All right, so I checked out your notes So you're talking about transition. All right in the last couple steps. Let's check this out. I thought it was pretty cool The only thing that felt weird It's still a bit. So the first thing is that it still feels very Straight on meaning straight on the man. That means nothing. It goes very straight this way while the head is really turned back This is all the right idea But I feel that it would be a bit of a more turn bigger turn in the chest with not such a high Raise of that leg that makes sense You know, you might be lower and just ever so slightly more sideways. So the knee will be turned a bit more towards us Depending on how far back you go with this you have to like you're right about a transition So you kind of work on that this definitely feels like this is running forward and this is looking backwards So this feels just broken. So you would have to whatever adjustments you make here would have to work through here The same with the arm and all that stuff I think in terms of You could experiment with ever so slightly starting the turn of the head in this one So that you can start couple frames earlier.  I think I'm okay Turn around so that by now she would already have the head forward So sorry if that contradicts some of the stuff that I said it might But it might help you also with not going as far back backwards with that post if that if it's just a quick glance type of thing Uh, the only other thing that felt weird I mean you're mentioning the steps for sure here like the steps I'm not quite feeling them in the hips or in the in the root like you said in the spine It's a big kind of a translated You know nothing translate back nothing in terms of it's just a smooth transition From a to b without really considering the body mechanics But the thing that sticks to me here is this this feels like Wow, what is this on my feet like like a snake came by and and and and she follows the snake like what the hell But then it's just a regular turn back So make sure that when you're here you just have A slight head raise and then the head turns and then the chest follows and so on Not this this feels like whoa something Something just touched my feet or or you know, there's a crack and there's some pieces falling down and like oh shit This is not safe. Uh, and I'm about to tumble Which could be cool too. It could be something but um Just watch out acting wise this to me just tells me something is down there But then she looks back Alrighty That's kind of it. Thank you All right, there's an email you can sign up you can start whenever you want You can submit whatever you want you get 16 submissions either way a like and subscribe would be awesome. All right. Thank you


A man in 20 years built a treehouse of 80 rooms and 10 floors. There is even a sports ground there. Hi guys. Absolutely every person on this planet has his hobby and passion. Some people like fishing and are just crazy about it, others prefer, for example, soccer.  But even though we are all very similar, at the same time we are absolutely different, and each person perceives this world in his own way. There is nothing surprising or bad about such things, guys.  And of course, many hundreds of sleepless nights to create his masterpiece. Give me, you have not seen such a thing for sure. Not far from the city of Crossville, Tennessee, there is a very unusual place, which has long since become famous worldwide for its giant scale. More specifically, it is famous for its scale of the house, which is built on a tree. The area of this unique structure, known as Horace Burgess's Treehouse, is 1,300 square meters. The house itself is 30 meters high and has incredible 10 floors and 80 rooms. At the same time, it floats in the air, and six large trees serve as a support for such a serious construction. The history of the only founder of this house, 66-year-old American priest, Horace Burgess, began in 1993. It was then, as the master himself claims, that he had a divine vision, which prompted him to build something big. A place where adults can come and rest, not only with their souls but also realize their children's fantasies about their own special treehouse in the forest. In that distant year, no one could have imagined that a man would eventually succeed. In general, Horace chose a beautiful place in the forest and took up the task. All he had then was just a few ready-made boards, a hammer, and a hundred nails. Probably, the most important thing was a great desire. But you know what is even more surprising? The fact that the structure, which Horace conceived, was made according to his own design. At the same time, it is known that the priest is a self-talk carpenter, with no special education and only a little knowledge of landscape architecture. That is why all the calculations, as well as the design of his house on a tree and in general all the work he did was absolutely independently. Initially, the man used wood from old sheds, parts of buildings construction waste, and later the locals began to help the man with materials. As I said before, the house has 10 floors and 80 rooms, as well as a church and a basketball court inside. It is built around a white oak tree 25 meters high, which serves as the main support. The man worked on his project almost non-stop, giving all of himself. On the top floor, Horace built a penthouse for his beloved wife, and in general, the plan of the house is quite complicated and even confusing. The house has many stairs, hidden passages, and secret rooms, which only the master himself knows about. The central part of the huge house is a spiral staircase, which curls around a tree and serves as one of the two main passages. On each floor, there are rooms, corridors, terraces, and, of course, balconies. According to witnesses, those who managed to visit this house for a long time could not recover from what they saw. After all, it is so big that it is more like a large hotel or palace, but certainly not a treehouse, which was built by only one person. On the first floor of more than 150 square meters, there is a chapel, which until 2012 every Sunday received people and held services. All that is above is just a lot of empty space and labyrinths of rooms and corners. Given the fact that the support of the house is trees, from strong wind, the house is pretty swinging, but as the owner himself claims, the house can withstand a hurricane. And by the way, it really is. The unique treehouse was not damaged by tornadoes and thunderstorms a few years ago, while ordinary houses were destroyed. Electricity was provided to the house, and according to Horace's plans the water supply had to be set up. All around the perimeter of the house, there are wooden statues created by John Tipple, which were once exhibited in front of the courthouse in Crossville. In the middle of zero, a large number of tourists from different parts of the world learned about this place and the house opened its doors for visitors. On average, the house was visited by up to 100 people a week and Horace himself conducted excursions, telling about the stages of construction, took guests to their rooms, and did not take money for all this. Over time, he even planned to open a summer camp here for extreme lovers. There were a large number of plans that included a water tank infiltration system, heating, and even an elevator, but unfortunately, none of these were destined to come true. Because the house was built without any professional project, the Tennessee Fire Department closed the treehouse for visitors because it did not meet fire safety requirements. But even so, Horace Burgess's treehouse was officially recognized as the world's largest treehouse and even entered the Guinness Book of Records. Now a large number of people illegally visit this building at their own risk, but still, the house is slowly falling into decline.  Also, illegal tourists cut carved inscriptions and curses with knives on the walls, which hurts the creator of the house. Many of the windows and doors also suffered from thieves, and in general, everything that could be stolen and spoiled is already done. Horace, however, is incredibly proud of his creation and believes that many years of hard work and $14,000 were not wasted. After all, his house has been seen by several thousand people over the years, and the construction itself is still a landmark, not only for residents of nearby cities but even for the whole state. Here is such a wooden skyscraper came out at the self-taught, who built it with his own hands. And this at least deserves a lot of respect for his work. Write your opinion in the comments. How do you like this idea of building a house right on a tree? Well, that's all for today. I hope you liked it. See you soon.


