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The future of war has been evolving before our eyes in Ukraine, yet the west still plans to fight the last war. In this special episode, guest host Noah Smith (@noahpinion) and Brandon Anderson sit down with Yaroslav Azhnyuk (@YaroslavAzhnyuk), a serial tech founder who went from building PetCube to founding The Fourth Law, one of the world's most advanced AI-guided drone companies. Over two hours we cover the technology, tactics, and geopolitics of drone warfare, and why the modern battlefield has already left the West behind:* Yaroslav's personal history and the Ukraine war [00:01:04 – 00:14:01]* The modern drone tech stack: why FPV drones are the new god of war, the future of the rifleman, fiber optic vs. AI, five levels of autonomy, and the eight dimensions of the autonomous battlefield [00:14:01 – 01:05:13]* The geopolitics and economics of drones: China's manufacturing advantage, the drone race, Western defense readiness, countermeasures, and why the gap is widening [01:05:13 – 01:58:57]For those looking for Noah Smith's commentary, it really gets going around the 00:51:31 mark.Yaroslav Azhnyuk / The Fourth Law:* X: https://x.com/YaroslavAzhnyuk* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaroslavazhnyuk/* The Fourth Law: https://thefourthlaw.aiNoah Smith:* Substack: Noah Smith * X: https://x.com/noahpinionTimestamps00:00:00 Cold Open: China's 4 Billion Drones and the Cameras-to-Explosives Pipeline00:01:04 Introduction: Brandon, Noah Smith, and Yaroslav Azhnyuk00:05:41 From Tech Entrepreneur to Defense: PetCube, Brave One, and the D3 Fund00:10:42 The Ethics of Building Weapons: Dual-Use Technology and the Wolf at the Door00:14:01 The Tech Stack: Cameras, Autonomy Modules, Interceptors, and a Semiconductor Fab00:18:47 Fiber Optic vs. AI: The Radio Horizon Problem and $32/km Cable00:25:32 FPV Drones: The New God of War — 70–80% of Frontline Casualties00:28:28 The Five Levels of Drone Autonomy: From Terminal Guidance to Full Autonomy00:41:37 The Eight Dimensions of the Autonomous Battlefield00:45:32 AI Safety and the Morality of Autonomous Weapons00:51:31 The End of the Rifleman? Noah's 2013 Prediction vs. Battlefield Reality01:05:13 China's Manufacturing Advantage and Western Vulnerabilities01:24:21 Policy Advice for Western Defense: Defense Valley and the Widening Gap01:32:54 The Drone Race: Who's Ahead, Category by Category01:41:57 Countermeasures: Shotguns, Jammers, Lasers, and Fishnets01:58:19 The Wedding and Final Takeaway: Be Prepared for WarTranscriptCold Open: China, FPV Drones, and the New Warning SignYaroslav [00:00:00]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced 4 million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world. China can produce 4 billion of these FPV drones.Noah [00:00:10]: Would you say that right now China is now the supreme conventional military power on Earth, given its ability to manufacture and deploy drones in the quantity and quality that you just described?Yaroslav [00:00:20]: I don't think we have all the information to claim that but we cannot count it out, and that alone should be a big warning sign. As I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story. And when you think about what your nation, what your patriots are going through, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back, and then the choice becomes very clear.Introduction: Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Petcube, and the Last Flight into KyivBrandon [00:01:04]: Welcome to Latent Space. I'm Brandon. I normally do science podcasts, but today we're going to do something a little bit different. I'm joined by Noah Smith of Noahpinion on Substack and Twitter. And he has lots of interesting things to say about drones. And as a guest, we have Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of The Fourth Law and several other, drone-related startups. To get started, it is February 23rd, 2022. You are running a pet startup. You're connecting pets with their owners. Let's go in just a little bit of background. How did you get started in tech, and what were you working on before the Ukrainian war started?Yaroslav [00:01:50]: Good to be here. Thank you. On February 23rd, late in the evening, 11:00 PM Kyiv time, my wife and I landed in Kyiv. Actually, then she was a fiance. We came from Lviv, where we were looking at a church, where our wedding should have taken place. And we got into this cab ride from the airport to our home, and the driver was like, “You crazy. Like, everyone's leaving Kyiv. Why do you come?” We're like, “What? Nothing's going to happen. Dude, chill.” And then obviously, eight minutes later, or eight hours later, the bombs fell in the city. It was quite surreal. We probably landed on the last flight that landed in Kyiv, or one of those last flights. My background, I'm a tech guy. Studied applied mathematics in Kyiv Polytechnics, born and raised in Kyiv. My parents are old PhDs from academia, and grandparents too. Like, everything, from linguistics to nuclear physics. And I'm an entrepreneur, so I've built a bunch of companies. Petcube is the one you were referencing. So I lived in San Francisco 2014 to 2020, building Petcube, which is one of the leading, pet device companies in the world, selling lots of pet cameras. And then, yeah, as I say, at some point in my life I went from making cameras that fling treats to pets to cameras that fling explosives to the occupiers. So that's the short story.February 24th: Leaving Kyiv as the Invasion BeginsNoah [00:03:28]: February 24th, I guess a few hours after you, go to check out your wedding chapel, what do you do?Yaroslav [00:03:37]: We had a plan for this situation. So my parents and family live in Kyiv, and we're like, “Okay, this has actually started. The worst has, come true.” And so we basically packed our belongings and got in the car and spent 17 hours driving west. And that was pretty sure most people in our audience watched at least one apocalyptic movie in their life, so that was exactly like that. Like, felt exactly like that. Missiles are falling. Like, there was smoke in Kyiv. Like, my dad and I went, like, to central part of the cities. It's probably, likeYaroslav [00:04:20]: 800 meters from presidential office, to pick some stuff up at his workplace. Because he's, like, the head of an academic institution, so he had to get some of the things with him. And super surreal. Like, the streets are empty. Like, the gas stations are out of gas. Like, we found some gas station. We didn't have, like, spare canisters with us, so we're like, We figured out, like, the car was diesel, so like, we figured out, if it's diesel, you can actually store it in plastic, canisters, and we bought some window wash for the cars. We poured it out of the canisters, and we poured the diesel into that. Yeah, so it was like that. And then, like, helping friends get out, like my friend and his dog. Like, we found Like, my brother was also, like, riding in a separate car. We found a place for my friend who didn't have a car. It was like, yeah, it was like, totally surreal. And we didn't know of course, and you didn't know this will last for so long. You didn't know whether Ukraine will be able to defend Kyiv. And it was like, yeah, very little information and very little insight into future.From Pet Cameras to Defense Tech: Building for Ukraine and the Free WorldNoah [00:05:42]: What are your thoughts with regards to how do you, defend, Ukraine? So you eventually start building drones Like, what is the process to get from there from where you were building, devices that connect owners with pets to building drones, and what other things did you do to help the war effort in the process?Yaroslav [00:06:07]: It's definitely non-trivial, right? Like, I didn't go, to I didn't get any, like, military education when I was a student. Like, normally, in Ukraine, you would, you would go to like, this military school even if you're getting higher education in any other, sphere. I decided to skip that which is like, an unusual way to go. And I never thought that I will be somehow engaged in a war effort. Like, what is war? Of course, wars are over. It's the end of history. So one thing you got to understand about, like, many Ukrainians and like, I guess, it's also true about most of the people I met here in the US, that your who you are in terms of your nationality is a big part of your identity. So when that gets under attack, it's something deeper than just the country you live in gets under attack, right? And I Day one, I figured I'm going to I'm going to fight back with everything I can, right? But I didn't think on day one that I'm actually going to do, weapons. And a bunch of things. We were reaching out to a number of American, congresspeople and senators, and basically advocating for support of Ukraine, for voting for lend lease, which has happened in May 2022, but didn't actually work as expected. We helped start, Brave One, which is now a very important defense innovation cluster, sort of like a DIU here in the US. We helped start, a fund called D3. It's like, it was started or co-started by Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google. So a bunch of these odd things, but then eventually I was like, “Okay,”by 2023 it was obvious this thing, A is going to last a lot more time, and B, that the whole world is shifting and that there's going to be a new arms race, that the warfare is redefined by drones as platforms. And for the first time in history, you have a platform that is software defined, that can increase your battlefield capabilities, in a in a step change just overnight. So it's like if you were able to push a software update and get all of your Roman legionnaires a new helmet? That has never been possible before. It's the first time in the history of war this is possible. So all of that and many other things like, supply chain fragilization, and the impact that AI is going to have on all of this all these things have become evident to me in 2023, and it's like, “Okay, I should do what I do best, or what I know how to do best, start a tech company, and sort of leverage the global techno capitalist machine, to provide, defensibility to Ukraine and the free world.” So that's literally the mission of the company, increase defensibility of Ukraine and the free world. And then there was some sort of soul-searching and like, asking yourself. It's like, “Okay, am I Actually, I know nothing about weapons. Am I actually, like, ready to make, things that other people use to kill other bad people?”Yaroslav [00:09:36]: When you think about what your nation, what your Compatriots are going through And think about all the terror of places like Bucha, the occupied cities in the east and south, the abducted children, the raped women, all the economic damage that's being done, and the intention to destroy a whole nation, to genocide the people of Ukraine, you realize that's the only morally right thing to do is to fight back, and it is immoral not to fight back. And then the choice becomes very clear. And look, we're just passing the ammunition. We're not doing the actual job. The actual fighters and defenders and heroes are people in the armed forces. We're just support.The Moral Question: Weapons, Responsibility, and Fighting BackNoah [00:10:33]: I have so many questions. Actually, I know you seem to have a question. Do you want to ask anything?Yaroslav [00:10:38]: No, I'm just listening. Go ahead.Noah [00:10:40]: I do want to talk about, some of let's say, the moral issues, like you just said. You endYaroslav [00:10:50]: I think there are no issues there.Yaroslav [00:10:52]: What would an example of a moral question be in this case?Noah [00:10:55]: No, I mean Okay. As you just said, you are creating the tools, but others are using them.Noah [00:11:05]: I was maybe thinking of having this conversation later, but one of the questions is like, is it actually you are going to be building them for your homeland, which you are building it for your homeland, which is I think, very a strong morally defensible position, but this technology is not going to stay with you, right?Noah [00:11:26]: This you will probably be selling these to other people Yeah. So the future is really where the moral issues may come into playYaroslav [00:11:38]: The this question becomes, easier and more complete if we ask this not about a particular technology or particular weapon, if we think that this question actually applies to any kind of technology Right? So -Knife or fire. You can use knife to do surgery and save people's lives, or you can use it as a weapon to take people's lives.Noah [00:12:06]: Cut tomatoes, too.Yaroslav [00:12:08]: Cut tomatoes too.Noah [00:12:09]: Yes, knife.Yaroslav [00:12:09]: That's helpful.Noah [00:12:10]: In Japan, sword and knife, they, call the same word.Yaroslav [00:12:14]: It's like, it's with any technology. Large language models, right? Look at how powerful they are and yet they're available to anyone in North Korea or in Russia.Yaroslav [00:12:29]: That's one side of the argument. The other side is As a maker, what is your responsibility for how the tools you're creating, will be used? There's definitely some responsibility, right? Then How should the decision process look like? Should you, like, try to calculate all the possible scenarios before starting to work on something? Or do you create something that is needed now to save people's lives, and then think about, addressing the unwanted edge cases later? In ideal world where there's like, or okay, it's not ideal world. In a mythical world where there is some one governing party and it gets to decide everything, and there is no other country, that can, decide on their own, you could say, “Well, we need to calculate for all the consequences, and only then, maybe build this building, by replacing this park because, maybe we need this park in the city,”right? So that kind of situation. But when you're in a situation where you're in a forest, in front of a wolf, you first going to deal with the wolf that wants to eat you, and then you're going to go consult Greenpeace. So that's kind of situation that Ukraine is in.The Fourth Law, Odd Systems, and Ukraine's Drone StackNoah [00:13:59]: Enough. Because this is a tech podcast, I did want to spend some time talking about, sort of the tech in that you've developed and what you've been working on. So can you explain, I guess, first of all, like, the problem that you were trying to solve from a technical standpoint? And I think, and then maybe, like, go into some of the solutions and some of the design process that led you from designing, little laser-guided, guiding lasers with a with an iPhone versus Having drones.Yaroslav [00:14:34]: Like, it so happened, that my partners and I, we sort of So I started one company called The Fourth Law, and its goal was and is to Make, massively scalable on-drone autonomy. And then In parallel with that together with my, Petcube co-founders, partners, and friends, we started another company called Odd Systems Which, was focused on making thermal cameras. Cameras, thermal cameras are seeing thermal radiation and are used to see at night. And we're now sort of those companies are getting closer and closer together and we're probably going to merge them. And this group of companies is currently the leading, team in on-drone AI and thermal imaging on the Ukrainian battlefield, and Likely one of the leading, if not the leading in the world. So We have these, like, three sort of business units, which are cameras, drone autonomy, and drones. So the cameras and drone autonomy sell daytime and nighttime cameras and different types of drone autonomous modules to other drone manufacturers, over 200 drone manufacturers in Ukraine. And then the UAV, business unit sells the drones themselves to the armed forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian government. And there are different types of drones. Those are sort of front strike, as we call them, so those are sort of FPV strike drones and the bombers, and then interceptors. And there are different kinds of interceptors. We do Shahed interceptors and we do ISR interceptors. We don't do the deep strike-FPV Drones, Interceptors, and Battery-Powered WarfareNoah [00:16:32]: What's an ISR interceptor?Yaroslav [00:16:33]: ISR is stands for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and those are basically drones which are which, Russians are using to watch over positions and then communicate where, the targets are coming.Noah [00:16:48]: It's a reconnaissance.Yaroslav [00:16:48]: That's, the ISR is sort of a classical term for a for a reconnaissance drone.Noah [00:16:53]: Are all of these battery-powered drones that you just described? ‘Cause I know that the sort of deep strike drones still have, like Some sort ofYaroslav [00:17:01]: Internal combustion engine?Noah [00:17:02]: Internal combustion engine. Are all the things you're talking about battery-powered?Yaroslav [00:17:06]: What we're working on is all battery-powered, right? We don't do the deep strikes, right? And then in terms of autonomy-Noah [00:17:12]: You can catch a Shahed with a battery-powered thing. It's not Fast to catch.Yaroslav [00:17:17]: No, absolutely. Look, Shahed interceptor, like ours, it's called Zero, it goes up to 326 kilometers per hour.Noah [00:17:26]: For reference, how fast is a Shahed?Yaroslav [00:17:28]: Eight, like, in internal phase it could be 280, but in cruise phase it's, like, 220-ish.Yaroslav [00:17:36]: Yeah. And sorry, I'm not like you can convert that into miles if you're interested.Noah [00:17:41]: No, that's fine.Noah [00:17:41]: Multiply by two thirds or point six or something.Yaroslav [00:17:44]: That's easy. Yeah, I was saying that for autonomy modules, right, we, -We make systems, autonomous systems for frontline, for interceptors and some for deep strikes as well, and then different levels of autonomy. So from terminal guidance, which is like lasts 500 meters, give or take, to autonomous bombing, to autonomous target detection, to autonomous navigation and all of that across day and night, different terrains, different time of the year, different platforms like quadcopters and fixed wing, and maybe some other platforms. So it's quite a wide variety of products. We also have like our own simulation. We have our own training school for the war fighters. And we're about to start construction of two, semiconductor plants to make, sensors for thermal cameras. So that's super exciting for me as a computer science guy is Doing semiconductors. Super cool.Noah [00:18:49]: Like in terms of kind of core drone technologies, you basically are one is an FPV replacement without fiber optics, and the other isYaroslav [00:18:59]: YouNoah [00:18:59]: Signal tracking with interceptorsYaroslav [00:19:00]: With or without fiber optics. Fiber optics Is just like, sort of a communication module.Yaroslav [00:19:05]: You can, you can use classical analog, video link and radio link. Those would be two separate radios. You can do digital, or you can do fiber optic, and then fiber optic Has its own advantages but also adds weight and decreases, the distance and decreases, how fast you can, sort of turn and With a drone. Yeah.Noah [00:19:33]: Do you need AI for fiber optic drones?Yaroslav [00:19:36]: Like you can use AI for fiber optic drones. AI replaces a human, right? Fiber optic is making your communication link more resilient. So those are slightly different goals. Like if you want, you can have, AI controlling hundreds of fiber optic drones instead of having 100 operators for each.Fiber Optics, Radio Horizons, and Terminal GuidanceNoah [00:20:03]: I guess I thought that the key reason that people moved to fiber optic drones was for like electronic, countermeasures. Or I guess to counter those.Yaroslav [00:20:13]: I think that's a correct assessment from sort of a public awareness standpoint. In practice it's somewhat more difficult Because besides electronic countermeasures, you have these issues of a radio horizon For FPV drones, which means that asYaroslav [00:20:36]: I believe Earth is round Some people disagree. But basically if you fly a drone and you have a land station over here and a drone flying over hereYaroslav [00:20:49]: If your drone is flying high, you have good direct radio visibility. If your drone goes low, and usually, Russian infantry and vehicles, they're on the ground and you want to hit them, you need to go low. Lower you go, maybe you'll get behind a hill or behind a forest, and if you're far enough, you'll just get behind the curvature of the earth. You get into what's called a radio shadow. And then That is a real bummer because for the last, be it 60 or 20 meters, you won't be able to see anything and it will be very difficult to hit the target. So to counter that what-- And then the distances that these FPV drones, act on they're, they can be quite large. So for example, here in the US there was this drone dominance program competition, and in drone dominance the furthest distance was about 10 kilometers.Noah [00:21:44]: What was drone dominance? What was that competition?Yaroslav [00:21:47]: Drone, the drone dominance is a is a program started, by the US government, to accelerate the development of drone technology here in the US.Noah [00:21:57]: Got it. And the longest range thing they were using was 10 kilometers.Yaroslav [00:22:00]: Was 10 kilometers, right. In Ukraine, like if your drone doesn't fly at least 20, 25, it just, no one's interested in it, and the usual hits are happening. It was like, okay, many hits are happening between 30 and 40 kilometers, and that's what expected from a regular 10-inch, FPV drone. So at that distance, even at altitudes of like 60 to 100 meters, you might start losing, the link. So some of the earlier AI technology that was fielded in FPV drone was this terminal guidance technology. That was the first product that we ever, launched that helped you as an operator, once you see the target from two, three, 500 meters, you lock onto the target and then, it just, drives the drone towards the target no matter what, even after you lost the visual connection. So optic fiber solves that. However, if you want to go like 20 kilometers with optic fiber, that will add an extra three kilos, of useful weight to your drone. SoNoah [00:23:12]: ‘Cause the cable that you have to unspool as you go weighs.Noah [00:23:15]: It is heavy.Yaroslav [00:23:15]: At first, like the spool is about 800 grams, so a bit less than a kilo, and then, and then think about 10, 10 kilometer optic fiber is another kilo, something like that. That takes away from your useful mass and then now you have like, you need a 15-inch drone and it can only carry maybe one or two kilos of explosives if you want to go, 20 kilometers. If you want to go to 30 or 40, like 30 is probably max. 40 is like very problem problematic on optic fiber. And then the problem with optic fiber is it's actually getting super expensive. So and why? Because of all the data centers for AI. That's literally the same optic fiber-Noah [00:24:01]: We're running out of centersYaroslav [00:24:02]: That's being used there.Yaroslav [00:24:02]: Like when Ukrainians and Russians come to Chinese factories to buy the optic fiber, they're like, “We're out. We sold it out to the Americans.”