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Independent documentary filmmaker and policy analyst at Reason Foundation, Jen Sidorova, joins us to discuss how rent control impacts tenants, landlords and the housing market. Her latest short film project, “Shabbification: The Story of Rent Control”, reflects how rent control has a direct effect on housing quality. Almost half of rentals in NYC are rent-stabilized. We highlight the challenges faced by small property owners and the potential consequences of these regulations on the housing market. Bathtub in your kitchen, anyone? Yes, you read that correctly. In some cases maintenance has been deferred for so long that units have not been updated to code. Learn about the history of rent control and stabilization laws in New York. 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I discuss the effect that now lower mortgage rates can have how to get a strong return with private lending. Then, for this week's guest, she is a public policy expert with reason.com maker of a new film called Shabbification that spotlights the perils and even horrors of rent control in New York City, and she's a young Russian immigrant that lives in one unit of a Buffalo fourPlex and rents out the other three today on Get Rich Education.    When you want the best real estate and finance info, the modern Internet experience limits your free articles access, and it's replete with paywalls and you've got pop ups and push notifications and cookies disclaimers. Oh, at no other time in history has it been more vital to place nice, clean, free content into your hands that actually adds no hype value to your life. See, this is the golden age of quality newsletters, and I write every word of ours myself. It's got a dash of humor, and it's to the point to get the letter. 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The panel was named innovative solutions to the housing crisis, and her story struck me as interesting, so I invited her to be on the show today, we'll learn that with rent control in New York City, when landlords cannot go inside their own properties and aren't allowed to sell their own properties, seven states have price ceilings on rents, and I'll tell you here At GRE we avoid investing in these places. Listen closely, California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Maine, Oregon, Minnesota and then DC too. Now sometimes rent control isn't too restrictive. For example, you can raise the rent no more than the rate of inflation plus 3% per year, or the rate of inflation plus 5% per year. And also, it's not all parts of those states where it applies. In fact, you typically do not find the policies statewide in those states that I mentioned, although you do in Oregon, it's statewide in Oregon, and there you can still raise the rent 7% plus the rate of inflation each year. And the good news is that 37 states actually have laws against rent control, specifically saying that you cannot enact it. So not only do 37 states not have it, they just wouldn't even allow a law for it. And there is a strong consensus, like I mentioned here on the show before, among economists that rent control, it reduces the quantity and quality of housing. Today, we'll focus on just how dilapidated rental units become under rent stabilization, which is a lot like rent control in New York City. And we'll discuss New York State and Buffalo. And by the way, I find something amazing. I mean, just say you would ask a question of any citizen of the world, no matter where they live, from Indonesia to Japan, to Bangladesh, to Nigeria to the United States. If you would just ask any citizen of the world, what is the capital of the world? I think that the best answer that you could come up with is New York City. I'm in the United States, and there are people right here in this country that have such little understanding of New York City, and what goes on there, and where it even is, it just amazes me. Maybe it's my own bias, because I'm a geography guy, but now, for example, to get from New York City out to Buffalo, that's an almost seven hour drive to the northwest two different parts of New York State. These are two very different places. We'll get into that shortly. But first in the wider real estate world, I did a little research since first mentioning this to you last week here, where mortgage rates have fallen fully one and a half points from the recent high. All right. Well, with every half point drop in mortgage rates, like I learned from First American, that's my source. With every half point drop in mortgage rates, about 1.1 million additional American households can qualify to buy an entry level home that's defined as the bottom 25% priced here. That's the number, and I checked their math. So with a full point drop in mortgage rates, then 2.2 million more American households can qualify to buy an entry level home. So we could very well have more buyers here soon, but yeah, when all these homeowners are still locked into three and 4% mortgage rates, I don't know that you're gonna have that many more sellers. So with demand exceeding supply, look for more upward pressure on home prices, especially higher values for those entry level homes that make the best rentals. Now, I'm talking about borrowing right there. And what happens when rates go down for mortgages, when they go down for borrowing? Well, rates on savings accounts, they typically fall as well. And this is a scenario that a lot of people expect. Now, most of my real estate activity is a borrower. I'm always here touting the virtues of how leverage builds wealth, and I know that I don't want to be a saver. 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If you want to learn more, do it now while it's on your mind and text FAMILY to 66866.    This week, our guest is a public policy expert that's also involved with a film called Shabbification, the story of rent control. Hey, welcome to GRE Jen Sidorova.   Jen Sidorova  9:16   Good to be here. Thank you for having me.    Keith Weinhold  9:18   Yeah and congrats. Shabbification screening in a lot of places, like the Anthem Film Festival at Freedom Fest last month and this month in New York City, tell us about the film.   Jen Sidorova  9:31    Yeah, so in Shabbification, I follow small property owners like myself who are subject to regulation, and most of them are owners of rent stabilized properties in the city of New York. Right, I follow three specific landlords. I They take me to their homes, they take me to their properties, and they show me around, and you can visually see what regulation has done to their property. Yeah, one of these properties was occupied by a tenant. From 1969 up until 2021 wow. And the landlord was never allowed to be in the property, so obviously no repairs were made. And you could see visually that the apartment was like from the 60s. It's like a museum, but not in a good way, because it's really falling apart, right? So it's like, almost like a Tenement Museum, or, you know, another museum New York City, where we they actually preserve those dates. But in this case, a private landlord actually owns that space, and they're having a difficult time. And so what my specific Shabbification With my film is about is a very specific regulation in New York City that happened in 2019 that applied to rent stabilized properties. What it did that is that it won't allow landlords to put them properties on the market even if they rent stabilized tenant vacates them. They're no longer allowed to put their properties on the market at all. And more than that, they are also not allowed to raise rent, even if they do repairs. So sometimes the cost of repairs in New York City for one bedroom unit can be 200,000 and they're only allowed to raise the rent by like roughly $90 a month, and only for 15 years. So it will take them, like, 200 years to recoup their investment. And obviously that doesn't make any sense, so stories like that is what my short film is about. I myself am a small property owner, so it was very special for me to go and kind of tell the story of people like me.   Keith Weinhold  11:36   That's amazing. So rent stabilization something that New York City has a history of. I sort of think of that as a genteel term or rent control. And a lot of times when your rent can't be raised above a certain amount, you get these long term tenants, in some cases, for decades, and in this case, over 50 years, with this particular tenant in New York City and landlords don't have much of any incentive to improve property when rent control is in place, because they know they cannot get a commensurate bump in rent.   Speaker 1  12:11   rent control and rent stabilization are a form of government enforced limit on the rents. And in New York we have two laws that govern that we have more but the most prominent ones are the rent control law of 1969 and the Rent Stabilization Act of 1974 so back in the day, there were issues with availability of affordable housing, and the government was trying to fix it, and that fix was supposed to be temporary. It was supposed to eventually run out once the tenants who were currently in place at the time in late 60s and 70s, once they move out, landlords were able to put those properties back on the market. And eventually, that's kind of what was going on up until 2019 when housing stability and Tenant Protection Act made it so that the landlords could no longer put their rent stabilized properties on the market anymore. So essentially, all rent stabilization became permanent in the state of New York, and actually, in the just a couple of weeks after my film, in April of 2024 we had another law. It's called Good Cause Eviction, and that one regulates every landlord or enterprise who owns more than 11 units. So once you own 11 units or more, you're subject to regulation. You can no longer evict your tenant without a good cause. And there's a bunch of other rules that apply, including the limit on how much rent you can raise year to year. So yeah, that's certainly what's going on. That's roughly the landscape all regulation in New York.   Keith Weinhold  13:44    Yeah, some of this is really punitive, because if rent control comes into a market, that's one thing sometimes that landlords want to do. They want to sell their property, and in some cases, there's a roadblock against that. You know, Jen, I looked up the definition of Shabbification. I just simply googled the term. Urban Dictionary had one of the first hits, and fortunately, it was a G rated definition there in urban dictionary, it was defined as the opposite of gentrification. So therefore with Shabbification, it's where a neighborhood goes through deterioration and despair. So tell us about some more of those bad cases of deterioration, in despair, in Shabbification. Just how bad does it get?   Speaker 1  14:30   Well, one of the properties that we went to was basically from 1910 it was in Chinatown, and we saw was that the bathtub was in the kitchen in that property, oh my gosh. And I believe that was a way for them to do renovations fast and cheap, like 100 years ago. And because that property falls under rent stabilization, and there's obviously limits on how much rent you can charge. So. Landlords of those properties never really make renovations. Sometimes you could see cases like the director of photography, who was in the film, he lives in a rent sabilized property, and in his case, he has a shower unit in his kitchen as well. Instead of a tub, he has a shower unit. And it kind of is, as he described as one of those telephone booths, like, you know, red telephone booths from London, and then kind of just sits in the kitchen, and you obviously cannot really have company or friends visiting or dinner or anything if you have something like that. But those are the setups that we frequently see. Also a lot of things like uneven floors or just, you know, the property, if it's not being taken care of, there might be, like, a hole in the wall, a hole in the ceiling, or the ceiling is falling out. And those are really graphic images. And we do, we do capture them on camera a lot in Shabbification, and that comes from, kind of, my attraction to urban decay. I do enjoy, you know, touring older buildings, or maybe buildings that are preserved as a ruin, maybe like an old prison and or like an old mental asylum. I do do that a lot. It's just a hobby when I travel. So I was always attracted to that esthetic, and that does show in my film as well. I think I love studying the tragedy because I love studying how the hope died, because it's fascinating to me. It's very specific to usually a town or a city, and then just is so telling, and it's such a teaching moment for us as a society to kind of revisit those stories and figure out why did that hope die. And you can see a lot of that in the film.    Keith Weinhold  16:41   it's a great way to scratch one's itch for I suppose, seeing real life haunted houses, if you will, in Jen's film Shabbification here. Well, Jen, we've been talking about the conditions of the tenants. Why don't we talk more about how the landlord is portrayed in Shabbification.    Speaker 1  17:00   since this is the story, primary of the landlords, not so much on the tenant. You know, normally in this sort of films and these sort of documentaries, the story falls in tenant, because the tenant is the one who is seen as likable and sympathetic person, and that's how, and that's usually a more preferable framing angle. But in my story, my story is a story of a merchant class, or like a more, like a war on the merchant class, the war on landlords. Because in the state of New York, no matter how small or large of a landlord you are, whether you own one unit or 1000 by a lot of people in New York State Legislature as a landlord, you're seen as evil. They think you've done something wrong and you have to be punished. So that's the attitude to a lot of landlords, and although they're not that many small property owners, and sometimes we're not seen as a sympathetic I think this is the story that we need to tell, because some of them are like me. I am an immigrant to this country. Once I got an opportunity, I got my first rental property in Buffalo, New York, and right away, I've been renting out three units and lived in one, and I still do own it. Five years later, I live alongside with my tenants. When I go on vacations, they feed my cat, and when they go travel for work, I do take care of their properties. I water their plants, do things like that. So we do live as a small community, and this is something that a lot of people do in Buffalo, because it's a working class city. It's very hard to be able to afford a single family home. Right away, what you can do is acquire one of these properties, either a two unit, three or four unit, because when you're four units less, then you can do an FHA loan, which I did, and you can put minimum amount down, which I did, and then day one, right away, the income from the tenants was paying off my mortgage, right? That's kind of how I can build generational wealth. But not only that, that's how I can start my journey of home ownership and hopefully building generational wealth in the future, as I've said. And I also have my own passion for buildings, and we did a lot of renovations with my family on that property. So there's a lot of heart and soul in that space. And laws like rent control and Good Cause Eviction, they put a cap on people like me and how much we can grow. Because, as I've mentioned, the Good Cause Eviction in New York, it puts a cap on how far and how big people like me can grow. Because once you have 11 units, that's my cap. Once I have 11 units, I have subject to regulation, and somebody like me cannot afford having a tenant who would just never move out. So yeah, I think these laws, they intended to protect the needy. They intended to protect the families, but they do just the opposite. They. Just limit how much we can grow, and they also just make an environment within our properties very toxic, because tenants now basically have more rights than we do.   Keith Weinhold  20:09   Yeah, well, you're really humanizing the plight of the landlord here, Jen with your four Plex over there. For those that aren't familiar with the geography in western New York in Buffalo, sort of the opposite end of the state where New York City is. And, yeah, I mean, landlords are usually portrayed in media is these people that are sort of greedy and bumbling and they won't fix the broken air conditioner. And, you know, it's, it's unusual to me, Jen, that a lot of people tend to resent landlords, whom are often small business owners, but yet they champion other small business owners. And talk about how, you know, small business ownership is the very heart of America. I'm trying to figure out why that is, you know, maybe some tenants that just don't really understand how things work. Just think, well, why should I have to pay this landlord. All I'm doing is sort of renting air or renting space. But you know, one group of tenants that does not seem to resent landlords, Jen, in my experience, that is people that were previously homeowners and are now tenants. They don't seem to resent landlords, and that's probably because that tenant that has experience being a homeowner. They've seen bills for property tax and property insurance and mortgage principal and mortgage interest and maintenance and repairs. I think that's what makes the difference.    Jen Sidorova  21:33   Yeah, definitely. It's almost like, you know, when I lived with my parents, I didn't pay attention to the bills, like election bills or water bills or anything. But once you start living on your own, you now see how it gets deducted from your account, and then it changes you, adds you towards consumption, changes right? You now turn off the light when you leave and do just small things like that. And that's a similar psychology that works with people who previously owned their own homes. I think what the dynamic that's happening here with tenants is there's always going to be more tenants than landlords, so tenants have a lot more political power, and we see a lot of that in New York. We have a lot of tenant groups, tenant unions, who are very hold a little, a lot of political power. And it's one side of it, another side of it is that a lot of these policies do benefit large landlords, in a sense that once the small property owner is no longer able to keep up the property and they just foreclose on it, a larger landlord can always pick it up. And for large landlords, these costs of litigating with the tenant, or the cost of fixing a unit, or even the cost of having somebody live without paying for a few months, these are just the costs of running business, whereas for somebody like me, it's a significant chunk of my income, right? So at the moment, I think it's like 25% of my income is coming from the rentals, so it's significant. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, on the other side of political power, I just legislators who do not want to see private rentals. You know, small property owners having rentals and Damn, motivations are something else. It's almost like, if there's one conspiracy theory that I believe in, is that one you know, is that there is a war on the merchant class among some legislators, especially in the state of New York, who really just do not want to see small property owners providing housing to the community, and they would rather see it in in the hands of larger developers, and that's just the nature of how political process works, sometimes.   Keith Weinhold  23:45   in the broad business world, large institutional corporations, they're often pro regulation for just the reason you talked about it helps put smaller operators out of business that can't bear the expense of dealing with the regulation. But yeah, your film Shabbification, it helps underscore the fact that rent control, it stifles the free market in the process of price discovery. I mean really that price discoveries, that is the process of supply versus demand, with the referee being the price and finding that right rent amount, and amidst this low housing supply we have, it's just really bad timing for any jurisdiction to enact rent control. Existing landlords stop improving property. Builders stop building new property, and it can make landlords want to sell, like we touched on earlier. But also I'd like to talk about making the other case, the case for rent control. When we come back, we're talking with public policy expert Jan siderova, the maker of a film called shabbatation, where we come back. I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, hey, you can get your mortgage loans at the same place where I get mine at. Ridge lending group  NMLS, 42056, they provided our listeners with more loans than any provider in the entire nation because they specialize in income properties, they help you build a long term plan for growing your real estate empire with leverage. 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Family investments, liquidity fund on your journey to financial freedom through passive income. Text, family 266, 866,   Caeli Ridge  26:32   This is Ridge Lending Group's president, Caeli Ridge. Listen to get rich education with Keith Weinhold, and remember, don't quit your Daydream.   Keith Weinhold  26:52   Welcome back to Get Rich Education. We're talking with a really interesting guest, Jen Sidorova. She's the maker of a new film called Shabbification. This centers on rent control and dilapidated housing conditions. And Jen, you know, I've talked about here on both this episode and another episode a few weeks ago about the deleterious downstream consequences of rent control. It benefits a small group of people in the short term and ends up with deteriorated neighborhoods in a lot of municipalities, but I like to look at things from the other side. What is the case for rent control?   Jen Sidorova  27:27   So I think the the original story behind the rent control in New York City was that in the 70s, it was just really dire situation, kind of what we're going through right now. Right now in New York we have the housing crisis that's the worst in the last 50 years, so basically right around the 70s again. So the current vacancy rate is like 2% and at the same time, we have between 20 to 60,000 rent stabilized rent control units that are vacant because landlords just do not want to put them in more on the market, because talking just in New York City here, yeah, just New York City. And New York City has roughly 1 million of rent stabilized or rent control properties altogether. But yeah, so what is the case for rent control, right? So in my opinion, what is the most problematic saying about rent control or rent stabilization right now, the way the current laws are in New York City is that the property itself is being stabilized or controlled. It's not the person. It doesn't matter how much money you're making. If you're making half a million dollars, you can still live in an apartment that's like 500 $600 a month, right?   Keith Weinhold  28:38   You can have your second lavish vacation home out in the Hamptons, and it doesn't matter.    Jen Sidorova  28:42   Yeah, you can live in Texas for like, nine months out of a year, and come back to New York City for the summer, and then people do that. That's like, not, I'm not making it up. It's a real thing. People are basically hoarding these rent stabilized rent control units, and they just never let them go. And that definitely pushes out young people out of the city. It pushes immigrants out of the city, because people, yeah, all the newcomers. So that's what's going on. So instead of having a property itself being controlled, what could be done? Maybe like a voucher program, maybe like a housing voucher program, but we can only do this if we let the rent control and rent stabilization laws sunset. So once the current tenants move out, that has to be put back on the market, right? So what we could do is the housing voucher program maybe, so that we will always have people in the society that need a little bit of help, but it shouldn't be in such a way that they it's the landlord who is paying for it, right? So if there's a housing voucher, they can live wherever and however that program works in the sense that whoever picks up the rest of the bill, as long as it's not a landlord directly. Yeah, so that's how I see it. And I think just other things that can be done is better zoning regulation that allow more buildings to be built a lot of New York City. Is like a museum, right? We have a lot of historic buildings, a lot of preservation of all the buildings, but we have to reevaluate that, because we don't necessarily have to have the East Village look like a museum if we don't have enough housing, right? So we have to reassess of how much of those policies we still want to hold on to, and then maybe also building codes. Sometimes it's really hard to expand or have more units within the same building. If I have a four unit property and I want to convert it into five units, I am subject to whole different regulation and a whole different bunch of coding, whereas my square footage remains the same. So I think we have to revisit that, because a lot of these new materials that we work with when building are safe right now. So maybe we could let people do more with their properties, and that way we provide more house.   Keith Weinhold  30:50   Yeah. Well, some of this comes down to, how do you get politicians to say no to rent control, which I believe is part of the motivation of your film?    Jen Sidorova  31:01   Right, So the motivation behind myself was that I bought my property in 2019 I went under contract in 2019 and I fully acquired the rights in March of 2020 and between the August of 2019 and 2020 we had a new law passed that was housing stability and Tenant Protection Act 2019 in New York State, and that kind of put a cap on how much I can raise the rent if the tenant remains the same. And at the time when I found that out, I was like, well, that's kind of quirky, but whatever, what can I do? But then a year from that, like in 2021 we had a new mayoral candidate who was a socialist, openly socialist person, and they were advocating for rent control. And at the time, I had an opportunity to go to do a film workshop, and I was thinking, so what is that I really wanted to write film about? And I was this, definitely rent control, because it's relevant for me. It's the story of my people among small property owners, and that's how I did it. And I really want policy action. The idea behind this film, the goal is policy change, right? But this short film is only the beginning of my project, which is exploration of the topic prevent control in the state of New York and everywhere else in the country, and we keep interviewing more people, more experts, and to convert into a larger film, and then hopefully, like a full feature documentary, in order to educate both policymakers and the public about what rent control can do. And eventually, we do hope for policy change in New York, and hopefully, with this film, no more new rent control can happen, or at least when politicians start those bills, they take a look and talk to me and make some changes.    Keith Weinhold  32:52   Well, you're really doing some good work there. I appreciate that. I mean, rent control is analogous to price controls, and we see what happens when there's price controls per se foods like you've seen in other nations in previous decades, and that's how you end up with bread lines, because producers don't want to produce bread when they would have to take a loss and they can't profit on selling that bread. You see a shortage of housing come up just the same, like you do with bread. Well, tell us some more about Buffalo and its market. You had touched on it previously. I think they have lots of older two to four unit buildings there. It sounds like you found one of the four plexes where you could do the owner occupied thing. FHA, three and a half percent down 12 month owner occupancy period. Minimum credit score only needs to be 580 at last check, which is the same way I began with the four Plex building. But yeah, let's learn more about the buffalo housing market. Just a little bit there with rental properties and then the rising tide against Airbnb, like you touched on last month when we met in person.   Jen Sidorova  33:56   Right, so a lot of those properties, a lot of those older homes, were built around the late 1800s beginning or 1900 and that's how they used to build back in the day. Because what would happen is that a large Victorian home with two primarily stories, with two large floors and then maybe an attic and a basement, but one family would live on one floor and another on the second floor. So they were originally built for two homes, but at that time, both families would own that space, right? So there would be co owned by two families. Mine was also an originally a two family home that was converted into a four unit because the previous owners made an addition a lot of young families, that's how they start when they cannot afford a single family home. That's how they start with home ownership and the money that they make for with the rentals. That's how they pay mortgage partially, or maybe that's how they pay the taxes, depending on where you live in the city, sometimes tax burden can alone be very high. So as I've mentioned, we had some mayoral candidates talking about rent control, but recently we started having Airbnbs being regulated in Buffalo. And so there's a few districts in the city where Airbnb is regulated, and my district does not fall into that, and I actually am on four of my units. One is occupied by me. Two are long term tenants, and one which is the newest and the nicest one. I decided to make Airbnb interesting because I did not want to risk, you know, giving it to a long term tenant, because it's just such a nice unit. It's a lot of investment that went in there, so I didn't want it to be provided by somebody who would never leave, because the, you know, environment is just so toxic. You just don't want to take chances, unless you like, really believe in the time. But I don't know people are out here. So I decided to keep it Airbnb. And so because some of the other parts of the city are regulated, and mine is not. I am the beneficiary of that regulation because I get a lot, all of those clients, right, all those Airbnb client so in that sense, funny enough, I am benefiting from some parts of the city being regulated because my my part is not. So all the clients go to me. I do have an Airbnb right now, but we're definitely at the risk of all of the city being regulated. And I think a lot of people complain, right? People who lived in the city for a long time, allegedly, they started complaining to the city council about not recognizing their neighborhood because of Airbnb. But I think what legislators need to understand is that my generation, millennials and Gen Z. That's how we live our lives. We share our assets, right? It's like a big millennial and Gen Z thing that the Airbnb itself is a millennial thing, that this is just will be recognized, that assets like cars and houses, they can be shared, you don't have to have that many of them, even from the unit in the unit that I live in. When I I went out on a trip to Long Island last week, and I airbnbied my own unit. And so that's just how it is. That's just a little lifestyle. And when I see new people who stay in Airbnb on my street, it doesn't bother me. I kind of enjoy a little bit of a variety. But, you know, sometimes it's almost like a culture clash or a generational shift when it comes to thinking about properties and housing ownership. Yeah, that's just my experience.   Keith Weinhold  37:33   Younger generations embrace the sharing economy, and that is quite the mixed use building that you have there with your four Plex in Buffalo, you've got one unit that's a primary residence, a second unit that's a short term rental, and then two long term rental units. There's some diversification of income and utility, for sure. Well, Jen, tell us more about how our audience can connect with you, and especially how they can watch Shabbification.   Jen Sidorova  38:00   So Shabbification, right now is in the film festival circuit, so it's not available to watch yet. Although, if anyone reaches out directly to me through Instagram, my handle is @Jen_Sidorova, which is my first underscore, my last name, anyone can just reach out directly to me and I will send them a screener, and they can watch the full film. And also on my Instagram page, I do put a lot of like other content about buildings, and a lot of like videos so and some, you know, B roll footage that we haven't used in the film, but you can watch it in my Instagram. So yeah, definitely check it out. I also do write for Reason Foundation, and you can find it on my profile, my policy writing work. You can find it at reason.com and it's just under my name, pretty much Instagram and reason website.   Keith Weinhold  38:51   Jen, thanks so much for your Shabbification project. I really think it's going to help people see an important part of American society in a different light. It's been great having you here on the show.   Jen Sidorova  39:02   Thank you so much.   Keith Weinhold  39:09   I talked to Jen some more outside of our interview. Her buffalo four Plex has a high flying 1.04% rent to price ratio. I crunched it out that is super strong for a four unit building, but it is older, and like she said in the interview, she did make some substantial renovation to it, yeah, rent control is a bad plan. You know, on an episode a few weeks ago, I mentioned to you about last month's White House proposal for a sort of rent control light, that was such a bad plan. I told you that it only applies to property owners of 50 plus units, and rent increases were capped at 5% a year. Well, I dug into that release from the White House briefing room, and it's almost like they know it won't work, because. Oh my gosh, this is almost humorous. Economists and any long term thinkers will tell you that rent control doesn't work because you won't get any new builds. Well, the White House release Wood said it won't apply to new builds. It's almost like someone told them, like, hey, this won't work for that reason. So then they wrote that sentence in there, which just undermines so much of it. And economists will also tell you that what doesn't work because owners don't want to improve property well, yet, the White House release actually said it would not apply to substantially renovated property. I mean, my gosh, with these carve outs and all the other caveats that are in it that I described a few weeks ago, this White House rent control planet has no shot of going anywhere. It is lip service virtue signaling, and also would not get past a divided Congress. Really bad plan. In fact, how doomed to failure is wide scale rent control. Well, don't worry, the federal government hasn't regulated rent on private buildings since World War Two. Yeah, it's been 80 years, and it took World War Two scale conditions to bring it. Thanks again to today's guest, Jen Sidorova, with reason.com. Again, like I mentioned earlier, if you want to deploy some of your more liquid funds for a potential 8% return at the same place where I've been getting an 8% return for years, you can make a loan to a long standing real estate company for their property rehabs and other operations. This might really help you out. You can learn more by texting FAMILY to 66866, lots of great shows coming up here at GRE to actionably build your Real Estate Wealth until next week, I'm your host. Keith Weinhold, don't quit your daydream.   Unknown Speaker  41:53   Nothing on this show should be considered specific, personal or professional advice. Please consult an appropriate tax, legal, real estate, financial or business professional for individualized advice. Opinions of guests are their own. Information is not guaranteed. All investment strategies have the potential for profit or loss. 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Jo Ann Skousen is the co-founder and Director of Anthem Film Festival. The Anthem Film Festival has been called “one of the centers of film innovation... running counter to film industry practice.” At Anthem, we're proud of being counter-cultural when it means being in favor of individuality, choice, accountability, and self-reliance. https://anthemfilmfestival.com/ https://www.freedomfest.com/ Links: https://bit.ly/gmllinks Watch GML on Youtube: https://bit.ly/3UwsRiv Check out Martens Minute! https://martensminute.podbean.com/ Join the private discord & chat during the show! joingml.com Enroll in Constitution 101: the meaning and history of the US Constitution or one of the many other great FREE courses at hillsdale.edu/GML Get your complimentary bottle of Nugenix by texting GML to 231-231 Monetary Metals offers A Yield on Gold, Paid in Gold® https://www.monetary-metals.com/GML Protect your privacy and unlock the full potential of your streaming services with ExpressVPN. Get 3 more months absolutely FREE by using our link EXPRESSVPN.com/GML Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kerry Lutz and Mark Skousen discuss the upcoming Freedom Fest event in Las Vegas, highlighting the growing appeal of libertarianism and the shift away from traditional left-right politics. They emphasize the diverse lineup of keynote speakers, including Javier Miele, Ice-T, and Rob Snyder, and the various events and activities planned for the conference, such as the presidential debate and the Anthem Film Festival. The conversation also touches on Las Vegas as a libertarian paradise, discussing its evolution from a gambling-centric destination to a multifaceted hub of entertainment, museums, and events. The discussion also delves into the stock market's performance, emphasizing the influence of gridlock, tax cuts, and the Federal Reserve's actions. They express apprehension about deficit spending and the potential for a boom-bust cycle due to a shift in monetary policy. Additionally, they highlight the upcoming financial conference's focus on managing permanent inflation and the potential need for a return to a gold standard. The conversation also touches on the government's narrative regarding inflation and the upcoming FreedomFest event, with details on hotel arrangements and contact information for attendees. Overall, the meeting highlights the excitement and anticipation surrounding the upcoming Freedom Fest event and the diverse range of topics and speakers that will be featured. For the FSN community members who will be at Freedom Fest, email me at kl@kerrylutz.com and if we have enough people I will do a meetup with drinks and appetizers. Visit FreedomFest here: freedomfest.com Find Kerry here: FSN and here: inflation.cafe

