the like that's a great question. What channels do you watch regularly besides? Benz and guys For Ripto Altcoin daily always seems to draw me in with those fantastic thumbnails. I watch Charles Hoskinson on his on his AMAs I'll check out James and The DCA show every chance like every chance that I have an opportunity CTO Larsen misting crypto crypto stash Tom crown and Jerry V Hall if you'd ever put a video out lazy And those types of things but other than that the bigger stuff is Ryan holiday and his his YouTube channel about the Daily Stoic, that's the one I probably watch the most When rob coin there is no rob coin that's That's a recipe for disaster. I have nothing. Oh and crypto CTO. Yeah crypto CTO who just moved to UAB good for him Aaron says you can use your card on uniswap for an honor. I wonder if I didn't know that Let me see that. I'll look at that. Oh It's moon pay No, there you go That is true Moon pays a big I don't like them just because they're fees, but fees are fees, right? Some people would some people were complaining about fees on coinbase about how high they were and they would always tell me you gotta use FTX those fees are so low. Well, yeah, their fees were actually like point two percent when reality the fees were 100% so maybe I should stop complaining just bite the bullet and use moon pay excellent Okay, no nice forgot about it All right crypto CTO matter of fact crypto matter of fact misteen the crypto and Stash are gonna be on a show today. I probably checked it out I'm not too well at it because of hard stuff, but I guess I'm still okay Norman. That's the truth You know, we always say that we want this we want that, you know, healthy person has a thousand wishes and person With not Optimal health. They only have one wish. So just remember that when you're Feeling like damn it. I don't have I don't I didn't make a billion dollars today Rob any infill or inside an Alaska Gold Rush. So that's a plate-earned game coming out. I want to say March that the TG Well, the 10-set IDO is gonna be March 13th 14 15 some around there. It's interesting It's interesting game and I'm gonna do a deep dive on it and that'll not be on this channel It always is on any kind of deep dives for like risky plays are on Dan degen the second channel, which I haven't done I haven't had a video on there for nine months So that'll be the first one Dirty Dan says Rob when you move your crypto from Coinbase do you wait till a certain dollar amount to save on fees? Just anything move it it's different for everybody because if you're moving ERC 20 tokens or Ethereum based It's gonna be pricey.  So everybody's different for me. I buy a little bit more. So It's not so much about the fees myself. I just want to get it off there So sometimes I get lazy. I'll do it every day. I might do it once a week Sometimes every five days sometimes every every nine ten just depends So it's all about what you can afford and then also the the the one thing I will say is just The worst you could do is leave it on there forever. I think we all learn our lesson, right, right, right? Probably XRP, you know, I just heard something interesting and I never really Now I'm not gonna say about XRP because Well, if I don't say that people like what's the deal? So The legal counsel, I forgot the gentleman's name for XR for Ripple He said that there's gonna be but I've heard this for like months that there's gonna be Legal decision Coming out within the next couple days and of course I saw that and I'm like I should really read into that because every time I see that it never happens. So But maybe it does this time, who knows it's the same thing like a Bitcoin ETF I've heard that since 2017 and Then whenever whenever whenever anybody says it's gonna happen, Rob You just don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, okay, maybe I don't but still hasn't happened yet Let's see JML says banks want your house. Well, that's always true eggs are a dollars now That is not true. You go to Costco. You get an 18 pack for 499. I know because I eat eggs every day Rent is super high depending on where you live. That's very true. If you're in Miami and Austin or Los Angeles Sure as heck is food costs too much day of reckoning is coming fast. I love food costs too much I mean, I'm in Puerto Rico and it's expensive here, but it hasn't gone out crazy Yeah, so And what says I feel like Ben is right when he says we need gaming companies to incorporate crypto And not the crypto bro is creating one is someone who enjoyed gaming. They all look extremely poor in comparison. So Yeah, so like The thing is like these new games that are coming out for block like Alaska Gold Rush, for example, that's by a legit AAA gaming studio, which is already which already has other games under their belt and it looks pretty good see for us like we're bringing to market back Flappy coin and That is something totally different. Those are casual games. Anybody can do this type of thing But yeah, and then we were talking to somebody. This is all rumors and if you go and spread this rumor I will deny it but the rumor is that the one of the founders what I was talking to Is how Sega is getting into the web 3 gaming industry and how they're really gonna push hard and they've hit up Their studios a couple of times. So I'm sure there's some article floating around about it anyhow So but I thought it was interesting. I mean Sega Sega. It's pretty big Tesla says I understand most of the products in crypto Tesla mean either Honestly, and I know what they what they do or why they're around and did you know how many How many projects do you think there are out there? Put in the comments. I'm just gonna show you This is what coin get go has registered A coin get go says there are this many coins this many projects 12,000 292 now Of course, there's some overlap and things like that with projects. I understand but let's just say 10,000 There's 10,000 crypto products. Do we need all those? I don't think so I think most of those are just junk scam worthless. No utility projects, and I wish they'd go away Which I don't think would be that bad Thoughts on AI coins need all trash I think most of them are trash and There's a great video from coin sider C-o-i-n-s-i-d-e-r. Go check him out and he's legit Investor and he just did a video puts out he said look most of these AI coins are just scams Essentially and it was it was just like in the day of the dot-com era If you just put dot-com after your name or whatever your company is you made a bunch of money and the stock went up The same thing with AI coins What old bear our foods have gone crazy four hundred percent increase safety increase shootover 50% increase in nuts I wonder you know if you're in the EU if you're in Europe I would tend to believe that because you guys are getting crushed which there's a great website You guys have seen it's called true flation Probably before and it's a it's a free and just kind of what's great is that it uses chain link as an oracle And it pulls all this outside data to give us a real-world analysis of real-time Inflation percentages and it just just like back in the day When the government was like it's only inflation's like six or seven percent and a true place was like no I mean they're like 12 percent And now as