So I have a few browsers open at the moment. I'm testing two browsers that are very interesting. They make claims of being the fastest browsers on the planet Earth. Now when I heard this claim in various YouTube videos over the course of the last two or three weeks, I was pretty skeptical. If only because how are you measuring these things, what are you comparing them to? And whenever a company or a developer or whatever makes a claim about being the best of anything. I'm always going to have to be skeptical because how, how would you know, right? How do you know that there's not some random person out there who has a browser that they didn't ever share that's faster than yours? I mean, you can possibly know that also people say things that they don't necessarily have the proof for all the time. And you just kind of have to be cynical about these things. But I wanted to try them because if you're saying your browser is prefaced, maybe it is. And how would I know without trying it? So today we're going to be taking a look at thorium browser. It is supposedly the fastest browser on earth. But before we jump in, if you'd leave a thumbs up on this video, I'd really appreciate it. It would really help the channel. So let's take a look at thorium and we'll talk about it. So this is here is thorium. And if you're saying it while that looks like Google Chrome, well, that's because it is a chromium based browser and it is a fork of chromium. They've done some tweaks to make this both faster and supposedly quote unquote more private. Now let's talk about the privacy stuff right off the bat, because I just want to get it out of the way. This is not the most private browser you're going to find in the world. Not even close. It still has all of the Google hooks and pinnings in it. So if you want to go up here to the profile thing and you want to sign in, you can still sign in with your Google account. You can't even do that in regular chromium. Here you can. So all the Google stuff, including the Chrome Web Store and all that stuff is still baked right into this browser. It's not gone. And as far as I can tell, actually, you can't actually get rid of any of that stuff. Now supposedly they've added some privacy and security stuff here. I don't know what's different here compared to regular chromium. But to be honest with you, if you're downloading this browser, you're not downloading it because it's the private browser. You're downloading it because it is the fastest browser. Now, when I decided I was going to do this video, I was thinking, Matt, how are you going to measure whether or not this browser is actually fast? Because in my in normal times, what I would do is just use my eye test. Right. I'd say, wow, that's fast compared to Firefox or compared to Vivaldi, whatever. But when you're talking about this kind of stuff, you want to be at least a little bit scientific about it. And that's what I decided I was going to try to do. But I found out that actually doing that in terms of scientific, you'd really have to use really big air quotes and if you wanted to use scientific, so what we're going to do is just kind of wing it a little bit. So what I decided to do was run this test here. Now, this test here, basically, what it does is it loads a web page with various web technologies on it over and over and over again over the course of a minute. And then you get a score at runs per minute at the end. So Thorium scores a score of 200 runs per minute. Now, if you just ran it on Thorium, you'd have no context to compare that to, right? So how does Firefox do? Well, Firefox scores a 115. Now, if you're thinking, wow, that's a big difference. That's because, wow, that is indeed a very big difference.  Firefox is pretty slow. Now, let's be fair to Firefox. First off, this is just one test. We don't know how this test has optimized their technology for specific browsers, so we don't know if they've actually made it work as well as it possibly could on Firefox. It's possible that they only ever tested it on chromium-based browsers, and therefore Firefox kind of gets penalized, right? So that's a possibility. The reason why this particular test is scored in such a way. So we had to be fair about this thing and say that, yes, this is a really low score, but there may be contributing factors to that, right? But just we're just trying to compare them as much as we can. And if you were to just rely on this test, which is what we're going to do. Thorium browser gets a score of 200, Firefox 115. Now, my beloved Vivaldi gets a score of 152, depending on when I run it. So when I say depending on when I run it depends on how many tabs I have open. So at the moment, I have quite a few tabs open in another instance of Vivaldi. So this score here is probably not quite fair. The last time I ran it, it got 172. So it is less than thorium, but it's more than Firefox. So it's somewhere in the middle part of that. So that's Vivaldi. Now, the people who have developed thorium also have another project. So if you're not interested in using Chromium, which is by and large a Google project, you can use something called the Mercury browser. Now, I have also downloaded the Mercury browser. The Mercury browser is a compiler optimized, just like Thorium version of Firefox. Now, they don't make the claim of fastest browser on earth for Mercury, because obviously you can't have two fastest browsers on earth. So I ran this in Mercury, so I'm going to open up Mercury here and we'll actually run it again. I'll show this time. I'll show you the test on on camera here. So if I go to browserbench.org and hit start test, you can actually see how this runs. And basically what it does is that it runs the same website, but with different web technologies in the back, it runs about 480 different tests. All of them measuring how fast the page loads and completes the tasks on the page in a certain period of time. Now I will tell you this right now. Just the eye test, this runs way faster than the Vivaldi version does. It runs way, way faster than the regular Firefox does. It runs very, very close to what thorium does so much so that you can't really tell the difference. Now we'll see where the score actually ends up this time. It's almost done. And it gets a score of 174. Now that's actually lower than it was last time. The last time that I ran this, it got a score of 195, which was way closer to the 200 that thorium got. So it ranges between 170 and 200 for the Firefox version of this particular browser. So when it comes to speed, actually measuring the speed, there you go. Take that way as you will, right? Yes, of the browsers that I've tested, thorium is the fastest, mercury is about the second fastest. Vivaldi was pretty close in some of the tests that I ran to mercury. But again, we really can't rely on my Vivaldi test because I have a ton of stuff open in Vivaldi. So just again, grain of salt there just to let you know. So all of that is fine and dandy, but who really cares about a browser benchmark? To be honest with you, because when we use a browser, we're not using it because it has a high benchmark. We're using because we want to see the actual speed in our hands, right? We want to know that this is a fast browser and that it actually translates to time saved loading websites. And I've been using thorium now for a few hours. I've used mercury for a little bit. Obviously, I'm a longtime user of both Firefox and Vivaldi, and I've used regular Google Chrome in the past. And again, this is all going to be mostly my eye tests. So I suggest you actually download this and give it your own eye test. But for me personally, I can tell you that thorium is a very fast browser. Whether or not it's the fastest in the world, I don't know.  Okay, so I wear glasses for a reason, but I also I'm one of those weird people who can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080p. So my judgment on these things may not be able to be trusted. But from my eye test, I would say that thorium is a fast browser. It is definitely faster than stock Firefox. It seems a little faster than Vivaldi, but not enough to notice to be honest to you all like across the board. Sometimes it seems faster. Sometimes it seems about the same. In terms of thorium versus the mercury browsers, they seem again about the same. So you can choose between the two of them if you'd rather use a fully open source browser based on Firefox, you can do that. If I were to go route, that's the direction I would go. It's just simply because I like some of the extensions that Firefox has to offer over Chrome. But that's beside the point. So pure eye test after doing the benchmarks and using it for a little while, I would say that yes, thorium is a very fast browser. Now you guys have to be thinking, Matt, why make this video? This is just a chromium based video that has a browser that's a little bit faster than the rest. That's true. That's 100% true. And the reason why I make this, this video is because people are seeing these videos across YouTube over the course of the last three weeks, you've seen like Chris Titus Tech made a video about thorium, a couple others have made videos about thorium in the Linux spear just alone. And then if you broaden that out into the rest of the tech space, you've seen, you've probably seen several videos on this. And I wanted to talk instead about the merits of something like this. Because making a browser is hard, right? We know that it's hard because there's not a lot of them out there that are doing things that are differently. There's a reason why Microsoft didn't want to make their own browser anymore instead they forked chromium and have made Microsoft Edge based on chromium. There's a reason why browsers like Vivaldi and Duck Duck Go and all the others, all of them based themselves on chromium because making your own engine to run underneath and control things in your browser is astonishing hard. It's astonishingly resource intensive. And it's just not something that many corporations have the resources to do or have the will or necessary interest in doing. So they base it off something that exists and there's a reason why we have all of these chromium based browsers out there, right? Because it's good. A lot of people use it and it's it's the underlining pinnings of it, at least our open source so you can take it and make your own and do a few features on top of it. So the majority of the hard work is actually done for you. So Vivaldi is a good example of this. They've taken chromium and built a whole bunch of features on top of it in terms of UI and stuff like that. But they've focused their development efforts on making the stuff on top of chromium the way that they want it. So we have another chromium based browser. We have another Firefox based browser with mercury. And basically what we have here is two forks that have optimized themselves in such a way that they're a little bit faster than the things that they're based on. So in terms of thorium, a little bit faster than chromium. In terms of mercury, actually quite a bit faster than Firefox. And then you get the benefits of the things that those are based on. So if you're using Firefox, you get all the stuff that Firefox has there. And you can benefit from the speed, but also have the benefits of Firefox. Same thing with the chromium. You can get all the chromium features that you want. And you also get the speed, but it comes at a compromise, right? First off, these things are developed by another person. So there's another person between you and the underlying project. Whether or not that's a person or team, I