So the question is, you know, was this a good choice or a bad choice? This, this sucker started at like, how many ETH? Alex, how many ETH did this start at? Like, if you look at the history of these, what did it start at? 10 grand and now it's at 231,000. So I'm also going to give away money right now. I'm going to give away Bitcoin and ETH. How much should we give away, Alex? We'll give away a couple ETH to people. So I'm going to give you a chance to win some Bitcoin or Ethereum. So I'll probably give away, I don't know, give away $5,000 for the crypto, plus a chance at the board APE. The board APE is easy. You just join my discord, tileopeds.com slash NFT and you will see. You will see. So let's see how many, damn, this is insane. 1,800 people on Instagram, 400 people on Facebook. Can't even see TikTok. I think I'm going to be live about 3,000 plus I got all the audio. I'm on Twitter spaces. I'm on Facebook's audio. Got 400 people there. Discord. How many people are going to Discord? 546. Clubhouse.   Clubhouse. So here's the deal. I'm dropping my own NFT collection next month and it's going to be, it's my OG original garage social club. Up to that point, I'm going to give away a whole bunch of stuff in my discord. Plus I'm going to give away this board APE right before I drop my mint, like before I do my mint. My social club has a lot of utility, get access to my master minds. I'm out here fulfilling the roadmap right now. I'm in Sweden. I was just in Denmark looking at buying one of the top nightclubs in the world actually.  You know, I was thinking today as an entrepreneur, what's the secret to making money? And there's a good book on this, Jim Collins. He wrote the book, Good to Great, one of the best selling business books of all time. And you know what he said? When you look at why the rich get richer, it's not just what you think.  You think the rich get richer simply because you know, they have access to money, their parents connections. And there's truth to that. Okay. If your parents went to Harvard, it's good for you. But also it's the connections in the social circle you get. If your daddy is rich, you get their social circle. And that social circle is underestimated. And I look back in my life, what made me the most money is meeting this person, meeting Dr. David Bus in 2012, meeting Joel Salaton when I was 19 years old, meeting Allen Nation when I was 20 years old. Let me film this. All right, I'm live. What? Oh yeah. Let me do it here. So by the way, let me give away, let's give away some Bitcoin right now. You can see the board eight right behind me that I bought right here. It's number seven, 899. That's the one I'm giving away. So go to, right now you should be on my Discord, tylovis.com slash nft will take you to my Discord. But let me, let me film this. There you can get, if you get whitelisted, you'll get access. Okay. All right, set in a world record. Here's all my audio spaces. Here I'm live. Did we forget to do club? We forgot one. Boom, look at all this. It's insane. Here's the board eight that I bought. Okay, I just saved this. I saved it. So let's talk, I want to talk about some crypto news. Like I said, let's look at Instagram. Who thinks crypto and who thinks NFTs is like the tulip craze, you know, in the 1700s in the Netherlands, all these people were trading tulips and it turned out to be a big, you know, bust and everybody lost all their money because I have a different take on it. First off, crypto obviously has utility. No matter what the government tells you. Okay. There's a lot of utility in being able to just send money. If you live in Nigeria, but you're working in the United States and you want to give money, send money back to your parents, repatriate money, you can do it Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. You don't have to do bank.  You can just send it. You can send it beyond the reach of government. Some people find utility in that. Some people say, oh, well, that's going to encourage money laundering. Money laundering is already happening. Pablo Escobar was doing it.  So it's all people keep talking about all the legal uses, everything that makes money, anything in life that has value will be used both legally and illegally. Can you listen on Facebook? I want you to listen on Facebook because I want to see if I close my phone if I lose my audio. Alright, let's give away $500 in Bitcoin or ETH right now. I'm going to ask a trivia question. That's going to be easy. It's going to test your crypto knowledge, but I'm sure you'll know it.  But the question is, what is the max supply? What will the eventual not yet max supply of Bitcoin be? Who knows? Who knows? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Who knows the answer? Who knows the answer? Ty, there's no video on Discord yet. Discord is just audio. What's the maximum supply, eventual supply? There we go. Alright, Jesse or Jesus Diarte, $21 million. I'm going to pin you here and my team should take a picture. I've got pinned on Instagram. Maya, are some of you, do you hear? Can you go into the Facebook audio? So right now, do you still hear it? Hold on. I'm going to give away more. So yeah, $21 million. Now it comes over time. It's not, the max supply hasn't been reached by the way. Anyway, $500 for somebody. Okay, good. I got my phone closed. I'm here live. I got 686 live. I got a, my Discord just broke about $21,000. I just started pushing my Discord like three days ago and it's going crazy. Now let's talk about DeFi for a second. Who's watching these DeFi coin crashes? Like Wonderland time. Ohm, turn this on. Ohm, Wonderland. I mean, I never can see that I'm on video on, on our app, but I got them. So just see if you go and click us. So all some of these are down 95%. Wait, wait, just keep it on. They can see me. I can't see myself. They can see me. You just join speak easy. You'll see it. I'm live on 11 phones. So just point the phone here, bro. They can see me. I just want you to confirm by looking on your own phone. Um, what was I just talking about? Yeah, so I'm going to tell you why. Now I'm a co-founder of me and Alex. What Alex is here? I don't see you, Alex. Oh, let me pop you up here. There's a, there's Dr. Alex. You can see him on the iPhone. You were eating. We just bought the board eight. How many was it 95 E for the board eight?  So anyway, Alex and I are co-founders of Atlas USB, which is the D5 protocol. And a lot of people are laughing.  Why would I ever go into that? I should have gone into this crypto. You know, that gives 80,000.  You can't get 80,000 APY dipshits. That's what my answer to them. I'm not calling you all dipshits. In five years, that's more molecules than there are in the universe. And even if you argue, well, they're going to lock, they're going to lower the APY over time. You still have what's called supply overhang. Too many people got free rewards and they're going to liquidate them. And so your price is always going to dump on you. Look, go to Atlas USB.com. You can see it on CoinGecko. This is one Alex and I co-founded. What's it up right now? Through all of this, we're like dropped maybe 10%, 15%. Everyone else dropped 90%. And now it's coming out of the treasury. There's an algorithm that can defend the price. The problem with Bitcoin, the problem, even with NFTs, maybe a little bit less so in NFTs, but the problem with the cryptocurrencies as they're traditionally thought of, right? So the top ones, the top two coin market cap are Bitcoin, ETH. But it applies to Ripple, ADA, Cardona, all these is that they can't defend their price that easily. The thought of the 2.0 DeFi tokens was out this treasury, right? You have like a locked minimum value, but you can see now as of yesterday that locked value doesn't mean shit if people don't believe in it. So, yeah, somebody said 80,000 would be more. Yeah, I mean 80,000 APY. There's ones that what was that one API on the what's the one Mark Cuban lost money on? What did the APY go to? 2 billion? 800 million APY and people were still buying that. I'm going, this is like the Weimar Republic in Germany in the 1920s. My grandma was born in 1918 in the Weimar Republic in Germany. There was so much hyperinflation. My grandma said her dad was a doctor, my great-grandfather. He didn't want to get paid in money. He got paid.  So be careful out there. I was talking about this yesterday. The fundamentals always apply to making money. The reason I think board apes, you know, look, art has utility. Sigmund Freud, the great Sigmund Freud, the founder of modern psychology, he says in his book, Civilization is Discontents, The Eight Ways Humans Find Happiness. And one of them is through beauty and aesthetics. One of them is through beauty and aesthetics. And so, art has utility. Like I said, I was talking yesterday, I went to Czech Republic and I remember being in a small town called, I think it's Borno, I forget how to pronounce it like a Czech person, but this communist architecture had just, it was the ugliest place I'd ever been. You just woke up depressed because it was concrete buildings. So never think that art and music have no utility. The utility they have is human happiness. And at the end of the day, what's greater utility than human happiness? So I don't think in and of itself the fact that a board ape is art, people say it's just pixels. Well, I mean, I was just at the, I was in Denmark last week, a couple of days ago, I'm in Sweden now. When I was in Denmark, I went to the National Museum, I saw Rembrandt, right, an original Rembrandt. It's not pixels, it's paint. We still process that through our eyeballs in the same way as paint or pixels. So you can't just say, oh, pixels have no value. Oh, Higa Machado, how are you? My jiu-jitsu. Teacher Higa Machado. So anyway, I think that a lot of NFT projects will crash, but, and that's why I say, look at the people behind the projects, behind the collection, you know, Gary V did one, it's doing well because people know he can fulfill doing a conference with his V friends. Okay. I'm doing my OG, which stands for Original Garage Social Club, because, and people are super hyped for it. If you go, I have one of the most active discords there is no bots in it either, because a lot of the motherfuckers have bots to inflate the activity. I got zero bots. Okay. I mean, we kick every bot out. There's probably one or a couple of bots that figure out, but the activity is all real.  This is like Soho house owns all this stuff around the world. Of course I can do that. I, that's what I do for a living. I buy stuff. I bought Radio Shack. I bought Pier 1. I bought it last year. I was doing $1.7 billion in revenue. So you've got to, you have to look and say, is this roadmap real? It's the same thing with crypto tokens. You have to say, is this APY defensible? And most stuff, I was reading about Celsius. Who knows Celsius? It's like kind of like a lending platform. You put your crypto in there and they're paying out between two and 18%. Now they're under investigation. You as government starting to probe because they're saying, is this defensible? Like, can you actually fulfill this? Celsius is arguing, yeah, we can fulfill it because there's higher ROI than what we're lending out at and we take a spread. We'll see whether it turns out to be true or not. I mean, lending is a tricky game. But the point being, if you want to make a lot of money in life, you got to keep your head screwed on straight. And a lot of people start thinking that new laws of wealth apply because it's 2022.  