? That's the craziest thing. So optic fiber went up in price from like, $4 per, kilometer to like, $32 per kilometer in a few months in the beginning of this year. And I'veBrandon [00:24:26]: Claude Code is stopping the Russian drone effort here.Yaroslav [00:24:30]: Ukrainian as well. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:31]: Ukrainian. But I read somewhere that the Russians had grown more dependent on fiber optic drones relative to the Ukrainians, and that's one reason why the Ukrainians have sort of regained the initiative in drones recently.Brandon [00:24:42]: How accurate's that?Yaroslav [00:24:43]: The Russians were the first ones to scale that. I think by as of now, Ukraine has caught up. I think, like, as of maybe three months ago, Ukraine is mostly caught up on fiber optic. Yeah.Brandon [00:24:57]: What percent of damage would you say is in terms of FPV drone damage would you say is now fiber optic versus, like autonomous?FPVs as the New God of War: Tanks, Artillery, and Cost per KillYaroslav [00:25:07]: For our, for our audience, I actually, I cannot answer that question. Like, it's like I know the answer, but I would not disclose that. But for our audience, I think another interesting fact is out of all the casualties on the front line Between 70 and 80% are done by FPV drones.Brandon [00:25:30]: FPV drones are the new weapon of universal weapon of warfare.Yaroslav [00:25:34]: It'sBrandon [00:25:35]: Land warfare, anywayYaroslav [00:25:35]: They used to say that artillery is a god of war because artillery used to cause, like 80% of casualties, and now On that ranking-Brandon [00:25:46]: FPVYaroslav [00:25:47]: FPV drones rule.Brandon [00:25:48]: FPV drones are the god of war.Yaroslav [00:25:51]: Sort of. Dethroned artillery. But it's not to say that artillery is not useful, is not needed. Like, all of these systems are needed. Maybe except cavalry, although Russians still use it. I know, have you seen the videos of Russians using mules and horses?Brandon [00:26:09]: What is the usefulness-Yaroslav [00:26:10]: It'Brandon [00:26:10]: Of a tank in the in the modern-Yaroslav [00:26:11]: That's where we need Greenpeace to say a word, but they're silent. Yeah.Brandon [00:26:15]: What's the use of a tank on the modern battlefield?Yaroslav [00:26:21]: It's diminishing.Brandon [00:26:22]: Diminishing.Yaroslav [00:26:22]: However, I think there might be technologies which will, revive the tank. Look, tank still provides you armor, and armor is important. Like, you still need to armor and firepower, right? Like, you can be an armor personal carrier that provides you, armor. The challenge that currently exists is armor is not very well protected against incoming drones. However, there are ways to do to protect it. We were previously talking about this before the podcast. The CEO of Rheinmetall, recently sort of ridiculed, Ukrainian drone industry, saying that like, there is nothing interesting there, no real innovation, no to stand Compared to like, Rheinmetall or Boeing, and it's all made by housewives. There was like, obviously a ton of memes about this people ridiculing the CEO of Rheinmetall. And one of the best quotes, I heard on this topic is from my friend, Alexey Babenko, who's, the head of and founder of VIARI Drone, which is one of the largest manufacturers of FPV drones. They're our partner. They're using our autonomy. So he said that the drones we manufacture in one day will be more than enough to destroy all the tanks Rheinmetall manufactures in a year.Yaroslav [00:27:52]: Then, yeah, cost-wise, of course, a drone is like, $500 and a Rheinmetall tank is what, probably 5 million-ish or maybe more.Brandon [00:28:00]: Don't mess with those housewives.Yaroslav [00:28:03]: Drone wives.Brandon [00:28:04]: Drone wives.Yaroslav [00:28:06]: That's it.Noah [00:28:06]: There's a classic saying that everyone always fights the last war.Noah [00:28:12]: Yet do How did So from your standpoint, how did we get to the point where tanks became irrelevant in at least for now In a matter of just a few years?Yaroslav [00:28:24]: Look, I think it's the same way, how do we get to the point that calculators become irrelevant?Yaroslav [00:28:31]: Now we have iPhones. Like, why would you need a calculator? Technology progresses and its influence grows non-linearly. It's all exponential. So I can tell you that full autonomy, when you put it on a drone Look, so if you, if you think about a tank and a like, it's not a direct comparison, but even, like, a drone and a artillery shell or like, sort of cost per kill, an artillery shell for 155 caliber, which is a standard NATO caliber Currently market price is about $4,000 per piece. So compare that to say, $400 per drone. That's 10 times more expensive. Account for the amortization of the artillery gun and for how vulnerable it is and what is the sort of tactical, capabilities it gives you as compared to a drone. You'll figure out that an FPV drone is maybe three orders of magnitude, more versatile, more useful, more capable than artillery and many of than a classic artillery. Many of Because there are different types of artillery. Not just, like, one 155. You have mortars, you have all that. But give or take, roughly three orders of magnitude maybe. Again, it doesn't have that firepower. It's not one-to-one comparison still.Yaroslav [00:29:53]: Now, take that FPV drone. When you put full autonomy on that FPV drone, which can be not very expensive, like systems that we're, producing are like, in hundreds of dollars of pure bombFull Autonomy: From Human Pilots to Smartphone-Directed Drone MissionsNoah [00:30:06]: Just interrupt. You said full autonomy Just a second ago you were saying that the autonomy here is guidance, right? It's not decision-making.Yaroslav [00:30:14]: No, I was I was saying that's the f-First and sort of easiest pieces of autonomy that was fielded by us. But if you, if you add full autonomy to a droneBrandon [00:30:24]: He, I think he's asking what does it can you, for the listeners, can you explain What the term full autonomy means?Yaroslav [00:30:29]: Basically, I think a good way to think about an FPV drone is like an iPhone of warfare. It's, like, very inexpensive, very mass producible, very versatile. You don't need a bunch of other things when you have a iPhone in your pocket. You don't have, need an MP3 player, you don't need a calculator, don't need other things. All right? So FPV drone is an iPhone. Or like, okay, Apple please don't sue me, is a smartphone. And then, when you add autonomy to it sort of becomes like Uber or ride sharing. Okay? So what it means is instead of actually being a trained pilot who has this complex remote controller device which requires a couple months of training to actually pilot the drone, and then having to pilot it for 30 minutes, flying towards the target, et cetera, et cetera, now you basically, you have your smartphone, you have a drone, you pick your smartphone, you say, “We are here. The bad guys are here. Go and get them.” And the drone goes up, flies in a given direction, localizes itself on the map, finds the dedicated area where they, the bad guys are supposed to be sees the bad guys, bombs them, return, like, watches, so does a damage assessment, returns back, sits down, and then you can pick it up and watch the video if you didn't have the radio link, right?Noah [00:31:59]: That's a bomber drone.Yaroslav [00:32:00]: That's full autonomy for a bomber drone, right?Noah [00:32:03]: You're saying that no human decision is made in this entire process?Brandon [00:32:06]: That's not, that's not what he's saying.Yaroslav [00:32:07]: A human decision was made at the beginning of the process-Noah [00:32:09]: I get it. I get itYaroslav [00:32:09]: The same way as you would fire an artillery.Yaroslav [00:32:12]: When you fire an artillery, you don't stop at like, 500 meters away from a target and ask it whether, you want to strike or not. That's exactly, a human decision is always made at some point. So when you do that's full autonomy, and such full autonomy is happening as we speak. And such full autonomy increases the capabilities of an FPV drone, which is already, like, three orders more powerful than an artillery shell. Full autonomy increases its capabilities by four orders of magnitude because now you can have 100 times as many people who can use it, because you don't need to train those people, and this is important. You can have 10 times, mission success rate, and you can have 10 times utility per drone because now instead of being one-way kamikaze, it's, it can be a bomber.Brandon [00:33:05]: Now wait, let's, you said 10 times mission success rate, which means that fully autonomous bomber drones succeed in their missions 10 times more often than human piloted bomber drones do. That's an important thing to know.Noah [00:33:17]: Maybe, to push back onBrandon [00:33:19]: They're super, they're superhuman. They're, they' 10X superhuman.Yaroslav [00:33:22]: They're not vulnerable to electronic warfare. They don't care about the radio horizon. They don't lose track during navigation. They are not susceptible to human error when, an artillery shell or other drone blows up besides you and you're like, “Hell no,”like, “I'm getting out of here.” Right? That doesn't happen to an autonomous drone. Like, all of those things. Like, we have, like, one of the brigades that's using our drones with just first level autonomy They literally said that their success rates-Brandon [00:33:53]: What's first level autonomy?Yaroslav [00:33:54]: First level autonomy is just the terminal guidance.Yaroslav [00:33:57]: By the way, we have video of that. We can watch that.Brandon [00:33:59]: Terminal guidance means a human gets it nearby and then the AI takes over.Yaroslav [00:34:03]: The human flies it all the way, like 30 kilometers towards the target, and obviously the target was probably given to that human by someone who's flying some ISR drone, some reconnaissance drone, right? So all the way to the target, and once you see the target from a distance of 500 meters, you do target lock, and from there drone flies autonomous. So just that feature alone, it has increased the guy's, his call sign is Grom, so it has increased his, mission success rate, like precision of mission, yeah, mission success rate from 20% to 71%, and it also increased his kill zone from three kilometers to 10 kilometers, which means there's certain area around the front line which is designated kill zone. Whenever enemy goes into that area, it's almost guaranteed to be to be destroyed by a drone. And then obviously the drones are not launched from like, the zero line. They're usually launched from like, minus 10 kilometer-Mission Success, Failure Modes, and the Five Levels of AutonomyBrandon [00:35:03]: What is a zero line?Yaroslav [00:35:05]: Zero line is sort of an imaginary line of control, of two conflicting forces.Brandon [00:35:14]: It's important to explain these things to a lot of the listeners who areYaroslav [00:35:17]: Thank you for askingBrandon [00:35:18]: Familiar with warfare.Noah [00:35:20]: Myself.Noah [00:35:20]: I'm one of those listeners.Brandon [00:35:20]: You said that level one autonomy, in other words just terminal guidance, just, like, human gets it to the finish line and then it goes over the finish line, increases mission success from 20 something percent to 71%, or something like that.Yaroslav [00:35:33]: Increases the kill zoneBrandon [00:35:34]: Increases the kill zoneYaroslav [00:35:34]: Three kilometers to 10 kilometers.Brandon [00:35:36]: Got it.Yaroslav [00:35:36]: On both parameters-Brandon [00:35:37]: What is full autonomy, dude? AndNoah [00:35:38]: Actually on real quick, can we define mission success and like, maybe in a way, what are the failure modes of missions?Brandon [00:35:44]: I have a guess what mission success is.Noah [00:35:46]: But I couldBrandon [00:35:47]: Get ‘em.Yaroslav [00:35:49]: No, but that's a very good question, in fact, because, even if you fly into the target, well, first the target can be damaged or destroyed. Those are two different modes. Then there can be different targets. A sole infantryman is one kind of target. A dugout where supposed there are some, enemies there is another kind of target, and a some mechanical equipment is another type of target. Radio emitting equipment, which, like, often, like, the targets that the military want to get more than anything else is the some enemy radio tower or something like that or some small radio dish that really makes life difficult in that area, in that combat area. So those are different targets, right? It can be destroyed, can be damaged.Then sometimes, the drone hits but doesn't explode. Like, that happens. And then, there are other failure modes. You didn't even reach the target because you were A jammed by electronic warfare; B, you lost the control over drone because of the radio horizon; C, you were jammed by a different type of electronic warfare that happens way before You hit the target area. It's, impacting your, video receiver. So like jamming on video or jamming on control are two different types of jamming. Then something malfunctioned on a drone, just a mechanical malfunction, maybe like a motor broke or like, whatever. So all of those are different failure modes. Yeah, or maybe you got lost, you're navigate navigating to your, to your target. That happens, too.Noah [00:37:41]: The Level one autonomy, basically you manage to point in a direction.Noah [00:37:49]: You go there, and then the last mile The drone taking over.Yaroslav [00:37:52]: We define this like, I define that but it sort of got picked up by the industry. We define five levels of autonomy. So level one is terminal guidance. It's what we just discussed. Level two is bombing. Level three is autonomous target detection and engagement decision. Level four is autonomous navigation. And level five is autonomous takeoff and landing.Noah [00:38:15]: Those are good things to knowYaroslav [00:38:16]: Those are five levels of autonomy. Now, if youNoah [00:38:19]: I have a question for you.Yaroslav [00:38:19]: Sorry. Like, let me finish withNoah [00:38:21]: SorryYaroslav [00:38:21]: Theoretical part.Noah [00:38:23]: What is Tesla running at right now?Yaroslav [00:38:25]: Tesla?Noah [00:38:25]: No, sorry.Yaroslav [00:38:26]: That's very good point. Like, it's exactly, it was inspired by the levels of self-driving autonomy.Noah [00:38:32]: Waymo's level five, right?Noah [00:38:35]: You just tell it where you want to go, it picks you up, and then you go there.Yaroslav [00:38:36]: I think, like, if you, if you look at the classic definitions of self-driving cars, Waymo is still, like, level four because it still requires even remote, but still, like, human control. It's like if Waymo gets in trouble, there is an operator who takes over and resolves this. So that would still be a level four. It doesn't map directly, but it's also five levels.Brandon [00:38:58]: Can I, can I interject a question here? In terms of an FPV drone that's like a suicide drone that'll just blow itself up killing something, how do what it hit? Like, does it, just transmit back, or do you sort of like, lose track of it and hope it hit? Like, what happens to that?Yaroslav [00:39:16]: That's a great question. SoBrandon [00:39:18]: You need another droneYaroslav [00:39:19]: Like, the current battlefield in Ukraine is saturated with different types of drones. So obviously you have all the FPV drones and last year alone, Ukraine manufactured about 4 million of these, and then Russia's maybe, like, 20% less than that. And for this year, the publicly voiced target was 7 million on Ukrainian side. So it's, like, serious numbers. We're getting in serious numbers here. And then besides those, there are different, reconnaissance drones, ISR as we call them, and there are sort of tactical level ISR where we, both Ukrainians and Russians usually use, Mavic, drone by DJI. And then there are a bunch of locally produced drones, which are sort of fixed wing drones that can stay in the air for much longer than Mavic, maybe, like, half an hour. And then, there are drones that can stay for many hours or even up to a day. And those drones have, are more expensive, have more expensive cameras, et cetera, et cetera. We hunt those drones that Russians launch. The Russians hunt our drones, and so on. But ideally, when you, are a group of soldiers operating an FPV, you'll have someone in your, company, or someone in your platoon who has an ISR asset that will do target designation for you. They'll say, “Oh, like, there's a Russian vehicle over there. Go and get him.”and you go there, you get it, and they're like, “Okay, confirmed.”Battlefield Surveillance and the Eight Dimensions of AutonomyBrandon [00:40:57]: Those guys are watching. They have their own drones in the sky.Yaroslav [00:40:59]: Target destroyed. They have, like, a carousel of drones because One Mavic cannot stay more than 30 minutes. ItBrandon [00:41:06]: They're constantly surveilling the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:07]: Almost every spot on the battlefield.Yaroslav [00:41:11]: It's not always the case. Sometimes you will not have a surveillance asset, so then you would launch another FPV just to confirm that there was a hit. Then if you see there was a hit and you're not sure if it completely destroyed, you maybe hit again for good measure.Brandon [00:41:26]: You double tap.Yaroslav [00:41:28]: That's how it works. But I was about to give you another sort of piece of taxonomy. So you have five levels of autonomy, right? Then you have sort of eight dimensions of autonomous battlefield. So what is eight dimensions? It's crucial to understand how autonomy evolves in a modern, battlefield environment. So dimension number one is level of autonomy. What are the capabilities that your asset has? Dimension number two is the platform you're operating on. So it can be a quadcopter, a fixed wing drone, different types of maybe, like, a long range drone or short range drone, but it can also be a missile. You can have autonomy even on an artillery shell or a ground vehicle or a sea vehicle. So all of those are different platforms. Level three would be domain. So it's ground to ground or ground to air as an intersection, or ground to sea or sea to air. They're all, like, all the nuances with different domains. Then level four, would be higher levels of autonomy, such as swarming, drone carriers, drone nests, et cetera.Brandon [00:42:39]: Now when you're saying level, you're talking about dimensions, not about-Yaroslav [00:42:42]: Sorry. YeahBrandon [00:42:43]: Autonomy levels. So dimension four.Yaroslav [00:42:43]: The dimension. Yeah, I used to say I was supposed to say dimension. I say dimension because each of them works with another, right? So you might have, like third level autonomy, fixed wing drone operating in land to air, and stuff like that right? And then operating in a swarm or operating from a nest. Right? Then you have, sort of dimension number five is environment. So is it day or night? Is it summer or winter? Is it, humid, cold, dry? What kind of target is it? Is your target hiding in a forest, or is it, behind a hill or within buildings? So all of that is environment. Then you have, dimension number six is command and control. How are you dealing with or like, tens of thousands of those assets around the battlefield? How are you coordinating that on the higher levels of command? How are you collecting data? All that.Yaroslav [00:43:44]: Dimension number seven would be infrastructure, so things like simulation, data collection tools, security, deployment mechanisms, et cetera. So all those systems have to be developed separately and integrate with all the others. And finally, dimension number eight is sort of distribution. Have you deployed 100 of these systems or 100,000 of these systems? Because those are two very different ballgames. So that now gives you a more broad overview of how autonomy