can't tell you. And you have to trust that person so that you're putting another person in between you and the your data in the hands of someone who develops it. And that's an extra developer between you and the base project. So that's one thing. Another thing is that if you take a look specifically at the mercury browser, it's based on 115.4, which is the ESR of Firefox. And we take a look at regular Firefox and we go up here to this and we take a look at help and then about Firefox. This is version one dot 18. So you're running mercury and Firefox, you're getting a older browser. Now that's not that big of a deal in terms, you know, a lot of people run the ESR version of Firefox, but you are going to be sacrificing some security patches there. Also, they're going to be doing the exact same thing on the thorium browser. So that's going to run a little bit behind the actual chromium project. So you're going to be getting older features. And specifically, you're going to be saying things like older security patches. So that's something to keep in mind when you're choosing between these. So we need to, yes, these are super fast browsers. There's no denying that. But they also have some downsides and you kind of have to keep that in mind as you are making your decision. And here's where I'm going to close out on this in my personal opinion on alternative browsers. When I make a decision on what browser to use, I don't make a choice on what it's based on. So at least not anymore. I used to be a solely a Firefox guy, right? I wanted to use Firefox because it was open source, Mozilla, despite what I often think of them, they do most of their stuff in the open source sphere. They seem to like Linux quite a lot. They do all the features and stuff that they develop, usually comes to Linux along the ride when they do their Windows versions and all this stuff. So I was a Firefox guy for a very long time. But then I decided that I wanted some extra features and gravitated towards Vivaldi because it had features. And that's how I choose the browser that I want to use. Not because it's the fastest, not because it is based on chromium or whatever, but because it has the features that I want to use. And that happens to be Vivaldi at this point, right? And I think that that right there is the way that most people should choose what browser they're going to use. Does it have the features that you want? So for most people, the answer to that question seems to be Chrome, Google Chrome. It has the features that they want. That's the reason why the vast majority of people use Google Chrome. That and of course, that it's very well marketed. But if you are thinking about switching to a different browser, what I would tell you to do is first off, try them, but also pay attention to more than just the claims that the browser developer makes. So if they're claiming to be the best browser in the world, you'd be the judge of that. Don't take their word for it. Don't take their word that it's the fastest ever and just go from there. Use the browsers and choose the one that you want. I think that's the way most people will make a decision and that's the proper way to do it. Now, in terms of thorium itself and mercury as well, my opinions on them are that they're fast browsers, but I don't notice the fastness as much because of the difference between Vivaldi and thorium as much as I would if I were still a Firefox user. If you're a standard Firefox user, I would be more tempted to switch to mercury than I am from Vivaldi to thorium simply because there's a bigger gap there and it was definitely more noticeable than the gap between Vivaldi and thorium, right? So I guess it depends on where you are and how much time you're actually looking to spend. And like I said, just from my eye test, I could tell that thorium was faster, but it wasn't a ton faster than Vivaldi. It was way faster than regular Firefox. And I could tell that mercury was also way faster than regular Firefox. So they are faster. The question is, do they provide the features that you want them to have? At the end of the day, you're just going to have to decide whether or not the speed is worth it to switch from one browser to the other. So those are the two browsers that I was looking at today. I know that this is probably the least scientific thing ever because I was talking about eye tests and I'm going to try to put some b-roll in the video as well of me just going to regular websites so you can kind of see the difference between the browsers as I browse around. And I decided to do that off-camera instead of doing it live like this just so I could be a little more controlled about it. But I'm going to try to do that as well so you can kind of see how things are going. So hopefully I did a good job of explaining that. But again, it's not going to be scientific. So what I would tell you to do is don't take a random Linux nerd YouTuber's opinion on any of this stuff. Go try the browser if you're interested in trying the browser. If you're interested in the market for something new or you want to try something new, I'd try it. Especially if you're on like Arch and it's easy to install. The instructions on the website, especially for Thorium, are for Ubuntu only. They have like a PPA or something like that. I don't know if they have like a, I'm assuming they have like a tar ball or something that you could download if you're on a different distro. Me personally, I installed it through Distrobox because Distrobox is awesome. And there for you who are using the bingo card, Distrobox has been mentioned. Anyways, that's it for this video. If you have thoughts on Thorium or Mercury, you can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you. You can follow me on MasterDown or Odyssey. Those links will be in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast where you can head on over to the store where you'll find hats, t-shirts, desk mats and all sorts of stuff. All that stuff goes directly towards helping the channel. You can find that at shop.thelinuxcast.org. Thanks to everybody who does support me on Patreon and YouTube.  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What's up everybody, Jason for jazbythecasebreak.com. We just sold out 2015 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Multisport, two box, half case break, random number, block number two. And again, every spot we'll get a random number from zero through nine. We go by the first number on the left side of the zero number dash. So there's your example there. Number any one of ones, go to one. Any redemptions, even though it may be a one of one, we'll go to unranked with a spot in zero. And any non numbered cards are randomized to the group. So here you go. Here's a dice roll, here's a customer name. So Pat and Andrea got those spots straight up. And then Chris and Andrea won those in specter eight. And then zero through nine. Roll, one out of two, three times. One, two, three. Three times. Pat down to Andrea, three times. One, two, eight, down to one. So Pat gave us spot eight. Andrea was six, nine, zero, five, seven. Chris with three. Andrea with four, two, one. Any one of ones, any redemptions will all be yours. Anybody who wants to make a trade, I mean, I'll give you guys a 30 seconds, but I don't think we really trade too much of this. Martin just took the Yankees, two left. Just White Sox and Mariners, guys. Right into the Grimy Packers in seven and eight. Remember guys, fresh case, there is chances that Pay Manning autographs for the Colts. So if you guys want to try that as well, Colts are a last spot modular guys. And then we're probably just like four spots away again, four or five spots away again from the second half of the case. All right, so TWC guys, trade window closed. So what's gonna feel first guys, either someone takes that last spot right there, 69.99, remember, I look for the Colts. Darius Leonard, Dale, Jonathan Taylor autographs, Patch autographs, Pee Pays, Ricky, Michael Stratchin, and Pay Manning, Great Irons, Insignias, and Auto Relics. San Melanger Ricky autographs as well, and then Carson Wentz Base, all those bases right there. So that break is down to one, and then now this break is down to two left. Mariners at 100 and White Sox at 80, last two teams there. So those are the next two breaks we're potentially gonna be doing guys. We're out there, we're out there. All right guys, here's the second half right here. R&B, two, the old school wooden NT boxes. All right, we got Eddie Lacy, 68 out of 99. And Troy Eggman, Flawless Diamonds, there you go, 19 out of 20. So that's spot eight, which would be going to Pat for the Eddie Lacy, and then the diamonds is spot nine going to Andrea. Bradley Roeby, 25 out of 99. Yeah, with Triple Relic, Buster Posey, DJ Stewart, Luke Weaver, 46 out of 99. Remember, five's going to Andrea, and six is also going to Andrea. If it is sold out, John, I don't know if it's sold out, we were down to one left. Someone bought the spot? Yes. Actually, number five will be first, John. Number six hasn't sold out. Number six has five spots. Ryan Braun, 77 out of 99. Got to look at the website and see what breaks are sold out or not, John. Number five, it looks like it just sold out, actually. Steve Burge got the Colts, so five will be coming up next. Eddie Golden, 12 out of 99. 12, going to Andrea, two. Number six, it is not sold out. Number five just sold out, John. Six, if you click that link, it shows you five left. Okay, well, you said black six going next, so I figured you meant six. Montreos Herald, RPA, four out of 10. That is four out of 10, Andrea. Sorry, two cards there. Colossal, Pat Jogger, Nathan Kirby, 82 out of 99. Two, that's going to Andrea. Willie Collie Stein, two, 99. That's 26, about six going to Andrea. Doreal Green, back up, 78 out of 99. 78 out of 99. Eight going to Pat. Larry Bird, 16 out of 99. And a CP3 printing plate, wake force. One of one going to Andrea. Next box, Landon Collins, 83 out of 99. Spot three going to Chris Yates. Tom Birdie, 40 out of 99. Syracuse Orange, Ernie Davis, eight out of 15.  Probably even better than, what am I blanking on? That's other than Syracuse teammate on the paper forum. Willie McGinnis, and sorry, that little ruby is eight out of 15 going to Pat, there you go. 96 out of 99. Six going to Andrea. And Tim Brown, sorry. See, he was actually better than Tim Brown on Syracuse. Not Tim Brown. What is it? Why am I blanking his name? Jim Brown, there it is, what did I say Tim for? Jim Brown. I don't know why I said Tim, but he's blanking me. 59 out of 99. Natasha Cloud, spot nine. That is going to Andrea. We have eight out of 10, Zoran Brown, spot eight going to Pat. And look at that, Doug Flutey. Those jerseys back in the day, man, that's crazy. 40 out of 99, spot zero, going to Andrea. Duke Johnson, 91 out of 99. Spot one, going to Andrea. And we have Phillip Fiffier, I don't know, more, oh, wow. Next one coming out was a nice one, guys. That is a 60-0 for Andrea. And look at this, a one-of-one patch autograph of Adrian Peterson. Sooners, spot one going to Andrea. Adrian Peterson, uno-of-uno. And last one here is Matt Jones, eight out of 25. Little booklet, Jersey. Eight going to Pat. So that was a good way to end off the last boxer, guys. And then Adrian Peterson, one-of-one. Better one-of-one earlier as well. Doug Flutey, Ernie Davis-Diamond, Tom Brady-Base. Some good, good namesharing. The cool thing is all multi-sports, so. Very, very nice. Appreciate it, guys. Thank you. This was a collegiate multi-sport, two-box, happy it's very random. Number block number two on JasperysCaseBrace.com.