Many thanks for being part of the breakfast this morning. We'll be joined by senior Advocate of Niger Mr. Paul Ananabar has on standby to look at the second conversation. It's good to have you join us this morning Thank you All right, and just before we get to you Let's quickly take a look at this federal High Court in Abuja has refused the governor of the central bank of Niger That's the CBN Godwin MF. Elise request to restrain the independent National Electro-Commission Inaq and the athony general of the Federation the AGF Abu Bakr Malami Preventing him from his presidential abetion the CBN governor on Monday told the court in a budget that he can run for the post of The president of the federal Republic of Nigeria without vacating his position as a CBN governor The CBN governor through his counsel Mike Osaka made told the court that section 84 subsection 12 of the electoral act as amended 2022 Does not affect him being a public servant and not a political appointee The court also in its ruling however Summoned Inaq and the athony general of the Federation to appear before it on the 12th to show Costs on why the status quo should not be granted to the CBN governor Like I mentioned earlier on we have a senior advocate of Niger Professor Paul and Ananda joining the conversation. Thank you. Once again for being part of the discuss this morning Thank you so so the question is Can the CBN governor run for the position or run for the presidency or position of the president in 2023 and still occupy his office Well every Nigerian By section 40 of the constitution has a fundamental right to run for offices General political party and all that that's a fundamental right But when you are a CBN governor You have been appointed by the president so the argument of a Public servant and all that I don't think it's a serious agreement. I don't think it should be The CBN governor was appointed he's an appointee of the president and that's section 84 to have a very recent law Yes, part of that it's been Interpreted upon by the courts But clearly it's not Something that in my mind section 30318 of the constitution Section 3171 she of the constitution which some of my colleagues are putting across and cure Um before even there is more about the law the CBN governor is Occupying a very sensitive position Away from the niceties of the law This is the man in charge of the monetary policy and regulation of the country And this and then you are saying that the CBN governor should actually Whether the law goes against it or not While is there we're running for election. So what happens to those who are is for the school opponents who require CBN approvals and all that and policies and implementation So he carries a lot of more, but it doesn't help the country For a serving CV and government to see be there a while is running for primaries His four ponies what happens to them like I said, so I do not think Take another point like I neck has an alliance with the CBN. That's where Sensitive I neck Documents and forms and processes are stored So all this while we have a city and go governor who may not have announced His intentions, but as we know we are in politics in So there are several issues given aside from the law but legally speaking He's an appointee of the president From the day it doesn't be the perfect Telling every day he has not chosen to Join the political free I should allow the sanctity of the office of the CBN governor to be intact so so he can take himself away and Go for politicking and if you look at the CBN at section 9 For him to even decide to Talk about politics in any form As serious as running for the presidency of this the the CBN board ought to give him a prover and In the suit he fired A few days ago the CBN board and the CBN it's not a party Now he goes after Goes after a general and I net saying that Which is very speculative a very speculative and suit that I don't think should have in fire So I don't think he should continue on this trajectory CBN governor should make up his mind He wants to run for presidency. It's in Nigeria and it's entitled to it. He should Excuse himself from the office of the CBN governor, but if he doesn't he wants to be a Civilian governor let him be he cannot be carrying an elephant and being taken on Using his leg to find where Some minor insects He has to take a decision in the best interest of this country. That's my position. Thank you All right But what's then is the essence of having the summon? The court asking that you have the attorney general of the Federation and I net come through On May the 12th. What's the essence of all of that if we understand that the law is very explicit I mean, it's very explicit that he is the CBN governor is partisan now When a suit is fired in court, they want to have his own procedures No matter how it gets me, the court will go through due process. That's why we go to court Now having fired that suit He wanted to obtain an order That's as you've been hearing an expert order is made and now that and there's confusion the judge Dispense justice the judge is my job the judge it is job properly The judge now says I will not give you an expert order behind Go and serve them this process let them come and then we will discuss whether you can While you are still holding the CBN office, you'll be using it The time you will use to go to Politics why does he give you where will you get who owns it? But there are a lot of things that has to be looked at before the court decides We have to say yes, you can or you cannot It is still in court So I went to what the court will say for what we are doing that I think the Syrian government needs to do a deep thinking Look at our economy Look at how much a dollar is Look at how much a pound is Now We are grappling with serious financial issues in this country. Do we actually have the luxury of civilian governor Going for politics When he was not in politics How did the economy fail? How did our currency policies gone that you now add a distraction of politics Let's also look at this You are a senior advocate of Nigeria What kind of democracy and electoral process have we been practicing? We are also being made to understand that sensitive electoral materials are in the custody of the central bank of Nigeria and then you also have a governor who is appointed by the president what sort of Democratic process and electoral process do we practice and what becomes of Nigeria para ventura You know, he makes it and then he becomes a flag bearer of a party and eventually becomes a candidate for the elections in 2023 Well, I Touched earlier. It is a tragedy. We have facing in the country It's going to put a lot of pressure on Inaik for the It will be difficult for Inaik to continue to work with CVN now In respect of all that's some of the things that Inaik would do with CVN In to ensure that election are free fair credible and acceptable Now it would with with the entrance of the second governor into this free Inaik who have to do rethink We have to restrategize That is an added load because you know what it is across the country all the sensitive documents Forms and process of CVN. What are they going to? What are they going to work with are they going to work with for my share banks? Are they going to build saves? Are we going to say? Oh, well, don't mind. They're just a CVN governor. If you go on is a serious position in CVN so It's a challenge Well, I think that there will be a solution and that solution will be for the CVN governor to make up his mind and in the interest of Petroticism and the generality of Nigerians to decide whether he wants to be a CVN governor or whether he wants to be a president All right, so just to put put differently to just rest this matter as it is For him to be justified to run. He just has to resign his position as a CVN governor, right? That's the position I've taken. I think that if he decides To be a CVN now look at the situation the CVN governor has sued the Prime Minister of the Federation The Attorney General of the Federation is the chief law officer of the Ferrari Republic of Nigeria So when you sue the Attorney General of the Federation, you will technically sue the Ferrari Republic of Nigeria Now this is a CVN governor of the Ferrari Republic of Nigeria Suing as we can say the Ferrari Republic of Nigeria Where is the trust and confidence as we move on? Those are the issues I will lead into then say We have had enough destruction in this country right off a lot of challenges The CVN governor should spray us this particular challenge now. All right We must say a very big thank you to you Professor Paul and an Abbas senior advocate of Nigeria for clearing the air to all those gray areas that we had on this particular issue Thank you once again Thank you All right. Merci you've heard from the senior advocate of Nigeria because really I when he was in the analysis The central bank of Nigeria is part of the federal government. He was appointed by the federal government He's actually seen the Attorney General of the Federation He's appointed by the president Yeah, so he's part of the federal government Of course And he's also seen the Attorney General of the Federation who also is part of government, federal government So like as if you you're suing your own family members So he brings us back to the point where we talk about the law, the constitution and the lacunas and the constitution Now it feels like the ruling class or the elite understands that there are a lot of lacuna So a lot of persons take advantage of this loophole Let's not forget that when you approach the court of the interpretation despite whatever it is you probably might just have an Interpretation so it's another thing to have it being stated critically But as long as you approach the court the court would deal with it But should we get to a point where we make express law or very Specific with some of this consent because it's a conflict of interest as a matter of fact in law You cannot be a person of interest in your own case So the situation where you have the CBNB in a custodian of sensitive materials electoral materials How have we been operating first for an electoral process? But that's the size of our conversation on the breakfast this morning would definitely return tomorrow with more interesting conversations Please stay with us. If you missed out on any part of it That's all right to follow us on Facebook Twitter and Instagram and do subscribe to our YouTube channel what plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle I am messy book or have a drink do and I'm Justin. I can hear many things for being a part of the show stunned by for the news top of the hour