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Preity Üpala is an accomplished executive with fifteen years of experience building, advising, and investing in businesses in Australia, Asia and the United States. She currently serves as Board of Advisor of Corporate Development and Head of Corporate Strategy at SkyZeg Inc. and Parallels and Meridians. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Jo Ann Skousen is the Founder & Director, Anthem Film Festival. GUEST 3 OVERVIEW: Meet Lars Mapstead, a visionary leader with a remarkable journey of perseverance and success. Born and raised in modest circumstances, Lars learned the value of hard work and determination early on. With a fierce entrepreneurial spirit, he went on to establish multiple thriving internet companies, gaining a diverse understanding of the needs of people from different communities. As a true champion of individual liberty and limited government, Lars is dedicated to freeing Americans from the shackles of bureaucratic oppression and excessive taxation. With a passion for ranked choice voting and term limits, Lars is committed to bringing about meaningful change and bridging the divide in Congress. He stands firmly behind the principles of the national libertarian platform. Lars is more than just a candidate, he is a game-changer. With a detailed strategy to win the Electoral College vote for the Libertarian Party, he aims to turn the tables on election night and make history as the decisive factor in the presidential election. He is a leader who not only inspires with his vision, but also takes action to bring it to life. Join the movement and donate to support Lars in his quest to bring real change to America.

