So, Yaron, thank you for this interview. Oh, my pleasure. Thanks for having me. So, you've been around Latin America lately in the Andran con in Brazil. Next stop is Costa Rica, Mexico. A lot of exciting things happening. How do you feel when you talk to Latin American audiences? Well, I love Latin American audiences because they're very expressive. Latin American audiences are not typically audiences that sit back and just listen in a blank face and don't ask questions. They get very involved and they get very passionate. So that's always exciting and fun for a speaker to have an audience like that. You know, and I think there's a huge amount of potential in Latin America. I'd say particularly in Brazil for a variety of reasons, but generally I think there's a lot of angst among young people. So young people are looking for answers. Latin America has been a failure for 100 years. And they've tried everything, right? They've tried all the different mixtures of socialism and fascism. That they possibly can and nothing makes it better. And so I think they're more open to alternatives. Then maybe people are more comfortable in the United States or people are more comfortable in Europe where they feel like, you know, why be radical when things are so good? I think that the Latin American audiences are much more eager to be radical and willing to accept radical ideas because in a sense, what do they have to lose? Right. And in that sense, what is the first reaction that people take when listening to Anne Rand and her ideas? Like what are the most common misconceptions or things that bring curiosity from the audience? Well, a lot of it has to do, you know, the downside in Latin America is, of course, religion and how Catholic Latin America is. So a big part of it is, well, what about religion? And how do I square what you've just said with religion? And what about the church? And so I typically get those questions and they're challenging because these are some of the most deeply held beliefs that people have. And one of the things I do, the one of the things I think we all do is try to challenge that and try to chip away without being obnoxious, without being nasty about it, or without being, you know, but just challenge them to rethink some of their concepts, including their concepts around religion. So suddenly religion is a big deal. And then another one is self-interest, egoism. That's true of all audiences in the world. It's very hard for people to really get their head around to grasp this idea of rational long-term self-interest and how it can be right. We're taught from such a young age and from every teacher we have, religious and secular, that morality is about sacrifice, morality is about giving up, morality is about others. And you should never, ever, ever be self-interested, not if you want to be moral. And that is deeply ingrained in the culture and it's very, very hard. So you get a lot of questions about that and they manifest themselves in all kinds of ways, some of them personal, some of them political.  Although it is interesting that I get less of that with certain audiences than others. You get a lot more of that in America where the audience is pretty well off and so their altruism, their otherism kicks in and what about the poor. In Latin America people are not that well off so it's not, they have less concern about the poor because they are often the poor. Right. And the same thing in Asia, I found that in Asia you don't really get that kind of attitude, partially because they were poor so recently and partially because in Asia the altruism is less deeply rooted because they don't have Christianity. And that's one of the most interesting answers that you gave in Brazil when you said, I don't care about the poor, I care about good people regardless on how much money is in their wallet. Could you expand a little bit on that? Sure, I mean if you think about this categorization that we have, the rich, the middle class, the poor, it's really kind of a Marxist characterization, right? I mean he viewed the essential characteristic of human being is what class do you belong to. And objectivism doesn't view people as belonging to the group, it views people as individuals. And the fundamental question we ask is, are you a good person or are you not?  That's what's important. Right. And you can be a good person and be poor. You can be a bad person and be poor. You could be a good person and be rich. You can be a bad person and be rich. So what we're concerned with is virtue. What we're concerned with is, are you a good person? And we want to create an economic system that doesn't help a particular class. It's often you advocate for the rich. No, we're not about a particular class. I want to create an economic system that supports and rewards the good. Right. That is, if you're virtuous you should be successful. However, we measure success. It might be money, but it might not be. It might just be success within your profession or happiness ultimately for you as an individual. So I want to create a society in which rewards and incentivizes virtue. It incentivizes rationality, rewards rationality, incentivizes productiveness, rewards productiveness. So that people who are ambitious, people who are fundamentally good, people who are rational succeed in a society like that and people who are not fail in a society like that and that would be a just society. But for that we would have to define goodness. Yes. And the problem is that for most people because of this global altruism think that being good is sacrificing yourself, suffering for the others. So let's define goodness and let's define virtues. And of course yes, and of course because they think that, because they think that goodness is sacrifice, goodness is suffering for the other, they're completely open to socialism. And they're not only open to socialism, they're open to trying it over and over and over again in spite of the fact that it fails because it's the one system that promises that the group is the essential, the group is the unit that we should care about. And when they reject socialism, the ones who reject socialism, then they become fascists or some form of conservative, you know, statists. Because that's another system of ideas that promises them that they can sacrifice to a group and that the group interests are the primary. So if people always ask me, why do people keep trying socialism? Why is it so attractive? Because we haven't challenged the fundamental idea because as long as sacrifice and living for others is the, is nobility when it comes to morality, you're always going to look for a collectivistic solution for society, whether it's on the right or on the left, it's always going to be collectivism. And that's why they keep trying these systems and keep failing. So what we need to do is define the good and we need to define it anew and we need to convince people this is why the most important topic, if you will, I think, is morality, is ethics and trying to change the world's people's perspective on ethics, on morality. Because if you do that, then people say, what's really important is epistemology, we need to teach people how to think. But you need to motivate people to know how to think, right? How do you motivate people to know how to think? Thinking is good for you. Thinking is what will lead you to have that successful life. So the motivational part of philosophy is ethics. Because it's how to live. If we can convince people to live for themselves, to live a rational, in terms of a rational long term, for their own self-interest, then they want to know how to be rational. That's epistemology. And they want to know what kind of political system will benefit their own life. That's politics. So that is, of course, the key. And I don't think I answered your question. No, but the thing, no, you are. But the thing is that socialism in itself, people view it as this virtuous, amazing system. The problem is the corrupted people that can never live up to the goodness of the standard of socialism. And there's sensual corruption. The sensual corruption is people are too self-interested. Exactly. And yes, people are too self-interested to live under socialism. Thank goodness, right? That's a good thing. So yes, then there's a limit how much people are willing to sacrifice. There's a limit how much people are actually willing to live to other people. And this is why in free societies, altruism is always held as an ideal. And then people live their lives, right? But they don't live self-interested lives. They live half self-interested lives, right? They pursue what they vaguely think is self-interest. But because they don't view it as moral, they don't devote the thinking, the resources, to what does it mean to really live the best life that I can? Because they feel a little guilty when they do that. And it's not a science. See what objectivism provides is it says, living well is a science. And that's called the science of morality. Morality is the guide to living well. It's the principles by which you should live your life. Now we have principles and we have a science and we have an approach and we use our rationality to figure this out.  