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When Pope Francis's death was announced by the Vatican this week, the world found the words to pay tribute.From Kings to Prime Ministers to Presidents, everyone reached for the most appropriate tribute. Even Donald Trump was looking forward to the funeral.But what does the reaction from unionist parties in the north tell us about the loyalist mindset?On Free State, Dion and Joe look at what the pope, the Irish language, Casement Park and a border poll tell us about the supremacist mindset.They argue about Micheál Martin's talk about reconciliation before a united Ireland and wonder what does it actually mean? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Podcast guesting in 2025 is the number one most effective way to generate leads, sales, and clients, bar none.”Here's the deal: if you're not leveraging podcast guesting in 2025, you're probably still using flip phones and writing checks at the grocery store. Podcast guesting isn't just a strategy; it's *the* strategy for generating leads, closing sales, and building a six-figure business. This episode breaks down a winning formula for using podcast guest appearances as a lead generation powerhouse. With insights from over 700 guest appearances, it reveals the key elements: focus on intention, preparation, choosing the right shows, and nailing your call to action. Whether you're chasing clients or craving credibility, this episode provides a clear blueprint for success. Even Donald Trump won his 2024 presidential campaign in part by leveraging podcast guesting. Yes, it's that powerful.Book: Get Booked and Get Paidhttps://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0DDQ1ZYS3?ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_D0AD4KB161VCQ7PTZ02J&skipTwisterOG=1&bestFormat=true&newOGT=1Visit https://www.eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

Democrats are Supporting the “Ultra-Right-Wing Trump” If you believe what the news says, this idea would be impossible. To see the truth, you have to step back and look at the Big Picture. Trump has been painted as “Ultra-Right-Wing;” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a conspiracy theorist. I am sure they will be attacking Elon Musk as well. What do all of these people have in common? They were all registered Democrats in the past. Yes, Even Donald Trump. They have all went against the machine. RFK, Jr. wrote an incredibly well researched book about the dangers of Anthony Fauci & the Medical, industrial, government complex. Elon will not censor free speech in America, or the world. All have been sued and/or brought up on charges for following our Constitution & supporting our citizens at the expense of the deep state agenda.   And now ALL of them have endorsed Trump. It is not Democrat vs. Republican. Now, more & more citizens of multiple countries are seeing it is the Deep State/one world government/puppet masters against all of us. www.RealPowerFamily.com The Real Anthony Fauci by RFK, Jr.

As the election draws closer it's important to look past the false promises and outright lies and look at history. All politicians work for and serve the State (aka the global elite) and its interests. Trump won't save you. Biden won't save you. The only one you can trust is God.

The Eighties were a wacky time in aviation history. Deregulation ushered in a variety of kooky airlines that catered to all kinds of crowds, from a smokers' airline to fancy-pants first-class-only carriers. Even Donald Trump had his own airline, complete with gold-plated bathrooms. But Trump wasn't the only one decking out planes to look like one of Hugh Hefner's mansions. Casino and movie studio magnate Kirk Kerkorian of MGM had the wild idea to create an airline meant to satisfy celebs' every whim on flights from New York to Los Angeles. Frequented by the likes of Madonna and Guns N' Roses, for a brief stint MGM Air was THE WAY celebs flew the friendly skies. But alas, every rose has its thorn and every celebration must come to an end. We're going deep into the demise of the airline whose motto was "everything else should be called second class."Email us at toomuchmoneypodcast@gmail.com! Too Much Money is hosted and produced by Jo Piazza and Doree Shafrir. Music is by Lisa Brenner. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Even Donald Trump's left-leaning opponents, political and commercial, can see right through this New York verdict. The former president has been charged in his alleged fraud case and instructed to pay $350 Million. To whom? Well, since it's a victimless so-called crime, no one knows for sure. Grace covers the case and more on this Presidents' Day special.

Today's show continues to look at just how bad the Senate border bill is and more fallout as people read it for themselves. I spend time going through what Senator Mike Lee has dubbed, “The Dirty Dozen,” problems he and his team have gleaned when pouring through the bill. Listeners to this show will be happy to note, his words echo what I brought you on yesterday's analysis of the bill. Even Donald Trump calls this bill a trap, while Mitch “The Turtle” McConnell now seems to be throwing Oklahoma Senator Lankford under the bus after tasking him with negotiating the bill in the first place. President Biden has told us about a particular super power he has. According to Biden, he told us about having a meeting at the G7 right after his election and mentioning to French president Mitterrand that the U.S. is back! This would have been 2021. Unfortunately, French president Mitterrand has been dead since 1996. But, hey, maybe Madam LaSolda works with him in the Oval Office, which might explain how he goes about making his policy decisions. Mollie Hemingway, Editor-in-Chief of The Federalist weighed-in on her thoughts on a recent poll that said if Trump were to be convicted, Joe Biden would lead in the polls by two points. Hemingway states that as we continue to see the lawfare play out and the problems these individual DA's and prosecutors have found themselves in, people are beginning to see this is nothing more than Banana Republic tactics. Maybe that's why the regime needs to bolster the voting rolls with all of the illegals? Speaking of a DA with issues, a state supreme court judge in New York just virtually slapped DA Alvin Bragg on a case involved two people who bought forged vaccines cards so they could remain gainfully employed and enrolled in school. Yes, the guy who let illegals out on the street hours after beating up two NYC cops and who let's dangerous criminals off with no punishments, wanted to push felony charges on people who paid for a fake vaccine card. The judge dismissed the charges and gave Bragg and his department a good tongue-lashing. Shifting to the topic of journalism. It seems CNN has lost their collective minds over someone setting up an appointment to sit down and interview a world leader. Heave forbid someone who considers themselves to be in the “news” business, make a point to chase actual news! However, with all of the vim and spin we've come to expect from the propaganda wing of the Democrat party, CNN is trying to discredit Tucker Carlson before he can even air the first word. I think it's funny how they try to paint Carlson as a Putin pet, when they are missing the bigger story and picture. Carlson likes to call balls and strikes and if you are going to fawn over Zelenskyy, the least you should do is make an attempt to get some information from the other side. It's not about love or hate, but asking questions from all parties to give the American voter more information to consider, not less. Finally, with polls in the sewer, Biden recently made a speech where he wants you to believe he loves all Americans equally. He has never said or done anything to make you believe he thinks of you as his adversary or his enemy. Just remember, to buy that, you have to forget everything he has ever said against half of the electorate since the 2020 election and before. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

Tired of lining Uncle Sam's pockets? You're not alone. Even Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman, has openly discussed using legal loopholes to minimize what he pays in taxes. In this video, we'll crack the code and reveal proven strategies used by high earners (including myself) to legally pay $0 in taxes and skyrocket your wealth. Learn how to invest smarter, buy real estate with $0 down, and build financial freedom, all within the bounds of the law. Do your taxes like a genius - Listen now! Learn more and be successful in any industry with MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants. Schedule a free business strategy session today:

Today opens with another reminder of what a liar and an embellisher of tales President Joe Biden is. On the 22nd anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, Biden told the world her remembered what is was like to stand at ground zero on 9/12. The problem? He wasn't even close. He was on the floor of the Senate making speeches. All talk and no action. To make the anniversary an even bigger mocker to him and his regime, on the same day, Biden decided to inform Congress of a $6B release of funds and a 5 for 5 prisoner swap with Iran. That's what the current Leftists in power think of our country. Even Donald Trump posted about it, calling Joe Biden an incompetent fool who is destroying America. It's hard to see it otherwise. This past Friday, the full Special Grand Jury report held by Fani Willis in Georgia was released. After taking a moment to remind you of ridiculous and childish fool, Emily Kohrs, who went on a media tour touting her escapades as the Foreperson of the Grand Jury, we hear from a woman who was questioned. Election Lawyer Cleta Mitchell describes what a circus the Special Grand Jury was and how unserious Kohrs behaved. To go along with the big Fani Willis joke of an indictment, we find she has spent nearly a million dollars of tax-payer money on a private law firm to help prosecute Donald Trump. Not only is this highly unorthodox, but also this very firm solicited themselves for services as defense attorneys to one of the named people in the big Fani Willis indictment. You can't make this up! But, because they are private sector contractors, they do not have to adhere to an oath of office and are not going to be held accountable. One of the sheriffs in New Mexico has remembered what an oath to the Constitution means. He clearly states in a presser that he and his officers will not enforce the Governor's illegal and un-Constitutional order to suspend the Second Amendment. In breaking news, it seems a CIA whistleblower has come forward, alleging the agency rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusions from a lab-leak to zoonosis. This same Big Government mentality that seems to be gifted in getting everything wrong has also just approved, though the FDA, a booster for a strain of the virus that is nearly gone, representing on 3.1% of strains. We are funneling millions of tax dollars to Pfizer and Moderna for a non-human tested booster to stop such a mild strain of the variant, representing only 3.1% of the strains. And on top of that, Joe Biden says they need even more money to get ready for the next pandemic. Finally, in a moment of mockery and stupidity, we have to point out a bit of satirical, Kabuki theater. Apparently energy secretary Jennifer Granholm went on a road trip tour in an electric vehicle to prove how great electric vehicles are. They ran into trouble almost immediately as they found not enough charging stations. She sent her staff ahead with gasoline powered vehicles and had them block off a charging station for her to use when she arrived. A family ended up calling the police because her staff was using their gasoline cars to block electric vehicles from using the stations. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. A monster storm is hitting Northern California this evening – there are already reports of downed trees and flooding. California Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency, as much of the state prepared for an intense winter storm that could produce what meteorologists call a bomb cyclone, or a storm that intensifies rapidly.  The heavy rains may bring flooding along the Russian River. North Bay advocates are calling for more emergency shelter and law enforcement to stop citing people sheltering in cars, as unhoused residents brace for the intense winter storms.  Much of Europe is experiencing a record breaking winter heat wave. California Republican Kevin McCarthy comes up short on the 4th, 5th and 6th ballots to choose a new House Speaker. Even Donald Trump's endorsement of McCarthy isn't persuasive. President Biden says he'll make his first presidential visit to the U.S. Mexico border when he travels to Mexico City next week. And Poland's Defense Minister signs a deal to buy a second batch of U.S. Abrams battle tanks. Image: Flooding in Sonoma County in 2008 by Patrick Dirden via FLICKR The post Monster storm hits Northern California, prompting Gov Newsom to declare a state of emergency; CA Republican Kevin McCarthy falls short after six rounds of voting to choose a new House Speaker; North Bay homeless advocates call for more emergency shelter appeared first on KPFA.

Comprehensive coverage of the day's news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. A monster storm is hitting Northern California this evening – there are already reports of downed trees and flooding. California Governor Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency, as much of the state prepared for an intense winter storm that could produce what meteorologists call a bomb cyclone, or a storm that intensifies rapidly.  The heavy rains may bring flooding along the Russian River. North Bay advocates are calling for more emergency shelter and law enforcement to stop citing people sheltering in cars, as unhoused residents brace for the intense winter storms.  Much of Europe is experiencing a record breaking winter heat wave. California Republican Kevin McCarthy comes up short on the 4th, 5th and 6th ballots to choose a new House Speaker. Even Donald Trump's endorsement of McCarthy isn't persuasive. President Biden says he'll make his first presidential visit to the U.S. Mexico border when he travels to Mexico City next week. And Poland's Defense Minister signs a deal to buy a second batch of U.S. Abrams battle tanks. Image: Flooding in Sonoma County in 2008 by Patrick Dirden via FLICKR The post Monster storm hits Northern California, prompting Gov Newsom to declare a state of emergency; CA Republican Kevin McCarthy falls short after six rounds of voting to choose a new House Speaker; North Bay homeless advocates call for more emergency shelter appeared first on KPFA.

Shane Gillis, Joe DeRosa, Dave Attell, Godfrey, Gary Vider Sam Morril and Mark Normand for part 2 and conclusion of this epic bachelor party episode. Even Donald Trump shows up to let us know what he thinks of Joe DeRosa. Godfrey: https://www.instagram.com/comediangodfrey/?hl=en Joe DeRosa: https://www.joederosainfo.com/ Dave Attell: http://daveattell.com/ Shane Gillis: https://www.shanemgillis.com/ Gary Vider: https://www.garyvider.com/ Mark Normand: http://marknormandcomedy.com/ Sam Morril: https://www.sammorril.com/shows Visit http://www.manscaped.com and use code DRUNK for 20% off. https://www.wemightbedrunkpod.com/shop https://www.patreon.com/wemightbedrunkpod http://www.bodegacatspirits.com  

Today's show focuses entirely on the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines from Monday of this week. I need to be very clear from the beginning, no one has the full picture, yet, and no one knows who is behind the apparent explosions that ruptured the lines. While it is easy to point the figure at President Vladimir Putin of Russia, we have to be open to the notion others may also have something to gain. What I attempt to do today is walk through the “What if's…” surrounding this story. We know earlier this year, both President Biden and Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Under Secretary for Political Affairs both made ominous statements about putting an end to Nord Stream 2 if Russia were to invade Ukraine. I can't find any other world leader to have made similar threats about Nord Stream 2. Let me be clear again, posturing and boasting is not an admission of guilt. I am simply playing out possible scenarios based on the information we know at this moment. It will take some time to get all the answers and the reality is, we may never fully know who was behind the explosions that have ruptured both of the Nord Stream lines. We do know a Security Alert has been issued for U.S. Citizens in Russia. One can surmise if the U.S. Embassy in Moscow is alerting Americans living there to leave Russia immediately, it cannot be good. There must be strong concerns within the halls of Washington, D.C. that the Russians know who blew up the pipelines and the tensions are escalating quickly. Even Donald Trump realizes the rising tensions and put out his own message, calling for U.S. leadership to remain cool, calm and dry. In fact, he has even offered to help negotiate a deal among the parties to ensure tensions do not get any further out of control. Unfortunately, the Biden regime is full of children in adult bodies, with the “Green New Deal” agenda at the forefront of their minds. Even Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre didn't directly address the sabotage, but instead used it as a means to push for renewable energy. Never let a crisis go to waste seems to be the only driving thought on the Left. In light of this, is it really too far of a stretch to think eco-terrorists could justify such an ecological disaster of their own making, if they believe it will force more nations to adopt their renewable nirvana? What these children fail to understand is men like Putin are not part of their fanciful thinking and that is the real danger of leaving the current regime in place. Take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, GETTR and TRUTH Social by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. You can also support the show by visiting my Patreon page!