After starting a house painting business at the peak of the housing bubble, Jimmy Morrison drove over 35,000 miles interviewing people who predicted the crash, resulting in two documentaries. The 1st film looks at the causes of The Housing Bubble and other crises ranging from the great depression to the dot com bubble. The 2nd film starts with the bailouts in 2008 and shows The Bigger Bubble that the economy has become today. The world premiere of The Housing Bubble was at the Anthem Film Festival in 2018. Legendary investors Jim Rogers, Marc Faber, Doug Casey, and Peter Schiff star in the films alongside economists Joseph Salerno, Ron Paul, Robert Murphy, Jeff Herbener, Mark Thornton, Roger Garrison, and Patrick Barron. Financial writers Jim Grant, David Stockman, and Gene Epstein join the cast, as well as Peter Wallison, a dissenting member of Congress's Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Naomi Brockwell narrates the film, and NY Times bestselling author Tom Woods co-wrote the project. Jimmy entered the political world as a lobbyist in 2008, when he started Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana. The organization is now the largest in the state with over 7,000 members and is known for lobbying the first pharmacy board in the country to support medical marijuana, which the bipartisan board passed unanimously. He was the State Director of Iowa for Gary Johnson's Republican Presidential campaign in 2012. He has lectured on economics in 6 countries, including at the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Toronto. While in Estonia, Jimmy advised their Social Minister, Finance Minister, and Prime Minister. Jimmy has filmed 4 Grammy winners and had his work screened at the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Festival and the Anthem Film Festival. His music video "Aperture" was selected by Oscar winning director David Lynch for a grant. Let Us Disagree Productions released their first feature length film last year when Rocksteppy premiered in LA and NYC. The film features cameos with David Lynch, the dude from The Big Lebowski, and the Farrelly Brothers, who directed comedies like Dumb & Dumber and There's Something About Mary. Jimmy ran a camera unit on the film and served as Executive Producer. Source: Let Us Disagree Productions --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-aidan-byrne0/support