Hi, I'm Miley Oye, and I work with Google Search. I'd like to share advice to help you hire a useful SEO and prevent hiring a bad SEO, one who you might pay a lot of money without positive results, or even worse, one who implements shady practices on your website that result in a reduction in search rankings. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. To some, SEO seems like black magic. Having worked with Google Search for over a decade, what I've learned is that, first, it's not black magic. And second, if you want long-term success, there aren't any quick magical tricks that an SEO will provide so that your site ranks number one. It's important to note that an SEO's potential is only as high as the quality of your business or website. So successful SEO helps your website put your best foot forward so that it ranks appropriately in the spot where an unbiased potential customer would expect your site to be seen. A successful SEO also looks to improve the entire searcher experience, from search results to clicking on your website and potentially converting. A good SEO will recommend best practices for a search-friendly site, from basic things like descriptive page titles for a blog or small business, to more complex things like language markup for a multilingual global site. SEOs ensure that you're serving your online customers a good experience, especially those coming from a search engine, and that your site is helpful whether they're using a desktop computer or mobile phone. In most cases, the SEO will need four months to a year to help your business first implement improvements and then see potential benefit. My strongest advice when working with an SEO is to request that they corroborate their recommendation with a documented statement from Google, either in a Help Center article, video, or Google a response in a forum that supports both, one, the SEO's description of the issue that needs to be improved to help with ranking, and two, the approach they prescribe to accomplishing this task. Requesting these two bits of information will help prevent hiring a poor SEO who might otherwise convince you to do useless things like add more words to the keywords meta tag or buy links. Because if you search for Google advice on this topic, you'd see blog posts and videos from us that clearly explain that adding keywords to the meta tag wouldn't help. Furthermore, while Google uses links for page rank, our documentation highlights that we strongly advise against the approach of buying links for the purpose of increasing page rank. One basic rule is that in a majority of cases, doing what's good for SEO is also doing what's good for your online customers, things like having a mobile-friendly website, good navigation, and building a great brand. Additionally, if you're a more established brand with complicated legacy systems, then good, search-friendly best practices likely involves paying off some of your site's technical debt, such as updating your infrastructure so that your website is agile and able to implement features faster in the long term. If you own a small local business, you can probably do the initial work yourself. Check out our 30-minute video series on how to build an online presence for your local business. Now, if you still believe you want to hire an SEO, here's a general process. One, conduct a two-way interview with your potential SEO. Check that they seem genuinely interested in you and your business. Two, check their references. Three, ask for, and you'll probably have to pay for, a technical and search audit. Four, decide if you want to hire. Let's break this down and start with step one, conduct a two-way interview. In the interview, here are some things to look for. A good SEO doesn't focus only on search engine ranking, but how they can help your business. So they should ask questions like, what makes your business content and or service unique and therefore valuable to customers? They want to know this information to make sure it's highlighted on your website for your current and potential new audience. Two, what does your common customer look like and how do they currently find your website? Three, how does your business make money and how can search help? Four, what other channels are you using? Offline advertising, social networks. Five, who are your competitors? What do they do well online and potentially offline? 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Step three is to request a technical and search audit. If you trust your SEO candidate, give them restricted view, not full or right access, to your Google search console data and even your analytics data. Before they actually modify anything on your website, have them conduct a technical and search audit to give you a prioritized list of what they think should be improved for SEO. If you're a larger business, you can hire multiple SEOs to run audits and prioritize improvements, see what each has to say, and then determine who you could work with the best. In the audit, the SEO should prioritize improvements with a structure like, one, the issue, two, the suggested improvement, three, an estimate on the overall investment. In other words, the time, energy, or money it would take for your developers to implement the improvement and for Google search, as well as searchers and customers to recognize the improvement. The SEO will need to talk with your developers to better understand what technical constraints may exist. Four, the estimated positive business impact. The impact might be a ranking improvement that will lead to more visitors and conversions, or perhaps the positive impact comes from a backend change that cleans up your site and helps your brand be more agile in the future. Five, a plan of how to iterate and improve on the implementation, or perhaps how to experiment and fail fast should the results not meet expectations. That covers the structure of the technical and search audit. Now let's talk about each of these audits individually. In the technical audit, your SEO should be able to review your site for issues related to internal linking, callability, URL parameters, server connectivity, and response codes to name some. If they mention that your site has duplicate content problems that need to be corrected, make sure they show you the specific URLs that are competing for the same query, or that they explain it should be cleaned up for long-term site health, not initial growth. I mention this because lots of duplicate content exists on websites, and often it's not a pressing problem. In the search audit, your potential SEO will likely break down your search queries into categories, like branded and unbranded terms. Branded terms are those with your business or websites name. Like a search for Gmail is a branded term, while the search for email is an unbranded or general keyword. An SEO should make sure that for branded queries, such as Gmail, your website is providing a great experience that allows customers who know your brand or website to easily find exactly what they need and potentially convert. They might recommend improvements that help the entire searcher experience, from what the searcher sees in search results, to when they click on a result and use your website. For unbranded queries, an SEO can help you better make sense of the online competitive landscape. They can tell you things like, here are the types of queries that would make sense for your business to rank, but here's what your competition has done and why I think they rank where they do. For instance, perhaps your competition has great reviews, really shareable content, or they run a highly reputable site. An SEO will provide recommendations for how to improve ranking for these queries and the entire searcher experience. They'll introduce ideas like, update obsolete content. They might say, your site is suffering because some of your well-ranking content is obsolete, has poor navigation, a useless page title, or isn't mobile friendly. 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Again, a good SEO will try to prioritize what ideas can bring your business the most improvement for the least investment and what improvements may take more time but help growth in the long term. Once they talk with you and other members of your team, such as developers or marketers, they'll help your business forge a path ahead. The last thing I wanna mention is that when I talk with SEOs, one of the biggest holdups to improving a website isn't their recommendations, but it's the business making time to implement their ideas. If you're not ready to commit to making SEO improvements, while getting an SEO audit may be helpful, make sure that your entire organization is on board. Else, your SEO improvements may be non-existent, regardless of who you hire. So that wraps it up. Thanks for watching and best of luck to you and your business.