Scottish MP Angus MacNeil is calling for a cull of sea eagles as farmers and crofters say they are taking more lambs as numbers grow. The bird - with a wing-span of around two metres - was driven to extinction in Scotland, until reintroduction programmes in the 1970s brought them back. Now there are more than a hundred breeding pairs. NatureScot is offering management schemes, including funding extra shepherds to help farmers. But so far there is no compensation for lost revenue, and no plans for a managed cull. Dutch farmers have been making headlines around the world, not for their agricultural produce but intensive protests. Tractors have rolled up outside parliament, blocked supermarket distribution centres and turned up outside politicians' homes. Even Donald Trump has weighed in, in support of the farmers. The demonstrations are against the Dutch government's plans to cut harmful nitrogen emissions to meet climate targets. The farmers argue the government's proposals are unrealistic and unfairly target their industry. The presenter is Charlotte Smith.

In this episode Farheen talks about e-commerce going offline. Even Facebook's parent company meta is opening a physical store to sell its gadgets. For deep dive she discusses Elon Musk dealing a deal with Twitter. The deal has been accepted at $44 billion. Brace yourself, as many changes are coming your way. Even Donald Trump returning to Twitter. Tune in!

[00:30] The Former AG Knew Hunter's Laptop Was Hunter's (49 minutes)During the 2020 investigation into Hunter Biden's infamous laptop, Big Tech, media propagandists, former intelligence officials and Democrats aggressively worked to suppress and dismiss the truth about all the corrupt business dealings of the Biden crime family. Even Donald Trump's attorney general, William Barr, whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked for, covered up the story during the 2020 presidential election. Now that Hunter's laptop has been authenticated by the New York Times, Bill Barr admits that there was a conspiracy between the Bidens, Big Tech and the media. Last night on Fox News, he even said this conspiracy “definitely had an impact on the election.” If that is so, what did Mr. Barr do about it? At the time he was the top law enforcement official in all of America. [49:10] E-mail Feedback (5 minutes)

Almost every day now I hear some whiz kid trying to sell me on the idea that we should have IQ tests for political leaders to determine whether or not they are fit to lead the nation. This idea is mostly promoted by supporters of mainstream corporate democrats, the same corporate democrats that saw to it that you won't get any expansion of job benefits by the way, who are scared to pieces that Trump will be president again. Of course these people have failed to realize that faking results on such a test would be quite easy to do. But I am not even going to go there because I do not have to. All I have to do is defer to the fact that cunning, ruthless, despotic leaders have mostly all had high IQs. If you do not believe me all you have to do is look at the Nazi regime and see that many of the higher ups scored well on IQ tests. Even Donald Trump scored well on his IQ test. So why are Trump's supposed enemies now calling for the same test that despots have used to separate the good stock from the bad stock for the purposes of genocide and enslavement? Probably because social Darwinism, the idea that we can perfect the human race through selective breeding by pairing others with high IQs, good health, excellent grades and good genes, never really went away in America. In fact, I would argue that it has only grown in popularity ever since its creation. Social Darwinism, of course, was quite popular amongst most American Capitalists because it promotes “survival of the fittest” a term first coined by social Darwinist Herbert Spencer a full seven years before Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species. All over the supposedly “liberal” twitter sphere you will hear so called liberals saying that survival of the fittest is weeding out the conservatives who are refusing to get themselves vaccinated, most likely without understanding the term's racist origins. Spencer believed that competition was most important and that those who could not or would not ruthlessly compete with others deserved to sit and spin. "Society advances," Spencer wrote, "where its fittest members are allowed to assert their fitness with the least hindrance." He went on to argue that the unfit should "not be prevented from dying out." Wow, well, isn't that cute? Isn't that grand? Liberal America is using a term that promotes killing others who may not be as smart as them or who may just not be as interested in philosophy as they are. Why do they believe that knowledge will save them from dictatorship? Germany was a very intelligent nation before Hitler ran in there and grabbed power. Pre Nazi Germany was an intellectual paradise and yet they were usurped by brute force, mostly because they refused to recognize the threat of social Darwinism, much like the United States is doing today. Spencer was also against welfare of any kind, and, much like the Democrats and Republicans of the day, considered welfare to the poor and needy to encourage laziness and vice. He opposed public schooling and even was against public health codes because he believed disease to be a natural occurrence that was meant to kill off those weaker than him. Were Spencer alive today, he would applaud Democrats and Republicans alike for allowing the poor to starve and for supporting testing of leaders to make sure that they have, as Trump stated, “the right stuff” to lead. Those who are arguing for these stupid IQ tests obviously did not pay attention in history class. Indeed, they are the ones who should be kept far away from leadership because, if they had their way, no one with even the slightest bit of compassion or empathy, which IQ tests cannot measure, would ever become a leader of note again. This lazy brand of politics must not only be ignored, it must be attacked, discouraged and mocked. We cannot allow those who would have a test measure the suitability of a leader to dictate actual policy. If this happens we are doomed to be a fascist nation. Truth hurts. Idiocy kills. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/morecontentplease/support

The murder of George Floyd galvanized the public and led to the largest protests in American history. Even Donald Trump said of the videos of Floyd’s killing, “It doesn't get any more obvious or it doesn't get any worse than that,” presumably referring to the use of force by police. America waited anxiously for the outcome of the murder trial of the former police officer Derek Chauvin. The prosecution’s case was notable for the unusually candid and definitive statements against Chauvin’s actions that were made by senior figures in the Minneapolis Police Department. The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb covered the trial and says that this testimony sends a message to law enforcement. “There are now circumstances where public scrutiny and public outrage and egregious offenses that come to light can actually generate enough outrage that you actually will not be defended by your fellow-officers,” he tells David Remnick. “It may seem like a low bar. But, given what we’ve seen previously, that’s a pretty astounding development.” 

You might have heard about a wee double house draw that has gripped the county for well over a year? Well, with a week to go, I caught up with Aoife Clare to find out the story behind the draw's success. Buy a paper ticket off your local club seller or online here www.Pickahouse.ie

Today on the Rundown: Andrew Cuomo is a bully! The only was to take down the bull is by confronting him! Will Cuomo pay the consequences for his actions? Even Donald Trump weighed in on the situation. Is answer was quite surprising. What did he have to say? You'll have to tune in.    

RadioPublic|LibSyn|YouTube|Patreon|Square Cash (Share code: Send $5, get $5! David Waldman delivers the Friday KITM on time, every time, pretty much: When will this election be over? Oh, that’s right, the election was over November 3rd, December 8th, December 14th and dozens of dates in between... It’ll be over on December 23rd, the deadline for certificates of the states’ electoral votes to be received, and January 6th, when the votes are counted by Congress, and every day to Inauguration day and every day until November 5th, 2024. Meanwhile...  Kayleigh Mcenany jockeys for alternative employment at a place she can report alternative facts. Pennsylvania congressmen sacrifice their positions and their state to keep their Trump troll alive. Trump lawyers ask that Wisconsin be lopped off as well. Arkansas Republicans will wait to see if Arkansas is still around on January 20th before making a decision. Tommy Tuberville is too new to have picked up much of that “Trump sienna” shade to his nose, and knows this might be his last chance. Arizona cosplay electors are trying to pass forged electoral ballots because, why not? David explains the why not, and also the what next. Like “trickle down” economics, no one even pretends to believe this is real unless they’re part of the grift. That’s why people like failed traffic court lawyer Jenna Ellis became Trump’s lead attorney. Even Donald Trump isn’t stupid enough to believe it. The last thing of value Trump has to hock are pardons, and after that... who needs him? Well, there is market for nuclear secrets, for sure. It would be just like Donald to sell the lot at fire sale prices, or even less, wouldn’t it? Without Trump or anonymous shell companies, where can international villains make their investments? The Pentagon shuts off Biden transition briefings, just in case. (We are only a few weeks from Trump aids pooping in desk drawers.) Instead of wall sconces and copper wiring, some Republicans, such as Interior Secretary David Bernhardt are leaving with a load of coronavirus. Alabama Congressman Mike Rogers also did his part for herd immunity. Hey — how about a national inoculation celebration day?

GROW Greatness Reached over Oppression through WisdomI LIVE the GROW Program!  My spirituality is what keeps me truly in check!  We didn't know because "Black History" in the New World and many other places only goes so far back and it was nearly obliterated in Africa.  You know,  I almost can't even get mad at the Pastor anymore, however, now the Pastor ought to know it ain't working out right for everybody, just him.  We have to heed warnings.  Even Donald Trump was warned about the Coronavirus but he said it was a joke.  We have to get right, we have to GROW!

A leader has many considerations within his consciousness, low or high, narrow or wide minded may he be. Even Donald Trump. Though vindictiveness and venom flavor what The Donald spouts to his subjects. Errrr, fellow citizens. Of America. Home of the brave, land of the free. We know he thinks the press is the enemy of the people, like a bad cliche dictator. George Orwell, role your eyes and turn over in your grave. Sorry. That is our unbelievable reality in the modern future where he have arrived in 2020, to have to experience. Shout-out in this poem for Ignorance and those who feel comfort in her warm sultry arms . . . .

An exciting week for Spurs fans comes to a positive end with the boys hitting 5 past the saints! This week Gaz & Maj are joined by Legendary UKG Mc... MC KIE who discusses his beloved spurs and causes controversy with his TOP 5 all time spurs players!The return of Gareth Bale also get's the boys in a jubilant mood as well as all your usual favourites including another player being hit with "Gazza's 2 Weeks Wages"Even Donald Trump loves "THE TOTTENHAM"Up The Spurs! 