Alan Mosley, host of It's Too Late, joins the show to discuss why the police are being scrutinized more than ever, gun control, if there is such a thing as “getting back to normal", Jason Rink getting canceled by freedom fest, and the legacy of Norm Macdonald.Subscribe at your preferred podcast/video platform here: https://msha.ke/thehapatariansshow/Follow Alan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlanMosleyTV Follow Alan's Odysee channel: https://odysee.com/@alanmosleytv:6 Tickets to the 4th annual It's Too Late Live Show: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-4th-annual-its-too-late-live-show-tickets-226486185277 Alan's website: http://alanmosley.tv/

https://youtu.be/_VXLOjD6708 The problem with political decisions isn't that most of us don't get our own way. It's also that these decisions are usually imposed on us against our will, by threats of violence... Democracy, as we practice it, is unjust. We expose innocent people to high degrees of risk because we put their fate in the hands of ignorant, misinformed, irrational, biased, and sometimes immoral decision makers. – Jason Brennan, Ph.D., Against Democracy (2016; New Jersey: Princeton University Press), pp. 240, 230. Jo Ann Skousen is currently associate editor of Forecasts & Strategies, she co-authored of several investment books, and is associate producer of FreedomFest. Buy tickets here for FreedomFest and the Anthem Film Festival, use code HORTON50 for $50 off at check out! BitChute Flote Archive

