You don't get to talk to her that way. Stand down. And so how could that person not want to protect you in that moment or not feel like it was my job to protect you in that moment? What's up, lovers and friends? I have some incredible, really frightening, exciting, big, massive life changing on my part news that I want to share with you. My sister Lauren Morrison is leaving Canada, moving to Los Angeles with her entire family and she is going to be working for shared entertainment full time. So for those of you who are familiar with my story and my family, my sister is a full time corporate head honcho. She's got two kids, she is married to an incredible man who's also a full time corporate head honcho. So this is one of those moves that I just never really saw happening, but they actually came to Los Angeles when Raiu was born and spent a month here just to get to know Raiu and be together. And that was our first time really getting to coexist as families and it was so powerful that we started to really ask the question, how do we make this a reality? And asking that question led her husband, Chris, to realize that his job could transfer him to California and asking that question of Lauren really allowed us to realize that we really do belong together as more than just sisters, but as business partners. And that's what we're really trying to facilitate and that's a lot. And I acknowledge that it's a lot. And so I thought, why not get some help to really make sure that this transition is as powerful and as meaningful to both of us as we both really want it to be. This video is sponsored by better help. Better help is an incredible service that allows you to get a licensed therapist at your disposal because you don't have to go at life alone. 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And if you consider better help as a service to get that help from, I want to please encourage you to utilize my promo code with them, which is betterhelp.com slash booty. That's B E T T E R H E L P dot com slash B O O D Y because that code is going to allow you to get 10% off your first month of counseling with better help. And so I asked Keondra Jackson, who is a licensed marriage and family therapist. You might recall her from a better help video that I did actually a couple of years ago. Keondra is a therapist that I trust and I asked her to put together a list of questions that would help me and Lauren have essentially a premarital call before we dive into our new relationship together. One of the things that I kind of carry with me is this element of always being like the other sister, right? Because people would always, because you were in track, because you were so well accomplished, athletically, you know, and then when after that, after your athletic phase kind of passed by, then it was, you know, you were the one on TV, you were the one who was, you know, writing articles. Like there was always something to talk about with Shen, right? There was always something to talk about. There was always something to praise you on. And it always felt like I was doing so much on my own, but it was never as newsworthy. So I never really got to feel like people who I loved really got to see me in my strength, in my element, because those are the things that happened not necessarily on a stage. It didn't happen on a stage. It didn't happen in front of a crowd. It was happening in the boardrooms. One of my best friends, when he found out that I was moving, he said, you're so accomplished. You have, you have everything here. You're just going to go to LA and be Shan's sister. And that was like, oh, my God, I know who said he's so toxic. And I was like, yeah, but that's, but that's a real, that's a real thought. Right. That's a real thought. That's a real concern. And that's something that I've had to really sort of really work through in my mind as well. It's because even when I used to come out to LA before, I used to feel so uncomfortable. And you remember like earlier, like when I used to come out to LA, I used to feel so uncomfortable feeling like I wasn't in my world. I was just in your world. And in your world, I didn't have. I didn't have a sense of I was just a follower in your world. I wasn't a leader in your world. And that kind of made me always feel very uncomfortable. Like I couldn't really be who I wanted to be. I couldn't bring my authentic self. We would get dressed for things and you would put on this like dominatrix clothing and I'd be like, I don't know. I just want to wear jeans. Like I don't know how I fit here. And that was kind of so it just further recessed me into the shadows. But him saying that to me was so important because for the first time in a very long time, I could actually hear that and be like, no, I'm not. I'm not just going to be Shan sister. Like I'm stepping into my coming to LA and working with you and Jared is me stepping into my power. It's me stepping into my my my true element and bringing I feel like I'm bringing myself and I don't feel like I'm coming in as your shadow. I feel like I'm coming in as your light. But a little bit more about Keondra before we dive into the question. Hello everybody. My name is Keondra Jackson. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist here in the state of California. I'm also known as America's number one relationship therapist. I have been featured on so many different amazing platforms like the Emmy Award winning TV show The Doctors and I've been named by the Huffington Post as one of the top 10 black female therapies you should know. As you watch this video, I want you to envision a person that you would like to have this kind of conversation with. And if you feel comfortable in the comment section, please answer one of the questions that Keondra has put forth for us. What is your best memory with me? Then we'll go to worst times when we were just like really creative together. So whether it was like playing playing with Barbies, developing storylines around all these Barbies lives, or creating like award shows or we used to remember we used to create all those TV shows, like play it against sports and we gather all the cousins up and we put on these plays. And so I think like the creative element of our relationship always brings me really fond memories when I think back on that time. Do you remember? You know what's crazy? I actually did not think of this at all. In relation to us starting this work relationship together, it never dawned on me that like, wow, we actually did this when we were kids. Like we did have TV shows and award shows and talent shows and creative businesses and bake sales. And so that's really cool. Apparently I'm the only one who did some soul searching on this question. No, I mean, I do that just that particular. And you know what, too, when I was trying to think about what my fondest memory was, I felt guilt because I'm like, am I thinking of something that was good for me? Or am I thinking of something that was also good for Lauren? Like a fond memory of mine is us doing that event from my book launch in Toronto together. And the two of us being on stage, that picture is very fond of me. But I'm like, is that being very self-centered that my fond memory of my sister is like her facilitating and supporting my dreams and goals, which I think is a big insecurity that I have with us working together in general of like, am I positioning Lauren like my favorite times with Lauren is when she's helping me. As we move through the various stages of what we've experienced as sisters and as best friends, I think a lot of what you said will make sense to a lot of people. So I want to use that as a way to kind of go into our worst memories of each other. And my fear, and even as you're coming down, you know that I'm like constantly afraid that like you're not really going to show up because when I think about my worst memory, this may not even be something you even recall at all, but we went to someone's party. I might've been 13, you might've been 15 at the time. I don't remember exact ages, but it was someone's party. And I remember the entire time you were just like pulling Alana and like dancing with Alana. And I would try to like get involved with you and like make a connection in a moment with you and you would like turn away from me. And so it felt like I was constantly trying to make it like it's me and my sister's world, like we're best friends and we're really affirmed this narrative that it's you and me and you would always like turn your shoulder and be like, actually it's not. And I felt that at your wedding. I felt that a couple of years ago when I came back from LA to Toronto to visit, I remember I had that tearful conversation with you at the airport. Like you didn't make any time for me. Like you just didn't care at all. And it always felt to me like I was chasing this relationship with you that you were trying to run away from. And I remember growing up being obsessed with the idea of like wishing that I had a twin. Like wishing I had somebody who was just my person and being so heartbroken that you never wanted to be that person and you were never excited about that opportunity. I think as I've gotten older in my relationship with Jared, I've actually realized that I'm a lot more needy than I give myself credit for. Like I am not this securely attached, completely confident independent like self contained person. I do have a lot of neediness that I put onto a lot of relationships. And I think that you're probably a person who's experienced that quite a bit. Yeah, kind of emotional to talk about now that you're saying it that way. There was, I'll touch on this first. There was such a need for me to create an identity that was away from you. Because I felt like the whole family was always wrapped up in what you were doing. And like all of our weekends, all of our trips, all of the friends we hung out with, they were all like track, like especially during your track and field time, it was all like, we spend every weekend at the track watching Shan, everyone who came over were people that you knew from the track. And in order to involve me, I was taking up track, which I hated, you know? So I think that there just became this need for me to pull away completely because I resented. There's no better way to put it, like I resented. I resented your happy for your success, but I resented it, you know, especially because it didn't make me feel good. It didn't make me feel good to be the other.  It didn't make me feel good that the only thing we ever talked about was what was going on in your world. So there was this need for me to kind of pull away. And I think that there was just so many moments of that, because even like when you started, you know, your social media journey and you started gaining accolades in that field, I was the one who went to university for radio and television arts. And then I'm watching you do all the things that I thought I would be doing, you know?  Everything that you post is so gorgeous and so flawless. And I'm unhappy with my body.  Like how did I, so all that to say is that I think that a lot of that contributed to why I started pulling away from you. I remember building up that narrative, like, Shan doesn't need me. Shan doesn't really require me to make time for her. She's very happy hanging out with other people. Shan doesn't require me to spend this time with her because she doesn't need that. Like she's good on her own and not really registering. I took for granted how you felt about me, how you felt about our relationship. And I built up this narrative that's like, okay, we're just on two different paths, you know? And I think that's fair, sorry to interrupt you, but while I think that that's fair, I just feel like I was not quiet about it.  Maybe, but I think that the, and I'll tell you why that last conversation that you and I had where that tearful conversation that you had with me a few years back that you referenced, that was, and maybe it's just, maybe I just wasn't hearing it before. Maybe it just wasn't portrayed to me in that way before. Maybe I was just in a different place. But for me, that was a time when it shifted, where it was like something in me needs to change because how I'm making this person who I love with all my heart and soul feel, it's not representative of how I actually feel. But the hurt that you had and the way that you communicated it, caught me off guard, but it changed something inside of me where I was like, this isn't it. This isn't what I want. This isn't the relationship that I want with my sister.  