You have to devote real resources to it. You have to devote real time. What kind of life do I want to live? How do I live the best life I can live? And most people don't do that. So most people kind of emotionally pursue, they pursue a career maybe, they pursue love, but they don't integrate it and they don't think about the long term and they flounder and they often feel guilty if they're too successful. So nobody actually, there's no society in the world where people are actually living a self-interested life. I mean, one can only imagine kind of in a science fiction way what such a society would look like in terms of the level of happiness and the level of prosperity that society could attain. And that's something very interesting to talk about because it's not only the collectivism of the socialist sacrificing yourself for the state, there's also the collectivism of sacrificing yourself for religion because most people think that without religion we wouldn't have morality. There's the conception of a morality that is objective, that is rational, that has nothing to do with spirits and saints. It's almost ungraspable for most people, right? Yes, and here there is a deep kind of epistemological problem that people have which comes out of kind of Greek philosophy and philosophy generally. And they believe that there are only two possibilities. One is to go by your emotion. One is to be subjective, whatever you feel like is good. And the other is that there's something out there that's going to tell you what is right and what is wrong.  There's a law in nature and you just have to discover that law over there and it will tell me what to do. And they consider that to be objective. What Einrand, and this is why Einrand is such a revolutionary, what Einrand understands is that is a false dichotomy. That is both a wrong, both the subjectivist and what she called the intrinsicist. It's intrinsic in the thing, a wrong. And what is important is the interaction between your consciousness and reality. And the way to discover morality is to understand human nature within morality and understand what is good for us as human beings as a science, not as a subjective thing. Not whatever I feel like is what I feel like is not always true. It's what can I understand objectively meaning corresponding to reality, corresponding to what's really out there. But not that the truth, not that the virtues and values are out there. The virtues and values are out there. I have to discover based on the facts of reality and the fact of reality here that's most relevant is human nature and how as human beings we actually survive in the world, in the world as it is. Regardless of that explanation, most people think of Einrand as a conservative and they put her in the right wing side, right? If you have to choose between Republicans and Democrats, Einrand is always falling on this side because of the huge ignorance that there is about her work. She wrote conservatism and obituary. She warned about the dangers of allowing this collectivist idea, first of all, that the United States was created in a Christian worldview and Cosmovision to Christianity, the United States is what it is. And also people that say thanks to Christianity, we have the concept of individual. Without Christianity, the Western world wouldn't have that. And these misconceptions try to put socialism as the only collectivist menace that there is out there and Einrand had nothing to do with that. No, and it's really unhelpful ultimately to think of the world right now in terms of left and right. Because it might have been reasonable to think about in those terms 40 years ago when there were elements on the right who were pro-individualism and pro-liberty and pro-capitalism and pro-freedom. But with time, as Einrand predicted, the conservative movement has become more and more and more collectivistic and less and less pro-capitalism and less and less pro-individualism. So I think the true political spectrum is individualism and collectivism. And what is happening today is both the right and the left are just two different forms of collectivism. So it's in a sense one-axis individualism and collectivism where the collectivism brand splits off into two, a left version and a right version. And yet the differences between them, the fascists and the socialists are not exactly the same. The way they manifest themselves is different. But they're both our enemies. So if you look today at national conservatism or the rise of the liberal right or all born in Hungary, Putin in Russia and their manifestations in the West, what's the difference between them and the socialists? On economic issues, they basically almost always agree. And their battle is on social issues, a battle that we're not even part of because our conception of the social issues is usually quite different than both sides. So I think the perception of Ein Rand is going to change because the main debate now is on social issues. For example, abortion. So the main debate right now, a big debate right now in the United States between left and right is about abortion. Well, on abortion, Ein Rand is more on the left than on the right in that sense. But even then, she's not really on the left. She's on this individualist spectrum and the explanation for why abortion should be legal is completely different than the left and completely opposed to anything the right says. I think the same true ultimately is going to be about marriage. The same is true about a lot of these issues that are raised, social issues raised between the left and right. Ein Rand is not going to be easy to categorize on either side of this. And maybe people will start realizing that there's something completely different here. And our job, I think, is to go out there and communicate, forget left and right. Individualism, collectivism, that's the spectrum that matters and we are the individualists. We're right there at the far, you know, whatever side it is of individualism. We're consistent individualists. There might be others left and right who are not quite collectivists, center left, center right, who are a little bit more towards the individualist side. But if you want to define individualism, come to us because we are it. And let's talk about those differences in pragmatic ways. And there is one thinker that comes to my mind, Jordan Peterson, right? Jordan Peterson has developed his rules for life in a very conservative mentality, I would say. And then you, inspired by that, did Yaron's rules for life. So let's explore what differences are there. And my first question would be, do we need rules to live? Because when we talk about individualism and escaping any form of collectivism, for some people that means anarchy, that means chaos, that means there's no morality, there's no