propagates across the battle space.Targeting, Human Responsibility, and Rules of EngagementNoah [00:44:23]: As someone who has done machine learning and had gone out of distribution and had things, go horribly wrong, you were talking several of these, kind of axes of thinking about drone warfare seem like they could be very susceptible to some sort of distribution shift if you start making things autonomous.Yaroslav [00:44:41]: Like what?Noah [00:44:41]: I mean Well, first ofYaroslav [00:44:43]: If the I'm very interested Sort of sort of kinds of scenarios that you're thinking about.Noah [00:44:48]: Like the most obvious one is you, if I assume these are computer vision guided systems for at least the last mile, how do you ensure that oh, well, like you now have some fog roll in or something, and you, the drones just attack the wrong thing? Or maybe, it probably will not turn around and fly back and attack you, but youYaroslav [00:45:10]: Same, the same, the same question, how do you ensure that your mortar fire hits the right thing? Well, it's like mortar fire, give or take half a kilometer could be plus or minus. So maybe you fire one, and then you fire another. So drones are actually, much better in being precise in those scenarios. And I think, to your point, I think five to 10 years from now it will be immoral to use weapons without AI.Yaroslav [00:45:44]: ‘Cause weapons without AI will be more likely to cause, collateral damage or unwanted damage. Same way, it will be immoral to drive your own car manually on a public road because it's more likely to cause, unwanted damage.Noah [00:46:02]: Wow, I never considered that mightBrandon [00:46:04]: Really? That's definitely coming.Yaroslav [00:46:07]: Anyway.Brandon [00:46:07]: No, but that' I don't know, it's an obvious, an obvious thought. I agree with you.Brandon [00:46:12]: I, No, they, obviously they're not going to let you drive once most of the cars on the road are autonomous.Noah [00:46:17]: No, that one, don't I believe.Yaroslav [00:46:19]: No, I think you were you were talking about drones, right?Brandon [00:46:21]: The drones, right. Cool.Yaroslav [00:46:22]: The weapons, right?Brandon [00:46:23]: Friendly fire and collateral damage and stuff like that is all minimized with AI.Brandon [00:46:27]: Here's my question. Take all let's go to level six autonomy. Let's take all of the target selection. Let's take all the battlefield data, integrate it into one big AI, and have that big AI basically be in command of the battlefield And agentically do target selection.Yaroslav [00:46:44]: Be the general, right?Brandon [00:46:44]: It's a general. It's, you've cut humans out of the loop except maybe as dexterous robots, repairing drones and fastening things to drones or maybe something like that because you don't have those robots yet. How soon are we there? AI general.Yaroslav [00:46:58]: The most important thing to ask ourselves is who will be faster to that us or our adversaries?Brandon [00:47:07]: I assume us, but how fast will we be to that? I hope us.Yaroslav [00:47:11]: I hope so too.Brandon [00:47:12]: How fast can we Like when are we looking at that in terms of like horizons years?Yaroslav [00:47:18]: Like technically, it could be done now. The question is of course, there's, some engineering work to be done. The bigger challenge is deployment. Right? So okay, technically Like operation in Iran, right? They, the publicly, it was claimed that I think Palantir system was used for target designation, et cetera, et cetera. So it is not exactly as you say, the AI makes all the decisions, but basically AI goes through all the data you have, gives you these 1,027 different targets and says, “You-- To confirm, please press Okay.” And you look at the targets and you're like, “Yeah, sounds right. Press Okay.”so that's, I think that's where we are now already, or we were a couple weeks ago as we're recording this on April 10th. Another question is how massively deployable it is. Is it, like, every decision being made like that or is it, like, just some of the decisions made like that? And then different levels of command and control. There you have, like, the platoon, the company level, the battalion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But the tricky thing here when we get into that territory, the tricky thing is If your enemy is getting advantage of being Thousand times faster than yourself by deploying such systems What do you do?Yaroslav [00:49:10]: You got to-Brandon [00:49:12]: The if the enemy is a thousand times faster than you at deploying those systems?Yaroslav [00:49:16]: Like, if enemy starts deploying level six autonomy, as you call And you have not started doingBrandon [00:49:22]: You're in troubleYaroslav [00:49:23]: Yes, exactly. So you have to catch up. So my point is that it is very important to think about the safety of these systems, but that thinking should not slow you down in developing them because they are critical for your existential, survival, right? And like, one person who doesn't think, doesn't get to think about the ethics of the war is a dead person. That person surely doesn't get to think about that.Brandon [00:49:52]: What would be the safety risk of such a system?Yaroslav [00:49:55]: Of course-Brandon [00:49:56]: Friendly fire?Yaroslav [00:49:56]: Just wrong decisions, right?Brandon [00:49:59]: I see.Yaroslav [00:49:59]: Maybe, these decisions-AI Command Decisions, Dead Zones, and Complex BattlefieldsBrandon [00:50:06]: Skynet AI decides it's going to useYaroslav [00:50:08]: No, these-Brandon [00:50:08]: Drone army to kill usYaroslav [00:50:09]: Decisions will not only be made about drones. They are likely to made about what the humans should do on your side as well. Then obviously some environments are more like Ukrainian-Russian war, where you haveBrandon [00:50:26]: It will have to choose to risk lives. It will have to choose to sacrifice human lives-Yaroslav [00:50:28]: Of courseBrandon [00:50:29]: On your side.Yaroslav [00:50:29]: Of course. And then some environments are just, like, dead, like, dead zones and there are no civilians there, or virtually no civilians close to the front line because, like, super dangerous. Everyone has evacuated from there. But there are other environments which are more like, okay, there's a counterterrorist operation. There's, like, a group of terrorists or a group of civilians. Or like, it's like the recent operations in Iran, I imagine that the US and Israeli forces do not want to harm civilians. They only targeted the military targets there, right? So in those situations, it's a different level of responsibility for that decision-making as well. And then there is just such a big variety of those military missions, and I'm not even, like, well-informed or well-educated in military science to tell you about all those scenarios. We would need to put some general besides me, and maybe a Ukraine general and American general would have told you very different stories about these things.Brandon [00:51:34]: Got it. Can I ask a few more questions? All right. So in 2013, I wrote one of my first, paid articles ever was about how the era of drones will change human society. I was just sitting around bored thinking about things.Yaroslav [00:51:54]: You were way ahead of your time.Brandon [00:51:55]: I said, I said, “The following will happen.”Yaroslav [00:51:57]: It's, this article is real. I've read it.Yaroslav [00:51:58]: It's actually-Brandon [00:51:59]: I said small autonomous, suicide drones, will cleanse the battlefield of human infantry. Human infantry will not be able to stand against swarms of AI-powered, suicide drones. That was I didn't even know about, like, AlexNet at the time, I think.Yaroslav [00:52:19]: You're just an avid sci-fi reader.Brandon [00:52:23]: I'm an avid sci-fi reader, but also, like, it's not Like, there will be a way to do that. It's a it's a nonlinear multidimensional search problem, and you get enough compute, you'll find some search algorithm that will get you there. And soBrandon [00:52:38]: I, yeah, I think that one sentence describes the bitter lesson right there.Brandon [00:52:41]: It's just like it's a multidimensional search space. You search it somehow. I don't know. Figure out some get a grad student-Yaroslav [00:52:47]: Sooner or laterBrandon [00:52:47]: To make a search algorithm.Brandon [00:52:48]: It's not that hard. Anyway, so but then, but I guess the point is The point is that human infantry on the battlefield will be will be gone at the end. I wrote that in 2013. Many people on social media laughed at me for that called me hysterical, said things like, “Electronic warfare will knock all the drones out of the sky.”like, “You need humans to hold ground.”that's something you still hear from a lot of people on social media today. I feel that this article that I've written has never been directionally wrong. It has gotten more and more right steadily over time, and that we're very reading the battlefield reports from Ukraine, where, human infantry are basically guy, like a few guys hiding in dugouts for months, and I'm not sure what they're doing.Yaroslav [00:53:35]: That's on Ukraine's side. On the Russian side, that's just like a zerg rush.Brandon [00:53:38]: The zerg rush, and then they just die. Then, but they have some guys in dugouts too, right? Like hiding in dugouts for months.Yaroslav [00:53:45]: They have. Yeah.Brandon [00:53:45]: Like, but that like, what are those guys doing in the dugouts? Are providing, like, frontline, like, reconnaissance? Like, what are they doing?Yaroslav [00:53:54]: If there is a guy in a dugout with some bullets and automatic weapon, the other guy cannot come and take the that dugout. That'Brandon [00:54:07]: I seeYaroslav [00:54:08]: They are they're establishing control over territory.Brandon [00:54:10]: I see. So that is so there still is a use for human infantry on the battlefield as of today.Yaroslav [00:54:15]: LikeBrandon [00:54:15]: How long will that last?Yaroslav [00:54:17]: I think it will last for a while. This is funny. There's this whole Layer of the modern culture, a modern Ukraine culture built around the war-related stuff. So there is this -Punk rock band, that is called SZC, I guess in English that would be. Which stands short for like a deserter or something like that. So anyhow, this band has a song titled “2030.” It's basically about the year 2030, and the war still goes on as like the whatever, third world war or whatever. And they basically, they, sang about the AI and like cyborgs and everything, but the simple infantry is still needed, and we're still, like, getting cold in those dugouts, and we're still doing our job. That's sort of the theme of the song. And it seems like that's actually what's going to happen. There areGround Robots, Simulation, and the Limits of World ModelsBrandon [00:55:30]: Ground robots will not replace humans in the dugouts soon.Yaroslav [00:55:34]: I'm very much interested in following the whole humanoid robot theme andBrandon [00:55:39]: What about like a dog robot?Noah [00:55:41]: Or just mobile controlled platforms or something.Brandon [00:55:44]: Spider robot, yeah.Brandon [00:55:45]: Everything evolves into a crab.Brandon [00:55:46]: You build a crab robot.Yaroslav [00:55:47]: A humanoid-Noah [00:55:48]: The carcinization of warfare.Yaroslav [00:55:51]: There is a lot of utility in humanoid robots because the world is designed around humanoids. So I would not, like, 100% disqualify the possibility that sometimes 10 years in the future, humanoid robots, will be actually fighting. So that's an actual Terminator kind of scenario.Brandon [00:56:14]: Yeah, in the first Terminator movie, you look at what they've got on the battlefield, they've got flying bomber drones and humanoid robots.Yaroslav [00:56:20]: Look, the cost of large language models of running them is getting so low, you can have basically an inexpensive computer running, what was a state-of-the-art model a year and a half ago, running it locally on a device with an open source model, which also means that the Chinese can have it, the Russians can have it, the North Koreans can have it, et cetera. So that is already possible. And with when we're looking at the acceleration of the neural nets, I would've, if not the acceleration of the large language models, I would've said that I don't think that humanoid robots will be able to be useful in the battlefield earlier than in 10 years. But if you account for the exponential, it might be five years or so. The problem with all of the autonomous systems, and it's like starts with self-driving cars and even with all the AI, like modern day AI agents, to make them really, useful, you have to solve such a long tail of edge cases, that it's really difficult to make them useful. Like we were promised, self-driving cars, what, like 2007, Sebastian Thrun and Google, and even before that all the challenges, everything. And Elon of course told us it's going to be one year from 2014, and now we still don't have self-driving Teslas everywhere. We have Waymos in SF and some other places, but they're still, like, not perfect. So I think, I expect something similar from self-flying drones and fully autonomous drones, and we saw that firsthand as with each level of autonomy that we're adding, there is a very wide distance between a prototype and something that is ready to be scaled to millions of units and something that has been scaled to millions of units. But the race with like AI coding tools is just insane. So things might accelerate very fast, faster than we can imagine.Noah [00:58:46]: I think your point is that with due to this long tail behavior Level one autonomy as you've defined it, is actually very natural. Like you basically are just solving an image recognition and tracking system.Yaroslav [00:59:02]: It's actually interesting that you say it that way, and I thought about this the very same way, and we have this joke that there are like 200 companies in Ukraine which are trying to solve last mile, targeting or terminal guidance. It seems like we're like the only company that actually solved that because even that problem-Noah [00:59:22]: I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying it's trivial, but it's at least something that you imagine given our current state.Yaroslav [00:59:26]: Like us and Eric Schmidt, like Eric Schmidt's companies are pretty good.Yaroslav [00:59:29]: Like, I actually have lots of respect to what they're doing, and they're, they have been practically influential and helpful on the battlefield, and they have good engineering.Noah [00:59:38]: I wasn't, I wasn't saying it's trivial. I'm just saying this is a something naturally adaptive based upon things that we know work, well. But some of the other domains that where you do have to make decisions and you have a long tail become much harder, and you worry about edge cases more.Yaroslav [00:59:57]: Like the more, the more complex behavior you're trying to simulate, the more edge cases there are right? The more ways to do it wrong there are. And then there are different approaches. It's like if you think about, if you read academic papers about robotics, right? You sort of the robot is represented as something that has the sort of sensor input, and then you have three, levels of sort of logics or decision-making, which are perception, planning, and control, and then you have actuators as output.So pre-neural nets, you would do perception output and control all with classic logics, right? Then, with AlexNet and computer vision, you could do perception with neural nets and the rest with logic. You cannot currently do each of those separately with neural nets, each of those separately with logics, or you can just have one huge neural net that just takes lots of sensory data. It's not just pixels. Could be sound, could be accelerometer, could be everything, as input, and just outputs the controls. And some of the self-driving car companies are doing that or like, experimenting between different ways of doing that. So you can also, like, think about that and the way you implement those features, also influences how much degrees of freedom the system would have, right? Like control, you can do it classical algorithmic control with common filters and PAD filter, PAD controllers, et cetera, or you can do a neural net, that was trained in a gym with a reinforcement learning, et cetera. And those would be two different behaviors of a system.Noah [01:01:53]: I-- Maybe my point was just much more high level. It'Yaroslav [01:01:56]: Or you can If you go even like, if you go high level, you can, you can like train to like have whatever, like Feifei Li and folks who are doing like physical, sortBrandon [01:02:08]: World modelsYaroslav [01:02:08]: World models, right, physical intelligence, they're trying to make these big models and sort of understand the world and then supposedly you have such model and you can tell a drone, “Okay, like, go over that hill and like, find the bad guys and then get them,”or “Make me a video, make me a photo of the guy smiling and get back to me.” Right? That's one way. Another way you have like these subsystems, like one is navigation, another is finding the person, another is like getting to them to take a photo. And those are again, very different behaviors. And then it's not that one is necessarily better than the other, and we might have more technological ability to do one or another. But all of those systems will exist. And then again, you should always keep in mind that it's only the not only the good guys that are developing these systems, the bad guys are developing these systems as well.China's Drone Supply Chain and the West's Manufacturing GapNoah [01:03:00]: I guess where I'm going with this back to Noah's original thought with the end of the end of the soldier. And so in order to replace-Brandon [01:03:10]: Or at least the end of the rifleman.Noah [01:03:11]: Or the end of the rifleman, yeah.Yaroslav [01:03:13]: I'm not seeing that very close, and it was like I'm, as much as I'm a lover of sci-fi and all of that and a technologist, the more I try to beYaroslav [01:03:27]: Like the I try to have certain humility about these things, and like the military, domain and there was just so much human history and blood and tears, dedicated to sort of understanding this art of war and perfecting it and so on. There is so much knowledge in there that I don't feel like I even started to comprehend, a lot of that. But one thing that I really understood is that even though drones are now making eighty percent of the casualties, you go to the actual officers, you talk to the actual, like, brigade commanders, corps commanders, and they explain to you, how all of it fits together, how when you're thinking about an operation that involves a couple thousand people to get this piece of land, out of the enemy's hands, deoccu deoccupy it, how it is so complex, it involves, dozens of different types of drones and then land operations and reconnaissance operations, psychological operations and then aviations and tanks and logistics and all kinds of these different assets. So modern warfare is really very complex, and the fact that the drones are the latest, coolest thing, and then the AI is latest, coolest thing, doesn't mean that now it's that and only that right? So yeah. Whoever's looking into that I think should realize that it's not just what the press talks about, that the reality is much more difficult, much more complex.Brandon [01:05:17]: Let's talk about China and China's manufacturing capabilities. So suppose that someone, like suppose the United States went to war with China. AndYaroslav [01:05:26]: I hope not.Brandon [01:05:27]: I hope not as well. And then but suppose that drones were very essential to that war of all the types of drones that we're talking about here, and that suppose that China said, “All right, well, you need X and Y and Z, to make those drones to fight us, and we control the production of X and Y and Z, so we're just going to cut you right off, and now you have no drones.”Brandon [01:05:47]: I know that a number of countries, including Ukraine and Taiwan, have been making moves to China-proof their drone productions that China couldn't do that. Examples of things they might be able to cut off might include rare earths, fiber optic cable that you were talking about before, various other things that where even if they don't control one hundred percent of the production, they control enough of the production that would be extremely expensive to produce it without relying on Chinese sources. Or the market's fragmented enough, et cetera. What do you see as China's key bottlenecks, and how easy are those to overcome in terms of China-proofing drone production in case of a war against China?Yaroslav [01:06:30]: Let me start with a saying that -Although China does not sell directly to Ukraine and it does sell directly to Russia, a lot of Ukrainian supply chains, they start in China, right?Yaroslav [01:06:49]: We're not in a conflict with China, and we would not want to be in a conflict with China. And we'd hope that China stays a neutral power between Ukraine and Russia and the US as well. That said, the scenario that you're describing, everything is much worse.Yaroslav [01:07:11]: Think about this. Last year, Ukraine produced four million FPV drones. Ukraine is not the most industrious nation in the world.Yaroslav [01:07:19]: China can produce four billion of these FPV drones.Yaroslav [01:07:23]: China can make them not drones with propellers, but fixed-wing drones, which go not forty kilometers far, but maybe two to three hundred kilometers inland.

