Coming up on DTNS which facial recognition systems can be fooled by a mask delivery drivers in Mexico take some safety into their own hands and surgeons that'll give you Instagram face. This is the Daily Tech News for Monday December 16th 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane and I'm the show's producer Roger Chang and I'm Joe just fine that shows technical director. Oh look at that. We got it. We got Joe in here. Roger's got staff. This is amazing. This is a big step. Thank you, Patrons. Ginger Fed. Woo-woo. We lost our story. It wasn't her dog. If you want to find out how that turned out you got to get the wider conversation a good day. Internet by becoming a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. An FBI investigation led to Daryl Polo and Luis Viorino pleading guilty to copyright infringement charges for operating iStreamItAll, a subscription based streaming site and JetFlix, a TV streaming service that had a lot of legal content involved. As part of his plea agreement Polo said that he emailed members of iStreamItAll to cancel their licensed services in favor of this pirated content. He also admitted to earning $1 million from his privacy operations and to downloading the content from torrent websites. ICANN is going to review the pending sale of PIR. That's the management of the .org domain. Remember we talked about how the internet society would like to sell PIR to private equity company Ethos Capital. ICANN has now requested more information on the terms of the sale from PIR. Once it gets that information ICANN has 30 days with which to withhold its consent for the sale or approve it. ICANN approved a change to eliminate price caps on .org domain names a few months ago and that's where a lot of the concern lies. Ernest Biarawanga, an executive at the non-profit entity Africanic, has resigned following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of IPv4 addresses to online marketers. The allegation stemmed from a three-year investigation by California-based freelance researcher Ron Gilmet who since 2016 has been tracking several large swaths of IP address blocks set aside for use by African entities that ended up at internet marketing firms based in other continents. Tech Crunch's sources say Uber is in advance talks to sell its Uber Eats India business to Indian rival Zomato. Uber launched Uber Eats in India in mid-2017 and reportedly peaked at 600,000 orders per day compared to the more than one million daily orders from Zomato and another local rival Swiggy. And Derek Ozerashahi has said if you don't get a million, we're going to get out of that market. So I guess they're getting out of that market. Alright, let's talk about a roadblocker with Google Chrome. Bit of one, yeah. Google paused the rollout of Chrome 79 on Android following reports of missing data for apps that use Android's built-in web view. Chrome 79 changes where web data is stored, but it didn't properly mitigate data from local storage and web SQL. So as a result, some apps and sites didn't show local data, not deleted, just inaccessible after the update. Google confirmed the bug and is working on a fix, which it says may take up to a week. I am often one to try to calm everyone down and say, hold on, you know, bugs happen, doesn't mean people are incompetent, it's good to catch them. This one I feel like from the limited amount of knowledge I know about it should have been caught. If the data isn't getting moved, that seems like something you catch in your testing, like you checked, did the data move? So I'm curious what the explanation is of why this happened, and I understand people's frustrations if they feel like their data was deleted. Thankfully it's not, it's just temporarily inaccessible. Also, I mean, I don't know, it depends on how you got to fix these sort of things, but up to a week seems like a long time for a fix. Yeah, well, maybe they don't know what's wrong. Maybe that's possible as well. We tested it and it did work, Tom. We don't know why this is happening. Give us a week. It's Christmas. That's true too. The Verge is Casey Newton has another write up of the experiences of content moderators. Remember, he's written two stories about Facebook, both in Florida and Arizona. This time, he's talking about moderators for Google and YouTube, including Google's contractors at Accenture in Austin. Moderators view five hours of video per day in a lot of cases, even though Susan Wojcicki has said that they were going to limit the YouTube video moderation to four hours. While those working on some of the content enjoy the job, they're just looking for copyright violations, things like that. Those working on disturbing content, as we have heard from Casey Newton before, describe feelings of anxiety, depression, night terrors, and some severe mental health consequences as a result of seeing disturbing images. While full-time Google moderators get medical care and months off of paid medical leave for things like treating post-traumatic stress disorder, contractors do not. Moderators from both Google and Accenture have been diagnosed with things like PTSD, chronic anxiety, other long-term mental health issues. There's some great case studies in this write up from Casey Newton, and I highly encourage people to go read it. But it does shine the light on the fact, in my opinion, Sarah, that humans are not the solution to this kind of moderation. I'm not saying we shouldn't have human moderators, but this is a dangerous job for your mental health. There needs to be more attention paid to the safety of the moderators, and we shouldn't be thinking that humans are the solution. I know Google and Facebook are all looking at AI ways of doing this, but this is where I start to think that maybe Twitter's got a better idea of just changing the whole system of content so that you don't have to moderate it as much, making it harder for bad content to get eyeballs. Yeah, I mean, the whole AI replacing humans, in many cases, we're not there yet. This is one of those cases where we sure, let's get there, right? I also think that anybody working on the disturbing content team of anything should be getting real good benefits. It doesn't mean that you're not going to get PTSD. It doesn't mean that you're not going to feel anxiety. It doesn't mean that you're not going to have to observe a lot of stuff that is detrimental to your mental health. But I think that would be, well, we still have to rely on humans to do a lot of this content moderation. That would be a really good will first step for companies who can afford it. Yeah, I mean, we really, I keep harping on this, but we have to go back to the idea that when the internet was smaller, when there were fewer users, self moderation could happen. But the scale at which these companies work now, and the fact that there really is no community level moderation happening in a lot of cases, not all cases, but in a lot of cases, means that the things that kept the internet working well in its earliest days don't work for these companies. And that's why I think, yeah, decentralize things, make it smaller, make the problems easier and make the access harder. In fact, there was an article earlier today about the fact that ISIL is having a harder problem or diash or ISIS, whatever you want to call them, having a harder problem getting exposure now because they've been kicked off a lot of platforms. Not saying de-platforming is the solution either, but when you make the community smaller, it makes it easier for moderation to happen. It makes it harder for these kinds of disturbing videos to become the problem that they've become on these large platforms. And I think there needs to be more attention paid to that in the interim between now, and like you say, that someday when AI can do an acceptable job at identifying disturbing content before it gets published.  The article lays out some of the stuff that people have to absorb, and it's pretty awful. At the same time, the people running these companies shouldn't be blind to the fact that this stuff exists, even if there is AI to be able to filter it out. That's important as well. Yeah, for sure. Moving on. Intel has acquired Israel-based Habana Labs, which develops programmable AI and machine learning accelerators for cloud data centers. Its GAUTI AI training processor promises four times the throughput of an equivalent number of GPUs at half the energy per chip. And its Goya AI interface processor promises three times the inference performance measured by throughput and latency. Habana also has an environment called Synapsys AI for deploying AI workloads, and will come on board along with previous acquisitions Movidius, Altera, Nirvana, and Vertex.ai. Intel's AI chip revenues reached $3.5 billion this year, up from $1 billion in 2017, and is predicted to grow annually by 30%. So, it's something that Intel's investing in. We've talked a lot about Intel getting out of businesses, cutting back on certain business lines, both under the current CEO and the previous CEO, and how these are smart moves. But we also continue to see Qualcomm, AMD, etc., taking away traditionally markets that Intel has dominated. And I think it's smart for Intel to say, rather than try to fight a rearguard action, maybe we focus also on moving forward into an area where we can dominate. And acquisitions like this will be a way to get Intel into that space quickly. AI chips are going to be things that are in consumer devices in a lot of cases, so they will sell into a lot of consumer devices, but also will be incredibly important in the data center, in enterprise settings, and that's where you get a lot of money. So I think these are, this is a very smart strategy that's unfolding by Intel. And I think that there may come a day in the not too distant future. I wouldn't be too shocked when you no longer hear about Intel inside your product, but that's fine. Just the way we don't have IBM personal computers on our desktop anymore. Yeah, with the projected growth, 30%, okay, that's just prediction. If you're Intel, you're like, all right, let's shed some business, some legacy businesses of ours that aren't working as well, and pick up some stuff that we believe is the future, and that's kind of what the company has to do. Yeah, this is a good move for Intel. Fortune reports on a test of facial recognition systems by AI company Neron, K-N-E-R-O-N. Neron creates high quality, or did create, they don't normally do this, but they had created some high quality 3D masks to fool payment systems from Alipay and WeChat in China. The Neron team also was able to access a self boarding terminal in the Netherlands, as well as pay fare to board a train in China, both just using the picture on a phone screen. Now the masks were high quality items. They were made by a specialty mask maker in Japan. It's not something that you or I could do easily. It's not something that's going to be a mass vulnerability, but you know, if you wanted to go after a high quality target, that might be something you do. Neron also said it could not fool Apple's face ID on the iPhone X, so it tried some facial recognition that did not work. Neron CEO Albert Liu said, quote, the technology is