Hey everyone this is Nintendo Prime, if you enjoy Nintendo news, discussion, opinions, debates, you definitely want to drop a like and subscribe to the channel. I would greatly appreciate that. Now let's get into today's story and I want to warn you right off the bat, this is potentially severe spoilers for the Super Mario movie. This will be including almost the entire plot line, not like specific things said by the characters, but it'll have the entire plot line and although this comes courtesy of Jeff Grubb, and Jeff Grubb obviously is a video game journalist, works for I think Venture Beat on the games beat section and also works at Giant Bombs, so you know he's been a source on several things in the past and this information appears to have been coming from people who actually saw a pre-screening so this would be a test audience basically that that would have seen it and that seems to be where it's coming from. We are calling this a rumor because obviously none of this is verifiable, this is just hey do we believe what Jeff Grubb is saying or not that is up to you guys but we're gonna get right into this because we have a full breakdown of it by nintendoeverything.com so credit to them for that and let's just jump right in and as you see a rumor the Super Mario Bros animated movie details leak again spoiler-rific don't be watching if you don't want to be spoiled so Super Mario Bros animated movie was enough years ago yet there's very little that we actually know besides the main cast obviously been confirmed here's the full breakdown of the alleged details below to get this information is a bit dubious but games beat Jeff Grubb who has a history of leaking news training the games seems to think it could be legitimate and may have come from audience testing here's the details these are general before we get to the plot so these details I think would be stuff that I don't think you would consider a spoiler they'll have a cartoonish art style full of life in color it has a similar look to Hotel Transylvania the humor is very punny such meta but there's no dabbing or fart jokes Mario and Luigi have slight redesign starting off with more worn and dusty suits with a muted color scheme Mario starts off with a bluish purple shirt instead of brown Luigi has big green overhauls and a bluish purple shirt both switch over to their more iconic colors later in the movie Mario and Luigi have brooklyn accents I guess I'm not too surprised about that DK jr pauline and toadsworth are rumored to appear daisy is name dropped although name drop doesn't mean appeared female toads are in the movie the villainous character spike shows up at the beginning and then at the end to congratulate them spike is a greedy slash bossy character goombas koopas hammer bros bullet bills and their towers bonsai bills laquitos ninjis and foozies are in the movie so uh this is stuff that I would say just general details now we get into the super spoiler if you want to click off this is done click off you don't want the plot ruined but we're going to go over this anyways and have a discussion after as soon as the plot begins with Charles martin a narration as he goes through the different jobs mario has had before joining the wrecking crew he fights donkey kong and saves mario in the real world which is still an adamina world called new dino city fight apparently choreographed in well uh well in fast paced mario gets the golden hammer in the fight mario is famous in the present time after hearing reports of gorillas and turtles fighting he goes into the sewers to investigate there's lots of gorillas underground and some are partying others are playing drums mario runs into an older cranky donkey kong and he tries to communicate but can't since he can't speak gorilla both end up falling through a pipe into the mushroom kingdom first song in the movie has bowser singing and we see his younger years plus his desire to take over the kingdom bowser then kidnaps princess peach surprise surprise blows up mushroom kingdom and heads to his ship mario and captain toad go on a journey to stop bowser the second song is about plumbing luigi is worried since mario has been gone for a while and investigates the sewers he ends up in the mushroom kingdom specifically the forbidden forest and meets yoshi mario fights bowser and is defeated comek drops mario off the ship into the forbidden forest and he meets up with luigi and yoshi they get new costumes with their iconic colors and go back to bowser's castle eventually they encounter three bowser clones that mostly tell jokes and shapeshift into a gross combination of enemies after being defeated before the final battle there's a song where essentially everyone sings including toads singing about saving the princess mario and luigi about not losing hope and bowser and peach argue to the beat of the song comek gives bowser a mushroom which causes him to grow bowser chases mario and luigi through a pipe maze across different locations such as the desert ocean forest and cloudy area the fire flower and superstar problems appear during this but not anywhere else yoshi fights with comek since they have some history comek uses his wand to alter the environment and such and the last bit of the chase has them tricking bowser to go to the last pipe and end up in his own lava pit mario decides to start up a plumbing service in the mushroom kingdom and the post credits has a scene with bowser's skeleton so skeleton bowser as we have seen before again nintendo and illumination the ones working on this and uh this is the video we'll link this below from giant bob where he does the grub snacks and he actually talks about all of this so my general thoughts i think the plot line is definitely playing it safe which i expected it to be a fairly safe plot line that's very prototypical mario and what i find interesting is even despite reading all those various plot points and the songs and everything that happens it doesn't actually make me want to see the movie any less because i want to know how it all comes together i want to know how the voice acting is i want to know how the characters interact with each other i really want to know how this works because honestly you could tell me this is the plot line to the next mario game and i would go okay that's cool but what makes mario is all the things that happen in between and i feel like that's the same thing with this movie this plot line is very very mario-esque not really surprised so now i want to know that i want to hear the jokes i want to hear the interactions i want to see everything i want to see it come together i want to see the colors pop the changing of costumes so again we don't know if any of this is true but if it is cool now some people i have speculated that you know hey maybe this thing go over well and this is why they delayed the movie i don't really think that's the case i think there's something else at play behind the scenes we'll talk more about that maybe later but yeah right now i think this is actually a really good direction for the movie and i'm i'm pretty happy at least with what we're hearing here and the brooklyn accents to me make sense this was a similar thing they tried doing with the original mario movie back in the day which had its own issues at least in terms of reaching that critical mass popularity that many people wanted to hit so i don't know that that's just my thoughts on it obviously at this point i want to hear what you guys have to think about it do you like these plot lines do you like these details do you think this is real do you trust jeff grub that's a whole another conversation to have personally i think jeff grub never it tries to intentionally mislead anybody uh whether or not he actually misleads is is obviously up to the eye of the beholder uh but yeah i honestly if this is what the movie is i like what i'm hearing that's my general takeaway is i like what i'm hearing now i need to see it come together and the musical numbers will be very interesting um not really surprises musical numbers in the game music's been part of uh video games for a long time and you know they they literally have jack black they weren't going to get away with a movie without jack black busting in the song at some point you know how much he loves it uh with this whole band tenacious d and all that so anyways guys you guys let me know what you think about all of this down in the comments below again if you like this news uh you you like the opinions of thoughts and all that you know hit that subscribe button hit the bell icon as well because hey you know what set it to all notifications so you get notified of every video we make and i will catch you guys in that next video


Russian forces were planning to place an anti-aircraft missile system on the Sergei Kotov patrol vessel, reportedly destroyed on March 5, Ukraine's military intelligence spokesperson Andrey Yusof told Radio Free Europe of the military intelligence agency confirmed that the project 22160 patrol ship was hit by Ukrainian Magura V-5 naval drones and sunk off the coast of occupied Crimea. The Russian Defense Ministry is yet to comment on the incident. This is a new ship worth more than $16 million. Ships of this type entered the service in 2017, and the enemy had plans for them, Yusof said. In addition to serving as a patrol boat, there were plans to place anti-aircraft systems on the ship itself, he added, regarding the vessel's crew, Yusof said that there are killed and wounded, but there is a possibility that some of the crew managed to evacuate. There are some informations that along with the Sergei Kotov that was sent to the bottom, the Ka-29 helicopter was also destroyed. The Kamov Ka-29, designated Helix B by NATO, is a twin-rotor naval helicopter developed in the 1970s. It can accommodate up to 16 troops. The Ka-29 helicopter operates from Russian warships.


