Let's do some questions. This ought to be good. Hi, how's it going? Dave, that's a great question. Dave, that's the question of the day. One moon at this point. At this point, I'll just take just a small low orbit atmosphere, quite honestly. That'd be good. Let me put on my nerd glasses. The glasses aren't for telling me. See, it's to stop me from getting headaches. I'm on my computer like all the time. Ah, let it rip, damn. Now this is a great question. Cubby tie. Just call a DCA and don't let Ben now. Ben, look, Ben's a smart guy. James is a smart guy. They're both really smart guys. And they have their theories about what's happening and which way they want to do it. Actually, the last DCA, me and Ben said that we had too much risk and James said I didn't have enough risk. So there's always different philosophies. But I think the outcome is, of course, gains. The question is how many and how much and the percentage of gains. That's the big thing. So for me, I just try to be a little bit more conservative. And that's what I do. So this is probably not it. So yeah. Yes, Dan does the news, Rob does the Q and A. Yeah. So like reverse Superman, I put the glasses back on. Money says, Rob, I don't have a question. I just want to thank you for sharing. Thank you. Appreciate it. Disagreeing is okay. Kirk says, hello from South America. Do you feel we're going into crypto winter? Sure feels like it, doesn't it? Feels like it almost feels like 2018, but not really. Because in 2018, we went from 20 to 5,000. So we're like a 75% drop. So 69 to 30. Well, it's getting, it's not 75%, but it's getting close to it. So we'll see. Oh, that's a great question. So P. Kelly says, Rob, when I trust capital staking, fantastic question. And it's something that I am going to address with them when I go to consensus in Austin in two weeks. So if you're in the Austin area to stop by, we're going to do a meet and greet with iTrust someplace. I don't know. But that's the big question. You can bombard them with that same question because I'm going to do the same thing. Damn, I'd really like to have staking in my Roth IRA because imagine this.  I think they have Solana now. I'm not for sure. You stake it. The rewards that you get just go into your Roth IRA and there's no tax on it. Zip, zilch, nothing. That would be pretty smooth. But I don't know when. Because I've already asked them personally. They're like, Q3? Yes, exactly. I do look like the near one casino. It's not as robust as that guy was. Question, when bottom? Nobody knows. We can make some pretty good guesses, but who knows? I think this is the real beauty of dollar cross averaging. But you've got to be aware, like let me show you something. So here's my favorite example. First of all, XRP would have done a heck of a lot better if it wasn't for the SEC. They really screwed them. All right. So this is Cardano and I remember buying Cardano at 74 cents and I'm around a dollar. I can't remember. And then I bought it for like, it wasn't 60. Like 30 some cents. I thought that was a genius. And it just kept going down and down and down. But the thing was is that I was buying like, at first I was buying every day. Then as things went crazy, I started to buy every week. I didn't know. And I started to really figure out about DCA. And I started to buy every two weeks. And I just kept it like that. So it didn't hit rock, rock bottom. January, February, March. Well, this was 16 cents. I don't remember. I remember stopping because I kind of got so ticked off. And then I remember buying it around seven, six, seven cents and we're on there. Yeah. We're on here. So after the summer, no, I remember buying at nine cents. So yeah. So like the, so the thing was you can keep buying here and your cost basis will keep going down. The thing is, is that, you know, how do you have this in you to do this? I mean, I did because I thought it was a, now, and remember, I'm not, I didn't dollar cost average every single day or every single week.  I'm like, I just don't, don't believe in this. And then I would come back and there would be some kind of update and we would talk about it. And okay, I can see it. And I can go from here. And then you just kind of see what's happened in the ecosystem. And then you just kind of hold on and go, well, I'm not going to sell. I think it's going to do pretty well.  So imagine all this time to dollar cost average. It's the same thing with Bitcoin. I mean, if you think about it, I mean, Bitcoin, these are the sweet thing of Bitcoin was buying around here. And remember, if you can see this at the $600, it's all, it looks flat, right? But remember, when it was like 10 bucks, 600 bucks looked ridiculous, ridiculous. And then of course, this is 2017. Doesn't look paltry and goofy, but that was the big time, baby. And then of course, now we're all over here. So it just depends on how long you want to be here. I don't think you can make it overnight. Maybe, I don't know, all right. Now let's see what else we got. Sorry. I'm here for the long term as long as the funds allow it. Yes, exactly. And that's the thing, right? Because like, here's another great, great thing. I was listening to, but it all comes down to you, right? Like if you, if it was me, and I didn't have a lot of different revenue coming in, this would be a tough gambit to say, well, I want to spend, you know, 30,000 a month on crypto or whatever. That'd be very difficult, let's be honest, or 20,000 or 10,000 or 5,000 or 1,000 or whatever else. So really it's like, well, how much do I have to invest? And am I okay with it going down to 90% or losing everything? Because you're only supposed to invest what you can afford to lose, right? So if that's the truth, then, and you say, well, I've got a, I got a five, I got a three, I got a two, three, five and 10 year horizon. Probably do get away with a lot more stuff. But if you're like, I need money in six months, that's called a payday loan. And that's, that's highway robbery. But you know, you have to think about where do you want to be? So everybody's different. Like that's the thing. Like it's, it's hard to talk to every single person because there's so many different people and they're all in different parts of their lives. So I can just tell you what I've done and what I continue to do. So like, I would not be investing a thousand bucks a day into crypto. That'd be crazy if you make 2,000 a month, just saying. Look at that. I'd like to go, I have not. And then the pool man, the pool man, I took profit for a while ago, and now I'm riding the free run. Love from nowhere. That's great. And that's another big, that's another big metric or action that we're going to be talking about a lot, which is in the past, when there was some pretty good runs, I would talk about, you know, I would say, hey, you know, I've been holding for quite some time, maybe hold up longer from now on out. I'm going to remind everybody that if you need to take profits or want to take profits, remember to take those profits. Because as time goes on, it's really nice to have that fresh powder on the sidelines and you don't feel that stress. So I'll be talking about that a lot. And I'll be taking, I'll be doing a little better job of taking profits. That's right. Yeah. So Minnesota loves you, Roberto. Thanks, Verdi. I appreciate it. That's a good question. Let me start that. I'll get to you in a second. Damn, everything keeps moving so fast. Countries are adopting Bitcoin and yowzer, doinkus source. That's funny. That's 100% true. Countries are adopting Bitcoin, looking at ways to actually use it. The real question is, I mean, it was a nice boost for El Salvador over different countries. But in all honesty, I think really what it's going to come down to is the people, are the people going to adopt it? I know we talked about Bitcoin Beach, how great it is, but there's some data that comes out of it. As rosy and fantastic as we'd like it to be. So I just want to see more people adopt it. I think lightning is a pretty good one as far as payments. And more rails would be nice, but I think the more important thing is more education. That's me. All right. Yeah, smart. Sims says I do 30 bucks a day. Great. Why not? Here's another thing. Think about it this way. If you're buying 25 bucks of Cardano at a dime every single day, or if you're buying Cardano at a dime at 25 bucks every week, and you put in, let me do some quick math, it's four, that's a hundred bucks. So just kidding. I got to tell, I got to say, for now I got to say I'm just kidding.  Okay. So imagine buying $25 and it's a dime and you do that for three years. Not bad.  Still pretty good. Just saying. All right. Ah, that's a good question. Keith Jones. That's a good name. Good afternoon. 50k to invest in Bitcoin or property. If there's places where you can buy property for 50,000, just saying. Land is not a bad option, especially on the different parts of town. I would go to City Hall and take a look at, what are those tamp forms called? Perspective, something where they take a look at the different land that is out for bid for commercial use and the ones that are on the outskirts of wherever you're at and take a look at the bids that are being placed. If you can see those on something you can't, something you can't. And just go, wow, I think I should go in that area. That's a little bit more. More than you want to know. Land is always, in my opinion, a pretty good option if you sit on it for quite some time. And it usually appreciates pretty decently. We've had land on the outskirts of El Paso where we bought it for 50. And in two years it was 160. So I mean, not bad, right? And all you got to do is sit in it. But remember, these are strange times because the property value went up so high and of course there was super inflation, honestly. 8.5%. So answer your question. 50K in Bitcoin or property? If it's me, I'm doing the smart thing. And the smart thing is to diversify and not be like, I'm putting it all in on take your pick or whatever else it is. And we just saw this project, which I'm going to stop talking about, that went to zero. And people thought it was going to, 500 bucks in no time. So to do that is just a bad mistake. So diversify. So maybe put a little bit into the crypto. Maybe you want to put something into land or maybe if you have a business, you want to start investing into your business by taking that and putting into whatever upgrades that you can do or marketing. I always like marketing because that's what brings people in. And that's it. Or the best thing is just invest in yourself. But 50K in yourself is a lot of money. Nah, it's not. That's not true. So to answer your question, diversify. You can't just put in Bitcoin or property. I would do a little bit of both just to be safe. The bum tents in California greater than 50K. You guys still having a problem with homelessness over there? I hear. I just hear that in the news. I can't trust the news, though. Tell me if that's true or not. Yeah, 2112 crypto 50K diversify it. Everyone says diversify so much you have people still on. I got to tell you that thing, that diversification saved me. I was pretty angry when I had to...  