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts, the newsroom for telecom and data center professionals. I'm Barb Mitchell and joining me today, I'm pleased to introduce you to Stuart Lawrence, Vice President of Product Engineering at Stream Data Centers. Stuart, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you, Bob. I'm excited to be here and talking to you guys today. Yeah, we were really excited for the opportunity to chat with you a little bit. We obviously know Stream very well. They're friends and partners and all of that with us. And so pleased to have you join the mix here in the conversation. So Stream doesn't need an introduction, but we'd love to hear more from you in terms of how your role specifically supports both the needs of Stream, the company, but as well as your external customers. Sure. Well, my role in product engineering is multifaceted from the perspective that I support the sales efforts and the sales team and Michael Citra's team in particular, architecting the most cost effective and efficient deployments that we can come up with for our customers. And then using a feedback loop right to look at our design and iterate on our design so that we can adapt and incorporate anything new and innovative. And that of course means that I get to evaluate a lot of new technologies, look at the way people are doing things now, latest approaches. But I would say Stream have been doing this for almost 24 years now. So they already had a really terrific product and before I showed up. And you can really tell that the design has been laid out and iterated by folks with a great deal of experience, building and operating data centers. So it's really actually kind of nice to be able to iterate on something that's already excellent. But not to underestimate the tenure of your career, right? I mean, you've been doing this yourself for two decades, right? Building mission critical and mechanical systems solutions is one way of putting it. You could probably put it better than that. But tell us about what are some of the things that you've seen? I mean, you talked a little bit about innovation and how things have sort of evolved, but what are some of the things that you've found are the key elements to really delivering high standards of service? Yeah, I've worked in everything from nuclear power stations and hospitals and production pharmaceutical labs and then probably the last 12 to 15 years really in mission critical IT side of business data centers. And maybe I'm gonna be a little controversial here. I think it actually all starts with integrity. The mechanical, the electrical components, yeah, those are obviously highly important and we have to kind of be serious when we approach how we design and architect those things. But integrity for me is something that maintains standards and services, service excellence, right? And they're always gonna be bumps in the road, but you've got to do your best to make a good plan, stick to it. And then if you do have to pivot or iterate, be open and clear about it with your customers, your team, your partners. In my experience, I've always found that you get given a lot more latitude to succeed if there is trust. And for me, trust starts with integrity. So more specific to data centers though, there are many brilliant people in our industry, right? I mean, it attracts the best and the brightest and designs as a result often evolve fast. And to maintain, and so for me, I strive to maintain my student ideas at work, surround myself with thought leaders in all the facets, right? There's so many facets to our industry. So much opportunity for young people coming in, right? To hone their skill in one segment and then become a thought leader in the business. So, I try to stay humble, keep in touch with the technology trend and see what new ideas are coming out there. And actually, surprisingly, I think these days, it's not just the new ideas that are disrupting the status quo. A lot of the time, it's older ideas that are being recycled and upcycled and coming back and disrupting even new ideas. So I actually kind of find that exciting too. Yeah. Well, and I was just gonna say earlier, when you were speaking of integrity, it feels to me very well aligned with, what Stream thinks of as their secret sauce, right? In terms of people and collaboration and how does that, how do you integrate those things in your day-to-day? Yeah, and in my day-to-day, I'm interacting with a large number of folks on the team, right? All our architects, engineers, consultants, construction teams, operations teams. So, I pull a lot of that together. And candidly, the talent that our leadership team has been able to pull in is remarkable. But, you know, having worked for some big organizations and sort of lots of egos, right? What has struck me the most impressive is that the team is so humble and so collaborative. It's such a great environment and it breeds such a culture. You know, sitting down with customers, the pride that resonates from our team and the interaction that our customers get as a result is just tremendous. I mean, it really is no surprise to me now that the innovation that comes out of this team has such great impact for these clients. Yeah, I mean, we see that every day and all of the great things that we see coming out of stream in terms of, you know, innovation and advancement and expansion, but the team's just such a pleasure to work with. You know, we see that and we see that from the industry as well, I think, feels that way. So, yeah, I see that. I wanted to ask you, so you've worked all over, right? And, you know, whether physically in these places or working on projects globally, you know, in Europe and in different cities, New York and Austin and the United States, how does that influence the way you look at your work, you know, in terms of sort of the global perspective of this? Yeah, I've been really fortunate to get opportunities to work, you know, on sort of all the continents, right? Maybe not so Antarctic, but, you know, I think the thing that sort of most challenged me through working in different locations and with different folks is that I always, you know, I've always tried to seek to understand someone else's point of view first before applying whatever technology or approach that might be top of mind going in, right? And as you can probably tell, I'm pretty passionate about engineering and technology, often to a fault, actually, but facing cultural and even technological approaches that are different from what I was taught, you know, taught and sort of forced me to be open-minded and give other ideas a chance first, right? And so I think that resonates for me at Stream Data Centers too, right? It's like I said before, everyone's quite humble and collaborative and willing to listen and try to understand different ideas. And I think that breeds, you know, a very innovative environment for sure. On top of that, you know, working and living in different parts of the world has actually made me quite frugal. I like to be materially and energy efficient, right? I mean, it's driven me to try to engineer out waste. And so I think that certainly resonates well in the industry right now with a lot of companies having high ESG focuses. Yeah, I like to bring, you know, the two ears, one mouth to the situation and listen to lots of different ideas and see how we can make things better. So on that note, what do you see, you know, I mean, this is always the tough question, right? The sort of crystal ball question, but you know, from an engineering perspective, what do you see are the, you know, the big bets for you, you know, in terms of what's going to help you get to where you want to go to meet the demands that are coming for Stream out of the market? Yeah, I mean, there's a lot going on in the market right now, right? With supply chain challenges and the great resignation labor force challenges and things like that. So, but I'm fortunate, like I said, you know, Stream data centers have been doing this for almost 24 years and they've been working very hard actually with a lot of their large customers over the last decade on refining the electrical topology or constructability of the product and, you know, working with procurement programs to make sure that inventory is well aligned with the demands that are coming our way. So I'm really standing on the shoulders of giants here. You know, so for me, my role and the way I look at what's coming down the pipe in terms of big changes is somewhat sort of smaller iterations, right? You know, we're really focused on not delivering snowflakes, right? And we were trying to be much more focused on constructability and repeatability, reliability, ESG, all those things come to mind. But then, you know, one of my passions is mechanical engineers and mechanical side and I love to get into the weeds there and work on, you know, iterating and bringing a better product or bringing something new that potentially disrupts the way we can deliver capacity. And I think I've got something that maybe we'll come back to at some point. Oh, yeah. Oh, good. A follow-up, a teaser. I like that. That's great. You know, Stuart, thank you so much for just taking a few minutes with us today. It's been a pleasure to meet you and to hear from you.  Is that a word of streamer? Yeah, I'm happy to be here. For sure. Thanks, Bob. Yeah, it's been a pleasure. Very thought-provoking questions and class to be upon. Yeah. Thank you so much. And thank you, viewers, for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts.