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Isaac John aka Ice is an ex professional NRL rugby league player turned entrepreneur, podcaster, vlogger and card collector. He is the founder of clothing brand YKTR (you know the rules). Since following him I have seen him leverage the power of social media, authenticity and storytelling to grow his business. Today we dive into his thought process, what is working right now for him, how it can work for you and the biggest challenges he faces with growing his business and personal brand. Connect with Isaac John Instagram Youtube Itunes Victor Ahipene: Speaking nation, what’s happening? Welcome to another episode of public speaking secrets. Super stoked to have you listening and tuning in today. I’ve got Isaac John aka Ice, who is a founder of a clothing company, and I want to talk to you as his clothing company called YKTR. Check it out. It’s a, you know, the rules, and he’s also done a lot for getting his company off the ground, which I want to delve into and some, uh, some insights that he’s gained in a bit of the behind the scenes in that aspect. Because I know a lot of you, I know I’ve watched what he’s been doing and I know this works just not for clothing companies and it can work for you out there. So we’ll get another aspect of that public speaking, which is the digital side. So with all that being said, welcome to this show, my man. Isaac John: Thanks Bro. Thanks for having me on. Victor Ahipene : So give us a quick background of, you, how did you get to kind of be doing the clothing side of things and then we’ll delve into kind of the aspects that you’ve used to I guess, leverage social media to grow. Isaac John : Short or long version? Victor Ahipene: Just go, the medium. Isaac John: Nah, so just, I grew up in a small town, um, had ambitious to play sort of rugby league play for the play in the NRL and sort of was able to do that, uh, through my NRL career, very average player through, um, had a lot of injuries and stuff like that. So through injuries I was actually, um, through injuries actually started reading up on books and had outside interests and from there sort of dived into business once I finished football. Kind of just wanted to really pursue business and YKTR, was one of those things and been lucky enough so far for it to eight. Victor Ahipene: Cool. And I mean, I guess, guess part of that, and I know, I see with the questions that people ask on your Instagram who will like oh, how do you do it if you’re not an ex NRL player. And I’m like, I mean, I’ve, I’ve, um, myself, I’ve physio for the magpies I know quite a lot of like sports, like all blacks and whatnot ends. I mean, you know, outside of them getting sponsorships from external companies, they wouldn’t know how to leverage any of that anyway. So it’s like, yeah, I feel like it may be a little bit of a fire onto the flame, but it’s like if you don’t have the, um, the kindling or the water or whatever, it’s just going to die out anyway. So, yeah. How did you initially leverage that? Like, did it help for your initial growth or was it the kind of the stuff that you threw out and tried that you felt kind of grew the brand? Um, yeah, like, um, obviously I understand like it’s just, it’s just where I’ve come from. I can’t really change my career or my previous past. It’s kind of a weird scenario cause a lot of people would think that they’re like, Oh cause you’re friends with chicko and Cory. That’s what made your brand grow. But obviously anyone that’s sort of been in business understands, that’s probably not the case or anyone that actually knows those two boys. That’s not the case as well. So to say, it didn’t help would be fucking ignorant of me, which I’d never say that, but to say that’s the only reason we’ve succeeded. I wouldn’t say that as well. So I understand why people say it and it does make sense from I find that know anything about business or didn’t, understand my journey. And I just saw me personally just fringe off in all these innerL players and I think a business society from that, I understand that narrative a hundred percent as well. Isaac John: But um, I used to frustrate me a little bit, but no, not too much anymore. I just is what it is that people that don’t know me people I know the work that’s gone behind the scenes, people don’t know that almost ended up broke trying to pursue this dream as well. So people just see what they want to see. And we’re guilty of headline reading here in Australia and New Zealand and it’s just the same thing. They only see the result that I sort of see everything has that’s gone behind it. So I do understand that it is what it is. Victor Ahipene: So speak on, speak on that. Like they don’t see the behind the scenes side of things. When you were, I know you’ve, you’ve tried other businesses prior to this and then there’s obviously the trials and tribulations that come with, you know, particularly the clothing industry. What has, like what were the things that when you were first starting out that the mud that you’re throwing on the wall, was there any like, and seeing what sticks? Was there any systematic like I’m going to look at how I can leverage Facebook or Instagram or YouTube or podcasting to help grow my brand. Or like how did, did you have any plan or process to that? Cause I’ve obviously seen it’s a fairly decent aspect of, of what your business is, is the content that you put out to get exposure. Isaac John: Um, to be honest, I just sort of went into a blind, took a few online courses about Facebook advertising in that and like those that kind of helped me out. But um, I seen Nevara Vercon sorta talk about the best thing I learned from, um, the best thing I learned. Ah, someone asks her what’s the best business books or what was this book should I read? And he goes, I’ll just, if you, if you rely on business books given to your competitors cause it’s going to help you succeed. And I love the education that I’ve learned from businesses actually from being in it. But the sort of turning point for us was probably about four or five months in obviously ran into a guy called Gary V if you follow my content, I preach him and everything. He sort of done everything he was preaching at that time. Isaac John: I just started to implement them. And see the little bit of success. Probably the first one was vlogging and we started to vlog. I’ve seen our sales sort of drive up and then um, obviously learned how to edit and stuff like that and just build brand based off his philosophies of humanizing it. When people see YKTR they usually know our story, usually know who I am as well. And off the back of that then that sort of moved into blogging, which is writing articles and documenting the journey moved into podcasting in that sort of unintentionally personally branded myself. So that was just the method that he taught and that’s the one I followed. So, and it’s just worked for us Victor Ahipene: and from like, not necessarily the dollar figures or anything, but from a percentage of breakdown of sales, how much would you attribute to say vlogging blogging, uh, podcasting, like not each one, but as in compared to say your paid marketing or SEO or anything like that? Isaac John: I dunno, cause if you look at the way we use vlogs purely top of funnel, so if you understand the funneling system, like we don’t try and really try and monetize off it. Um, sometimes when we put paid ads behind it, I’ll test it. Like 80% of our Facebook ad spend goes toward top of funnel at the moment where all the rest is bottom of the funnel, which is automated through dynamic product ads and retargeting and stuff like that, which is almost automated. Your bottom of the funnel shouldn’t change. So we use vlogging, not so much for sales but purely for branding. So I don’t think people understand the difference between branding and sales. A branding sort of long term, branding sort of the difference between people buying, um, a handbag for fucking $2,000 versus $100. You know what I mean? So vlogging is about building brand. It’s not so much for sales, but that just ends up working, turning into sales eventually. So it’s kind of playing the long game and long tail of it. Victor Ahipene : And I mean I think there’s what you’ve done really well is like, yeah, I choose whose stories I watch not to, not to be necessarily a consumer of like, Oh, what’s ice got to say today? Cause a lot of the stuff is great but it’s, yeah, you’ve got a certain clientele that are asking you these questions that are maybe at the entry level wanting to get started or find out about certain things. It’s more the, it’s just understanding different markets and how people are communicating to them. If we were to say start with your, with your vlogging, what have you found has, like if people going out there and looking to leverage their brand with vlogging, what are some of your tips on yeah, anything for them to get started in there, in that realm. Um, make sure you make sure you just being real, make sure you’re not trying to fabricate anything. I think a lot of my, um, what I’ve been able to garnish such a loyal following with the brand and myself is I’ve been transparent the whole way and we’re going into pretty testing times coming forward from this corona virus i’ve got friends going out of business, got people within our building, going out of business already and it’s only been like a couple of weeks, you know what I mean? So, um, I think even when I was struggling I was sort of saying like, Oh fuck, but we’re not going that well here or whenever I make mistake, I was the first to put my hand up and document the journey. So I think the trap about social media is, um, everyone tries to put the best version of themselves out there, which is understandable. Isaac John: So if you were to take 20 photos of yourself, which one would you put up? You’d obviously put up the best one when you are. So I feel like people’s, um, vlog style becomes like that. They just want to put out this real super polished version. Like, like everything’s good all the time. Where if you look at my Instagram now, like I use to, only want to put good photos up. If you look at it now, it’s just screenshots of Twitter and stuff like that. So I feel like real, real is, super important. And it’s just quicker. I could put out a vlog in a day because I’m just being myself. I’m not trying to fabricate anything that I wouldn’t do. I’m not trying to live this life that I’m, I don’t live, um, like at the moment I’m just collecting like sports cards and shit and I’m just documenting and stuff like that as well. So I feel like it’s hard for a lot of people, cause a lot of people insecure about who they are, especially our public opinions. So I’ve been able to build these walls up through just being myself. Like I get paid out well through DMS and stuff all the time saying all that you’re faking or the sort of stuff like that, which, which just comes with the territory as well. So if you want to start vlogging, just make sure, make sure you’ve been yourself because you can’t get caught. Victor Ahipene: Yeah. Yeah. I think, um, it’s interesting. I just finished Russell Brunson’s latest book cause traffic secrets one, and he was talking about, um, it’s funny, like a lot of the people that I deliberately follow, uh, he talks about this like I think it’s five F’s or something can, uh, when putting out content and it’s like having five different kind of topic streams. So like for example, basketball cards, uh, league podcasts, clothing, uh, whatever. So that, you know, yes, you’re not just continually pitching the same thing or putting out the same content, but then later on down the track you can, um, yeah, potentially branch off into other aspects. Like, I know, you know, having watched your stuff up and I’d love to hear your side of the, was it deliberate? Like, ah, yeah, I see your recording some courses and stuff now and you’ve highlighted to a lot of people who may be in jobs are, Hey, look, yeah, there’s different opportunities that you can have with business. Um, and then that’s kind of just his there organically lead to, Hey, I might put something together that can help people. Or was that kind of, yeah. Was that part of a plan? Isaac John: Um, not really a plan and just sort of come off the back of sort of answering all the same questions all the time and sort of just trying to speed it out. The reason I started writing blogs of skip around, it’s like what equipment do you use or how do you start a cleaning company or how do you podcast? So the reason I read those blogs in the initial phase was just to speed, speed the process up of replying to people and not just giving them short answers, actually try and give them some value. So that ended up saving me time. And the online course such as talk about trying to build multiple streams of income and building a personal brand is probably the best thing you can do right now. You look at it a lot. The biggest people in the world, like Kanye West for example, love more Hayden, but his brand like is these were fucking billion dollars right now. You know what I mean? Like Kim Kardashian, that’s a personal brand. Even Donald Trump being able to be the president is because he is a personal brand. So I feel like that’s the way to moving forward and like say please come in months and YKTR flowers? I think I’ve built up enough of a personal brand that I could potentially pivot in a different direction, whether that be with myself or potentially someone hire me. It’s been super important. So fuck, what was the original question? Victor Ahipene : No, no, that was, that was it. Pretty much. Pretty much it. It was like how did you, how did you go towards the online coaching or like, yeah, those different types of content that you’ve like, you’ve just Victor Ahipene : I’ll tell you why I did it because I’m, everyone was going, Oh, can I come pick your brain for two hours and I’ll buy your coffee. I seen someone else do it and that on their website they’ve priced their coffee at 500 bucks. If you want to pick my brain, it’s going to cost 500 bucks and we can do it on Skype. I’ll get my own coffee. So, um, I heard someone say price your time. At a point where they can’t say no to. So I started doing consulting and priced myself at 500 bucks-nd I’d just done it cause I didn’t want to do it. But then people were starting to pay it and a lot of the conversations were only going for like 2040 minutes. So I was like, yeah, fuck it. Let’s go. Yeah. And it’s, it’s funny man, cause I think I heard Tim Ferriss or something, he got in that kind of conundrum with friends when he was first kicking off and I think he said like, all right, cool, it’s free. You just got to give me $1,000 and if you don’t take action on the advice I give you, I keep your 1000 bucks. If you haven’t done everything I sit in two weeks, if you’ve done everything in two weeks, I give you a thousand bucks back. And it was like, yeah, cause there’s always the mate that you’re like, Aw man. Like, I’d love to give you a time, but I know, I know that all of you aren’t going to read that book that I told you to read or post that blog or start their podcast or whatever. And um, yeah, so I found that an interesting one cause then it says, Oh, you really want to pick my brain. Cool. Put a thousand dollars deposit down and then let’s see what’s up.  Isaac John: So yeah, I think a lot of people would just get obsessed with knowledge as well. And I was guilty of that. Like there was a time in my life where I’ve read about a hundred books and um, I was just like, ah, I say this all the time. You know, when you have a bear in his, those bunch of useless facts underneath the cap, just like that guy. Like I could tell your fucking bunch of letters, shit, that didn’t mean nothing. You know what I mean? And I was just a bit of a nodal and likes to go to coffees with the boys and the boys are just going to shut the fuck up. So it got to that point where I just go, fuck, I’m just full of shit. I’m just like a bunch of useless knowledge and I just wanted to apply some way. But it’s been a great foundation, obviously reading because these, I’ve got a photographic memory life. He asked me something right now. Oh, couldn’t remember my off the cuff. But when I’m in a conversation I can relate examples back to books like top of my brain like that. So it’s kind of a weird, like I say, I’ve got a photographic memory, but if you say something, I remember that part of chapter three of this book. I can’t remember. Yeah. But then if you’re like, if I’m in a scenario, Oh there’s like this timeline, but ABC. So it’s sort of being great in that sort of sense. Victor Ahipene: Um, run us through, and this is, this is the thing that I’m interested in and I’ve been watching of your journey as your YKTR media. So how did that kind of come about and where do you see it in the, in the future? Cause I think this is a huge part of like stepping away from you being the personal brand for part of your company. I don’t know, like that’s just the way kind of, I see it’s something bigger than you. Isaac John: Yeah. Um, just from a pain point to be honest, I just kinda got over modern day journalism just so listeners. So we’ve actually changed just it to YKTR sports. It’s actually a pretty dodgy place right now cause there’s no fucking sports going on. So, what, YKTR sports is, is just trying to go to an alternative that connects players to fans and fans, to players. And I just sort of saw rugby league media besides the Matty Johns show, which is kind of fun. It was just actually really funny. Everything else besides that, I was just old school players just with the younger generation like our back in my day. And then you open up newspapers, they’re just negative, negative, negative all the time. And none of the sources actually ever come from the player. So that was sort of the pain point from it. Um, we have got massive ideas from it, but it’s just an execution point. Obviously media costs money and if we were to film shows and stuff like that, but the basis of it was we essentially flipped Corey Norman’s narrative around where he was nominated for Kim Steven Medal last year, which is then like spending your time with the community and stuff like that where two, three years ago his perceived to be like this bad boy and he’s just a regular bike and I’ve seen his name get dragged through the mud through YKTR and vlogging really flipped the narrative and people that meant him be like, Oh he wasn’t like the person I thought he was probably the best example I’ve had that and probably Quade Cooper. Yeah. So like, I’ve known Quade since I was three or four and um, I just, the way he’s portrayed in media was never the way. Like I knew him as a friend and um, talking to him behind the scenes and stuff, it was very, very different. So, um, that was probably probably this the moment we’re like, fuck we got some here But in saying that like everything’s sort of pulled back as well. Like, you know what I mean? Like Fox sports are in trouble. Um, it’s the whole rugby leagues in trouble. So really wanted it to build a like American style. A media format where not just talking to 40 plays about footy, but talking to them about say sports cards for example, or bro where does Jason Taumololo eat on a Wednesday, what’s his cheat meal like? I feel that stuff’s done get a lot more important than the actual 80 minutes of the game. You’re always going to get people that stat nerds and love all the stats and that type of platform is good for like someone like Denan Kemp were very big on stats and like, Oh he made an 80 meters post contact meters today. Like for me, I don’t really care about that stuff. I what’s, what’s, what’s Cameron Munster doing on Tuesday night? Like what’s he watching that stuff. That stuff seems more interesting to me. So that was the, that’s what we wanted to put the narrative around. But also I’ve done a podcast with Mark Boris in his office and after the, after the podcast, he sort of goes we want to do is run a clothing company and he just, he sort of just at the time I thought I was killing it. Fuck how good am I going, like running this business like ABC. And um, and I sort of just got my mind thinking, I was like, Oh far even I’m running a clothing company, it’s cool and all this sort of shit. Like, am I actually making an impact? And a sort of a question of wrestle with myself a lot of the time and just started like just obviously through media and that just kind of got over it. But there’s also been the backlash of it as well because when you see the word media, people think also so they’re like, Oh, why aren’t you reporting on this or that? We’re not reporters, we don’t report on stuff. We just want to tell stories in a different way. And it’s still been a backlash from it. And I’ve had people turn off like YKTR, not stop buying from like YKTR because of it. Um, few guys are getting really personal with me because they’ve got a difference of opinion. So there’s been real interesting transition where it goes forward. I don’t know because obviously there’s no, sports on at the moment it hasn’t made any money. We’re kind of just be doing it for fun as well just as a side hobby. So it’s been a different narratives to be the guy that people laughed and you’re the guy that’s selling clothes and then you try to tell all these different stories. But it’s different what they heard in the media. So we must be lying. He to respect you as an entrepreneur and support your brand. Now you’re doing this and yes, it’s been interesting but I’ve kind of really enjoyed it at the same time as well. Victor Ahipene: Yeah, I mean from me personally, I see it like I love Denan’s podcast when he’s given a bit more of a, an insight into the players and then you know, yours as well. And in that space because I think, yeah, I follow a lot of the NBA. I follow a lot of the the NBA players or ex players, podcasts and stuff like this where they’re actually like talking to the players. Yeah. How good is that? You lie, you lie. I freaking love this slide. The next thing I want man is I want you or someone else to start doing 30 for 30 type docos of the Australian and New Zealand sports like Isaac John: yeah, that was, that was sort of like those other sort of big dream and big picture and we’re obviously going to start with blogs first. Like we got a few blog ideas. Even just boys going out and having like eating. Like Hey Adam Reynolds, where do we go on a cheat day? Victor Ahipene: Yeah. It’s like a carpool karaoke and comedians and cars and that sort of stuff. Like they, they go off for a reason is because you actually get to see the not the Boofhead league player given that year now a game of two halves rural, 110% all credit to everyone. We’ll go back to the drawing board stuff yet you go, Oh that guy seems like an idiot. And then they actually get on to a platform and it’s like, Oh man, all right. They are actually a human being, which a lot of people forget. Isaac John: Oh that’s the, that’s the biggest thing. Cause I see, cause we put sports players on the pedestal as well. So when we see them on a TV, we think these fucking mystical type beings and they are ungrateful and they’re overpaid and all this sort of stuff. But we going to realize this is just normal people just like everyone else. And a lot of the times, like my friends that I’ve grown up with and they knock about my footy players now I’m like, Oh fuck. It’s just normal. And that’s what a lot of people don’t realize that everyone is just normal. But I say this a lot, like if you want to hang around football players don’t talk football. That’s like number one rule. So and and being a football player in the past and hanging around them and having some of the biggest names in the game is like my close friends. Like the amount of football that we actually talk compared to other things. It’s probably about 90 to 10 by percent football. I haven’t seen another route. Isaac John: Other people talk about horse racing, like having to beat or what to watch it on Netflix or like sports cards is a big one right now. We’ve got a crew I’ve only in NRL players and all black players. We call it card gang. I would go one out of the guy in there and it’s about 10 of us in there. Like Kalyn Ponga, Connor Watson, Andrew Fafita, Ardia Savea, Aaron Smith. Like some of the biggest names in sports right now what we do is talk sports cards or what are you trying to collect and like you feel like a little kid again, you do realize that people were just normal people. Yeah. And I just want to show that side of players cause I’m sick of him getting bagged for like, I don’t know, just for doing shit that anyone else would be doing it. 21 and 22 having to bury or pissing on the street. Victor Ahipene: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that’s what I, that’s what I love. And that’s what I think everyone listening to this should, should take away from this. As you can tell from it. It’s just an authentic conversation they were having and I’m sure a lot of you enjoyed it, but when you’re going out there and putting your content on YouTube, on Instagram, on whatever, to start building your personal brand, uh, you know, try and be the person. If you’re speaking on stage, you’re the same person when you’re off stage, you’re the same person when you go home and like, you know Gary V yeah. He’s a example. I’d say most people listening to this podcast know and yeah, he’s, if you meet him in the street, he’s not the dude go. And you know, I’ve heard stories about other guys like Kiyosaki and stuff like you know, back in the room, they won’t, they won’t talk to you. And this, you know, it’s not like a, it’s not, you haven’t paid him 10 grand, he’s not going to say hello to you and tell you to piss off stuff like that. Isaac John: And do you know what, like I’m, a lot of people have sort of come up to me like when I’ve been out and that, like you’re exactly the same as on Instagram, which is true. But then you’ll see a lot of people that like have spent time with me over a, um, maybe a couple of days that are come stay and you’re like, Oh bro, you’re completely different. Like it looks like you’re always on the go all the time. But when I get home I’m fucked. I just, I really enjoy my space as well and people gotta realize like a lot of my content comes from me just being on my own. Like it looks like I’m out there and outgoing and I can be when I want to be. But then also like just being on my own as well. So, um, just got to realize that there’s a balance there somewhere. Victor Ahipene: Yeah. Cool. And uh, finally just give us a bit of a breakdown. What’s your, what’s your number one tip obviously apart from the authenticity to getting lots of content out of your day, like solo preneur or you’re that speaker out there, what would you say like the best way to start building that personal brand? Um, find. What your medium is. So are you a writer? Are you comfortable in front of a camera? Are you better speaking to someone as well? So find out what your medium is and just try and make ’em. So Gary, based on their content pillar strategy, I find podcasts the best cause when you can video them too, you can record them and then three you can turn them into written and stuff as well. So I feel like podcasts are the way forward. That’s why I’ve been super aggressive and trying to be, I open this hour and a bit the best podcast there in Australia when people come to share that with them to jump on my podcast because the amount of content that you just stripe from that is huge. So this podcast right here, I might have said 10 things that can be turned into quote cards on Instagram. This could be turned into six one minute clips as well. If we recording opportunities into videos. Then of course you’ve got the long form content you can put on a Spotify, they can put on podcasts if you put it on YouTube. So I gravitate towards content that’s moving forward. I feel like vlogging, like our views, they get nowhere near as much. But I still enjoy making vlogs because always I looking back when like a year from like a year ago, like where it was a year ago. So document and journey is always important from that sort of standpoint. But understanding where you speak your, where your brand or your personal brands voice is best documented. So I enjoy riding as well. So I try and I can cover across all three bases, which are pretty lucky to do and I’m confident in doing and don’t care if I can fuck up as well. So I think that’s a big part of it as well. I see, I see a lot of people trying to vlog and like they’re not, they will look awkward in front of the camera or they start a podcast and they can’t really speak or their tone of voice has kind of weird. So finally find what suits you and just roll with that. Well, we’ll do a hundred podcasts and get better at it. Do a hundred podcasts, real quick ratio. You jump in. Oh man, it was rural last minute. And I’m sure there’s a ton of, a ton of knowledge that. We can strip into one minute videos and repurpose into wave audios and have them all over the net. But if people want to follow you, find out, more about either you, your clothes or you know, what you’re doing on social. We can they go, what can they do? Isaac John: Uh, hit me up on, um, Instagram at iice_ for their Instagram name for ages. Probably not the best one, but as we can find me YKRR_ can find us on Instagram as well. You can find me on YouTube, the ice project like YKTR and YouTube, but probably podcasts. I think the last project find me on Spotify and Itunes. Yeah. So they’re going on there. Victor Ahipene: Well, we’ll link all of that in the show notes at public speaking, blueprint.com. Man, it’s been a pleasure. I am. I enjoy jumping on and I hope everything with this Corona virus doesn’t affect you too much, but we’ll see you on the other side anyway. Isaac John: It definitely will affect us. To what extent? Who knows? So it’d be all the on camera anyway. Victor Ahipene: Cheers man. Isaac John: Alright. Brother see you later.