Because I was like, ah, because we couldn't get a loan. Because the owners didn't want to do a loan. They wanted straight cash. So we had to do straight cash and just worked out. Everything happens for a reason when it's supposed to happen, I guess. So that's diversifying. It works out great. And that house is now being rented on Airbnb and Verbal. And it does pretty well. See, that's the thing. People don't like living... People don't like having other people live in their house. But for me, it's just a house. Whatever I'm at is home. It doesn't matter to me. I think it's just... I mean, when I was in the military, it was just wherever we were at. That's where it was. Didn't matter. And RJ... Thanks, RJ. There's nothing positive right now, but when there's blood in the streets. You know, I think there's positive. There's positiveness all around us. Just like... And people like, ah, Jim Cramer. But Jim Cramer had a pretty good quote. He said, there's a bull run happening somewhere. He's right. There's always something going on even in the downturn. Just a little bit harder to find. So positive right now. I just... I see so many of these institutions getting in. Oh, speaking of which, I'm going to talk to... I talked to somebody on... I can't tell you. Forget it. So, yeah, nothing. I'll tell everybody on Saturday. But I mean, I still... I see some positive. If you look, it's not like 2017. The roads are... The roads are really built in. In 2017, this stuff... Crypto wasn't on MSNBC all the time, or CNN, or Fox, or wherever else. He didn't have people getting interviewed on these major publications. He didn't have big, huge... I mean, multiple banks getting into it. He didn't have the Federal Reserve actually making statements about it. I mean, Jerome Powell came out what, six months ago, and they asked him, point blank, in Congress, is it your intention to ban Bitcoin and cryptocurrency? And he said, no, it's not our intention to do that. And of course, he's right because he's the Federal Reserve. He can't ban anything. So, I mean, I think there's good news all around. Now, there's also bad news, and that's why I try to give up both sides of the story. For every good... For every light, it's a little bit dark, and that's just how it is. And it's up to you to balance that out. Yeah, that's nice. Charles says miners are very interesting and very positive about the space and future. Well, that's true because people keep building Bitcoin miners all over the place, and especially here in Texas. So, if you're just looking for like... It'd be like this, like, I don't know, building an ice factory in Antarctica. No one would do that. We have plenty of ice. We don't need your ice. But so, that would be a waste of time, right? So, if you're putting in the infrastructure, tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars for infrastructure to build a mining operation in West Texas, which is where a lot of places are coming, and actually Georgia, which is crazy. It's not like they haven't done their economic studies to see if this is actually a viable business. They're going full force. So, it gives me a little bit of positive think. That could be a positive. Ah, okay. So, Chikabau says, Chikabau, bow. Do you think cause of the lengthening cycles will be having less gains in the market? Because that is what has been happening since 2013. And that's true. We have seen less as far as like, you know, 100x, 10x, 3x types of gains. Top all coins never did a bull cycle compared to the Tuesdays. So, to... First of all, the lengthening cycles even then talks about it. And he says, you know, it's... If we're looking at that, he says it's invalidated at this point. Because it doesn't really make sense of where we're going. We're going back into a bear market, potentially into a crypto winter, and then we go out the other end for another, hopefully, parabolic bull run. So, lengthening cycles and diminishing... I think the real question is diminishing returns. And we can see this plain as day. And right now, so what I'm talking about is, I mean, from $14 to $1,000, that's a pretty big, huge number. From $300 to $20,000, it's pretty good, right? Not too bad. But from $5,000, although $5,000 to $67,000, of course, it is a little bit... A diminished return from what it is right there. But who knows? I mean, if people are right, and we see that Bitcoin goes to $150,000, $200,000 in 2025, I don't know, no clue. I don't want to get any predictions.  That's the question. So, do I think it diminishing returns right now? That's why Bitcoin is a safer option for me. If they're in the safer option for me, I don't think they're going to hit that merge in August. Sorry, don't. I think it'll be delayed until probably next year, hopefully. But those are the two of the safest ones, in my opinion. And then, of course, there's other ones that...  I do these DGEN plays. So, I have a second channel for that, and I've only done three so far. And the thing that... I just built it around one thesis, which is how big is their community that they're bringing into it? If you can find that the community is already built out, millions of people already before they get into crypto, then it's pretty much slam dunk. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see the channel. Which one is more potential? Algo or ADA? The problem with Algo is some of their tokenomics are just not the greatest, and then their supply is pretty damn high. But so is Cardano. But the thing with both of those, they've got some pretty big things in Algo lined up. I just read a story today about taking payments, some part in Africa. It's going to be built on Algo as far as the rails. And then also, there was a partnership with... I want to say not in Colombia, either Paramount or Columbia, some recording artists that have like Kanye West and Taylor Swift. And they're building out in this old, I don't know if you guys remember this, called Lime Wire. And that's another type of project that already has millions built into it as far as fans. All they have to do is just, the marketing's already there. So with Algo, I think it's pretty good. Now, Cardano, every time people start sleeping on Cardano, that's the one where it just kind of roars back and says, nope, here we are. And our community's strong and they love us and it's going to keep going up. And then of course, we'll see. I'm hopeful. That's why I don't hold just Cardano or Algo. I hold them both. Don't pass on Ada. Yeah. Soccer teams, invest in both. Divi. So Divi, it's a pretty good project. I met the founder and CEO in Puerto Rico. Got introduced to him from some crypto OGs down there. And it's a pretty, actually I have Divi on my phone. And it's a text message based, I mean, it's a blockchain, but you use most of it in text messages. You can send it. It's very simple. It's very easy. It just needs the right breakout and the right fit. And we'll see. But I think they signed a contract with one of the premier soccer leagues in Europe. So we'll see how that one goes. Let's go to Charles. Oh, that's pretty cool. I've fallen in love with Ergo. The community is amazing. The product is beyond impressive. I'd love your thoughts. I'll take a look. Don't let me know about it. We're still early. Demetri says it right. We're still early. How can I be a bearish? It's very easy because I think the expectations were high. And we didn't meet those expectations in 2021 for this blow off top. Just didn't. And I think people got like, damn it. So they were looking for the next thing and the next thing. And I think people got caught up in some pretty bad, yeah, bad projects. And then that was it. And I don't think people really... Actually, I can't speak for anybody. I have no idea what happened. As far as what people's thoughts were, I can just guess. But there's a lot of issues going on. And I know this is the most unpopular opinion of all time, but it's still my opinion. And it's the most unpopular one. But I still say we need a little regulation. Tell me what a security is, what a commodity is, what a currency is, what you define that as. And then we go from there. Also, if you want audits for stable coins, I got no problems with that. If you say it's backed up and do your audits, it's fine. Maybe this wouldn't happen, but it was an algorithmic. It doesn't matter. Tell it to meet you to talk to Ben. Healthy tips, how do you maintain? Intermittent fasting. Intermittent fasting, creatine, stay active. Cold therapy. Jump in this pool every day. It's like 65 degrees all the time. And then in the winter, it's really cold. And then don't get too caught up like I did today. Man, I really got ticked off. But everybody's real estate-backed tokens? I don't know if that's a good idea, because I mean, how liquid is that? How liquid is real estate? I mean, it's backed by it. But we saw what I am with the algorithm. Like if you needed the liquidity, how are you going to get it? I don't like that at all. Yeah, there we go. Too much regulatory uncertainty is the cause. Could be. Could be. People in the space hate regulation, because they say there should be no regulation. But I'm tired of not growing up and just saying, if you're a Bitcoin maxi, you don't need regulation. You're just like, it's Bitcoin. That's it. That's all. And what are the people would want? Because they don't really care. They're like, this is what we use. This is what we know. And everybody's going to be built on this. So I don't care if it takes 20 to 50 to 100 years. That's cool. And it's great for generational wealth. But it would be nice for it to go up a little bit faster than what it is right now. And although it does go up just fine. I mean, if we want the problem is it's a double-edged sword. If we want these institutions to come in, we need regulation. The problem with institutions is manipulation. And when they come in, you see what happens with the commodities and precious metals. So just be aware that's what it is. That's why I just, I think just buying slowly is better than going all in. Just me. Ah, so here's a great question from Sasha. A sweat coin question. How are you planning to deal with USA Band from opting into a sweat crypto? So here's the thing. I've been talking about sweat coin for quite some time. Not financial advice, but it's a free app that's been around for four years that you get. It's an app, stick on your phone, and it just tracks your steps. Like your Fitbit, but it's on your phone. And for every thousand steps, you get a sweat coin. And what can you do with that? We can go to their little marketplace because they teamed up with Apple and some other big companies. And you can buy little things.  You know what I mean? So what they're doing is they've already been around for years. They have 65 million users. And then they're going to switch over to move to earn crypto called sweat token. And that's going to come out, I think, Q3. And the great thing is, if you don't live in the United States, or China, whatever sweat tokens that you have in your phone, like I've got a bunch. Let me show you something. Hold on real quick. Quick, cancel, file, do, do, do, do, do, do. I won't do it. Sorry. So I was going to show you my phone, but I can't get the thing pulled up. Anyhow, if you're outside of the United States, you can, you will, every sweat token that you have, like I have like 2,000 sweat coins, right? It's going to give me, for the sweat, like it's like a rewards token, they're going to give me a sweat coin or a sweat token, whatever else it is in crypto. And it's going to be a one-to-one swap. It's going to be the biggest, and it is, it's going to be the biggest token generation of energy in crypto history.  