The Anthem Libertarian Film Festival is held in the luxurious Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, July 13-16, 2022. Admission to the festival is FREE to FreedomFest ticket holders. Go to www.freedomfest.com/register-now or call 855-850-FREE (3733) ext 202 to register for FreedomFest and the Anthem Film Festival. Use discount code ANTHEM22 to save $50 off the regular price. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you find value in the content, please consider donating to my PayPal KeithKnight590@gmail.com or Venmo: @Keith-Knight-34 LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b BitChute: KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone https://www.bitchute.com/channel/keithknightdonttreadonanyone/ Minds: https://www.minds.com/KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone/ MeWe: mewe.com/i/keithknight25 Flote: https://flote.app/VoluntaryistKeith Gab: https://gab.com/Voluntarykeith Twitter: @an_capitalist The Libertarian Institute: https://libertarianinstitute.org/dont-tread-on-anyone/ One Great Work Network: https://www.onegreatworknetwork.com/keith-knight

Host Toby Davis sits down with Desh Amila to discuss "Better Left Unsaid", his latest film. The premise behind Better Left Unsaid, lies in the unconfined analysis of the often violent extremism of today's Western political landscape. As liberal democracy becomes increasingly challenged in the West, we expose the dangerous tactics employed by the radical-left and far-right, alike. In a world where political polarization frames the way in which we live, a new path forward of unity is needed more than ever before. Desh also exposes the tech censorship and cancel culture surrounding the release and promotion of the film. Better Left Unsaid won the "Best International Documentary Feature" at the 2021 Anthem Film Festival and was the featured film at the 2021 FAIR Film Festival. The film was produced by Desh and his company This Is 42 and written and directed by Curt Jaimungal. To watch the film and learn more, visit: https://betterleftunsaidfilm.com/To learn more about This Is 42, visit: https://thisis42.com/To follow Desh, visit: https://twitter.com/Desh_AmilaTo learn more about UnityNow, visit the website:https://www.unitynowpodcast.comMake sure to like and subscribe to UnityNow! to get weekly content about the Unity movement!Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UnityNowPodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/UnityNowPodcast?s=20Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unitynowpodcast#UnityNow #DeshAmila #BetterLeftUnsaid #TechCensorship

Matt Kibbe sits down with Jo Ann Skousen, director of the Anthem Film Festival at FreedomFest in Rapid City, South Dakota. For ten years, Anthem has been a place to celebrate and encourage visual storytelling with a focus on issues of liberty and personal responsibility. Jo Ann explains how she came to find the festival, how it has grown and changed over the years, and why the ability to put together a compelling narrative, either through fiction or nonfiction, is essential to anyone who wishes to reach a broad audience of any kind.

FreedomFest LIVE Featuring Top Market Analyst Jim Woods   Unlock Your Wealth Starring Heather Wagenhals   Jim Woods joins Heather Wagenhals as they broadcast live from the Unlock Your Wealth Remote Studios on Media Row in Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. As the pair discuss the world's largest gathering of Free Minds they discuss their talks, participating in the special events and networking opportunities including the Tenth Anniversary of the Anthem Film Festival.   Heather also reveals her panel moderation of the Seven Keys to Finding Financial Freedom with the Godfather of Smart Beta Rob Arnott and long-time financial writer Gary Alexander and how you can receive her 9-page Financial Fire Escape Plan Checklist© for free by texting the word "CODE" to (602) 952-1113   Want this week's free strategy? Claim your free copy of Heather's Keys to Riches© Financial Fire Escape Plan by visiting CrackingYourMoneyCode.com now and join our exclusive VIP community for free during our pre-launch phase!.     If you like to learn more about how Friends of Freedom USA serves veterans and first responders, please visit their website at https://FriendsOfFreedomUSA.org/ .   Remember to bookmark this show and share it in your stories, feed, or timeline on social media. The late Jim Rohn says you are an average of the top 5 people you hang around with so help them achieve financial freedom along with you!     Welcome to our sponsor ReadItForMe and click on the link to claim your special offer for Unlock Your Wealth Fans and start reading best-selling books in less than 12 minutes with ReadItForMe UnlockYourWealth.com/readitforme   Pay off your mortgage, become debt free and have cash to invest with this simple strategy. Click here for the complimentary eBook. UnlockMyWealth.com Learn More with Resource Links: Next Week's Key:   Knowledge is Power, Not Knowing is Powerful   Check out our resources and past shows at our Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/UnlockYourWealthTV/   You can DM the show and directly ask questions!   For free tools and resources, give Heather an inbox message @unlockYourWealth after each show for the complimentary resource she offers. FREE is GOOD! Do it now!   Jim Woods' Newsletter Advisory Services Websites:*   JimWoodsInvesting.com is where you find all of Jim's publications, including: The Deep Woods Successful Investing Intelligence Report Bulls-eye Stock Trader WayOfTheRenaissanceMan.com   Also Check Out:   MoneyCreditAndYou.com UnlockYourWealth.com FreedomFest.com Special Offers: *** Get your FREE book from our sponsor Audible at AudibleTrial.com/UnlockYourWealth and click on the link to choose from over 150,000 titles for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or MP3 Player!  

  Have you bought ReJuvenation "anti-everything that ails you" pills? You're not alone. Last year, the FTC reached a settlement agreement with makers of ReJuvenation and sent refund checks to people who bought this so-called “anti-aging” pill that claimed to be a cure-all for ailments including cell damage, heart attack damage, brain damage, and deafness. Here's what you need to know to claim your refund.   From the FTC:   It's easy to get your money. Just go to the Quantum Refunds page at ftc.gov/rejuvenation and follow the instructions for filling out a claim. The deadline for filing claims is August 31, 2021. The average refund check has been about $113 dollars. Once you get your check, deposit it right away since it will expire after 90 days.   Also, please know that the only way these FTC refund checks will come to you is by postal mail. And you never have to pay to get a refund from the FTC. If someone contacts you and asks you to pay, or says they can help you get a refund, it's a scam — report it to the FTC.   Tarra Jackson, aka Madam Money, is the author of two financial best-selling books, “Financial Fornication” and “4 Financial Languages: The Secret to Communicating About Money.” She is a popular Personal Finance Expert Media Contributor, TV & Radio Personality, Spokesperson, Brand Ambassador, and award winning International Speaker.She is a dear friend and past show guest with multiple appearances, and I am thrilled to be speaking on her platform once again. Tarra is the founder of DualPreneur and the SideGigCon.com Conference for those starting or growing their sidegig's.     *********** I'm speaking live at the virtual expo SideGigCon. If you'd like to join me and watch my Keynote on, “Turning Everyday Actions into Achievements“ just visit http://SideGigCon.com   ***********   Plus I discuss my favorite holiday, @TheFreedomFest. The world's largest gathering of Free Minds in Mount Rushmore, South Dakota runs July 21-24. Join Jim Woods and me as we broadcast live from the Unlock Your Wealth Remote Studios on Media Row, attend our talks, participate in the special events and networking opportunities including the Tenth Anniversary of the Anthem Film Festival.   Get $50 off your ticket to the largest liberty and economic conference in the world http://UnlockYourWealth.com/freedomfest to claim your discount code now.   Want this week's free strategy? Claim your free copy of Heather's Keys to Riches© Financial Fire Escape Plan by visiting CrackingYourMoneyCode.com now and join our exclusive VIP community for free during our pre-launch phase!. **********     If you like to learn more about how Friends of Freedom USA serves veterans and first responders, please visit their website at https://FriendsOfFreedomUSA.org/ .   Remember to bookmark this show and share it in your stories, feed, or timeline on social media. The late Jim Rohn says you are an average of the top 5 people you hang around with so help them achieve financial freedom along with you!     Welcome to our sponsor ReadItForMe and click on the link to claim your special offer for Unlock Your Wealth Fans and start reading best-selling books in less than 12 minutes with ReadItForMe UnlockYourWealth.com/readitforme   Pay off your mortgage, become debt free and have cash to invest with this simple strategy. Click here for the complimentary eBook. UnlockMyWealth.com Learn More with Resource Links: Next Week's Key:   Dreams With Deadlines   Check out our resources and past shows at our Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/UnlockYourWealthTV/   You can DM the show and directly ask questions!   For free tools and resources, give Heather an inbox message @unlockYourWealth after each show for the complimentary resource she offers. FREE is GOOD! Do it now!    