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Recorded August 27, 2019 Real Significant Action in the Market: Gold and Silver The real significant action today was in the gold & silver market. I wanted to mention today that on Friday, the U.S . dollar sold and then today we're back at 98. So the dollar is not weakening against other foreign currencies. In fact, most people are still talking about the strong dollar. Even Donald Trump talks about the fact that we have a strong dollar.  Now, Trump is bothered by the fact that we have a strong dollar, and he wishes it wasn't as strong, but he keeps talking about the strong dollar and everybody acknowledges that the dollar is strong. Silver is a Great Buy The problem is: the dollar is not strong. The price of gold going up shows you that the dollar is not strong. Gold was up $16 an  ounce: we closed at $1542.50. This is the highest close in over 6 years for the price of gold; but the real star today was silver. Silver was up 53 cents - $18.17. It's been a while now since silver was above $18. If you have been listening to my podcasts, you know that I have been pounding the table on silver. I've been telling people that silver is the key; it is really cheap relative to gold. In fact, it was better than 90:1. You needed more than 90 ounces of silver to buy a single ounce of gold. That was an all-time record low for the price of silver. Now we're at 85.  The ratio has moved back in silver's favor, but you still need 85 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold. That is historically extremely cheap. In fact, the only time it was cheaper was when it was 90. So it's still a great buy. Cash in some Gold to buy Silver I have been telling people, even at SchiffGold - we have actually been calling clients who we know own gold and have them sell us back their gold and buy silver, because you can get so much silver for your gold right now that it is a real bargain. Silver has never been this cheap, and so if you have gold and don't have any silver, it makes sense to buy some silver with your gold. Even after today's move, I would still say that that trade makes sense.    

Recorded August 27, 2019 Real Significant Action in the Market: Gold and Silver The real significant action today was in the gold & silver market. I wanted to mention today that on Friday, the U.S . dollar sold and then today we're back at 98. So the dollar is not weakening against other foreign currencies. In fact, most people are still talking about the strong dollar. Even Donald Trump talks about the fact that we have a strong dollar.  Now, Trump is bothered by the fact that we have a strong dollar, and he wishes it wasn't as strong, but he keeps talking about the strong dollar and everybody acknowledges that the dollar is strong. Silver is a Great Buy The problem is: the dollar is not strong. The price of gold going up shows you that the dollar is not strong. Gold was up $16 an  ounce: we closed at $1542.50. This is the highest close in over 6 years for the price of gold; but the real star today was silver. Silver was up 53 cents - $18.17. It's been a while now since silver was above $18. If you have been listening to my podcasts, you know that I have been pounding the table on silver. I've been telling people that silver is the key; it is really cheap relative to gold. In fact, it was better than 90:1. You needed more than 90 ounces of silver to buy a single ounce of gold. That was an all-time record low for the price of silver. Now we're at 85.  The ratio has moved back in silver's favor, but you still need 85 ounces of silver to buy one ounce of gold. That is historically extremely cheap. In fact, the only time it was cheaper was when it was 90. So it's still a great buy. Cash in some Gold to buy Silver I have been telling people, even at SchiffGold - we have actually been calling clients who we know own gold and have them sell us back their gold and buy silver, because you can get so much silver for your gold right now that it is a real bargain. Silver has never been this cheap, and so if you have gold and don't have any silver, it makes sense to buy some silver with your gold. Even after today's move, I would still say that that trade makes sense.    

Democrats Try To "Out Woke" The Far Left, They're Spiraling Out Of Control. Recently Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implied that Nancy Pelosi was targeting her based on her race. This is part of an ongoing war between far left, social justice Democrats and the more mainstream moderate Democrats. Seemingly in response to AOC's claim the House Democrats official twitter account made the same accusation against Saikat CHakrabarti, AOC's chief of staff.The outrage from everyone was immediate. Left and right quickly condemned the Democrats over their absurd "woke" tweet.But this is just another sigm that the Democrats and actually the entirety of the American left is in disarray. Even Donald Trump came to the defense of Nancy Pelosi which just makes everything even stranger.Today moderate leftists and disaffected liberals are under attack and the left has gone completely off the rails. When republicans and Trump come to the defense of Nancy Pelosi, something is wrong.Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate)

There are 15 Democrats running for President in 2020 which seems to be a LARGE number of individuals, but some are still waiting for other Democrats to "throw their hats in the ring." Even Donald Trump is waiting for former Vice President Biden to announce his candidacy. He's afraid that V.P. Biden will run because he knows that not only Democrats but Republicans like Biden and that he will likely be the ONLY person who will able to beat him. I certainly hope that if V.P. Biden does NOT run that there will be someone else among the15 who will be able to draw enough votes to make Donald Trump a one-term President.