The same way the Mayan empire and the Incas in Central and South America, the Aztecs were creating wealth is the same way you're going to create wealth. Now, now the Aztecs, what did they use? They used chocolate. They used cacao beans. An interesting story. Spanish pirates intercepted cacao beans, thought that was rabbit manure and threw it overboard. Which, by the way, is an argument for cryptocurrency. You ever seen the movie Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belford, you know, where he had to strap money on his body? Well, that was happening with the Aztecs. They had to transport money. I've been to Potosí in Bolivia where the Spanish empire basically exploited the native Indians to work in the silver mines. And they pulled so much silver, I think it was in the 1500s, out of Potosí, the mines. It's one of the highest cities in the world. They said they could have built an actual bridge back to Spain. And that was why at one point Spain was the dominant empire. You know, Spain was Portugal's England. It was France. It depends on what time. And it was all around these fundamentals. Do you have something in your possession that has value? Now, silver back then had no value, except perceived value. So sometimes people say, Ty, I don't think this board ape is valuable because it's only perceived value. But that's always what's been valuable. So that in and of itself is not a good enough argument against crypto. That, oh, it's only perceived value. Anyway, I'm going to let me put go to tylopez.com slash NFT. I'm going to be reading off the names of people who are getting into my discord. Or maybe I can't even get in there. Alex, can you see people that are getting in the discord? We're at 22,000 or something when I check last. We're going to blow this discord up to 100, 200,000 before I do my OG drop. It's crazy right now. Yeah, it's an active ask through. All right, let me take, let's give away some more Bitcoin. Who wants some Bitcoin? Who wants ETH? Do you want Bitcoin or do you want ETH? That's the question. Alex would rather give away ETH. Am I right on that, Alex? Alex is more of an ETH guy. I'm on the fence. I see value in both, a ton of value in both. And I've been telling people, by the way, some people, it's funny people like, oh, you're just new to crypto.    The peak?  Crypto is going to go up and down forever, just like the value of the US dollar is going up and down all the time, ladies and gentlemen. What do you think has happened in the last two years, the value of the US dollar? Inflation is real. And by the way, it's not just the US dollar. It's all fiat. Huge trouble. I'm here in Europe. Cost to heat your house is doubled. Now, some of that has to do with supply, Putin, Russia, the Ukrainian situation. Look at oil.  Remember when oil, I don't know if people remember oil was so cheap, okay, that it was negative cost per barrel. People were paying you to take their oil. Best thing you could have done a couple of years ago is buy yourself some oil storage. You could have been rich because now I just look the price of Brent crude, which is a way is the type. It's a classification of oil and it's didn't break 100 bucks a barrel on Brent. Rick, just do it. Don't don't tell someone to do it. Who just bought a new Lambo? Somebody needs a Red Bull. Okay, let me do a trivia question for 500 bucks in Bitcoin or ETH. I already picked one person on Instagram. Do discord.  You pick somebody, Alex. One, two, three, stop. We're picking somebody in the discord. Okay, discord. We just crashed discord. Go look at tylovis.com slash NFT. Get in the discord. It's insane. It's free. The discord we've been breaking discord. Wait till I have like two, 300,000 people on my discord.   Server time. They're going to have to deploy more AWS. Okay, ready, set, go. $500 to someone in discord. Who is it? Pin them. Prequee? I love the name. What's up prequee? Doesn't it sound like a real name? Prequee. Prequee. Why are people, people are typing 21 million. Okay, I got a question. Who's the real Satoshi? Is it Craig Wright? Is it Elon Musk? Is it, what's the other guy that everybody thinks that's more credible? I'll remember in a second. By the way, if you don't know, if you're new to crypto, nobody knows who the hell started BTC, aka Bitcoin. It's probably not Elon Musk. Probably not Craig Wright. And what's the guy's name? Damn it. Not Jeff Bezos. Someone said Putin. Here's the thing. Why would Putin start Bitcoin? Like I have my doubts. What's to the point? He's already the richest man in the world unofficially. I mean, he's not on the Forbes list, but let's be real. If you control a military the size of Russia and you're a one-man band because you know he made himself president or premier until he changed the law until 2035, you're pretty rich. The number one way people have created wealth is to take wealth from other people. I mean, that's where wealth comes from, sadly, in human history. Most wealth was just taken. The silver mines, the central and South American wealth, you know, Genghis Khan's hordes took the wealth all the way across from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, all the way into the gates of, you know, Austria. Anyway, the Vikings, I'm here in Sweden. By the way, if you're ever in Sweden, don't say Viking. It's Viking. They're like, what is a Viking? I've never heard of that. The reason there's so many beautiful women in this damn area, they took them all from other countries. It's one way to create beauty. Just take all the beautiful women. Vikings were going all around the world stealing people. I have a feeling they didn't steal the ugly ones first. They're like, we're going to leave this one here. We're leaving this one right here for you. We're taking these three right here. We'll take this. This one we're taking. I mean, I'm not making light of it, but it was a long time. It's not too soon to make a joke. Okay. The Viking were between about the 800s and the 1200s. You know that I was in Denmark. I wonder if Voldemort, you know the name Voldemort? Voldemort in Harry Potter? The Danish Viking king was Voldemort the second. He's the younger. There was Voldemort the elder, Voldemort the second. Here in Sweden, you had one dude named Gustav Adolf, okay, in the 1500s. He was a great king. In fact, Napoleon studied the Swedish conqueror, but this dude had a lot of women and a lot of kids. And that's why I think this is my own theory. That's why Swedish people have a certain look. This guy had a type. Gustav Adolf had a type. Had a lot of kids with that type. Anyway, a little side note of history. Let's go back to making money. Let's talk about crypto. What are the applications of crypto nobody's thinking about? I talked about this yesterday. Supply chain, food. So there's something called CSAs, Community Supported Agriculture, and that's being used. I have organic farms in the United States and Virginia, and you sell like a share of the land. You say this land is going to produce this much food, and we sell this. We 100 people claim that one acre. That's a great use for an NFT, because the NFT makes it tradable, which is interesting. So that's the key is that when things begin to be able to be traded, that's what really changed wealth in the world. Because think about it. I might have something that's no longer valuable to me. A thousand years ago, I might have had 100 camels sales from North Africa. I did my DNA. I'm 5.9% African. So one of my ancestors maybe had 100 camels, and they only needed 50, and so they began to trade camels. But the problem was the other dude might have wanted to trade you camels, and you didn't want camels. Or he might want to trade you a cow. And so this is where currency started, slowly but surely, all the way up to the same Medici times in southern Europe, present-day Italy. And where NFTs become interesting, traditional crypto allows you to change trade fungible things, things that you don't care about the individuality. If you go to strip club and you throw $100 bills on the stage, I did a music video a couple years ago with a rapper, O.T. Genesis, and he was like, Ty, throw all these $100 bills. No stripper cared. She wasn't like, I don't like the serial number on this $100 bill. So there was fungibility. There was exchangeability. There was generic nature to the $100 bills. Now this painting behind me, which is just a print. Who knows who this is behind me? It's a very famous artist, an amazing artist from Mexico. If this was an original, this is non-fungible, meaning if I possess the one, I'm not going to share it with you unless you pay me. So just so you all know, because people get confused with what are NFTs and what's the difference between NFTs and regular crypto? The difference is one's generic and one's not. I like to use the word generic. I'm trying to explain this to everyday ordinary non-crypto people. It's simpler than fungibility. They should have called it non-generic tokens. NGT. I should launch NGTs. There's one problem with the crypto community. You can't be using words that nobody understands. You need mass adoption of something. If you make it the world's most complex word, no human really use the word fungibility before the last year. Did you walk around ever and say, oh, fungible, non-fungible, no. So anyway, we'll call generic non-generic. A piece of farmland.  By the way, if you think milk's not healthy for you, go to the highest milk consumption countries in the world. Go look at the people and tell me if you think they're healthy and then look at the countries that have the lowest dairy consumption.  I don't know why people hang their hat on bashing dairy, but the development of dairy is one of the biggest things that change homosapiens, possibly made as stronger than Neanderthals. But you can't sell raw milk in the United States, a lot of states without going to prison. So people came up with this concept of a herd share. You buy this cow, I'm the farmer, and you can pick up the milk once a week. I store it for you, but it's your cow because you're allowed to have your own cow. You just can't sell milk from your cows to other people. So that's a perfect example where NFT would come in. You could have an NFT per cow, an NFT per plot of land. You get all the produce that's grown on there. And then if you understand NFTs, they trade in the secondary market. And so the farmer could live off maybe the secondary. It might not be a lot of trading, but there's ways. Education system, I'm going to revolutionize. The reason you want to get in this OG first NFT drop that I'm doing is because it's also going to give you a mint pass to my future stuff behind hotels, but I'm also going to work on revolutionize. I think you should have an NFT that represents the tuition for an education. Right now in America, people are doing $60,000, $70,000, $80,000 in debt for shitty, by the way, people get shitty college degrees. Oh my God. By the way, I told everybody a decade ago, it's causation correlation, college ain't helping people. And Peter Teal came along and started paying smart kids like Vitalik Buterin in 2014, paid him $100,000 not to go to Harvard, not to go to Yale. And out of that, Vitalik built Ethereum and created the Solidity programming language and created the second largest cryptocurrency and the largest block, most utilized block chains in terms of dApps. That was from a 19-year-old kid. But anyway, people go to college and they get commutant. I mean, some people get an English degree and get $80,000 in debt. I'm like, bitch, you already know English. You're in America. If you think board apes are a scam, how about an English degree? Suckered born every minute. Now you might say, oh, well, to be a great writer, you need an English degree. Not really. Did Hemingway have an English degree? No. Greatest American writer? No, of course not. So anyway, I think NFTs can represent tuition. And then when you're done with your four years, you sell the NFT to someone else. Imagine your college four years, the cost of that comes in a membership form through an NFT. That can't be cloned. It can't be faked. That's a smart contract. Now, when you're done with your four years, you could sell it. And even if it's gone down in value, at least, let's say you spent $50,000 on those four years, maybe you sell it for $40,000 or maybe the value is risen because the university has put in new improvements. So all of a sudden, you go to school and you made money on the NFT. Now, university is probably not going to do this because they're slow. But also you would ask, because I've said this and people think they're smart, well, then how do the universities make money on the secondary? They could set their royalties to 10%.  