Our new Season 13 kicks off once again with Top Market Analyst and Quarterly Guest Host, Jim Woods.   Join us for today's episode as we recap the last financial quarter and Jim shares his insight regarding possible inflation fears becoming a reality, and when.    Plus we discuss our favorite holiday, FreedomFest. The world's largest gathering of Free Minds in Mount Rushmore, South Dakota runs July 21-24. Join Jim and me as we broadcast live from the Unlock Your Wealth Remote Studios on Media Row, attend our talks, participate in the special events and networking opportunities including the Tenth Anniversary of the Anthem Film Festival.   Get $50 off your ticket to the largest liberty and economic conference in the world http://UnlockYourWealth.com/freedomfest to claim your discount code now.   Want this week's free strategy? Claim your free copy of Heather's Keys to Riches© Financial Fire Escape Plan by visiting CrackingYourMoneyCode.com now and join our exclusive VIP community for free during our pre-launch phase!.     Heather is speaking live at the virtual expo SideGigCon. If you'd like to join her and watch her Keynote on, “Turning Actions into Achievements“ just visit http://SideGigCon.com If you like to learn more about how Friends of Freedom USA serves veterans and first responders, please visit their website at https://FriendsOfFreedomUSA.org/ .   Remember to bookmark this show and share it in your stories, feed, or timeline on social media. The late Jim Rohn says you are an average of the top 5 people you hang around with so help them achieve financial freedom along with you!       Welcome to our sponsor ReadItForMe and click on the link to claim your special offer for Unlock Your Wealth Fans and start reading best-selling books in less than 12 minutes with ReadItForMe UnlockYourWealth.com/readitforme   Pay off your mortgage, become debt free and have cash to invest with this simple strategy. Click here for the complimentary eBook. UnlockMyWealth.com Learn More with Resource Links: Next Week's Key:   Take Action Make Assessment   Check out our resources and past shows at our Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/UnlockYourWealthTV/   You can DM the show and directly ask questions!   For free tools and resources, give Heather an inbox message @unlockYourWealth after each show for the complimentary resource she offers. FREE is GOOD! Do it now!       Jim Woods' Newsletter Advisory Services Websites:*   JimWoodsInvesting.com is where you find all of Jim's publications, including: The Deep Woods Successful Investing Intelligence Report Bulls-eye Stock Trader WayOfTheRenaissanceMan.com   Also Check Out:   MoneyCreditAndYou.com UnlockYourWealth.com FreedomFest.com Special Offers: *** Get your FREE book from our sponsor Audible at AudibleTrial.com/UnlockYourWealth and click on the link to choose from over 150,000 titles for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or MP3 Player!    

  Discover the Most Important Secret to Building Wealth   Unlock Your Wealth Today Starring Heather Wagenhals   Money management can happen in a variety of different ways with different strategies, tactics and software. However, building wealth has a few specific secrets. This episode, Heather details the most important wealth building secret she believes dominates all the others and how it ties in to this week's final Key in the Keys to Riches© Financial Philosophy as we close out Season 12.   The final key in our Keys to Riches© Financial Philosophy this week is:   Become a Voracious Reader   Today Heather shares why reading benefits the brain and your critical thinking skills as well as your wealth. And in some of the most unlikely fiction genres as well.   *Learn how reading impacts the neural pathways *Learn why we don't remember everything we read *Learn a significant difference between real and imagined experiences *So much more   Want this week's free strategy? Claim your free copy of Heather's Keys to Riches© Financial Fire Escape Plan by visiting CrackingYourMoneyCode.com now and join our exclusive VIP community for free during our pre-launch phase!.     Heather is speaking live at the virtual expo SideGigCon. If you'd like to join her and watch her Keynote on, “clearing the path for success“ just visit http://SideGigCon.com     Heather is speaking live at FreedomFest 2021 and to get $50 off your ticket to the largest liberty and economic conference in the world and attend FreedomFest July 21-24th, just visit http://UnlockYourWealth.com/freedomfest to claim your discount code now.   Join Heather, Drew Pinsky, JP Sears, Larry Elder, Dave Rubin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Steve Forbes, Dr. Mark Skousen, Carla Gericke, Rich Checkan, and Top Market Analyst Way of the RenaissanceMan Jim Woods and many more. Great panels, speeches, entertainment activities and the Anthem Film Festival.    If you like to learn more about how Friends of Freedom USA serves veterans and first responders, please visit their website at https://FriendsOfFreedomUSA.org/ .   Remember to bookmark this show and share it in your stories, feed, or timeline on social media. The late Jim Rohn says you are an average of the top 5 people you hang around with so help them achieve financial freedom along with you!       Welcome to our sponsor ReadItForMe and click on the link to claim your special offer for Unlock Your Wealth Fans and start reading best-selling books in less than 12 minutes with ReadItForMe UnlockYourWealth.com/readitforme   Pay off your mortgage, become debt free and have cash to invest with this simple strategy. Click here for the complimentary eBook. UnlockMyWealth.com Learn More with Resource Links: Next Week's Key:   Acceptance and Affirmation   Check out our resources and past shows at our Facebook fan page at https://www.facebook.com/UnlockYourWealthTV/   You can DM the show and directly ask questions!   For free tools and resources, give Heather an inbox message @unlockYourWealth after each show for the complimentary resource she offers. FREE is GOOD! Do it now!       Jim Woods' Newsletter Advisory Services Websites:*   JimWoodsInvesting.com is where you find all of Jim's publications, including: The Deep Woods Successful Investing Intelligence Report Bulls-eye Stock Trader WayOfTheRenaissanceMan.com   Also Check Out:   MoneyCreditAndYou.com UnlockYourWealth.com FreedomFest.com Special Offers: *** Get your FREE book from our sponsor Audible at AudibleTrial.com/UnlockYourWealth and click on the link to choose from over 150,000 titles for your iPhone, Android, Kindle or MP3 Player!      

Learn How to Think, Act, And Live Like A Renaissance Man Jim Woods here, I would like to personally invite you to join me at this year's FreedomFest conference this summer, in Las Vegas, where I will be presenting, How to Think, Act, And Live Like A Renaissance Man. Just for Way Of The Renaissance Man fans, they’ve extended the early bird discount. Just visit WayOfTheRenaissanceMan.com/freedomfest to reserve your spot today.   Enjoy other speakers like Steve Forbes, John Stossel, my co-editor Dr. Mark Skousen, Unlock Your Wealth TV's Heather Wagenhals, economist Stephen Moore, and of course Jordan Peterson, The Anthem Film Festival, and so much more.   Check out the details and grab your discount now!   See you there! In the name of the best within us,   Jim Woods #FFest2020 #FreedomFest #Freedom #Liberty #Economy #Focus #integration #celebration #RenaissanceMan #Lasvegas #Investing #entrepreneur #riseandgrind #hustle #bebettereveryday

Hard to believe that this is number 13! The FreedomFest is non-stop. The theme is the Wild West! It's much more than politics. It's a renaissance festival with fascinating debates, panels, general session presentations, keynote speeches, breakout sessions, conversation circles, workshops, author book signings, receptions, hospitality suites, special breakfasts & luncheons, the Anthem Film Festival, the Pitch Tank, the FreedomFest Exhibit Hall…that’s just the beginning of the action at FreedomFest. Kevin O'Leary is the keynote speaker this year. His hardcore capitalistic attitudes will contrast well with other more publicly spirited speakers. With topics on politics, investing, economics, healthy living and healthcare, education and parenting, technology & science, philosophy & history, the arts & literature, government regulation, taxation, social trends and so much more, there’s something for everyone at FreedomFest. FreedomFest runs from 7/17/19 to 7/20/19. Be there. Register here...

Hard to believe that this is number 13! The FreedomFest is non-stop. The theme is the Wild West! It's much more than politics. It's a renaissance festival with fascinating debates, panels, general session presentations, keynote speeches, breakout sessions, conversation circles, workshops, author book signings, receptions, hospitality suites, special breakfasts & luncheons, the Anthem Film Festival, the Pitch Tank, the FreedomFest Exhibit Hall…that’s just the beginning of the action at FreedomFest. Kevin O'Leary is the keynote speaker this year. His hardcore capitalistic attitudes will contrast well with other more publicly spirited speakers. With topics on politics, investing, economics, healthy living and healthcare, education and parenting, technology & science, philosophy & history, the arts & literature, government regulation, taxation, social trends and so much more, there’s something for everyone at FreedomFest. FreedomFest runs from 7/17/19 to 7/20/19. Be there. Register here...