So they say, okay, fine. See, no regular, there's no certainty. So they're like, it's ambiguous. We don't want to deal with it. And you know, he may think it is, but no one has said it is. And we don't want, that's what we need certainty, I think. So we're going to bypass China and America and some other countries who are on the sanctions list. Sucks. So how am I going to get around that? What I'm going to do is I'm just going to keep walking because I keep getting these tokens, which is fun. And I'm just going to keep it around until they do approve it in America, and then go from there. So that's what I got. If you want to do it another way, if you have family, actually no, you can't even do that. Because I'm going to say, if you have family outside of the country, you could do it, but it's based on your geolocation. So sorry, that's it. But I did have a little competition going. You can download that Sweatcoin app, the links in the description.  And if you beat me, the top three people who do beat me, I'll do a portfolio review for them live on the show. And that'll start in June. I'll tell you all about it later. Oh, so hey, Rob, you see a point where we get rid of USD, pounds, euros, et cetera, and just use Bitcoin and the digital asset without involving the authorities and governments. I mean, that was the plan in the beginning. That was the whole thing. That was the whole reason why Bitcoin was created in 2000, but because of the 2008 financial crash. So would I think that it could happen? It could happen. Probably, I don't think it's going to happen in my lifetime. But I mean, look, who knows, technology moves pretty fast, but I just don't, it's hard to comprehend because it's never, you can't really see it. I mean, I could, I can envision it, but it takes so much, it's just, you know, like, like how that work as far as fluctuations and prices, as far as like, because there would be no manipulation. And of course you have, you know, 100 million Satoshis for everyone, Bitcoin. So there's enough on the planet, but then how would, we need a pretty great, I mean, Lightning network was great, but as far as like a layer two solution, we can't just use the Bitcoin core layer as transaction. It doesn't work like, it just, it can't work like that. It needs a layer two, but could it be? Sure, but who knows? Sure, you're welcome. Yeah, Jennifer does mine. Bitcoin Genesis Block, the very first one. 7,400 steps. Sound up, I was kidding. Let's see. Whoops. Have not beat you. I have 5,800. Gotta start stepping. Okay. Rob, wouldn't you want to swap your all coins with Bitcoin right now? Bitcoin dominance is pumping. You could, you could swap them all and just put them all into Bitcoin and then let it go up and up and up and get out of Bitcoin as soon as it is. And that's a strategy you can try. I'm just not going to do it. And of course, when you look at it, you're like, well, it could happen. Yeah, it could. Bitcoin could, the dominance could go up. What are we at? 44, 45% as far as Bitcoin dominance? I think we're, we're looking at going even higher as all the different junk goes out. So I'm just not going to do it because this time goes on. I mean, you can play it. That's the thing. Like you can do this and, and be on the and check out charts all day long and take a look at the, the, the news as far as the macro environment and just judge everything and set your stop loss and all that stuff. And it's going to trade around. But then you just say, you know what? I just want to just make it simple, simple for me, set a DCA every week and just go from there. Like I'll tell you this Bitcoin theorem gets bought every single day. I don't do anything. It's just it happens in the background with my Voyager app. How you feeling about Celsius?  I want to say it was 1.15 billion and that wasn't for me. If you look on the Twitter, if you look on their website and also look on their Twitter feed, you'll see it like the inflows was, I want to say 30 million and the outflows was 1.15 billion. So that's not a good start, but I can understand why because everybody was pretty ticked off at the credit investor issue. Don't do that. And I think that's it. Make sure I, good question. Christopher, last question. Do you invest in index funds? I don't. I buy just for equities, stocks. I just buy Amazon because I have an Amazon FBA, so I know the inner workings and I like how that is doing so far. It's pretty good. I like Mara, Mara stock. I've got, I actually bought, I have Tesla, but I had that for a while. I haven't really added too much to that. That's pretty much about it. But an index fund, which would probably be the safest option, I just don't. Nice. Okay. And lastly, lastly, Rob, you still believe in Voyager for the long term. You think a lot of benefits with the loyalty program. I still believe in a long term. I mean, it's my favorite app to use. I know some people will say, well, I like crypto.com. All right. I like Coinbase Pro. Sure. I just like Voyagers. Intuitively, it's very easy for me. So as far as like the VGX token, it all depends on, well, a couple of things. That loyalty program, if they can really kick it out and really make it work well. One, that debit card, they're rolling that out and that it has to, hopefully they get that and the master card and also the ability to trade stocks on their platform, which is weird because they've been working so hard for it. And FTX come out of gate and says, hey, we already, we already are doing it and we've rolled it out to US customers. I select few and they're trialing it right now.  But it is, maybe it'll come out. And then of course, the last thing is, they have to expand into Canada and Europe. But they can do all those, all those things, which I had seen on the show and he said it should happen before 2023 rolls around, which is looking at six more months. I think it should do pretty well. That's it. So look, that's an hour. So I want to say thanks for sticking with me. I appreciate it. If you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up. Also consider subscribing. So we probably just took a little dip. And that is it. So thanks so much for today. I appreciate it. And I'll see you guys on the next one. Adios.


Oh, this is so cool! I wanna pet it! Crush! Hello! Hello everyone and welcome to, I think it's Time Travel VR I think it's a VR game where you go back in time and that's all I really need to know to want to play it! So, let's not waste any more time and jump straight into it Oh, we're doing the tutorial, that's very portalesque, isn't it? Ooh! So, yeah, always a pain in the arse to set this up But hopefully it's working okay Oh! Oh, okay Yeah! Huge doors! I don't like how he said, all humans are somewhere else They're all dead, you're the only one and you're not even human because you've got hands like this Very nice, no, that's not a UK Ooh, I'd love that in my house It's that big plant pot with everything in it Pew-de-pew-de-pew, marvelous! Look, where's the elevator? Oh yeah, sorry, so if you guys are like, I'll try not to like, flash and constantly teleport Ooh, what's this? Locked, locked, locked, are these all the different time zones? Woo! Okay Please insert a car key, well, um... Okay, well, I guess I'm just gonna go and... over to here Okay, hello Oh, wait, what? Oh, do I turn? What is that? Click And I turn left Oh, okay, so if I want to just turn around, well that's why I've got a VR, my friend, I don't need to do that Oh my god, what? What is this? Oh! To scan it, oh, to take a picture Okay, what? Oh, oh, ooh! Can I put that back now? Can I put that down? I don't want it anymore! Get rid of it! Ah! Hello? Hi! How you doing? I'm trying to like, get rid of this Do you know how to get rid of this? Ah! Get off! Bloody hell! Yeah! Okay, hello? How you doing? Can I not walk? Okay Well, are you coming with me? I don't even know where I'm going I'm afraid Where am I going? What's this? This looks to be a fountain No? Ooh! Shiny Are you like a slime? Where are you? What are you? Okay, well, oh, oh Oh, well, well, there's something you don't see every day, isn't it? Inverted water fountain, fantastic Creature scan required, that's locked Okay, I'm noticing a pattern here Everything seems to be locked Do you know what do I do? Can I come? Hello? What? Where are the dinosaurs? Where are they? And you do that And there you go There's another picture, there's another picture Can I, can I please, can I, can I please begin my adventure? What do we do? I have the gems Me and my girls are gem friends Gem, gem is my name Is this it? Oh, I did it No thanks to you Couldn't have told me this would only to be Hello? Mrs. Orb? Where are we going? Would you mind telling me? I have literally no idea Ooh Oh, I should also say this game costs like 27 quid Which is actually quite a lot And it was 9 gig So I'm expecting great things There we are How should I say? To the Triassic era We are still near the location of the museum This is what our parking lot looked like a long, long time ago Yes Yes I'm here, ooh It's one thing I've, ooh, what is this? What is this thing? This is a bio-analysis panel All bed for short It helps you find out more about the animals around you Oh, okay There was an Ammonite over here Ammonite, you need a shine Is that it?  Only three years? All right Well, can I put you down there? Like with those things? Or do I just, I'm just going to have to leave it, okay And that's kind of not like hold it constantly Oh no, it is, awesome Look at you Phasing into the floor Okay Uh, ooh, well let's go see what else phases into the floor, shall we? Oh, do I want to take a picture of these things? Hold on An Ammonite that big What? Down here? What are you? Oh my God, it's been scaled up It is big, isn't it? Hold on I want to take a picture I want to take a picture Ha ha Is that it?  Kind of done a little bit more with like the movement, I think But it looks cool There's a lot of these games that are kind of like this, aren't they? Um, what's it say do I have? Is this just a regular one, is it? Yeah, it's just a regular Ammonite Thought so You're going to leave it alone Pretty sure Ammonites didn't travel forward Not, I think they were a propulsion system, weren't they? It's inaccurate Oh, oh, we're learning new discoveries Ammonites could phase through sand And also swim forward Woo A trilobite Is it a trilobite?  Can I see what those things are? Oh Brambodus Lives for 10 years, you do That's impressive for a fish How about these guys? No, no He he he My thing Get flashbacks of Robinson again Xenocanthus Oh, you like orthocanthus Orthocanthus Cool OK, well, shall we continue going? Or is that everything? I can see some ammonite hiding in there Ooh I'm going to get back into my bathosphere Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what is this? Ah, this neck blossom It will make an adorable little snack That you can take for any creature you meet on the tour Oh, OK Who shall we feed?  Not going to eat? No, OK, well, apparently not OK, well, let's I'm going to get the bio to your tools Already set our next destination Already? Anybody? No, nobody Nobody fancy a gummy?  