What concrete actions are needed to ensure inclusive equal access and use of ICTs for all? Leaving no one behind in the digital world means ensuring that technology is people-centered. We need more and better data and targets for digital connectivity and affordability, but also metrics to measure the digital inclusion of all groups. I consider my life in TIC to be limited and I say this because when I imagine myself in this scenario I see myself free to access information quickly. Young people right now are growing up in a digital world and it is essential that we have meaningful, continual impact on the development of this world. I would encourage everyone to make sure that the investment is done correctly and I would encourage those who are putting in the investment into digital infrastructure to make sure that there are no unfair disparities. We all have to roll up our sleeves in generational quality. We are hoping that many of you will be with us. Diversity is our reality. Inclusion is a choice. And then finally we must innovate, not for people with disabilities, but with people with disabilities. Technology, innovation, digital inclusion are really central to all of our lives, whether we're 20, 60, 90 or older. I spend most of my time trying to catch up with technology instead of technology working for me. Technology needs to be inclusive. If we think about communication as a human right and in the spectrum as part of the territories that we inhabit, we will build technologies with a more and more human focus. So ensuring that we have a diverse group of people who are contributing to the ways that technologies are created is critical for universal design. There's actually a disability is caused when there's a mismatch between human requirements and technology. It's a three-fold challenge. It's the accessibility of the technology. It's the affordability and it's usability. One way where these young people could be catalyzed and prepared for the future is through digital inclusion. We're going to ask each panelist to tell us in just one word what they would like to see coming out of the WPDC conference. Leadership, transformation, action, access, impact, innovation, awareness, accessibility, curiosity, representation, inclusion, meaningful representation, universal design, all one word. Thank you so much, everyone. It's been amazing. Thank you for the great comments and the chat, the questions. I think that we had representation from all parts of the world, all time zones, and I really want to thank everyone.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2021 Panini flawless collegiate football one briefcase Pick your team number 21 from a fresh case There is right there that pick your team reserve for us for nobody else big thanks to this group for making it happen Appreciate it. Thanks for hanging with us on a Tuesday We'll need to do one random number block and Nick L ended up with last spot mojo with the Vikings before we Pulled those teams. Here's the result of the number block Which is which we redid the randomizer in a separate video if you're looking for that and now let's see which case we're gonna do Let's pump this on with a knife So now let's select a die and see which briefcase we're gonna do. I Like that one right there. So we'll go one two three for the top briefcase four five six for the bottom briefcase four one two three four five six so This is the one we'll do and this is the one we'll say for pick your team 22 and we'll load that up on Jasper's casebreaks.com. All right now. Let's see what we got in here Good luck everybody and after this we'll be taking a little break for for the Jasper holiday dinner and then we'll be back to do some more breaks. All right, so let's do a One-of-one on top So let's do this first And we're gonna go strictly by that group break checklist comm checklist Which I will drop into the chat right there if you're watching Right down all of them right here to to help the shipping team All right. Good luck. The one-of-one is Jacob Harris Can anyone identify what bowl that is and that's for the Rams Rams were a number block team. So Rams one Adam Levy Adam All aboard the Big Hit Express Next up is Trey sermon 25 out of 25 for the Niners Jeremy H with San Francisco two-color dual rally Next up is Jared Dokes three out of 25 Sure, if I know where Dokes goes Dolphins according to the checklist and that's for Miami Jeremy H picked up Miami straight up Since Natty having I don't follow college too close if I know that they're having a pretty good season All right. Next up is Star swatch signature is Diamond Brown 7 out of 15. I think Diamond Brown's part of the Washington football team Yes, part of the Washington football team UCF played in the Boca Raton Bowl last December Love the bowl patches that pop out of here And we've got juju Smith Schuster 20 out of 25 is USC gear there He's with the Steelers, of course picked up straight up by Steel Curtin Michael Baluchi There you go, Mike. Happy holidays. Nice patch auto going your way JK Dobbins for Baltimore three out of five From the Ohio State University got a little emerald in the middle there Mark DeLar with that little emerald in the middle autograph out of five That's from last year's collegiate as well 2020 a little update card or I don't know what they update card Either way mark train whistle All aboard whoo-hoo and the last one here is Jerry Rice One out of that. I don't like that ding in the corner there, but that's unfortunate, but a nice campus legends autograph Jerry Rice nice and now you're in case cards. Let's see what we got here Should we cover up some of the encased cards here? Is that a The autograph must be over here. All right On this side and all the gems are naturally mine not lad grown on this side We got a train whistle out of five little orange stripe on top Josh Palmer one out of five emerald Josh Palmer Josh Palmer is a charger And that's gonna go to Jeremy H and the Bolts You picked them right Jeremy. I feel like a few of the teams you got straight up I've gotten the hits and out of fives and under gets the train whistle All aboard the big-head express whoo-whoo All right, so I think the autographs over here so over here Another train whistle Wow three out of five Lamar Jackson Emerald that's another train whistle for Mark and the Ravens Congrats all aboard the big-head express whoo-whoo All right now. What are we how are we gonna finish this? This is the autograph LSU Look at that patch and a nice auto jamar chase eight out of ten Bangles mark route picked up the bangles straight up That is awesome. You got a bit of the bowl patch right there He's on card autograph. I think the number one corners have been kind of on them lately So his production has dipped a little bit, but still excellent rookie campaign great outside chance to maybe even get offensive rookie of the year Pretty great. Thanks everybody That was 2021 flawless collegiate football one briefcase pick your team number 21 the next ones in the store The case is closed on this one for now. We'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


But as far as the country goes, we're up and we're positive on the year price-wise. So at when mortgage rates started coming up, if that started raising rates, you came up with a video, gonna crash for some 2008, all that stuff. What do you think now after it's been here? I'm making more offers today than ever in my life. Why? So your argument is a fine argument. My argument is... Coming to you from sunny South Florida with one of the most incredible human beings on the planet, Mr. Patrick Betts. David, what's up, man? Not much. It's good to have you here. Yeah, thanks for... You like the beach in Alabama? Hey, yeah. It's beautiful, right? Let's talk about this and realize it. I was gonna ask you what your first image or word that comes into mind when you hear the word Alabama. I went to Alabama to go to Panama City when I was at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Yes, and we were going to Caldwell Villa and Spinnaker's and we stopped by a waffle house and the waitress was looking at me because I was in the army and she says, where are you from? I said, I'm from Iran. She says, you're from Iran? I said, I'm from Iran. So what are you doing here in the States? I said, I'm a spy. I'm here to spy on your country and take all the stuff back. No, but that's my memory. A waffle house in Alabama in 1997, 1998. Go to party in Panama City. Yeah. Was it about the beach? No, it was just out in the middle of nowhere. Out in the middle of nowhere, literally nowhere. Yeah, did you know that we hadn't just... I did, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Florida beaches extend in Alabama to 40 miles. So that's where I grew up. I sell Gulf front condos mostly. So we have a population of like 20,000, but we have about 8 million visitors every year. So it's a high tourist, you know, really good market. Really? Yeah. What's comparable to the city you're in? So if you were to say it's kind of like Panama City, it's kind of like... They all have their own different personalities. Okay. They're all having... Is it a nightlife or is it like tourism? No. It's a family. Okay, family. It's kind of in between. It's not like retirement, but it's not totally young. They have a couple of clubs and stuff, but it's not very... Nothing crazy. It's a club for being... I can always tell my buddy when I got here yesterday, I couldn't imagine growing up here. Yeah. But they have a lot of good churches here. It's what they call them clubs. So we also have blue angels right there. They fly right out of Pensacola, Florida. Yeah, the blue angels. We had a miss there.  I saw you on the bus yesterday. It was great. Kids loved it.  Dad, I have no desire to want to be a pilot. You know that. He just sitting on the board out of his mind. Another kid is excited. It's funny how at an early age, you can see if there's any interest for something or not at all. Mm-hmm. I've seen you on the boat. I saw you with your kids. You feel like you're just living a dream? This was all part of the plan. You know, when I was 23 years old and I went through a bad breakup and I asked myself if your daughter came home with the 23-year-old version of you today, would you be okay with her marrying him? And I said, no, I wouldn't be okay with that. So well, then you got to get to work because we got to increase our options. Because a 23-year-old me didn't have a lot of options that were somebody I can pick and choose. It was kind of like nightlife girls. You know, that kind of audience I was a part of. But that was a different audience. And then one day I'm like, you know what? What do I want to do when I have a family? I have kids. Yeah, when I'm 30, 35, 40, you know, just Americans, they like to do this sleepovers. I'm not a fan of that. So I said, if we're going to do this sleepover stuff, they're going to only sleep over at the house. So we got to have a good argument for everybody to come to the house. It's okay. Let's give them the opportunity and the lifestyle. And then I am the one as a kid. I always wanted a big family. I'm from a small family. I have one first cousin. I have three uncles and one aunt, biological, but they collectively had one kid. Four of them combined, only had one kid. And so I always wanted a big family. And I used to think about, you know, later on when the kids get married and you're doing Christmas and they have to debate between coming to our side of the family or the in-law side of the family. I want the grandkids to choose to want to be with this grandpa. So I've got to give them a good argument, good lifestyle for us to come together. This was all a dream. And now, you know, it's a reality, which is great. Yeah. Yeah. Now, I was telling people, I'm going down here to interview Patrick, interview Patrick, and I was so surprised about 50% of the people that follow me that told that to didn't know you were. Right? That makes sense though, no? Kind of. Kind of. You know, but just for the people watching, nothing crazy, no long elaborate deal. But just introduce yourself to the people watching just my following because I didn't realize it. I figured everybody knew you were. That's crazy. You think about that.  