available to fix these issues, but firms have not upgraded it. And of course, it's worth taking into account that Neron makes its own facial recognition technology. So this was a bit of a publicity stunt for them, but it's grounded in reality where they really were able to fool these systems that are out in the public right now. Yeah, it's, you know, I hopefully no one's ever going to make a mask of me and, you know, log me into some stuff. You know, you don't have any money anyway. But just the fact that this is, it's highly unlikely this would happen to you, but it's possible. That's something to think about. Yeah, and I think even even beyond that, just the idea that these are in the public, these are in deployment systems that are at least in the case of the phone easily fooled. And in the case of the masks, foolable, they shouldn't be deployed yet. I hear a lot of people upset about facial recognition and there's certainly a privacy aspect to it. I personally believe there is a responsible way to use facial recognition to let me board a plane and go through security and all of that sort of thing. I don't labor under the misconception that people's faces are somehow unknowable. But I think we need responsible legislation on how that data is managed, just like we need responsible standards on when facial recognition can be deployed. A bigger thing than the privacy right now is the fact that facial recognition systems are being put in place that don't work. And that's where the privacy gets amplified because you have false positives, people getting in trouble or being harassed for something they didn't do because the facial recognition system was fooled. And I guess if you take it a step further, it's like, OK, let's fix this issue. What do you do to facial recognition systems so that there is some deeper level where the system can say, yeah, no, that's a mask. It looks a lot like that person, but it's not that person. Well, I mean, Apple does it. Apple said you can't fool our system with a mask. Nearon says their system can't be fooled either. And I go back to that quote from Albert Lute, the CEO of Nearon. He says, the technology exists. This is not a problem that needs to be solved technologically. It's just the companies are putting systems out in the world without wanting to implement the fixes, whether that's just lagging behind the times, whether it's not knowing buying the wrong products or just not wanting to budget the proper amount to upgrade systems. It shouldn't be happening. Well, in other news that shouldn't be happening, Gia Tolentino at the New Yorker wrote a detailed account of what she dubs the Instagram face, which is a real life version of a filtered person based on cosmetic surgery. Sometimes not invasive, sometimes invasive. Tolentino describes it as a young face without pores, with high cheekbones, with cat like eyes, with long lashes. We all know this face.  The nose is small. The lips are full. She says it looks like a direct descendant of Kim Kardashian West, Bella Hadid, Emily Radikowski, and Kendall Jenner. Great. Tolentino met with multiple plastic surgeons in LA to actually get price quotes and suggestions from these surgeons if she were to want to achieve the Instagram face. Some of these quotes were quite high in the 20s of thousands of dollars and walked away somewhat despondent that this is our new normal. Yeah, the surgeons, all three of the surgeons that she talked to in this article said, yes, we definitely get people coming in, holding pictures of Kim Kardashian West or others like that wanting that type of face, that Instagram type of face. From a certain point of view, this isn't new. People have always, for a long time anyway, airbrushed photos to match more to an ideal of beauty. And people have put on cosmetics and later engaged in plastic surgery in order to make themselves use technology to reach an ideal of beauty. I feel like Instagram is accelerating that like we see with so many other issues that we're just talking about with moderation and disturbing images and all of that. It's accelerating the access to this ideal such that it's now merging these people's right instead of just having Twiggy be the ideal and you want to be thin. It's like, well, I want her lashes and her cheekbones and the, you know, cobble it together to the perfect face. Well, and you have people who can give that to you saying, yes, you should do this and here's how much it will cost you. It's interesting too that, I don't know, I mean, there are lots of Snapchat filters, for example, where I go like, oh, I look way better. But to actually go ahead and try to get that in real life all the time would be quite an ordeal. And not everybody's doing this, but the fact that it is on the rise in a way that has become much more of a socially acceptable norm than in the past.  Maybe I didn't. Almost like a like a bragging right. Like I care enough to do this is it's disturbing to say the least to me. Well, it's it's familiar in its disturbingness, right? Right. People parroting political lines. People parroting angry opinions about movies. People parroting looks on Instagram. Right. Nice. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. No, I was going to add. It just occurred to me like this is a composite of people. This isn't like Twiggy where there was an actual tweet earlier. Exactly. This is literally a composite of various attributes of someone who does not exist synthesized into an ideal form, which, you know, may or may not be achievable for for a lot of people. And I think the disturbing part is unlike other forms of media that used to be rather, you know, separated from you, whether it was a billboard or magazine, it was something somewhat detached. But in social media, it's like such a pervasive part of a lot of people's lives that you just can't help but be kind of sucked into it sort of. It goes from ripping a page out of a magazine and bringing it into a plastic surgeon saying, can you make me look like this? To not only being able to know from over exposure exactly what the elements you want from various people are, but to create a picture of yourself with a Snapchat or an Instagram filter that shows you looking like how you want to be. And it's not just that it makes it easier to describe that plastic surgeons could do things like that for decades and decades. It ingrains the desire for it in you because you're seeing it regularly. That's that's the point I was making about you hear a political statement. You you repeat a movie thing because you get a reward for doing those you feel good from the community response. And that's what people are chasing with Instagram. They want those likes when they show up with that face. And now they want to they're like, Hey, could I get that same feeling in real life when people see me on the street? That would be amazing if I looked in real life the way I look on Instagram. And at the same time, all this really is fashion. You know, it's like back in the day, if I had those boots, I wish I could be photographed in those boots. They're the coolest boots. Now it's sort of like, Oh, are you going to permanently alter your actual body? Okay, well, that's fashion too. But what happens when the tide changes and all of a sudden that's not what people want to look at it anymore? Because that's what happened to. Yeah. All right. Freelance journalist Martha Piskowski posted at mediums one zero about delivery drivers in Mexico for companies like Didi, Uber, Cine de l'Intel and Rappi who use WhatsApp groups and Google Maps to help each other. The delivery drivers use these to help each other stay safe in high crime neighborhoods. It's not like they're always delivering in high crime neighborhoods, but often their deliveries take them there. And they're helping each other out. While companies do offer their own support hotlines and sometimes even insurance, workers say they don't always get the response from those hotlines that they would like. Sometimes the hotline operators aren't even in their same country. Say they're talking to somebody in Columbia in the case of Cine de l'Intel. And those people don't understand what a certain neighborhood in Mexico City might be and what they're talking about. So they've started to rely on each other. The workers comment on crashes, injuries, harassment, robberies, among other things. WhatsApp helps them monitor each other so they can keep in touch while they're making these deliveries. And several of them have made some Google Maps marking locations of past robberies and some addresses to avoid. There's even a group called Ni Un Repartidor Menos that has almost a thousand members spread across four different WhatsApp groups to all help each other out. Stay in communication, share tips, et cetera. And they use a Google Doc to share their own contact info. And that Google Doc gives them a registry number that they use to help each other. And that Google Doc gives them a registry number that they write on their backpacks for identification. So if one of them, say, gets knocked out and is in trouble and another driver finds them, they can look them up in the registry and find out their information really fast. You know, I never want to say, ah, you know, the company shouldn't have this infrastructure in place. And it sounds like in many cases they do. But, you know, got to hand it to people taking safety into their own hands in this situation. I read the story and I was like, that's cool.  You should always be safe. And I hope that you are safe always. But the fact that this community has sort of banded together and saying, all right, well, we all have something in common. And there are some safety issues. Let's help each other out is kind of heartwarming. Yeah, Peskovsky's article is really well, again, all of these articles we're talking about today, we have links in our show notes. You should go read them. And she points out that unlike in, say, the United States where we see gig economy jobs as going from a safe and secure job with insurance and labor protections to something less safe, a lot of times the people filling these jobs in Mexico are coming from in four or sometimes called informal jobs where they had zero protection. They don't even have the minimal protections that the gig economy provides. And so they see this as a better job. They see it as a step up. And it's interesting to see with that perspective, the kinds of systems that they start to create as a community with each other. They're still pushing for the right to unionize and a lot of the same things you would you would see workers doing in the United States. But just coming at it from a different perspective, I thought it was a fascinating read. 