Well folks, it's the night we've all been waiting for when the best trainers in the country bring their best three-year-olds and Jewel it out for that sought-after faturity buckle and the man who made it all happen was none other than Matt Gaines Abhorred second spot with an a phenomenal 229.  She you know keeps everything going and the Barkers, I mean you know they They've just they're just amazing people, you know They've been so good to me and raising good horses and giving me good horses to ride And you know, so it's just it's just it just you know, it feels good to it feels good to you know The relief, you know finally win the maturity, but but it feels good to you know to to reward them to do it for them Thank you, you know, and and because they you know, they've been awesome And I'm just I'm happy as able to get the job done for them Well, you were an absolute crowd favorite Did you did you feel the crowd on the support behind you because they were going crazy? Yeah, you know, it's and that's one of the things it's truly been amazing.   Nobody's going to give it to you So it's kind of adds to the pressure sometimes because each you go around and then the same is your school was building You really piqued up. They're absolutely right time. Well, it's like I always say Everybody asks what's the toughest round at the charity? It's the next one. That's how I say the next one Once you get one over with then it's the next one, but But yeah, no, it's just uh, it's a it's an awesome feeling and I just you know, like I said, I just I feel blessed and You know glad to finally win this one. Can you talk us through your run? You seem to pick all the black cows What was it about those? You know, it's funny. I I watched that first bunch and I didn't watch them real close But I watched and I watched those guys uh showing and you know, I'm I'm Normally one of the last ones to cut black cows But I watched everybody cutting the the colored cattle and they were just they were most of them were pretty strong and pushy and And you know and everybody's going for it and I just said to myself, you know It looks to me like everybody's pushing a little too hard trying a little too hard going a little too fast and You know on the colored cattle look, you know look to be pretty strong. So You know, I kind of had that mindset When I went up there to watch cows still open minded, you know to all the cattle, but and there was a few colored cattle that That I like too, but I really focused on the blacks. They seem to be a little uh, you know, not quite as strong and And I felt like with my mare the way she's been if I could just keep something in front of her away from her that You know that I could I could get enough done to give me a shot and and I just you know I didn't want to I didn't want to risk taking myself out and You know, so it's kind of that was kind of my focus when I went up there and And you know, it worked out. Is that the hardest part? Finding that fine line between not forcing it but having enough happened to get that phenomenal score Yeah, you know and I it it's it's so it helps it helps having a horse like that like I You know, she's got so much look In and what she does You know, I don't feel like I have to force it I feel like I just you know And that's kind of learned that about her going through the rounds and even last night, you know If I can just stay clean and and keep from getting in a bind.  I just needed to be smart and And cut cows let her do her deal and you know, if it was me it'd work So tell us about this horse you trained its mother So you're obviously very familiar with the bloodline. Yes. Yeah, I trained her mother and this this pair is very similar to her mother her mother A lot the same style wasn't quite as quick her mother was a good bit longer bodied mare And she just couldn't get around quite as quick as this mare could do a lot of the same style really big style real You know worked low the ground all but she just Wasn't quite as quick this mare's built a little better and it's quickened her up some and And she's just a little more of an athlete.  You've pretty much won everything You know 12 months ago you won the the open world finals And that had a huge following of fans. Obviously tonight you can hear the fans Again, um, does it get any better than this? Well, I you know, who knows, uh It'd be hard to get much better than this, you know last year Last year was amazing. That's you know And and winning the fertility tonight's awesome, but I don't know anything will take the place of last year.  We had to be good all year not not not one show It was it was all year and we had to be good all year and And you know just the work everybody put into it the work Tara put into that mare keeping her sound all year and and hauling her all over the country and You know, that's I mean that's I'll never forget this, but I sure won't ever forget that either, you know, it's uh It's it's been an awesome two years Well, you've given everybody many memories and some really exciting cutting. Thank you very much matt. We really appreciate it. Thank you


Here's how to tell if you're actually gaining fans on Spotify and not just arbitrary streams and listeners. Now I know that everyone knows that streams and listeners and sales and playlists ads are a good indication on if you're building a fan base and if your following is growing. But Spotify actually has a couple more stats that you can look at that will let you know if you're really building a fan base. So what I want you to do is log into your Spotify for artists and then click on the Audience tab. And then from there click on Engagement. And you'll be brought to a page where you can see an overview of those metrics that we talked about.  One of the first things I would take notice of here is your streams per listener. The higher this number, the more streams you are getting per person that visits your Spotify page. So this artist for example is almost averaging four streams per person. So seeing this number rise is a good thing, a really good thing. Now the next thing I want you to do is click on source or stream. This allows you to break down your streaming data by where you're getting those streams from. The two I want you to pay the most attention to are artist profile and catalog, and then listeners on playlist and library. Artist and profile are streams from people that search out your Spotify profile and then listen from there. It's a really good way to see the impact that your ads or your marketing is having on your Spotify profile. Now streams from listeners on playlist and library are streams that come from your listeners personal playlist or them playing it off of their library. A really good way to see if you have a consistent group of people listening to your music, i.e. fans. So once you select those two, it'll make you a little chart like this. So if we take a look at this artist here, we can see that had a spike in profile traffic, right? A spike in people coming to the Spotify page to listen to them. This is once again represented by the purple line. The green line representing listeners on playlist and library has now started to rise as that spike is happening. Meaning that this artist is retaining people from that spike and making a lot of them stick around to actually listen to more music. And we can assume that that's this artist fan base being built, right? More people are coming from wherever they're coming from to hear the music and they're deciding to stick around, add it to their playlist in their library and then stream again. So as long as you're seeing that green line rise consistently, chances are you're building a really solid core fan base.