But even a statistic came out worldwide, the most recognized phase worldwide is the rock. And you know what the percentage is? 56%, 57%. You know, when you're in the YouTube world, you think everybody knows, but it's a very big world. No, border-raising Iran lived there 10 years. When Khomeini died six weeks after he died, he escaped and went to Germany. I lived at a refugee camp in Germany for a couple years. Came to the States when I was 12 years old, went to Glendale, California. I joined the Army right afterwards, went to the 101st Airborne Division. Air assault got out. Wanted to be a bodybuilder. I was kind of wanting to follow Arnold's footsteps. Even went to the same community college. He went to Santa Monica Community College and then I realized what it would take to be Mr. Olympia. The amount of things I need to put in my body on 6'5", I had to be a 350-400-pound frame during the off-season. I said, no, folks who win Mr. Olympia nowadays are around 5'9", 5'10", 5'11". Met a girl who worked in the financial industry, Morgan, standing dean with her. She introduced me to Morgan. I started working there the day before 9-11. Got my series 766, 3126 Life and Health. After Morgan went to Trans America, was there for about seven and a half years. They're very well for myself. October of 19th, started my own insurance company with 66 agents. We grew it today. We licensed 43,000 agents from 49 states. We have a few hundred offices nationwide. We just sold the company a year ago to an integrity marketing group Silver Lake. It was a beautiful exit, multi-multi-9 figure exit. And then at the same time, accidentally I started a YouTube channel. We grew to what it is today. Total by 10, and we have shy of 6 million subscribers and some views on it. How do you accidentally start a YouTube channel? It was literally accidental because I was creating content privately for my sales guys.  And to me, I've always been the private guy where my friends never knew who I was dating until I made it public. So if I wanted to kind of make it public, I chose to make it public. But I didn't want people in my business. So the more and more times change, you realize we're all naked today. So you either pivot and adjust to it. And if you don't, somebody else is going to tell your story. So I said, okay, let's start creating content. We tested it for about two years.  Hot gas or train? It's just a two minute video. It's called two minutes for Pat. It's a motivational type of video.  I went to an event in San Diego. The guy said, pick one word to create content around guy named Michael Hyatt. And he was a CEO of a former CEO of Thomas Nelson. I want to say very smart guy. So we said capitalism, entrepreneurship. And that became my word, entrepreneurship. And then we started creating content. And then that niche later on we went away. And so you can do that for how long? First video we uploaded was December or November of 2012. And then I couldn't tell you when we got to a half a million subs. It was a slow two years, two years later, we probably had a thousand or two thousand subscribers, very slow. And then we got to the niche. Then we went to a hundred thousand subs and then quarter million, a half a million. And then at a half a million, I took a break. I'd like 460,000 subs. We took a break. And I said, I got to find out what I'm going to be doing. I took a three month break. Nothing, not one video, no content, nothing, a pure break. And then three months later, I said, we're going to do this. We got to do this the right way. I'm going to go to the media company. So value attainment became the name. I thought we came up with the name. There was already a name called value attainment. It was a publicly traded company in Germany. I reached out to the CEO of Derb. I asked to sell the domain to us. He said, not at the time. And it was two years later. He sold a changes company's name to value tease. I bought the domain. That became a company. And then today we have a consulting firm that's grown rapidly. We have a product development site at our headquarters. Manect is now a product which experts like yourself get to get paid based on a, if somebody texts you and DMs you on Instagram, you're responding back. You're like, why would I respond back to not make it any money? And the other people are like only 10% of the time people respond back. So they launch Manect. That allows you to pay for tax, pay for video communication and FaceTime with somebody and you pay by the minute. And then this here right here is a comedy club. We do live podcasts here. We have a cigar lounge in the back. We're about to launch. Did you see it? Yeah, cigar lounge in the back. And yeah, we got this, this whole thing accidentally turned into what it is today. When Steve Jobs and Wozniak started Apple. I interviewed Wozniak. One of the books we made as our book of the month prior to the interview with Wozniak in 2011 was a book called Accidental Millionaire. You couldn't find this book. It was hard to find. It was a book where the author, I think like a bunch of former employees of Apple got together to bash Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. This is why he got fired because he's not a good leader. You know, this Apple is another company. And then later on the next book that came out was about Facebook and that was called the Accidental Millionaire. So the Accidental Millionaire was about Apple. Accidental Millionaire is about Zuck. I'm assuming there's going to be an Accidental Trillionaire here until next few years. I don't know what that's going to be about. Probably love it. Yeah, we have a good idea. So that's the way we're going. So you sold completely out of there? Yeah, I sold 100%. I'm still operating the company. And a majority of it was cash. A portion is left in the company that I'm helping right now to grow. You got a record break in April. You still got equity there. I do. Small percentage. But I'm one of the bigger shareholders of the bigger company. Yes. But yeah, we had a record break in April. It's growing. We're having a lot of fun there. But it's the next phase of the company. Yeah. And so the media company that's value taking, what is it when you say media company, that can mean a lot of different things? What exactly is the business? Good question. Yeah, so we're building an OTT, which we'll be doing movies. We'll be doing shows. We'll be recruiting talent. We'll have our own Johnny Carson. We'll have our own TV shows. We'll have our own SNL model. We'll do all of that. Wow. However, the niche that we're going to have is the follow-on niche. So if you think about Disney, you think the audience are kids, for the most part, right? You think about Nickelodeon kids. So the niche for kids is two brands. Nickelodeon, Disney, predominantly dominated by Disney. Okay. If you think about sports, if you were to say, what is the brand media company that we think about sports? You would think about the ESPN. And second is going to be probably Fox Sports, let's just say. But it's not, you know, they're dominated market place for the ESPN.  You're going to go that way.  For us, we want to buy movies, docs, everything related to business. So Pursuit of Happiness, we would buy that movie if it was coming out today. Founder, the story of, with Michael Keaton's story of Ray Kroc, we would buy that today. And one documentary, that's us. Anything having to do with business, capitalist, entrepreneurship, like you know, the documentary they did, The Men Who Built America, that documentary that's a very big documentary for capitalism, we would bid for that documentary today and we will put it on our OTT. So yeah, that's what we're going to be doing the next 20 to 40 years. I think there's a big threat right now where the hero-making machine is confusing. I don't know if you have kids. You have a three-year-old. You have a three-year-old. Okay, boy or girl, congratulations. So you know, when you and I were growing up, we knew who the hero was. How old are you by the way? What year were you born? I'm 41. You're 41. Okay, I'm 44. So we're three years apart. Same age. Okay. So you're an 81 baby. Yeah. 80, 81 baby. Okay. Who was your hero in high school? Who's our hero in high school?  Like outside of my dad's house. Outside of parents.  I'm talking like somebody that's a celebrity. I want to be like Mike. Yeah, Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan. Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan. Yeah, those guys. You know, in business, maybe we looked at some of these life of the rich and famous who made their money, business, real estate at the time. It could probably be Trump. Even Tupac would talk about Trump. Crank politics is part of the deal. So you know, so to us it's like, man, you know, I used to walk down from Verdugo, Wilson Junior High School, and I would ask my friends, I'll say, you have a choice between being Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in the world, Michael Jackson, the greatest performer in the world. You have a choice between being a president or being the richest man in the world. Who do you want to be? And we would talk. I want to be this. I want to be that. This dream that we have today, kids are confused. Today's heroes are not as clear as they once were. So you and I didn't grow up being confused. They're being confused today. So I think when you have an era like that, certain people have the audacity to rise up and want to fight against some of these bullying that's taking place. Our reasoning for wanting to build our media company is strictly that. I have four kids. I want to do my part. And I think there's a lot of other people that also want to do that. That's why we chose to, at this point in the game, my life. I can stop doing nothing and purely based on my investments that I make. I have an incredible life today. But this next move isn't because I need another $200 million or I need another car or I need another disc. I'm not creating YouTube because I'm trying to be famous or I want people to stop by and say, can I take a selfie with you? I don't have a need for that.  And you fight to be a great hero that's respected by others and not get confused by the mess that media selling us today. Yeah. Yeah. And that was my next question. Like obviously you don't have to do this. You don't have to be here. You don't have to do anything. Why? Why continue?  