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It has OCR, it can detect handwriting, it has dictionaries, it has 34,000 Mandarin words being pronounced in audio by native speakers. It has flashcards, so it can be a useful app if you're going to China. I'm Chris Christensen from amateur traveler. Well, I'm not going to China, but that's good to know, Chris Christensen. Yeah, that actually sounds extremely helpful. That is super handy. My dad's a native speaker and he still brings the dictionary with him. Yeah, well, because there's so many different accents and stuff, too. Is that why? It's because you need a standard 1000 set of characters just to get by. It goes up a lot more than that. Alright, let's check out the mailbag, Sarah. Let's do it. Brandon wrote in and said, during episode 3671, can you believe we've gotten to that point, the pre-show discussion about the IPv4 heist, I started thinking about the eventual IPv6 future and was wondering if you foresee a future where the rules regarding an IP address not being a person get reevaluated. That's an interesting question. I think where Brandon's going with this is since IP addresses get dynamically assigned and IPv6 addresses don't have to be dynamically assigned because there's so many of them that can be assigned to the device without network address translation, then would it be more reliable to say, well, no, that IPv6 number is assigned to that device and that device is that person. So the IP number and the person match a little more. Yes and no, it's an interesting thought and it probably will make it happen more often. You're still going to get dynamically assigned addresses for a long time. As we can see, people don't want to give up IPv4. We're certainly going to continue to have network address translation on people's routers for a long time. I don't know though, maybe 20 years down the road, everybody has their own set of IPv6 numbers and it starts to become a little bit more about them. But then you could say, well, but who was actually accessing the device, right? Was it me? Was it someone else? Was it someone from outside my network? Those kind of decisions play in, but it does, it would increase the accuracy a little bit. That's an interesting thought, Brandon. We also got Chris right now and saying there was talk of VPNs on Friday's show. So I wanted to remind users of Google Fi that you have a free VPN built into the service. Just turn it on. It's worked great for Chris since day one. He says if you're worried about using Google as your VPN provider, Google says they don't store data that goes through the VPN, but it may use the metadata to improve their service. 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None, none, you know my dad walk on? Man, hey man, you know, we out here in Las Vegas, y'all once again, you know, we always, like we always do at this time, that's what Kanye say, man. Check it, man, we out here, man, and uh, we ran into a gym, man, my boy Moody is in the building! How's it doing, what's going on? Man, what's going down, brother? Shit, just out here grinding, doing this, this agent work. What is you doing in Las Vegas, Nevada, man? Well, I'm currently out here working with a few talents, uh, looking to find who's the next big thing, you know, out here from Nevada, because I ain't really heard at all, a few artists out here.    So for the ones who don't know you, tell us about where you from, um, were you raised in a single parent household? No, uh, I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, uh, I was raised while I grew up in Wisconsin, a household of nine kids, you feel me, a full household, you know, bedroom sharing, you know, everybody was young, yeah, nine siblings. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, it was a full house, full house, uh, you know, little town in Wisconsin, Somerset, Wisconsin. So how old were you when you moved to Wisconsin from, cause you say you were born somewhere else? Yeah, I was born in Minnesota. How far has Minnesota from Wisconsin been? 40 minutes. Oh, so it's not even that far? 40 minutes, you know, from the small city that I went to high school at. Okay, so how was it growing up in, um, in Wisconsin? Cause I heard that's country.  That's weird.   I was the person, you know, doing the back flips, you know, at the football games, I was the one stepping out, being different, you know, from the other people. Tell me one instance where you faced racism growing up that stood out to you?  So I never really let racism get to me. So you never said nothing about it, or not? See how brother, he said nine of y'all, how many boys, how many girls? Yeah, damn, I'm damn, it's a lot of them. Yeah, it's a lot, because I have stepbrothers, too. So where do you fall in between? Were you the middle child, the youngest, oldest? Where did you fall? Yeah, third to the oldest. Third to the oldest. But how did it feel growing up in a household full of so many kids? I know that in my mind, I'm like, okay, it can be fun, but sometimes it can be terrible, because you're sharing everything, you don't really have nothing for yourself.   But yeah, it was always living on the budget, you know, and you had to, you know, do what you had to do, you know.  Yeah, no, my mom, well, my mom passed when I was four years old. Wow, from what? She was just very sick, just very sick. Do you remember her? No, I really don't. You know, my older brother always told me what type of woman she was.    Okay, that's good. At least you had that female influence in your life. Yeah. And hopefully it was positive. Yeah. That's good. So when did you discover the music? I started, you know, I was always the kid in high school getting kicked out of class, class clown. I didn't really tell you high school series because I just didn't think it was for me. When I just growing up, I had a lot of ADHD energy, and it always was just getting me kicked out of school. So at that point, when I got up to high school, I was flunking class, getting asked, but you know, in my high school, they were still moving you on, but like, it was still matter about the GPA and stuff about graduating on time. And that's pretty much like my high school, like I was just flunking school, getting kicked out, suspension, after school and school. So I really, I wasn't graduating on time. So I had to come up with a plan to like do something because I was at the point where I wanted to drop out and I eventually ended up doing it, but I ended up doing it after I figured out what I wanted to do and how to do it. So there's a lot of the litany of artists that you've engaged with because of you venturing into whether it be promoting or whether it be, you know, just going into different business ventures. Who are some of the people that you've worked with? Some of the artists that I have worked with. When I first started my career in Minnesota, I was always on top of the concerts. When it was coming to my city, to Minneapolis, I was always on top of them. I never knew the promoters. So literally when the concerts came to my city, I was usually, I had a mouthpiece. So I always was using my mouthpiece to finesse it and, you know, talk to people and tell them who I was and stuff. And it always just worked out. And I always got myself in through the back door, you know, the back gate, just using my mouthpiece because I realized how promoters and how business people were moving and how to move to get to where I wanted to be and the people that I need to connect with, I always just had a mouthpiece to get my way in the back door. You say you always be observing. Is there any one person that you observed that you're like, man, I can pick up a lot of game from them? Yeah, there was a lot of mentors, you know, people that I looked up to. When I moved to Minnesota, I had an OG, you know, big homie AK shout out big homie AK for many of Minnesota. He put on for the city. He is a big OG in Minnesota. He helps put artists on. And it just he's just been doing it for years. And when I moved to Minnesota, I went from sleeping in a music studio to him helping me throw my own shows, put together shows, learn how to book artists, you know, get them book. It was just a lot of things that he had taught me from sleeping on a studio couch to now I'm living in LA, Miami, wherever now. That's awesome. Who was some of the artists that you booked? Some of the artists that I don't work with are Help Get Book, NLE Choppa, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Chris Brown, Law Shorty Shorty, some of the new cats, Lil TJ. I've done a lot of work with a lot of people. Yeah. So when you think about some of those ones that you set up, which one sticks out for you to where it was complicated, but you got it done and you it was a breath of fresh air once you made it happen? There's a lot. Yeah, but it's one of them that you was like, damn, by the heralds of my chinny chin chin, this thing almost didn't happen. You know, sometimes it's be like, like sometime the club may be going close early, the artist may be late, a flight may be delayed. There's a lot of things that happen when you book and show.  There was.  I had a big show I was hosting in our city with Lil Durk. It was Lil Durk sleazy go. It was a lot of stuff.  It was supposed to be at the big Target Target Center in Minnesota. And the venue, I don't know, venue wasn't really tripping outside promoters. But did you get to get to make it happen? No, we never made that happen. The promoters never made it happen. They had me on it hosting. But yeah, we ended up having to cancel the event because, you know, they got to give everybody back their money. Yeah, with the rap that these current artists bring with them with a lot of baggage that they bring to each city because of all of the violence that goes on with the artists. You would probably run into that a little bit more than often where people are very leery about inviting certain artists into the shows, right? Oh, yeah.   But how can you control all of that? Because, you know, you say with security, but even with security, you can't cover everything. Sometimes it, yeah, sometimes when you get events like that, that were shootings or fighting, like, it just you can't control it just happens, you know, sometimes it happens just in the crowd. You feel me?   