rules. So the first question is, do we need rules for life? Well, absolutely. And this is where this whole idea of viewing morality as scientific is so important. As human beings, we do not have the embedded knowledge, the instincts that guide us towards survival. And even survive at the very basic level. I used this example at the conference. We don't know how to hunt. It's not an instinct. We don't know how to survive in the Amazon. We don't know how to farm. All of that needs to be figured out. We need to use human reasons to figure out how to survive. And that's just survive, but to flourish, to be successful, to build an iPhone, right? To have lights and cameras and this kind of setup. Think of the amount of the number of people who had to do real hard thinking to do all this, to discover all this technology, to build a building, to everything we have is a consequence of human reason. So we have to have principles by which to live. Marl principles. And those Marl principles are supposed to guide us towards surviving as human beings, which means living the best life that we can as a human being, which means flourishing and ultimately achieving happiness. We don't have the instincts. We don't know it automatically. And the fact is everybody knows this, even the anarchists know this, that if you just rely on your emotions out there, you just get into trouble all the time, right? Every time we get into real trouble in life, it's almost always because we didn't think it through. It's almost always because we relied on our emotions and didn't use our minds. So Rand's basic principle of living is think. Use your mind to guide your actions. And that's kind of the core of ethics. She has seven virtues that she lays out. At the heart of them all is rationality. And kind of what I try to do with the rules of life is take them and concretize them for people, really, and maybe broaden them into some other applications, some of the applications of the moral principles. And they're going to be very different than Jordan Peterson's because our philosophy is very different. So let's talk about that, because Jordan Peterson in some of his rules also says, don't do not rely on your emotions, be more rational. But it seems to me that when it comes to faith, to religious faith, in that sense, you can turn your reason out. So how does that work? Like how can you have rules for life and somebody that has as many followers as he does? But at the same time, this incoherence of saying, but in other regards, don't use your reason. Yeah, but that's why he has a lot of followers. He has a lot of followers because at the end of the day, he's not really challenging us too much, right? So he's maybe challenging the left because his principles are more associated with the conservative right. But he's not challenging a fundamental belief. So he's not challenging us on religion. He's accepting religion. And his vision of religion is not simple Christianity. He has the stories that he tells and he tells them differently. But at the end, it's the same thing. At the end, it's about faith. And he doesn't challenge us when it comes to morality. At the end, you're more responsibility. At the end, Jesus is a superhero, according to Jordan. And he's a superhero. Why? Because he's willing to die for our sins. Because he's willing to sacrifice himself to the worst kind of painful death. Not for something he did, but for something we did. So at the end, Jordan is out and out, altruist. So yes, once he accepts faith and altruism, he tries to apply rationality to what's left. But that rationality is not divorced from reality and it's certainly divorced from a rational outcome, which is altruism is an irrational outcome. It's divorced from kind of a proper morality. So yeah, he comes up with a bunch of things that are not too challenging, not too deep, not too serious. Make your bed, you know, so be organized. Okay, my mother taught me that, right? When I was little. Is this really, and what does that actually mean? So I think his rules for life ultimately are going to be superficial because the other thing Jordan Peterson says, which is interesting, he says, happiness is an accident. Happiness is not something that if you do the right things in life, you will attain. You might not, if you happen to be happy, happen to be happy. Embrace it because it's a rare thing. And that kind of sucks, right? If life is like that, if it's just being happy, it's an accident, you might be, you might not be.  It's predetermined.  There's nothing I can do to achieve heaven, right? Nothing I do in life makes any difference. It's already pre-written. And there's a sense in which Jordan applies that to happiness. Nothing you do actually will achieve happiness. So it'll either happen to you or not. And that is completely upside down from the objective ethics, which basically tells you these are the principles that are essential for achieving happiness. The more consistent you apply them, the more you'll be. Now look, there are accidents in life.  But in general, here are the principles that for most people will result in happiness if you understand the principles and apply them consistently. So what happens at the end with Jordan? It comes out as dogma. Why should I make my room? Because in the end. And it's not reasoned out.  And so in that sense, I think that making your own bed, what he's trying to say in that combination of altruism and self-interest is don't pretend that you can go and save the world when you don't even make your own bed. Which is something that is actually happening with woke America. I want to tell others how to live, but I am a mess in my own personal life. That can have some truth, but the thing is it's always in the benefit of the other. Because if you become a better altruist, then your society is going to be better. If you are happy, it's just an accident. Yes. So it's always the goal is always ultimately altruistic. But it's also superficial, right? So yeah, make your bed. But what does it mean to take responsibility for your own life? Right? It's be organized and be clean and be inside the schedule and yeah, but that's not what's important. To take your life seriously is to take your life seriously. It's to think through what kind of career I want, what kind of life I want, what kind of romantic partner I want, what kind of life I want to live, what are the values I want to pursue. So conservatives often talk about personal responsibility. Oh, people should work for a living but they don't go deep enough. You should do your own thinking. You should figure out what's right by your own terms with your own examples. You should use your own mind to discover. You shouldn't accept, so a lot of, I think this is true sometimes of objectivists and sometimes you people who come from religion to objectivism, this is true. Iron Man wrote Seven Virtues. Okay, now we know what morality is. It's the Seven Virtues and it's just plug and play. It becomes dogma and it's useless if it's dogma. The whole point of Rand's morality is you have to understand every one of the virtues.  