Vom Lügen über Stehlen bis hin zu Mord und Totschlag: Auch das alles kann zu einer Freundschaft gehören. Wo verläuft die Grenze zwischen unseren Werten und denen der Friends? Ein Blick auf die hügelige Landschaft unserer Moral.**********Ihr hört: Gesprächspartnerin: Alisa, findet Loyalität in Freundschaften wichtig, aber wahrt auch ihre Grenzen Gesprächspartner: Zachariah Berry, Assistenzprofessor für Management und Organisation an der University of South California in Los Angeles, forscht zu Fragen der Moral Gesprächspartnerin: Aysan Amir, psychologische Psychotherapeutin Autor und Host: Przemek Żuk Redaktion: Yevgeniya Shcherbakova, Friederike Seeger Produktion: Przemek Żuk**********Quellen:Berry, Z., Silver, I. & Shaw., A. (2024). Moral Paragons, but Crummy Friends: The Case of Snitching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 30(3). S. 442–464.Berry, Z. & Hildreth, J.A.D. (2024). When Your Friend is My Friend: How Loyalty Prompts Support for Indirect Ties in Moral Dilemmas. Organization Science, 36(2).Hildreth, J.A.D. & Anderson, C. (2018). Does loyalty trump honesty? Moral judgments of loyalty-driven deceit. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79. S. 87-94.Royce, J. (2018) [Originalausgabe 1908]. The Philosophy of Loyalty. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1985098527. **********Mehr zum Thema bei Deutschlandfunk Nova:Vermenschlichung: Forschende warnen vor emotionaler Beziehung zu KITrennung, Kündigung, Krise: So supporten wir unsere FreundeBeziehung: Was tun, wenn wir den Partner unserer Freunde nicht mögen**********Den Artikel zum Stück findet ihr hier.**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: TikTok und Instagram .**********Meldet euch!Ihr könnt das Team von Facts & Feelings über Whatsapp erreichen.Uns interessiert: Was beschäftigt euch? Habt ihr ein Thema, über das wir unbedingt in der Sendung und im Podcast sprechen sollen?Schickt uns eine Sprachnachricht oder schreibt uns per 0160-91360852 oder an factsundfeelings@deutschlandradio.de.Wichtig: Wenn ihr diese Nummer speichert und uns eine Nachricht schickt, akzeptiert ihr unsere Regeln zum Datenschutz und bei Whatsapp die Datenschutzrichtlinien von Whatsapp.