So it's really a lot of responsibility really on who you have securing the venue. Wow. What about this chain? I see you got on. I like this chain. This piece is nice, man. This piece, the LA piece, it resembles I got the LA piece because it resembles how I started my career in LA. So when I first moved to LA is when I started started to get in buzz. I was throwing mansion parties for these celebrities. I really built a base in LA and it meant something to me when I started tapping in with the OGs and working with how to promote, how to move. Shout out, Big U, the OG with unique music, learning from him, watching him on his podcast, checked in from my OGs, working with him. I learned who he was and how he maneuvered around and helped grow artists, you know, like Nipsey, working with people to help grow them and market them and put them on. And I really learned a lot from just watching OGs like him. Wow. So you basically are saying that these guys influenced you. How difficult was it going to LA and trying to learn how to move? You said move. So you have to move a certain way in LA. Yeah, for sure. We just left LA a couple of days ago. We interviewed a lot of people. My main concern was, okay, how do I invite this person and that person versus how things are going to be organized when we get there to where it keeps everybody safe? Because everybody don't rock with everybody in every city you go to. So, I mean, how difficult was it for you trying to understand how the boundaries were set in LA like that? It was very hard at first. I sold everything from Minnesota when I moved to LA. I sold everything and went out there with two bands. I sold everything. I got over you. This was like, I want to say like a year and a half ago before COVID during when COVID started in LA. So beginning of COVID. So like last summer, something like that. It was beginning of COVID. I moved to LA when everything was shut down like at a wrong time. But so it was kind of hard and stuff. So I moved there with two bands and literally got a monthly Airbnb for $1,500 to have $500 left in my pocket and ended up tapping in, you know, with the influencers, the TikTokers and stuff like that. When I moved to LA, I realized that everybody was a TikToker, a model. They was doing something. You feel me? And it motivated me to become and tap in with TikTokers, just people who had that type of fame or following and to see how people were doing it out there and how to maneuver and stuff like that. I was tapping in with the influencers and I ended up living in a content house. It was called the drip crib with a bunch of other TikTokers and I ended up building my base and learning how to grow, make content, be consistent with it, and stuff like that. And so you found out a lot about the TikTok world. Yeah, I ended up, I was living in a content house for a little bit. It was called the drip crib. But it was a serious, like those guys, they understand how to maneuver in the TikTok. Yeah, I moved in that house and them guys had like 5 million followers. Like all them content creators had millions of fans. How did that happen? And I was in there, I was nobody. Wow. How did that affect you and your movement? Did it help? Yeah, for sure. It helped me being in that content house. It helped me realize how people acted when they had fans, you know, people who looked up to them, how they moved out there. You feel me? Because when you're known in a such area like LA, you have to, you know, you have to move cautiously because people know who you are.  Because when people get that name, it just starts to see, you just start to see who's loyal and who's not. And one thing that's a good thing you said that because I see you have that tattoo says loyalty and death before dishonor. So I know honor and loyalty is very, very big for you. Is there something that happened?  Yeah, I grew up one of my favorite artists, Dodd. His name was XX Tintasheon. So I'm a celebrity host and I used to do concerts, a few concerts with him and my bro Schemes. They're really brothers. And so when I was doing shows and concerts with him, I had that energy, their energy inspired me to be how I be on the stage when I'm doing my MC and my hosting, like it's often off the top. And when X pass, I had got this tattoo death before dishonor, which meaning like I would die before I disown my family and my own that I love. And loyalty, I'm very, very big on the loyalty and the people that I bring into my life and around me. Okay, so X passes.  I really listened to his music. You know, I was, he inspired people. He did a lot of things for people.  Like this guy inspired me. You feel me? It's, it was sad, you know, but I use his energy that he provided for me and I seen and I realized when people started making comparing me and him and our bro scheme match, like the energy stage wise and stuff like that, it was just that I just need to keep going and his legacy and his energy, I'm gonna keep it live, like keep it on. You feel me? I'm gonna keep it live. Wow.  There's a few LA artists that I can't name, but I remember them passing here within the last year. Like how do that affect you when you know you're moving in some of those same circles? It affects me because some of them artists, you know, that have passed, you know, I've done work with them, done got them bookings. So, and don't have like deep conversations outside of what people think with social media, you know, on my page, you go on my page, it's me pictures with a bunch of celebrities and stuff like that, but behind the scenes, it's really deep conversations. It's really business talk with these, you know, artists that a lot of people like the world don't know about. Wow.  For me, so when I see a young style here getting to it, it's so much respect and love. There's a lot of different young people that God has put in my path and I'm glad that you want over my brother. For sure. Moody is in the building. We are in Las Vegas, Nevada, man. It's going down, man. We are here for magic. We've been out here now. We was in LA, but we in Vegas now guys. So yeah, it's going down, man. So go ahead. I got a question. So out of all the whether you actually promoted this event or not, what's the craziest thing you've ever seen at an event happen?   Where was that at? When did that happen? LA.  But go ahead and tell me what happened to you. You didn't see it coming for sure. No, I didn't see it by sort of argument.  But no, argument broke out and done scene.  It was right there. You didn't run? No, yeah, for sure. Everybody bailed for sure. You guys are about to say. When a man got a gun, everybody run. Let me tell you, some people are in shock. Will you just stand up there and be like, I can't move. No, my brother was asleep one time when they started shooting and I drug him and then he started to run. But nobody stand. That's the big for me. I don't see a lot of shootouts. Ain't nobody standing around in those shock.  No, as for show, you just, you just never know if the shooter, you know, is just going to spray. You just, you just never know if he's just going to shoot. How did you feel about it? Because that could have been, you know, standing so close. Yeah, it was like, it was like three, you know, three people away from me. You know, I wasn't really that far. Like, I saw, I saw the argument, you know, you, when you see people arguing, you know, you're going to look and see what's going on. So I saw the argument and I'm like, I told my brothers, I was like, we might have to go, man. Shit. You know, so I was getting heated over here. So we started walking. You know, we still looking back. Then as soon as we see him pull the gun, we just look, look away and just tell him, you know, we heard the shots and we just got out of there as soon as we came.  So when you got into this business, the reason that you chose this business, was there anybody else in your family that was in this business already?  You know, I seen him do his little shows. I just couldn't go to him because at the time I was very young at the age. So I seen how my older brother was an artist and a beat producer. You know, so I seen how, you know, he was making music and stuff. He always wanted me to become a rapper too. He had a, you know, studio in his house and stuff. Always, you know, be trying to still to this day, trying to get me to get on the mic. You feel me? I've gone to Mike few times, but like, I never, you know, I just never took the artist. I have too much. I think I have the energy. I just like hosting. You feel me? I like, um, yeah, I like the hosting because how I host, I host like I am the artist. You feel me, but I'm just not rapping a song. What makes you different from every other host? Why do, why should people contact you, book you, anything like that? The difference between me and other hosts. I'm just not, I'm not the type of host that's just sitting there just talking on a mic, you know, just talking. I actually get in a crowd, interact with them. Crowd serve, open up a circle, dance circle. I'm doing backflips off the speakers. I'm an energetic kid. You know, I did gymnastics for a little bit. So I'm on stage flipping. I'm different from a lot of hosts.  When you get, when you book me, you get the whole package. You get me bringing a fan on stage, flipping over him.  And that's how I got big in LA doing that. I was doing it. You actually did that with a car? Yeah, I was doing that in front of the Staple Center. And that's how I got recognition from camera man, camera people outside the Staple Center and a bunch of, you know, tours. How many cars you've done that with? Is only one car you flipped over or two? Yeah. When I show you my IG, if you pull up my IG, yeah, I have a video of me flipping over a green Corvette in front of the Staple Center. What's your IG for them to know so they can go searching? My IG is a young Moody official, Y-U-N-G-M-O-O-D-Y official. How long ago you did that? That was probably like, I still can flip now. Yeah, that's why I was like, you still do it like that. I still can flip now, but I don't think I gained, you know, so a little bit of weight. I chilled out on the flipping, but that was like, like when I moved to LA pretty much, I was just straight flipping for companies. I was getting brands. I was flipping for Pete Diddy's son, King Combs. He has a drink called Wave Juice. Shout out Wave Juice. Shout out King Combs. I still do promotion and brand and bastioning stuff for his juice, Wave Juice. And yeah, I started flipping, getting drink sponsors, weed sponsors, you know, all types of stuff. And you feel me? I drink the drink and then Ron and go flip over the car, you know? And it was good promotion. That's dope. It's really good promotion. But that takes a toll on your body, I guarantee you. Yeah, for sure. You know, I always, like, I don't know. Like I was always like... Have you ever felt like not actually been able to do it? Like, because some people think they're invincible. They keep doing the same things over and over. Yeah, for sure. And keep adding on to it. And then it's scary because you can't really get hurt. Yeah, for sure. I've done it. I've tried to do it, you know, Corvette, kind of a little smaller. So with a Corvette, I was clean. I tried to do it with a charger.  But like, yeah, it's still... I still clipped my head on the windshield and it hurt a little bit for sure.  Yeah, I was about to say, how fast are they? 5 to 10 miles, probably, you know, moving. So when these videos actually... Because to me, they'll be looking like they're going really fast. But if you're saying they're going 5 to 10 miles speed limit, I mean that when the video comes out, they speed it up to make it look like it's going faster. No, 5 to 10 miles, probably, is fast. It's still fast. It's fast, like fast. I have a video of me doing it on the Hollywood Boulevard in front of the whole strip where I had literally stopped traffic.  Like when they seen this, I flipped on, it went viral on the news, you know, Hollywood news was talking about it. It was on TMZ for a little bit. It was literally just like teenager flips over, moving car on Hollywood Boulevard. But you know, it makes it where it starts a trend because I've seen a lot more people do it. But you weren't the first person who'd done something like that. You have other people that you've seen before you. No, yeah, there's a lot of, you know, people, street performers and stuff like that.  