You have to be able to prove the value to yourself. If you take them as dogma, then you just become a robot doing, oh, I need to be rational now. Okay, you know, I should be honest. You drop context. You don't fully understand what it is that you're doing and you never actually get to benefit from it fully and you don't achieve that happiness. So Jordan presents them as somewhat of a dogma. In objectivism, we want to go deeper. We want to understand why I should make my bed and what are the deepest meanings of that? The purpose of taking responsibility for self is to be happy, right? That's the deepest sense in which I want to be moral. That's the deepest sense in which I want to take responsibility for my own life. The applications of it in terms of making your own bed are not easy. I've never made my own bed in my life. A big source of conflict with my mother, right? Because I hated making my bed. You know, it turns out that whether you make your bed or not is not that important. But whether you have a career or not is important. Whether you take your life seriously or not is important. Where you think through your life is important. So it's that taking responsibility for your life, making your life the best that it can be. That to me is, so that is my rules of life. Always start and end with, how does it make my life in the most fullest sense possible good, meaningful, successful, worthy of living? So every rule should contribute to that. And I don't really like using the term rule, but since Jordan used it, you know, I'll capitalize on the marketing he provides. There's something that you said in Brazil regarding rules and I think it's also important because when you automatize rules, like say, make your own bed, be productive, go to work, be responsible, but you don't go deeper as Objectivism offers, it sometimes confuses people with material comfort. That sometimes what capitalists and conservatives are after is just material stuff. And I think you said something very deep in Brazil when you said you shouldn't just pursue comfort. You should pursue a great life.  And you said you should go and pursue something even better than that. It's pursuing the best life that you can possibly have and that goes beyond material stuff. And this coming from the philosophy of Objectivism, which really puts an interest and an importance in being productive and producing. But a big part of being productive and producing, look I love material stuff, so none of this is to knock on material stuff and it's good to have material stuff and life is enhanced by material stuff. Life is made possible by material stuff. Without agriculture and without producing food, we wouldn't survive. And I want to be rich, right? So all of the material stuff is good. But what brings you joy and happiness is even when you're producing, is the producing itself, right? If you're just producing to make money, you're not gonna quite... Because think about how much time we spend producing, how much time we spend at work. So have a purpose, do it with purpose, have a meaning in your work so that the work becomes something you love doing and you enjoy and you embrace and it's fun to do.  So for objectivism, productiveness is a virtue because it makes the material well-being, it makes it possible for us to have the material well-being that we need in order to survive. But it's also a virtue because it provides us with purpose and life and it provides us with immense spiritual pleasure, spiritual joy to achieve things, to produce things and to achieve things and I think to live the best life one can live one needs to be productive, not primarily for the financial well-being, for the stuff that you can buy, but primarily for the satisfaction, the joy, the pride one gets from achieving something, from building something, from making something, from living a great life. But living a great life requires producing and making something. Whether that means a lot of money or not, but it's, you know, you could be a teacher and not make a lot of money, but if you do a great job as a teacher and you love it and you see the impact you have on your students, you're gonna get as much satisfaction as anybody who produces it at any level. Pursue beauty, travel more are part of your rules for life and why do you advise within this productiveness pursuing beauty and traveling more? Is it part of that greatness of life? Yes, I think life has so much to offer and the potential of what one can do with one's life is so vast.   And so they get depressed and life loses meaning for them and one of, I think the anecdotes there, one of the ways to combat that is a detachment of yourself a little bit from the news. You don't have to listen to every commentary. You don't have to read every story. You don't get the highlights because you need to know what's going on in the world, but go live your life. And part of living their life and part of mitigating that darkness that is outside and the culture is pretty dark and the political world is certainly dark is create a space for yourself that is beautiful, that is filled with values and things that you love and that bring you joy.  And at least for the time you're there, the outside world with all its problems can get a second place. And the fact is, again, that this is not sacrificing anything because the fact is it's not like if you worked a little harder you could change tomorrow the politics of the world or you could have an impact. We're not going to as individuals. It's gonna be rare that we can. So let's focus on the things that we can control, how we live our lives on a day-to-day basis, how to make the most of our lives on a day-to-day basis. And while certainly surrounding yourself with beauty and traveling are not virtues at the level of rationality and productiveness, they're kind of subservient values. They're still values. They're still things that one should strive to achieve and one should strive to do in one's life. And traveling gives one context to understand the political environment. You know, you go to very, very poor places and it gives you a sense of what's being achieved and a sense of how much you as an individual have achieved and also a sense of, you know, as bad things are maybe in America or in Europe, they're not that bad. And there's still some life to be lived which is ultimately what's important. Let's not give up on that life to be lived. And it also gives you a sense of how much we've achieved in 250 years because poor people today live at the same kind of standard of living as all of us lived 250 years ago. We were all poor. So it gives you a certain context. It gives you a certain, but also when you meet people whether it's in the favelas in Brazil or whether it's in Cambodia in small villages where they have nothing, you still get that human spirit.  They want to make their lives better. They're striving towards something. And they're not, I don't get a sense of envy from them. Most poor people don't want to knock you down because you have stuff. They want to be like you. They want to figure out how to become like you. So it's that ambition, that hustle. You see these little kids trying to sell you anything for a dollar in Cambodia because a dollar for them is a lot of money and they want a better life. They want to achieve more. That can inspire, particularly in a world where so many people are just giving up and so many people are kind of lazy and just sitting around and not hustling to make their life better. To see poor people really hustle can be inspiring and sad at the same time because you'd like them to be a lot better off and that struggle for survival that they're engaged in, it's sad that in the 21st century we still have that and of course we know what the answer to that is and that's more freedom and capitalism and property rights and all of this. It's frustrating because you know how to solve the problem and yet nobody is listening. Somebody once asked me, what's the biggest frustration you have in your job, Iran? And my answer was that I know the truth. I know how to make the world a better place pretty much for everybody and nobody is listening or very few people are listening. Some people are like maybe many of you are listening. Let's hope that this interview gets a lot of listeners and a lot of shares and thank you very much, Aaron. I'm very happy that your sense of life means bringing these ideas to everybody in the world because we desperately need them and something that I've learned from you is that the political and economic battle is in a second place. We have to go deeper. We have to go to the philosophy to inspire people to know how to think and I think that you're doing an excellent job at that. So thank you very much for your job and your interview. Thank you for helping us achieve this and for being such a great voice for these ideas out there in Latin America and the world. Thanks.