So there's that. Well, thanks for saying that. I think even when you just said that thing in the beginning of what we used to do as kids, that just unlocked such an aha in me because maybe as a coping mechanism or maybe just the way that our lives became different, I actually for a long time have been really pushing the narrative that me and my sister are really different people. Like I often tell people the joke of, oh, my mom and my dad don't bother me because they have my sister who fulfilled all of the goals. Like I'm the one who when we go to family barbecues, whatever, they're like, so you're living out of a suitcase with bed bugs?  Like, so if I was the one that mom and dad had to be like, you know, she's trying. It's because as much as I've had success, I've had so much failure and so much risk that didn't pay off for years and years. So I would overhear mom and dad a lot. And I moved out of the house when I was 28. You moved out when you were 20, right? So you both kind of went back and forth different times, but I was definitely the one who just took longer to get off the ground. So I just remember listening to mom and dad, try to explain to people on the phone like how I was doing. And it would always be like, you know, she's doing her thing. She gets up every morning, brushes her teeth. Like, and with you, it would be like, oh yeah, Lauren's got a full-time job. Their voice would be different. Yeah, Lauren, her kids are incredible. She's doing amazing. Her kids are reading at age three years old. Like there was just this sureness and all of the things that you want a person to accomplish, like to be a full person, you were done by age 27. I always made that joke with you that like, you're finished. Like nobody can come to you and be like, so when are you gonna, you know, like, and that's like, even for me, that same friend that you referenced, like who obviously has some real issues to work through because there's such a hater, it's immense. I mean, mind you, to your point, maybe it's positive because they say the thing that you don't wanna say. Like, if he's the same one who said to somebody else, like when is she gonna stop messing around and like trying to be something that she can't be in LA and just come back to Toronto and like make an actual life for herself? That's the same friend who said that. So mind you, those are fears and things that I had.  But at the same time, why are you always that person saying this shit?  But I felt like I always had the narrative, like Lauren's the responsible good one, I'm the gong show one. Lauren is like the corporate structured, like everything is together, everything is organized one and I'm the one who's all over the place.  You're so funny and witty and like I had messaged you and said, like you've just never looked more beautiful. It's almost as if now too, like you just started to really play into and like really embrace all of these beautiful talents that we both share that I feel like we relegate it to like, that's a sham thing. And I also feel like similarly, I'm now stepping into a lot of, well, those are Lauren things. And that's what I've been demanding from mom and dad actually have laid too because I've been the gong show one for so long and you've been the responsible one. People always talk to me like, well, you don't know what you're talking about.  Like you're actually irresponsible. And I'm like, I'm really not. So I want more of the respect and sureness that you have for Lauren because I deserve that. And then you deserve more of the praise, more of the center stage that I get because you're also deserving of that. That to be said, what do you anticipate will be the hardest part about us working together full-time and the easiest part? I know how to be a compliment to you, right? I think that I know how to adjust for you. I know how to read your cues. I know your language. I understand. I just feel like I know you. So I feel like I know you and I love you when I care about you. So I feel like that's going to enable a flow where I, on the same side, like the dark side of that is, will, will that, and these are just things that I check myself on, will that lead me to, not give you certain respect in certain situations because we're so familiar, right? Will I take advantage of that in some situations as I have in the past and completely misread things because I've just become so comfortable and complacent in our relationship? Can you sing me enough when I read this question about the hardest and easiest part of working together? The word ease is all I could focus on. Like I think about you coming. Like I think about Christmas if I was 10 years old. Like, oh my God, like Christmas is coming. Like everything's going to get better.  Santa's going to spoil me. Like, like you're Santa in my mind, like Santa's coming. So all of this, like even this morning I woke up and I felt like such a tizzy for like, I slept in, which is incredible because I have a newborn baby. So like extra sleep is great, but then it also sets me back. So then now I was like, oh, I gotta do this and I did that. Oh, this thing isn't organized. That's not organized. And like, I'm trying to like care for Ryu and like get ready. And then there's a, I'm letting Lauren down who's like really good and scheduled and organized.  So there is just like that whole thing. But I'm like, when Lauren comes, it's all going to make sense. Like she's just going to fix everything. So that is the easiest part. The hardest part is acknowledging that I don't want to be what, we had a friend of ours and I overheard them have this conversation with you where they were like, Lauren, come and facilitate my dreams for me. Like that's what they were saying. They were like, I want to hire you to come and facilitate myself and this other person's dreams. Cause the truth is you can, like you are so exceptionally talented and smart and forward thinking and organized in a great planner. And you have talents in a crazy amount of areas. Like I didn't even know you were good at graphic design. I just, why are you great at that? I'm not quite sure. But so because you have all of these incredible fundamental skills that I know can facilitate my dreams, I do not want to be the person who tells you not to use those on yourself or who overloads you so much with needs of what I'm looking for to achieve as an individual that I don't support your own greatness and how the talents you've acquired can make you that person who deserves to be on center stage. So that's a thing that I'm constantly battling with and I know that I've got to do better at asking you how I can in turn facilitate and be of help to you. I think that, yes, but I also recognize that that's also a me job. I need to get better at asking you for help. And because I can very easily, very, very easily become the person behind a person. Like you said, that is a, my job for the last like three years has been chief of staff in a sense, right? Where I'm the person who makes the person I'm working with and for look good. And I can very, very easily go. And then essentially, and then I'll look at it, like if I'm gonna do that for me, I gotta do that on my own time. I gotta do that by myself, but I don't have to do that by myself. And I need to get better at asking you for help, asking you for assistance and feeling deserving of it. But I think that, especially because it's so early on, one, I'm gaining confidence in a new area on my own, but two, I'm also busy trying to prove myself as an asset to you and Jared, because we've talked about this before.  Like, you know what I mean? Like I want my skillsets. So I'm very much in this proving myself place right now, which I should be, like it's a new job. It's a new thing. I'm learning new things. I've got a beginner's mindset. So I'm prioritizing everything that has to do with you, but I'm not asking you for anything that's gonna help me or I have trouble asking you for anything that's gonna help me. That's the same thing I challenge with shared, right? Like shared is Shannon Jared, but because my business is so large and demanding, we can really just tend to just focus on the first three letters only. And I don't want that to happen. And I don't feel joy in that. I don't, what I think about my 11-11 right now, the first people that I think about and I wish for are my family. Like the things that my greatest goals right now really don't have a lot to do with what I want to personally achieve. And that has to be reflected in the way that we are divvying up the schedule. So I think that's something that we should really talk about as a group and as a team, like how do we? Cause I also, and I had this conversation, you know, I mentor Winnie Harlow and we always make the joke that I would be the most incredible person to work with her and work for her. So I am like HR for her. So I often help her hire people. And if she has a problem with anybody on her team, I'll come in and help to manage that for her. And she's always like, why don't you just do this for me? I'm like, oh, trust me, I would be incredible. Like there are very few people who would be as great as I would be at being the person behind the person. But I've just spent my life always being the person. So that just would feel foreign to me. So I know that I have the exact same skills for you. And I'm very enthusiastic and excited to actually apply them to you. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool. I actually have never thought of you as a person behind a person. Is there anything that I do that drives you insane? The thing that drives me insane about you is something that I have learned how to embrace and appreciate. And sometimes it's about switching your paradigm. I feel like you over complicate things. I feel like you will kind of, like there will be a thing that we're doing and then you'll come in like last minute and be like, let's add 17 more layers. When we did the Toronto Book Club, that was driving me insane. I think to the point where I was like, I don't know that I can work with Shan, which is why also I wanted to do Happy Main Character Energy with you so badly because it was like, this is an opportunity to do this differently. And I did a lot of self-reflecting after we did the Book Club launch, you know what I mean?  And it's like, just, it kind of put me in this position where it's like, I feel like I'm constantly the no person. I feel like I'm constantly the like, let's be real about this person. But what I learned to embrace about it and why I actually do love it is I love it because it stretches beyond like my realm of structure. And that's a good thing, you know? Like I think that the thought diversity is exactly what's required in order for companies and teams and organizations to thrive. It is so good that you think differently from me. And that's the thing that used to frustrate me. It's like, I would never think the things that Shan thinks and that frustrates me. And it's like, no, I would never think the things that Shan thinks and that's why I need Shan to think with me, right? Now, if we executed them your way, people may not come away with that feeling. They would have been like, what was that? But it's to kind of take that idea and to pair it with, okay, well, how do we execute it so that people aren't confused so that it makes sense, so that it jives? Like because we have that dialogue and because you're so receptive, like you're not a my way or the highway person, which makes it easy to have that dialogue with you. So funny sometimes to have yourself reflected back to you in a way that you never looked at, but you're like, that is so obvious. Like to give the ballpark example at the wedding, I wanted us to do like race on the lawn and a scavenger hunt because we had this big property that we had rented and you were like, so people are gonna be coming in their nice wedding dresses and crawling around on all fours to dig something up in the grass. I'm like, yes. And then tracking mud into the rental house. What we actually did was the games night and it was the most fun ever. And people still talk about that to this day. So I feel like that, so here's what I wanna reflect cause when I first read this question, here's what I said and you'll know this line. Lauren does everything exactly right. There literally is nothing about me, you that irritates me. This is a line that somebody, a daycare worker said to Lauren once like, as a parent, you do everything exactly right. And we make that joke a lot because you do. You do everything exactly right.  