we're taking a look at it. It's reporting. It's at 4.9 percent and that's in America. Let me see What is it in uk? Yeah, things a little bit opposite So I can understand where if you're in the uk Yeah, that's pretty bad and you can break it all down What used to be able to health household durable and daily housing transportation food and non-alcoholic beverages Well, it's a little bit better Anyhow interesting true flation tru flation. You can check that out Yeah, so thoughts on how vgx plays out finance or toilet I think that would have been better if they just would have got rid of that vgx token I know everybody was so hot on it. I'm like, oh, we got to keep it. We got to keep it I understand a lot of people put a lot of money into it. I did But I was like I'm willing to risk it and just get rid of it so we can get this trash behind us and move forward But I was outvoted so You know, whatever and now of course the government steps in It's a security And I know some people say well, but rob they think everything's a security. Look, it's a little bit different a security token that really has absolutely zero use because The actual company is dissolved The whole point of the vgx token was to give you some type of value For the platform that was voyager. It's the same thing with celsius The only reason for celsius token to do anything was to give you value On the celsius platform. Those are Destroyed they're gone. They're never coming back and thank god So I just don't understand like do we have to keep those so much? Can we just do it and just here's a dollar amount and move along But those really are worthless tokens Ah Rob I've been thinking my idea and d news. Thank you with your roy wallets. I buy from coinbase as a pain That's true Well, the ad is approved by coinbase and the received address for your right changes other options You can try a delight or just do what I I use this thing called deadless wallet Which everybody complains about because it takes so long but it's super stable And I can do a lot of things I can I mean you can do everything you can with your right But you're essentially a node operator So I use the deadless wallet It's gonna take a while to download but Ah, let's see Ah, thanks. Hey Aaron says I work for a web 3 startup.  I mean black rock. Larry fink the ceo talks about how the future is tokenization You know and then he gets uh, I mean, I think the gaming sector is going to be the next I think it's What NFTs were that's what the gaming sector will be because it has real world utility and the reason why I talk about that It and I'll talk about this in the deep dive and why that is but there's this thing called It's a mentality thing loot boxes tamagotchi and gambling essentially That's what I'll leave it up to that Rob, do you like cadena? It's an interesting project with great team not the shill I don't have any of it. So I don't really talk about it and I don't really know anything about it. So that's it sorry Meme says how much of inflation is this retailers taking advantage the public perception that everything is going to be more expensive Anyway, yeah, it's a good question. Talk to the the oil companies.  Well, I have my I have my revenue and I have my expenses and I'm gonna have a profit of 2% then all of a sudden they're like, oh inflation Now my profit is going to be 10% because the price goes up but hold on wait But did you did your expenses go up? Well, not much, but now we're making 10% same thing. Look at, uh, some of the biggest gainers As far as the oil industry the last year they crushed it so It's not because there was a ton of inflation just that they charge more Yeah So almost says hey rob the team of the elastic gold rush product seems mostly management positions And the software dev and motion devs don't have a very impressive linked ins. Hope I am wrong But it looks sloppy the game looks good and uh, as far as like the linked in and where they're from It's not so much about Because a lot of them are on this Crypto was it called Crypto society three of the of the members are from crypto society, but One's got a pretty extensive background as far as a game developer another one has a pretty extensive background As far as like management of companies Um Investment partners and things like that so It does look a little bit, but then the input that they have From the people at cryo war and again, I'll cover this all in the video Is uh, it's pretty impressive what they did. So This dump is lame. I need a real sell tell your friends appear or rob dump it All the people here are big bitcoin maximalists so Ugh sometimes it's annoying When the dollar's for me. I don't know. It'd be a good one 40 minutes A couple of minutes then we'll get out of here Yeah, randy says so people less than 5 000 on their account On celsius you're going to get their money back up to seven percent. There's a great video from um, erin benet A a r on b e. I think it's nnet Or two t's I forget, but he did a great video on uh, urn versus custody and how much you're going to get back And things like that me for example. I have over six figures. I just Don't really I mean I care trust me, but uh, I'm just kind of writing it all off And just waiting to see what happens So that's it. I will say this though Yeah, I said this in a tweet If nova wolf who is bidding for these assets if they allow retail clawbacks If they allow any retail clawbacks, I will make it my point On this show to talk about them every chance that can possibly get To dissuade people from using that new company because if they allow retail clawbacks That's a bad look for the for the entire industry. I'm just Just bad. I think we've got one more. Thank you, bicky erin benet youtube link Any thoughts about buying stock in coinbase? Well, it's probably a better time than when the I when the ipo came out But um, in all honesty I think coinbase is going to be this is probably the kiss of death I think coinbase will be around here for quite some time. I mean they've gotten all the way through I mean this brutal bear markets They didn't collapse like all the rest of the ones that said they were going to be here for us and And we're here to unbank you and and in reality. They were just you know, screwing us in the background. So I mean, they're still they're still they're staying the test of time. So it looks pretty good I'm just concerned about If you take a look at their their reports 48 to 49 of the revenue comes from prescription prescription subscription models Which was that coinbase one and the other one was roughly 20 from staking services. So if If the sec comes out and they crack down on crack in And what does that mean? What separates that from cracking down on coinbase? Even though they believe that it's a yield product for staking 20% revenue loss is quite big, but who knows that's why I You know put things on a ledger So that's it for today. So look if you like today's video give a thumbs up consider subscribing If you haven't talked about it's time sensitive all that good stuff and don't forget on sunday We'll do the dog walking follow me on twitter again. It's for shelter dogs And uh, that's it. So thanks so much for stopping by appreciate it. See you on the next one. Adios


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