I'm like, damn, okay. Yeah, they working. They working. Man, you know what. So you were, I remember, I think you mentioned about DC. Just understand and know, how did you guys link? No, me and OG DC, I had met him in LA while he was working and doing his strip clubs and stuff like that. He had, I just came, literally, I just came to one of his strip clubs, the home he was talking about it, doing security there. He's like, man, I think you should tap in with this OG. You know, he runs clubs. He's been doing it for a minute.  He does it in the Dallas area. I'm like, yeah, for sure. I pulled up, you know, introduced him, told him who I was, what I did. You know, I showed him a, I showed him what I literally showed him was a flit video on me flipping over a car.  You feel me? See my following and stuff like that. He told, you know, other people were like, low, low bro lit, you feel me? And so I tapped in, I told him, I'm like, look, I'm trying to promote, you know, get into the promotion, promote this stuff, you know, for the club scene and stuff like that. And he, you know, had put me on, introduced me to, you know, the people that he was working with. And I've been working with them, helping them promote his clubs and stuff like that all over. Man, so do you, I mean, being that DC does a lot of different business in a lot of different cities, you never know where he's going to be next. I've watched his movement, man, real fund of his movement. Just, just a litany of places like Atlanta, New Orleans, I've seen his movement down there and the LA movement now. Have you done anything in Vegas yet? I don't. Yeah, DC, actually shout out to the OG DCs. He's opening up a new club this Friday. This Friday, August 12th, it's called Euphoric, Right in Las Vegas. It's a brand new club, you know, a lot of 50 beautiful women strippers. And it's a grand opening. It's this Friday, August 12th. So it's a cabaret. Yeah. Okay. I'm just happy about the way that he keeps hustling. Yeah, for sure. It's not as big as V Live in Dallas.  But yeah, it's going to be a nice good look. 50 songs a lot. Is it upstairs downstairs? Is it going to be a nude topless? What is it? I haven't actually, I haven't actually seen it yet. I will be seeing it this Thursday. Okay. I'll actually see it this Thursday. I've seen like, you know, on the online, the outside, and a little bit of what the inside looked like. But I'll be there this Thursday to check it out. But from the looks in, from the videos and stuff, promotion-wise, it's going to be good. It's going to be open all weekend. Wow. You know, my boy, Money Moses, he always stepped on the scene. For sure. You and him both got that income and it's our both frock out with DC. Yeah, for sure. He worked at the V Live up in Dallas. For sure. Man, what's up, Money Moses? Man, welcome to Las Vegas, man. I'm in time. Bro, give us some help. Hold on. Oh, look at this.  V Live didn't have a 20. V Live didn't have a 20? For sure. For real? Yes. I mean, a girl, unless it's a big event and they come from out of town, they're like, that's about it. That's a big deal. Yeah, nah, yeah. What I was told, like, they had like 50 strippers, at least dancers, you know, hired at the new club. So I'm like, okay, sure. Wow. So you, knowing how do you feel about DC? Like, when you and him worked together, was it was it cool to work with DC? Because he be everywhere. He a cool person. Like, he bring the money. He bring the money. He bring the money. That nigga supposed to have been on Boss Talk a while back and he didn't show. He said he wanted to come. Well, you didn't think nigga know Boss Talk over here and we're serious with it. He flew out of town. He always flew out of town. We flew him up out of town now. We have been Vegas, man. Bro, I can tell you that stuff is about him. What is this, our third trip up here with Boss Talk?  One, two, one, two, three. Three. Three. Three, yeah. Man, so we up here for the third time in Las Vegas shooting, man. And we done set out with Moody today, man. This guy right here, you wanted one of those guys. So what do you think about the promoters and the promotions that was going on with VLIVE Money Moses down in Dallas? We probably needed him. I'm not gonna say it was the clubs. I'm saying it was the scene because all that stuff was happening. So it was like, everything was happening. So it was like, you couldn't really just do nothing because too much killing happening. And most of the shooting was really after the club, after VLIVE really. So it was like, it's always around the club. It's like then, the ecstasy, the club next to it, it's like they do a lot of shooting over there, but they always blame on VLIVE. Wow. So it's a, so do you think cause VLIVE, didn't VLIVE close now in Dallas? It's closed now. They turned to the fours, it's like a restaurant. So, so basically now the shooting, suppose they had slowed down, but another young lady got killed at ecstasy or something. That was the security guards. Wow. That's something they had something to do with it. Wow. So how much, I know you talked about killing a little bit, like dying at these shows or whatever, man. How, how tough is it for us, the security manager that you guys take when these shows are going on? Experiences is big, you know. When I'm, I'm never the person to book the security, but you know, sometimes people recommend, I know a lot of, you know, professional security companies. So the investors always would ask me, like, you know, what's a good security team and stuff like that. You know, I'd give them a few recommendations of people that I have worked with, some companies that I personally have worked with, and people who have done personal security for me and stuff at my events and stuff like that. So I would just give the investors or the promoters this recommendation. Most of the time they already had, you know, their people book for the security. Well, Travis Scott though, he was one that had a show that went crazy for a while. Back in the day, back in a while back, he's, I've seen him kind of resurfacing again and trying to move past what had happened. For sure. And have you ever worked with him? Yeah, I've done, Matt Travis Scott a few times. I was supposed to be at Astro World, literally when the news had happened and stuff like that. But I had some other bookings to do. I was supposed to be with a few other artists that were going to be on the lineup, but I ended up having to do some other things that day. And I really was sad I couldn't go because Houston, that's where I went to high school and stuff with for a little bit.  What house he had.  Oh, very, very huge school. What you about to say money? I think when they book securities, they need to book securities from another city, not the city that you in. Because the city that you in, they know, like he said earlier, they know the people's already that's around them.  So that should be securities from out of town. That way they don't know nobody. I agree. What do you think about, okay, so you said something early about an off the camera about a documentary. Give me a spiel on how you plan to do a documentary on how you, how's it coming? So right now I'm documenting my lifestyle of how I be coming. I'm right now, I'm documenting my lifestyle of how I'm working as an emcee, as becoming from becoming nothing to now becoming something as a big emcee, a hype man pretty much.  So I turn up the crowd before they come out. Wow, man. So, man, top three artists of all time did our live. Top three artists of all time did our live. Number one. My favorite, I got to put X on there. Okay, X, X, X, X number two. Juice World. I worked with Juice World for a minute. Them guys really inspired me. So I got to put them on there because they inspired my lifestyle and my energy. And the third one, I got to say Polo G. Polo G, man. I see where you at with yours, man. Polo G. Yeah, you can tell this style. Yeah. Man, so how can people get a hold of you if they're trying to link up with you, man? Using my IG or my email, I have a business email people can use, but most of the time I'm very active on my Instagram and I'm always getting back to DMs right away. It's quick to catch me on the Instagram. Instagram, man. If it's family or friends, you get my Facebook. Okay. And what is your Instagram again? My Instagram is youngmoodyofficial. Y-U-N-G-M-O-O-D-Y-O-F-F-I-C-A-L official. Man, you know what, man? Hey, man, we love you, brother. We appreciate you for coming on. For sure. We link for life now, man. You boss talk 101, certified. For sure. And just before we cut the podcast, I just want to say I'm a prime example from coming from nothing to something. And I became what I became because of who I am and I stayed true to who I was. And I just want to say, man, you can do anything.  Man, that's real talk, man. Hey, man, thank you so much for coming on the show again, Money Moses. We out here in Las Vegas, man. How you liking it out here? Bro, it's really fun, but it's just the heat.  We can't go no more without sweating. Man, so, you know, we've been tackling this for a minute now, man. And boss talk 101 been around for it. Like I said, it's the third time we've been up. We came on early in the game. Vegas was one of the first seats. Then we come before the pandemic, right? We came before the pandemic. We came one time before the pandemic. Then we shut down for a year. That's why we consider ourselves to have been around for a year now because the pandemic kind of shut everything off. And then we went for four players, I believe, in 2021. And we're here right now, man. So for boss talk 101, Las Vegas, Nevada. For sure. Make sure you guys like and subscribe to our channel. All the people, if you look in the sponsor us, you know, we put out our own money because we're bosses right now. We've been bosses. That's why it's boss talk 101. We've been doing the Vegas thing, Cali thing, the Houston thing, the Atlanta thing, the Chicago thing. Let's go, man. Arkansas. Arkansas. Little Rock. Shout out to the girl on TV, man. Hey, Louisiana, man. How you down there? We everywhere, man. Everywhere. Like my boy said, he say the Earth is what? Yeah, Earth is our turf. Hey, man, check it, man. It's been another great segment of boss talk 101.