I could too. A lot of people ask me is it ego? Is it this? Is it that? Is it selfies? Is it all this stuff? But it's not for me either. It's to help people and to continue trying to better the better the world. For, you know, younger people speaking of heroes and people that, you know, someone to look up to and stuff like that. What do you tell kids that are confused right now? You know, what's what's your message to kids who may be confused about, you know, who their hero is or, you know, kids that are coming out of high school who want to be business people want to be millionaires and do the right thing and stuff like that. What do you tell? What do you, what's your thoughts on in today's world? You know, kids trying to get into the space. When you say kids, what age are you talking about? I'm talking right now. I'm talking right out of high school. Right at the point where they're ready to go. Yeah. Right. They're ready to go do something. So first of all, my first message would be to the parents get involved because parents are not as involved as they need to be. If you're not, you're going to lose your kids and it's going to hurt a lot. When I mean hurt a lot, you could lose your kids for two decades. What do you mean by losing my kids? Are they going to go to jail?  It's all I'm talking about. When you lose your kids to an ideology, you don't have that relationship you once had with them. And if you lose them for 20 years, let's just say you lose them for two decades. You lose them from 16 years old to 36. If you lose them from 16 years old to 36, let's say you're 40.  That is a very wide gap at the right era to not lose them because 40 to 60 can still go do stuff with them. Your energy is still higher. To show back up at 60, we'll let you see at that time that common sense and they're kind of going through. Somebody got a promotion over them, even though they were working hard, but that person got a promotion because of whatever criteria they had to reach with an ESG score and DEI score. So they would kind of try to meet a certain criteria. Like, wait a minute, I outworked that person. That person's always late.  They always complain. In fact, they even talk smack behind the boss's back. I'm doing my part. I have the degree. I went in above and beyond and took that course. I go on Udemy. I'm learning how to get better. What's going on here? And then the reality sets in and they're like, okay, this philosophy ain't working. I'm starting to realize I worked this hard and I paid this much of his poor taxes. Why? Streets are still messed up. The bridge is still messed up. The city's not safe. San Francisco, they're shown right now. New York Times and article came out where bosses are telling their employees in San Francisco, when you come to work, don't wear jewelry and your rings when you come to work. Can you imagine in America, the greatest country in the world, a supervisor and a boss has to tell their employees, don't wear your watch and rings in jewelry when you come to work. This is America. What do you mean don't wear your watch and your jewelry when you come to work? A $300 million building in San Francisco right now, Commercial Real Estate is standing alone. No one's in there. No one's renting. It's empty. This is a $300 million building on the main street that you want to be on in San Fran. It's probably going to end up trading at $80 million if they're lucky because nobody wants to buy a building over there. Commercial Real Estate is taking a hit. So again, if I go to that direction with parents, I would first say parents do not lose your kids. Second to the kids, the one thing about kids, yesterday I'm having a conversation with my niece. This girl is, at the grade she's in, she's the smartest out of all of us and she's in eighth grade, really proud of her. She was number one at the top of her class, eighth grade, at a very good school. She'll be number one in ninth grade as well. She's been invited to go to this private university, very well-known university, you know who it is, we all know who it is. And for privacy reason, I won't disclose it to go be a lawyer and they're recruiting kids at all these universities and she was recommended by the top of the school so she's going to go to this place. And she's having this conversation.  Should I not? What do I do? What if my roommates are this? What are my roommates? That's a listen. You have the right values and principles in your head where you know how to process issues and you know the difference between right and wrong. You and I knew the difference between right and wrong at a very early age that our parents didn't need to tell us. If you and I chose to do the wrong thing because we chose to do the wrong thing and we knew, right? One of the best things my mom ever told me and my dad would tell me is, listen, you may lie to me, you may get away without telling me what you did wrong. God's always watching you. That phrase, whether you believe in God or not, parents, if you tell your kids, God's watching when you screw up, your kids are going to be thinking about it.  I'm not going to do it. My mom's not going to know. My dad's not going to know. So I think for kids, choose to better heroes. Take your time with suddenly buying into someone's ideology. Look at the life people have and from there make a decision of who you want to go. I was watching Jesus Revolution last night with the kids. Somebody recommended us watch this movie, one of my employees at the office. I'm like, what's this movie about? I didn't realize it was by Greg Laurie. And I don't know if you know Greg Laurie. He's out of LA. He's done big things, Calvary Chapel, all this other stuff. And we're watching it. Here's a kid. They're doing drugs. They're doing this. They're doing that. They're doing this. They're part of the hippie phase. And what about my son says that? Why do you? Why do you think so many people don't like hippies? I said, who doesn't like hippies? I don't know. Every book I read, they say bad things about hippies. I said, what you think about your father? Okay. I pause the movie. I say, you're 45 years old. You have a 16 year old daughter who starts hanging out with these hippies. Because hangs out with these hippies, your daughter starts doing drugs. And all of a sudden, she does literally too much drugs. She dies at 18 years old. If she didn't hang out with those hippies, your daughter would still be with you. How do you feel about hippies? And so I wouldn't like them. I said, many people have these stories. Now, does this mean this happened every day and all the time? No. But that pain of losing your kid to a community that was making them feel like this is the right thing to do. This is happiness. This is freedom. It's liberating. Let's do this. One bad decision away from ruining your life. So in today's work. Oh my, and you know, today probably more accessible and available than before. But at least when you and I were... We're going to fit in all day. Yeah. But we should see when you and I party and we did dumb things. I don't know if you did. I definitely did when I was younger. Thank God there was no Instagram and Snapchat and TikTok because if those videos ever came about, you'd be seeing me on the stage. You're like, what is this guy doing? Right? They're not free of that today. Right.  You went to a job 20 years from now. That picture is going to be on social media. So I would tell the kids to use some of your common sense.  Long term, they're all going to look at you as the leader short term. They'll make fun of your short term. They'll criticize you. Long term, you'll have the meeting where they'll come up to you and they'll say, you know that one time when we were trying to get you to snow cold and you said no and we all did it. You know that one time about ecstasy you didn't do? You know that we were all smoking leader. You weren't doing it yet.  This is now we're all 31 years old. Behind closed doors, we all respect you because you were able to control. We could not. Yeah. But it takes 15 years for you to realize you were a leader. If you can do that future looks bright for you. Right. You talked about on a podcast which I've seen you do a couple of different other people's podcasts. Is that something you're doing now? Not necessarily. I mean just like yourself when you reach out the team will filter it out and we'll kind of look at who it is. And you know, if we see the content that you know who you are kind of matches who we are and we can bring value and there's some kind of a opportunity there. We'll entertain it but there are certain podcasts that you're not going to say no to. Yeah. Joe calls and says you're going to be on the podcast. You're not going to be like, let me think about it, right? But no, you know, my time today I don't need to go on a podcast to get eyeballs. Yeah. We have a distribution channel that we're getting plenty of eyeballs but I love a good interview and I love talking to people that have questions that I didn't think about before that makes me work. And if you can make me work and I leave your interview and I'm doing homework and research on model I'm like, interesting. I never thought about it. What a great question. That's what I'm looking at with some of these other podcasters I said. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, whether it was a podcast interview he said we're in for a 20 year war. Right? Yeah. I remember saying that. Absolutely. What did you mean by that? A philosophical, you know, ideology. This is going to be a war of ideas and the dark side is going to be willing to, you know, go at it in ways you may not be willing to go to. They're willing to go places you may not want to go to, you know. They're willing to break the rules and the law and play dirty that your values and principles may not want you to go there. But when you're playing this kind of a dirty war that we're going to be going through the next 10, 20, 30 years there are certain things that got commented today on one of the posts and out other. I love what he said. He says, Pat, whatever happened to the five years of you saying you try to control yourself from not talking about politics. Okay. He's absolutely right. And I said, what a great question. I said, well, if you impose in French force your ideas, your philosophies on my kids and divide them against me, you just, you just woke up the wrong side. That's where I don't play. I'm a very friendly guy. I like a good joke. I like good conversations. I like a good game of domino spades. Let's sit down talk. Watch a good debate, a good movie, a good sporting event. But you crossed that line. I'm not that friendly. And I'm standing out. No, not in the household. We are just feel like they're threatening. They're knocking on the door. But it is happening. I want to when I say household, we're not divided right now.  Yes, I know what you have. Yes, absolutely. It has definitely entered. And the questions kids are asking today, my 11 year old and my nine year old are different questions than they were asking three years ago. And I'm not one that makes them feel uncomfortable. I talk about everything with my kids and I mean everything at a young age. I think you have to nowadays, you know, parents who are like, I'm uncomfortable to talk to my kid about sex. Don't worry if you don't talk about it, others will and they'll confuse your kids. Start talking about sex earlier. I'm comfortable to talk to them about drugs. What if this start talking about all of the drugs early on? I'm comfortable to talk about porn and talk about it with your kids early on. So yeah, I'm taking a complete different strategy. But I think, you know, this is a season where the man upstairs is looking for some leaders to stand up.  