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Want to learn about stocks, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the metaverse? Join RichTV.io. Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host from RichTV Live, Rich. And I'm here with our very special guest, the director from Atco Mining, Dawson Briscoe. How are you doing today, Dawson? I'm doing very well. Thank you, Richard. It's a pleasure to be on your program today. Hey, very excited to have you on the show, Dawson. And we're really looking forward to learning more about Atco Mining. And can you tell us a little bit about Atco Mining and how you got involved? I'd be happy to. Personally, I've been in the mining and exploration industry for going on a couple of decades. I spent about a third of my time as a geologist in the Gobi Desert of Central Asia. Another third was in the business development side of the mining industry. And the last portion has been with Maury and Resources, where I've been CEO since 2018. And Maury is a, dare I say, rather unique cash flowing, dividend paying, TSX-V listed mining royalty company focused on North American bulk commodities. But for most of my career, I've been focused on energy. I've been involved in uranium and thermal coal, steel coal. I've spent an inordinate amount of my professional and free time looking at fossil fuels and renewable based energy systems. And one area that's had most of my attention for the past short while has been hydrogen. So when I was approached by Atco to join the board, it was quite fortuitous, frankly, given that hydrogen is Atco's focus as well. Fantastic. And hydrogen is getting a lot of media attention lately. Can you tell us what drew Atco's attention to this niche market? Great question. The short answer is that hydrogen is the next major wave of energy development. It's a big statements like that sometimes aren't convincing. So I'll tell you why I think it's true. I'm certainly not trying to be negative toward renewable energy. The degree to which solar array technology and onshore wind costs have been reduced has been incredible. And they have a massive role to play in the world's future energy grid. But after 20 years of development, wind and solar now provide just 3% of the world's total energy. I'm personally getting solar panels installed on my house shortly. They work great on a small scale. In some instances, they work great on a large scale as well. But there's a reason why renewables aren't ramping up fast enough. And one of the core issues, the core issue, in my opinion, lies in the fact that we just don't have long duration battery storage technology yet to store the energy for any great length of time. So on a large scale, they're just not quite able to reliably act as base load, base power supply. And for that reason, our grids generally they're carbon based. They're not renewable based. And so that brings us and segues into hydrogen. The attractiveness of hydrogen is that it is the energy source and it is the storage solution. In super basic terms, the flow sheet or the pathway, if you will, would look like this. Wind turbines produce green electricity. Green electricity produces or powers rather, the electrolysis process, which splits hydrogen from the oxygen. That forms hydrogen gas. And then a company like Atco stores the hydrogen gas and salt domes or caverns where it sits undisturbed for a great length of time or as long as the local utility needs until the hydrogen is needed, at which point the hydrogen is just recombined with oxygen from the air and that creates energy. I don't wanna oversimplify this, but it's a pretty simple exothermic reaction. The reason why this is getting such broad media and government attention is because hydrogen leapfrogs, the whole battery storage problem, like nowhere in that pathway that I need to insert a battery to make it work. So that the hydrogen is stored and when energy is needed, you simply introduce it to air and then that creates energy. Now, gonna make my answer a little bit longer and just give you two quick catches or caveats. The first one is that you need green electricity to fuel the electrolysis process. The largest contributor to green energy these days is offshore wind. Eight years ago, a two megawatt turbine was impressive. Now, if you look off the coast of Taiwan and off the coast of Europe, they're building 18 megawatt turbine fields. And so it just so happens that western Newfoundland has very attractive offshore wind sites, as well as, and this is probably just as important, they have a government that's willing to permit the sites super quickly. And so, we're very likely gonna see, I'm told the first wave of offshore wind sites permitted in western Newfoundland just in the next month. And then the second catch is that you need to find a way to store the hydrogen once it's produced. The solution, as I mentioned, is salt caverns or salt domes. And then it just so happens that western Newfoundland's St. George Basin where Atco has a very large land position has great potential for these domes. Now you mentioned salt domes. Can you tell us, is salt dome storage new for hydrogen and is it a proven concept? Hydrogen caverns are proven. They're inexpensive and they're a reliable technology. For example, the US Strategic Oil Reserve, they've been storing America's emergency backup oil and underground salt caverns for decades in the Gulf. You know, when it comes to hydrogen specifically, as far as I know, there are about a dozen sites in operation today. But with the energy crisis that we all know is well underway and also governments increasingly looking for green alternatives to Putin's oil and gas, we're witnessing a lot of new hydrogen based salt dome projects come online. Uniper, for example, the big German utility announced last year, it was starting construction of its own salt cavern storage project. A similar one is underway in the Netherlands. There's a big one in Utah, you know, the US, Europe and Canada, they all three of them have really bold hydrogen strategies that are gonna require a lot of these salt dome projects. Atco has had a lot of development since its IPO. Can you go through those for us? Sure, you know, as you know, and as I'm sure a lot of your listeners know, most exploration companies, they IPO on the heels of a big acquisition or either of a company or a project or they IPO on the heels of a major land grab in a perspective area, which is sometimes what happens in the exploration and mining space. Atco falls into the latter category. You know, when I joined the board of Atco, just to put this in perspective, they had about 3,000 hectares of attractive ground. Three months and about a dozen press releases later, including one this morning, Atco's land position in this super perspective basin is now about 20,000 hectares, making it one of the largest landholders in the region, an area that's now regarded as the East Coast Hydrogen Hub. You know, Atco's projects, to put it in a perspective and context, there are about 50 kilometers southwest of the town of Stephenville. And last summer, Stephenville was the spot where Prime Minister Trudeau and German Chancellor Schultz met, shook hands, and officially launched the Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance Pact. It's an agreement that's very ambitious. It targets hydrogen exports to Germany by 2025. And the reason these two leaders met in Stephenville with a population of about 7,000 people on the far west coast of Newfoundland is that this is gonna be one of the primary sites of Canada's growing hydrogen export industry. The reason is that it's rare to have such high potential for salt dome storage immediately next to a deep water port that's also adjacent to some of the highest wind speeds on the East Coast. And that all combined, as I said earlier, with a province that's being fairly quick to permit these wind sites. So Atco plays an instrumental and big role in this mega project coming to fruition. That's really, really exciting. And what are your top three milestones for 2023 that shareholders can look forward to? I think number one will be continued land acquisitions and staking, like what we saw Atco press release this morning. The second step will be geophysical surveys to delineate the salt domes. We're flying a large geophysical survey right now, in fact. So Atco should have those results out soon. And then last, the Atco will look to drill those targets. So to sum it up, 2023 will be about setting the stage for this hydrogen energy push. I can't wait. And how much does the company currently have in the bank? And do you feel like you will need to raise any money this year in order to accomplish your goals for 2023? You know, Atco has about 600 to 700,000 in Treasury, Canadian. We're not planning a financing. In 2023, the company is run in an extremely lean fashion. Obviously the geophysical surveys cost money, but we're fortunate enough that there's a lot of players in the basin. So we can piggyback off of some of the MOB and DMOB costs. However, when you're in a new, when you're a new entrant into a new sector that's moving this quickly, things can obviously change, particularly as you advance toward the drilling stage. So I would never say never, but at this point, we're not planning on financing this year. Okay, that's music to our ears. And is there anything else you want? Investors that are watching today to take away from this interview? That's a good question. I would suggest that your viewers, they just, they try to get exposure to hydrogen, however way possible, frankly, because the momentum behind it is real. It's happening. And by the end of this decade, I believe the hydrogen fuel source will be well on its way to competing with gas, thermal coal and renewables. You know, if you bought a solar stock or a renewable ETF back in 2018, you did extremely well. And I have this feeling that hydrogen, this wave that we're in right now is going to follow a similar trajectory in the capital markets. And so what Atco offers, if I could make a plug on Atco's behalf, is it's a relatively low cost entry point for people to get exposure to this new sector. Now, what is the best way for anyone, including investors that have any questions to get in touch with the company? The website, you know, AtcoMining.com, ATCOMining.com, it's well maintained, it's updated regularly. So I would suggest people start there. Fantastic. Thank you for joining us today. The director of AtcoMining, Dawson Briscoe, love to invite you back on the show. And I'd be happy to be back on the show soon. Excellent. Thank you so much for your time, Richard. Always a pleasure. And I must remind everyone that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes.  Today we're talking about AtcoMining, put on your radar, put on your watch list. And thank you for joining us today, director Dawson Briscoe. And for those of you that are watching, if you're not winning, you're probably not watching, we're bringing the winners, and we're bringing them to you first. Thank you for watching, everybody. This is Rich from Rich TV Live, saying have a nice day. We'll see you soon.