And now we are going to go back, Emily, to Ed Rumpel. And Ed Rumpel is an LA-based, full-time freelance writer and author. He was named after legendary CBS broadcaster Edward R. Murrow. He has written for many major publications. Rumpel currently covers LA's art scene for the Hollywood Progressive.  And so we're going back to Hollywood right now. But I want, you know, we've heard the depth of what we've done around the world. And it's some ideas in the chat on what to do about this. Thank you. Today is the 70th anniversary of the second wave of the Hollywood blacklist. A U.S. government and private business organized attack against freedom of speech in the motion picture industry. Before actor Larry Parks was badgered into portraying himself and others on March 21, 1951. This assault on free expression systematically began in October 1947, when the first of the Hollywood 10 testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC. Those hearings resulted in the imprisonment and finding of the 10 filmmakers in the land of the free, largely for refusing to answer congressional committee questions about the political and union affiliations of themselves and others. The 1947 HUAC hearings also resulted in an expanding blacklist in Hollywood, with studios increasingly denying employment to writers, directors, actors, etc. This is how the inquisition in Hollywood worked. The panelists was appointed to testify before Washington witch hunters were asked the $64,000 question. Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? They were also bullied to incriminate others as seat peers and or supporters of various left wing causes. It wasn't enough to confess one's own political sins. Penitents also had to denounce other heretics for their political associations and court crimes. The cooperative friendly witnesses who informed on themselves and named names of others to a congressional committee, the studio cheese, and or certain private entities would generally allow to crawl back to work in the movie industry. However, unfriendly witnesses who refused to cooperate and rat out others were forbidden from making pictures. This auto defa wasn't limited to those in the movie colony who joined the Communist Party or CP. How a non-communist like actors, Marsha Hunt and John Barfield had their employment curtailed because they wouldn't name others to save their own skin. More than 300 La La Land professionals lost jobs due to this motion picture purge. Hollywood black lists consequences extended far beyond the ability of casts and crews to earn a living. This act of blatant censorship also adversely impacted upon American culture. The U.S. experience from roughly 1947 to 1960 was a coordinated campaign to subvert and undermine the First Amendment by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the House U.S. House of Representatives acting in league with studio moguls. In 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy joined the anti-communist crusade and chaired the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, focusing on purported reds in the U.S. government and army. But McCarthy did call some prominent artists to testify, including poet Langston Hughes, writer Dashiell Hammett, composer Aaron Copeland, and novelist Howard Fast. After World War II, America emerged as a nuclear-armed superpower and tried to impose global hegemony. To do this, Washington had to suppress dissent in the homeland. With Huac and McCarthyism, the U.S. ruling class brought the Cold War home. To become the world's policeman, U.S. imperialists had to police America, too, and badgering, tyrannizing celebrities attracted publicity and also warned ordinary people that they better be obedient. Today, right-wingers howl against political correctness and wokeness. Huac and McCarthyism really were Cold War-canceled culture. With congressional and intelligence entities collaborating with industrialized, industrialists, the movie moguls, to impose their propagandistic version of politically correct arts and entertainment on Americans. This conservative-canceled culture, which censored, stifled, punished, and policed domestic dissent, was an essential part of the Cold War's ideological holy war. The 1950s is widely seen as a dreary era of conformity, which explains why so many reactionaries yearn to return to it. Let's take a look at what the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyism actually denied to American culture. The witchhands are popularly portrayed as reds under the bed's anti-communist hysteria, but as a film historian who thoroughly researched this period, I have a different viewpoint. There were in fact a significant number of communists, plus many fellow travelers and independent leftists, in Hollywood from the 30s until the Huac purges. Injecting progressive content, they made the movies better. Let's look at some other films that exemplify the cultural contributions of Communist Party and leftist talents. What beloved movie, from Hollywood's golden age, most embodies America's democratic values. In 1939's iconic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Jimmy Stewart stars as an idealistic young senator who does battle with congressional corruption. Frank Capra directed this popular classic, which received 10 Academy Award nominations, but when the Grand Inquisitors returned to Tinseltown in 1951, he was subpoenaed to testify. Refusing to name names, Bookman was blacklisted, fined, and found guilty of contempt of Congress. Capital Hill finally exacted its revenge on the screenwriter who critiqued the Senate in Mr. Smith. In 1936, Charlie Chaplin stood up for factory workers, strikers, and the unemployed during the Depression in modern times. In 1940, as Nazis conquered Europe, Chaplin satire the great dictator, bravely mocked Hitler and defended the Jews. What was Chaplin's reward? When Charlie sailed to London in 1952, British citizens' re-entry permit to America was revoked. Charlie, never a sepiae, spent the rest of his life in exile. Despite their 13-year inquisition, Tinseltown's turkey mothers were turkeys who never formally charged a single US-born artist with espionage and or treason. And despite the persecution of abused, unemployed North American-born talents, not one defected to the Iron Curtain. The blacklist also launched the political careers of two US presidents, actor Ronald Reagan, who testified to HUAC, which Congressman Richard Nixon served on. When today's right-wingers squeal about the new McCarthyism, we mind them about the old McCarthyism, about the Cold War canceled culture unleashed against leftists in the 40s and the 50s, by House and Senate committees, the FBI and the entertainment industry. And, oh, of course, there's direct link from real McCarthyism to Donald Trump. Joe McCarthy's chief counsel, the scum of the earth, Roy Cullen, was, of course, the Donald's attorney. In the USA, from the Pomeranian to the First Red Scare, to the Cold War, to HUAC, to McCarthyism, to Cullen-Tail-Pro, to Trumpism and beyond, political repression and the national security surveillance state have primarily targeted leftists. And it has done so at a great cost to American culture and our political discourse. Thank you. Bravo. Thank you, Ed. Thank you for your testimony. Thank you, Ed. And again, he was, he's our first project. We're talking about putting on a Cold War film festival, definitely.