Universities have plenty of money. They get money through endowments. They get money through alumni contributing. Harvard has one of the biggest, it has an endowment larger than most countries. By the way, how come TikTok looks so much better live stream? I look better on TikTok. How can I just always look like I look on TikTok? Is it a perpetual thing? I'm like some of these. Yeah, by the way, I got an axe to grind.   But TikTok, the Chinese have, Instagram has, Snapchat has.  Have you figured that out Brent? Okay, let me do a giveaway. I'm going to do a giveaway on Discord in two minutes. Go to tylopez.com slash NFT. I'm going to give away another $500 in Bitcoin or ETH. Yo, now just give it to people coming in the community. I want to build a huge community. I'm going to turn, I want to be one of the kings of utility NFTs. That's my goal. I'm not an artist, so I can't be, you know, art. I love art. I like to consume it. This is the board eight, Alex, and I just bought right here. Number seven, eight, 99. You can see the history. We just bought it what two hours ago. We paid about approximately at the time, $231,000. It's got red hair. I had my cousin. She picked it. Always have women pick your aesthetics, guys. Whatever you do, don't ask guys for fashion advice unless they're like in the fashion industry. Guys always think, yeah, Alex, of course, whatever Alex chooses, I'm going opposite. Alex, you have a lot of skill and Alex has a PhD in aerospace engineering. If I need aerospace, tech, coding advice, I go to Alex, not clothing advice. Alex would wear the same pair of clothes with a hundred of the same thing in his closet. I promise you. Okay, we have a thousand people. I got, how many people are in Speak Easy, TikTok, Facebook Live, Video, because I got Facebook audio here. This is insane. I think there's like, I don't know how many people are watching this, but it's like a lot. There's going to be, if you add them all up. And yes, my, you can go live on Facebook, Twitter Spaces, and Twitter, Twitter video, and Facebook video, and Facebook audio. I just discovered something. I bet you no one ever tried it. I like to try new things.  I saw a good little video by, who's the dude who does Rich Dad Poor Dad? Robert Kiyosaki. So there's four types of people in the world. One wants to win, that's Alex by the way. What was the other one? One wants to get rich. That's also Alex. One wants to be comfortable, and one wants other people to like them. Which one are you? Now humans in reality, the algorithm, the heuristics in human brain is like all four, but anyway, Alex is not one of those. So he doesn't care what people think of him in terms of his clothing. So I did not choose you. Who's going to tylovis.com slash NFT joining the community right now in Discord and getting 500 in Bitcoin. Hold on, sorry. I got to leave in a little bit, but I'm going to give away more stuff. How much we've only given away like $1,000 worth of stuff. You win this board ape right here, 231,000, and if the price of ETH goes up, this thing might be even more valuable. This is life changing for some of you. What I like about it too, is it's like easily transferable. You can win it in India. Who wants this right here? $231,000 NFT. Be watching, be watching for my collection. Adam, put this thing so I don't need the weird thing. Just put that on. All right, Alex, are a lot of people jumping in the Discord right now? We're breaking Discord. You know, one time I had the world record for Instagram comments. I got 450,000 Instagram comments on a post. It took me about, what, two hours? I got to win some kind of award. And Instagram, Zuckerberg didn't even send me anything. By the way, another future of NFTs is social clubs that don't just make one oligarch like Mark Zuckerberg rich. You watch the decoupling, I should say the decentralization of social media. Everybody's talked about it. Tron tried to do it with like a YouTube thing and you know, bit clout tried to do it and all this, but nobody's pulled it off. But the two ways people are going to get rich in crypto and NFTs is the decentralized social media platform that takes off. And number two, fractionalizing real estate with NFTs. It's tricky. It seems easy, but the deed system in the world, especially in the United States is very fragmented local. They're still using stamps. I just bought 5, 600 acres of farmland the other month and it's like, we have to do stamps. You got to go into a little office and it's like stamps. The opposite of NFT. It's like, we have a stamp. Now this land is yours. I'm going, oh my God. But most of the world's wealth is in real estate. Now for individuals, most of the wealth creation on the Forbes list comes from building brands. So it's a two-edged sword, right? You can make it in real estate base. The most millionaires, the most billionaires is not from real estate. Tyleropens.com slash NFT. How many people just joined Alex in the last couple of minutes? Well, look at just the overall count. Look at the count. Okay. Let's give away this 500 in the discord right now. So I'll tell you when to stop, Alex. By the way, the discord is where you get access to the damn board eight giveaway. Tyleropens.com slash NFT takes you right there. It redirects you. How come people keep typing 21 million? That's the wrong question, ladies and gentlemen. That was a question from like a long time ago. Somebody said, no lie, the discord is crazy. Dude, I have one of the most active discords. Not even just from the giveaway. Just have a big community. Wait till I drop my OG collection.  Get on the white list for my mint that's coming next month. Get on the white, don't say I didn't tell you.  Damn, we have a discord with 987 people in the audio side of it. 996. I'm doing a little on stage inside. The discord has like what do we have on the discord? We just launched it. We grew in the last like three days from like 4,000 to 22,000. By the way, no bots. A lot of y'all motherfuckers using bots.  You ain't tricking me. You ain't tricking me.  There's all kinds of motherfuckers making two, three million bucks at 18 years old. Some of it through shady ways. Some of it through legit ways. Todd, you buy NFTs besides the ones you give away. Like I said, my focus is on utility NFTs, which is a subset of the NFT world. You have NFTs that happen in the art space, that happen in the music world. I like the utility side just because I'm a businessman and I do stuff. I want NFTs that accomplish real world stuff. My OG social club is going to get you access to my mastermind, my social circle, nightclubs that I'm buying, lounges, restaurants, all kinds of stuff. I really think like people ask me all the time how to change our life, how to make more money. Best advice I have for you is change your social circle. It's such simple advice and sometimes people go, oh, I already know that. Give me something else. Well, I'm like, well, that's the best advice there is. It's kind of like if you want people are like, how do you get muscles? I'm like, well, the best way to get muscles is fucking, well, two things.  If you want to bulk up and lift real weight, that pretty much never fails. And when it comes to making money, people want some special magical thing. And I'm going, well, if you study science, there's, there's a trait in, there's 25 hexaco traits of personality. H E X A C O. H stands for honesty, humility. E stands for extraversion, emotionality. X stands for extraversion versus introversion. A stands for agreeableness. C stands for conscientiousness. O stands for openness to new experience. It's called the hexaco score developed in 1992 and some of this top psychological, you know, psychology departments. And the trait most correlated with you becoming wealthy is a trait called conscientiousness. And conscientiousness breaks into four subcategories. Diligence, aka hard work, organization, perfectionism, and prudence. Prudence is making wise decisions. So anyway, why was I talking about that? By the way, if these lives see random, that's, because that's what lives are. They're random. Damn, this, I see why it's funny. My numbers are dropping in Instagram. That's because everybody's going into the discord. It's good. That's good. We've got, let me look at the discord. This motherfucker is going crazy. Crazy. We're going to break discord. Yeah, damn. Okay, we just jumped up to 25,000 or 24,000. Yeah, do discord, whoever built the UI on discord, bro, come on, man, the world's worst UI.  Oh, I forgot to do join me in my Twitter thing. What else should we talk about, Alex? Give me some crypto news. Let's talk about crypto news. The D5 protocols, most of them are crashing, except for Atlas USB, which Alex and I are two of the co-founders of. And I'm just not just me pumping my own token. It's not, I mean, I'm a co-founder.  It's because we didn't overpromise and underdeliver.    I'm like, Oh God, you don't have what it takes to make money in the jungle, my friends. Make your money is the jungle. And there's snakes and lions and quicksand. And Atlas USB, if you go to AtlasUSB.com, you can see this protocol. It's a D5. It's a fork of own, but it's different because it has an algorithm that uses the treasury to defend the price. And if you look at Fiat, where Fiat is going well, the US dollar, the euro, the yen, even Chinese, you know, Chinese currencies and some of the more controversial ones, they can, they defend their currency. And that's what really happened. If you study US history, right after the Declaration of Independence, 1776, there was a recession the next year because of the war. And there was recessions every three to five years through most of the seven late 1700s and 1800s. You had a big crash in the early 1900s. Out of that, a one billionaire, okay, anybody know the billionaire that bailed out the United States who led it? It was a consortium. It was a man named J.P. Morgan put together Rockefeller, Carnegie, and they bailed out the United States.  