What's going on guys? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. Today's video, she is going to be modeling for us. I'm really excited for this. Yeah, I'm going to be trying on some workout outfits. So shout out to HALERA for sending me the first few items that I'm going to be trying on. It's so exciting to do this because I actually never have done like a try on haul with the workout gear I have. So I feel like every workout outfit you put on is going to be a strong like eight and up. You think so? It depends. I'm looking for certain things. I'm looking for certain things. All right. Well, we'll see if this like peaks your interest. Let's get started, guys. All right, baby. You ready? Yes, ma'am. Ski. All right. I'm coming. Wow. That looks soft. Let me see. Feel it. Oh, it is soft. It's like silky. Right? Very silky. All right. First, what do you rate it? I'm going to go ahead. Let me give them. Give me a twirl. Give me a twirl. You know how this goes. Let me see. Let me see. I'm going to give this a nine. A nine? I'm going to give it a nine. Oh, a nine. That's it. Not a 10. I'm going to give it a nine. Honest review. I'm giving it a nine because I don't know how I feel about like, I don't know. It's not, it's not as tight in the stomach area. No, it's not that. It's just like, I don't know. I'm just giving it a nine. All right. That's how I feel. It's probably because of the color. Sure. Let's go with that. All right. Well, I'll give my opinion on it. So I, first of all, okay. This dress is super, super comfortable. And I just like this color specifically because I like bright colors like baby blue. And I like that this dress comes in like a whole bunch of different colors. It's not just like this one. I feel like it's really versatile as well. Like I would wear this for like a barbecue or like if I'm going to go on like a long walk and stuff like that, it's like mad soft. Like I feel like I'm wearing pajamas, which is crazy because it's dressy.  So I like that is like really versatile. But my favorite is how it fits. First of all, it has like shorts and everything underneath. Is that a pocket? Yeah. There's a pocket right here. So like I can put a wallet in there for my phone. Yeah. Look at that. And nobody even know like I could just be walking down the street. I'll take some money back. I got things you can't see in here. What? It's good things. Don't worry about it. Yeah. This is like very, very convenient. I hate holding stuff when I'm working out or going on my walks. So I can literally put my water bottle in this pocket and my phone in this pocket because there's pockets on both sides. And you can wear this without underwear too. Let me see a squat. What? Let me see a squat test. How does it feel? Is it like super tight or it feels like comfortable? No, it feels good. Like it moves with you. I really like this dress, babe. Let me see it again. What? No. That doesn't drop in it low. No, I give it a 9 though. It looks really nice, comfortable, airy. And it is versatile. I can see how you would wear it out. But then you can also go work out in it. Yeah, I really like this one. So all right, I'm going to go try on. I have this in two other colors. It comes in a lot of colors. But I have I think a black one and a lavender one. So I'll go try those on next. I'm excited to see the lavender. Yeah, so let me know which colors you like. Go ahead. All right, I'll be back. And I will always love you. Yes, I'm ready. All right, I'm coming. My eyes are closed. Yes, they are. This one's my favorite. Ooh, you're getting me excited. The oven. Yeah. I like the black one. It feels just as soft. It looks nice and comfy. I like this a lot. This one. Yeah, I'm seeing stuff like the pockets on the side. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to give this one. I'm going to get a 360. Okay. Okay. Okay. I'm going to give this one a 10. I'm going to give this one a 10 too. This one was a 10. The other one was a 9. I guess it was the color. It's so nice. But I'm going to give this one a 10 because I feel like black, you can never go wrong with black. Like black just does it all. Yeah.  That's another thing I wanted to mention. I love how inclusive HALERA is because it fits like anybody type. So they also offer like a double D to F cups and I'm a triple D. So I'm like, yes, finally a workout brand that's inclusive. What? You're trying to get pregnant? Babe! You mentioned it. I'm just saying, like, when I'm pregnant, it's going to be so comfortable for me to wear because like I said, it feels like pajamas. It's so soft. Like this is, I'm all for comfort. So it's super, super inclusive. It's comfortable. Like, it can get better than this. I can't wait to turn you into a mom. Yeah, same. But we have to wait a little bit. Why do we have to wait? Why? Why? What do you mean why? Because I said so. All right, fine. This is number two. That one's a 10. It's on a 10? So far you got a nine and a 10. All right. So I have to try out one more. Go ahead. All right. You are me. All right, babe. Here's my last color. Okay. Ooh. Okay. A little bit of lavender. Okay. I feel like it's giving like, is it 70s? I think 70s vibes. Like especially when I hear my makeup. Babe! I'm just checking the material. That's all. I got a double check. You know, can't be too safe these days. But okay. I like this. I'm going to give this one a 9.5. 9.5. I like this one better than the blue. Was that blue? Mm-hmm. Yeah, I like it better than the blue one. But yeah, 9.5. I'm getting the same dress. So I know it feels good. Looks good. I just feel like I could do a cartwheel miss. Like literally. You know how like people can't like do anything in dresses? Like this has shorts. That's like wop. You should give me anything in this. Give me five high knees. Five now. Five. No. Right. It takes two seconds. I'll do it. One, two, three, four, five. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Now on to the rest of the outfits. Wait, wait, wait. What? Whoa, whoa. Can I get a 360 just for the heck of it? This guy. Okay. Please. One more time. One more time. I'm going slow this time. Yes. Please go slow. Yes. Yes. Woo. All right. Ready for this one? Your daddy's boy? Daddy's boy. This is daddy's boy. That's mommy's boy. Baby down. Okay. So this one's a 10. This is a 10? I love all white. I never wore all white before. I love all white.  Really? I like this a lot. How do you beat? That's how I beat low-key. But I like this. And this skirt is from Hilaera as well. Okay. Okay. Let me see. Let me see. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I really like this because it's poody. All right. It's pokey a little bit. And a lot of times I wear skirts and it doesn't cover my butt. But I like how it's short in the front right here. And it's nice and airy. And then you go to the back and it's a little longer. It's perfect coverage for me. These are really soft. Yeah. Really soft, silky smooth. I like this outfit, baby. Isn't it cute? I like it a lot. We should go play tennis after this. I just feel like super confident in this. I don't know. What is he doing? Oh, he's trying to get the blanket. Guys, he pushed the blanket off the bed and now he's lying on the floor. This is my favorite thing. I love when people do this. But specifically Hilaera, shout out to you for this. I love the V right here. Anything that I get, if it doesn't have a V, like it's kind of frustrating because the V gives you that nice cinched waist look. I just love it. And then even if I pull it down a little bit more, like my waist just looks so small and so tiny. Like it gives a nice illusion. So yeah, I love this. Like 10 out of 10 for me. I think we should skip tennis and just go straight into a family channel. Oh my gosh. That's what I'm saying. We have to get married first. That's fine. Oh no. Hurry up so we can start this family. All right. All right. I'm going to go into the next one. How many of us are there? I don't even know. So baby, do it right. Do it right. We can go all. What? You want to see? You sound so far, but yes, I'm ready. I'm closing my eyes. Okay. Ready? I'm going to go ahead and call this one Starburst. Starburst. This one Starburst.  However, nice, soft. Okay. Let me see. This one's very, very short in the back. This one kind of shows my booty a little bit. Okay. Well, don't show it. Yeah. This one doesn't have a lot of coverage, but... Go ahead. Keep talking. Don't worry about me. Baby. But yeah, I like this color, but this one doesn't have the V. I would prefer if it had the V, but it's a different brand. So... I'm going to give this one a 10 as well. 10 as well. I don't know. It's just something about a tennis outfit. I don't know. It looks hot. So I literally just started... I just discovered these.  I'm not going to lie. I wear basketball shorts and t-shirts all the time. So it's like, I want to embrace my femininity. So I'm like, I want to wear more skirts and stuff, but they were always uncomfortable. So I found stuff like this. I never knew tennis skirts existed. Like, I could wear shorts, and I could wear a skirt. And it's giving. What? What? I'm going to hold my comment. This is going to be something about getting pregnant, isn't it? It's revolving a family channel. Oh my goodness. You just look too good. You look too good. It's not my fault. You look too good. Thanks, babe. I know. Say that. One more outfit. Because I want to switch it up. I'm going to wear skirts and dress this whole video.  I'm ready for that. You are me. I'm ready for that. Yes, I am.  Yeah.  Oh. These are so cute. All right. We're going to call this one Ocean Eyes. Ocean Eyes? Like Billy? Ocean Eyes. Yes. We got the blue and the white. I love the color combo. One of my favorite color combos, honestly. Same. I like the headband. So you wear the headband. The whole... Okay. Okay. I'm going to give this one. Nine? And I'm going to tell you why I'm going to give it a nine. This is me being super picky. What? I can tell that the shirt and the pants are not a set. Obviously. I can tell. That's just me being picky. It's still a nine. Looks good. I'd still turn this into a family channel. Oh, my God. Okay. So, yeah. I'm going to give this one a nine. I really love the color combo. Nice. Soft. Let me see the 360. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes. I love it. All right. I really like these because it's double. Like, first of all, these are whites. Okay. These are females. With female stuff. It's so hard to find something that's nasty through that white. So, I'm trying this on. I'm like, hold on. Like, you can't see anything. I mean, this is a tagger here. You can't see literally anything underneath. And I have black underwear on. So, that's actually crazy. These are so comfortable. Like, I am shocked. These are from Herrera. These are from Herrera. And I'm like, dang. I need to go and buy like every color of these. They're so, so comfortable. I like those a lot. You think they got some in my size. Maybe. I don't know. I don't want to go. But yeah. So, that is what I got. I'm not going to lie. You nailed almost all of them. Every single one was a nine or above. Period. I didn't go to eights. I don't think so. Yeah, no. You nailed them. Good job. I like all of them. Thank you. Especially the color combos. Well, it's not anything that I did. Shout out to Herrera for knowing how to have something nice on my body. I'm just saying. We should go play tennis. Okay. So, you want to go play tennis after a video game? I don't got no tennis racket. Guys, she set her off camera.  Come here. What? I want to hug. I love your cuddles. Okay. All right, guys. So, that is it for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed the whole little try-on haul. Again, shout out to Herrera for sending out the amazing pieces. All of them look super comfy. And anything else you want to say? Oh. I'm about to be a wife. Yeah. Soon. So, that is it for today's video, guys. Again, if you guys like it, make sure you guys drop that like down below. And that's it. I'll see you guys in the next video.