No, no, no, no, no Stay outside Off we go Up, down, up, down Forgot to do a sink test Oh, always helpful Oh So that was a triassic period, right? Oh, oh, oh, hello Aha, a land Dinosaurs, yes Let's go You mean forward from where we were, right? From present, yes But we were in the triassic period, right? Oh, that is cool Easy does it Easy Oh I see dinosaurs Hold on, we must scan our dinosaur fellows Oh, did I get it? Dryosaurus, 25 years of tonight's kilograms Hello Why am I looking at you when I could be looking at the real thing? Hold on, hold on Do you want some food? Look, look, look what I can make Are you ready? It's another jelly dinosaur Does anybody want it? Anyone? Oh, my, oh, my God I'm being flooded by babies What's going on? Does anybody want it? Anybody want it? You want it? Yes? No, no Hello Oh, my God, can I just sit down?  I make a lovely snack for you And you're not interested at all? No Oh, I know what you want Photo There we go, everyone for photo? No, well, there we go Okay, cool I guess I'll get up now Didn't really look like I could do much with them But it's cool how they can run around Oh, my God Okay Ah! Oh, so much deja vu I didn't do this with Robinson though Because he's on the PS4 and I wasn't standing Yeah Yes, look at me I'm a regular Indiana Jones Try to look around to see where to go next I don't need to do it So you want me to climb? Oh, yes Maybe Ah!  I don't know Climb close to the ground before letting go Okay Well, I think I am on the floor, aren't I? Yeah Pretty, very pretty I guess we scale the log All the way And then climb a little bit more Go over here Oh, it's a good... Oh, climbing trees Oh, really? You're not wanting me to go over there, are you? Oh, no, I did it Ah, really, I'm on the... Whoa, that was weird Okay, okay Am I supposed to just climb on this branch? Ah, that would make much more sense Can I like... Oh, yeah Oh, you can do that way Maybe this is the way you're supposed to do it Yeah Ready? Yeah Yeah Yeah Ah, no, no Oh, come on I was just having a little bit of fun Oh, this reminds me of...    Ah, really? Where do I go now? Oh, do I go down? I was so freaking close You kidding me? Yup I have to climb up another tree Ha ha ha All right Up another one Oh god, don't fall I'm climbing all the way up Feel like...  It's like glitching out on me Is it trying to load at the same time? Oh, what? What?  Can I not? Like, I know I need to go down there Wait, what? Oh, do I climb this?  Can I not just teleport down? Do I really have to crouch? Are you kidding me? Like... Okay Like, I... Ah! This is... Ah, it's so weird! Yeah, it's easy when you can fly Oh yeah, I knew I needed to be here Wait, which way do I go? Am I free? Oh no! Don't tell me that I've... Wait, I didn't have to do this at all? What? Where am I going? Yep, there it is Found the path There we go Got it Yep Yep Yep Yep, would you believe, here it is This is the solidified plasma link You can use it to travel down the fence Oh, okay Does it teleport up to... Yeah, there we go Okay, right, well I'm going to go for the highest, obviously Because I'm an adventurer It just takes a little while to get up there, I think All right All right Oh YOLO You only live once? How do I get up? How do I get higher? Ah Yes Of the tallest tree of the tallest tower Oh, there it is Oop All right, grab on to the nobles The knobbly tree warts Yes Come on Oof Are we there? Yes Can I fall? Woohoo, yes All right then Let's work out, son See how it unfolds Okay If you're feeling dizzy from the zip lining Our team of medical experts Ask me to tell you to look at your hands This will help you to stay balanced All right then Wha? Okay Oh, wait, where there was steps?  Interesting So You haven't been meddling, have you? This was all here when you arrived, right? Haven't changed the past or anything, okay You kidding me, really? Oh Come on, it was like Like an easy fall down there Up, yes All the way Woo, we're in like a red forest Redwood That's cool Oh, we got more little trios Hey, buddy How you doing? Are you guys hungry? Will you eat? I'm making more gummy dinosaurs If you're interested Anybody want a gummy dinosaur? Gummy dinosaur?  Yes To the platform Oh, how about a highlight of this tour?  Just by itself? Oh, God, I don't like the way it's looking at me Oh, no, there's more Okay Oh my God It's got slidey feet So is this supposed to be a depoticus? It looks very walking with dinosaurs' esk Oh, God, what is that? Is that the wall? Oh, I'm touching the wall Here Okay, off it goes Hello? I have food Would you eat a gummy?  I've never fed one of these things How do I I don't know how to let the food go That's the problem There we go Come on Yes Yes I have achieved greatness Ha ha ha ha Do you want one as well? Do you want one? You want one?  I'm poking the wall I can't get any close There we go Oh, there's a little barber Hello Are they moving on now?  Proud of yourself? No What? Well, I cannot contact the emergency time machine Without it, we cannot go home Okay Looks like it's up to us now I will open the mail Really?   So am I supposed to make the top the same as the bottom? Is that it? Did I? Did I do it? I don't even know what I was doing So, okay Oh, all right Where does this go?  Yeah, there we go I did this last time And I thought I was safe to jump off at the end But when I jumped off It went white screen And guess where I ended up? Freaking back there Ha ha ha Okay Is there an easy way? Oh, there is There's little ladders down You should be able to fall up for it It's not really that far Like, look, see Okay Ta-ta-ta Oh, no, put that away Ta-ta-ta-ta Can I fall from that? There we go Now, how do we get back again? This is the Jurassic, right? Where's the carnivores? So many Oh, I was going to say thank you Please let me go down there Are you all right, buddy? All right Let me just grab your tail Are they all just in the... Is there another one in here? Is there another one? No? Okay, well, we'll just leave him there, right? Yes None of our meddling No, no, no Not nothing to do with us Of course not Okay Uh, I guess we go back? Oh, yes, here we go All the way Sorry if it's like blinking for you guys It's like, ah! Look out In an emergency lockdown, this bridge is raised for safety reasons Of course Time for another behind the scenes look There is a lane that's still acting open Oh Oh, yes Oh Oh, okay Game saved What? Can I not pick this up? You kidding me? This looks like Left 4 Dead I want to do the hack something Oh, okay Ooh, I like the idea I like the concept It's like, oh, look how pretty it is Wait, we've got to We've got to now get to the nitty-gritty I feel like I'm a bit You know, in the novel Jurassic Park where they have to go through Like the maintenance tunnels and stuff Feel like that's what I'm doing now I'm sorry I was about to spoil the fun of the tour Since solving this problem can be considered fun I'm not allowed to help you But I firmly believe in your problem-solving abilities You have made a grave mistake How about this one? Yeah Can I pass the bridge again? Do I have to go back down that way? Alright, then cheers How do I... Oh, I can't go down a ladder What? I'm getting very like Pokemon snap jungle there Jungle music from this Oh, there it is Oh, thank you Oh, hey Can I fall from that distance? That's okay Also, that felt really strange Why would that be part of a safety protocol? Who are you expecting to be here? Dennis Nedry? From, oh god, the loading We're almost there Game saved Oh, god What does that mean? Oh, there we go Okay, I got this Yes Okay, this is interesting Oh, so if you took the lowest one, you'd have to climb loads Kind of, oh, okay Ooh Where are we going? I kind of feel like I'm doing Dino Defender Yeah When the robot has to like climb across the rocks And he looks quite like this, actually And a little bit more, here you go Is that okay? I'm allowed to do that? Got it, yes Yes, through the mossy rocks That's probably the most fun about this, it's just like Oh, okay, okay, never mind I didn't throw myself Yes On all the mossy, nothing on the mossy rocks This looks like something could happen Oh, here we go A broken fence Yes, I like this Oh no, what's happened here? Yes Must have been a thief It's our best bet to follow the trail Must have been a thief We're in prehistoric Jurassic times A fence is broken And you think a thief did this My god I thought robots were smart Can we open the door? There we go, okay And we go, let's find the thief I don't see any rocks It's so bloody dark I can't see anything, but I'm guessing It was this way? Did I do good? We're gonna climb the trees Oh no, I don't, do I? Do I have to climb the trees? Are you kidding me?  Oh for god's sake I mean it was kind of fun for a little bit But you can't make the hole You just really like Robinson, didn't you? The developer of this game That was a really good idea Oh I see, oh god Where am I? Okay, I'm here But that's fine Okay, so we're gonna go We're gonna go this way And then I hit the ceiling Hit the ceiling Like maybe This way Stand at the edge Grab the vines And swing across Yeah, there you go Good lord, please have mercy Is this all the game's gonna be from now on? Is this me swinging on vines? Oh we gotta swing over There we go Am I free? Am I free? Please No more Oh what a shame You want me to navigate? Oh my god, am I supposed to go down? Really?   What were they thinking?  Why do this? Why Mr Stegosaurus? I don't even know how you got there I've got to be honest Didn't even realize there was another one Come on, there's no like checkpoints So if you fall off this You're back to the start You've got to be a pro at this as well You have one wrong slip Do it all again I don't know what just happened there Right, back to where we begin It's so peaceful To pain in the arse Alright, I'm going to have to call it quits here for a minute But we'll pick this up Probably right in a second If it's not like at the end of an episode But if it is the end of episode I hope you enjoyed this video I'd be facing a war Hope you enjoyed this video Until next time, I'll see you later Bye bye