Now, the Federal Reserve has problems in and of itself later on, 60 years later, we went off the gold standard. But you have to give some credit, or credits do, that the US dollar, the euro, they have a defensibility to it. The problem with Bitcoin, why it's not great for a universal store value, even though I own Bitcoin. And I think that it's a solid brand currency. And I don't think Bitcoin will go to dollar or anything like that. I've been telling people to buy Bitcoin since it was about $4,500 on record, on live calls. And, but I don't like that Bitcoin can't be defended, right? They have nothing. And these new protocols, these 2.0 DFI protocols had treasuries, right? They had kind of this concept of we have a minimum floor because we have $500 million in our treasury. But as you can see, it's not working right now. These protocols are dropping 95%. USV, the one Alex and I, you can see it on Coingecko under Atlas USB. Go look at the chart. Why is it holding, even though it's much lower volume than these other, because it has an algorithm that uses the millions of dollars that are in the treasury to defend the price. Just like smart governments do. Yes. Yes. Dr. Alex is saying it. Yes. The problem with Bitcoin is it pays the miners, not the holders or the holders if you want to use crypto terminology.  Holders. So whereas the new protocols, all of these DFI protocols, they reward. That's the concept of the rewards. The problem is they tried to compete with the other protocols by offering insane APY. And when the APY is too hard, it's in effect doing the same thing the US government's doing. That's the funny thing, Alex. Everybody in crypto attacks US government for printing money. Well, the new DFI projects are printing 80,000 APY. That's more than the US government. That is in five years, more rewards than there are molecules in the universe. How's that going to turn out? It's going to create supply overhang. People the second, forget three, three. Everybody's like, oh, three, three, three, three, three. So profound. If everybody works together, everything works out. Yo, dipshits.  I just said making money is the jungle. What if you walk in the jungle where there's snakes and tigers, you go, if we all get along, everything's going to work out in this jungle. See? Well, it's not. If that's what's called the jungle. So guess what happens?  I told everybody this thing will explode. Somebody said thoughts on the metaverse. I like the metaverse. We're in the metaverse right now. 1.0 metaverse was the Gutenberg press. Ideas were put into book form, books circulated, articles circulated. You saw things like Martin Luther with his Protestant revolution in the world. You saw people like Voltaire with their social criticism, which led to what? The French Revolution, which is the American democracy, was very much built off the thoughts of the French and the French Revolution was after 1776 was the American Revolution. The French Revolution, I think it's 1891 or something. But nonetheless, the Gutenberg press was metaverse one because ideas went from small tribes, small hunter-gatherers, where it was insular and all the ideas stayed there to being able to be disseminated and spread throughout the world. That's metaverse 1.0. Metaverse 2.0 came early to mid 1800s with the invention of photography, the telephone and motion pictures. So my grandma told me she's born in 1918. She's like, Ty, I was born in Berlin, Germany. We used to take a nickel or whatever and we'd go into a movie and all of a sudden I was watching Tarzan and she's like, I'd never been to Africa, but here I was. I felt like I was going to have that metaverse 2.0. Now you could argue the internet and this live stream is 3.0. Like I'm not here. I'm in Sweden right now, but I am talking to you as if I'm here with you. You know, people used to be tough.  There was no FaceTime, no emails, no letters even. So the internet brought email, brought FaceTime, bought live, bought Instagram. You could use Facebook to connect with your old friends. That's probably metaverse 3.0. Metaverse 4.0 is what you begin to see now, augmented reality, mixed reality, VR, you know, putting on a headset. Alex and I own a big retail brand holding company. We own big brands that most of them, when we bought them, we're doing at least 500 million a revenue and we're using those, we're taking those companies. We have a software suite called Brahms. It's a competitor to Shopify, but it also has a metaverse and it's already been built for years. That's why I was saying you should get in my NFT collection because people go, oh, for NFTs to be value, we have to fulfill the roadmap. I'm like, well, me and Alex, you know, when I, before I became business partners, Alex, I'm like, what have you done lately? And he's like, oh, I sold my company for $300 million. I'm like, boom, track record. That's the main problem in crypto. You're hanging your hat on a lot of people with no track record. Be careful. You go to heart surgery with a doctor with no track record. It may take your heart, it may cut the open, the wrong side of your body. Oops, is the heart on that side? I would have never known. Track record, track record. Okay. Who wants to win this board eight right here for those of you new in the stream? It's number 7899. You know, a cool thing about crypto is you can go see this transaction. You can use an explorer and you can see that Alex and I bought this for the equivalent at the time of about $231,000, about the price of a house in middle America. And you might say we're crazy for that. We've already got all these offers on it too. People are offering, people try to low ball you. It's so funny.  I'm like, motherfucker, I just spent $230,000 five minutes ago. Why would I sell it? I just paid $231, why would I sell it for $131? But hope spring's eternal, ladies and gentlemen. I think they hope you accidentally press the wrong button and say yes. That happened recently. Was it a crypto pump? Oh yeah, it happens. It happens.  When you get your seed phrase, this set of words, it's a very long password of sorts. Of course, crypto can't just call it a password because it likes to make everything sound super techie. But it's in effect a long password. Don't screenshot it and put it in your iCloud because people hack your iCloud. A lot of people, what the fuck?  Who's calling me? Did I go off here on Twitter video? Can you check Twitter video? Yep, it went off. Motherfucker, we should turn this on. I don't know. I have a phone here. I got 11 phones online.  It's probably just a spam call. How to connect to Tyler was on Discord. Just go right now. Tyler was com slash NFT. We are blowing up Discord. Blow it up Discord. I think we've broken it a few times here. So who actually owns some NFTs? Does anybody here on Instagram or Twitter, any of you own a board ape? Who owns a board ape? Who owns a board ape? Someone owns a project? Someone said buy AMC? I don't know about movie theaters, man. I don't know that that's a great investment. Maybe, maybe I'm not a hater on AMC. Those of you who are in the Reddit groups and you're like all about buying, I don't know. I like to buy things that are software based. Software, the future is in software, ladies and gentlemen. You're going to make your money in software. Top market cat. Like Shopify is more valuable than BlackRock. Somebody said no way. Okay, you don't know what you're talking about, but good, good try. Name anything that has more value than software. The only thing is the collective real estate of the world, but that's very fragmented.  I'm like, learn how to code. Learn solidity. Like if I was struck, I was 18 years old, my advice to myself, I have lots of pieces of advice, but one of it will be learn to code, especially something like solidity. Not many people do it. You can learn, you know, there's new blockchains like Solana that have their own language. You can learn that. It's not a big deal. Don't worry about Twitter. It's the video and whatever. I don't care. So there's a simple piece of advice that has a lot of positive externalities for you. So at least I do define when this changed my whole life. Yep, somebody's going to win it.  And I'm going to give this thing away right before I do my NFT drop. Make sure I'm going to release in the roadmap for my OG NFT collection called a OG original garage. It's full of utility. It's going to be a limited collection. And you want to be on the white list so you can grab because a lot of these NFTs sell out in the first, you know, 90 seconds. You're not on the white list yet. By the way, even if you're not on the white list, you can still buy the NFT. Hold on one second. Alex, what else? What's something in the news? Somebody posts, what's the question? Someone let's do a little Q&A for Alex.  You can see the board eight. He's in the corner here. He's got how many monitors do you have, Alex? Alex has his eight monitors right there. Alex built his own hedge fund trading software in like 2013. So yeah, you can go. My cousin just flew in to suite in here. How many hours have you been in the wake? 20 hours. She could, she had a live flat seat and you didn't even use it. Melatonin. By the way, who owns Atlas USB? That's another way you can get on the white list. Own Atlas USB. Like I said, defensible price right out of the treasury. I'm a co-founder. Alex is a co-founder. Go look at our charts. Look at our charts compared to all the other DeFi projects. I'm like, I've been telling people, but sometimes, you know what I learned in life?  You know, in the book Richard Dawkins book, the selfish gene talks about that the thing about the human brain, it has the ability to not learn through trial and error. Don't listen to people who say you can only learn through trial error. What does Richard Dawkins say? So the problem, organisms that can simulate the future without experience in the future have a leg up on organisms that only learn through trial and error because trial is costly and error is deadly. So don't just listen to people say, all the only way you're going to learn crypto is to lose all your money a few times. No, you might not recover from that. Okay? You don't have to put your hand in the fire to learn that fire is bad. You don't have to get run over by a truck to learn that you should look both ways. But that's the modern education system doesn't give people real world experience. And if you don't have real world experience, guess what? You learn the hard way. Atlas USB. USB stands for universal store of value. So you can just go to AtlasUSB.com. You know, somebody said they lost 280,000. Would you lose 280,000 in best option for someone with under $10,000 to invest? Here's my advice to myself. Since I started out making money, first time I started making 100 grand, put your money in three different buckets. High risk. I call that the Vegas bucket. That you can put in crazy things. Then you have your super safe. Just put it in cash. It can be fiat. It'll be okay. It can be stable coins if you love crypto. And then you have this main bucket, which is put the money back into the things that have been making the money, the reinvestments. Okay? So those are three places that you can put your money. And if you're super risk averse, put most of the money in the super stable stuff. But think about your money in different buckets because people get all weird and they start fomoing and going by envy and my other. Remember what Charlie Munger said, there's no great tragedy in other people getting rich when you're not. It's just that's what's going to happen. People are going to get rich and you're not. But you only got to get rich once. And to get rich once, what do you have to do? You have to catch trends early. You have to not be a skeptic. I got in a little debate with somebody on Instagram and they're like, well, the reason that we are, you know, skeptics is because there's a lot of bad stuff out there. And I'm like, that's true. And of course, but the problem is most skeptics are skeptical on the very things they should not be skeptical.  