All right, so I don't know. I'm Tom Woods. How are you guys doing? Some of you may have seen a video that I made for the Mises Institute a few weeks ago for its 30 for 30 campaign. This is of course the 30th anniversary event. And I made a video talking about the importance of the Mises Institute to me personally. And I talked about what it's meant for my own career and professional development.  And I wrote that because the conventional wisdom that was then developing was fairly predictable, which was that the free market caused the financial crisis. And so what we need is more regulation, cracks and more skulls, and we'll solve the problem. And we all knew that would be the conventional wisdom. That's the only thing they can ever come up with. It's always this sort of explanation. So people who had absolutely no clue there was anything wrong with the economy, all of a sudden they are the experts as to what the cause of the crisis was, a crisis they didn't even see coming. So I wanted to put before the public a different view. I wanted to give the Austrian point of view on what just happened to us. And I was able to do that very quickly. I had an accommodating publisher that turned things around very quickly. And I wrote the thing very quickly.  Like there's no way I would want to read it. But the reason I was able to do that was that I went through the Mises Institute's programs. I went through the Mises University summer program starting in 1993 when I was a college junior. I went to Harvard and I never heard any of this stuff. I know this will come as a shock to you guys. This was not being taught there. But I learned this stuff and from that moment on I just never looked back. I was always interested in it, always absorbing it, always getting more and more from the Institute. A lot of resources constantly. And then of course the wonderful website the Institute has. And so when this opportunity arose to write this book, I had the tools to do it. It wasn't just because I'm some smarty pants and I can write a book really quickly. If I didn't have that knowledge I couldn't have done it. And where did I get that knowledge? It didn't just come through the ether. It didn't just come to me in a dream. It came because the Mises Institute existed and donors allowed me to attend that event. And ever since then it just changed the way I thought about the world. Well, what I want to talk about today though is another way that the Mises Institute has helped me and changed the way I think in very, very favorable ways. And that is it jolted me out of being a neoconservative. Which I was as a college student, first couple of years of college. I didn't realize I was a neoconservative because what do I know?  All I knew was I didn't like Hillary Clinton. Pretty good start. So I just concluded that therefore I guess I do like Rush Limbaugh. Like that was those are the choices as far as I could see. It was just process of elimination basically. But that's because, I'll be honest with you, I was not an original enough thinker to say, wait a minute, this choice is too narrow. There must be something other than Clinton and Limbaugh to choose from. No, I just thought, well, she's not him. So I guess I like it. That was it.  It never occurred to me to look outside the three inch spectrum. So I dutifully found my place on the little spectrum. And I just, I looked around, I thought, well, let's see, I guess I'm a Republican. So let me find out what the Republicans believe. Well, they say they believe in the free market. So all right, I'm for that. But they also believe in a strong national defense, which we all know what that means, right? It doesn't mean a national defense at all because it needs a strong national offense. It's what it always means. But I went for that. I went for the whole thing and that whatever the Pentagon tells me is like Holy Scripture.  I bought the whole package.  When I moved into my dorm freshman year, the very first day, I'm yapping it up with one of my roommates about Operation Desert Shield. Like, man, we got a, in the name of democracy, we got to restore that a mirror of Kuwait to his throne. Or who knows what'll happen.  Now, thank goodness my writing career didn't start until years later. So there's actually no evidence that I ever held these words. Apart from my complete admission of them right now. Okay, so how did I break out of this? Well, for one thing, I started to figure out a little bit just on my own because when that Persian Gulf War got started and Operation Desert Shield became Desert Storm, I watched that unfold and I watched what happened when, I don't know, maybe 100,000 Iraqi forces were basically burned alive while they were retreating in the desert. And, you know, half of these are young kids who don't even know what they're doing there and they're in an impossible situation. And then hostilities were over and there was a Bob Hope special on TV to commemorate this and everybody's cheering and laughing and joyful. And I'm supposed to feel joyful and I'm supposed to cheer because I'm a good little neocon. That's what I do. I say, yeah, USA. I'm supposed to get my giant USA number one foam glove and put it on my hand. But I just thought, all these people just, I mean, forget about the civilians. That's a whole separate matter. But technically, according to the logic of war, I'm supposed to either hate these people who were just killed or at the very least think of them as human garbage, not even worth my time. And yet I just couldn't do that. I just thought, this is a horrible thing that just happened to a lot of people. And now there are widows and orphans all over the place in that country, a country that never did a thing to me, wasn't even remotely considering doing a thing to me. How can I enjoy a Bob Hope special after this? There's something wrong. There's something callous about this. And it ate away at me. It ate away at me. I didn't immediately change my ways. I rooted for the reelection of George H.W. Bush against Bill Clinton in the great Titanic struggle of the 20th century. And then I started reading more Rothbard. I was reading Murray Rothbard, the economist, because of the Mises University program and its aftereffects on me. But I started reading his other work. I read his essay, Anatomy of the State. I read his essay, War, Peace and the State. You never look at the world the same way again. Because you can just chuck your civics books into the trash can after you read Anatomy of the State by Rothbard. Because he's not going to go for any of this stuff about, well, the state is there to provide for the common good and the people who staff it are selfless crusaders for justice who are innocently trying to do what's best for you and me.  No, no, no. To the contrary, what this institution is, is a parasitic institution that lives off the labor of its subjects. That's what it is. And it engages in activities that would be considered the greatest moral enormities if engaged in by the citizens. But when they are engaged in by the ruling class, this is just a matter of public policy. We can expropriate you to whatever limit prudence will allow. We can kidnap you if the cause is just in our view and only we can decide whether it's just or not. We can do all these very throw you in cages for arbitrary reasons. Anybody else doing this, we would immediately see there's something wrong with it. But we've been taught that, well, these are special people. We're all equal, but these like are super-duper equal, super-duper special type people. Rothbard just says, no, this is like the most grotesque superstition and yet we are all taught to absorb this. Moreover, the state is looking to protect itself more than it's looking to protect you. And if you doubt that, consider the severity with which it treats crimes against itself. And compare that with the dispatch with which it goes after somebody who stole your $10. I mean, I remember being in New York City once and my friend and I were eating dinner and we came back and his car had been vandalized and some stuff had been taken. And a policeman just happened to be driving by. We flagged him down and we told him what had happened. He said, well, that's just a real shame.  I'm not kidding. No interest whatsoever. Now if that were a private service, we would never hear the end of this. The guy just drove off and he didn't even care whereas that goes on every single day in New York and people just think, well, you know, they can't solve everything. So like we hold the private sector to this very high standard. Like, you know, we're going to complain and gripe. But when it's the government, we just sort of figure, well, you know, what are you going to do? It's just the way to stop thinking that way. You know, quit it. Just break out of this. But think about the way they treat like evasion of the income tax. They don't just say, oh, well, you know, too bad you did that. No, they fine. You know, like, and you wonder, there are parts of the Constitution. You know, why don't they enforce the 10th Amendment?  They do enforce the 16th Amendment. No problem with that. Or counterfeiting its money. They go after you for that. If you don't register for the draft, they're going to come find you.  