Joining me on this episode it was a pleasure to be joined by 2020 AIG Women's Open champion Sophia Popov who bares all in this incredible raw and honest story about the highest highs of winning in a remarkable fairytale story at Royal Troon to finding out finally after 3 years she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.  Sophia was born in Boston, Massachusetts but moved to the Karlsruhe district in Germany at the age of 4 where she would compete in numerous competitions as a German player although has now stayed in Arizona for a number of years. Sophia would have success in her earlier years representing Team Europe at 2009 Junior Solheim Cup which included Leona Maguire & Klara Spilkova, she also won the 2010 International European Ladies Amateur Championship. Sophia would go to University of South California representing USC Trojans and would play a part of 2x Espirito Santo Trophy's & 3x European Ladies' Amateur Team Championships for Germany and won 2x Vagliano Trophy's for Team Europe as well as winning numerous collegiate titles. In 2014 Sophia would turn pro at her home event on LET at German Masters and would win both a LET card & LPGA card for 2015 before disaster struck the early signs of fatigue, multiple pains and lack of appetite left Sophia feeling pretty frail and it would take 3 years to have a diagnosis of deadly Lyme Disease and now raises much needed awareness on Lyme Disease as an advocate. In 2020 while on Symetra Tour just before the height of Covid 19 Pandemic it would come at a great time for Popov as it meant being still able to practice fully in her state of Arizona where Cactus Tour mini tour events were still taking place for player which included some top LPGA pros from Arizona area including 3x major champion Anna Nordqvist & Carlota Ciganda playing a couple. This gave Sophia a platform to stay competitive and it would pay off winning 3x Cactus Tour events before Tour Golf made a comeback and would finish well at Marathon Classic which would get Sophia into 2020 AIG Women's Open at Royal Troon, the rest as they say is history as Sophia Popov would overcome all the odds to complete a truly remarkable feat coming from unknown pro to Major Champion defeating Jasmine Suwannapura by 2 shots to etch her name in the history books forever, truly one of the most unbelievable tales.  This year back playing on Epson Tour in Arizona would see Popov win Carlisle Arizona Women's Classic just a little over a year after giving birth to her little girl Maya and what makes the story even better is Sophia won the event on Mother's Day of all days to win in front of her daughter.   Please be sure to share this fantastic episode around as we try to tell the full story of Sophia Popov. Listen/Download on all the usual platforms and let's spread the word, one of the best episodes i've done on here!