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What's the word y'all? I guess we gotta talk about the bulls again, huh? Boy, oh boy. And again, I'm assuming that 90% of y'all don't really care about the bulls, but you like to see me In pain. So thank you for that. Thank you for clicking on the video The last time we made a bulls-centric video in that video, I said I'm done talking about them this season until they make a trade because there's no way in the world that they don't make a trade this year And here here we go They make zero tricks And we already went on a rant about this last video that you saw was a few days ago We already went on a rant in the last five minutes about the bulls making no trades I'm not over that, but we're not going to rehash that the trade that line has passed And the bulls have not won the game and now we look at the fact that we did not make any trades Whether it be to buy it to sale or whatever to to move the needle in one way or another We look back on that and say dang We probably should have did something, huh? And it's just infuriating to watch this team do the things that they do because listen They went against the indiana pacers second time this month from now mistaken last time we played against them tj mcconnell had zack levine in a torture chamber He he dominated that man Zach Levine had one of his worst games of his not just of this season of his career Because tj mcconnell was all over the place and that's when you could tell zack levine made it a point to be like No, that's not happening again. The bulls start off this game spectacular. They are about 20 points and they lost the first time they lost Blue with 20 point leads in the antipacers there wasn't even a tiris halibur Which makes it even worse but all star resources back which is cool for him But for me as a bulls fan It's just terrible and this is from kasey johnson. The bulls have blown leads of 24 21 21 19 and 16 That is five games that they've blown And when they were up by 15 or more points this season alone and technically we're past a halfway point But we're not even at the all-star break just yet And and this team looks defeated this team looks demoralized and and we knew NBA NBA fans or bulls fans knew after that elite level first quarter The second quarter came around the pace went on a little mini run and the lead was still like 16 And i'm seeing on my timeline here. We go again because we all saw it Unfolded again. We have we have like PTSD from these type of things that you just think that one day they'll close it out one day to close it out They never close it out and they lose another game when they're in the hunt The the power this is what carney shova said in the post not trading for anybody We see that a lot of the power went out west Basically saying that the brick on that sold at the deadline the brick and that's have one more games post that line that we have If we've had the easier schedule of the two Yeah Yeah, the the powers have shifted. No, my girl bridges have 45 points today The bulls ain't got that right now. You know what i'm saying and it's just frustrating and this is going to be I'm gonna say this but I don't know for sure It feels like the last time we're going to talk about the bulls this season There's 24 more games and again, I'm going to watch all 24 as I do I'm gonna put myself through this torture But I have to make a video to get out my frustrations to get out the frustrations of the fan base in general There's a video on the Chicago Bulls subreddit and I'm not gonna play it for you because I don't know if the NBA or the bulls are gonna get upset about this But it's a four and a half minute video of billy donovan in different post conferences Seeing the god the same thing He's saying the same thing. We got to play with more intensity We add to have competitiveness and it's a four and a half minute video of him saying the same since it's over and over And over after losses like I know I'm gonna say there needs to be changed But we we're not gonna get it bulls fans.  They kept it on the low low They kept it on the hush y'all We didn't find out that this man signed extension until he was into this season But he signed it five months ago five months previously So they're not about to fire this man. This is the this is the weight of the chicago bulls It keep people around for way too long and I honestly do believe that he's lost the locker room There's rumors about him and zack levine clashing after a few months ago Zach Levine was benched in a game where he was having a terrible terrible night Zach Levine said hey, I think I have have showed the world that I deserve to be out there Even if I'm not having a good night and I understand what zack levine is coming from But that game specifically he was killing us And I even tweeted in that game billy get zack out the game and billy did like he Like somebody who's looking at my tweets, you know, I'm saying on the salad. No, he did And that might have caused the ripple between their relationship today zack levine played a phenomenal game for uh, what I want to say is it a 48 minute game, right? He played a phenomenal game for 45 minutes And those last couple because the the the paces are coming back And there's no de mar de rose in this when nobody else in the bulls looks to do anything with the ball He felt like he needed to be hero and in the last shot he attempted was the definition of hero ball Shots here of all a series that I had executive produced and it's coming back for y'all that's been waiting for it's coming back very very soon Um, and he took a heavily contested bad shot. The defense was bad and Ultimately, we blew another 20 point lead. I don't know. I'm looking at this video I forgot to mention one crucial crucial part of this and it's that the offense is awful Which makes no sense. We have de mar de rose and zack levine evusivist These are three supposed to be offensive juggernauts and they can't score They scored under a hundred points in the in the last two weeks I think four different times the defense for the most part this season has been solid You know what I'm saying? I think they're top 10 in defense, but the offense is like 24th What since does that? That that's now that alone has to come down to coaching, right? But like that that has to be a coaching problem that you have all of these The supreme offensive weapons and you still cannot score and anytime the bulls do anything bad or start losing You obviously my mentions are like some paces fans are coming out. Oh candy You know, that's the way it works, you know, I've accepted that when my team loses The opposing fan base is going to come into my mentions and talk to us. That's fine. I'm okay with that But the the stuff that sucks more is the the bulls fans that are you know in this with me like Kenny I don't even know what I want us to do And I swear I've been the same exact boat as you I'm in the same exact boat as you now that we now we know we can't do anything this season, right? Whatever happens to that pick this top four protector. So be it. I don't care about it You know when a lottery happens and it says the seventh overall pick goes to the Orlando magic by the way of the Chicago Bulls I've accepted.  We ain't getting school. Whatever post that What do the bulls do to give hope again because right now? within the fan base There is no hope there's the the connector are connecting piece lines of ball We don't know anything about him and he was the last grain of hope Within the fan base and I think a majority of us have come to the realization that he's just not gonna play this season Whatever, um, but he was one of the last pieces of hope So if we could just hold it together till zoe comes back we'll go back on that great run In reality, we are I knew I've been saying this at the beginning of the season He was not coming back this year. So now we don't got that hope We didn't make any trace the deadline. So many of us are prepared for this this Off season to be like, oh iota sumo. Chicago's very own He's probably gonna be on a different team. Kobe why who's been having a phenomenal season off the bench?  Oh, we're gonna extend voose We might see a a tweet in the next the next 48 hours No, not that soon But the next couple weeks of the bulls extended voosevich because the deadline to get extended is like march whatever So then we're gonna be committing again to to maybe not this core exactly between zack levine The marta rose and vooch but vooch in itself and again voose is not having a bad season I think voose having an underrated season because because we're always going to compare it to france vogner Window carter and that additional first round pick that we gave up You're always going to compare it to that and he's not having an all-star season like the version of him We traded for but he's undoubtedly having a better season than he was last season. So he's been good But I don't want him back We pigeonholed ourselves to the point we basically have to Because chicago bulls don't go into the luxury tax. So if we let voosevich walk Our center possessive for next season somebody on the minimum javail mcgee welcome to chicago type stuff You know, so we basically committed ourselves to mediocrity again And and that has been the definition of the chicago bulls post Derrick rose aco injury That's just who we have been and it obviously sucks because i'm supporting this team, but it's not It's not a unique feeling You know, some of y'all watch this video that aren't bulls fans are going through the exact same thing as me We're like for the entirety of the last five years You've seen your team be mediocre not necessarily be bad not necessarily be the worst team in the league But just mediocre We're just like a 500 team and listen the bulls not even close to 500 at this point. We're significantly under significantly under um And overall is just really no hope and and that's a terrible place you want your fan base to be You don't want it to be hopeless. There should always be some string of hope And and I think my last string of hope for my chicago bulls is patrick williams You know year three of his nba career a year two was completely taken away from him He played a handful of games after he got injured against the nicks in the first two weeks And then his rookie season. He had no no training camp I mean he'd had no summer league or anything like that So I still have a lot of hope for patrick williams not that I think he's going to be the next Kauai Leonard or he's going to be a superstar kind of a player But with him being 21 years old and showing flashes I think last month in january was his best month as an nba player as far as statistically goes And then the reason why some people have lost hope is that february He's back to be in the past of not doing enough type thing where you have eight points in one quarter Then won't score again into the fourth, you know So it's it's ups and downs, but he's a young player with little experience He was a project when he got drafted, you know what I'm saying? So he's my last grain of hope and I still I see dayland terry getting minutes now So that's kind of cool, but other than that I'm I'm counting down the days to something significant happens And maybe the super unfortunate part is that since carney shovis and mark eversley have committed to this core They might be too stubborn to make the big move Demarda rosen is going into the last year of his deal and it's an extremely team friendly deal He's an all-star player for two years in a row here in chicago There's going to be teams that are they're going to call about demarda rosen But unfortunately you waiting until he's on the last year of his deal Hindered some of the value that he's going to have and he's an above 30 year old player So his value just on the daily basis is going down because he's getting closer and closer to Hitting the the wall where he won't be getting better or he just will start to plateau or get worse Zach Levina started to play better in the last couple months But you you gave him 200 plus amps and I know for sure that would be teams interested But the value of him is not going to be Oh, we're trading for two time offs or Zach Levina Like I think that if we do end up trading Zach Levina's offseason I guess it really depending on how his last couple months go this season Some bulls fans or some people might look back on the train like that's how we gaff us Zach Levine Two-time all-star Average of 20 he averaged 27 points per game on amazing and physically two seasons ago. That's all we got for him We're trading away demarda rosen a two-time all-star. That's all we got for him And that's just hypothetical if they decide to make these deals. So that's just just the way we are Um, chicago in general. She's been terrible for sports fans, bro The bulls suck the only saving grace is that chicago sky won a champ shout out to the to the wba They won a championship a couple years ago, but this offseason for the sky has been awful We've we've lost kandace parker. We lost we lost, um, uh, vander sloop Um, we made a trade recently though.  He was the largest contract in chicago bulls history I was just playing mlb 23 and looking at the ratings. We're bad in game We gave mike cleavager all of this money and potentially Allegedly, he's he domestically abused his spouse We don't want that here in chicago the bears have hope with the first overall pick and they have just in fields Who looked amazing on second half of the season? We don't know if they're gonna trade down that first round first overall pick I'm excited about that potentially The cubs were buyers this off season. So like cody belliger is now in town, which will be fun.  So again here in chicago There's not a lot of hope amongst sports fans And they didn't even mention the blackhawks are one of the worst teams in their their league as well We just all struggling We was all struggling and the last year bulls made us think that hey Maybe chicago's the sports city is back It's not and it sucks