We had an eye opening conversation with Naomi Brockwell, who will be performing at our Crypto Stars event on May 11th.  Her research and videos on with John Stossel about sex work have sparked conversation and controversy.  We talk about everything from legal and illegal prostitution to sugar babies, and how morality in many cases dictates law and if it should.  Speaking of the law, we also discuss platforms such as Craigslist and Backpage and how they have been impacted by recent rulings. We also discuss the recent arrest of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Ben Shapiro, and Wikileaks.   About the Guests: Naomi Brockwell is a film and television producer, and host of the show “Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Technologies of our Future”. She is a producer for Stossel, a producer for the TV series HardFork, and formerly produced for Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. Naomi is the co-founder of The Soho Forum, on the Advisory Council at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, and in 2017 was awarded Uber’s “Young Libertarian of the Year” at the Friedman Conference. She has produced numerous award-winning feature films, including the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), Audition (Best documentary, Lone Star Film Festival) and the Lionsgate thriller, Subconscious. Check out her daily videos at Youtube.com/NaomiBrockwellTV Do you have a burning question, or a show idea for us?  Please email us at tatiana@proofoflovecast.com! Thank you to our sponsor Crypto Media Hub. Remember, this is a new show, so if you like it, please be sure to tell 3 friends!   Leave a good review on Itunes, and be sure to follow us on our socials! More Info: www.ProofofLoveCast.com NaomiBrockwell.com TheTatianaShow.com Hardforkentertainment.io Youtube.com/NaomiBrockwellTV

Bitcoin and Austrian Economics go hand in hand with living a free life. I recently chatted with Naomi Brockwell about all things crypto, money, banking, Austrian economics, bailouts, roads, Ron Paul and living locally in New Hampshire (the Live Free or Die state). The nerdiness of this episode will not disappoint you. Naomi can talk the talk and walk the walk, which I appreciate. Trust me, this episode is both informative and entertaining. #buildfreedom Naomi’s Bio: Naomi Brockwell is a film and television producer, and creator of NBTV and is currently producing for Stossel and formerly produced for Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. She was also the producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), Audition (Best documentary, Lone Star Film Festival) and the Lionsgate thriller, Subconscious. She emcees some of the biggest blockchain events in the world, and is co-author of the children's book "Billy's Bitcoin". Guest Contact Info: You can find Naomi’s daily tech/blockchain videos at www.youtube.com/NaomiBrockwellTV Other social media: https://bitbacker.io/user/naomibrockwell/ https://www.minds.com/naomibrockwell https://steemit.com/@skycorridors https://spee.ch/@NaomiBrockwell:4 https://www.bitchute.com/channel/naomibrockwelltv/ https://memo.cash/profile/1Kjvmr2QJmNcLgSuHVxR6otah9eHcx6L1E https://t.me/hijinxandhightea Podcast Resources: Thomas Sowell: The Housing Boom and Bust Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare Murray Newton Rothbard: What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Scott and Ryan have been composing music together in the spirit of liberty since 2015.  I was lucky enough to meet them along the way in my journey, and have a great respect for artists that realize the need for a touch of freedom in the message.  It can be so powerful, as evidenced by Scott and Ryan’s work. We get into their journey, some of the challenges along the way for their political views, and some stories of success.  There have been a few notable releases we recommend, so please look in the bio below. About the Guests: Scott McRae and Ryan Rapsys founded Music for Liberty in 2015 in order to elevate the quality of music used in media focused around ideas of human liberty.  Since then, they have scored the feature film Little Pink House (about the Kelo vs. New London Supreme Court Case) for which they received the award for Best Score at the 2017 Anthem Film Festival, the documentary Can We Take a Joke? (which explores the intersection of comedy, free speech and outrage culture), and have provided music for media from organizations such as the Institute for Justice, Smock Media, The Atlas Society, Taliesin Nexus, Moving Picture Institute and others.  Their recent endeavor, the Composing Freedom Initiative, has two aims: 1) educate liberty-minded filmmakers about how to more effectively use music in their projects and 2) raise funds to augment the music budgets of media that celebrates human freedom and individualism. Individually, they have each worked extensively in the entertainment industry. Scott has contributed his musical skills and knowledge to over 100 films and television shows, including Crazy Rich Asians, Fences, the Fast and Furious franchise, The Pursuit of Happyness, Rush Hour 3, the Final Destination franchise, and Cold Mountain. He founded and runs Janen Music, which provides quality music preparation services and rents music to orchestras for live performance. He co-produced two Christmas albums, and his score for The Box was nominated for Best Score at the Madrid Film Festival in 2014. For nearly two decades, Ryan has composed music for numerous feature films, short films, documentaries, theatrical productions and commercial projects. His score for the short film Stay won Best Original Score at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood in 2016. He’s also released electronic music under the aliases Transistorface, Microquasar and Pineriver. He’s composed classical music, with concert performances by small ensembles up to full orchestra. His production music has been used in hundreds of television shows, including Dateline NBC and The Today Show. He owns and operates Total Music Metadata, a music service business which catalogs, edits and optimizes music tracks for licensing for music libraries and organizations, with clients including top trailer music houses as well as the in-house music library for Discovery Communications. He’s also served as a music supervisor and music editor for numerous projects. If you like this content, please send a tip with BTC to: 1444meJi7YjgQGNg3U8Z6qYZFA5cgz4Gmj More Info:   TatianaMoroz.com CryptoMediaHub.com Vaultoro.com MusicForLiberty.com Friends and Sponsors of the Show: LocalMaxRadio.com ProofofLovecast.com  