They want to protect the institution. Now, how does it get away with all this? And Rothbard said, it's the bamboozling of the public. Okay. It's the intellectual class that has a special relationship with the state apparatus. And it's their job to explain to us why we need these people and how necessary this all is. And it comes in different forms. We have economists who tell us, well, the government activates the Keynesian multiplier, which allows us to be prosperous. Or it's other people who say the government protects you from those bad people on the other side of that mountain or whatever it is. And if it weren't for them, well, you would just be thrown on your own devices and where would you be and where is today, of course, if there's an intruder in your house? Well, the government is right there. Within 45 minutes, are you picking up that phone and being dead on the floor? So anyway, so we get this whole thing from the intellectual class and we just accept it. We don't have any, it takes an incredible amount of imagination to imagine a different way of living. And I certainly didn't have that kind of imagination. I wouldn't have been original enough to think the way Rothbard thought about alternatives. But then in war peace in the state, he applies libertarian theory to foreign policy and explains why the non-interventionist position is the correct one from the point of view of libertarianism. And what also impressed me is that here's a free market economist who's speaking out against war. This is a rare combination. And yet today, it doesn't seem rare at all, but that's just because we're enjoying the fruits of the ground that was planted, the seeds that were planted by people like Rothbard now are beginning to blossom. But the key thing to me getting out of the Rothbard work on this is that there is no we in all this. We often hear, even people on the left who may be sometimes good on war, they'll say, you know, we keep bombing these people and we shouldn't do it. And I say, what do you mean by we? I haven't bombed anybody. What are you talking about? I've done everything I can to stop them from bombing people. Or we starved them with our sanctions. We? Our? Stop talking like this.  The state is a separate entity from us. It is not part of us. But this whole, we are the government thing. That's a great propaganda breakthrough because it makes you begin to think, well, you know, this really is an expression of my own will. It's an extension of my own will one way or the other.  You know, it's brilliant in how rotten and deviously fiendish and clever it is that it makes people feel like they have an emotional and personal stake in the policies of that government. But there is no we in Rothbard. It's always they and it's always them.  And I realized that I had been caught up in this we. I had been watching these wars on TV like they were video games. And I felt like, yeah, we're sticking it to those bad guys. We are dispensing summary justice to the bad guys around the world instead of what was obviously going on, which is that the regime gives these ridiculous third grade rationales for its wars that it itself doesn't even believe. But the diluted right wing masses will go to their graves defending these completely preposterous explanations for these wars. And what's actually going on is for various other reasons these conflicts take place. And real live people are suffering in ways we can't even imagine. And we're taught to cheer this and the people who tell us we should cheer this are the conservatives who are always lecturing us about moral relativism. Give us of all because they defend moral outrages because their ruling class is perpetrating them. But if the Soviet Union starved hundreds of thousands of kids to death, well, we'd never hear the end of it. But if the U.S. government does it and you object to it, what are you? Some kind of Pink Okami? And I finally woke up from this and I thanked the Mises Institute for basically for exposing me to Murray Rothbard. Because I certainly wasn't going to find Rothbard in his magazines. He doesn't even exist. He has more scholarly accomplishments than every neo-conservative who ever lived. But he doesn't even exist. Now, you may find this corny. But I try to find a providential hand in some of the events of my life and I've wondered, you know, why did I go through this period where I was pro-war and I absorbed all the propaganda and I unfortunately imposed it on other innocent parties. Well, I think to myself that the fact that I myself used to believe this means that I can relate to and understand people who still buy into it today because I was there once.  You know, I was in those shoes too. And so instead of giving up on these people, I try to reach them in various ways. And so I've done what I could and at a Mises event this very year we had a wonderful event called War Big Government's Best Friend in South Carolina. The reddest of red states. I love that. And my talk on YouTube actually is called War Big Government's Best Friend. I've had a lot of people, I'm shocked at this, say that that changed their minds because I basically gave my whole story and then apart from just my personal story I went through and gave some reasons that you should be skeptical of the warfare state. And I've had people tell me that that changed their minds. The reason that surprises me is the talk is like 45 minutes. These people must have very open minds. They sat through 45 minutes of something they didn't agree with at the beginning. But the thing that I'm most pleased with in my public speaking career was an event last year in Los Angeles. And you can find it online, Nullify Now and then Woods. This was an event where and I'm wrapping up, I have an extra couple of minutes remember but this is an event where we had all different types of people not because I see anybody in the corner of my eye you understand. There's a blind spot over there. But there was an event that had a lot of different types of people at it and it also had there are people at this event walking around with operation desert storm hats like veteran of desert storm veteran hats. And I thought, whoa, this is not the audience I was expecting. And I had a speech that 10 minutes of it was absolutely laying into U.S. foreign policy. And I'm going to be honest with you and tell you that for a brief moment I thought to myself, maybe I won't talk about that stuff tonight. Maybe this isn't the place to do it. And then again I know this is going to sound corny but this is the honest to God truth. I actually thought to myself, I thought about my heroes, intellectual heroes. I thought about Ludwig von Mises who comes to the U.S. basically empty-handed in 1940 having more or less been forced out of Europe can't get a paid teaching position lives out his life in relative obscurity even though he's doing unbelievable work. He could have taught anywhere he wanted to if he had just said what they wanted him to say and he refused to do it and the result was ridicule being thought of as some backward old Neanderthal right out of the 19th century and yet he just kept undoing it. He did it. Or Ron Paul. Ron Paul, a guy who is up there at the debate stage in May of 2007 and he goes after Rudy Giuliani saying things that no one's allowed to say on American television. He doesn't know there's an audience of people out there who are going to support him. That would have made it easy. It was hard for him to get up there and say those things. And he walked off that debate stage dejected that the whole country is against me. Little did he know. And I thought to myself, shame on me. What do I have to do compared to what these men had to do? To these people and have 10 minutes of it be on foreign policy? And I did it. And it's one of the best things I've ever done. And then people came up to me and said, you know what? You really made me think. Because in the first half of that speech I was anti-Obama. I was pro-free market and so they were right on board with me and then I had built up some capital with them and I used it. What's the point of building up capital with people if you don't use it? Well, finally there are a lot of places on this earth that will generically cheer on the free market and that's wonderful. But how many of them are going to stand up to the entire regime, to its intellectuals, to its media when the chips are down and the war propaganda is flying? Well, I'll tell you, the answer to that is the number is vanishingly small. But right here we are celebrating 30 years of the Mises Institute which is among that very small number and in recent years we in the institute have made huge strides. We've got Austrian scholars being hired on economics faculties now to a degree we couldn't have dreamed possible even 10 years ago. It's not career suicide to be an Austrian economist and these young bright Austrians absolutely amaze me. It's possible to be anti-war in free market now. In fact this almost seems like what it should be the logical position to take. We are seeing a revival of interest in Mises and Rothbard that none of us could have expected. Mises.org is where the 30 year promotion is taking place because this is no time for us to let up. We've got to keep pushing forward. We're actually having victories that Rothbard didn't live to see Mises didn't live to see Ron Paul's a lucky man. He's lived to see his own vindication. But we owe it to them to those people who struggled and fought and fought and didn't see anything, any return for what they did. Now we're starting to see it. Now we with your help have to press on with more determination than ever. Thanks for supporting the Mises Institute.