Great welcome to the last set news. My name is Rob and today we got a lot of things to go over So let's just jump right in they were talking about markets So we're gonna talk about a US Senate candidate and what his thoughts are as far as Bitcoin and black rock Which is actually pretty interesting what he talks about especially with black rock and Elizabeth Warren And we'll take a look at a Voyager update We're gonna take a look at a retention bonus and what that means for you going forward And lastly, we'll do a staking update for iTrust as far as Avalanche and Cardano Even a polka dot and then we'll get into the Q&A. So let's jump right in. So first of all, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it We've got today a nice little market that is down and I'm just gonna ask everybody a question When I do these shows, I'm always talking about the market But does anybody not know what what what the market's doing? I'm thinking about just taking this whole piece out Because let's be honest. You probably check your portfolio 20 times a day Just like I do even though nothing's really moving So I'm just gonna briefly go over this from now on unless someone's got some objections put that in the comments below But bitcoins down a little bit if there ends up a little bit and everything's pretty much sideways boring That's exactly what's going on. If something really major happens. I'll talk about it But that's the market for what we have and I'm sure there's some Something that's really fantastic one of your coins that is in the top, you know, thousand that might be doing great But sure Anyhow, that's the market itself I'm sure we're correlated it at least somewhat the NASDAQ and S&P 500 and so on so forth But let's just jump into the stories. So first of all, I want to talk about yesterday's video about Cardano Yeah, first it was great. I had Josh and Rob from Pornocopia has come on We talked about the nozzle upgrade and how many different Steak pools state state pool operators such as myself have actually gone into it and upgraded and I got to tell you every time Every time I do a cardano video, this is essentially how this gets summed up in these two comments There's always like someone's like Cardano is the best thing of all time and as ever then there's like 50% are saying It's just a big scam. I Just find it fascinating that no one really does that on on any other crypto besides Cardano So whether you love it or hate it, I got to tell you it's a very polarizing Crypto project. I personally am biased.  I have a couple stake pools. So don't think I'm gonna stop talking about it anytime soon That's just what's going on. Let's jump into Today's top story and I just there's a lot of things going on But I just found this interesting and this was there was there was a debate for New Hampshire primaries US Senate candidates This gentleman's name is Bruce Fenton for a US Senate pretty interesting guy and What he talks about here, it's just a minute long or so and there's asking the question about, you know, how should we go about as far as? spending or as far as Currency and money and just the answer is pretty good And it's not that it's just this guy that that's come about but like I said But like you can see is it scrolled scrolls scrolls across below It's look at the big picture. I mean in 2017. There was no candidates. There was no senators There was no congressmen or women talking about it Now we've got a plethora when we Jane Adams from Las Vegas and to me and and Lummis and and emmer and some others that I'm probably forgetting and It's just kind of like a snowball effect before you know it One of the big talking points might be crypto moving forward if it's not already So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna stop the screen real quick. I'm gonna share the tabs. You actually hear what this guy is saying Just take a listen. This is about a minute or so long Mr. Fenton you your website allows contributions in cryptocurrency Do you favor increased use of crypto in monetary transactions? And what do you say to those who oppose crypto currencies because they can be used for illegal transactions? Yeah, I'm all for any form of money that anybody wants to use and ideally I'd like to get government out of the money business Just like we used to have church and state were once together We wouldn't be able to have this meeting without officials from the church hundreds of years ago And we should get government out of the money business We can separate money just like we separate separated church and state we can separate money and state because government Doesn't need to be in the money business. We don't need Politicians to tell us what money is throughout human history for thousands of years People have figured it out whether it's gold or silver or Bitcoin And the fact is that our money right now is broken politicians broke it They have unlimited money that they can print from thin air without accountability and that is now competing against An asset like Bitcoin which is limited in supply limited to 21 million coins cannot be printed from thin air So the money is broken and politicians broke it and everybody should have the freedom to choose better money If they choose to I chose Bitcoin I recommend other people choose something else as well because the dollar is a melting ice cube. All right, Senator Morse I'm melting ice cube. I like the response because it There's a narrative coming going around that's you know Inflation isn't caused by the government's government has nothing to do with it And just because you know the M1 money supply is the most it's ever been front of ever in existence That has nothing to do with what's going on So I got to tell you I appreciate that type of answer and then there was there was one more piece where he talked about You know the kind of government agencies that he'd like to get rid of not that I'm a big This is not a political channel This is just about crypto and and trying to talk about the happenings that are going on But it's found an interesting about what he talks about as far as which agencies to get rid of and he talks about black rock I'm like, yeah, that's pretty interesting. So let me again share this real quick. This is just about an amend or so And take a listen. Oh and real quick You don't know who Bruce Benton is running for a US Senate from New Hampshire cyberpunk stockbroker Watchdog capital SEC Finram member hosted Satoshi roundtable interesting to check that out But here is his response for which government agencies do you want to cut? So just take a listen I'd love to cut a whole bunch of government agencies the Department of Education the TSA DHS EPA Department of Energy and so on but the biggest one we could cut of all the biggest government agency that we could cut is black rock Black rock got five hundred billion dollars of our money prior to this nonsense Elizabeth Warren held the record of the most given away to any banker cronies She gave away nine hundred billion dollars to to bank her cronies or a hundred billion when she was tarp Administrative that's been vastly surpassed now vastly surpassed. They gave five hundred billion dollars to one company and some of these companies They have singling executives who get two hundred million dollar bonus absolutely completely unacceptable Well, I'm a bunch of government agencies. So I'll just say this Hopefully that guy doesn't get silenced by anybody because that's pretty interesting. So you want to follow what Bruce is doing I linked his Twitter account in the description below you can find all the information about him And that's what's going on. I just found it a fascinating thing as far as like more Not not only Senate sitting. Sorry sitting senators right now sitting congressmen and women They're also the candidates are getting into a little crypto digital assets, and I got to tell you I would vote for that guy I voted for much less and Unfortunately, most of the politicians are just a bunch of liars So if I can get away with one that supports crypto, I'd probably do it So, yeah, let me know what you think about that in the comment section. Let's jump into a little crypto update and For Voyager and I got to tell you this is a This is gonna make you a little a little angry I think but just hear me out so We talked about this a couple of days ago Crypto lender Voyager can pay employees retention bonuses. So says a US judge and They're gonna be able to pay these bonuses But their retention bonuses Judge Michael Wiles also agreed to withhold the names and titles of the employees who may receive the bonuses so we don't know who's receiving it and We know that's going to be a bonus a retention bonus on top of a salary For sure. So this what's going on Voyager digital, which is undergoing bankruptcy proceedings can pay more than 30 employees 1.6 million as a retention award That's the truth Voyager filed for the authorization early this month a move that voyagers organized creditors opposed this past Friday This program has not evolved the senior management team and data about these individuals would typically not exist in the public domain We note that no creditor or shareholder or economic stakeholder has Objected to the motion to seal. That's not what they're complaining about. They're complaining about it's 1.9 million That's that's from the depositors Why why do we have to do that? The information has not been withheld from anyone who asked for it said Michael Slade and tourney with Kirkland and Ellis representing Voyager Voyager originally filed to