Like you're just the person who everyone's like, oh, that's the exact perfect thing to do. So I actually think that this doesn't bother me about you at all, but I challenge you to not do everything exactly right. To not be afraid of doing something that was like, ooh, that was cringe, like making a mistake and then looking back and being like, I went too far and too big. So I think in this next iteration of you, that's gonna be shinier and bolder and more in your face and less safe. I think that Lauren does everything exactly right.  All right. So this is a question that Keondra had written down that I don't know if we're gonna include this because the answer that I'm going to give, we'll just see. Is there anything that you haven't forgiven me for? The question that I, the thing that I kind of came up with when I thought about that, because the short answer is no, I don't think so. But I think that the things that weren't necessarily your fault, but I, we're just kind of what we were talking about in terms of the being your shadow.  That's what I would have talked about in that answer. Well, I am sorry for that. I am sorry. I do, because I do have a vivid memory too, or like a loose memory of you having a dance recital once and me doing something to like make that about myself. I do know that that narrative that was created was not something that I was active in combating. You're my older sister, but we're not that much of an age gap where I don't have an awareness about your feelings. And so a lot of times I would have expectations for you or needs for our relationship without an acknowledgement as to why we didn't have the connection that I wanted or the things that I wasn't doing to support you so that you would feel like that's my person.  Like, why do I also have to be the one to like pick you to dance with or pick you to hang out with or at my wedding when all my friends are there and everyone's flown down? Like, why do I have to again make it about you? So I do think that in my like desire to have this ultimate connection with you, I also ignored all of the things that mattered to you. I am sorry about that. Okay, I received that, thank you. I've never granted ownership to you for that, but thank you. This is a random thing, but when I was 16 or 17, I had a non-consensual sex act happen to me with, when I went to Regent Park on a bus that night, the mom and dad weren't there. And I went and I traveled and I went to go hang out with somebody, it ended up taking advantage of me, like for lack of, they penetrated me without my permission. And I came back home that morning, I was like completely like just shocked by it. I had to wait until the bus started running in the morning to even leave that person's house. So like I left like six in the morning and it was a two hour bus ride to get back to Pickering. And I was just trying to collect like, what happened? How do I feel? What was what going on? There was like no cell phones back then either. So I didn't talk to anybody. So you were the first person that woke up that morning and I spoke to and I told you what happened.  Like what did you think was going to happen?  I was like, I deserve that. I just never really heard you say that, I'm sorry that happened to you. Yeah. I know, and as you were saying, it's like I remember exactly that situation. I remember exactly that talk and I remember reflecting that even for years, I haven't thought about it recently, but I have thought about it years beyond when it actually happened. And questioning, why did I react that way? What are the narratives that I've adopted that have led to me being so callous towards someone who I love, who I would ultimately protect no matter what? And I'm so sorry because protecting you has always been my priority.  You don't get to talk to her that way. Stand down. And so how could that person not want to protect you in that moment or not feel like it was my job to protect you in that moment? And I'm incredibly sorry. That was ignorant. It was callous and regretful. And I would never make that mistake with my daughter. I shouldn't have made it with you. Thank you. Thank you for saying that. And I know that and it's not like it's something like when the question is said, like something you haven't forgiven the person for, like there's no part of me that feels like that you would have stood by that at the time. And there was just so much bad messaging, I think that we had gotten and a lot of that blame that was placed on us for I just think that our sex life in general and our teens was not positive for either one of us. And there's many different reasons for that. And so there's no wonder that we couldn't be a good support system for each other because we just didn't have the right tools to even be good to ourselves. Many people do not believe this will work. What are your thoughts when it comes to people who disagree with our choice to try to work together? I think that those people who believe that are people who have seen us, who to your point earlier are seeing us in those two very different narratives and not acknowledging how similar we are or how well we work together or just writing off of the narratives that it's never gonna work because Shan's so out here and Lauren's so right here. And it's like, but that's exactly why it needs to come together. I think the person who makes me the most self-conscious and I'm not saying that this person has ever said like this is not going to work but the person who makes me the most self-conscious is Jared. I was not expecting you to say that at all. Yeah, I was thinking of the person who's literally said to me like this will never work like Lauren will never be able to like work with you in this way. So, but I'm curious, please go on. I'm most self-conscious about Jared because I feel like the worst possible outcome is if you are stuck between me and Jared. And what if Jared in my chemistry, what if one day he's like, I can't work with Lauren?  That part makes me the, that's like to me the part that makes me the most self-conscious. And the thing that I would kind of say like if anything was going to, because also I don't know that he'll ever, that we have the relationship where he'll just come to me straight and be like, that was, I didn't like that. You know what I mean? So I don't believe that he'll come to me. I believe that he'll go to you, which would make it, which puts you in the middle, you know? So I guess that that's something that makes me insecure about this. Well, I think it's a fair note to ask to say, I think that we have a relationship in our family of people saying how they really feel to one another. Like I often only find out how mom and dad really feel about something through you. So I think that maybe that's a habit that we really try to not continue on in this particular relationship. And you have that too where you're like, I had no idea that there was an issue. And I'm like, yeah, like they've been steaming that for months. So maybe that fear creeping into this setting, it doesn't necessarily apply in the same way because Jared's not like that, but I can just see based on the dynamics that we're accustomed to being a part of, how that fear could be valid. And we should definitely try to have us sit down and just clear, and even, you know, we work with Jared's brother as well with Cray. And I have those fears with Cray of like, is he uncomfortable if I'm telling him what to do? Like, is it weird if I say stuff? And so I probably should just voice that to him where it's just like, hey, do you feel comfortable with this or do you prefer that we go through Jared? But I think that that's just a beautiful dialogue that people take for granted. And at first, like I said, it seems crazy to me, but like I think in reflection now, I can kind of get where you're like, I don't like the patterns of community that we've existed in together traditionally, and I don't want that to repeat in the work relationship. Last question. Is there anything that you want to say to me before we make this transition? I'm really happy. Really, really, really, I'm really happy. I'm not even scared anymore. I've spent a lot of months being scared. I've spent a lot of years being scared, but I'm really happy. And I want what you want. I want what we want. I want our families to grow up together.  I want to be her person the way that you're that for my kids. I want us to sell our homes and I want us to buy a compound.  Everybody can be old together.    We're not coming. Just kidding. You know what I mean? I'm just so afraid of embracing this reality because I think I've just spent so many years coping with the accepting a different narrative, like accepting like, it's not gonna be that way and that's okay. Even with Cairo and Zara, like how much I love them and want them to love me and want them to know me. This is a fear that I have when I moved to LA of like, they're just not gonna remember or care about me anymore. And not to say that that's happened, but I just know every time I come back, there's a little bit less and less, right? Our connection is just a little bit duller than it was the last time. And then I just had to make peace with that of like, that's okay, they're growing older and things can wrap around. And I've experienced that with so many other relationships too, just by virtue of the life I've chosen, like Palma and Matisse, like there's ebbs and flows of times of closeness and separateness that I have to take responsibility for because ultimately I'm the one who chose to live somewhere else.  And then it's just like a just kidding thing because it just means so much to me that I, the mourning of that would just be really immense and heavy. And that doesn't guilt you because at the end of the day, you learned this everything exactly right. So I know if ultimately you have to make a different decision it will just be based on what's best for you and your family, which you're incredible at prioritizing. So I also acknowledge the selfishness in me even like saying that to you because I know that you would never do that like as like a gotcha. So please disregard that comment because I don't want you to feel like if you can't be this and we can't do this that there should be any guilt on your part at the end. I don't know, I don't even know what could, because I remember when we were having that conversation about point and no return. And I'm like, I'm at the point of no return. No, you're not. It's like, actually, yeah, I am.  There's still a time for me to pivot. There's still time for me to make another choice. And I'm not, that's so far from my reality right now. I embrace that. I embrace you. I embrace you. I am literally overwhelmed by that conversation. I just want to turn off the camera and take some time to really sit and think. But before I do that, I owe a massive thank you of course to Lauren for being a part of this video and to Keandra Jackson for allowing us to have that beautiful conversation to the questions that she provided. If you like Keandra, like I like Keandra, you're going to love her book, Hard Work or Harmony. I strongly hope that today's conversation inspired you to try and tackle any barriers that exist in relationships that truly matter to you. And if you do locate some barriers, just know that's okay. And furthermore, you don't have to try to move them alone. There are tools and services out there that can help to facilitate really meaningful conversations and move you towards whatever your ultimate goals are. For example, one of those services is BetterHelp. And if you think getting in touch with a licensed professional could be advantageous to you, then use my promo code betterhelp.com slash booty. That's better H-E-L-P dot com slash booty because that's how you get 10% off your first month of BetterHelp. Zebra! Yuda! Let me just, I'm gonna. I guess that's what you were saying, cause, hold on.