We're back for live at three o'clock rock here on a given Wednesday, just a couple days before the New Year's. And we're excited to be able to talk to LuPuDiRacie again from E-Pring, the energy policy think tank in Washington, here on Energy America, Energy in America. And today's show is called, let's see, Building Up to the Inauguration, because things are happening that will have an effect on President Obama's departure and the inauguration of President Trump. So welcome back to the show, your show, Lu. Happy Christmas and prospectively happy New Year. Same to you, Jay. Same to you. We don't have any snow yet, we actually have quite balmy weather. It's coming, it's coming. So a couple of things we were going to talk about. And I'd like to take this part of the show and talk about one of them anyway. And that is the regulations, they were to call it the midnight rules that the White House under President Obama has promulgated. And what are they, what effect do they have, and what effect will they have on the inauguration? Right. So let's start with, of course, I will have to try to keep this from being too much inside baseball. Every administration tries to ram through a bunch of regulations at the end. But, you know, as we discussed previously, Congress has something called the Congressional Review Act, where they can reach back and get some of these regulations. But some are harder to turn over than others. And I thought it was quite interesting, we could spend several hours talking about so many regulations Obama's putting out in so many areas. But he issued a one quite recently that sort of stunned everyone. That was about last week, where he said he has now decided to take off the table forever. Any leasing for oil and gas resources throughout the entire Atlantic Basin, which is the East Coast of the United States, and a large swap of the Arctic offshore Alaska. And the law is kind of complicated, but it suggests that it talks about how you can ban stuff. But this offshore leasing law does not talk about how you put stuff back in. So I think that the Congress, which is controlled by the Republicans, wants to repeal this particular rule or regulation, because their vision of the future is that the North American patrolling renaissance and the offshore resources in the U.S. are quite valuable, and they will help restore economic growth. So why would the President, why would President Obama do that? It just sounds like he's putting a hot coal in Trump's pocket, and the Trump won't tolerate it and the Congress won't tolerate it. He's really making it difficult for Trump when he first comes back. On the other hand, he is like a moth to a flame. The more he does this, the more Trump is going to get animated and try to do something. Now, I do think that Congress is probably thinking about, at least the Republicans in the Senate, they say, OK, it will take us a while to remove these regulations in the Atlantic and in the offshore Arctic, and actually oil prices are not that high. It would probably take a long time for the oil companies to fix that. We have another problem. The Trans-Alaska pipeline system, which moves crude oil from the north part of Alaska, which is Prudeau Bay, all the way to Valdez, the port, where it's distributed to North America, the Orient, and occasionally to Hawaii, that pipeline, because of the natural decline rate at Prudeau Bay in the North Slope, has gone from moving 2 million barrels a day to 500,000 barrels a day. So that's a kind of problem, because when the pipeline gets to very low volumes, the crude oil essentially freezes. You need the friction to move it through the pipeline. One possibility in which near-term production could be had, in a relatively short period of time, is to, instead of trying to repeal this reg right away through the budget reconciliation process, which does not require 60 boats, but just 51 boats, the Senate might try to open up the Alaska and natural wildlife reserve. Now, if you've ever been up there, it's really a wasteland, but lots of people view it as a, because of its name, a lot of the environmental community will go crazy. So I think this is going to be interesting to watch in the new year. So there's going to be lots of these measures out there. Coal exports. A lot of the coal industry is looking for help on coal exports. This means permits from the Corps of Engineers. And as we discussed last week, I'm absolutely positive Trump will reverse the Keystone XL pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline in the first few days. So there's a long list of these regulations, and it's going to be quite interesting to see how Trump and the Republican Congress moves to repeal that. He's made his position clear, hasn't he?  Well, I don't think he's tired, of course, because there's some realities we're going to talk about. First, anybody who thinks he's sort of one-dimensional on this has to look at his cabinet, because he has cabinet officers, appointments who have much different views of the world. Russia even has, Tillerson, you could argue, is his pro-climate guy, even though he's the former head of ExxonMobil, he's the only one who's pushed for a carbon tax. Or less said, that climate is a problem we should worry about, so I think that's interesting. So I don't know how that's going to work out, but I think, first, as we talked last week, the states are still driving a lot of the process. And today, today or yesterday, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, went ahead and vetoed a bill from his own Republican legislature in the state of Ohio, which tried to repeal the renewable portfolio standard for Ohio. And he said, no, we kind of need that. It's good for jobs and advancing the technology, so I'm going to veto that bill. And I don't know if you've seen Jerry Brown. He is now making clear that California plans to engage, negotiate directly with other countries on climate strategies. Interesting. This is all a backlash on Trump's remarks. Right. Well, in terms of other countries, I wonder how Trump's return to focus on oil, gas and coal is going to work. For example, he hasn't made friends with China, and in fact, there's a widening gap there because of his tweets and remarks. And China is a customer, isn't it, of American coal and fossil fuels? Actually, China buys, I think, some metallurgical coal from the U.S. not that much. Australia is probably, maybe some Indian coal makes its way to China. So American coal exports could be competitive in the Pacific Rim by knocking out more expensive and actually more environmentally harmful coal supplies, particularly their mind in India, whether that's possible, we'll have to see. I do think, you know, about China, and I don't know what's inside Trump's head on this. But I think on China, the interesting issue is people come found, soot and air pollution with climate.  And these scrubbers can remove the particulates. The Chinese just choose not to run the scrubbers because they've heard the edge and seen the power plants. Okay. That's cute. So there is, but there is a slow, a building public, you know, backlash if you like, a concern over smog in China. Yeah, oh sure. People walk around with gas masks. Yeah. And I do think Trump's, you know, the question is, was he like just a lunatic and started talking to Taiwan or was this a planned initiative?  We have a couple of counter moves we're prepared to make, and it's a kind of like Richard Nixon strategy. I might be crazy, but you'll have to wait and see. That's pretty much Trump's mind, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. What's interesting is, I don't think he realizes that he may not be able to win these games so easily, and the other thing I wanted to mention and something you said a minute ago suggested that, you know, you think these tweets at two o'clock in the morning are totally accidental? You know, I don't think so. I used to think so. I think public in general must think that tweets at two o'clock in the morning are spontaneous. But I think, no, he's a businessman and he's going to have a plan about this, and he's trying to affect public opinion, and it's all very choreographed, and it doesn't come by accident. And so, you know, the rift between the U.S. and China, that's something that he is planned to do, and somehow he thinks it's beneficial for us. Right. I think as we, I mean, it's clear that his appointment at Peter Navarro, head of this trade council in the White House, and I don't know, have you, Peter Navarro is a economist, Harvard Educated Economist, teaches at University of California, Irvine, and he believes that the Chinese intervening in the currency markets are directly to subsidized exports, and they act with non-tariff barriers and a range of measures to inhibit imports. And he even produced a video, it's quite popular now, called Death by China, where someone stabs a knife in the middle of the U.S. and the blood runs. Okay. That's incendiary. Yes. But he is the guy on this, and so they're going to have to balance this question of can they move China into a trade position that's more favorable without blowing up the whole relationship of trade? And you know, people like to go to the Walmart and buy their 75-inch TVs for $2,000. That will be really difficult. It won't happen anymore. But to talk about going to Walmart, I think Trump is going to the wall. I think that has been his technique in real estate in New York. That's his negotiating style. That's his style on the apprentice. You go to the wall, you push the other guy just as far as you can push him, and you win by intimidation. And the question is whether Xi Jinping is capable of being intimidated. And for one, I don't think he's... I don't think so, but I do think Trump is very transactional. He doesn't really have a sort of Ronald Reagan ideology tear down that wall. I don't think he thinks in the world that way. He sees it as a series of transactions. And so he's not going to have a personal grudge. Back to coal for a minute. Can we do coal economically? Because actually there are dangers in the mines. It's going to cost a lot of money to make the mines really sustainable. Can coal operators actually make a buck going forward? Can we produce all the coal he wants to produce? So the first, I saw a very interesting presentation by Peabody Coal a couple of weeks ago. They had a big event in Washington with all the... What you would call the climate deniers, but let's say the climate skeptics. And actually I don't know that you can grow the coal market all that much, but you can probably prevent it from declining much further or declining dramatically. And even now, natural gas prices have started to move up. They are moving up on the 280 range to the 330 range. You start getting natural gas prices at 350. And the service operators that do the interchange in the utility system in the U.S., they dispatch the cheapest power. There's all this talk about wind and solar and all that stuff. If it's not the cheapest power and they need dispatchable power, they will dispatch the coal. So yeah, it depends what happens with gas prices. And gas prices are going to be moving up a bit. Why are gas prices moving up? I mean there's two reasons. One is more and more the utility sector is using gas. Exports of gas are starting to expand. We're now exporting about three and a half billion cubic feet a month a day to Mexico. And that gas is backing out oil, fire capacity and very inefficient capacity. So from the global point of view it's a good thing. On Hawaii now, I mentioned before the show began that on Friday the utility Hawaiian electric submitted at the request of the Public Utilities Commission a power supply improvement plan. And in that plan, after LNG has been hanging, I should say hanging fire I suppose, that would be a bad pun, LNG has been hanging for, I don't know, three, four, five years as a decision that was never made. Just a possibility that should have been decided or could have been decided. So now the utility has said, we're not going to pursue that anymore. So and the PUC is not likely to raise that on their own motion. It's not clear that anybody will actually pursue that anymore. So it looks like at least for the moment that LNG is off the table. So here's my early forecast, we're going to get to them at the end of the show. Hawaii will be using oil, fire, electricity generation for the next five years and they'll probably not decline at all.   