Just think about your dating life.  A lot of times you were betrayed by people you had explicit trust in. So in general, the human brain is very easily fooled. There's a great book on this one of the greatest books ever written that nobody's ever read called the Folly of Fools by Robert Trivers. He's a great genius. I mean, he's the father of evolutionary biology, founded the department at Harvard, you read that book, it'll blow your mind. So what do I think of axe infinity?  I'm not a gamer. So I don't speak too much on the gaming world because it's not my expertise. I'm more focused on D5. I've been in finance my whole career, you know, and so that's you got to you got to stay in your circle of confidence.  So what's the book name? The Folly of Fools. The Folly of Fools. What do you think about giving you somebody's asking me to just give them $5,000? All right, Alex, let's do another giveaway. Do it in discord right now. Another $500 either on Bitcoin or ETH. So I'm going to do it in two minutes. You got two minutes to get in the discord. Ty Lopez dot com slash NFT will take you for free into the discord. Ty Lopez dot com slash NFT. I'm going to pick one person right now that's in the general room, just chatting. That's all you got to do. No, wait two minutes. Let people get a chance here. Let people get a chance. We're just about to crack 25,000 people in. I'm going to try to get this over 100,000 before I do my NFT drop. That way maximum amount of people know about it. User name is spicy bagels. Sometimes you can learn a lot about the human brain by people's user names. It's like three types of people. One are practical people. They're user names like their own name, Bob Smith. Then you got the people that I feel like want to be cool and want to be perceived as outliers. So they come up with some names. I mean, that's where board eight yacht club came from. This kind of outsider.  You know, there's a lot of things wrong in society. I can't hate on that. And then there's kind of like the middle ground people. No, there's the people that are super afraid of being known publicly. So they're like the anonymous people. It's just like their emails like b7342 at gmail.com. I'm kind of, I don't know which one I'm at. Maybe I'm in the one that likes to just make up funky names. I'm in the funky name category. Oh, here's my stage. Yeah, dude, the UI on discord is hilarious.  They're like, how should our UI work on a disk? I like discord. But geez, sometimes you just see like Facebook, who's used Facebook recently, kind of hodgepodge menagerie of horrificness is the regular Facebook app.  He was smart to buy Instagram, geez. Smart to buy WhatsApp acquisitions, which is what I'm going to do. My NFT, for those of you who get in my NFT collection, I'm going out and buying real world assets, brands, and bringing the member only aspect to it through the NFT side of things. It's going to be cool. No one's done what I've done before. It'll be the first one ever. Nobody. People have done, they've hinted around it, but not like this, not a global social club that owns night clubs that like think a Soho house will be like a competitor, you know, and we'll have a metaverse aspect as well as a physical aspect. You can't find tileopis.com slash we have to go to tileopis.com not just tileopis slash ties the best book referrals ever. It's a good book I read recently. The cold start problem is pretty good book. An old school book, people haven't read where good ideas come from. What a good book by Stephen Johnson. If you haven't read where good ideas come from, especially if you're in the crypto space and you want to understand the concept of the formulation of cutting edge ideas, that's the place to do it. Discord name tileopis.com slash NFT. I guess I should have this pinned the whole time. Let me just do this tileopis.com. I'll do it in all next time I got to do this at the beginning. Let me pin my own thing. I got my board APE as my new profile. I'll do it here on Facebook. Hello from New Zealand. Where is everybody from? Who's the most exotic person here? We got anyone from like Mozambique or something? Nepal, Bhutan. We have somebody from the Marshall Islands. We have Siberians here. Give me something good. Who's like a good location? Or not good, but exotic. Of course, for me to pin this, I need a PhD. Okay, there we go. Gold Coast of Australia, okay, Arkansas, Wolverhampton, England, Mongolia. Okay, Mongolia, you're in the running. You're in the running. Why can't I pin my... Oh, there it is. YouTube's already done. So I've spent 231,000 on this board APE. Somebody's gonna win it.  There was a kid yesterday on my live call and he's like from India and he's like, I don't know how old he was, 15. He's like, I like crypto. It's someone's hacked. All right, so I sent $100 to the wrong wallet and he's like, it took me nine months to save $100. I felt bad for the kid. I was sending him 500 in Bitcoin. He started crying. We all take for granted how much money we have. If you live in the Western world, we're all spoiled. So don't forget where you came from. Make sure you pay it forward. I've tried to pay it forward, given away a lot of stuff over the last six, seven years. This will be a big thing. I gave away cars, a whole bunch of Mustangs and Camaros and I'm going to do more and more of that, kind of do crypto philanthropy. Cool thing about crypto philanthropy. It was crazy when I was trying to do giveaways. How do I give away $500 to somebody in India that doesn't have a bank account? That's the cool thing about crypto. There's a utility everybody's forgetting. I can just instantly, this kid's 15.  And that is a cool thing. And it's going to change the world, ladies and gentlemen. And some of you don't believe in it, but you're making a mistake. Can you charge the TikTok vlogs about to die? So what else? Okay, now let's give away the $500 in Bitcoin indeed. One person that's in tidelopers.com slash NFT, who's actively chatting right now. How's the chat looking? Is it wild? Oh, we're breaking Discord right now. I did this with an Instagram. I had one post that had over 400,000 comments. We should try to see if we could set a record on Discord for the most. So we're giving away 500 Bitcoin. Next month, I'm giving away the board aid to one person who's on my white list for my NFT drop. I'm doing a mint here next month. Okay, Alex, I'll tell you when. Okay, here I go. I'm going to count to five. I'll be like Dwight Schrute on the office. Remember that one where they're like unveiling the Christmas tree? And he's like, he's like, countdown 30, 29, 28, 27. Jim's like, why would you start so high? All right, I'll count down from five. Five, four, three, two, one. All right. Who's it on? Who's the winner? King Holt? King Colt 1330 in my Discord. We're sending you 500 bucks in Bitcoin or ETH. King Colt 1330. See, that dude's personality type is like a combination of Innovator and then just give up. King Colt, what the fuck's 1330 symbolize? Somebody's trying to verify on Discord not working. I'm telling you, Discord is toast. I think we broke Discord. We've done it. Our invite's going out of like broken. We have to reset. What's up with Discord only having a thousand invites? Yeah, but we don't have bots. Just you wait. When we have, we only have 25,000 people on the Discord. When this sucker is 125,000, it's going to explode. I haven't even posted on my Instagram yet that I'm doing this board eight giveaway. So get on the white list now because it gets a little trickier to get in now. So make sure you're working to get on the white list. And when I drop that, the white list, when I drop this NFT collection, the first mint, you'll be able to grab it before anybody else.  I did this. It's funny. Discord reminds me of like Snapchat back. Dude, I used to get wacky views on Snapchat. I remember I got 9 million on one Snapchat story. The first post got 9 million views. I think once I got 18 million, but that was when I was like at the Grammys or something. But I Discord have that feel of like the news. It's not new, but it's like it pops, man. All right. Let me give, I'm going to give away 500 here on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, right here, not just on my Discord. All right.  I'm going to pick one of the platforms. Tell me when to stop. Okay. Wait, wait, do it again because Twitter's offline. Okay. Okay. Facebook. All right. Facebook.  All right. Count to three. Alex, tell me when. I'm going to grab my Facebook. What?  Ryan Buxton. Ryan, B-U-X-T-O-N. I'm going to reply to you. I'll pin you for a second. Do I want to pin? Fuck. Why can't it reply? Oh, there I can. Boom. 500 winner. So we'll send it to you either. Make sure you get a wallet, keep it secure. Don't be screenshoting your seed phrase.  Somebody hacked the eye cloud, which there's a lot of apps that connect the eye cloud and just popped them, man. 30,000. He was, you know, justifiably angry, but we had told people, you got to be very careful with that. That's the only downside. Crypto puts the responsibility in your hands. And, you know, people don't always, don't always like responsibility. They want other people. They want the banks and the government. But remember, there's no free lunch. When the government controls all your stuff, guess what?   Who's here has had the world's greatest experience with banks, not me. I mean, dude, I have a lot of different bank accounts, a lot of different banks. It's just some of the stuff they do is ridiculous. And I've got a lot of money in there. Like they take advantage of people that don't have money. They take advantage of me. And I was thinking back when I had no money, then they were doing the same thing, taking too many fees out, overdraft fees. And then the overdraft freeze caused you to have more overdraft fees. What a scam. I mean, look at all the money that find, you know, Wells Fargo was fine for just making up accounts, free account. They wanted to hit their quota so they make free accounts just to charge more fees.  But I ain't let a double standard in this world. By the way, the criminal justice system should be on the blockchain. Judges make a lot of mistakes, especially at who there's a there's a good book. What's the book? I was just reading not super intelligence, but it was talking about how humans, oh, it was the new book by Malcolm Gladwell. Judges only get right about one third of the time who should go get bail and who's a menace to society. Computers get it right 50% almost double. So you'll be better off when I mean, you could argue there shouldn't be a bail system. Some people don't like bail at all. Like in Scandinavia, there's no bail system. They find it unfair to poor people, right? Because if you're poor, you can't post bail. So you get stuck in jail. And when you're stuck in jail, you can't pay your bills because you can't work and rich people can post bail. So that's all.  