Pn. Yogan Stok, Pn. Gass, Pn. Ladies and Gentlemen, Selamat pagi dan terima kasih ke Singapura. Kami telah menangani Kepada Pn. Asia Interpol Regional Conference. Ini adalah event yang penting untuk keluarga Interpol. Kepada Pn. Asia, ini adalah lebih penting kerana kami hanya telah menangani dan terima kasih. dan telah mempunyai kompleks global untuk inovasi di Singapura sebelum ini sejujurnya. Kami melihat kembali kepada Storx Secreta General Storx Secreta General yang paling penting secara secara secara secara secara secara internasional. Ia berada di sebuah konferensi yang berkongsi kepada komitmennya dan kami ingin melihat lebih banyak daripada ia di dunia ini. Ladies and gentlemen, The Asian Regional Conference is an established forum and this year in March is 22nd edition. This biennial conference is a key platform for interpols, Asian and South Pacific member countries to share experiences and best practices in the fight against crime as well as to forge relationships, partnerships within the enforcement family. Forging strong partnership is essential to enable the flow of information and intelligence to facilitate collaboration across countries. Our region is a prosperous one. Asia Pacific economies continue to enjoy growth year after year. However, this rapid economic growth increases the attractiveness of this region to organize crimes. Law enforcement agencies therefore need to be more alert to the threats that are lurking so that we can protect the safety and stability of our region. And this can come from many forms including terrorist attacks which are effectively prevented and countered only if we can work together. There are three key areas in the safety and security domain that must dominate our attention in this time of the year, in this time of the age. First, traditional crime concerns and remains prevalent in the region. Second, the rising threat of terrorism. And third, policing in the cyber domain. Regional security concerns. Traditional illegal activities such as production and trafficking of drugs quantifiting and human trafficking. This continue to be areas of concern. However, they are now aided by advances in technology especially cheaper and improved transportation and communication and criminals will use this as effectively as they can. Therefore, it's ironic that these advances are being used by them and connectivity that comes so easily for everybody facilitate illegal activities. There's also sale of counterfeit medicine for example and these are being pushed through the internet and convenient courier services which also come very cheap nowadays. Criminals will continue to leverage technologies that include the internet and web exchanges and they will use this to traffic for sexual exploitation. It is estimated that annual earnings of transnational organized crime in the Asia Pacific region alone exceeds 360 US billion dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, another evolving threat that links organized crime is terrorism. They include the funding of terrorist group through illegal activities of organized crime networks and this brings to my next point terrorism. The Sydney siege in December 2014, the Paris attack in January 2015 and the Copenhagen shooting in February 2015 almost month after month are stark examples of recent terrorist attacks and atrocities. As we all know terrorists are opportunistic, they are difficult to detect especially the homegrown ones. They are all potential time bombs that can destabilize the safety and security of our countries and also of our region and therefore require collective interagency and international efforts to tackle them. Terrorism is one of the most pressing challenges we face today. Southeast Asia is home to indigenous Islamic militant groups. In the past, these groups were relatively weak and they only operated within their own countries and the focus that they have is only on domestic issues. With the emergence of radical Islamization and largely due to globalization, these groups have learned to cooperate with each other and larger terrorist groups outside the region for funding and training are facilitating these regional, local terrorist groups. They have now become a global threat. A newer significant concern is self-radicalization. There's an estimated 6,000 extremist websites currently online. People therefore, especially youth, can be easily influenced by terrorist ideology and messages. This increases the threat of lone wolf attacks by terrorists who are actually not part of any network. Even though the scale of the attacks may be small, not massive, these autonomous small sale attacks do cause significant community fear and are more difficult to detect. Finally, as our region develops and our people become more technologically savvy, key aspects of our daily lives such as financial transactions have moved to the cyber domain and criminals follow where the money go. They too have moved to the cyber domain. Cybercrime, therefore, has emerged as the most prevalent technology-enabled crime of today. The enormity provided by the internet, the lack of regulations governing the use of cyberspace, the easy pickings that are present in cyberspace because of poor security awareness and poor security hygiene, increase and attract organized crime and terrorists to embrace cybercrime as their preferred mode of crime. In addition to the financial attraction, the cyber domain is increasing use to spread fear, religious extremism and ideological propaganda. Critical infrastructures of nations from banking to energy generation are today also highly reliant on computers Running on electronic platforms, these infrastructures are also vulnerable to malicious disruptions by hackers. The cyber attack last week on the French television network, TV5 Monde, is a stern reminder of our public platform's vulnerability. Singapore too has not been sped by cyber attacks with both government and commercial websites targeted. Cybercrime has the potential to inflict damage at all levels of society and is a major concern for the region and globally. We must work together to tackle these threats. The three areas that I have mentioned are the key security threats we face as a collective Asia-Pacific Group. I cannot emphasize enough that it is common interest of all countries here whether regionally or globally that we bend together, that we must nurture a network of cooperation and trust where bilateral and multilateral cooperation are nurtured so that we can fight against these criminal activities individually, bilaterally and globally. I have to say that we have done considerably well to facilitate regional dialogue on safety and security. The ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Transnational Crime, the East Asia Summit and ASEANA Pool allow leaders of our region to meet and discuss the pressing security challenges in our region on a regular basis and to come up with solutions and cooperation proposals on how we can deal with these challenges. Interpol too has a key role to play in safety and security and I like to commend Interpol for its tireless efforts in building bridges among member countries to form the global network to fight crime internationally. The Interpol of today offers member states good operational value. Member countries can actively engage and leverage Interpol's databases of any information sharing networks to assist one another in our crime fighting effort. Interpol has also organized various capability building conferences for member countries to learn best practices and to build network to combat transnational crimes. A good example is the first Eurasian Working Group on cyber crime for the head of units held in Singapore last year. The working group was expanded from the previous Asia Pacific Working Group on IT crimes to include our European counterparts. Over two days, this working group discuss ways to strengthen cooperation and operational support capacity building as well as harmonize international efforts in combating cyber crime. Interpol has also coordinated many successful joint operation to disrupt criminal networks in regions such as operation soccer gambling and ongoing tactical operation coordinated by Interpol bringing countries together to combat organized illegal soccer gambling in Asia. The last operation helped during the 2014 FIFA World Cup resulted in more than 1,000 rates and approximately 1,400 arrests. Well done. With establishment of the IGCI in Singapore, we can look forward to even better support presence from Interpol for the region's crime fighting efforts, particularly in the area of cyber crime. The IGCI is well placed to be the global policing hub for cyber crime issues facilitating cooperation between national cyber crime investigators and private partners through the sharing of data, expertise and knowledge. I hope it will also strengthen the global network of cyber crime investigators to the setting of global standards and protocols in cyber crime investigations and foreign six. We already have seen the good work done by IGCI. Just last year, IGCI coordinated a successful operation against a crime group in the Philippines which preyed on thousands of victims in Asia through sex-torsion scams conducted online. With the sharing of information between Interpol and regional police forces to operation either the arrest of 66 suspects and seizure of 350 electronic devices. Earlier this week, Interpol also announced a highly successful operation conducted and coordinated by the IGCI tackling the SIMDA botnet. SIMDA has been used by cyber criminals to gain remote access to computers, allowing criminals to steal personal details and install malicious malware. Coordinating the efforts and capabilities are private partners such as Microsoft, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Lab and Interpol unveiled useful intelligence by mapping the spread of the infection allowing Interpol to locate the sources and take enforcement action. Ladies and gentlemen, currently it demands that all of us in law enforcement agencies to work tightly and collaboratively so that we have an enabling network. This week, we have seen the IGCI open on a high note with its latest operational success. The first ever Interpol World Conference exhibition and now this Asian Regional Conference. These networking platforms have aimed at facilitating relationship building on an institution to institution level and I hope also from a person to person level because these are all important parts of acquisition of new knowledge and intelligence among ourselves. I hope that you all will fully leverage these opportunities. Let me conclude that for all of us here, a safer Asia and South Pacific region is our common aim and so it is for us for a peaceful and secure world. It is certainly within our reach provided we can collectively harness the full potential of the law enforcement agencies in our region. We have to work hand in glove together, particularly also with Interpol and now with our presence in IGCI. I would like to encourage all participants to build this strong network. Share your experiences at this 22nd Interpol Asian Regional Conference. The collective wisdoms of this conference will translate into real, into tangible cooperation and for all of us, sharper enforcement strategies. Let me wish all of you a successful and fruitful conference and don't forget to enjoy Singapore and to keep us safe and secure. Terima kasih.