He's a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist. He hosts the biggest conference, Anarchapulco, for anarcho-capitalism. He's The Dollar Vigilante. Originally from Canada, hailing from Mexico. Jeff Berwick   Stefan: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the show, Respect The Grind, with Stefan Aarnio. This is the show where we interview people who achieve mastery and freedom through discipline. We interview entrepreneurs, athletes, authors, artists, real estate investors, anyone who has achieved mastery and examined what it took to get there. Today on the show, I have a very special guest out of the norm, Jeff Berwick. He's a libertarian, anarcho-capitalist. He hosts the biggest conference, Anarchapulco, for anarcho-capitalism. He's The Dollar Vigilante. Originally from Canada, hailing from Mexico. Jeff, good to have you on the show today. Respect The Grind, my friend. Jeff: It's a pleasure. Thank you. Stefan: Yeah. I really appreciate having a guest like you on the show, because we normally talk about like business and making money, and real estate. A lot of people listening to this show, they want financial freedom for themselves, and they're trying to make money. They're trying to invest, whatever that means. It's cool to have a guy like you on the show. We had a mutual friend of ours, John Sneisen, on the show a little while ago, and I love talking to guys like you, because we end up talking about the money system. We talk about freedom in the free world, free speech, all this kind of stuff. For the people at home who don't know you, Jeff, can you introduce yourself in your own words? Who are you, and why is this a relevant conversation for us to be speaking? Jeff: Sure. Yeah. Actually, it's a totally relevant conversation that's everything that I talk about. I've been doing that for about nine years now, since 2010, with The Dollar Vigilante, which is a anarcho-capitalist financial newsletter talking about how to free yourself. Not just financially, but in every way possible. Of course, for people that don't understand the word, "anarcho" means anarchy, of course, and that's a Greek word which means "an," without, "archy," ruler. I just believe that no one should have a ruler and no one should be a slave. I don't know why that's controversial at all, but that's the government indoctrination camps that people have had for about 12 years that most people have been forced into. Jeff: Then the capitalist part, a lot of people actually misunderstand that word, too. They think that what you have in the U.S. today is capitalism. There is a small part of capitalism still remaining, and that's why the U.S. is still standing, but it's mostly fascism, and crony capitalism, and what I call crapitalism. Really, when I say "capitalism," I just mean free market. I've been, and completely free market, so no government involvement whatsoever, no taxation, no regulation, no central banks, and no fiat currencies and things like that. I've been doing that for about nine years. Jeff: I also do a podcast called Anarchast. I've been doing that for about seven years, and it's grown quite a bit. It's nothing too huge, but it's actually spawned an entire conference now called Anarchapulco, as you mentioned. It's now the world's premier liberty and freedom event held in Acapulco, Mexico, every year. It's coming up in February 14th to 17th. We're expecting about 3,000 people, because the freedom, the idea of it is actually growing, believe it or not. I've been doing all that stuff for about, as I said, about eight or nine years now. Stefan: That's tremendous, Jeff. People like you, I really got to salute a guy like you, because it's not easy. It's not easy going against the grain. It's not easy speaking out about this stuff. It's not a popular table topic at the Thanksgiving table or the Christmas table. I remember when I was telling my family years ago about the money system at like at Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving dinner. Everybody got up and left. The average person doesn't want to hear about how they are enslaved. They don't want to hear about the money system. I remember years ago when I was 21, 22, I read a book called Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, and that's the capitalist bible. The communists have Karl Marx, Das Kapital, and then the capitalists have Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. It's number two most influential book in the United States. Stefan: Can you explain to the people at home, that's where I've first heard the word "libertarian." What's a libertarian? Because people, we're from Canada, or I'm from Canada, in Winnipeg, today, and people hear "libertarian," and they think libertarian is liberal, because it's L-I-B. They don't know the difference between the two words. What's a libertarian? Jeff: That's interesting you're up there in Winterpeg. I'm originally from what I call Deadmonton, so up in Canada. Stefan: Dude, that's the other Winnipeg. I'm giving that a gong. Bang. Just gonged it up. Deadmonton and Winterpeg. Jeff: Yeah, so the word "libertarian," I actually didn't even really know the word until about 15 years ago. It's become quite popular. It's become fairly popular since Ron Paul ran for president in 2008. Really, what the word means is, well, it's pretty simple word, "libertarianism." What it means is that if you're a libertarian, then you hold as one of your highest principles liberty or freedom. If you truly hold that as one of your highest principles, then you should actually be a anarchist, because an anarchist believes in complete freedom. It believes in the freedom of the individual that no one has the right to enslave and say they own another person. Of course, whenever you have a government, you're just born somewhere, and they go, "Well, you're ours now," especially in the U.S., where every baby born today in the U.S. has a quarter of a million U.S. dollars worth of debt and liabilities overhanging it from the government that it's supposed to pay off. Stefan: My God. Jeff: That's absolutely criminal and absolute tyranny and slavery. That's what we have in every country today, as well as Canada and every other country. A true libertarian truly believes that no one should be ruled or owned by anyone without their permission. Of course, there's a lot of people who don't mind being owned or being slaves. They're called statists, and if they want to do that, that's fine. I have no problem. As a libertarian or as an anarchist, do whatever you want. Just don't aggress against me. The only problem is, when they get these governments going, they always seem to include us and seem to think that, "Well, you are now owned by whichever government in whatever area you're in." I just completely disagree with that. Stefan: Yeah. I saw Jordan Peterson. You're probably familiar with Jordan Peterson, right? Jeff: Yeah. Stefan: I saw Jordan Peterson speak in the summer. He was speaking here in Winnipeg, Winterpeg, at the Burton Cummings Theatre, and he said something interesting that I thought something that I think people need to hear more often. He said, "The human race for most of history has lived under tyranny. We used to have monarchies. We used to have feudalism. For most, most of the human race, we've had tyranny, and for very brief times, we've had democracies or republics, but democracy lasts for about 250 years. Then it turns into a tyranny, usually, and then after that, turns back into a monarchy." Why do you think monarchies and tyrannies have existed throughout history, and why does it always seem to consolidate power like that? Why can't we just stay as a democracy or republic all the time? Jeff: Well, first of all, I'm not so sure about human history. I think most things we're told about history are lies, and so really, anything beyond a couple of hundred years ago, I really have doubts about what really happened. I really don't know what happened, but I don't trust anything that we're told by the media, or the governments, or the schools, which are all sort of the same sort of people running those sort of things, but what I understand happened is, a few hundred years ago, there was things like kings and queens, and they were doing that quite a bit. They were going around doing similar things that governments do today and say, "Hey, you were born here, so now you have to pay us a certain percentage of whatever you make," and that sort of a thing. Jeff: Really, a few hundred years ago, and it sort of seems to have happened in France, which is kind of interesting, because there's a bit of an uprising happening there again right now, is a lot of people said, "This is crazy. Just because you're born, this whole idea of kings and queens is so insane." I love the Monty Python, I think it was in the Holy Grail one, where the king's walking around, and he's like, "I'm your king." They're like, "You're who?" He's like, "I was born of this mother," and everyone's like, "What?" He's like, "I found a sword in the lake, and therefore I'm your king." They're like, "You're crazy," but for whatever reason, people kind of fell in line with that. Jeff: Of course, a lot of these monarchies were really tyrannical, and they would really, if you didn't pay them, they would kill you, that sort of a thing. That's very similar to governments. A few hundred years ago, people kind of woke up from it, and they said, "Well, this is stupid." The people who were in control at the time really realized they're going to lose a lot of power, and so they came up with an absolutely ingenious idea. That ingenious idea was democracy, which is a totally heinous, evil system of mob rule. If you have 51% of people decide that legally they can kill the other 49%, then everything's fine. Jeff: It's absolutely insane and just keeps people battling each other, but it's absolutely ingenious, because they've managed, through the government indoctrination camps, and through the media, the mainstream media, television, propaganda programming, to tell people that, "Oh, when you have a democracy, then you are the one who rules yourself, and you get to rule yourself by voting once every four or five years. You get to tick a box," and then some guy goes somewhere, and he makes decisions about what you're going to have to give up and how much they're going to extort you and things like that, but it's absolutely an ingenious idea. It's worked now for a few hundred years, and people have really fallen for it, but they're starting to wake up to it. That's what we're starting to see across the world, really. Jeff: We're starting to see that in France right now. Again, they're starting to realize, "This is absolutely insane that we have people ruling us without our permission, and taking our money, and things like that." Even Donald Trump, in the U.S., was to an extent an awakening of people going, "This system is horrible. We've got this total political class that is totally ruling us and just totally enslaving us." Jeff: What they thought was, "Well, we have democracy, thank God. We have democracy, so we can elect someone else," so they elected a kind of a bit of an outsider, Donald Trump, who's best friends with the Clintons and has been involved with central banks and with the Bush family for decades. His family's been very involved with the Bush family, so he's been very involved in the political class, but he came in as sort of an outsider, and you kind of see a lot of people saying, "Oh, he's an outsider, so he can fix things." He's not an outsider whatsoever. It's another sort of ruse in the whole democracy game, but really, that's what we've got today. Jeff: Now, what we've got at The Dollar Vigilante, I cover how bankrupt all these nation states are, how the central banks are printing money until we're going to be, hit hyperinflation very soon, so we're very near the end of this sort of system of these big nation states, of these big welfare states, warfare states, Big Brother nanny states, where everything is controlled, and regulated, and extorted, and taxed, and that sort of a thing. It's all going bankrupt right now, so even if people didn't wake up to what I'm talking about, we're still going to go through a massive amount of change in the next few years as all these systems all go down because they're all bankrupt. Stefan: Yeah. Well, there's a ... Man, Jeff, you said a mouthful there, man. I don't even know where to start, but I'm going to try to weigh in on what you said there at the end. Now, I wrote a book here called Hard Times Create Strong Men. I'm holding it up here for the camera for the people at home, and the cycles of history, as I understand it, goes like this. Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times. That whole cycle takes about 80 years, and every 80 years, there's a major war, a major crisis, a major reset. 80 years ago was World War II. 80 years before that was American Civil War, and you can trace this back in history. 80 to 100 years, every 80 to 100 years, is a major reset. Now, if you trace that out to the future right now from World War II to now, 2020 is the next "hard times create strong men." Stefan: That's what the book's about is, the men are becoming weak. When men become weak, the backbone of society falls apart. The family falls apart. The churches and the freedom of that falls apart, and what we end up with is some sort of major crisis. Would you say something like that's coming up? Jeff: Oh, absolutely, and I think those cycles are very true. If you just look at anyone who's like a rich kid, so his father most likely worked really hard his entire life and amassed a fairly large fortune, and then the kid comes along, and he's just pampered, and he never does anything. He never learns how to do anything. He never has to learn anything about life, and they usually become idiots, and they actually end up usually wasting or losing most of their money. This is a very natural sort of a cycle that can happen if you're not smart, if, as a father, if you make a lot of money, you don't just give it to your kids. That's absolutely ridiculous. Talk about a really great way to destroy your children, but the big problem with that cycle that you just mentioned that's been going on now for centuries is the government. Jeff: When you get the government involved, it's not just people who are destroying themselves through the cycle of people having to have hard times to get better and actually learn skills and work hard, and then they get soft afterwards, and then their kids get really soft and that sort of thing. That happens all normally, but when you add the government into it, it gets way worse, because then what, that's exactly what we're seeing today in a place like the U.S., which used to be quite capitalist. It has been fully capitalist, really, since its inception. It hasn't been, definitely has not been capitalist since 1913 when they first put in the Federal Reserve and the income tax acts in the same year, which is no coincidence whatsoever. It's been kind of a mix of the socialism, and communism, and fascism since then. Jeff: About what you've seen because of the capitalism, because of the free markets, there was quite a bit of free markets in the U.S. There isn't any more, but there used to be quite a bit. You build up all this wealth, and when you have a government, it always seems to skew to these people going, "Well, now that we have quite a wealthy place, we should be quite giving." Yeah, that's great. Give, but what they're talking about is, the government should steal money from everyone, extort everybody, and then give some of it to some people, which is absolutely heinous, and evil, and destroys everything. Jeff: Even the welfare system destroys the people on welfare, but as I was mentioning, like that whole cycle would happen probably quite normally unless people start to wake up and realize what they're doing, but the fact that we have governments today makes it so much worse, because that's what we're seeing in the U.S. You even see communism is really catching on in the U.S., because you've got all these pampered little kids. They sit there on their MacBook Pro at Starbucks ranting about how evil capitalism is and saying they want communism, and they don't even look up the last 100 years of what communism has brought a lot of places, like the Soviet Union, or Cuba, or Venezuela, and places like that. Jeff: They just, because they're so soft, and they've never really done anything, that's why they call them little snowflakes and things like that, and they become social justice warriors. Really, they're just non-player characters, NPCs, but yeah, the big problem with that whole cycle is government. If we can get government out of the way, then you'd have families destroying themselves over time over and over and not realizing the problems that they keep creating for themselves, but they wouldn't force it all on the rest of us through government. Stefan: Yeah. Wow. I mean, this is some really good stuff, and the snowflake thing, the snowflakism's a reason why I wrote Hard Times, because I had some of these snowflakes in my company. I have a company. I got 13 employees, and these little snowflakes were crying, "Oh, you're mean, and I don't love this. This isn't my dream job, and you make me feel like a piece of shit," and I had people showing up late. Just snowflakism all day, and I said, "Where does this come from? Where does the snowflakism come from?" I started writing this book Hard Times, and it's interesting, because what you said is absolutely true. Stefan: We've had some communist subversion come in from the Cold War into our schools, into our churches, into our militaries, everything, and we got this virus in our brain that thinks that communism is going to save inequality, but in history, communism has never worked. It has never worked once. It ends in massive, massive killing and massive death. There's something like 100 million people slaughtered in the last 100 years with communism. It's something brutal. It's the biggest cause of unnatural death, and every 80 years, we think it's going to work somehow. Somebody somewhere's trying communism. Stefan: As an extension, I've been studying communism, I was watching a show with Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio, and he was talking about how feminism actually spawned out of communism when they started talking about equality, and men and women are equal, and next thing you know, in communist Russia, in 1917, when they switched over to communism, you had all sorts of major problems, where there was one crazy stat was, more babies were aborted than were born. You think about that, it's just a big, crazy, evil system. Why do we get this idea that we think that communism's going to save us from our own poverty? Like why does that idea keep coming in every 80 years into different societies around the world? Jeff: Yeah. That's a good question. I wish I knew the real answer, because it makes no sense. Obviously, these people don't look at actual history. As you pointed out, there's never been one ... It's not like there's been one that really worked out well, and they're like, "Oh, we screwed it up a few times." It's like every single one turns into disaster. It actually makes total sense why, because of human nature. For someone like yourself who's read books by Ayn Rand, you kind of understand the individualist sort of a thing, and that people will always do what's in their best interest. That just makes total and normal sense as human being. When you have this system that comes in and you say, "Okay, the guy at the top decides everything that we're all going to do," you don't keep anything from your work, so that makes it so a lot of people don't really want to work anymore, because why would you work if all the incentives go away to ... Jeff: I don't know about you, but when I do work, it's because I know I'm going to get something from it. I'm not just doing it because for no reason whatsoever. A lot of these people, especially ... Well, what's really happened in the West is that they've really pumped it up in the government indoctrination camps. That's why I say to people, "Get your kids out of the government schools. There's nothing that can be worse than that than having government actually teaching you ... " Not teaching, actually indoctrinating your child for like 12 of its most important years of its building of its sense of self, of its intelligence, of everything. Even Vladimir Lenin, of all people, said, "Give me your child for four years and the seed I plant will never be uprooted." Jeff: It starts a lot there, and then you go home in places like the U.S., or Canada, or a lot of places, and you turn on the television programming, and it's called programming for a reason. You get pro-cops, and pro-presidents, and, "The government saved us today," and turn on the news, which is total fake news. It's just government propaganda, and they're like, "Well, we saved this today," and all that sort of stuff. With the cycles that you're talking about, and we're in the snowflake cycle now of sort of this millennials that have never seen anything hard their whole life. To them, the hard thing they've seen is like when there's a long line at Starbucks or something like that. Stefan: No Wi-Fi on the plane. There's no Wi-Fi on the plane today. Darn. Jeff: Yeah, like that's the hardest times they've seen. Because they've gone through this indoctrination and that they're really, I actually stay away from colleges and universities, because it freaks me out to hang around, like they're all zombies, and they're the stupidest people I've ever met in my life. They're all indoctrinated