But if you're going to have bail, it should be on the blockchain because impartial, impartial software will do a better job. You know, it won't see color, for example, there won't be racism. You can't look at things like that. A lot of times judges look how somebody looks and go, oh, this person has to be guilty, which we know. It's a lot of people that know how to put on appearances and look pretty that are pulling all kinds of bullshit.  More likely. All right, I have 15 more minutes than I have to go. I gotta go. I'm hungry. Why am I so hungry, Rick? Probably because you did not eat enough food. Thank you, Rick. Rick says it's because I didn't eat enough food. That is a profound talk right there. Ladies and gentlemen, we're dropping gems on this call.  There you go. Good thing you're on this call. What would you do without this live call? Learning profound things like that. Alex, what's on the top of crypto news? Let's pull it up here. Let's see what the mainstream media right now is saying about crypto.  By the way, they were like, oh, Bitcoin's going to crash all the way. It's up to 37,000, even though Atlas USB, by the way, which acts on a co-founder, is a much better bitcoin, and you can see it in the charts. See it in the charts. Last seven days were up 6%.  The DeFi tokens. Okay. Top crypto news. Let's see what's going on here. Let's see what's going on. Russia prepares roadmap for Bitcoin and crypto regulation. Scar Mucci-backed GMI pack will support crypto-friendly candidates. Scar Mucci wanted me to pee on one of his podcasts. If you know who that is. Terraluna drops 20% while symbol token climbs on Friday. Alex, why do you think Terraluna was one of the week's biggest losers? You awake? Are you on mute, Alex? I can't hear you. Yeah, when things have been moving up for so long, a little bit of a correction. Don't be freaked out so much. Yeah, it's very similar to the stock market. A lot of people are saying crypto is very, you know, Bitcoin moves with the stock market. One of the big arguments for the advantage of crypto is it's uncorrelated to the markets. But remember, all things are going to be somewhat correlated. If an asteroid hits the world, everything is going to be correlated. Everything is going to move down. It's all psychology. Crypto psychology. Modern fiat psychology. The stock market psychology. Real estate psychology. Yes, there's real world underlying fundamentals to it. But don't ever think that anything on this earth has nothing is non-psychological. There's very, maybe, you know, if you have a bulldozer company and you move rocks around, there's not much psychology. But you got the psychology of the driver. That's why the greatest human skill for all of you wanting to make money, you better become a psychologist. I mean, I study psychology more than I read business books. 25 cognitive biases. I've added, you know, over 15 of my own cognitive biases over the years. As I understand, I've got my 300 foundations, which are 300 mental frameworks I use to navigate life and business. Somebody said, what do I think about the vaccination? Did you see Denmark's the first country? I was just in Denmark three days ago. Denmark's the first country to declare COVID basically a non, I won't say a non-threatening disease, but an endemic disease. Everybody's going to have it. It's like the flu. They've lifted everything. Next week, there'll be nightclubs, no masks. I'm here in Sweden right now. There's no masks here, but it's interesting to watch. Sweden got vindicated.  You know what the problem is, Alex? Because people pull up, okay, at this period of time, Sweden had more deaths than say Norway, Finland, Iceland, Denmark, other Scandinavian, but they don't understand the noise of statistical insignificance and significance. So one country is always going to pop at one given time and subside, but overall it turned out Sweden was right. Maybe they didn't do it right with the nursing home, certainly when you have something that's of the magnitude of COVID, which is real, for sure people not COVID. I don't think anybody, even the conspiracy theorist, don't believe that, but they didn't shut down the country. And it's a wealthy place to be. Sweden has five times the billionaires as the United States per capita because it's a great, I mean, there's a lot to learn. One of the problems in the United States is we don't, we get a little too cocky and we don't always learn. You got to learn from everybody, no matter what country it is, no matter how it may seem that you think, you know, the second you think you are always right, you get taken out and look at the UK versus Sweden. Now you could say London's a bigger city with more congestion, more people rubbing shoulders, more inbound from around the world. And there's truth to that. Look, I'm not a epidemiologist. I don't understand, you know, I'm not a virologist, although my friend is one of the top PhDs in the world. And the second this came out in March 2020, the beginning of COVID, I said, can you look at the science and give me your opinion? Because I was trying to decide whether to be aggressive and buy businesses. He said, Ty, everybody will get COVID. That's what he told me. And that's why Alex and I decided to be aggressive and buy up all these businesses over the last two, three years because it was unstoppable. And that's exactly what happened. At some level, everybody will end up probably with some variety of this over five, 10 years. You know, and again, I can't tell you, people ask my opinion of the vaccine. Look, my cousin's a doctor. He's unbiased. He says people with the vaccine certainly are less likely to die. Now, you look at countries that are going to do five boosters. And even the doctors that were supporting the vaccine are like, you can't hit the human immune system that many times, you're going to weaken it. So it's a tough one. But all I could tell you is take life into your own hands. Last three years, every time the media says things are horrible, there's always an opportunity for you. And pretty much I do it opposite of whatever the mainstream media says. So right now they're super bearish on crypto. Oh, blah, blah, blah. There's always articles in Wall Street Journal. NFTs are just reselling screenshot and JPEGs and blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, they don't even begin to understand the wide range of possibilities for these things, you know, don't get your financial advice from reporters. I can tell you that. I mean, look at what people do that have made money. A lot of people have made money, have moved into this space. They're buying NFTs. They're talking about, they're doing DeFi, you know, look at the youngest kid on the Forbes list. Besides Zuckerberg is the founder of FTX two years ago, three years ago, 2019. He wasn't even doing crypto. That's why it's good news for some of you. That's why I say go buy some Atlas USB. Yeah, I'm a co-founder. So I have invested interest in telling you that, but buy $5. You can buy it on the Polygon Network or super low fees or you can buy it on Ethereum or we're on multiple chains, right? Buy some learning. You don't have to use a lot of money. As my mentor, our nation said, never be the first or the last to try a new idea. E-com still wide open to get into, you know, to get into E-com. I'm an E-com.  Still an opportunity. I told people social media marketing. Social media marketing makes people a lot of money. So at the end of the day, I highly advise each of you do not be these highly skeptical people that just lose, you know. Anyway, I'm going to go. I'm getting tired and hungry. So here's your last chance. This is how you get a chance at the board eight and more giveaways. I'm doing it in my discord. You go to tidelpes.com slash nft. That'll redirect you right place tidelpes.com slash nft. My discord is going through the roof. You'll see it. It's crazy active. It's real. It's not bots. It's a whole community. You can meet new people. It's a virtual social network. It's not what you know. It's who you know. There's a lot of truth to that. And so this is an opportunity not for you just to get access to my nft, my ogee social club, but also for you to meet new people all around the world. And one of those people, I always say you're like one or two connections away from making a million bucks. Maybe somebody that's how I learned YouTube.  That was in 2014. I was ahead of the curve. I was in Facebook ads and the beta program. People are like, Oh, you can make money on Facebook ads. I'm like, yeah, 12, 13 years ago, you could really make money by catching trends or really knowing the right people and getting my nft growth. I'm only I'm have a limited amount of nfts and it gets you access to my social club, my masterminds, conferences, the access to nightclubs and lounges and VIP and all this stuff that I'm doing both with physical real estate and in the metaverse on social media. So if you want access, be watching for my ogee social club. All right, I'm gonna call it quits here. I'm gonna start


Hi, I'm Chris Cox, and I'm reporting with CalTV Entertainment and today I am here with Tom McGrath and Ramsey Nato Director and producer of The Boss Baby. How are y'all doing today? Great. We're in our baby shower. Thank you, Chris. It's a boy. It's a boy. I love it. We have cigars. Who are they? There are lollipops outside. It was beautiful. So can you tell us a little bit about the film? Well, it's it's Alec Baldwin as a baby in a suit and hopefully that'll just give you a sense of the tone of the movie because Alec is very funny and we thought it would be really fun because everyone's been in a family and everyone's been a baby to tell a story about family and particularly sibling rivalry and you know every kid's worst fear is that if they have a baby brother or sister that the love's gonna be put on them and taken from them. About three and a half years ago Tom sent me the script and I literally thought it was a mirror of my own life because as a mother I have two kids and my first child was seven when my second one arrived just like Tim Templeton and and you know I live in a house of sibling rivalry and you know this story gave me a lot of hope that one day maybe they will learn to love one another. So so I think that it's a very relatable you know, you know emotional story for families. Sure. And also the movie basically focuses on a baby that is a boss of a household and we live in a country where our boss is a baby. Did any of that go into casting Alec Baldwin as the lead role? Actually, because you know, I started this film six years ago and then back when Alec came on you never know who's gonna be president or what the political landscape is gonna be and there are some similarities looking at boss, baby and and and and President Trump, excuse me but you know to me it's a testament to what Alec can do and he goes when he devotes himself to a character, he is that baby and he just is a hundred and you know, fifty percent that. So lastly the movie focuses a lot on family relationships and I want to know what you want viewers to have their main takeaway be when it comes to their own families. That there's enough love to go around and and that you know when you're baby when you have a baby brother or baby sister or you know that you're you know the fear of being replaced is silly and that you know families mean love and you know what's great about this film is that it relates to families but also relates relates to people who don't have families like if you've had a mean boss or you know this idea of being replaced is is you know There's just a lot enough love for everyone. Of course. All right. Thank you both so much again I'm Chris Cox with Cal TV entertainment. Make sure to check out the boss baby coming out March 31st