Intergrity termite management, partnerships between local and scientific knowledge. As part of a baseline studied in DIGA, termites emerged as a priority issue to address land degradation and water productivity. The Nile Business Development Challenge program is active in upstream and downstream sites in DIGA. Termites were the main constraints in the project Kerbales. In healthy ecosystems, termites decompose organic material and enhance water infiltration. Land degradation changes termite behavior, resulting in damage to pastures, crops and trees. Some migratory species reside in tunnels and are difficult to control. Others form mounds. Fumigation, flooding and queen removal are not effective, while chemicals are expensive with negative effects. People in DIGA could not address the problem by themselves, but local practices have an important role to play when combined with scientific expertise. Consultation with community members revealed their knowledge of the area and the problem of land degradation and termites. Traditionally, people keep cattle overnight in crowds and use cow dung to enhance soil fertility. Scientists realized that adding cow dung to the soil also provides an alternative feed to termites. Based on this principle, crop residues can also be used. In addition, termite tolerant chomogras helps to improve pastures. Scientists measure the impact of interventions on crops, termites and soils. While farmer groups discussed and evaluated results taking into account issues as labor, costs and gender. Results indicate that adding organic matter to the soil combined with other intervention reduces termite damage. Findings are being shared in farmer fields. Integrated termite management can help rehabilitate degraded rangelands, enhance agricultural production and restore agroecosystem health in East Africa. It requires a balanced mix of biophysical and socio-economic interventions based on local and scientific knowledge.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you including Jeff Wilkes, Paley Glendale, and Dr. X-17. Coming up on DTNS, a cheap low power way to desalinate water, a first for fully autonomous cargo ships completing a journey, and what all those headlines about stable coins crashing was about. And that is not all bad news. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, May 18, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm John Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chen. I stayed up late. Not really. I worked a lot though to try to figure out how to explain stable coins to y'all today. Right? Are you ready for this? Well, I appreciate that. Hold your horses. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Waymo announced it will expand its driverless service to downtown Phoenix. Waymo has operated in Phoenix's downtown area with safety drivers for about two months now. So driverless rides will only be available to employees to begin with. But if all goes well, we'll expand to members of the general public in the coming weeks. Amazon refreshed its Fire 7 tablets. Now double in the RAM, 30% faster quad core processor, 10 hours of battery life, USB-C port, Fire 7 and Fire 7 for kids are available for pre-order now for $60 and $110 respectively. Amazon also launched smart commerce in India, which will offer a range of services to retail stores, including creating digital storefronts, digitalizing billing, inventory management and chest based shopping integration.  Amazon said stores of any size in India can sign up for this new program. Speaking of program, Samsung announced a partner early access program for its smart things home platform, which will allow companies to start testing devices compatible with the matter smart home standard. Samsung says it's working with several smart home vendors on device testing, indicating that matter compatible light bulbs, switches, motion sensors and door locks are in development for matters fall launch. I still believe Google's Russian subsidiary submitted a notice of intent to declare bankruptcy. A Google spokesperson said the seizure of Google's Russia bank account, the bank account for Google Russia, was made by authorities making it untenable for it to meet its financial obligations and continue to function. Google will continue to offer its services in Russia for free. Back in 2020, Parallels desktop came to Chrome OS, letting enterprise users run Windows apps. At launch, this required an Intel Core i5 or better processor and 16 gigs of RAM. The latest update to Parallels desktop now brings the software to lower end Chromebooks, now requiring an 11th gen Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3 5000 series CPU and only eight gigs of RAM. I wouldn't correct myself. I said it would continue to offer its services for free in Russia. It will continue to offer its services that are free in Russia. It won't like we're bankrupt, but you don't have to pay us anymore. If you had to pay before that service goes away. Glad I cleared that up. We now turn to noted Waterworld fan Scott Johnson to introduce our story about water. I do like Waterworld. Thank you, Tom. It's quite the irony that our world is covered in water, but the water is not drinkable. Desalination, removing the salt helps, but it's difficult and very expensive. I feel like you and I have had this conversation about water for years, so we're really getting into it today. Desalination, or sorry, I mentioned that most approaches are reverse osmosis to draw water out while leaving the salt behind. That requires a high pressure pump, which uses a lot of energy, but we found a better way. Yeah, by we being scientists at MIT, not me and Scott. Scientists at MIT have developed a system that uses electricity to remove salt and bacteria from water without needing that high pressure pump. Need a pump, but it can be like low voltage. The technique uses ion concentration polarization or ICP. For ICP to work, a channel of water flows between two membranes and electricity passes through the membranes. That repels any of the charged particles, including bacteria and salts and any other solids. The membranes are semi permeable, so the good water separates from the bad water. Electro dialysis is also used to remove any salt ions that might get past the ICP process. And it ends up meeting World Health Organization standards for drinkable water. They used a machine learning algorithm to find the right balance between two different stages of ICP and then a single electro dialysis process. So that AI helped them figure out the optimal way to chain that all together. And that optimized energy use and keeps the process self-cleaning so you don't have to replace those membranes. Neutral water passes through all of this and is collected for the drinking. The charged particles flow out a separate channel as waste. Whole mechanism fits in a carry-on suitcase size device. A small carry-on too, like not one of the tall ones they have in the U.S. Uses 15 to 20 watt hours per liter, meaning that it can be powered by a small solar panel. Now, this might be the time where you would say, oh, is this where you announced that it's 8, 20, 30 years off and that we're just starting to make progress? No, practicality and commercialization is like today. Yeah, NONA Desalination is a company that created a commercial version of this technology. A couple of the folks that worked on it at MIT are part of that startup, of course. And it won the MIT $100,000 entrepreneurship competition. NONA's implementation of the technology uses a tenth of the power of a reverse osmosis machine at half the cost and can make enough drinking water for 10 people. It uses less power than a typical cell phone charger. So you don't really need a big jackery battery or anything to run it. It uses very little electricity. NONA plans to start selling the units to ships, you know, people on boats and stuff who need to desalinate water at sea. Then they'll expand into the emergency preparedness and disaster relief markets. And they think they might also be able to adapt the technology for other things besides water, possibly hydrogen production or even separation of oil and gas. I mean, I know we joke about your love for the movie Waterworld, Scott. But I mean, living in California where water shortages are very real and getting worse all the time. You know, this is something that this is this is a this is a real solution that people actually need. It's not just sort of like, oh, wouldn't it be cool if I could just drink ocean water and it wouldn't be so salty. It's it's actually something that we need. It's a massive be a massive boon to not just human survival, but just our ability to avoid water wars and all kinds of other problems down the road. And I bring up Waterworld a lot, but also partly because one of the the key problems in that movie was that nobody could drink the water. You had to do some sort of process and they had a very complicated way of recycling water without getting into much detail that Kevin Kevin didn't early in that film. But anyway, aside from that, Kevin Costner, my good pal Kevin Costner on a first name basis, the thing that would have solved everybody's problem would be this desalination of water and that movie hinges on that not being possible. If it was possible, I'm not sure Waterworld would have been such a bad place would have been fine. Could you drink it? I mean, I'll hang out on a raft as long as I can drink, you know, nice fresh water. Sure. This this thing is not going to. This is not a massive thing where you could like do it on a water plant from the looks at it in the technology demonstration a couple months ago comes out pretty slow. I think they may have improved that a bit for the commercialization of it, but it's still it's it's meant for personal use. Ten people, maybe a small village somewhere that that has non potable water. You could you could purify disaster relief for for individual houses or apartment complexes, maybe something like that. But still, that's something that is really expensive and uses a lot of energy now. When you're talking about disaster relief, being able to put it out there with a solar panel means that you can do it even if the infrastructure is down, which is super important as well. Now I was reading through some of the coverage of this and I couldn't find anything, especially in the MIT news part that said, you know, while it does say yes, ready for commercialization, yes, ready for people to to use this technology is there. I don't have like a price or early state or anything. No price or release date. If you're talking