Amy King hosts your Thursday Wake Up Call. Amy speaks with Ariel Cohen from the National Weather Service about the storm hitting South California. ABC News correspondent Jordana Miller joins the show live from Jerusalem to talk about Iran's Supreme Leader saying he won't negotiate with the United States. Pasadena Humane's PR and Communications Manager Kevin McManus talks about the upcoming Wiggle Waggle Walk & Run, one of Pasadena Humane's biggest fundraisers each year, with proceeds helping to save the lives of thousands of animals in our community with programs such as foster care, kitten nursery, animal ICU, wildlife and more. Bloomberg's Courtney Donohoe talks about this week in business and the stock market. The show closes with Wildfire Division Director Michelle Steinberg talking about the importance of proactive mitigation efforts homeowners and residents can take.  

On this week's episode of ‘The Young Man and the Three' we welcome Norm Powell of the Los Angeles Clippers and Cam Johnson of the Brooklyn Nets. Cam opens the episode by brainstorming with Tommy different ways to fix and help all-star weekend going forward. After, Norm begins with discussing his basketball beginnings in South California and attending UCLA, the difficulties he dealt with in his college career, and more. He then opens up about his time on the Toronto Raptors, including defeating Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals, Kawhi Leonard's game-winner against the Philadelphia 76ers in the playoffs, what he learned from Kyle Lowry and Demar DeRozan, resisting a roster that had himself, Fred VanVleet, Pascal Siam, and OG Anunoby, and why he was upset that the Raptors traded him. He later shares what he learned about him himself from his time on the Portland Trailblazers, how James Harden is as a teammate, what he meant by his “addition by subtraction” quote about Paul George, and what has led to his jump in play and career year. Let's go!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Wildfires have ravaged South California in recent months, forcing health system leaders to navigate patient access disruptions while ensuring continuity of care. Beyond the immediate crisis, these disasters create lasting "access debt"—a backlog of delayed appointments and unmet patient needs that can overwhelm health systems long after the flames have died down. How can access leaders prepare for and recover from such disruptions?This month, Founder and Executive Director Elizabeth Woodcock sits down with Aimee Corke, Director of Emergency Management and Business Continuity at Northwell Health; Connie Lee, MPH, FACHE, Senior Director of Patient Access at UCLA Health; and Leigh Bouskila Turk, MHA, Director of Practice Development and Support Services at Nicklaus Children's.The leaders share firsthand experiences managing patient access during wildfires, hurricanes, and other emergencies—discussing business continuity strategies, recovery planning, and how to maintain access in the face of disruption.

With the fires raging in Southern California, Cindy Piester joins us from South California to talk about Climate Change, the fires, the hurricane in NC, and their connection to militarism. She also reflects on COP 29, Trump's drill baby drill, and is there optimism. She also turns the tables on Harvey and Jim and asks questions about nuclear war, deterrence, US hegemony and more. We finish with Peter Tosh.

Tell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.This week's episode features Brendan Koerner from WIRED Magazine, who wrote about the lives of young men recruited by door-to-door solar sales companies.This week's "Cleantecher of the Week," is Will Heegaard, CEO of Footprint Power. Footprint Power's South California team are bringing mobile solar power and other renewable energy resources to base camps and distribution sites, and supporting 92,000 displaced people due to the LA wildfires.This Week in Cleantech — January 17, 2025 The Insurance Crisis That Will Follow the California Fires — The New YorkerLos Angeles Utilities' Decisions to Keep Power On Are Scrutinized – The New York TimesThis group says natural gas bans hurt minorities. It has gas industry ties. — The Washington Post REC Silicon pulls the plug on polysilicon production at Moses Lake plant — Renewable Energy WorldThe Spectacular Burnout of a Solar Panel Salesman — WIRED MagazineWatch the full episode on YouTube

Max Tsaparis on South California wildfires // Ian Sherr on CES conference // Elise Preston on damage caused by California wildfires // Tom Dempsey on what to expect for Trump's first week in office // Ted Buehner on California wildfire recovery efforts // Max Tsaparis on South California wildfires (cont.) // Angela Po Russell on new UBER termination law

In this episode of the Drink Beer and Bullshit Podcast, we engage in a lively discussion covering a range of topics from UFOs and UAPs to personal experiences. We share humorous anecdotes about our lives, including celebrity encounters in Hollywood, and discuss our favorite drinks while preparing for the upcoming holiday season. The episode is filled with banter, shoutouts to listeners, and insights into their podcasting journey. We share our thoughts on UFOs and government secrets, particularly focusing on recent congressional hearings regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) and the implications of these revelations. The conversation delves into various UFO sightings, particularly focusing on a notable incident off the coast of South California. The discussion transitions into favorite UFO movies, highlighting their impact on public perception and the credibility of UFO reports. The participants explore the historical context of UFO sightings and how public access to information has evolved over time, leading to a more informed discourse on the subject. In this engaging conversation, we explore a variety of topics ranging from quirky trends like oversized headphones and Crocs to UFO sightings and the implications of alien life. We dive into the world of alien movies, discussing our favorites and the evolution of the genre, while also reflecting on horror and suspense films, particularly the works of Jordan Peele. The conversation wraps up with casual banter about future plans and personal anecdotes, creating a light-hearted yet insightful atmosphere. Drink Beer N Bulls#!t Podcast consists of 5 individuals. Swih-Medie-Rigo-Art-Johnny. The show will center around the discussion of various topics from the super natural like ghosts and hauntings to elusive mythical creatures including the likes of Bigfoot, Nessy, Champ, & The Jersey Devil ect. The show will cover anything and everything in-between as well, like Sports, Movies, Music & current events. All this while having some drinks to lighten the mood. We hope to bring an entertaining show to listeners and share some of our own personal stories and perspective for all to hear. We are not experts or professionals, we just want to Drink Beer N Bulls#!t. Click the link for all our social media pages and streaming platforms for our Drink Beer N Bulls#!t Podcast.https://linktr.ee/drinkbeernbspodcast

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This week Tee is delighted to welcome Cindy Vallone. Cindy was born and raised in South California. She is a busy wife, a mom to 2 teenage boys, and an entrepreneur. She and her family have been using essential oils for over 7 years and have made strides to reduce their toxic load. Today, they use doTERRA essential oils as their first line of defense for head-to-toe wellness. Whether it's for physical, emotional, or household wellness, essential oils have thousands of uses and she and her family are always discovering new ways to use them.  In this episode, Cindy shares her journey from knowing nothing about essential oils to becoming a wellness advocate and entrepreneur! Tee and Cidy discuss reducing toxins in everyday life and the benefits of using doTERRA'S essential oils for health and wellness. Cindy  also highlights the importance of choosing high-quality essential oils and avoiding products labeled with misleading terms like 'fragrance.' She explains how essential oils can be used aromatically, topically, and internally, and emphasizes the hidden dangers of common household products. Cindy also offers practical advice on detoxifying your home and provides insights into doTERRA'S rigorous testing and sustainable sourcing practices. Connect with Cindy: Website doTerra Facebook  Instagram Follow Therese "Tee" Forton-Barnes and The Green Living Gurus: Tee's Organics - Therese's Healthy Products for You and Your Home: Check out these incredible products made only with purified water, seven essential oils, and vinegar. Once you clean with them, you will be addicted! No more spraying chemicals in your home. Use the code Healthyliving for a 15% discount on my products at Shop Tee's Organics Austin Air Purifiers: For Podcast listeners, take 15% off any Austin Air product; please email Tee@thegreenlivinggurus.com and mention that you want to buy a product and would like the discount. See all products here: Austin Air The Green Living Gurus Website  Instagram Youtube Facebook Healthy Living Group on Facebook Tip the podcaster! Support Tee and the endless information that she provides: Patreon Venmo: @Therese-Forton-Barnes last four digits of her cell are 8868 For further info contact Tee: Email: Tee@TheGreenLivingGurus.com Cell: 716-868-8868 DISCLAIMER: ALL INFORMATION PROVIDED HERE IS GENERAL GUIDANCE AND NOT MEANT TO BE USED FOR INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT. PLEASE CONTACT YOUR PROVIDER OR DOCTOR FOR MEDICAL ADVICE. Produced By: Social Chameleon

In this episode I was pleased to be joined by an integral part of Team USA's success at last week's Solheim Cup the 2023 US Women's Open Champion Allisen Corpuz who phones in from Las Vegas, Nevada took talk about in her own words 'the surreal week' at Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Virginia for Solheim Cup that saw Allisen win 3 points out of 4 available including win both Morning Foursomes matches with close friend Nelly Korda & a statement victory over the vastly experienced Anna Nordqvist in the Sunday Singles. We talk everything from Barack Obama being in attendance to Allisen watching Lilia Vu clinch the Cup for the US with a brilliant approach at 18 vs Valenzuela to 2 feet to win.  Allisen assesses life on Tour, her 2024 season which has been consistent including 9 Top 25s & a season best finish of T4th a couple of weeks back in Boston for FM Championship, we discuss the life changing week at Pebble Beach in 2023 for US Women's Open and Starting out as a LPGA Tour member in 2022 after finishing T16 in LPGA Q Series in 2021 to win her LPGA Card. Allisen was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii before enrolling at University of South California from 2016-2021 which included 2021 Curtis Cup win for US (went 3-0-0 that week), 2x Palmer Cup Participant in 2020 & 2021 as well as playing in 3x US Women's Opens as an Amateur while reaching a high of 7th in the World Amateur Rankings. In 2021 Allisen turned Professional and has never looked back since then having had 31 Top 25s since 2022 making 52/67 cuts since then. 2x Solheim Cup Participant for USA (Won 5 out of 8 Matches played) & in 2023 at Pebble Beach Allisen would defeat Charley Hull & Jiyai Shin by 3 shots to win US Women's Open which remains her sole LPGA Tour win.  A hugely consistent and accurate player with a great game. Surely only a matter of time before Corpuz wins more titles.  If you could listen in via Podbean, Spotify & Apple Podcasts that would be great. Appreciate the Support! Enjoy.

Summer School rolls on with a closer look at the UCLA Bruins. How are fans (and reporters) adjusting to the new conference? How brutal is the Bruins schedule to start the year? What happened with Deshaun Foster at Big Ten Media Days? And more!