It's going to be a very interesting next 20 years.  Well, people, you don't want to fight. It's the guys that have no desire to fight. There are guys that are just itching for a fight.  Yeah, I'm not trying to fight you. I just want to come here and talk to you. You're good, good to talk to you. You know, what do you like? You like the Lakers? You like this? No, a very cool, awesome book, right? And then there's a guy that's just coming to mind his own business. He just wants to get food. He just kind of wants to be left alone and enjoy his company. And you push him once. He's called second time, third time, fourth time. And it eventually is like, look at me.  I'm telling you, don't do this. Then this is a lifelong mission. You wake up those types of people. They typically don't wake up just for a season or two. They're going to be around for you. They're not going to stop. They're relentless. So I know the type. Yeah. I've got a ton more questions, but I know we're kind of living a long time. I want to dive into the real estate market with you under your thoughts and so on. But what did I see? I'll tell you what I see when I get your take on it. I kind of feel like there's this, I'm going to call it a perfect storm happening in the group right now because I read an article where Zonda did a survey that 98% of millennials want to be homeowners. And then the one reason was to build their own equity and stuff. Someone else was in among several other reasons. So it made me start to think sort of both curious. So I googled and I said, what's the median age of a first-time home buyer? And in 2021, it was 33. All right, last year was 36. So I thought, okay, we've got 33 and 36 year olds and that's millennials. That's the median age of a first-time home buyer. We have 72 million in America 98% want to be a homeowner. And so I said, okay, 33 and 36. So what's going on 33 years ago? So I went to 50 year birth rates and you see a really, I have a chart. If you see a really big spike in 1991, so there was a baby boomers, which was a crazy spike and it came down and it stayed down through the ages and in 90, good, and it stays like that. And so we have this year more 33 year olds, people turning 33 in the US than we've had probably in our life, let's just say, in a long, long time. And the 33 year olds will be 35 next year, 36 the next year, the next batch of 33 year olds are coming. These people want to own houses. Okay, so right now as we speak, and here's something that people don't realize because of all the negative media and everything, because you hear about prices down, right? Especially year over year. But what no one talks about is the fact that there are a few people that are talking about it, but prices bottomed out about 30 to 60 days ago. And here in Fort Waterdale, prices never went down to the European girl, not even close. But as far as the country goes, we're up and we're positive on the year price wise, the second. Nobody's really talking about that. I'm trying to spread that message a little bit and talk about how the market is. So you got a record amount of 33 year olds entering the market. You've got no inventory. We have less inventory. You know, 1980s, there were always two to three million houses for sale, okay? Right now we have under a million and we take out the pending deals were 500,000. 500,000 active listings, comparing that to the 80s where it was two to three million the whole decade. We have less inventory than we had in 2021. No new listings are coming up because nobody wants to sell their house because we're sitting with some interest rates. Builders slow down. So we have this, in my mind, we have historic pins of demand to buy houses with no inventory and a lot of them we're seeing multiple offers though. NAR came out and said that we went from 2.7 offers per listing to 3.2 in the last third days. And a lot of, so we're having activity, but it's because of this applying demand issue. But as we move forward, buyers are sitting on the fence with an interest rate of around 6.3, something like that. As inflation continues to go down, which way would you say inflation is going? Up or down? I think at this point it's probably going to level out if not for even a bit more. Yeah. So 30 year fix follows inflation, right? Follows inflation. So we have a pretty good idea that that inch mortgage rates are going to continue to ease down. We've got more demand than we've ever seen. And we have no inventory. I'm calling this the perfect storm because I believe that when mortgage rates do take down to whatever that magic number is going to be, whether it's 5.9 or 5.7 or whatever it is, and that's everybody say, okay, now's the time. It's just going to be a flood. We're not going to have any houses to sell.  I think we're going to see double digit price year or year price increase. It's already positive on year. So when mortgage rates started coming off, if that started raising rates, you came up with the video, going to crash force in 2008, all that stuff. What do you think now after it's paid here? My position hasn't changed. The biggest thing that I said if you watch that video is if they get involved like they did and start doing quantitative easing, these banks are going to sit there and say, we don't have to worry about it. You're protecting us again. You notice what Jamie Diamond just did with Chase coming into First Republic, buying them out, and then having the U.S. government get involved to buy the junk paper that they have. And you realize how much manipulation that is where I know I'm doing business and it's mathematically impossible for me to fail at a time like this when the governments will want to bail me out. It doesn't mean we're making the right choices. It just means they keep delaying the problem. You and I may not pay for it today. It may be five years, 10 years, 20 years down the line, but you cannot keep going into that the way we keep going into that. So I know as a real trainer, a loan officer, you seem very confident where you're at right now. What you haven't yet experienced is unemployment that's coming next. When unemployment comes and people can't make their mortgage payments, you know what happens after that. Commercial real estate today, it's predicted that one and a half trillion dollars will default. Prices will drop 40% in commercial real estate. Specifically, A, class A buildings, class B buildings, the industrial buildings, they're going to be fine. Matter of fact, their prices have gone up because people are buying less of the traditional business, you know, units that we were buying before today. They want more industrial. The Amazons, the warehouse model, that's going to be doing fine. And the directions we're going, they're not going to be effective. Commercial is going to take a hit. The more we experience these layoffs, you're then going to experience that. Because now as a buyer, I'm going to sit there and say, babe, we have an income for, we have had no income for 30 minutes. Cash is depleting. What do we do now? Do we keep the 4%? Do we sit there and say, you know, we're going to be fine or do you go into foreclosure? Do you not make the payment? Do we sell it? If we do sell it, then you're flooded with options and opportunities. Then what happens to the marketplace? So as much as, you know, in certain markets, you're not going to experience that. Like the one I'm in, you're not going to experience that here. Miami is already experiencing a hit. Okay. Because you know how Miami's market price has went up tremendously the last toward three years. Sales is down. It's very easy as a realtor and a loan officer to only use the data that favorites you to say, you know, 2.7 to, you know, 3. this many offers as a real, I'm a guy that was a stock broker, a series seven guy. I know how to sell something to a client only talking about the data that I can present for the person. We're sales people. I get that. But at the same time, you have to kind of sit there and talk about the realities of it. That yes, if you choose to buy today, if I'm making offers today, you're saying offers are up. Of course offers would be up. Why? I've been inventory. And not only the inventory, I've been making a bunch of aggressive offers. I'm making more offers today than ever in my life. Why? I'm saying, hey, how much you want for this thing? 3.5 dollars. I'll pay you 1.9 million. You're buying real estate? Commercial, not residential. I'm more into commercial right now. I think there's a lot of opportunities. Just right here, if I told you how many foreclosures, you know, the commercial property, just a block away from here is 52,000 square feet. It traded in 2008 for 13 and a half million dollars. Okay. In 2008, 15 years, we were 13 and a half million dollars. You can buy that right now for 8 million bucks. It's a block away from here. Okay. There's a hockey spot up here. They're asking for 18 million bucks. Three years ago, 15 to 18 million bucks. You can probably pick up that spot right now for 67 million dollars. There's a building down on Cypress Creek that's a 300,000 square feet at 89 million bucks three years ago. It's about to close right now for 46 million dollars. It's from 89 million dollars. So these types of things are out there. The residential one, I think people haven't run out of savings yet. When you run out of savings and that savings starts depleting lower and lower and lower and lower and lower when people panic and then there's going to be the fire is selling.  Why is this guy selling this for this much? Now, by the way, I hope it doesn't happen. When I say like, I don't benefit from residential properties taking hits. It's not like I'm planning for residential to take hit because I'm going to go by a 600 unit this or I'm going to go by, I'm not in that space. You will not see me being in the residential game. Okay. It's not my game. So if it does take a hit or if it doesn't take a hit, I don't have the selfish like for example, in baseball cards, I think baseball cards are going to take a hit. So am I going to participate in that? Of course I that baseball cards take a massive hit the next year or two years. I'm going to probably deploy 230 million bucks into the baseball card. So I know that residential if it does or if it does it, it does literally nothing to me to my network for my go. Yeah. I just feel the audience needs to be prepared for it. Yeah. I feel like I agree with your commercial is definitely going to take a hit on the residential for four closures. They there was a study done. There's Americans on Americans on average have 58% equity in their own average. So if they become delinquent, they'll just sell it, make whatever. I don't see a way of four closures happening. And with the with a massive amount of 30 study done by 50 years. I think it was a and how in the U.S. It was real very recent. 