and programmed. You go there, and half the classes are talking about communism and socialism, so they've got them in this sort of thing, and they're all going out there now. We've seen that ... What's that, there's that U.S. politician, some young girl, is just complete and total moron who's just got selected or elected into Congress. It's called Congress because it's a con game, and it's called the Constitution because that's also a con, and all that sort of stuff. Jeff: You've got those people out there pushing this stuff, and these kids just go out, and they think, they don't know anything better. It's very unfortunate, but that's why it's really important that we continue to push out what we push out, which is more free market stuff. A lot of people do catch on to it. It's not as bad as it seems. The worst place that it really is in the world today is the U.S. They've got everyone ... Not everyone, but most people, they're so indoctrinated, and so brainwashed, and so propagandized, but you go to a lot of other places like Mexico here, and a lot of people are pretty free market. They don't like government and things like that. That's why they make Mexico look so bad on the news. That's on purpose, because it's a lot more free market down here. Stefan: It's amazing. I mean, you moved to Mexico. I have this prediction that Russia right now is a freedom-growing country. They're getting more freedom over there. It's like the 1950s U.S. over there, and then over here, it's like we're a freedom-losing country in Canada and the U.S. It's interesting with, you're talking about the universities being scary. When I get a stack of résumés, and I'm hiring, I throw the ones with degrees in the trash. Yeah, they don't- Jeff: Yeah, me too. Stefan: The people can't think for themselves. I remember I went out with this 18-year-old girl, and she wanted a job, so we went out for lunch, and I said, "Okay, look. What do you want to do?" She goes, "I want to start a social media company." I'm like, "Great. Start it." We're eating lunch. I said, "Great. Start it." She says, "Well, I'm in the business school, and I'm going to get my MBA, and I don't think I can start, because I don't know how," and I said, "Well, go google that. Just start." "Oh, I don't think I know how. I'm not qualified." The school system literally disabled her mind from figuring out how she could just start a social media company. Stefan: I mean, I got some guys running my social media. They're 18, 19 years old, and I just met them at a restaurant. Boom, they're banging out my social media like crazy, doing a great job, but this same girl in the government indoctrination camp, as you say, the universities and the schools, can't think for herself. I also think it's interesting in the colleges and universities right now, the number one read book on economics is Karl Marx. That's just like, that just doesn't make sense. Why don't you tell me a bit, Jeff, why does Karl Marx as the number one economics book not make sense? Jeff: Oh, my God. First of all, he knows nothing about economics. He was a homeless guy who had no money, and he wrote a ... If I was around when he wrote the book, I would have given it a few minutes, or even maybe a few days, maybe even a month or two, of thought, because it sounds really good. Right? Like what is the communist sort of slogan? It is, "Give to-" Stefan: Seize the means of production? Jeff: No, but they have this slogan like, "Someone's needs ... " Stefan: Oh, "To every man's need," or, "To the best of his ability and every man's need," or something like that. Jeff: Something, but basically what it's saying is ... See, that's how stupid it is. I don't even memorize the stupid quote, but basically, it sounds nice. It sounds like, "Yeah, if people can't do things, then you help them." It's like, "Yeah, sounds great," but the way they're talking about is, you have this giant government. They come around. They steal things from people, and they decide who gets your money, essentially, and things like that. Yeah, and it's shocking that ... It's really mostly caught on in the U.S. Like obviously, if you go to the ... You brought up Russia. If you go to Russia, no one wants to read Karl Marx. They'd probably burn that book if they saw it, just because they'd be so angry at it. Jeff: Anyone who's actually lived through communism, a lot of the old Soviet Union, the Eastern Bloc, Poland, and a lot of those places, even Germany to an extent, they still remember a lot of that. That's all you need to know about communism is live through it, and you realize it. That's one thing that I always thought that's funny is, you have all these people like Bernie Sanders and all these people, and they're so pro-communism and socialism and all these sort of things. It's like, have you ever even just gone to Venezuela even for a weekend? Because I was there like a year and a half ago, and it was pretty bad. Jeff: I remember being there about 15 years ago, and it was really nice. In fact, you can look up Venezuela back in the '60s and '70s. It looked just as nice as what you see in the videos of the U.S. People got around in nice cars, looking all nice. Everyone's looking good and happy, and they have lots of food and all that sort of stuff, and now it's just a complete and total disaster, so ... Yeah, you have some people still ... It's mostly in the U.S., though, I have to say [inaudible 00:23:04]. Jeff: I meet a lot of people from the U.S., and they say, "Man, this whole world's going to hell." It's like, actually, it's not too bad. Most of the world is pretty good. It's really the U.S. is like, and Canada is almost just as bad now, and when you go to the universities, as you pointed out, and I do the same thing, I have only hired one university graduate ever, and it turned into the biggest disaster I've ever had. He was actually a producer at CNBC, I hired him in 1999 to head up a video department of a internet company I had, and he was a total disaster. He was an MBA, and I had all the, all that stuff, and I ended up having to pay him out like two years' salary to get him to leave, that sort of- Stefan: Oh, my God. Jeff: But yeah, so I just stay away from the universities. As you pointed out, if I ... I've got a number of businesses myself, so if someone's interested in working with us, I'll ask them what they do, and if they go, "Well, I just spent the last eight years in university," I'm like, "Well, you don't make very good decisions, do you? You [inaudible 00:24:00]-" Stefan: Bro, I'm going to give you a gong for that. Boom. I want you to instant replay that for the kids at home. "If you're hanging out in university the last eight years, you don't make very good decisions, do you?" Tell me why that's a bad decision in 2019. Jeff: Well, I'm sure there's probably a couple courses you could take in college that make some sense somehow. I've never seen them, though, but I ... There must be a couple, but the reason that it makes no sense in 2018, 2019, is because we have the internet now, and all information is on the internet. You don't have to pay $100,000 a year to go sit in a room with probably a unionized teacher who's never done anything his whole life, that's why he's a teacher, he doesn't know anything, and sit there with a bunch of other idiots like you, because you don't know anything, they don't know anything, and learn about socialism-type stuff pumped into you. It's a complete and total waste of time. Really, the best- Stefan: You mean it's a virgin sex therapy class, so the guy teaching, it's a virgin, but he's teaching sex therapy to everybody? Jeff: Yeah, that's one good way to put it, but yeah. It's just a waste of time. I think trade schools or something, where if you're going to become a mechanic, so you have to work on cars, so you can't really do that over the internet, I think that makes some sense, but 90-percent-plus of what you go to college for is just a complete and total waste of time that you could just totally learn much better stuff on the internet. It actually just came out, I don't know if you heard this, but Google and Facebook just said that they've removed university education as one of the requirements to work there. I think they're really slow and late to do that, but I think they're starting to realize, it's like, "Man, the people we're getting from the schools are just brainwashed idiots, whereas the young guy who's sitting at home just hacking away, and going on the internet all day, and figuring everything out, those are the kind of guys you want." Stefan: Yeah. I got a policy in my office, and when people come to me and ask for stuff, I say, "Google it, or handle it." Those are the two things, handle it, google it. Google and ... I think it was Google, Apple, Facebook, they don't need degrees anymore. I think that's been going on for some time, but it's an official statement now. Right? That's like super, super official. Jeff, let's go back to collapse of society and things like that. One thing that's common in history, and I've studied it over and over again when these collapses happen, it's usually, the people can't buy bread. The nonsense can keep going on. The ... Stefan: I've got the numbers in my book here, Hard Times, about minimum wage, and minimum wage in 1968, indexed to gold, is 103,000 dollars U.S., so you work at McDonald's, you made one cheeseburger, one hamburger, French fries, Coke, and a milkshake, you made 103 grand in purchasing power back then, indexed to gold. Same guy today making a cheeseburger, hamburger, French fries, well, he has to make 150 items down at McDonald's. They got a crazy menu. Stefan: Same guy at McDonald's makes 13,000 a year, so he's lost 90% of his purchasing power indexed to gold, and this shenanigan with the money system where the banks and the government rob people through inflation every year, and then suddenly, at some point, it keeps going, going, going, going until the average man can't buy bread. That's when the Russian Revolution happens. That's when the French Revolution happens. Why does that pattern keep happening over and over again? Jeff: Well, first, let me just mention that the reason that these jobs have gone so far down in value is because of the central bank. It's because of money printing and inflation, and that's why you pointed out those numbers in inflation terms. You have a lot of people out there today who are like, "We need to raise the minimum wage," which is, what you're saying is, "We need these people who extort us, called the government, to go out with guns and force businesses to pay us more because we can't afford to live." Well, the reason you can't afford to live is because you've had most of your stuff stolen from you by the central bank, and the central bank, by the way, is a tenet of communism, and that's why I say the U.S. is nothing even close to capitalism today. Jeff: Actual communism has already destroyed most of these people. You ask about revolutions, and yeah, it seems that people, this is one thing you can say about anarchy, a lot of people think about anarchy, "Well, if there was not government, it'd just be chaos, and horrible, and everyone would just kill each other." It's actually not true. Your average person, and this relates to your question, your average person just really doesn't want to do too much. They want to have a nice little life. They want to have a family or whatever, or they don't, but they want something nice, and that's about it. They don't want to go out and rock the boat too much. Your average person just does not want to rock the boat, and that's what ... Jeff: That's one of the problems we have today is, we have the statist system, and most people are just too scared to change it, but it appears, at some point, when you finally run out of even just food, and you can't even eat anymore, that's when finally people start to wake up, and stand up, and demand some sort of change. When I say demand, the problem is, they're demanding from the government change. What they should really realize is, the government caused it, the central bank caused it, and just break away from this system and stand up and become their own person and not be a slave to the systems, but yeah, it's unfortunate that your average person, for whatever reason, will wait until they're basically starving before they actually face the real problems in the world. Stefan: It's interesting in history, I think Putin kicked out the central banks. Is that right? Jeff: I'm not sure if Putin did, but the ruble basically collapsed. I don't think they had a central bank, definitely, at the start there. Stefan: Well, I've heard Putin's kicked out the central banks. I think it's interesting is, Hitler did that back in the day. I guess Germany was so poor, and they were so messed up, and they couldn't make their war reparation payments. They just couldn't pay, and that's how World War II started is, a bunch of people, super poor, couldn't pay their payments, boom, world war starts. It's interesting, because somehow, in the system, the political system, they go right versus left, and the right versus the left, and the left versus the right. Really, it's the same kind of thing. Nobody points the finger at the central banks. Stefan: One thing I love about America that still stands is, there's 300 million guns in the States and 300 million people, and they keep that gun amendment in there because they know that tyranny's going to come at some point. They left that in there, and if people can't buy bread, or they're really hungry, that's where those 300 million people with guns are going to rise up. Do you think we're going to see something like that in our lifetimes? Jeff: Yeah, definitely, because the U.S. is going to collapse in the next few years. It's not going to be decades, because it's so bankrupt. We have 22 trillion dollars' worth of debt now, so we're basically ... I said when I started The Dollar Vigilante that the U.S. dollar will collapse by the end of this decade, so we've got about a year left. I think we're pretty close to on track. That's how close we are to the end of this system. Yeah, we're definitely going to see collapses anyway. As far as people in the U.S. having guns, I think all people should have the right to defend themselves, obviously. I don't think anyone should be able to say, "You can't have this," if you're not hurting anyone else, and that's what government does, of course. It's very good. That's the only thing left in the U.S. that is keeping it from being complete and total carnage is that the people still can protect themselves, so the government has to be very careful about how they enslave everyone, but they've done an incredibly good job of enslaving people. Jeff: When you think about how the U.S. started, it started over the Tea Party, where it was a tax from England on tea, and that was it. It wasn't a tax on everything else, income tax, and capital gains tax, and smoking tax, and hotel tax, and food tax, and all this sort of stuff. It was just a little tax on tea, and that started the so-called American Revolution. Now you have people in the U.S. today where you have taxes that are over 50%. It's probably closer to 60 or 70% when you add up all the taxes, because literally every single thing in the U.S. is taxed today, including death. Death has a tax, and so when you die you get taxed. You still don't have people wanting to revolt. It's because, again, people are fairly, if they have a decent life, they don't tend to want to change things too much. You look at the U.S. and your average person, even poor people have a television. They probably even have a car. Even poor people have cars in the U.S. Jeff: That's how much free markets, even the poorest people are still ahead of a lot of other people in the world, and so because of that, they don't really want to have a revolt or anything like that. Plus, they don't even ... Because of all the years of government indoctrination and all the war propaganda about how they're trying to save the world by spreading freedom by bombing the entire world in the War on Terror, war of terror. It's absolutely insane, but your average person just doesn't seem to want to even break out of this system. Jeff: What's going to probably happen is, that system's going to collapse on its own because of all the debt and go into hyperinflation. Then hopefully, and you brought up about how Russia's become much more free market now. That's what happens. The same cycles that you mentioned before when you have countries, they usually start off quite small and poor. Even the U.S. was like that when it first started. Because it had a lot of freedom, it becomes quite rich. Then they get soft because of that and because of government and statism, they start doing socialism and all these sort of things which start to destroy everything. They start putting kids into the government schools and all that, and they get worse and worse until they eventually totally collapse, like the Soviet Union. Once it has a total collapse, then you can actually have free markets again. The U.S. actually, once this collapse happens, and after a few weeks or months, and that's sort of what happened in the Soviet Union as well, it takes a little bit of time, like weeks or months, definitely not years, then you can start to rebuild immediately again with free markets. Jeff: We've seen how the free markets, if you just allow people to be free, you just have to look at places like Hong Kong. That was a fishing village like 200 years ago. Look at it now. I don't know if you've ever been there. It's amazing to even go there. Singapore, even 100 years ago, was a fishing village. It's now one of the most luxurious, wealthy places in the world. Dubai was just desert. They just started doing like low-tax, no-tax sort of stuff, and all of a sudden, there you got like indoor ski parks in the hot, 150-degree desert. Once you have like all this tyranny, it will eventually collapse. Then once it collapses, you have freedom again, and then things take off again. Jeff: Really, that's the whole point of what I do at The Dollar Vigilante is, that's our actual tagline, which is, "Helping you to survive and prosper during and after the dollar collapse," because if you can hold on to some of your assets, and if you can get through this collapse that's coming, we're going to go on to amazing, prosperous times again, but if you have no assets, you'll have to work a lot harder to get back up, but if you have kept some of your assets and things like precious metals or cryptocurrencies, once everyone else gets wiped out, and all the banks close, and the currency becomes worthless, you'll be one of the richest guys around, and then you can start rebuilding the new free market. Stefan: Yeah. There's two cycles that are coming to an end. I wrote about this in my book, Hard Times. One is the 2020, which is that 80-year cycle of war. That's an important one to watch. Hard Times Create Strong Men. Then the other one is the 250-year cycle of democracy. Democracies only last about 250 years, so if the U.S. was born in 1776, it's going to be dead by 2026, so somewhere between 2020 and 2026, we know there's probably going to be an end of democracy, probably usually goes democracy into tyranny, and then tyranny back into monarchy usually is what happens. We'll see something happen. Do you think it's going to go back to tyranny and monarchy, or do you think it's going to go just to open freedom? Jeff: Yeah. A really good question. I don't know how it's going to play out. I could definitely see the tyranny part coming after this. What will likely happen, and probably be Trump will be in, his regime will be in as this collapse happens. As everyone's gets wiped out, as the banks close, as it's complete, way worse than 1929, Great Depression, someone like Trump will become sort of like Hitler-like in that sense, in that he will be the strongman who will lead the country out of this. Because of that, we're going to need more laws, and of course, Trump has been pro-asset, civil forfeitures, having the police just take whatever they want. He even came out recently and said that he's okay if the cops go and just take everyone's guns and then figure out if they did the right thing afterwards and go to court in that afterwards, so no due process and things like that. Yeah, I could totally see that we have this collapse in the next couple years. Jeff: It leads into a very sort of like Nazi Germany like sort of like tyranny type thing, and perhaps war, because the U.S. does have a massive amount of military just sitting there, and of course, if you're desperate, and if you're broke, and if your people are all crying out for something to be done, and of course, what do they always say on the news, the television programming? "Well, it's always Russia. Russia's always messing with us." Russia's not doing anything to the U.S. whatsoever, but they've been putting this into place, and they also mention China a lot. Yeah, they'll probably go into some sort of major war at some point. The key for people like us will be to stay outside of it and let them all go through this, again, if they want to go through this again, which is unbelievable. Jeff: There's lots of stories of people surviving through all of these, World War II, World War I, the Great Depression, and coming out way ahead afterwards, and even surviving quite well through it. A lot of them would go to places like Argentina or whatever for a few years, wait till all the craziness dies down with their assets and things like that. That's really the key, and to me, it's, we can't change everyone else. I wish we could, but we can't. Jeff: Actually, I don't wish I