I'm not telling you it's a good idea. Well using fossil fuel for the next five years sounds like a root canal actually. That's that's a loop, putty-racy. I'm not the policy guy. I'm just looking at what people are doing and I'm saying, you know, you can live in a dream world, but a parkin' reality's both of them. I love these conversations. That's Lou Putty-Racy. He is the president of EPRINC, which is an energy policy think tank in Washington, D.C., joins us every couple of weeks on energy in America and today we're talking about building up to the inauguration in energy. We take a one minute break, we'll be right back, wait there. Aloha, my name is John Waihei and I used to be a part of all the things that you might be angry at. I served in government here and may have made decisions that affects you. So I want to invite you in. I want to invite you in to Talk Story with me and some very special guests every other Monday here at Talk Story with John Waihei. Come on in, join us, express your opinion, learn more about your state and then do something about it. Aloha. Okay. We're here on energy in America with Lou Putty-Racy of EPRINC, an energy policy think tank in Washington, D.C. He joins us by Skype. We're talking about building up to the inauguration. We've covered the issue about the midnight rules that President Obama issued and what they might mean. And now we're going to cover the second issue and that is, what is Mr. Abe up to in Japan? Yeah, so let's do it, let's start with a little background on this. So the Japanese political establishment, Abe personally, burned a lot of political capital for the TPP. So we hear these discussions about trade and that it's one way, but political leadership in Japan had to take a lot of heat to get the TPP because they had to agree to certain adjustments in their agricultural policy. And like in all countries, farmers have a lot of power and they have a lot of power in Japan, particularly the rice farmers and then the cattle ranchers. And so Abe got pre-approval for all of this stuff. He took the political heat and thinking the TPP would go forward since it was an Obama initiative. But the campaign itself, both the Democrats and the Republicans sort of threw that in the trash can saying, it's terrible, the TPP is just as bad as NAFTA and all these other... I actually don't believe that, but that's what happened, we just can't control it. So I think Abe, he's pretty fast on his feet, was thinking, okay, remember he was, I believe, the first major leader to visit Trump after he was elected. He went to New York and met with him. He's now showed up in your home town at Pearl Harbor, which is at a very visible kind of somber ceremony, quite unbelievable for a Japanese leader. Yes. And now I have it on very good authority that the Japanese will be proposing a major initiative to kind of do a kind of energy TPP, if you like. And my sources are telling me that Abe will probably meet with Trump sometime in late January, maybe as early as January 27. At that point, one of the things the Japanese are preoccupied with is China. And they saw the TPP as a strategic counterweight. It wasn't just the trade, it was the binding of these rapidly growing democratic economies in the Pacific Rim with the United States, with kind of Japan as the centerpiece out there. So Abe, I believe, will be proposing to Trump that Japan help him with his initiative to lift up the North American petroleum renaissance, particularly the natural gas production. And the Japanese will be proposing soft money, loans, direct initiatives to help major Pacific Rim countries get into position to import US LNG. I believe that if this comes to pass, which is a pretty good chance for what I understand, that this will be embraced by Trump in a big way. And what this requires, by the way, is not just the US selling LNG. We have to get more pipelines built in the US. We have to have a better regulatory structure to have more gas get connected. The large gas fields in the Pennsylvania region now have to get connected by pipeline to the Gulf Coast where the LNG exporting facilities are. So it could be a major industrial renaissance in a way, both for Japanese companies with duties built out in the Pacific Rim, but also for US producers. So I believe that this will happen, and I believe that Trump will embrace it in a very big way, and it will have a strategic role for Japan as well. Now, this is a, that's major, and so if that happens, and they come together on this infrastructure question and sort of transporting the LNG around Asia, what benefit is, I guess we have an economic benefit because we've had a renaissance in fossil fuel, and they have a benefit because they have made themselves what the channel, the pipeline, if you will, for that fossil fuel all through Asia, and then of course that means economic boost all over Japan. And they will be backing out largely coal and oil. It's dispatchable power, it might be backing up renewables or something, but some of these things like India, they need massive dispatchable power, and if it can be done cost effectively they'll be able to back out some coal. So Trump could claim, well, I don't really believe in climate, but if you believe in climate, this is good for it. So quick, complain. If this happens, how does China react? I mean, does China doesn't like it because it doesn't like direct relationships? China didn't like the TPP, is it going to like this better? No, they're not going to like this, but they won't be, they don't really have a good counter move to this. They could offer people coal, they could offer nuclear technology, but that's quite expensive these days. So I think this would be a very interesting initiative if it happens. And they might bring China to the table on a broader set of issues. But for the Japanese, I don't think they're worried about that. What they just want to know is that the U.S. is bound to them, and bound to the major countries in the Pacific Rim. Yeah, what's interesting is that China is out there in the Pacific Rim making loans, doing development, you know, trying to help underdeveloped countries become developed, and they're doing it in every country you can think of. And here, Japan will have eclipsed them on energy. That'll be an interesting maneuver, and China will not like that. And as you say, there's not too much they can do about it. Yeah, I mean, it's quite interesting, you know, Japan, which has this really pacifist tradition since World War II, has had substantial increases in their defense budgets for the last three years. And there's another one coming, so. So you said that you thought that this was, you know, this is exactly what Abe was going to suggest to Trump on January 27th, and thereabouts. I mean, how do we know that? Has that been in the paper, or is this just... You heard it, you heard it first here, Jay. Okay, I like scoops. We'll see soon enough, won't we? It should get released soon. It should get released soon, Michael.  How could this affect Hawaii? Hawaii, which has tinkered with LNG for several years. So here's the actually interesting way this might affect Hawaii. If, in fact, we have a robust transportation network, if you like, a seaborn pipeline of LNG moving around the Pacific Rim, there's very likely to be opportunity for over, you know, ships which have excess supplies or ships would have small volumes to stop on their way to India or Japan or Vietnam to drop off supplies in Hawaii. And there may be a unique market for the Hawaiians to get supplies at a very low cost on a spot basis. Now, this wouldn't happen right away, it's going to take some time. But that is, so my guess is that if that were the case, the utility or the city fathers of Oahu would have to take another look at this issue. Yeah. Because as we talked many times, if we don't solve the storage problem, you're going to need dispatchable power. And it's, right now, it's going to be oil. Yes, well, yes. And you heard that here too. That's the church point to be using. Just wishing it not to be true isn't going to make it happen. I don't care how much aloe of spirit you had. It's not going to make that problem go away. I remember root canal. Exactly. So if the Japanese put a ton of money into these ships, which are specialized ships carrying LNG and they're big, expensive, you know, hundreds of millions of dollar ships, and if they, you know, build, you know, a system of storage and distribution around Asia, that's going to cost plenty of money. At the same time, you say that this whole initiative will likely reduce the price of LNG to the market. How does that work when you have to put that money in and you still get a reduction in price? So limit how far it can go. But if you can, you know, get the economies of scale up high enough, you should be able to drive the cost to some. Look, it's not ever going to be the price at Henry Hub of the U.S. If it's three and a half dollars at Henry Hub, it has to be something more in the Pacific Rim. Seven or eight or nine, something like that, maybe 10. But that's actually not that bad if you can get a long term deal at those prices. And you have confidence that that supply will last for 20 years. Well, on the question of, you know, lasting in supply and all that, it seems to me that if you provide LNG all over Asia, and the countries in Asia, the utilities in Asia all use it, and they in turn, you know, build their plans to use it or modify their plans to use it, they're going to be using more of it. And if they use more of it, then it's likely that the price, the price will go up over time. And so it's nice to lock it in for 20 years, but the spot market will probably increase as the use increases now. I do believe we are not reserve limited in the U.S. because we're producing from source raw. And the technology for extraction keeps getting better. And so our long run average costs are falling. If we can do certain things in the U.S. to allow this gas to evacuate to the markets from the main producing centers, which I believe will be given high attention by Governor Perry and Trump. I think we're seeing a lot of debate about the Federal Economic Energy Regulatory Commission and how we finance pipelines. What do we do about NIMBY problems? There's going to be just a carnival of ideas and debates. Yeah, and not to mention that when LNG has been discussed here, the big issue is can we accommodate big ships carrying large volumes of LNG? Aside from paying for them, do we have the facilities to offload them and all that and store the LNG? So if we were going to use it here, we'd have to revisit those issues of infrastructure. And that would affect the local price anyway. Well, I think it's this meeting, this meeting that we heard about here today, Lou. The meeting on January 27th between Messers Abe and Trump. We'll be watching for that. Yeah, watch for please. It'd be very interesting to follow this. So thank you for helping us build up through the inauguration and just beyond. And we'll compare notes between then and now and certainly thereafter. And I so enjoy these conversations. It's a breath of fresh air to talk to you every other Wednesday. So happy Christmas retrospectively. Happy New Year prospectively. And if you need some inaugural ball tickets, just let me know. Yes, we'll be calling you shortly about that. Lou Putty-Racy, the president of Ebrink, the Energy Policy Forum ThinkTech in Washington, D.C., here in our show called Energy in America, building up to the inauguration. We are so looking forward. Thank you so much, Lou.