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everyone and welcome to Ehana Kako. We're here every week on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Kiddli Akina, president of the Grass Root Institute. Well, whether you live in Hawaii or Washington, D.C., focus is on the new president of the United States, Donald Trump. When he was elected, the Dow soared over 20,000, but protests broke out across the country. Well, what can we expect? Well, without a doubt, those who might be called, quote-unquote, liberal have their concerns, but at the same time, those who have been called, quote-unquote, conservative have their concerns as well. We're going to take a look at why the country seems to be very nervous about the new president of the United States. My guest today is a familiar figure on our program, Andy Blom, executive director of Grass Root Hawaii Action in Washington, D.C. Andy, welcome to the program. Aloha. It's great to be at least electronically back in Hawaii. That's right. I see you don't have your tie on. It must be Pau Hana time up there in D.C.  That's right. Well, you know, today we're not going to talk so much about Grass Root initiatives, but really we're going to give our folks here in Hawaii and across the country who are watching a little view, a little insight as to what someone from Hawaii yourself thinks about what's going on in D.C. But I want to say this. When I last visited shortly after the election, there was such disarray. People were worrying where their jobs were going, where policy would end up. And I'm talking about the Republicans. It seems that there's enough motion going around for everyone. Well, when Mr. Trump said, let's drain the swamp and the people said, let's drain the swamp. Remember, the swamp was full of both parties. And I go to regular meetings and people were saying to me through the campaign, you know, if he wins, we're all out of jobs, too. And it's crazy and frantic up here. It's really interesting. Well, one of the concerns that you and I have discussed before has to do with what we do at the Grass Root Institute and at Grass Root Action. And that is we comment upon policy, policy with respect to the economy, government transparency, small business, and so forth, protectionism. You name it, we talk about it, but we've been having a little bit of a difficult time trying to figure out precisely where President Trump falls on policy. Now, I'm not talking about politics. I'm not talking about what we think of him as a leader, but just trying to determine what his stand is. How are we doing in finding out what his actual policy stands are on a broad range of very important issues? Are we getting better? I think we're getting a clearer picture. The picture is President Trump is not a conservative Republican. He's certainly not a liberal Democrat. He's a populist. And what we're seeing are things that person he's running right through his campaign promises and delivering. But the way he's doing all of this, it's obvious that he brings in union leaders and deals with them. He brings in business and deals with them. He is primarily focused on getting America moving, very transparent, but much more popular than a Republican. Well, what is the basis for his principles? You say he's not a typical conservative Republican. Oh, what is his guiding principle in terms of determining policy? Obviously, he cares deeply about the advancement of the American people. He is a populist president. But where does he find his political compass as he leads the country? I think that oddly enough, his campaign slogan, Make America Great Again, actually tells you a lot about the man when he says that. Yes, he's talking about a very dynamic economy, but he's also talking about, for lack of a better term, traditional American values. He is his appointments to the Supreme Court are strict constitutionalists. He is dedicated very much to national defense, to national security. And I think that I think if you were looking for what point to do north on his compass, it's his concept of a traditional great America and anything that moves the people forward and protects our nation and grows our nation is going to have his attention.  And so there has been a tremendous outpour of support for President Trump. But at the same time, there has been perhaps historic objection to him coming into office and attempts to do everything possible to derail his presidency. First, let me ask you to draw upon your history. You've been around longer and seen more presidents than I have, Andy. We won't go back all the way to George Washington. But is the outrage and protest resulting from Trump's presidency actually historical? Is it unprecedented? Or has this happened frequently in the past as well? Well, the coverage is unprecedented, partly because the news media is not very fond of the president and partly because we just have a lot more news media than we used to and a lot more ways of people hearing things. As far as the protests, I hate to tell you this. I was a child of the 60s and the protests against Vietnam and civil rights protests and free speech protests. Although I want to point out when we were protesting in free speech, we were protesting so that everyone had the right to say something, not to keep people from saying things. So but those protests were as widespread and as big. We had 200, 300,000 people to march for Washington on Vietnam.  All together, new big protests against the World Bank. It, oh, I don't know. Eight, nine years ago, we're about the size of some of this. The difference is and it's kind of unseemly, frankly, when Barack Obama won the presidency, no matter how. Middle America, conservatives, Republicans, anybody felt about it. There weren't riots in the streets. Nobody was arrested when the Tea Party had its large movement. And everybody was freaking about out about the Tea Party. Nobody was arrested. There was no violence, no limousines got burned.  What it is doing, and this is something that you have to read past the media to see is it's reaffirming Trump supporters. And it's actually building support for Trump because. When an American president wins an election, we have a peaceful transfer of power. We don't riot and it's being viewed in a large part of the country and large throughout the mainland as a whole bunch of extremists. And I think that that's actually hurting any comeback from the Democrats. They're just marginalizing themselves. Well, that's an interesting observation because a candidate Trump had been characterized as an extremist as a polarizing figure, as someone to use a phrase you just used, who has not well behaved or bad behavior. And now what you're saying is that the very protest movements that are targeted at Trump and his presidency are garnering that kind of reputation for themselves. Unport. I think it's unfortunate because I think they're, you know, I think we should be having valid discussions about serious issues calling people names and throwing things into occupied restaurants and setting fire to limousines is not a valid discussion. I don't have to listen to your point of view when that's how you're behaving. And that's pretty much the way the president is regarding this. And now it's the way a whole lot of Washington and a whole lot of middle America is regarding this. Now we've been talking about the reactions of the general public in response to media and the media portrayal of many of these reactions, which you have pointed out are not in the kinds of numbers that have occurred in the 60s. But let's take a look at our political leaders themselves. The our congressional members, our senators and so forth. What do you see going on in terms of their behavior and their response to the new president? Well, they're learning to get along. The president is moving much more aggressively than Congress usually does. And this is one of the things that is causing I don't know if I want to call it friction so much as some either tactical or personality differences. The one of the reasons Trump won, President Trump won, was because the great many people were sick of Washington. And when Congress doesn't act that further confirms the American people's attitude that Congress isn't doing what it ought to do. And I think that if Congress drags its feet on all of these programs, I think it would not be a year. I would want to be an incumbent in in 2018 because people sent Trump there to get things done. If Congress is a roadblock, they're going to take some action. Senator McConnell has basically said, we're going to get Trump's programs through. Paul Ryan has basically said, actually, Ryan is being more aggressive in some ways than Trump is on things like Obamacare. So with the Republican Senate, with the Republican Congress, we're going to see action. The, you know, the tussle right now. And I think it's a temporary tussle is between how they how they're used to acting and how Trump won. Well, in terms of game plan, what do you see going on now in the wake of President Obama's flurry of executive orders toward the end of his administration, especially and now the flurry of undoing executive orders that you mentioned, Obamacare in particular, but what's going on here? Well, again, Trump has been President Trump has been very active and the optics of this are very interesting. Remember, people sent him to Washington to drain the swamp. We see every day him sitting at a desk, him reading. This is on the news every day, reading an executive order physically signing it, holding it up for people to see. He's showing the American people he's undoing these things and he's undoing these things in big blocks. We're going we have and are going to be seeing executive orders just cutting lots of regulations on businesses, opening the Dakota Access and Keystone Pipeline, creating a lot more a lot more openness in drilling for gas and oil. We're going to have an energy boom from this. We're going to have regulations cutting corporate taxes, which is really going to help small businesses and help them hire people.  