could. That'd be a huge responsibility, to change everyone else, but I wish that they would be a bit more able to see what's going on, but if they can't, really all that's left for us to do is to take care of ourselves and to keep spreading this information the ways that we can do it, but if they're going to go ahead and destroy the whole world with their statism, and their craziness, and their communism, and socialism, and fascism again, then it's really just up to us to survive and prosper through it and then try to be there to help rebuild once they get through doing it all again. Stefan: There's two interesting things that come to mind when you say that. There's the Hitler-Trump connection, which I think is super interesting. There's two things I want to allude to. There's the Hitler-Trump connection, and then there's another one, an Abraham Lincoln and Trump connection. When you look back in history, so if we go back 80 years to World War II, Germany was one of the most advanced civilizations on the planet, probably actually was the most advanced in science and medicine. They were so broke, they were so poor, they were so hungry, they were so messed up that the Nazis became popular, because Hitler was offering them a better life. He said, "Look, here's a better life. We can have a better way." People got behind that, the most sophisticated, probably, society on the planet went into absolute terror at that time. Stefan: I think there's a similar thing going on in the U.S. You've got a huge amount of people on food stamps. People are poor. People are pissed off, so they elect a strong leader. It's not ... It's interesting, like if it wasn't Hitler back in World War II, it probably would have been somebody else leading them, because the people were so poor and so messed up ... I like what Jordan Peterson said in the summary. He said, "You don't have an idea. An idea has you." That idea had Nazi Germany. I think there's a similar idea in the Brexit right now. There's a similar idea in the United States, and then that's the 80-year cycle. Stefan: If you go back 80 years before, you got the Civil War, the American Civil War, and Abraham Lincoln got shot. It's interesting, because Lincoln was a guy that wasn't totally popular with half the country. He got assassinated, and those things are all kind of floating around. You got a Trump, Trump-Hitler-like ruler there. I mean, I actually like Trump, personally, but at the end of the day, there's a sentiment in the country and a feeling around that that's Hitler-like, and then there's also an Abraham Lincoln kind of feeling where do you think he could get assassinated? Jeff: Look, I think it's possible. I think most of those sort of things, they're all actually orchestrated. JFK, for example, I believe that was Lyndon B. Johnson and the CIA who took him out. Ronald Reagan, that was the first Bush, the one who just died, George W. Bush, or sorry, George Bush, who was behind the assassination attempt, so-called assassination attempt, on Ronald Reagan. It's usually like an inside sort of a thing. It's really controlled. It's really theater. They actually keep all these things, including Putin, including little Kim in North Korea. They're all controlled by the same people, and it's just this big theater to keep people just mesmerized and watching their CNN and, "Oh, what did Trump say today," and all that. It's just no different than people in North Korea like, "What did little Kim say today? What are we supposed to do today?" Jeff: That sort of a thing, but anything is possible, but it is pretty tough to assassinate the president, as an outsider, but as an insider, it's not that hard, but they also seem to have some sort of weird like almost like protection around them. Like even George W. Bush, when he was in Iraq and the guy stood up at the media thing, and he was very mad, because Bush had been destroying his country and killing his family and all that sort of stuff, and he threw one shoe, and Bush just did the little dodge and just missed him, and then threw another shoe, and he just ... It's like, I don't know what it is with these people. They're kind of like, I don't know what it is, but it seems like he can't really get to them that way, not physically violent sort of thing. I think the only way we get rid of all of this is for people to wake up and realize that these people don't own you, and start to move away from these systems, and these people just go away and have to get real jobs. Stefan: I think one of the problems with human nature and people, I mean, you were talking about human nature and communism, where human nature doesn't work inside of communism, and then there's also another side of human nature, which is, I think humans have a hero worship, innate hero worship ability where we see someone, we see a leader, and we just want to worship them, and we want them to handle our problems. We want to have a personal Jesus. We want to have somebody we can just give it all to. Somehow, that's going to be the easy button. It'll all be solved, and then we don't have to think or deal with anything. Would you say that's true? Jeff: Oh, absolutely. That's exactly what government, it really is. That's what government always does. You look at every election. They come up there, and they give all these promises. "I'm going to solve this for you. I'm going to solve that." They never solve anything. They're just extorting you and destroying everything in the process, and making everything worse in the process, but yeah. That's absolutely the case is, your average person just won't take responsibility for themselves and just say, "I don't need this person to run this entire country for me. I can run myself," and that sort of a thing. Of course, it gets a little interesting how that would all, we've been in statism now for hundreds of years, so to actually break away from it's going to be difficult. Jeff: That's actually why we're starting up numerous sort of countries across the world now, so we've started Liberland in Europe, which is near Croatia and Serbia, which is a new sort of anarcho-capitalist country that's just being started, and there's some few others working on buying some islands, and we're going to start some totally anarcho-capitalist free sort of places there. We're also seasteading, so we're trying to start up in the ocean, start up our own little, what you call countries. None of them are really like countries, because there's no real government, but it's a place that we're going to start up that it's going to be completely free. Then through that, hopefully we could show the world, because they've never really seen it, what life would be like in a true free market. Jeff: If, all evidence seems to point to when you have a totally free market that it's incredibly good for most people. It just increases the wealth dramatically, as we've seen, as I pointed out, in places like Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai. Whenever you have a lot of freedom, everything gets a lot more prosperous. The only sort of question a lot of people have is, "What if you have total freedom? What would happen?" We don't really have any good examples for that yet, so we're hoping to start do that in the next couple of years and try to show the world the light that, really, this governmental sort of statism system with central banks, and all these sort of things, are just absolutely terrible. The best thing for all humanity is to get rid of those sort of things and not have a belief in their authority. Stefan: Sounds like a page out of Atlas Shrugged right now. You got all the productive smart people wanting to go start their own country or start their own island. This is, it's just human nature. It's all written down in the book. It's all happened before, and here's a thought, Jeff. I don't know if you thought about this. At some point, there probably was some nice, true freedom in the Wild West, maybe, Wild West America or some place, and then at some point, the people organized themselves. At some point, there's a government. At some point, there's a king. At some point, there's a good king. He dies, and then you got his son, the bad king. Stefan: Do you think we've had freedom in history at some point, like true freedom, and then it just got consolidated into power? Because it seems to me that whether you look at a market like a real estate market, or you look at a Monopoly board, or you look at anything in life with humans, it seems that there's like always a consolidation going on. There's a consolidation at some point where somebody just ends up taking over, and we just end up in that over and over again, and the dominoes fall down at some point. We reset. Do you think we can actually exist as free people, like truly, or do you think someone's going to seize power at some point? Jeff: Well, the thing is, if you have enough people who actually believe that freedom is the way to go, and they want to do that, then no one can seize power, because there's nothing there to seize. You pointed out rightly that over history, it appears that people have always been okay with giving away their power to someone else and hoping this guy takes care of them all, and that never works out for the best, just like communism, it just never works out well. Jeff: Yeah, that's actually been the case over time is that people seem to have always sort of gravitated into these sort of things, but at the same time, when you think about life even today, we actually live in a state of complete anarchy right now. It just so happens that there's a lot of governments on earth which you can just consider to be criminal organizations who are stealing and extorting people, and kidnapping people, and forcing them to do things they don't want to do, but we actually live in a state of anarchy. Jeff: Your average person, actually, every single day of their life, pretty much lives in anarchy. When you're in your home, or you're talking to your friends, or you go to work, that's just anarchy. That's just day-to-day life, and there's no one there telling you what to do, except for a street cop or whatever, a road pirate who might try to extort you if he thinks you're going a little too fast over a arbitrary speed limit or things like that, but generally kind of already live in anarchy. Really, the important thing to understand is that the word "government," what it really means, "govern" is, the word "govern" comes from the Latin [Latin 00:46:24] which means to control, which makes a lot of sense, and the word "ment." Jeff: There's a lot of different sort of where that came from, but I lived here in Mexico, Spanish, [Spanish 00:46:34] is mind, so really, government is mind control. It's controlling people's minds to make them believe that this thing has authority over them and that it's sort of taking care of them as well. This is where we get into Stockholm syndrome and things like that, where people actually begin to really adore their kidnapper, the person who has basically kept them enslaved. I see [inaudible 00:46:56]- Stefan: I wanted to give a gong. At some point, you got to stop for me to give you a gong. I didn't know that "government" meant mind control. It's really interesting, because if you control the information, you control the thoughts, and if you control the thoughts, you control the stories. You control the stories, you control the beliefs. If you control the beliefs, you control reality. It's almost like ... In Hard Times, I talk about we almost live in a 1984 future from George Orwell, and some of it's like Brave New World, Aldous Huxley, which was Orwell's mentor. We got half of our stuff is the American Aldous Huxley Brave New World future with orgies, and synthetic music, and all these women with narrow hips that don't bear children anymore, and we have alphas, and betas, and gammas, and deltas and all that stuff, and epsilons. Stefan: Then the other part of our world is like the 1984 future where there's three gigantic powers that are always at war with each other, and it's like a Stalinist future. What do you think about those two books right now, Jeff, like 1984, Brave New World, and what we got going on right now? Jeff: Yeah. Both those guys, both, I think they went, both went to Oxford or one of those major schools. They hung out with the same people like the Bush crime family and all those, so they hung out with what you could call the elites, or some people call them the Illuminati or whatever words you want to put to these sort of secret societies that mostly sort of are in these schools like Oxford and stuff like that. They were actually good friends, as you pointed out, and it's really amazing that that long ago, what is it, like 60, 70, 80 years ago, they wrote- Stefan: It was 1945- Jeff: ... these books. Stefan: ... I think. It was like right after World War II the books came out. Jeff: Yeah, so I can't do the math. I went to government schools, but 70 years ago, whatever it was, and they've really just roadmapped the exact both ways that we're going. Actually, they're both happening at the same time. The Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, that was a lot of bread and circuses. The people would be too dumbed down, which we're seeing, through fluoridization in the water, through all the government indoctrination camps, through the television programming, all that sort of stuff. People are just watching the Kardashians and all that. Jeff: The sports, so the sports ball games, and that sort of thing, so people, that's what Aldous Huxley was saying is, people would be too dumbed down and too into these things like sports and entertainment to even notice that they're enslaved. That's what we have today, especially in the U.S. Then on the other side, there was Orwell went the other way with a bit more it's like a hard, top-down dictatorship. You can't say anything. Everything's the opposite of what it means in political speak, which is what we have today. You brought up about how there's these certain sectors of the world that always at war. East Oceania's always at war with whatever the other one was. That's what we have today. It's like, who's at war with who? This War on Terror, it's a war on a feeling. It's a war on, it's like terror is a feeling. It's like, "I was terrified when I saw that. We need a war against that." It's like- Stefan: Well, we got the- Jeff: ... "Who are you [inaudible 00:49:47]" Stefan: ... War on Drugs which doesn't work. We got the War on Terror that doesn't work. You got the War on Cancer that doesn't work. You got all these wars. They keep just funneling money into a couple dudes' pockets, and the War on Drugs makes drugs worse. The War on Cancer makes cancer worse. The War on Terror makes terrorism worse. It's pretty scary how those things just simply don't work. Jeff: Yeah, and it's all by design, like the people who really do these things know this is what's going to happen. It's just sad that people keep falling for it, but people are slowly waking up thanks to the internet. Yeah, I even saw like, who's that blonde, fairly not attractive, woman on U.S. TV who's like a really mean, nasty sort of ... Anyway. She just came out, and she just said all these wars are just stupid. They're just like, like we shouldn't be doing them. She was like a total war sort of a person. This just came out. Jeff: People are starting to wake up, but the biggest issue is, they don't know what the answer is, and so that's why they keep going back to what you pointed out, which is this false left-right paradigm, which they tell everyone that's all there is. There's left or right or somewhere in the middle and there's nothing else, but that's a very narrow range of political spectrum. That's basically statism right there, and you can have left or right in statism, but there's a whole other spectrum of just not having governments whatsoever that could really free a lot of people. It's really growing, actually, like when we first started Anarchast, Anarchapulco, Anarchapulco started five years ago. It was 150 people. We're now expecting about 3,000 people. It's doubled every year. Stefan: Wow. Jeff: My show, Anarchast, a lot of people said no one had ever watched the show, but anarchy, that's crazy. They think anarchy is throwing bombs and all this sort of stuff, but it's catching on. People are catching on to a lot of this stuff now, so we're going to see what happens. We're at an amazing time in human history, because all these things are coming to a head all at the same time. All these governments are bankrupt. The central banks are about to go into hyperinflation. Then we have people waking up and starting to realize what's going on, and then you still have all these people in the universities who think that communism's the way out, so they'll probably try to push for that. Jeff: It's just amazing, incredible time, and there's going to be so much change in the next 10 years. I don't think anyone will believe what happens over the next 10 years. I couldn't even imagine what will happen, but I know it's going to be mind-blowing what happens. It's going to be that much change. Stefan: Yeah. It's unbelievable. Now, Jeff, I got to wrap up the show, but I want to ask you a couple questions I ask every guest, because I think they're cool. If you can go back in time to, let's say, 15-year-old Jeff and give yourself a piece of advice, what's a piece of advice you'd give yourself? Jeff: Oh, man. That's a good question. I would say work on yourself. I really just started working on myself over the last couple of years. I'm like 48 years old now, and it's changed my life dramatically. I didn't deal with a lot of my past issues, childhood issues, a lot of the programming that we get from our cult, our culture they call it, but our cult, through our younger years. That still stays in your head. I think if I would have, if I could go back, I'd say, "Buy Bitcoin as soon as you hear about it," and I'd- Stefan: [inaudible 00:52:55]. Jeff: ... say, "Work on yourself," like- Stefan: [inaudible 00:52:57] man. Jeff: I'd probably also say, "Don't go to the bars that much. Don't be having a lot of drunken sex. It's a total waste of time. Try to find a good girlfriend. Try to fix yourself and work on yourself more than anything." That's what I'd tell him. Stefan: Wow. Great answer. Top three books that changed your life. Jeff: A good question again. We talked about G. Edward Griffin earlier. The Creature from Jekyll Island was one of the first books that got me looking into all this stuff that I talk about today. That was a really important to my life. I'd say The Lord of the Rings is, I read it when I was very young. I used to love to read. I was probably like 12 or something. This giant book, it's even bigger than your book there. What I didn't realize about The Lord of the Rings that is interesting, I love the book, and I loved everything about it, and it wasn't until a couple years ago I realized that that ring of power was actually a metaphor for government power. I actually looked- Stefan: Wow. Jeff: ... into it a couple years ago, and J. R. R. Tolkien, who wrote the book, called himself an anarchist, so that entire book was an allegory about the problems caused by government. Those two books are pretty good. I guess the third book that I thought was really interesting, and it's like a pamphlet. You can read it in about two hours. It's called The Market for Liberty. You can actually find it online for free in PDF format, and it shows what the world could be like without government. When I read that book, it just blew my mind, because I'm sure if you even read it, you'd go, you'd be like me, you'd be like, "Wow, I never thought things could work that way or that ... " Jeff: They actually thought about how things would work without government, so there'd be like private security companies. Well, how would that work? Well, there'd be insurance as well, so the insurance companies ... For example, like people go, "Well, how would you put out fires without the government?" Which is kind of funny, because the government rarely puts out fires [inaudible 00:54:34]. Stefan: Fire insurance. Jeff: Yeah. Fire insurance, and then the insurance companies have all this insurance money, and they'll have to pay out a ton if there's a giant fire, so they actually put out fire stuff, and fire stations, and all that kind of stuff so it can all work in the free market. I think that book really, in just such a small amount of time, can really just show how the free market can handle everything. Stefan: Yeah. Well, that's great. I always, people say, "Well, who's going to pay for the roads?" Well, you just tax cars and gasoline. If you got a car and gas- Jeff: Not even tax, right, but like the businesses would own the roads. You would never put up ... Let's say you're Walmart, and you want to put up a Walmart somewhere and there's no road there. You're going to build the road, because you want people to get to your thing. Plus, not to mention there's already all roads. All roads that already exist. I don't know why people think they'll just disappear, but obviously like gas stations would have a giant interest to making sure there was roads, so they would probably do something. The gas stations would all work together and say, "Okay, let's take 10% of all of our money that we make every month and put it into maintaining the roads." Right? It's fairly basic sort of stuff. Stefan: Right. All right. Second last question today, Jeff. What's the one thing that young people need to succeed these days? Let's talk to the snowflakes. Let's talk to the millennials, the guy with the MacBook Pro at Starbucks. What's something you want to say to h