at CES terms, so I'll be curious when they start shipping these and the fact that they're selling them to sailors basically means they're probably going to go through marine supply. So it's not as not important for them when they're winning an entrepreneurship challenge to put the price out there. So I don't think it means they're not going to ship, but it might not be super cheap. You know, it might be 1000 bucks something like that. Yeah, yeah, I would imagine that that will also get cheaper, which is not super cheap personally. But that's really cheap when it's like, Oh, this could be an ongoing solution for somebody on a boat. One comparison I would use, I'd say, Hey, campers, you guys know, or hunters, you know, when you go camping or hunting, you have those ones that work in rivers and, you know, other small bodies of water, lakes and things where you have a lot of stagnant water. This isn't the same process by any stretch. It could be used for that process. It sure could. And this and that kind of convenience is what we're talking about here, but on this massive possible level. It's very cool. Well, speaking of convenience, having a good laptop screen is top of mind for many folks looking to get a new laptop OLED screens are coming to more laptops. And Acer had quite a few announcements today, the latest to announce some of these cool screens. Scott, I know you care about screens. I think there might be something in here for you. I'm surrounded by screens, maybe too much. I do desire greater screens. I've been pretty excited about watching OLED enter the desktop market. Certainly exciting to hear that the laptop space is going to get into it more. I've experienced this on a big TV at home and that has changed the way I view things. It really did blow my mind and I'm not used to that. I'm used to screens kind of being samey for multiple generations. So I guess I need to ask you what is special about what Acer is aiming to do here. Okay, so Acer had a few announcements. So let's start with a highly praised student oriented student oriented student Acer Swift 3. It's getting the high quality OLED screen. It isn't 4k, but it's not like a cheap old OLED either. If you're into the specs at 2.8k resolution, 100% of the DCI P3 color gamut starts at $899.99. For $900, not the cheapest OLED in the world, but still on that more affordable end of the market. This is coming to Europe, the Middle East, and China, and May, and the US in July. I like a really pretty screen. I'm still a little frustrated with OLED's problem with Burn-In, which is a whole other issue. But it sounds like we're going to be paying for it if we want it in a more portable form. And I'm not sure that's totally for me. Well, perhaps, perhaps the Chromebook Spin 714 might be more to your liking, Scott. As a 14 inch, 16 by 10 aspect ratio, 2560 by 1600 display with an anti-microbial coating. So I guess it's, you know, keeping, you know, from getting the flu while you're using it.  Kicker, kicker for you, Scott, a built-in stylus with 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity and a slot for storage. Now, the Chromebook Spin 714 is coming to North America in August, and that starts at $750. Well, that's a much more affordable starting point. That is kind of exciting at a pretty high level of depth for those levels of pressure. That pressure resolution, a lot of artists call it, is really, really important these days. I am always looking for newcomers in the digital art space. I'm not saying they're aiming for that here, but these specs are intriguing enough that I'll probably play around with one of these. What else did they show off? Okay, 3D monitors. Let's get into it. The story is from today. It's not from five years ago. 3D monitors are a thing. The Spatial Labs view is a 15.6 inch with a 3820 by 2160 display, 323 nits of brightness, and glass is free stereoscopic 3D. There's a version for gamers and a pro version for designers. So depending on what you're looking to do, they're trying to market to you specifically. The difference, though, is apparently the bundled apps. So view comes with Spatial Labs True Game, which can add a 3D profile to around 50 games, including big names like God of War, Horizon 5. Spatial Labs Go can turn your photos and videos into 3D and then use plugins to render designs as 3D. And the pro comes bundled with Spatial Labs Model Viewer, which supports data information, also Sketchfab. It can also do some neat tricks with Maya and Blender. If anyone is using those software programs, it is also available this summer, starting at $1,099. Well, I'm probably as surprised as anybody to hear 3D is even being talked about anymore. I thought we were kind of past that. 3D display just did not take hold. But there's a specific focus here I've noticed on creation, specifically the Maya and Blender integration. That's interesting to me. I don't know what that will look like. I know the concept there, which is, hey, I've just made a 3D model. We're going to use this as an asset in a big project. I'm not actually familiar with Blender. Is it a Maya competitor? It's a competitor. Also, you see a lot of people using these products in tandem. It's also a lot cheaper. Blender is less expensive thing to subscribe to and use. There's some open source stuff going on. But the main point is these 3D apps, I guess to get a better sense of how your model looks in true 3D, quote, unquote, true 3D, this will allow you to do that. I don't know that artists or designers are scrambling for such a feature, but I'm at least glad to hear they're focused on something other than your game will pop out at you. Our movies have never been more real. Well, if they're not scrambling for it though, what is the solution that you feel like most people have already gone to? Well, here's what Acer says about this. Maya and Blender users can connect and edit on a 2D screen while observing their changes rendered in stereoscopic 3D on the Spatial Labs View Pro. Right. So does that the trick is like, oh, I can actually be working and see it immediately? I think that's part of it. I mean, the truth is you could see it immediately anyway. You would just see a 3D object on a two-dimensional screen. Right. So this is a little bit like, maybe the comparison is it's a little like 2D versus 3D in a VR scenario, but I still don't know that it gives them that much. Like there's not much about what a design will see. The viewer of your object that you're making isn't going to necessarily have one of these 3D screens. No. And even if it did, to what end? Like, oh, I now see it in this almost freaky kind of, I can shift around and see the perspective and the depth of field. It doesn't really change how you're going to design it because it's still going to be this 3D object you have to go in and tweak with and make vertices changes. And I don't know, I just not sure I'd buy that usage, but I also want to applaud that they are aiming at something that isn't just the typical whiz bang, hey, 3D is cool crowd because it isn't anymore. And KLS ASL in our chat points out it could be used for designing 3D printing stuff. Yeah. Anything with a 3D component I think is probably what they're looking at. I will add, and when you're doing 3D construction of things like ship designs, it actually does help to be able to look at something because you're going into a space that's designed for a person. And so you need to know how your pipe and utility plumbing that you're putting in lines up with the aviation fuel pipe with the Sure. But does that, is that better to have it in a 3D screen than just 3D on a 2D screen? They've been pushing heavily in some of the CAD work to VR glasses because it does help when you, because you're talking about 12 different teams working on the same thing and they're working on different parts of it. And VR makes sense to me. Like everything you've described, Roger, is a VR point of sale, and not maybe just VR or mixed reality, but that makes sense to me because you're actually moving around the object and you're in space that you couldn't normally be in. But when you're just displaying it in 3D because it's stereoscopic 3D, I just don't know that those same advantages apply. Maybe. I mean, that's what they're claiming. And so maybe we'll see that. But I think VR and AR are the future of that, not 3D displays. Someone remember that I said this today and then cheese me out in a couple of years. Well, we've said the very same thing about a lot of autonomous rides. And our Spanish language host, Dan Campos, has a report in English about the world's first autonomous cargo trip. Saludos, co-pinges of DTNS. Did you know that the Susaku merchant ship has completed the world's first autonomous commercial journey? Susaku carried a load of 759 tons and traveled 790 kilometers without human intervention during 99% of its 40-hour journey. She departed from Tokyo Bay and arrived at the port of Tsumatsumaka in Ice Bay. The vehicle uses an artificial intelligence system called Orca AI and uses 18 cameras to have a 360 degree viewing range. This system has been trained for a year to travel this route and managed to cross one of the most congested maritime areas in the world. The ship performed 107 collision avoidance maneuvers and avoided between 400 and 500 ships. If you want to hear about this and more news, check out Noticias de Tecnologie Express. Use it at your own risk. Back to you, amigos. Gracias, Dan. There's not much risk, but it's a good caveat to always have. Feeling social, folks? Get in touch with us on the socials at DTNSShow on Twitter at DTNSPIX on Instagram. Do it now. The PIX has an accent. All right, Tom. For the last, I don't know. I don't know. For the last however long, every time I open TechMeme, which is the first thing I do every morning once I put my contacts in and want to read the news, there's a headline at the top about a stablecoin or some other coin that's crashing out. Maybe the company's getting sued, maybe both. At least when the top space wasn't about Twitter or Elon Musk or both, which it often is. But this is the other big story that's been going on for a while. So rather than chase the tale of the story, we wanted to let the dust settle. And Tom, I know you dove in to help explain for all the rest of us who are like, what does this mean? What happened? So you can actually understand when your friends or your family or your fellow crypto folks bring it up and maybe ask you advice. So what did you find? Yeah. So I wrote this up for my new tech sub-stack. So some of you might have seen this already and free subscribers