Like I said earlier, when we look at where men are going to when they leave this country to find wives, they're not going to places with curvy women. If men were going to South Africa, I'd be like, you know what? You got it. Men are going to Thailand. Yeah, tiny. Petite women. So you're a very rational person, right?  Your fellow counterparts would think the same way. And to kind of give context to the question, we see a lot on podcasts or even in the comments of some videos that women over 25 who are still single, they're kind of like the leftover women. Something has to be wrong with them. And so they're already coming in with this stigma of what a woman is or is not based on her age. So going back to the question about women who are 28 plus, do you think that is something that is a legitimate concern that we should have, that we have a negative perspective? And I'll explain why. The fertility thing aside, I think the main concern, and I'm speaking as somebody who primarily, shoot, other than my daughter's mom, every woman I dated was older than me. What tends to happen with older women is they tend to be stuck in their ways. They tend to not be as malleable. They tend to not be as agreeable.   And I think in a lot of men's experiences, after women cross a certain age threshold, they're not as receptive to critique. They're not as willing to get on your program. She has her career. She's not about to follow you with yours. So when men are thinking from a long-term standpoint, do I want somebody who is going to be my help me? Or do I want somebody who's going to be like my older sister, or we're going to clash?  Because our default assumption is going to be that. And I think there's some default assumptions, like I talked about earlier, that women have a man that we as men need to care to. So similarly, yeah, most men are going to be like, okay, what's going on? Let's go, nobody, nobody tried that, you know what I'm saying, what's going on? So in understanding men's perspective and appreciating men's perspective, not necessarily you have to prove yourself, but you have to be mindful of it. Let's go ahead and have questions. You look good, and you did. What's going on? What's happening? Right? And I know women like that where honestly, it's just that she doesn't want it. That's the only reason it hasn't happened. I know other women, and I think this is the majority is they want to want it, but they don't really, really want it. They want to want it. They want the aesthetic, they want the benefits, but they want any of the responsibility that comes along with monogamy or long-term relationship. That's the only reason.  So it comes with self-awareness and being able to articulate it to yourself and to the guy, because he deserves to know, it's a fan, it's a fan. If you've been outside, it's fan of why you look good, and you 35, and nobody, like you're strong. Yeah. Yeah. It's like wanting the wedding, but not wanting the marriage. Come on out. They say. I think it's so much more layered than that though, and it's like, I understand that I think those are valid things that happen. Let's peel them back. Let's peel them back. Let's go. You talked about my video, and so, I mean, I think abandonment issues are a very valid thing, right? And I think what is happening with this generation of women, millennials, maybe even a generation before that is that we're seeing the full after effects of having a broken family dynamic. And so that's different than some of the things that we compare to in the past with our grandparents and things like that. And so one of the characteristics of women who have abandonment issues is that they subconsciously seek men who are emotionally unavailable. So going back to what you were saying about wanting the six-figure guy who's the asshole versus the nice guy, and you kind of overlook him, I think a lot of that is rooted in what we're seeing as well. So it can't just be discounted as she doesn't really want it. Maybe she does, but she needs to uncover the reason why she's moving in that way. I agree completely. From the perspective of the guy, especially the guy who, like most of us isn't a psychology nerd, they're going to stop it. She doesn't really want it, right? Especially if I have an alternative woman that does want it and is willing to, because my biggest thing has always been its value, right? Because black women at scale understand who they need to become to get a job at Google. They understand who they need to become to get into corporate America, get into HR, get into entrepreneurship, whatever the case may be. And they're willing to contort and conform themselves to the requirements of the industry that they're interested in. But when it comes to a man, it seems to be the case that no, that industry should conform to me. The man should conform to me.  Because at the end of the day, why would I conform to you when if somebody pulls out a gun, I'm supposed to jump in front of it for you? So if you're not willing to listen to me, I can't protect you. And it seems to be the case that women who are over a certain threshold are less willing to listen. So for a man who's done all the things to get all the sixes, it doesn't look like a good proposition, so let's use the job analogy. It's part of the reason why some companies now are moving away from hiring 10-year people. And they're going towards like college students, because they're more maleable. You know, I don't have to. But this is what I worked in banking. The company I was working for started an initiative to actually train people on how to become mortgage loan officers. And one of the instructors told us that some of the more seasoned people in this industry, people who were loan officers in 2008, they're jaded. And they have a lot of baked in bad habits that they're unwilling to part with because they worked for them at some point. But you guys are a fresh, brand new slate, and we can actually shape you in the way we want you to go. Men see women this exact same way. So if you see value in the men and understanding men, you must be willing to compete in, you know, so you can still get a job as a loan officer being old, but you have to show that you're not jaded. Yeah, you know what I mean? And you can only do that if you see value in that job. Okay, so what are some of the ways that a woman can and should compete for a man? I think number one, you have to identify the type of man you are. And you have to identify why you want him, right? And it some of it can be superficial.  Same with men, right? Like she's bad, but like as somebody who's dated bad women, after a while, she just looks normal to you.  And he was telling me, he was like, man, the last time I remember that I had this car was when my homeboy asked me to drive it around the block.  But he's been driving it so long, you forget. So like, you know, to take it deeper, it's called the Hedonic Treadmill, Hedonic Adaptation. We are going to get used to how you look. Similarly, the woman, you're going to get used to his beardedness and the whole nine. So are you prioritizing the things that are going to last past that phase of being infatuated with his aesthetic?  Then number one, I think you will start opportunities that you might have entertained before might not, you might not identify them anymore and opportunities that you might have overlooked before you might now be able to identify them. There are a lot of women, a good man could be standing right in front of them, they will know they don't even see him because he's not at least my height or taller, right? Or he's not wearing whatever the fuck, right? So so I think after that is just a matter of continuing to do the work and just power these men. That's it. That's that's that's really it. Because to your point, you have a Steve. She has a Steve and maybe Steve is for you. Maybe he's not, but there's some other steams that you've been overlooking as well.  Oh, yeah, this is that. And you just blacked your blessing. OK, get that 100 percent. You don't think men do that too, though. And I understand that you got physical apparent. Absolutely. But that's the same thing if a woman is to overweight or if she isn't as curvy as you like, she could be a woman of value in so many other ways. And so I think it's something that we both struggle with. I would say women were so the men only because. Like I said, early when we look at where men are going to when they leave this country to find a watch, they're not going to places with curvy women. If men were going to South Africa, I'd be like, you know what, you got it. Men are going to Thailand. Yeah, tiny, a T2 of it.  Yeah, we have to.  In my gaining an understanding of women, I've realized over the years what women say they want and what they actually want are necessarily the same thing for men who a man would more quickly sleep with versus who he's going to marry. Not the same thing, right? Not the same thing. And I think one of the things that we're failing at as a community is. I think our women are prioritizing being chosen first instead of being chosen last. That sounds counterintuitive as a motherfucker, but like you want to be chosen last, not first. Like there was a woman, I think on Tiktok, she she made a video talking about why do men always settle down with like playing games. Like the gas, I was thinking of, yeah. Talk to men, they'll tell you. I'm looking for a grandmother to my future grandchildren.   I know what that comes with. I don't want that. That's cool to finish.  So again, like, are you playing basketball or are you playing handball?


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