Master Clarice discusses feng shui and optimizing the energies of the Chinese astrological year. Master Clarice Chan, one of Singapore's Top Feng Shui Master, is well known to be highly intuitive with many gifts. Her natural ability to sense energy has led her ahead of many practitioners in Feng Shui and other metaphysical fields including Chinese Astrology and Taoist Ritual Blessings. Master Clarice has established a strong Feng Shui client-base in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Clarice is well respected in her field and was awarded the Visionary Person of the Year 2017 by the Book Publicist of South California, USA and nominated for Singapore's Spirit of Enterprise Award in 2008. Clarice has written and published a series of annual Feng Shui and Zodiac prediction books. She is also the author of Feng Shui Gourmet (2011), a book describing the benefits of conscientious eating along with popular recipes. Clarice has been a regular contributor to Simply Her and also writes annual zodiac predictions for The Finder Magazine and Expat Living Magazine. Her articles cover topics including methods for career success, weddings, romantic attraction, travel, and more. https://masterclaricechan.com/Host Bonnie Burkert melds the worlds of media and higher consciousness, sharing tools for transformation to find our highest truth and live our brightest life. https://www.instagram.com/yogi_bonSorry for Sound Issueswww.clubparanormal.com

Ecomcrew Premium is finally opening in the next few days! Join the waitlist to get a discount for Black Friday, and get access to a community of like-minded e-commerce sellers.  Dave joins Mike in this episode to talk about the Pros and Cons of building a community and content site through affiliate marketing in comparison to a product-based business. With Ecomcrew being open, Dave and I thought it'd be a good time to reflect and compare the differences between a content site and product site.  We talk about the pros and cons of building a community, the various platform risks in digital businesses that are unavoidable and our personal experiences with getting hit with a Google Update that ultimately led to less visitors. Here are some timestamps to help you along:  Audio Timestamps: Introduction - 0:00  Migrating out of South California for Ecommerce - 1:30 The Good, Bad and Ugly with Running a Content Site - 6:11 Running a Digital Platform on Your Own Platform - 8:00 Platform Risks - 8:52   Amazon is EASIER to Appeal to? [shorts] - 11:00  Getting Shut Down by Google [shorts] - 12:31 Google Penalties - 14:05  Running a Content Business vs Product Business - 14:53 Amazon Only Rewards Marketing > Quality [shorts] - 15:19  Difference Between Amazon and Google - 18:34 Being Labelled as "Gurus" - 22:06 Difference Between Ecomcrew vs. Gurus - 27:58 Pros of Building a Community - 29:17 Cons of Building a Community - 31:40 The Full Customer Funnel of Ecomcrew Premium - 32:46 Networking with Ecomcrew - 35:52 New Ecomcrew Premium Features - 37:11  As always, if you have any questions or anything that you need help with, reach out to us at support@ecomcrew.com if you're interested.  Don't forget to leave us a review on iTunes if you enjoy our content. If you have any questions, send us an email at support@ecomcrew.com. We'd love to help you in any way we can. 

Gather your recycle bags, grocery lists, and maybe your KII meters because we are going to venture into some pretty haunted Walmarts and grocery stores in South California!  We've mentioned this time and time again that there are layers and layers of history when it comes to certain parts of California but what if those layers had a Walmart or a supermarket built in its place?  Let's sit down and talk about a Walmart that was a department store where a horrific accident took place and a Ralphs supermarket that was built over a former sanatorium.  There are so many haunted places and isles to cover so let's get grab some groceries and let's get Hollyweird.

Going Long Podcast SERIES HIGHLIGHT Episode 355: How Having The Right Sense Can Go a Long Way in Your Investing Journey ( To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE. ) In the conversation with today's guest, Dmitriy Fomichenko, you'll learn the following:   [00:30 - 03:23] Show introduction with comments from Billy. [03:23 - 07:22] Guest introduction and first questions. [07:22 - 17:12] The backstory and decisions made that led Dmitriy to this point in his journey. [17:12 - 24:41] How Dmitriy's company Sense Financial is helping people with different qualified plans today. [24:41 - 27:57] Some of the responsibilities you should be aware of when investing with Self Directed I.R.A.s. [27:57 - 30:59] Dmitiry explains how you can know the differences between various Qualified Plans and Self Directed I.R.A.s so that you can know what is best for you.  [30:59 - 35:30] Some of the investments and transactions that you can and can't make with a Self Directed I.R.A. [35:30 - 38:06] How leverage or using a loan can impact your ability to invest in something.    Here's what Dmitriy shared with us during today's conversation:    Where in the world Dmitriy is currently: South California. The most positive thing to happen in the past 24 hours: Waking up and realising that every breath is a gift from God! Favourite city in Europe: Riga, Latvia. A mistake that Dmitriy would like you to learn from so that you don't have to pay full price: Learn the difference between investing and speculation!  Book Recommendation: Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert Kiyosaki. https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dads-CASHFLOW-Quadrant-Financial/dp/1612680054    Be sure to reach out and connect with Dmitriy Fomichenko by using the info below:     Website: https://www.sensefinancial.com/  Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfomichenko  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfomichenko/  Bigger Pockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/sensefinancial      To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE.   How to leave a review for The Going Long Podcast: https://youtu.be/qfRqLVcf8UI     Start taking action TODAY so that you can gain more Education and Control over your financial life.   Are you an Accredited Investor that's tired of getting crushed by paying so much in income tax? Find out how we're helping others like you keep Uncle Sam out of your pocket. Go to https://www.firstgencp.com/goinglong   Be sure to connect with Billy!  He's made it easy for you to do…Just go to any of these sites:   Website: www.billykeels.com Youtube: billykeels Facebook: Billy Keels Fan Page Instagram: @billykeels Twitter: @billykeels LinkedIn: Billy Keels  

What is serendipity? I talk to Professor Christian Busch from University of South California about serendipity, and how we might enhance our ability to take advantage of serendipity.

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How was it back in the days when people danced? Were you born in 1996? Did you attend Nocturnal Wonderland in South California? Johny Walker remembers...Do you confuse #house with #techno, #trance, #techhouse, #dubstep, #dnb and #progressivehouse? We are one of the top and best edm podcasts around for DJ's and fans alike.A talking podcast about EDM with an attitude and opinion! You like electronic dance music and don't know what's lit or douce? We've got you covered. We are bringing, news, reviews, and gossip directly to your ears. Come and say Hi ! Or even better subscribe to our podcast now. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to our podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ on all major platforms  | ⁠⁠⁠⁠Watch our videos and streams ⁠⁠⁠⁠on Odysee | ⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow our Tweets⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠Listen to our playlists⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Spotify | Continue the discussion on⁠⁠⁠⁠ Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠  and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Wordpress⁠ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit freakbeatsedm.substack.com