will get that right after the show. When I first saw these stories, I thought maybe they were just crypto hype. Maybe they were better covered on financial podcasts rather than tech podcast. But the more I learned about them, the more interesting the takeaways got. So the two main stories are about stablecoins. One's called Tether, sometimes USDT for US dollar Tether. Another is called Terra, sometimes UST for US Terra. That is tied to a reserve coin called Luna. So you got Tether and then you got Terra and Luna. This is all happening because the economy is bad and I expect you probably already knew that. But the bad economy causes investors to sell off their riskier assets. One of the riskiest assets is cryptocurrency. So there's a sell off of Bitcoin, Ether and pretty much every other cryptocurrency you could think of. Bitcoin has been through several sell-offs and rebounds. I imagine this one will not be different. But stablecoins are supposed to be a safe haven during financial uncertainty. And the fact that they aren't is grabbing the headlines. Yeah, so the idea of stablecoins, as I understand it, they are backed by an actual fiat currency. Usually the US dollar could be others. But US dollar, let's use that as an example. So each stablecoin is exchangeable for a US dollar or whatever its worth is against that dollar. So the idea is that the coin can be used like a dollar, but with the benefit of blockchains and all of the things that blockchains are supposed to be good for. All the benefits of cryptocurrency, but with none of the volatility. But it sounds like that's not really the case. Yeah, there's no rule about what you can call a stablecoin. That could call my nose a stablecoin. It's not against the law. And while people don't do that, they do put out stablecoins that aren't actually backed by currency, dollars or anything else. Of the coins we mentioned earlier, Terra is backed by an algorithm. And if that sounds like a bad idea, you're right. Tether is backed by cash and securities. Okay. So you mentioned that the algorithm is not the right way to go about this. Which one is in bigger trouble here? Yeah. Terra was the fourth largest stablecoin. An algorithm manipulated its supply to keep it worth a dollar. That actually didn't work bad until recently because it wasn't backed by nothing. It actually was tied to Luna. Remember we mentioned Luna. Luna is a reserve cryptocurrency backed by other cryptocurrencies, including $2.4 billion worth of Bitcoin. You know where this is going. The reason they did this, it was cheaper to set up than actually having to buy actual cash and securities. And the mix of reserves was diversified, such that it would take the entire bottom falling out of the cryptocurrency market to bring down the coin. Which is what just happened. The entire bottom fell out of the cryptocurrency market. So as people began selling off crypto, Luna's reserves, which were all crypto, started to lose value. As people worried about Luna's reserves, they started to sell off their Luna, and Luna's price dived. And that made it stop being a useful reserve to back Terra, which then caused Terra to dive, straining the algorithm's ability to correct. On May 10th, Luna was trading at $30 per coin. Its value is now indistinguishable from zero. That broke the algorithm's ability to maintain that dollar peg. And starting on May 9th, Terra slid down to about $0.10. And back on May 13th, they actually halted their blockchain in order to try to stabilize the algorithm. Well, okay. If you're just learning about this, it sounds, you know, sounds pretty dismal. But what about Tether? Yeah, Tether faced the same pressures that Terra did. But Tether behaved differently because Tether's backed by a mix of actual assets, corporate debt, cash, and treasury bills. We don't know the exact details, the mix, the proportions, but they're backed by actual things. Now, it's a problem that we don't know the mix. In fact, it's been a problem for Tether, because back in February 2021, Tether and its backer Bitfinex agreed to pay an $18.5 million fine to the state of New York for lack of transparency. New York claims that at some points, Tether had no actual reserves, that it was lying about that. Tether says that's not true. But there has not yet been a case where somebody couldn't go to Tether and say, okay, I want to trade my Tether coin back in for a dollar. And that has been put to the test. People panicked and starting selling Tether to each other. Remember, you could always sell Tether to Tether for a dollar, but people do trade Tether with each other, and they started selling it for 95 cents. Now, that's way better than the 10 cents of Terra, but still, it seems irrational. Why would I take 95 cents for a Tether when I could just go to Tether itself and cash it in for a full dollar? Well, you would do that if you wanted to get something out of the coin before there was a run on it, and you got stuck with 10 cents like the people who had Terra. However, Tether hasn't defaulted on exchanges, and so that panic didn't stick. The trading went back to a dollar, and Tether has been put to the test. It cashed out $7 billion worth of Tether between May 11th and May 17th. So people have been asking, can I please have my dollar back? And they've been getting it. I'd understand if anyone listening to this was like, this sounds like some sort of old bank run from the 1930s. I'm already not here. Well, with banks, I mean, whether or not you like your bank and maybe they gouge you on monthly fees here and there, but it's like FDIC insured, we are good here. That is not what's going on here with stablecoins. Yeah, this is not Jimmy Stewart. It's a wonderful life. There is no regulation of stablecoins in the U.S. or pretty much anywhere else. However, there is an attempt to do that. On April 6th, the U.S. Senator Pat Toomey proposed the Stablecoin Trust Act. It would require companies that issue stablecoins to back their coins with actual cash or cash equivalents. Cash equivalents are just fast ways to turn something into cash, so government bonds, things that are very stable like that. And that bill would require companies to be transparent about what those securities are, how fast they can turn around exchanges and all that sort of thing. So, one of the things I wanted to ask, and I don't know if we're going to have the answer for this here, and this is hopefully quick, but you threw out a ton of names of different cryptocurrencies, the two of which in particular that are maybe the safest and then all those that have taken a dive and the whole FDIC protection and what it means and how do we come up with a way to do that. All of these things have been talked about. These days, there's starting to be a lot of cryptocurrencies, a lot of named cryptocurrencies. And I guess I used to think, oh, crypto coin, or Bitcoin, it's a coin, it's one kind, it's a single currency. It made sense to me because it said to me, well, if there's one day this currency I can trade in, that will be my Bitcoin. And I'll have my dollars here, my Bitcoins over here. But now there's probably thousands, maybe more, different cryptocurrencies of different levels of different, all over the place. It doesn't feel sustainable. So once you get them back, one of my core things. But again, that is a feature of any brand new market is you get a lot of competitors until you figure out which ones are actually useful, which ones work, which ones the customers can get behind. So you have Bitcoin, which has been around for a long time and it's the most popular, and you have Ether, which is used for a lot of smart contracts. And then you have a lot of these other ones like Monero and Dogecoin trying to figure out like, hey, can we get in on this? Some of them might, some of them won't. Lots of them won't, most of them won't. So it's not like the market is done and it will always be this way with thousands of coins. This is the early part where everybody's out of the track trying to see who can finish the pod race. And in the end, we know it's not Subulba, it's just Anakin. And we don't know who Anakin is yet. All right. You know what? Somebody's finally given me an example or an analogy I can understand. There's an analogy for everything. Yeah, it was really good. Well, and you have different kinds too. Like there are the contractual ones like Ether that are meant for doing more than just coins. And then there's the stable coins that are meant for like, we want to enable other coins to be able to, you know, operate with a connection to the real economy. So we are tied to an actual currency, except when they're only tied to an algorithm and then they crash. Yeah. That's crazy. Well, Scott Johnson, you're a treasure, a national and global treasure, much like crypto. So let folks know where they can keep up with everything that you do. Well, I am FDIC. I'm sure to say it right. I'm ensured by something, but I can tell you this, if you are interested in more video game talk from me, I have a show that we normally record on Tuesdays. We had to push it today. So right after this today, I'm recording a show called Play Retro. And it's all about old games, the technologies that drove games forward, the companies that made all that happen, and much, much more. This week we're talking about Golden 9, how it almost didn't get made. It is a crazy story. So if you want to check that out, look for Play Retro wherever you get your podcasts or frogpants.com slash play retro. Well, we're always happy to have you on the show. We're also happy to get new patrons and we got a new brand new boss. That boss's name is Matthew. Matthew just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Matthew. Good to have you on board. Thank you. Yeah, folks, you could support us on Patreon and if you want to get that full description beyond just what we talked about with stablecoins on the show, go to techtom.substack.com and you can just sign up for the free tier and get free expanded tech news there as well. You have lots of options, everybody. In fact, there's a longer version of this show. It's called Good Day Internet. Some of you know about it, but if you don't, it's available at patreon.com slash DTNS and it rolls in right after this year's show. But just a reminder that we are live Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. eastern, 20 hundred UTC. You can find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We are back doing it all again tomorrow with Justin Marbey Young joining us. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Bob, hope you have enjoyed this program.