What is your superpower? Is it writing, speaking, communicating with power? It could be if you listen to this conversation with Joseph Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. This episode is like a short master class. If you want to get the most out of it, I advise you start by listening to my October 29th episode, featuring one of the greatest speeches you'll ever hear: Admiral William McRaven's 2014 University of Texas Commencement Address. You've already done that? Now listen to Romm walk us through some of the highlights of McRaven's speech – to point out what makes it so powerful and teach us techniques we can employ the next time we want to write or say something that matters.

What is your superpower? Is it writing, speaking, communicating with power? It could be if you listen to this conversation with Joseph Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. This episode is like a short master class. If you want to get the most out of it, I advise you start by listening to my October 29th episode, featuring one of the greatest speeches you’ll ever hear: Admiral William McRaven’s 2014 University of Texas Commencement Address. You’ve already done that? Now listen to Romm walk us through some of the highlights of McRaven’s speech – to point out what makes it so powerful and teach us techniques we can employ the next time we want to write or say something that matters.

After Dan finally returns from holiday, we record again and discuss what's happened recently, including...  - Cicada 3310  - The Snopes Game  - The New Predator Movie  - The Festival of Brexit  - Sir Michael   And many more…  Join in the discussions on our Facebook Page here: https://www.facebook.com/2SkepticalChaps  Link to all our episodes here: http://2skepticalchaps.libsyn.com/podcast  Twitter: @2scpodcast  Email: 2sc.podcast@gmail.com 

Dr. Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at American Progress. He oversees the blog ClimateProgress.org, which was named one of Time Magazine’s Fifteen Favorite Websites for the Environment in 2007. In December 2008, Romm was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for “distinguished service toward a sustainable energy future and for persuasive discourse on why citizens, corporations, and governments should adopt sustainable technologies.” In a March 2009 column in the New York Times, Tom Friedman noted that Dr. Romm is “a physicist and climate expert who writes the indispensable blog climateprogress.org.” In March 2009, Rolling Stone also named him one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America” calling him “America’s fiercest climate-change blogger.” And in April, U.S. News & World Report named him “one of the most influential energy and environmental policymakers in the Obama era.” In this episode of the Be Real Show, Joe tells us to post on your blog, website, and social media in the mornings to ensure the most amount of people will see it.  Joe wrote the book How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump.  In this book, Joe tells us how people can make a video go viral or even a blog post.  We find out that videos need to be able to tell a story visually without any sound.  Next,  Joe Romm suggests publishing on Kindle because you can find what part of your books are most popular among your readers.  We also find out how the greatest speechwriters in history all use the same formula “and, but, therefore.”  Lastly, we discover the most significant mistake people are making when marketing online is not spending enough time on the opening line. Connect Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-romm-1053841/ Twitter – https://www.twitter.com/climateprogress Website – http://rhetoric.com   People Mentioned Oprah Winfrey - @Oprah Stephen King - @StephenKing Lin-Manuel Miranda - @Lin_Manuel   Resources Chartbeat – http://www.chartbeat.com Hamilton - https://hamiltonmusical.com/us-tour/ Books How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga

Today, Ikonokast visits with Joe Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the widely read and well respected Climate Progress (a part of Think Progress). He was for a time Acting Assistant Secreatary of the US Department of Energy, and has published several books on climate change, energy, national security, and communication, some of which we link to below. In this interview, as well as in Romm's book, you'll learn about the tried and true methods of creating a message that sticks. You'll also learn about the one thing Donald Trump is very good at (much to our collective peril). Books by Joe Romm: Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change

Today, Ikonokast visits with Joe Romm, author of How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump. Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the founder of the widely read and well respected Climate Progress (a part of Think Progress). He was for a time Acting Assistant Secreatary of the US Department of Energy, and has published several books on climate change, energy, national security, and communication, some of which we link to below. In this interview, as well as in Romm’s book, you’ll learn about the tried and true methods of creating a message that sticks. You’ll also learn about the one thing Donald Trump is very good at (much to our collective peril). Books by Joe Romm: Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know Language Intelligence: Lessons on persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln, and Lady Gaga Hell and High Water: How Global Warming Will Forever Change

Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast business interview is a man who knows the secret ingredient that most people online are searching for. How to make things go viral in an ever more shouty online world. He is one of the country's most influential progressive communicators. He is Chief Science Advisor for “Years of Living Dangerously,” which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series and now generates viral vidoes online seen by tens of millions a month. He is the founding editor of ClimateProgress.org, which NY Times columnist Tom Friedman called, “the indispensable blog.” And if that isn't enough he is also the senior advisor for New Frontier Data, the leading “big data” firm providing actionable analysis in cannabis, whose content reaches hundreds of millions of people a year. Yeah that is a bit eclectic to say the least. Now with his new book out across the world  "How To Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump" he has even more things to talk about and do everyday. So what of course is the key to going viral like Jesus? And where does he find his focus turning to everyday? A day off, or more and more work? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr. Joseph Romm Show Highlights Joseph shares the three A's that make viral content explode across the world....powerful stuff. We discuss the power of "replacing" which has made Hollywood screenplays bring insight and excitement to the screen for years. Why the first rule of communicating is making the receiver know that we are one of them. Bridge the gap between sender and receiver and you will win the game.  And lastly…….. How and Why "The Hero's Story" has become the key to so many of the inspiring content that we see in film, and platforms everywhere.

Welcome to episode 58 of The Bitcoin Game, I'm Rob Mitchell. In January of this year, I saw lots of talk about the World Economic Forum's speeches and panels in Davos. Even Donald Trump spoke at this event. But the panel I was most interested in was called The Crypto Asset Bubble, and it featured Nobel Prize Laureate Robert Shiller. I didn't know any of the other panelists, but the one who stuck out to me the most was Jennifer Zhu Scott. She seemed very pro-Bitcoin and was a very eloquent speaker. I wondered why I'd never heard of her before. I immediately invited Jen to be a guest on my podcast, and we finally connected just a bit ago, thanks to Twitter. We cover many topics including the World Economic Forum, her favorite project, China, and her involvement in the hit HBO series, Silicon Valley. EPISODE LINKS “The Crypto-Asset Bubble” - Davos 2018, World Economic Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZv9fLLfa4 World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org Radian Partners http://www.radian.partners Otoy Octane https://home.otoy.com/render/octane-render Viral Fake Robot Video https://youtu.be/bA21AhgYwHM Adam Series https://youtu.be/GXI0l3yqBrA Render Token https://rendertoken.com HBO's Silicon Valley - "Initial Coin Offering" https://www.hbo.com/silicon-valley/season-5/7-initial-coin-offering/synopsis Jen Zhu Scott on Twitter https://twitter.com/jenzhuscott STAY IN TOUCH Thanks so much for taking the time to listen to The Bitcoin Game! https://Twitter.com/TheBTCGame http://TheBitcoinGame.com Rob@TheBitcoinGame.com SPONSOR While much of a Bitcoiner's time is spent in the world of digital assets, sometimes it's nice to own a physical representation of the virtual things you care about. For just the price of a cup of coffee or two (at Starbucks), you can own the world famous Bitcoin Keychain, the growingly popular Litecoin Keychain, or even your own Bitcoin Fork - Pen. As Seen On The Guardian • TechCrunch • Engadget • Ars Technica • Popular Mechanics Inforwars • Maxim • Inc. • Vice • RT • Bitcoin Magazine • VentureBeat PRI • CoinDesk • Washington Post • Forbes • Fast Company Bitcoin Keychains - BKeychain.com Litecoin Keychains - LKeychain.com Bitcoin Fork Pens - BitcoinForks.com All of the above on Amazon - BitcoinNovelties.com Here are some tipping addresses (Lightning tipping, coming soon!) Bitcoin (Segwit) tipping address: 3AYvXZseExRn3Dum8z9tFUk9jtQK6KMU4g Litecoin tipping address: MCszxWfm4y4Ke39vJZLXwULLRgVmBfJy8z Bitcoin Cash tipping address: 1EXYkuuQ49uEioTpHY4ZY99edJczbUqQfu Ethereum tipping address: 0xB8b169192A74746050806671710aeB72F01F6ED1 CREDITS All music in this episode of The Bitcoin Game was created by Rob Mitchell. The Bitcoin Game box art was created from an illustration by Rock Barcellos. Note: We've recently migrated our RSS feed (and primary content host) from Soundcloud to Libsyn. So if you notice the Soundcloud numbers have dropped off recently, that's the reason.

Joseph J. Romm, the legendary MIT graduate and physicist who was brought on as a strategic consultant to work with James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the creation of the SHOWTIME documentary called “YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY” talks about how to go viral and reach millions as well as breaks down his newest book, How to Go Viral and Reach Millions: Top Persuasion Secrets from Social Media Superstars, Jesus, Shakespeare, Oprah, and Even Donald Trump.

Cable news pundits tell you everything is “breaking news.” TV pundits discuss politics in a vacuum. But in nearly every case, the politics of today have long roots in history. This includes media celebrities winning elections by manipulating the press and lobbing gross insults (Huey Long in the 1920s), breakdowns in the relationship between the U.S. and Mexico (the 1840s Mexican-American War) and fears of presidential executive overreach (the 1780s with George Washington).In this episode I talk with Bruce Carlson, host of the My History Can Beat Up Your Politics podcast about how nearly every issue in U.S. politics has an analogue in the past. He uses history to elevate the discussion of today's politics.

Millions of Americans could lose insurance cover if the bill passes but if it fails the uncertainty will undermine the system, says Edward Luce. Even Donald Trump doesn't want to lend his brand to the new measure See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Yesterday we got the first jobs report of the year and the way Wall Street and the media seem to be spinning it: "It was a good report!" It was good news because the headline number beat expectations: We created 227,000 jobs in January vs the 175,000 that had been expected Of course it was an improvement on the 157,000 jobs which was a disappointing report in December But once again, if you look beneath the headline number, you'll find that there are a lot more problems to this report than the media is reporting First of all, as always, the lion's share of these jobs are lower-paying service sector jobs They're in retail trade, leisure and hospitality So we're not creating the types of jobs that will Make America Great Again In fact, if you look at the higher paying jobs - manufacturing, mining logging These jobs are barely adding workers, if not losing workers But the bigger story here has to do with what's happening to labor force participation, wages and unemployment The official U3 Unemployment rate went up from 4.7% to 4.8% The more revealing U6 number, which I think paints a more accurate picture of the true state of the labor market That went up from 9.2% to 9.4% Even Donald Trump, when he was campaigning, said that that number was far more accurate than Obama's official numbers Why did the unemployment rate go up so much, considering that we had 227,00 jobs created?  The reason was that we had over 700,000 workers re-enter the labor force This goes against the trend that has dominated the entirety of the Obama administration Where we saw a mass exodus of workers leaving the labor force In fact, the labor force participation rate went up in January from 62.7% to 62.9% First of all, why did so many Americans decide to re-enter the labor force in January? Maybe there are 2 possible explanations and maybe they're both accurate: One might have to do with all the optimism surrounding the Donald Trump Presidency Remember, Donald Trump campaigned that he was going to be the greatest jobs President And it's possible that a lot of people believe that this is going to happen So they are re-entering the labor force to land one of these great jobs that President Trump will be delivering You have to enter the labor force in order to apply for one of these jobs Another reason is that the people who have been "sitting out" of labor force participation Maybe circumstances are finally catching up with them, maybe they're running out of money Maybe the cost of living has risen to the point that they have to, by necessity, find a job

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