in particular to be able to build their own homes and we need to provide grant funding to enable that to happen. We got rid of rural ownership grants for some reason I don't know why and we need to bring something like that back and maybe the island bond will be that so we need to do that but we also need to look at how we restrict airbnb and short-term lets in the particularly pressured areas so that we can mean for example the long-term residential letting sectors we've hauled out by airbnb you know to set to the extent that a lot of people in very very good jobs can't find anywhere to live in the sky and places like that so we need to as well as looking at control areas which which are going to be brought in we need to look at how we we really you know help people to get yeah so so yeah I think I think that's those those are the two main things I look at. Thank you. I'm interested to know a bit more about the idea that in the government's plans about 20 minute neighbourhoods and I think Artemis I think you've got some research on that and possibly Derek as well. Artemis, would you like to kick off? I will do and thank you very much for that question. It was discussed at length at last night's cross-party group. I don't actually have any research on that other than the feedback from the Scottish Rural Parliament and the feedback is very very mixed you know that there were currently as a country do not have a set definition of 20 minute name policy areas of government use very different definitions and what we're waiting for I suppose is NPF4 for men with its consultation and that will outline I suppose what what the government's view is on what a 20 minute neighbourhood would look like and that will be our opportunity as rural and island communities and stakeholders to comment and see whether or not that is applicable in our situation. I mean it certainly will be applicable across quite a bit of rural and island Scotland because remote rural towns are basically the model of a 20 minute neighbourhood the problem is and I'm quoting from someone here from a Scottish Rural and Island Transport community conference you go three miles out with those remote rural towns and suddenly you're in a community which is as far removed from a 20 minute neighbourhood as possible but the ways around that it's just we need to get the definition right and whatever investment comes with that definition right as well. Thank you. Could anybody else like to respond someone else indicated there? Is it Camille? The issue of housing is obviously a huge huge problem because with that housing you won't have the young people coming back because even if they have the jobs they don't have the housing they can't stay so I think that maybe also in the case of community land trusts that have been able to give some of the land to young people to do some self-build there's been an issue of the banks refusing to lend money for self-build or for mortgages to to build their houses if the land still remains in the property of the land trust and I think that's the situation that needs to be to be looked at to give more flexibility for these land trusts to be able to use that land for building new houses but without encouraging an opportunity for making money further down the chain so looking at these new models and how they could be strengthened could be really good and addressing the problems of banks confidence in that model would be really transformational. Thank you and Jenny and then Jane. Hi yes I would agree with Artemis last week we discussed 20 minute neighbourhoods and the mobility hubs within our annual gathering and had a number of examples presented to us and the key point for us is that when there is a definition of form that this is an urban centric terminology being used and deployed in rural areas and island areas that we as an organisation and we as a group of enthusiastic rural and island participants need to be part of that process because 20 minutes on Prince Street is very different from 20 minutes in Kirkwall so that is key. Yes and Jane. Yes it's something we're beginning to look at but to be honest we haven't really moved that far yet convener but it is but I just echo really what Jenny was saying that what we see in an urban situation is very different to rural but it is something that we're very keen to look at. Thank you and Derek. We talked earlier about the idea of smart clack in that we were developing which is about live workspace in the same place and minimising the need to travel and about encouraging greater sharing of resources within those spaces so we're kind of looking to that as a bit of a kind of rural model for a 20 minute neighbourhood and how you might take it forward. Thank you. We've now there's a couple of topics we're not touched on we're not even started to touch on health but we're coming to the end of the session but there is one topic that's very much the foremost of everybody's mind particularly when we've got COP26 coming up and that's climate so our final question is going to come from Marianne. Thank you convener. I've been asked to direct this to one person which is very very difficult but I'm going to ask this to Artemis and maybe we can sneak one more person in. So the national islands plan encourages government and public bodies to put in place adaptation plans on islands that are at greater risk from climate change and to link those adaptation plans closely to development plans for those islands. This is important to ensure that development plans which contribute to infrastructure and town planning consider changes such as rising sea levels and stronger storms and increase the resilience of communities and local economies without increasing emissions. I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts on these priorities for climate adaptation plans. That was a lot I know sorry. If Artemis could come in on that. No I will come in just to say that it tears a lot and that is probably something that needs its own discussion but very very quickly. There is a real lack of information in rural and well in islands around the potential impact of climate change and how quickly that impact is going to hit and what the concern is at the moment is that once decisions are being made around how you mitigate that impact it's you're right it's how do you how do you involve communities in deciding how that impact is managed and yeah I'm Arianna I'm sorry I'm probably not the right person to to take that question at the moment but maybe somebody else on the panel is thank you is there someone else who would like to speak to that Camille just wanted to to say that that having sustainable energy and climate plan for each regional authority for each local authority is really important and that community plans island plans for energy transition need to feed into these plans so if each island is encouraged to devise their own clean energy transition agenda that will look at every opportunity to mitigate climate change issues obviously for islands that are quite low um there's a there's a huge problem of of um of the level of seawater rising and and planning authorities have to be mindful of this so it's it's a question of working together between the island communities and the planning authorities to really embrace the issue of climate change in the planning process thank you thank you thank you very much and and thank thank you all for your contributions this morning we've had lots of questions answered which have just led to more questions that need to be asked and I'm quite sure that over the coming months and years that you'll all appear in front of us again as we take our work relating to the islands forward so thank you all very much we now move to agenda item six which is taking in private and the consideration of evidence heard we now move into private session thank you


Okay, ready? Ladies and gentlemen today We're going to start Diablo 4. Can you guys tell me What is the number one most important thing?  All right So that's the plan for today We're gonna completely and totally character immerse ourselves Into the game That's when I watch out behind you. Ah, it's me So dude, everybody talked about how druids are freaking bad Like this is sick man. It's so good. Oh, I have to level up Okay, watch I get wrist spike.   We are no wearing shirts shred Nice hammer axe Sick guys. I'm not naked. Is this even allowed? It's literally a cosplay. Hello How should you pay to get yourself in the game? I had to buy six wow tokens. Oh look, it's a 12-hour wow stream No 16 16 my bad. I actually fell asleep. Oh my gosh, I did a hundred and twenty three damage with pulverize The attention details insane. I love the cosplay. Thank you. Thank you. Ray cause Should I create you in my WWE game as a character? Absolutely. You should I tune into it's a cosplay Romer and it's a druid cosplay like just pretend I have a mace in my hand I couldn't afford the mace the rest of the cosplay was too expensive Dude, okay, so something makes my pulverize just break sometimes feel like a hundred plus damage Lumber axe lay the lumber look to the right of your health 12 stacks is overpower. Oh So Okay, I got it That's the that's the rotation. I have your stream on my TV and my parents walked in I couldn't explain why I'm watching a shirtless man playing a game. So I switched it to gay Paul Okay Thank you for that Here's what you boys got to understand. Okay, the name of the game is complete and total character immersion Okay, you want to become one with your character? you're gonna Completely immerse yourself become one with the character in game and in real life You actually make it under the towel guys. Let's keep playing. I showed my girl your rp. She may play Diablo now You just started I just started today. I've been out of town. I was I was doing otk stuff Which means one true king. It's an org. It doesn't mean anything else. I'm sick Okay, confirm look do the skimpier one And it's not accurate to my cosplay minus one chat Unbelievable show the comparison. Okay. I got one more time one more time This is actual quality content. That's the first time anyone's ever said that here jet.  Here's what I should do. I should I I should group up I should group up with Amaranth playing Diablo YouTube video title doing hardcore with Amaranth and the thumbnail is me But we're just playing Diablo We're just playing Diablo your cosplays incredible. Thank you. Thank you son and return to the heavens where he belongs God the 8.1 is so big he has to carry it around on his back Stop, how do I need this? Dude Megan relax. That is so dude. Why is that voice like that? I'm telling you dude that voice is like I don't know how that voice is like that. It's Megan It's Megan from Hades. That's just your voice actors voice She's got a chill dude like it is just $1.25 thank you for 34 months Dude That I I forgot that the sound effect. I forgot that was a sound effect God the 8.1 is so big he has to carry it around on his back Dude Wait a Luke goblin Luke goblin Wait, look at that Luke goblin wait hold on this game has Luke goblins a character It looks like me and I went and I just killed the loot goblin got all of his loot and now I'm gonna take it back to down and distribute it Okay, blizzard come on breast We should get that checked out ring in my first ring No, two rings painful ring Tinnitus what rings you got bitch? God have those ring of favor protection. I watched that video again recently and it's not that funny But I just what the phrase what rings you got bitch is just it's just always gonna be in my head How can I explain the stream somebody walks by say the guy in the corner looks exactly like the character?   We need to see if you're wearing the same bottoms as your character. Okay. Are you really gonna do this to me, dude?   I'd he's wearing a thong. I'm not wearing a thong. Okay. Anyways guys Thank you so much for joining me YouTube Discord reddit twitch Twitter everything is s-fan TV follow everything sub to everything whatever it is