There last week, six CRAs, Congressional Review Acts, went through Congress undoing actions by Obama's regulatory agencies. And there's another. I think the figure I heard last week was 25 CRAs that will be out and within the next two weeks. Well, that's a significant number when we come back from a short break. Andy, I'm going to ask you about the concern that as President Trump does certain things. He's not all that clear, according to some, as to where we're going, particularly in terms of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. Well, I'm talking with Andy Blom, Executive Director of Grassroot Action, Hawaii in Washington, D.C. And we're taking a look at the transition in of the new president of the United States. Don't go away. We'll be right back after the short message on Think Tech of Hawaii's a Hanukkah go here every week on Mondays. OK, I'm here with Brett Obergaard of the Faculty of the School of Journalism and the Department of Communications at UH Minoa. We've had a number of shows. We have a movable feast going on and we talk about journalism. We talk about language. You're talking about communication in general. And we talk about the effect of that on the country and on individual people. Brett, it's so good to be able to discuss this with you in a movable feast. Oh, it's my pleasure. This is a great opportunity. You'll have to come back again and again. OK, deal? That's the deal. Brett Obergaard, I'm Jay Fidel. We care about everything. Thanks. Hi, I'm Tim Appichella. I'm the host for Moving Hawaii Forward. And the show is dedicated to transportation and traffic issues in Oahu. We are all frustrated by sitting in our cars in bumper to bumper traffic. And this show is dedicated to talking with folks that not only we can define the problem, but we hopefully can come to the table with some solutions. So I invite you to join me every Tuesday at 12 noon. And let's move Hawaii forward. Welcome back to the second half of today's a Hanukkah go here every week on the Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. I'm Keely Akina at the Grassroot Institute. We'd love to say Ehana Kako, which is like a venerable old saying here in Hawaii. A Pule Kako. A Pule Kako means let's Pule. Let's pray Kako together at Grassroot. We like to say Ehana, let's work Kako together. Imagine what society would be like if we didn't work together to build a better government economy and society. And that's an important thing we need to do, whether we're here in Hawaii or in Washington, D.C. Andy Blom is up there helping us to achieve the interests that will indeed help Hawaii to have a better economy, government and society as he's executive director of Grassroot Hawaii Action. Andy, back to our conversation today. One of the concerns with the transition from the Obama presidency to the Trump presidency is that as we have a flurry of undoing of laws and executive orders, we may not be so very clear as to where we're going. And perhaps that conversation is no more pronounced than in the area of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare. The common criticism is that President Trump has not enunciated a clear plan as to where we would go if we replace the Affordable Care Act. And we are going to be leaving people high and dry in terms of their health care if we dismantle something before we know where we're going. How do you assess this conversation? This is very complicated. And the most of the people currently in the majority in Congress ran on will repeal Obamacare. But Obamacare has had a lot of impact. And it's driven insurance companies out of the market. It's caused mergers in insurance companies. There's a lot of states in this country where you can only have a choice of one provider where there used to be many. And this is one of the outcomes of Obamacare. I don't know if you think back just a little while ago, I have my health care in Hawaii and I had great health care and a whole lot of Hawaii had health care. We had the best in the country. It wasn't improved by Obamacare, but premiums are starting to go up all across the country as a result of Obamacare. Fines are being leveled. Loving businesses weren't able to hire people because it costs too much to add an employee with the health care. So there was definitely a downside, but you can't simply take it away without a dealing with the problems it's going to cause. And fixing some of the problems it's going to cause is doubly difficult because some of the impacts of Obamacare has to do with the availability of doctors now, with the availability of insurance companies. So it's not going to be this is not a let's throw the switch and on Thursday it's one thing and on Friday it's something else. So there's Andy, where is the Trump administration in terms of rolling out a replacement plan? Or is that even feasible that a whole plan would be rolled out soon? Well, the answer partly is no one's exactly sure where the Trump administration is, but Paul Ryan and the House Republicans very definitely have a plan that they're moving forward. And it's good that that has been in the works for over a year. So we're likely to see the solution come out of the House of Representatives and not the president. OK, now, earlier in the program, we talked about the fact that it's not only, quote, unquote, liberals that may be a bit confused about where President Trump is going. So our conservatives and one area has to do with our policy toward protectionism of American markets and American labor, perhaps the most colorful episode of President Trump at work in his style is his intervention with carrier air conditioning company in which he apparently has claimed that he's saved at least a thousand jobs there by intervening so that they don't send those jobs off to Mexico to be to operate a factory. And so on one hand, it looks like a populist victory defending American jobs. On the other hand, conservatives aren't sure what to think of this because it's defending protectionism rather than letting the free market play out. What are your thoughts about this? This is a really interesting area because. You know, there's also the Ford Motor Company deal, which is going to take a Mexico to be kept. And Japan has announced they're doing a seven hundred thousand or seven hundred billion dollar project in the U.S. It's going to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. So all that sounds really good. But one of the curious things that happened during the campaign is that both President Trump and Hillary Clinton ran against the Trans Pacific Partnership and they both ran on protectionist platforms, which did confuse Republicans. But there were the Republicans in Congress were split on this enough that the TPP couldn't get passed. Obama desperately wanted it and it couldn't get out of Congress because there was there was sufficient Republican opposition to it. So we're going through a period here. And, you know, that that was a deal with almost the whole Pacific Rim, except China. And Trump announces, well, I'm going to cut separate deals with each of these countries. But he also meets with the union leaders and assures the union leaders are going to have jobs. So the populist Trump is kind of in tune with about half the Republicans and about half the Democrats and out of tune with about half the Republicans and half the Democrats. And would you say then that he's confounding the the lines, the hard and fast lines between what is Democrat and what is Republican or what is conservative and what is liberal? And he's creating a new center for policy that, as you say, this affects some in his own party, but attracts others. Look, he won Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. He won Brussels states. He won Union votes. And that was partly his protectionism, I suspect.  But he's you're right, he is crafting something. That sounds like some grand plan. I think he's more reactive than grand plan. But he's something that's I keep going back to this. It's far more populist. That's right. Americans need good jobs. And if that means protectionism, then what protectionism? If it means free trade, we'll have free trade. There seems to be a value structure in place that defies the usual political lines. And so he'll be drawing from really bipartisan support, I think. Now, many of his policies have been misunderstood, sometimes perhaps innocently, other times perhaps deliberately. And one policy which has been perhaps more misunderstood than any other is the wall between the United States and Mexico. And this has resulted in tremendous support for Trump, as well as tremendous opposition to him. What are your thoughts on this? I go back to Congress. I want to say one quick thing about the trade that sure I've mentioned. The TPP was driven by corporate interests. It's very much a anti corporate move to be getting rid of the TPP and NAFTA. So that's very unrepublican, according to traditional thinking. So that's more of this. Where exactly does this fit in? Who knows? He didn't have to take any corporate money, so he can take off the corporations, I guess. The the wall, I think it's mostly symbolic to tell you the truth, but it's a campaign promise. And it's a campaign promise that over and over again, the polls show people are in favor of. You have to balance the hysteria with the you know, with the look at what the American people are saying. The majority of the American people in the polls out today support Mr. Trump's ban on temporary ban on travelers from seven countries. Right. We see hysteria. You see the company saying we're going to hire immigrants. But the truth is the American people support this and the American people support the wall. You know what would be a great blessing to come out of that? A great blessing would be that we actually fixed our immigration policy so people could get in there because our policy is so terribly messed up that folks are waiting years and years and years. It shouldn't have to. We're not against and Trump is not against people coming into the country. He's against people coming into the country illegally arcing the law. Well, as we go, Andy, sorry to cut you off there, but as we go to the end of our time together, I want to get your take on some of the appointments or at least the fear around the appointments that the president has made, perhaps one that is most in the news today is Betsy DeVos to the Department of Education. And as we speak, there is a filibuster, well, technically not a filibuster, more of a legislate in like a teach in or a sit in taking place sponsored by the Democrats currently in Congress. Tell us about this. But Senate rules allow for each party and each senator to claim a certain amount of speaking time. So the Democrats to slow down Betsy DeVos claimed all of today. Tomorrow, there'll be a vote and Betsy DeVos in all likelihood will be confirmed and the same is true of almost of every one of Trump's nominees. And this is a this is a certain amount of political grandstanding and playing to the base. The great question that comes out of that in 2018, there are 20 Democrat senators up for reelection and 12 Republicans. And of those 20, a big handful of them are in states that went for Trump. So slowing down Trump's nominees in order to grandstand and show you don't like the president could have a very interesting political impact two years from now. Absolutely. Well, talking about long term political impact, let's close on this note that all eyes are watching Neil Gorsuch as he has been nominated by the president to the Supreme Court seat. Can you, in just five seconds, give us your monologue, your wisdom on that? He will be confirmed. Trump wants McConnell just to go ahead and ram it through without hearings or anything else. McConnell will take the regular steps. He's going to be confirmed. OK, well, thank you very much. Andy, thank you for joining us from Washington, D.C. I appreciate all your good work. I'm thrilled to have a little bit of sunshine and soft water in the lower. That's great. So signing off for today. My guest has been Andy Blom, executive director of our companion organization, Grassroot Hawaii Action in D.C. I'm Kili Akina with Grassroot Institute for a Hanukako on the Think Tech Hawaii broadcast network Aloha.