58% is a package for about the 42% loans of value on average just because price is one of so much that's the drive back. Your your your we have to assume that it's going to stay like that. Okay. We have to assume that it's going to stay like that with it staying up. And you know, when we give a blanket statement like that with numbers, I will fully respect that. If it's a demo, if it's a certain area, if it's a certain zip, if it's a certain city, you know, Greenwich, the first time in 20 years that the what do you call it, the real estate value trial, they have not experienced that for a minute. Now, why is that? So, you know, if you're living in a place where the policies favor, you know, like right now, give you an idea, the way we just moved out of the state of Florida. Okay. And he's been interviewed. Why did you move out of the Florida? So I can't be there because it doesn't match my values and principles with my son, my daughter, whatever, you know, the transition that his kid went through and they're going through that battle with him and his ex-wife. Okay. I understand why he left Florida. Well, 351,000 people left. It was a plus minus first time ever. California had a net to growth to their population since 1851 when California barely got started. Why? People are not moving to California. Yeah. People are moving to California, but a lot more people are moving out than moving in.  So again, my statement is we can't make a blanket statement across the board, right? Like right now, be careful the stock market is going to crash. Yeah, but you got certain things you can buy right now that you're still going to be fine with today, right? Hey, you know, buy blue chip stocks in the NBA. Zion Williamson looked like he put on a lot of weight. Buy as many Zion Williamson cars right now. He's played fewer games than Greg Odin did and we heard what happened with that. He was out of the NBA and he's not so disciplined to want to come back and want to compete and getting better shape. So hey, you have to know now he may be different than John Morant then this player than that player. All I'm saying is one statement and a stat that we can sharing pick doesn't apply across the board to everything. Yeah. Locally here. We're seeing so many homes that were on sale. Lord 100,000 Lord 200,000. There was a flyer that came to our house the other year. I understand that, but there's a there's a difference between prices being up. Yesterday flyer came in a house on the corner of the water. Okay. 5 bedroom 4 bath. They're asking 5.9 million a year ago. They're now asking 3.9 million. It's on the intercoastal from 5.9 to 3.9. Why did they lower by 2 million? What are they? Because they were asking too much. What did they buy? What they buy? Which you just you just answer your question though. Most people think most people are asking too much today. Yeah. Yeah. Most people are asking too much. And closed prices are asking price. Sure. I mean, even if you go with comp and you use the comps from a year ago, use the comps from two years ago, you know, versus use the comps today. You know, like even from the moment rates started climbing, Silicon Valley went through what it went through. The guys that came in here that have a half a billion dollars worth of room estate themselves and they're saying, Hey, can we go 4060 on this deal with you? You know, I get a call from my realtor and say, so what happened? Did they finish up that deal? No, they can't get the cash. Why can't they get the cash? They just don't have the cash. So I thought these guys were crushing it. Well, they are, but they don't have the cash to close. So today, as you're going through a lot of these deals, our savings, what we had collectively as a nation a year ago on Q1 of 2022, we had around 2.1 trillion dollars of cash. Yeah. Every quarter that thing went down 300 billion dollars. So we went from 2.1 trillion to 1.8 trillion to 1.5. That's collective savings in America like 1.5 trillion. And it's still not down yet. If that thing keeps decreasing lower and lower, people then start making panic sales. Yeah. We're not there yet. Yeah. You know, we are not there yet. The expectation for unemployment numbers to take the hit is one Q3 not Q2. We may see some of it the last the next two months, but God willing, none of that stuff happens because if unemployment goes high, what happens to crime? That goes high. Who's affected by it? I got four kids, man. I do not want to see unemployment go high. Yeah. I want my wife to drop off the kids and us not have to worry about anything. When you see some of the crime that's happening right now, what causes that? Financial unemployment, got to pay the bills. You're scared. You're worried. What do you do? So nobody is sitting here screaming, we want the end of the world. If I'm single and if I have no kids, if I'm not married and I make money on selling fear, go at it. You can accuse me of that. In an ideal world, I want nothing to happen to unemployment. I will say this to you though, and I don't know whether you'll agree with this or not. I don't know if 100% financing is a good idea. I don't know if 80% financing is a good idea. I don't know if raising now loans from 30 years to 40 years is a good idea, which they just approved a month ago. You saw this, this is your work. So I don't know if it's good for us to go from 40 to 50, because all we're doing is we're making another argument to sell a house to somebody that really shouldn't buy the house. And so what happens when we sell homes to people that shouldn't buy the house? They're not ready to buy that house. They haven't shown a sign of responsibility to do it. So for me, I think it is better to keep the rates out around 6%. We've had it for 6% for 40 years. Yeah, you see the history. When people are saying, well, you know, I can't believe there's no 2.8%. If buyers want to get 2.8%, that 128-month economic expansion, that may have been one of the worst things we did to America to go 12 years or 11 years. Obviously, it was 10 years and then COVID happened and then it continued. One of the worst things we did because we spoiled Americans, we need to go back to the 6%. I would like to see us go back more to you need a 20% out payment, but you know, if we go to that route, prices are going to drop because not a lot of people can do that. Yeah, yeah. Do you think it's more complicated than just a simple supply and demand, right? Because there's no inventory, right? And there's a lot of demand. I guess the biggest question for the residential side, residential. I have an argument for you. 2008, there was 4 million. Yup. All right, properties for sale. Where does the inventory come from? The grates, the oak supply. I got a question for you, though. Yeah. Okay, so there was no inventory. So what are you going to do? You're going to bully me and force me to pay 30% higher? Okay, then the question becomes, where does the income increase come from? My income hasn't increased every 20 years. Yeah. Go look at the median income. Well, you know, 50, yeah, we've gone from 55 to 63 to whatever the numbers they'll show. Well, some markets were at 69. That's still not a big enough of a difference for me to be able to match up to buy a house where a guy's asking you to pay $1.2 million for a house that should be 750. Yeah. How do you expect me to pay for that? So you can increase it as much as you want. But I'm not making that kind of money for me to afford it. So the argument for inventory is a argument I hear from a lot of realtors and a lot of LOs. I totally get it. I understand. Well, your argument would be stronger if you can show me that this is up 40 points. But at the same time, income is also up 40 points. Income is also up where you can say, okay, you're making more money now. Guess what? You can afford to buy it. Makes sense. But we don't have that argument. This can't go up and this stays flat and you want me to go buy a house. Yeah. You put me in a bad situation. I agree there's an affordability issue. That's why there's a lot of buyers on the side of the line. There's a lot of buyers in there that want to buy a house. They can't. So I totally get that. Now, just to piggyback off that, somebody wants me to pay $30,000 more, right? If they have somebody sitting there that has money to pay $30,000 more, then that's okay. Sell it to them. I'm not going to pay you the $30,000. Well, that's what's happening. If the prices, it's worthless, they might want to pay you. So if prices are, say, $750, income and house are trying to sell for 1.2, that's all he can get. That's all a buyer shows up and is willing to pay. I say to the guy that can't afford to buy it, don't buy it. Don't buy it. It's not a responsible decision you make. I say, don't buy it. I did a story in 2016, Denver Post. They came, they interviewed me in my house and they're at this house. I'm like, hey, so you buy this house, now I'm renting this house. Why? Many different reasons. Tell us your reasons. I give all my reasons why I'm renting. I'm nimble. I can move. You can't predict what direction real estate is going right now. The American dream is a home ownership. The American dream to me is entrepreneurship and equity. Go build a business. Increase your income. If you increase your income later on, you can go buy that house that you want, if not more. And my wife and I sat down in 2009 when we had just gotten married three months later and I told ourselves that if you're expecting me to buy a big house, I'm not doing it. A hundred percent of my life savings is going into a company I'm starting. And we're going to see what's going to happen later on. I'm going to buy it. We started up with an apartment complex at the summit in Woodland Nails. We were tight. I was driving in Acadia and everything went into the business to build equity and then eventually that crew, we moved into a nicer apartment, nicer house. And then Sino did a nicer house in the Cramo estate lane and then we bought the house in the corner where Barry Bond's agent was living right next to me and there was a cul-de-sac house, beautiful home in the community. We bought 21 homes in this gated community. Then we bought another house in Dallas when we moved to Plano and then we moved into another house and then we bought this house that we have here. But the point is, do not fall for the temptation of buying a house today. I don't know if you're going to cut this or not, if you're going to leave this. Do not buy a house and fall for the temptation of being forced to buy something you cannot afford. It is a mistake. Don't buy something you cannot afford today. Trust me. I'm telling you this from peace of mind. If you're forced to buy something you can't afford and all of a sudden something happened to your job and you only have six months of reserves or 12 months of reserves, there comes the argument, there comes the divorce, there comes three kids being raised because mommy and daddy couldn't handle finances together. There's already 50 different reasons to get a divorce. Marriage is already hard enough.  But don't put yourself in a financial situation where you're getting a divorce for two months. Yeah. That's my... So your argument is a fine argument. My argument is pump the brakes. And I totally agree. And I don't have a dog in the fire. I was in the business in 2008 and it was easy to sell properties of 50% less. I don't care if prices go up, they're inside the way it does happen. Well, professionals are going to do fine. The guys in the world that are professionals, you're not going to feel it. Bottom 60% is going to get filtered out. Okay. The other is going to come in. The guys that are the newer ones, the rookie ones. The performance and the cream of the crops are going to go to the top. And then the cycle goes. Insurance is very hard. Real estate is very hard. Mortgage is very hard. Yeah. The guys at the top, they're not going away. We're going to do this again sometime. I look forward to it. I look forward to it. Thank you.  Appreciate you. I want to learn. Learn.