pay 38 employees a collective 1.9 million But some employees have since left like can't blame them honestly Slade said the company plan to implement cost-cutting measures over the next month Which would result in a savings of 4.6 million. I'm on board with that. That sounds good Darren Aspen turning with McDermott will and emory representing the UCC This is the committee that sits down and actually represents us the sharehold the other shareholders The holders of the crypto in Voyager Said one of the creditors main concerns is cost reduction, but Voyager's concession and announcing the annual life savings Addressed that concern and just what I said. I thought about it. I Thought about a lot actually and I got to tell you for 1.9 million If in some way this pushes the sale of the Voyager through and These people are undue crucial to that process and let it happen. I don't care about 1.9 million I don't care about that all I care about Is that the people that have their crypto on Voyager including myself gets that crypto back as fast as possible? So if it costs 1.9 million to retain whoever these people are for whatever they do To make this happen. Sure. I'm not gonna cry over it as long as this actually goes through Which will leave me to my next point about claims and this is important claims For your crypto Voyager file documents with the court that lists customer account holding as of July 5th What they state as of July 5th is what's going to be valued For what you'll be able to get back and a lot of questions that have been coming about this Well, is that July 5th in the in the money? Value of whatever Bitcoin or Ethereum or Cardano, whatever is that you're holding? No, that's not what it is It's the value or the amount that you hold in crypto the last time I checked one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin One Ethereum is still one Ethereum. So they're not putting a monetary value on your crypto They're saying oh Rob here has to Bitcoin on there So we're gonna give them to Bitcoin back. That is that is the bigger thing, but there's some caveats as usual so Voyager file documents, blah blah these documents are known as these schedules of assets and liabilities You'll receive an email from Voyager digital restructuring, which will provide a unique link and personal identification number to allow you to view Voyager lists your account holdings your counter information will only be visible to you and not post it publicly If you agree with the records as filed like they say hey Rob's got to Bitcoin and 20 Ethereum and blah blah Then you don't have to do anything just say great just paint it out as soon as you can or give me that back but if you disagree with the information and If your claim was marked as contingent unliquidated or disputed You will need to submit proof of claim on before the bar date of October 3rd 5 p.m. You can file a claim on our case website here I linked this Blog post and the description at the very top so you can find it if you come across this Then lastly and this is the bigger point separately since the establishment of a bid deadline for Voyager X remember Voyager is selling the business There's been new bidders Much of new bidders have requested additional time to get information and submit their offers Multiple offers not just one FTX offer, which was not the greatest I might add but multiple We have agreed with the official committee of unsecured creditors to extend the bid deadline to September 6th at 12 If applicable, we'll have a sale hearing on September 29th So remember those two dates September 6th is when they're going to get all the bids in September 29th Is when they're actually going to reveal who is the lucky winner of Voyager and when will we be made whole so that is the update for Voyager? Let me know what you think about that in the comment section and last up a Little staking update for I trust The D news avalanche stake pool and the D news card on a stake pool. So real quickly I trust capital if you can't miss it. So I think that's above my head constantly Ah They're now allowing investors to stake their crypto as part of its retirement account. So just so you know Roth IRA No capital gains tax, but you have to wait till you fit nine and a half works out pretty well. I use I trust There's no monthly fees. There's a 1% trading fee if you do those things But there's no monthly fee use between I'm bucks, but they waived those things But just so you know they did surpass six billion in volume just a couple of days ago. So pretty interesting But now they're offering this You're gonna get an email if you haven't already and it's gonna say hey if you want to you can stake polka dot That's what they're gonna start off with and just to show you how this is you go into your account I've got six hundred twenty seven dollars watch out of polka dot and I staked it You just there's a little fingers is available on stake. You click on polka dot balance You click on continue if you want to stake it and this is what it is the Estimated staking rewards are up to nine and a half percent duration 90 days continue if you do that say confirm Yes, I do and then it'll say look it's gonna be locked up for 90 days nine and a half percent is the staking reward and This is when I stake number first Our staked on date, which is when it'll happen actually And then lastly if you go to the the next screen available and staked all mine is staked right now So that's one part of it, but wait. There's more and What comes down to this ever since Voyager and Celsius have been a little more Studious about Terms and conditions and what's going on behind the scenes And this is no different. So I want to bring this to your attention If you have an I trust capital account great. You should know everything first of all How do I earn rewards for staking at the end of staking period 90 days any rewards earned by I trust capital will be allocated and distributed to those Who have opted into staking during the relevant staking period less any applicable fees including The I trust capital 20% staking fee So whatever you get so you're gonna you get nine and a half percent over nine days pretty good That's over the year right So whatever you get let's say you get one polka dot they're gonna take 20% of that So now you're gonna have 0.8 dot and they're gonna get 0.2 dot. That's how it works So do those things but wait. There's more Just to make sure other fees for earning yeah, 20% fee on rewards earned for a staked reward and Are my staking rewards taxed because remember in Roth IRA? For crypto as it accumulates you don't pay any Capital gains short-term long-term because that's what a Roth IRA does that's what Peter teal did with his PayPal shares in Late 90s or whatever it was put in a Roth IRA wasn't worth anything now It's worth over five billion dollars and he pays zero point zero percent capital gains tax because it's in a Roth IRA It just how it works However Crypto is a bit different and this is a what we call a CYA document Are my staking rewards taxed the tax treatment of certain crypto transactions is uncertain and is your responsibility to determine what taxes if any Arise from these transactions if you earn more than six hundred dollars and staking rewards. It's pretty good You'll be provided a 1099 MISC in the United States You're solely responsible for reporting and paying any applicable taxes arising from staking I trust capital does not provide investment legal or tax advice We recommend consulting a qualified investment legal or tax professional and that you conduct your own due diligence before making any investment Decision including whether to participate in staking wage transactions. So I've already done this My CPA says there's no clear guidelines. There's no clear Decisions made by the government as far as staking rewards in a Roth IRA. So if you don't want to pay it Rob We're not gonna pay them it.  That's their job. The job is to set the regulations They haven't done that yet, but that's me and I can't give you any advice on this obviously because I'm not a financial advisor I'm not a CPA So it's up to you. I'm just telling you what I am doing and I've staked all my polka dot and we'll go that route so that's what's up and then lastly Are my assets automatically restake when the staking period ends? No I chose capital does not automatically automatically restake you may choose to opt into the next staking period if you want to and What are the risks associated with staking staking involves considerable risks and they go over a big long plethora of things So that's true. There is staking risks now with Ethereum. There's like the slashing risks If there's some some bad actors, I'm not for sure on polka dot, but I figure like this I look at the at the risk and reward Could I lose everything in staking? Yeah, I could Is that gonna affect is that gonna crush me if I lose $720 or whatever it was worth of polka dot? Probably not so I'm just gonna go down that route and just See how it works now. I've staked polka dot before another platform Seems to work out just fine. I don't see the an issue here But again, that's my decision and you have to make your own decision on that one So let me just think about that in the comment section and let's lastly just real quick The D news avalanche stake pool matured at one year as of I want to say seven days ago So just so you know for avalanche You know you you keep your private keys and all that good stuff So if you want to move to another stake pool go right ahead We are not going to continue for the avalanche stake pool All your rewards are still there because you get control of it and you do whatever you want to so right now There you can go to Dante just crypto calm and just click on staking and there's cardano and avalanche Click on that watch the video. It tells you how to stake it and just do the reverse for Unstaking and transfer it to wherever you want to you don't have to transfer to another staking pool You can leave right there You just won't get any rewards because we're not going to do any more staking with avalanche and lastly the chrono stake pools for D news We just upgraded to The new rendition for for Basel the team just told me they did this last night so you can add that you can chalk that up and there's been some Inconsistency with which one is as far as like if it's blocks protocol version 56 and 42 or if it's nodes reporting version 57 or 30 percent, but I can just tell you right now that we're moving in the right direction We need to have 75 percent total of all stake pool operators to accept the new upgrade Before they can implement the vases upgrade, but we're farther along than what we were before and we are a part of that process So that takes care of the news today. So look, I know it's a little bit longer today a lot of things going on But if you like this video give it a thumbs up all that good stuff subscribe and great great great and if you want to stick around And stick around for the Q&A if not get out here. You've been here for 20 minutes or so But now we'll go over the Q&A. I'll answer all your questions over all things. We just talked about and others That's my best my abilities and let's jump into the Q&A