Highlights include: • Sequencing the cannabis genome • The process of submitting a project for funding from the Dash DAO • The banking crisis in the cannabis industry • Medical marijuana and CBD oil • Obstacles posed to the cannabis industry by the US government • Will the Trump administration legalize cannabis? • How blockchain can become part of popular culture • Reclaiming the mainstream narrative of bitcoin and blockchain technology • The recent Facebook purge and alternative social media platforms We’re moving to a new audio format! While I enjoy seeing the lovely faces of all my guests, we are trying some new things for The Tatiana Show. Audio-only enables me to work with less bandwidth while I’m recording shows on the road, and makes for easier editing. This means listeners will get more regular, top quality episodes! Thank you always to The Tatiana Show sponsors: Stamps.com, The Bitcoin CPA, CryptoCompare, and my marketing company, Crypto Media Hub. Kevin Mckernan kicks off this episode and treats us to his extraordinary range of knowledge and experiences from the cannabis and cryptocurrency spaces. Kevin has spent his career researching and developing various DNA sequencing technologies in both the research and clinical industries. He is the CSO and Founder of Medicinal Genomics. Kevin explains how he obtained funding for his cannabis genome sequencing project from the Dash DAO. For people who don’t know, Dash is a cryptocurrency that not only uses its fees to pay miners, like Bitcoin does, but also puts tokens from its fees into a treasury. People can then propose projects to Dash stakeholders and receive money from that fund. The Patent and Trade Office (PTO) has posed various obstacles to the cannabis industry, particularly through a controversial and overly broad patent issued in 2015, which Kevin helped to oppose. We also discuss the banking crisis in cannabis and in general how governments have stifled cannabis research and innovation for generations. Mckernan explains that “through prohibition, everyone started breeding for high THC, and that has come at the cost of all the other cannabinoids not being made” (20:23). There are rarer cannabinoids, with more therapeutic effects. Kevin and his team targeted one of those rarer strains to sequence for their Dash project. We also delve into some examples of diseases and ailments that can be aided by cannabis and CBD oils. At 24:00, Kevin treats us to a brief world history of cannabis, discussing how different strains originated in different parts of the world. The earliest cannabis was present 20 million years ago in the Hindu Kush mountain range. Ancient people grew hemp for its fibers, which were useful for making sails for their ships. Do you think the Trump administration will legalize marijuana? We discuss how new cannabis industries have affected the American economy and how Canada’s recent legalization of cannabis could force the Trump administration’s hand in U.S. policy-making (34:00). Kevin’s event is Cannmed, currently taking place at UCLA this week. Next we’re joined by Naomi Brockwell (37:30). Naomi is a film and television producer for John Stossel; she also hosts her own Youtube show on blockchain, bitcoin, and technology. Her newest project is a crypto thriller noir series called Hard Fork. She discovered the project through Steemit, where she connected with Doug Karr, an alumni of the Sundance festival, and Christopher James Baker (of the television series, Ozarks) as they were putting together this blockchain sci fi thriller. Like Kevin McKernan, they also received funding from the Dash DAO, and they’ve raised their first million dollars. The show is still in development. They will go into production and are hoping for a release at the end of 2019. Follow Naomi on social media (@NaomiBrockwell) or check out hardforkentertainment.io to stay updated. Naomi says of the Hard Fork series: “I wanted to get involved because all you hear about with crypto is the negative. ‘Oh it’s a bubble. Everyone in crypto is a loser.’ The mainstream media just talks about the drug dealers and money launderers and how they’re awful. But blockchain is the most empowering technology we’ve seen in the last hundred years. This is a way to decentralize trust. This is a way to completely revolutionize the traditional financial sector. Please do not discount this. Let’s talk about all the ways that this can change lives, how this can give people back more freedom, more financial autonomy. So I think getting in control of that narrative and creating a mainstream-audience-accessible series that actually looks at the way this can be a really empowering tech is what drew me to the project.” Cheers to that! Naomi came to cryptocurrency from a background in Austrian economics, in which economists like F.A. Hayek were eerily prescient about cryptocurrency. Speaking of economics, I’ll be seeing Naomi next on the Contra Cruise! Comment below if you’ll be there. Josh is missing out, but he’s helping with the Bitcoin Lightning Network Hack Day in New York. (56:00) Finally, we discuss Steemit, alternative social media, the recent Facebook purge of many libertarian pages and outlets, and how other activists have struggled with banning on various platforms. Naomi is a big fan of BitChute, an alternative to Youtube. If you’re interested in more on these topics, check out another recent episode of The Tatiana Show, in which I interviewed Bill Ottman of Minds.com and Matt Asher of BeforeTheBan.com. Thanks so much to my co-host Joshua Scigala, and our awesome guests! We hope you enjoy the episode! About the Guests: Kevin has spent his career researching and developing various DNA sequencing technologies in both the research and clinical industries. Additionally, Kevin has had a parallel interest in driving the tools used for personalized medicine into the world of cannabis medicine. Kevin believes the intersection of personalized medicine, genomics, blockchains and cannabis is one of the most exciting growth opportunities in our lifetime. Kevin is the CSO and Founder of Medicinal Genomics and has pioneered the genomics of cannabis and hemp to build a stronger scientific environment (Kannapedia.net) for the study of cannabis based therapeutics and blockchain technologies for tracking and verifying cannabis genetics. Previously, Kevin was the CSO of Courtagen Life Sciences, Inc., and held the position of Vice President and Director of R&D of Life Technologies where he managed the development of Life Technologies next generation SOLID sequencing technology. Integral to the SOLID R&D process, Kevin oversaw over 100 research collaborations exploring the new biological frontiers with next generation sequencing and saw particular excitement and traction in human tumor sequencing. Kevin initiated an R&D project to investigate chemFET semiconductor based DNA sequencing and spearheaded a process to acquire the DNA sequencing  company Ion Torrent for $350M. These collaborations resulted in hundreds of publications and 7 journal covers from Science Translational Medicine to Nature. Kevin was the President and CSO of Agencourt Personal Genomics, a startup company he co-founded in 2005 to invent revolutionary sequencing technologies that dropped the cost of sequencing a human genome from $300M to $3,000; a 100,000-fold improvement in sequencing speed and cost in a few years. Kevin oversaw the growth and research of APG until it was sold to Applied BioSystems. In 2000, Kevin Co-Founded Agencourt Biosciences Corporation and acted as the CSO until 2005 where it was acquired by Beckman Coulter. From 1996 to 2000 Kevin managed the Research and Development for the Human Genome Project at Whitehead Institute/MIT resulting in several patents for nucleic acid purification. Kevin holds a B.S. in Biology from Emory University with a focus on cloning and expressing Norepinephrine Transporters. When not decoding DNA and unraveling the mysteries of cannabis medicine, Kevin enjoys boating, skiing, and gardening. Naomi Brockwell is a film and television producer, and host of the show "Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Technologies of our Future". She is a producer for Stossel, a producer for the TV series HardFork, and formerly produced for Fox Business Network and Fox News Channel. Naomi is the co-founder of The Soho Forum, on the Advisory Council at the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, and in 2017 was awarded Uber's "Young Libertarian of the Year" at the Friedman Conference. She has produced numerous award-winning feature films, including the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), Audition (Best documentary, Lone Star Film Festival) and the Lionsgate thriller, Subconscious. 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Naomi's Channel ▶ Youtube.com/NaomiBrockwellTV Naomi Brockwell has been a bitcoin advocate and evangelist since 2013. She was policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center from 2013-2015, producer for the 2015 feature documentary Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), and has been making videos educating people about Bitcoin since 2013.

Founder of Anthem Film Festival, Jo Ann Skousen, shares the 2017 lineup of featured libertarian films with Dave Sussman of Whiskey Politics. Check out the list of great movies you can see at the http://AnthemFilmFestival.com and Attend Freedom Fest 2017 – Register at http://FreedomFest.com & use code “WHISKEY” to save $100!Please subscribe to Whiskey Politics at YouTube and our audio podcasts at iTunes, Stitcher or GooglePlay where your 5-star rating would be appreciated!In:  George Michael, Freedom & Little Green Bag, George Baker Selection. Out: The Drifters, Saturday Night at the Movies 

Dave finds out why FreedomFest is the most exciting, star-filled adventure in Vegas and founder Mark Skousen details why everyone who is interested in prosperity, health and freedom should go. Whiskey Politics will be reporting on the ground from the conference as we interview dozens of big names like Steve Forbes and William Shatner. Held July 19-22, a special $100 discount code #FS2017 is available online at FreedomFest.com.Dr. Mark Skousen is an Author, Lecturer, and was an economic analyst for the CIA, a columnist for Forbes magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC's Kudlow & Company and has also appeared on C-SPAN and Fox News. Skousen has lectured on economics and finance at Columbia Business School, Barnard College at Columbia University, Mercy College in New York and Rollins College. Grantham University renamed it's online School of Business "The Mark Skousen School of Business." He has been named a "Presidential Fellow" at Chapman University and currently teaches at Chapman University.Skousen served as president of the free-market nonprofit Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)Dr. Skousen now oversees FreedomFest, a conference that has grown to attract thousands of people each year, and focuses on issues of geopolitics and domestic politics, global economics, investing and personal finance, free markets and entrepreneurship, health and healthcare, education, arts and literature, science and technology, history, and philosophy. FreedomFest also houses the Anthem Film Festival, the world's only libertarian film festival, directed by Jo Ann Skousen.Please subscribe to Whiskey Politics at YouTube and our audio podcasts at iTunes, Stitcher or GooglePlay where your 5-star rating would be appreciated!In: Little Green Bag, George Baker SelectionOut: I’m Free, Soup Dragons

  Navigating from Old to New Media Careers - Bob Bowdon Bob Bowdon is a long-time broadcaster, television host and filmmaker. He's hosted programs for national PBS distribution, Bloomberg Television and even been a recurring on-camera reporter for the Onion News Network.   Currently, Bowdon runs Choice Media, a national education newsgroup which publishes a daily newswire, website (ChoiceMedia.TV) and Twitter feed (@ChoiceMediaTV) about American schools.  He frequently appears in the media to promote education reform and school choice, including Morning Joe, The O'Reilly Factor, The [Megyn] Kelly File and Stossel on the Fox News Channel; and many other national and local broadcasts. Bowdon is also a filmmaker. His latest film, The Ticket, is about seven school choice innovations happening in seven states, and it's been screened at functions hosted by the Cato Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, the Friedman Foundation, the Mackinac Institute, the Nevada Policy Research Institute, the Platte Institute and many others.  Last July, The Ticket also won the coveted Audience Choice award at the Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas.  Bowdon's previous film, The Cartel, was about corruption in public education. It won 12 film festival awards, a national theatrical release and distribution from Warner Brothers.      Thanks for listening to “Speaking with TJ Walker.” Please subscribe to the show here https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1072936158?mt=2&ls=1   The show about public speaking, media training, presentation skills, crisis communications, and presentation training. Please send any speaking-related questions you have directly to TJ at tj@mediatrainingworldwide.com and he will answer them in future episodes.   Please connect with us at Media Training Worldwide and post your questions here http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/blog/   On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tjwalkerinteractive Twitter: https://twitter.com/tjwalker Linkedin: T.J. Walker Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/user/MediaTraining iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/id1072936158?mt=2&ls=1   Receive Free online Public Speaking or Media Training Course today http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/give-away.html     Call +1.212.764.4955 now to discuss a customized media training or presentation training program for you or your organization.   For keynote speech and media inquiries, call +1.212.764.4955   Online media and presentation training at  http://www.mediatrainingworldwide.com/online-training.html   Media Training Worldwide teaches people how to speak effectively to the media and to live audiences. We train people on all aspects of media training, public speaking, PowerPoint Presentations, crisis communications and presentation training.