Welcome back Lamarcus. Thanks for having me. Yeah, so I mean last year obviously very scary when when you had to abruptly retire with your Heart condition Obviously, it's incredible just to see you healthy healthy enough to come back and play When did you start to get the feeling like you know what I might be alright, and I'd like to get back out on the floor so soon as I You know kind of made my Announcement I went home and then I started seeing my doctor there and we started doing tests and you know kind of you know trying to see what was up and then Did the whole tour did some tests and then everything came back kind of normal? You know it wasn't completely normal, but it was normal So then I started to go on the court and like do some things I would say maybe like a month or two after I retired. I started feeling like you know what you know This is possible. So let me start trying to call my agent first see how to reverse this and then You know go from there so then you know I started with the doctor there and then I ended up here and you know it was a Long five months, but it was worth it. We are thrilled that you ended up here Say that much But you cannot even imagine the roller coaster that it was when it became a reality though that you would be able to Be back on the court and play again Considering how much of a part basketball has been of your life Take us into that moment and just into your headspace of Understanding that the the retirement didn't necessarily have to happen It was kind of like hey, you know, like all little work has been worth it.  I came here and it was a great team and I was helping that team out and you know, I just had to leave so it was like Okay, like let's go back and let's finish this and it really wasn't emotional because I feel like when I retired It was so much emotional stuff and you're confused and you're trying to find so it was like I was past all that stuff So it was more like let's go work hard, you know, and like let's go play Lamarcus, how closely did you watch the net in the playoffs last year? And if you were watching closely, were you saying if I was there? I know I'd be helping Was there that sort of experience for you for sure? I watched every game and The one game in particular where we just needed one bucket.  So hopefully, you know, I can do it now. You're back ready to help out What about this roster and obviously the different group seven players back from that playoff roster for the nits This year and a lot of fortification of so many different areas, especially if run court looking at you coming back What are your thoughts on just the way this roster has shook out and in some of the aspirations that you guys have for this year?  Blake Griffin's that kind of guy too. Paul Nilsaps that kind of guy too What's interesting is all of you in some way are sacrificing Minutes points, whatever it might be in order to try and go on a championship run here, right and fill in around James Harden and Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant I mean, how difficult is it to get to that place mentally when you're a guy who's been used to carrying a team? And now all of a sudden you're being asked no no on this team You may not play those kind of minutes or you know, there are some games where this is going to be rolled And it's going to be this how do you kind of adjust to that and embrace that role on this team? Uh It can be tough But I don't think it was tough for me because I came from a situation where they were going young so I really didn't Get to play and then I came here and they embraced me so much and they were excited to have me And you know, I had guys like cheering for me So, you know, I was excited to be here and I think at some point in your career It becomes you know, uh bigger than yourself It's about you know, the the bigger goal. I think all of us as vets It's about winning, you know, like getting that that championship It's not about stats or playing time or this or that. It's about winning a ring You brought up kd and I know you've watched and played with him and seen him forever But to see what he did during the postseason, of course last season coming back from that achilles injury But the watch the level that he took his game to throughout the course of the playoffs What was your perspective on that?  I was around him In the off season a little bit and you know We have a guy that talented that works as hard as he does. I wasn't surprised and I just think It was nice to see because I feel like he put so much into the game It was nice to see the game, you know, I actually give it back to him and you know He's built for those moments. You know what I'm saying


You think I would have left by now but I'm standing outside with shorts on and my feet have gone numb. See, I spend too much time in Australia is what happens. I forget the environments that I'm going into here in Switzerland, shorts and no shoes. I stay on snow tomorrow after about six months and I'm pinching myself. It feels a little bit strange. Rules I'm sure are going to be pretty similar to what we've been doing as of late, which is we're going up, we've got bubble gondolas to go into the gondolas every morning. So myself, Team Australia, it's a pretty small team but we have a little bubble going up the gondola every morning and I think I'm just going to keep my gloves on like whenever I'm in a public space I just keep my mittens on and then I have my face mask on and yeah I'll just make sure that we're staying safe and a lot of the other teams like America and Canada and Japan, everyone's in a bubble so I can't really see anyone except for when we're outdoors and up on the mountain in the glacier so plenty of social distancing. Still not like having folk and mix it on the f***. You know the term that's being thrown around a lot is knock the rust off you know like kind of just get back into it, get real familiar with you know how it's supposed to feel and making those things come back to you know where you want to at least find the baseline and then go from there. Damn. Hey, good work big guy. I just got to sometimes I'm like eh I'm not feeling it. That's fine man it's just you always come around when you let come around the other ones you kind of like opened up early and like kind of whatever but that one was just like perfect rotation. What that tells me is when you do that grab you can slow the rotation down a little bit.  Yeah. Yeah I think I mean this is always a very important part of the year like getting back and a lot of us have gone you know had a bit of time off snow now between kind of that end of the American winter to the beginning of the European one so this is always a pretty crucial time to learn a lot of tricks and that's like the kind of key part of this October stage when you say. How you doing? Good. He's got something boiling in his head I know that for sure.  Frickin arm hats let's do it with this hand. That works. I'm not getting used to this whole phone situation with my arms it's like really heavy even when I'm excited like I am right now after being on the snowboard all day I still can't have my arms up with the camera. Yeah so first day plan was to go up find my feet again just kind of take it easy enjoy being back up there in the mix and you know if I feel good maybe get into a few tricks but there's no real rush we're here for a full month and you know when I left I guess in March I left off on a pretty good foot with all my tricks and stuff so we progressively just have to work our way back to where I was. Yeah I think probably what I'm going to struggle with most is like having to take it like slowly because I'm going to get excited and I know I will so like I know that I've got to just every day take it step by step and you know progress at a probably a slow rate than I usually would but yeah I mean I've got to be able to control that getting too excited and then and and doing things that I shouldn't be doing so but all in all first day was awesome and yeah just really excited to be here and get some work done so yeah we probably just have to set it up ourselves and it's the Swiss airbag so I don't know might be learning tricks the scary way again boys. Scary. Straight to snow.  Classic. Coronavirus update, leisure and tourism businesses are open again throughout Switzerland and events are also allowed to take place however, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Fresh, organic, strawberry, peanut, honey, mung bean sandwich from Japs. Is that the half? Is that for you Maddie? Definitely not. That's not yours? You don't deserve the half. How about that? I'm not at that worthy level yet. A few more years.  Stuck my edge in that. Hey it's fine for your first one. Feeling a little bit wonky today. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay so I gave it, I had some thoughts about what you said. I still stand with like stay low, try and stay low, load up the board like with the energy so you feel it wanting to resist like kind of snap back and then focus more on like really, really super minute like quick twitch movements rather than like big kind of stuff. I got nothing else to say, get that camera out of my face. See I thought I was coming in good. You did it way better than it should have been, that's for sure. You haven't taken a hit like that in a while. Dude, I was beautiful on it, I got excited, I did exactly what I was trying to be conscious of. You can see it here though, it's just all and that's right. Well there's the abrasion right there right? Yeah, bang. So right on the f***ing that pointer part of the hip. Yeah so I feel like it's squashed my muscles or something, front side out was nice. It was, it was really good, that's why you, because that's the first front side area you'd had like good on that wall and then you're like okay, I'm feeling good, this looks good. What do we got here? Slip, I saw it. It just f***ed, it just released early and it just slipped on that ICS wall, yeah. And when the pain goes higher than 7, for me 7 means it hurts but it's not your breathing. Okay. And every day it will be a little bit less hard and you can go a little bit more down. We work, work. 7? Yeah so I'm in bed, hit myself. It's probably really bad, this is probably a s***t angle, oh well, oh s***t, I didn't feel very good. I did exactly kind of what I was trying not to do, which was get too excited and I felt really good riding, had great music on and I came in and I was feeling great and then I came up and I hadn't really done any front side spins yet but I just thought it would be a really good idea to do a front ten. Turns out there was a terrible idea because now I'm laying in bed with a massively bruised hip, I landed on the deck and I took off early and my edge slipped, basically I just timed it really wrong and in the half pipe timing is everything. The margin for error is like, you pretty much just can't, so I paid the price. I'm okay, yeah it's pretty gross, I mean it's not gross, you should see it, it really hurts.