You're with a group of people who are all there to look within, discover themselves, and connect with themselves. So the energy that the group created was so special because you have like-minded people who are not there just for sightseeing or just to indulge their senses. I felt like a natural sense of community was created in the group. And in this day and age, a sense of community is something that feels so good. And the pandemic showed us that being alone is very difficult. So moving through New Zealand with a sense of community, sharing and exchanging good energy of encouragement to each other, helping each other along, encouraging their growth, experiencing the beautiful nature setting of New Zealand. All of that combined together made such a powerful healing experience for me. I can't say enough good things about New Zealand. Hi guys, this is Linda from Brain Education TV. Today I wanted to share with you a very exciting meditation tour that I just went on. It's the New Zealand Meditation Tour by Body and Brain. Okay, now note, New Zealand, if you guys haven't been there, is the most pristine, green, lush, natural, pure place on earth.  And what was so special about the New Zealand Meditation Tour is that there are so many tours out there, right? There's so much sightseeing. There's so many programs and packages where they take you to all the tourist attractions and you take pictures and then you leave. But something about New Zealand Meditation Tour, there's no such thing as a meditation tour out there really. But a meditation tour is something that's unique to Body and Brain and it basically gives you the time and space for you to reflect on your own life in nature. So I thought that idea from the get go was really, really attractive and really different. Especially if you're somebody who's interested in looking for some answers deep inside of you or you have some questions or you just wanna get away and have some time to refresh yourself. It's not easy to do that if you're stuck in the same environment that gave you the stress in the first place.  And because my brain could refresh, I could reflect back on my life. So some of the places that we went to were the Waitangi Treaty Grounds, which is a very historically important place for New Zealand culture. We also went to Haruru Falls, which was amazing. Haruru in the native Maori language means big sound. So it's a waterfall that had huge cascading amounts of water. And you can also hear this big roaring sound from the waterfall that was really amazing. Take a look at this video and see, you can hear the gushing sounds of Haruru Falls. And then the highlight of the trip was we got to go to Earth Village, which is a retreat center founded by the creator of brain education, Ilchi Lee. There are many meditation spots that we can go to in Earth Village. So we have the 120 steps where each step reflects the year of your life and you take some time to reflect on that year that represents that step, whatever happened to you that you need to let go of or remind yourself about the good things that happened that year. So it's a staircase that really lets you reflect on all that you've done and accomplished and the life that you've lived so far. And then it gives you some time to reflect on the life that you wanna create from here on out. So that was really special.  So that was really special. You got to feel so much Earth energy from there. And then my personal favorite was there was this wishing rock at Earth Village. It was so, so special because that place is where you go and you pray for your wish, whatever that wish may be.  So because so many people went there to just imbue and stamp and imprint their wishes into the rock, the energy of it feels so special that so many people who went there actually cried and cried. And including myself, I felt a lot of special energy there and I was deeply moving just to be able to place my hands on the rock and wish for something that I really want from the bottom of my heart. And then we got to see some really cute animals at the Animal Farm. All of these animals have kind of a story to them.  His name is Youngsang Lucky. So Youngsang in Korean means eternal life and his name Lucky. So eternal life, Lucky. And that's because when he was a piglet he actually ate a poisonous fruit and he was about to die. He couldn't walk. He was like twitching and having seizures.    And then next, there's a goose named Daebakcheonson. So Daebak means big energy. Cheonson means descendant of heaven. And the reason Daebakcheonson is named this is because Daebakcheonson is a goose. But the mother abandoned the egg that Daebakcheonson was in. So usually, you know, when eggs get abandoned they don't have a chance at hatching unless you put them in an incubator or do something special to make it hatch. So the egg was abandoned and Ilchili had this thought, okay, so this is a goose egg. But what would happen if I put this goose egg under a hen? Would the hen sit and incubate the goose egg even though it's not her egg? So Ilchili slipped this goose egg under a mommy hen. The hen, to his surprise, took the egg, incubated it, sat on it and out came this beautiful goose and Ilchili named him Daebakcheonson because it's huge energy, huge big news that this goose that was abandoned was born in the first place. And because he had such a fortunate fate he named him descendant of heaven. And another place we visited on the New Zealand meditation tour was the Huangchil Farm. So Huangchil, it looks like this and the scientific name for it is Dendropanix Morbiferous. It's a cousin of Jinseng and has a whole range of medicinal properties. You can drink it as tea, you can extract the sap. There are lots of beneficial properties of Huangchil that's been studied by science. So when we got to the Huangchil Farm there were rows and rows and rows of Huangchil that body and brain instructors in New Zealand planted by hand with the hope of creating a plant cultivating a plant that could help people become healthier. And probably my favorite part was knowing that you're with a group of people who are all there to look within, discover themselves and connect with themselves. So the energy that the group created was so special because you have like-minded people who are not there just for sightseeing or just to indulge their senses. They're all there to connect deep within themselves. And then also because we all have the same purpose and goal I felt like a natural sense of community was created in the group. And in this day and age a sense of community is something that feels so good. And the pandemic showed us that being alone is very difficult. So moving through New Zealand with a sense of community sharing and exchanging good energy of encouragement to each other, helping each other along, encouraging their growth experiencing the beautiful nature setting of New Zealand. All of that combined together made such a powerful healing experience for me. And I'm telling you the nature of New Zealand is so unbelievably incredible. Just being there. You have so much water energy. You have green energy. You have so much sunshine energy. And the air is pure and clean. I can't say enough good things about New Zealand. So if you're interested in going to New Zealand or if you've been to New Zealand but you've never been on the meditation tour I highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly recommend it. So if you want to know more information find a Body and Brain Yoga Studio near you. At your Body and Brain Center they will give you all the information that you need to sign up to go to get you on that list so that you can also go to New Zealand. Refresh, recharge, connect with yourself. Find some answers to the questions that's been lingering on your mind. Find directions for where you need to go this year in life. And most importantly, take some time to do something good for myself. Away from the busyness, away from the chaos where I can just shut everything out and connect deeply to me, deeply to nature and start over and create something new from a blank slate. I hope you can join us on a New Zealand meditation tour. Find a local Body and Brain Center near you for more information. Hope to see you in New Zealand. Bye.