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The worlds media are doing their best to ignore what has been happening in Brazil following the Presidential Elections. Matthew Tyrmand is one of the worlds top investigative journalists and he has been one of the most outspoken in calling out this South American steal. A great many Brazilians are refusing to accept the election results, remember that Lula had his 12 year jail sentence overturned by the Supreme Court just so that he could run against Bolsonaro. After nearly 2 months of silence, Bolsonaro finally spoke to his people last week to say he would fight on and win. Join us this episode for all the latest and Matthew's expert analysis of the situation. #VivaBrazil Matthew Tyrmand is a journalist (both investigative and editorial), political strategist, activist, consultant, and investment banker. He is a dual Polish and American citizen deeply engaged in the battle of political ideas in both the USA and Europe. As an unabashed nationalist and populist, he is an outspoken critic of the European Union and American-engineered globalist multi-lateralism and is a consistent voice in the battle to take back Westphalian nation state sovereignty. In the U.S. he works closely with organizations focused on bringing robust fiscal transparency, prudence, and accountability to the public sector as well as rooting out corruption in both the public and private sectors. In Poland, where his father was a pivotal mid-20th century anti-communist writer and dissident (and Holocaust survivor) and later an informal advisor to Presidents Nixon and Reagan on defeating communism, Mr. Tyrmand frequently appears in mass media commenting on Polish, American, and European political issues and contributes twice a week to Polish Television's (TVP) main English language news commentary show. For several years he penned a weekly column for one of Poland's top conservative newsweeklies, Do Rzeczy. He has contributed to numerous English language platforms in the U.S. and Europe including, but not limited to; Breitbart, Forbes, The American Mind, The American Thinker, The American Conservative, The Jerusalem Post, The European Conservative, Big League Politics, Human Events, and numerous outlets in Poland including Wprost, Gazeta Polska, and SuperExpress in addition to authoring two books in the Polish market. He is an actively engaged board member of the guerilla journalism platform Project Veritas working closely alongside it's founder and leader, the modern-day muckraker, James O'Keefe on operations and strategy. Mr. Tyrmand is a Claremont Institute Lincoln Fellow, a Conservative Partnership Institute Haggerty-Richardson Fellow, and a member of the Philadelphia Society. Before getting involved in politics, policy, and activism, he spent his years after graduation from the University of Chicago as an analyst and trader on Wall Street, running equity long/short portfolios in the healthcare, tech, media, and telecommunications sectors for well known New York based hedge funds. Those who know him describe him as "enfant terrible" and describe his mouth as "a weapon of mass destruction." Follow and support Matthew on..... GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/MatthewTyrmand Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewTyrmand?s=20&t=DvFAH3osks4PFfPBfFDk0w Originally broadcast live 15.12.22 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please like, subscribe & share! Transcript of episode (Hearts of Oak) And it's an absolute pleasure to have Mr. Matthew Tymrand back with us once again. Matthew, thank you. (Matthew Tyrmand) Good to be with you, Peter. It's a pleasure being with you. Last time you blew up Sweden, now it's Brazil's turn. So, I think we talked about Sweden, France, Germany, all the sovereignist movements in Europe. It was Europe. I guess now Latin America's my beat. Now you're going Latin. All good. (HoO) You can follow Matthew, of course, at Matthew Tymrand on GETTR, on Twitter, and he is regularly on War Room giving an update of what's happening. I think Matthew and Gateway Pundit are the two main sources for actually getting an update on what's happening in Brazil. But Matthew, Brazil, the elections were the second and 30th of October with the 30th being the runoff. It's been six weeks ago and you've been on this from day one, day to day following it. Do you want to give us an overview of what's happened before we get into some of the nitty gritty stuff. (MT) Sure. So I've been following Brazil. I never expected Latin America to be my beat as we discussed last time. I've got Polish family roots, Polish citizen, a lot of time in Europe working, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain. You know, Europe's my beat, you know, working right wing party, covering... Populist movements, Sovereign Justice movements. But last year in September, 2021, I went down to CPAC Brazil to speak about media and other issues and was with Jason Miller. And we met with Jair Bolsonaro, and set up a meeting for us. And that was widely covered. And we were detained at the airport by the Supreme Court, which as we'll discuss is not really a court as much as a dictatorship, a bunch of political appointees who are running rough shot over Brazilian constitution and rule of law. They detained us and interrogated us and wanted to know who we met with and wanted us to literally write down names of politicians, journalists, activists, very Stasi-like so that they could be added to the enemies list. Obviously we declined to take part in such exercise, but we were held there and we were finally let go. And I sort of wanted to understand what just happened there. I knew it was bad. I knew that there was a strong bifurcation in Brazilian society along political lines, much like the US, much like Poland, much like many countries in Europe and the West. And what I discovered in the following eight, nine months was as it really did deep dives into the people, the players, the politics, that it is been a judicial dictatorship and autocracy by the judiciary. Judges in theory, judges are supposed to adjudicate rule of law, constitutionality, especially at the Supreme Court level. And here you had a Supreme Court led by a guy who was appointed by the same political cabal as Lula De Silva, the guy who just ran against Bolsonaro for president. And by background, he was president before. And he was convicted of many crimes. Public corruption was sent to prison. But he appointed a lot of judges before that, and after he went to prison, his vice president slash chief of staff, Chief of Staff there, sort of the second in line to the throne in the executive branch, Dilma Rousseff, she served as president for a few years before she was ensnared in the same corruption game, the very famous Operation Car Wash, where the Marxists, and they really are, Sao Paulo Forum Marxists, people that sort of come from the same sort of ideological bent, and this includes Chavez and Maduro, and we'll go through some of the Forum Sao Paulo people, that have swept Latin America. But she was also convicted and impeached. And then Temer came in and served out the rest of her time before Bolsonaro was elected. Now, all these judges on the Supreme Court, not all of them, two were appointed by Bolsonaro and eight were appointed by Lula, Dilma and Temer, Lula and Dilma, eight, and then Temer was one. Alexander de Marais, this Supreme Court head, was appointed by Temer, a former Sao Paulo prosecutor. And he basically prosecutes from the bench. And he has given this court, just, you know, Audubon Bismarck said politics is the art of the possible. He's just taking control. These are not endowed rights, constitutionally endowed rights that the court has. But as I wrote about in this long article that I erred to really break down this dynamic ahead of the election a week or so ahead of the first round of the Brazilian election, I wrote this or published this in September. The first round was October 2nd, as you noted. And I wrote that these are guys that if you could roll up the powers in the U.S. Corollary would be the Supreme Court on a constitutional law basis, the prosecutors like the heads of the DOJ, or Justice Minister in European parliamentary parlance, the head of the prosecutor's office, the head of the investigative criminal division. They've got subpoena power. They've got a law enforcement that they have taken over, like an FBI or an MI5, I think it would be, in the UK, where it would be domestic criminality, the Police that would come and have sort of jurisdictional rights, federally, nationally, as opposed to locally. And you rolled up all these powers in the US, like Sonia Sotomayor and Eric Holder and Jared Nadler and Merrick Garland and legislative members of the legislature who are political animals. You rolled up all these powers, you would have Marais in the Supreme Court. And so of course, they're running rough shot over Brazilian society with these powers in their hands. They're censoring journalists, they're arresting journalists. They are Censoring politicians from Bolsonaro's camp and they're arresting them. Over the last two to three years they've been at war with the right. Everything that the right accuses them of, they then get convicted of. They say the right says the court is assaulting democracy and Constitutional law, so then they get arrested for the charge of assault on democratic institutions. If you criticize the court for overreaching, for abusing its power, then they actually arrest you or censor you, force you to be de-platformed by big tech under the guise of it's an assault on, institutional democracy, which is incredible projection. We know the left likes to project, but I mean, this is whole new levels of evil hypocrisy in a political sphere. So they've put politicians under house arrest, journalists. There's a journalist who has been in exile in, in the US. Recently, Marais revoked his passport. They tried to execute an Interpol red notice against him because of what he writes. Again, journalism, writing. This is not violence. This is not calls for coups or insurrection. This is him writing very, very well-founded in constitutional law about their overreach. And so they tried to get Interpol to arrest him in the US and extradite him to Brazil so they can put him in prison. Obviously, Interpol declined to execute this red notice because they saw the frivolity and the abuse that was inherent in it. So I mean, that's sort of like how we entered into this election cycle and at the same time. Very important to note, Lula De Silva was convicted by three separate courts long before Bolsonaro was appointing any judges anywhere. This was 2015-16, the trials, convicted by three separate courts, 12 charges, 19 judges, 19 judges across three courts, so like tribunal instead of juries, it's you know a bunch of judges on a panel, unanimously voted to convict him. You know people 2012, when he was pushed out of office there were protests in the street and the military helped defend those protests because they saw what he was doing it was widely exposed that he was selling state assets to China for cash in bags laundering it through car wash chain of car washes owned by this party's friends that's hence the name operation car wash and it was his judges that he appointed or his subsequent president appointed or the subsequent president to that appointed, who let him out of prison, vacated his sentences and then annulled the convictions and expunged his record. So let him out of prison, annulled the sentences, first pending never-ending appeal, claiming that the courts didn't have jurisdiction. Now he was convictable in any court in the country because he stole from the whole country. So that's a canard, total bullshit. And then they just said, pending never-ending appeal, you're now free. And then as the appeals started, which never really went through, because before there ever was an appeal heard, they vacated and annulled and expunged his record. And why is that important? Because in Brazil, there's a law, if you're a convicted felon, you cannot run for office. (HoO) So, I mean, this seemed to be that the Supreme Court wanted Lula to run. I mean, a 12-year sentence suddenly disappears under the orders of the Supreme Court, so he can run. (MT) 580 days out of a 12-year sentence he served, and he got off light because there should have been many, many more prosecutions. And there might have been had this not played out because they were always discovering more stuff on the public corruption, whether selling state assets, diverting state funds to friends, including the mainstream media, who are truly died in the wool leftists and Marxist sympathizers. You saw on election night, when they announced it for Lula, claps, there were two places where there were audible cheers. The newsrooms of the mainstream press and the prisons. There are videos of of the prisons and everybody in the prisons is clapping and whoop, whoop, whooping about Lula. His base is narco Traficant, he even wears a hat from a from a famous Rio de Janeiro guerrila narco trafficking group called CPX He wore the hat in his limited campaigning, he couldn't really campaign too wide because everybody knows hes a corrupt convicted felon and he would be met with jeers, even when he was certified on Monday there was nobody there supporting him and the one thing the leftists do really well is they go to the streets and they protest, they turn them out, they frequently astroturf. They try to make themselves look bigger and more prevalent than they really are in terms of representation in society. Meanwhile, you've got 10 million Brazilian patriots by my estimate over the last 46 days now on the streets of every city in Brazil and predominantly obviously Brasilia the capital but also Rio, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, even places that are leftist strongholds in the north like Recife, Bahia, everywhere. And the revolution will not be televised. None of the global mainstream press is covering it all. The largest human manifestations in at least a democratic country, maybe during the late stages of communism, when people went to the street in places like Hungary, and Czech Republic and Poland, there might've been comparable numbers per capita. And remember Brazil, big country, six largest country in the world, third largest economy in the Western hemisphere, and second largest country in the Western hemisphere after US, Canada, then Brazil, massive 220 million people. And you have a measurable amount of representation per capita on the streets, rain, shine, monsoon, whatever. They're there a lot of times outside military barracks, praying and begging the military to come and save them. And this is a point Bolsonaro made that I'm absolutely co-opted and using in a speech he gave at. He invited the protesters into the grounds of the Alvarado Palace, the White House, Buckingham Palace, the presidential residence. He gave a speech last Friday, then did a demonstration and a prayer vigil on Sunday and then another one on Monday. And by the way, letting, I mean how populous is that, letting people into the presidential grounds so that he could, you know, walk up, hug people. And by the way, he could walk through a crowd and nobody would hurt him. They would hug him, they would love him. Lula cannot go anywhere without 100 plus security guards because everyone wants to rip him shred from shred, limb from limb like Gaddafi. And the police who are on his detail are tipping off the protesters where he is so they come and protest with, like when he was at a hotel last week or a week and a half ago meeting Jake Sullivan, Biden's national security advisor, because obviously they're part of the fix. Global leftism works together. If the military does not act, if they do not invoke Article 142 of the Brazilian Constitution, which is very constitutionally fitting and relevant here, it says in separated power, disputes, which certainly exists right now between the judiciary and the executive branch, as well as election fraud, they have a constitutional right to audit the election, and in their attempt to do so, the TSE, a subsidiary court to the Supreme Court, the STF, blocked them out. They wouldn't give them the machines, they wouldn't give them the source code, they wouldn't give them the tabulation data. So they have very much grounds to act and stabilize society and the Constitution says the military is the stabilizing force in society because they're the institution that's most governed and built up by the fundamentals of hierarchy and discipline and order. And if you notice on Brazilian flag, it's ordum and and progress, so order and progress. So you can't have progress unless you have order. And if you look at Latin America's history, military coups, you know, there was one 1965 that lasted 20 something years. They have a lot of belief in rule of law at this stage. Brazil is one of the most successful constitutional republics in terms of really taking to Western classical liberal standards of rule of law and freedom. They do not have the unfettered First Amendment the US has, but they do have the right to assemble and protest and use their voice, that's constitutionally protected. And then as they're trying to exercise that, Marais, who by the way is also the head of the TSC, the Supreme Electoral Court. So the subsidiary court that oversees the elections. So the Chicanery, the pure evil, I mean, they're arresting now indigenous peoples who have become protest leaders. Indigenous peoples saw they were disenfranchised because they were historically left-wing voters. All their votes in many of these precincts went to Lula, even though they physically voted for Bolsonaro. And they say, what gives? The left has used them as a tool, a device for pushing their agenda for generations. They petitioned the UN committee on indigenous rights and said, hey, what gives? You're supposed to protect their indigenous rights. But I guess that only works if we vote the right way, which is left. So they've been ignored. And now they're arresting them. arrested, they violently arrested one of the major guys, the chief of the Givenchy tribe on Monday after certification, in what I believe is an attempt to try and get the protesters to increase and escalate their volatility and then inject violence. And the left did inject violence. Antifa came in, very few, but enough that they burned some buses, burned some cars, broke some windows. And of course Reuters took Globo, which is sort of CNN of Brazil, major mainstream media, dominant media player, took their account. Bolsonaro protesters are violent and you know, set fire to cars and break windows of cars. And by the way, every car window that was broken had a Brazilian flag on it or the symbol of this movement. The Brazil was stolen flag, which is Brazilian flag that's black and white with Brazil was stolen on it. And so those are the windows getting broken, and there were even gas masks. I mean, in 45 days, 46 days, there had not been a single incidence of violence, vandalism, arson, and you know how we know there wasn't a single incidence? Because if there was even a single incidence, it would be the only thing Globo was running and the only thing they're sending to their their fellow traveling useful idiot leftist Marxists across the globe whether that's Reuters or BBC or Washington Post, New York Times, but it's been crickets. It's been crickets, in the New York Times did run a few reports, dispatches by Jack Nikis, their correspondent at Brazilian, saying that it's a little bit worrisome about the powers that Marais has taken and abused, censoring politicians. At the same time, the courts previously said that Bolsonaro should be held criminally liable for blocking trolls on his Twitter, as the same court is saying, and personal Twitter, the same court is saying, we can remove the voices of anybody we claim, as assaulting democratic institutions by criticizing us, including Villa-Kesis, one of the leading senators, major parliamentarians, House of Deputies, lower house members of the legislature, Gustavo Guyer, Nicholas Ferreira, Carlos Zambelli, tons of journalists today. They just arrested four more journalists, a mixture of journalists, a pastor and an elected. I think it was two journalists, pastor and elected. Four more arrests. So, you know, Marais has said that if the protesters stay out there, they're going to start proceedings to take away protesters' kids because they say it's child abuse. Obviously, lefties, you know, brainwash their kids and bring them to all sorts of manifestations, frequently violent ones, if you look at the Antifa types. So it's pretty fucked up there. It's pretty fucked up. (HoO) Where does Bolsonaro, because Bolsonaro basically was silent for like 45 days and suddenly had, not press conference, but he engaged with his supporters. That was on what, Friday, Saturday? And that was the first time he stepped in and said, no, we're going to win. We're going to fight this. (MT) Why didn't they say that directly? It's not in his hands. I know a lot of people around him. I've got very good sources, whether it's military people, legislative people, executive branch people in the ministries, as well as around Bolsonaro advisors. I'm getting some really good feel. Nobody's telling me anything directly because it's so fog of war. Nobody knows. Of course, when you're talking to government sources, everybody has their own agenda and strategy, so you'll hear a lot of different things. I'll talk to one guy who says, no, we're acting tomorrow. We're going to do this. Another guy goes, nothing's happening. Another guy says, we're going to do it this way in three days, and by the way, these things are probably in motion. They're just trying to push their strategy that they want and have me run it out as a reflexive sort of, you know, create a self fulfilling prophecy through the media. But the timeline is important. Bolsonaro did not concede the night of, he did not concede the next day. On Tuesday, he came out at three o'clock or two o'clock and gave a little press conference, spoke for two minutes and said, follow the constitution, we will follow the constitution. You know, if you believe protesting is warranted in assembling, that's your constitutional right, go to it. Then his chief of staff, who was kind of a technocrat, said we're gonna follow the transition protocols, also constitutionally, but that wasn't a concession. That was them just trying to figure out what their move would be. They were gonna engage in this audit. The military was blocked out in their audit. In the meantime, there's been lots of fraud discovered. Their political party, the Liberal Party, party of the party of the liberal, Bolsonaro's party, put their own report together about fraud and what did the court do with it? They fined the party 22 million reais, about four or five million bucks, and put the head of the party, who is an elder statesman in Brazilian politics, been around for generations, a very serious guy, nobody has ever accused of anything untoward, put him on a criminal law, the same fake news investigation list he's been writing, so put them on the criminal list, that they're gonna investigate him for criminal activity. Now, by the way, they're adding all sorts of other people, Bolsonaro's former cabinet members and previous in the first part of government. Now they're going on criminal lists where they're gonna be investigated by this court. There's no grounds, there's no due process, there's no probable causes we have on the US constitutional basis for such things. But hey, Marxists do what Marxists do, communists do what communists do, we've seen that all over the world. So the timeline, go back to the timeline. So he didn't say anything for a couple of days, then he went silent. A couple of times he went out, waved, moved through people, but no public statements, and I think that was smart. This is not about Bolsonaro. This is what I've tried to drum home, whether it's on Tucker Carlson or on Vantage show or on Emerald Robin show or whoever. That this is not about Bolsonaro. This is about the Brazilian constitution, the Brazilian transition in power, Brazilian elections. This is not a cult of personality. Bolsonaro, if the military acts is not gonna be engaged in a coup, this would be a quelling of a coup by the judicial dictatorship, with the military has a constitutional right to do, to defend against the sovereignty and against the sovereigns enemies, the nation states enemies, foreign and domestic, within and without. They have buffered the borders because Venezuela and Chile keep threatening that if Lula's not seated, they're gonna invade. These are one team, one dream communists. Shaba's in school. But then last Friday, he gave a speech, and then Sunday, the vigil. And in between the time, there've been some military edicts signed, expanding the reserves a week ago, and the site crashed the second they put up a site saying, if you want to be in the Brazilian reserves, and the site crashed within moments because it was so overwhelming. They just passed one yesterday, or Bolsonaro and the Defense Ministry pushed through one yesterday, about mobilization of emergency food suppliers and expedited contracting process. Tells me something's kind of up, and people I know in the military, connected to the military have been absolutely quiet with me, which by the way is a good thing, I got a big mouth, I am who I am. I'm a journalist. If I know something, I'm probably gonna run it out. So it's good they're silent with me on this. If they're gonna bring something to bear in this process, then they should be doing it by the book, by their way, and not leaking it to me or anybody in the Western or domestic media. That being said, the military has moved. There are videos all over. Yesterday morning at 4.30 a.m., what was described as, well, you know, drills or practice or, you know, routine practicing, whatever they call it, right by the Venezuelan border columns, and columns of soldiers, you know, because Venezuela is a risk point, as is Peru, as is Colombia, as is Chile. They're all led by the same millier South Paliform Marxists. And we'll go into South Paliform in a moment. So the military's moving, there've been firefights in the favelas with what's rumoured to be Venezuelan paramilitary operators that moved through these sort of drug trafficking networks. Cause if you recall, you know, Venezuela's laden with that just as Columbia was with FARC. And there's another FARC like Narco trafficking paramilitary guerrilla group that Petro, the new head of Columbia was a long time member of. So the South Palo form where all these people were incubated, people have to recall It was founded in 1990 by two people, Lula and Fidel Castro. Tells you a lot, tells you a lot. 1990 because in 89 to 91, The Soviet Union was falling. Soviet Union was the big funder of Cuba and all the Latin American, Marxist guerilla movements to try and create an Orwellian style, continental nation state construct, In Orwell were three major nation states, Eurasia, Oceania and whatever the other one was, and so this always been the vision for the latin american marxist.Simon Bolivar . He's he is to you know, whoever politically who they want him to be the conservatives hold up the Bolivarians, Bolivarianism as the Marxists do but Marxist Bolivarianism suggests we have to break down all the borders of Latin America of South America and just make one continental super state led. Of course by Marxist is right out of Orwell So Palo forum was formed when Soviet Union money stopped coming in, Cuba needed you know, how do we, you know operate this build this out Marxist workers of the world unite, so Lula and Fidel got together and all sorts of other criminals from across that continent and they incubated such wonderful political leaders and talent as Hugo Chavez Ava Morales RC, the Mora, Bolivia. Uh, Fuji Mari had some connections certainly Castillo who just tried to run this coup last week and dissolving congress, dissolving legislature, South California, the Kirchners, I mean Fernandez, I mean it's a who's who of the war, Ortega, I mean if there's a Marxist in Latin America who was incubated by South Calif and the head of the South California in Brazil, a woman named Monica Valente, she's a part, they even use words like party secretary, it's like they, when people tell you who they are, believe them, party secretary, she's head of Lula's transition now, and she said early on, right after October 30th. We need to protect Brazil's democracy like we have to protect Maduro's hard-fought Venezuelan democracy. And they really believe it. They really believe that Venezuela is the kind of democracy they'd like to make Brazil. So the Brazilian people aren't stupid. Modern history, pre-modern history, they know Latin American history, communism, and all across Latin America. What's happened in Venezuela? What just happened in Chile with Boerich and other young Marxist revolutionaries from the South Hallow Forum and Petro in Colombia? They know it. They haven't lost the plot. They get it. And we will never be communist is one of their refrains. Give us paper ballots is another one. Give us auditable ballots. And that's a whole great, you know, sock we can get into. Bolsonaro pushed it as a congressman and got a paper balloting bill, a backup paper ballot against the machines. So you have the machines, but you also have a paper ballot printout. That thing gets locked for audit purposes. And so when I was in Brazil last September, there was tons of chance in the freedom Independence Day March, give us paper ballots, give us audible ballots. Bolsonaro as a congressman, and I think it was 2016, maybe it was a little over 15, got a bill passed, which by the way, getting bills passed in Brazilian legislature, very, very tough. I mean, there's essentially, I put it on a spectrum of five different, it's like parliamentary politics, there's dozens of parties, but there's really five cohorts. You've got far right, centre right, centre, centre left and far left. So figure 20% give or take. By the way, going forward in this next session, far right and centre right are dominant because Bolsonaro down ballot pulled everybody over the line, governors, senators, lower house legislators. It was like unheard of level of galvanized unity and performance for the right in Brazil. So the fact that he lost to Lula, we all know it's bullshit. We all, there's no way. None of these politicians even exist except for his endorsement. And they won overwhelmingly in places that were left to stronghold for 50 years. That they're now gonna be led on the provincial level and the federal level state-wide by Bolsonaro people, whether they're far right or centre right. But they're all together one thing, anti-communist, anti-socialist, anti-South Paulo Forum, anti-China, anti-globalist. They believe in Brazilian sovereignty and they believe in God, which does bring them together. But so, so Bolsonaro gets this bill passed, Dilma Rousseff is president, so I guess it was pre-16. She vetoes it. Back to legislature and the Congress overrode her veto with a super super majority. Never happens. So then what happens, Supreme Court comes out, by the way, her veto was predicated on something I find hilarious. It's like truth is stranger than fiction with these idiots. She vetoed it because it would cost too much to put a printer, a hundred dollar printer next to their $20,000 voting machine. So she said, Oh, no, fiscally it would be irresponsible. Have you ever noticed socialists or communists to cite fiscal policy as to why they shouldn't Spend money, spend government money? Of course not, it's a fig leaf, it's a canard, it's ridiculous. So Supreme Court takes this congressionally overrode veto legislation and they nix it on constitutional grounds, but on bullshit. They said it would open up privacy concerns. Now at the same time, by the way, I've exposed with Argentinian forensic analyst, Fernando Ceramito, who's hiding in Argentina because they wanna really go at him, because he's exposed huge amounts of fraud, from day three after the election, we expose that Oracle has a undisclosed contract to suck up everybody's private data. So all the voting data, all the personal data, the Ministry of Information is being run out of the electoral court overseen by Marais. So more corruption, more communists, stasi tactics, they've got the Praetorian Guard and the federal police force who are arresting indigenous peoples and journalists and harassing Miller, Jason Miller and myself when we were in Brazil, detaining us, surveilling us, which the mainstream press had the day before we left that broke all the news wires there that we were being surveilled from the moment we landed, which I told them, I mean, like I've dealt with stuff Poland and Central Europe, which has been time in Ukraine, Ive spent time all over the place. So I said, we're probably being surveilled. He goes, Whatever. I said, then when that news story broke, he goes, he was like, Oh, well, you're right. And I said, well, probably gonna be detained at the airport tomorrow. And he goes, Oh, shit, I go, no, it's gonna be good. Be great. Made a big international incident. I credit Mariah for getting me off the side-lines. I wouldn't, I wouldn't have been doing jack shit on Brazil. I wouldn't have been doing, you know, deep dives into the forum and the who appointed the judges and who their friends with and what laws they're breaking and who they put in prison unjustly and under house arrest. I wouldn't have any edge on Brazilian politics and society if it wasn't for Marais detaining us and me getting intrigued. I don't like getting detained illegally. So I like to punch back. So here we are. So now I've been doing 10 to 20 hours of press today. So as a lot of Brazilians say, they want to if the military comes in and they they circumvent Lula and the completion of this coup that's been run out of the, judicial dictatorship, then there's I think there'll be a push to give me honour citizenship, which I'd be all about. I love Brazil. I love the Brazilian people. Brazilian women are the most beautiful women in the world. The food is like the best food in the world. The weather, the cities, just the whole, the people are just so awesome. They're so thoughtful. They're so intelligent. They're so motivated to protect their society. They understand the difference between rule of man and rule of God, higher natural law, and even the truckers, the truckers blockaded, these wasn't like Canadian trucker blockades, and all due respect to the Canadians, they do a great job on that. But they got busted up pretty quickly and it wasn't a huge amount of population saying we're going to we're willing to stay here forever how long it takes. The Brazilians are willing to blockade the ports and the roads and the major arteries. Brazil's one, sixth of the world's food supply. They're willing to blockade it forever if need be. They're willing to starve to protect their sovereignty because they know that if they lose it, if they lose their their constitutionally protected natural rights of natural law and their constitutional rights that that have been. That they work toward and building a robust constitutional republic if they lose that, it's gulags. I think the military knows that too. I think the military, but Lula even said last week, he even publicly stated who he's going to replace all the high command military generals with, his communist cronies. So if they're not motivated to act, then you know what, to be honest, they deserve to go to the gulag. They deserve to have their hands up. (HoO) Tell me more about the military, and I love Brazil as much as you and I've only been once, but a beautiful country. But tell me about the military, where do they fit in? Where is the clash? Where is their allegiance? I mean, you've talked about the legal side, about the Supreme Court and the battles legally, which reminds me of the same situation in the US in the 2020 elections. But over the military, which is again quite different, and I guess from anyone in the West, you don't think the military has been separate from the government or separate from the judicial is just all in one. But I guess Latin America is quite different. So where did the military fit into this? Cause I read a number of reports, the military being on the sidelines, what does that mean? And who are they accountable to? (MT) The military had, you know, a 65 page report about the, the, the elections and saying, you know, we can't prove fraud yet because you won't give us the machine source code of tabulation data, but it certainly doesn't look good. And the fact that you're blocking us out, the military and you know, Latin America's got this history of communism, then reaction back. And Pinochet was an anti-communist reactionary. He threw the communists from helicopters, which I would never condone until watching, until getting to know Brazil. To be honest, Marais and these judges who have so subverted rule of law and arrested their political enemies, just as bad, just on a level of the Soviet Union, of Stalin, of Khrushchev, of Brezhnev, of Lenin, of Jurginsky. I mean, they are ends justify the means leftist and the corrupt as shit. I mean, the Politburo will live well. You know, Animal Farm, you know, the Napoleon and Snowball will live high on the hog. And these people are totally corrupt. Their friends are going to feed and everybody else, they'll rob the wealth of the country, sell to China, give it to help buffer Cuba. You remember when Lula was there, last time he was giving Petrobras, Petrobras was a big center of the biggest company in the country. the state oil giant and they were helping buffer and support Cuba and Venezuela and selling to China. So this is a repeat. I think the military knows, given the history, there's a lot of generals who actually have not remained silent. They're not running their mouth off the way I do, the way Miller does, or the way our friends who are analysts, journalists, and political activists do, they're military guys. And by the way, Bolsonaro was a career military guy before entering politics. But they have made public statements. One of them, and a lot of these military guys have also gone into politics when they retire, very senior guys. So there's a very strong connection ideologically and politically. But there are some scumbag military guys as well. There were four guys that Paolo Figurito, an exiled journalist here in Florida who's left Brazil because he can't go back for the same reasons that Alonso Santos is exiled in Virginia. That's who they put the red notice for, revoked his passport. By the way, they've also revoked issuance of new passports because I think they don't want anyone to escape the impending communism because they want to go after everyone. I mean, this is a court that was airing private businessmen's WhatsApp messages when they were bashing the court and saying we defend Bolsonaro. So they publicized it and then they tried to arrest them. Business guys, just normal guys, not breaking any laws, just saying the court's really running amok. Okay, we're gonna subpoena the stuff because they hear about it and they leak it and then they air it all. I mean, really dirty pool, Soviet style tactics, Stasi style tactics. But Paulo Figueredo named three or four generals who were trying to push back on any military guys, who were saying we should invoke Article 142, we need to take action, saying, no, no, we'll be fine under Lula. Trust us. Palo named them publicly and effectively took them off the field. And there have been rumors in the last couple of days that they'll be fired in the next few days by the Defense Ministry in Bolsonaro. Hopefully they will. Also important to note that Bolsonaro has still elevated other generals There have been ceremonies that have gotten publicized, putting the new rank on the chest of a couple of naval guys, a couple of generals. So there is movement, but there are a few very senior generals. And by the way, Brazil is the most social media engaged country in the world. So when you lose your social media voice, whether you're a politician or whoever you are, it's a big deal there. And some of the politicians who have been leading the charge, calling out the court, who have lost it, the generals have said, that is unconstitutional. One general who was a running mate for Bolsonaro, Hamilton Mourao, a political guy now, very well respected. And again, because Brazil has so much social media engagement, these generals have like 2 million followers. They have as many followers as the party leaders, the legislature leaders in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the legislature. So they have gravitas when they say something. Hamilton Mourao was the first one to come out. This was a few weeks ago. This was right after the second round. And he said, he cited on the anniversary, the 87th anniversary of a communist insurgency, the first one in Brazil in 1935 that came from within the military. He said, we put that one down and we are on guard. We are ever vigilant. Another one said, echoed those statements a few days later. Another general said, load up on food, gas and cash, which tells you a little bit of something. Just said public announcement, public service announcement, load up on food, fuel and cash. I mean, that kind of tells you something. I think something's coming. I think they were waiting. I was incorrect in my initial assessment about the certification, which is very equivalent to the January 6th in the US with a certified president. And that's when they had Antifa come down from the hills and set buses on fire. And Reuters said, Bolsonaro supporters are setting buses on fire. Meanwhile, there's video of some of the guys who had, they turned out the next day that some of these guys they found and they were paid 200 Riyals to do it. They were vagabonds. They were homeless drifter, grifter types. And then there were some guys yelling. ...... Which means out-Bolsonaro. So, I mean, you know, but Reuters, without uncritically, unanalytic ally, just runs out what Globo says. Globo's even said, I mean, to give you an example, how corrupted this media is. They're all in the tank with the court. The court says we now need to arrest the First Lady because she was beating the protesters, aiding and abetting the illegal protests, which, by the way, are not illegal. I mean, it's a real mess. I mean, you see, and it's been so fluid. Gateway Pundit's been great on writing the stuff. It says, plug, Richard Abelson there has been covering like crazy. We talk every day. We compare notes on our sources. And I've been doing a lot of this stuff, the talking, the live action, Tucker, Bannon, you, Emerald, Gaffney on, Senator CSP, just tons of this stuff, live streams on GETTR. So, you know, very, very fluid. Another, point I do want to make just to show you how big the fix was in. In November, all eight of the Dilma and Lula and Temer appointed justices, went to New York for a meeting at the Harvard Club. They convened a conference with the incoming Lula cabinet ministers. By the way, he's supposed to be separate powers. Judges supposed to judge the law and not party with their communist cronies. After they certified him, Lula the other day, Marius and a bunch of them went and partied with a well-known, together, Lula and them. With a well-known communist lawyer, like a major communist figure down there. So, but in November in New York at the Harvard club, they convened this conference with the incoming Lula cabinet ministers and these eight communist Marxist, Sao Paulo forum, Lula, Dilma, Temer appointed judges. They booked the room well before the second round of the election months ago. They knew, they knew. And for the, you would even say that if you're in Brazil, you lose your social media. Are you even getting potentially arrested as they're doing now? So the certification, my mistake on timing was, I thought that the certification was less of a formality and more of a big deal. And what I've learned since is it's not the only big deal is does Lula walk up the ramp as they say, That's the sort of terminology. Walk up the ramp and the equivalent of a swearing in for the president where he puts his hand on the Bible in the US, walk up the ramp and accept the sash and become anointed head of state. And that's right after New Year's Day. So that'll be January 2nd or January 3rd. I think January 2nd, Monday, January 2nd. By the way, the certification was supposed to be this coming Monday, the 19th, but the electoral court moved it up to the 12th. No constitutional allowance for that exists. They just did it. Again, they are very Bismarckian. Politics to the art of the possible. Just do it, and hey, see what happens, come at me bro." So they did the certification on Monday, and after the certification Marais gave a public statement saying, mission assigned, mission accomplished. I mean, it's like, they don't even hide what they're doing, and that if you criticise them and point out the granular fallacy of it all, then you get arrested. I mean, it's right out of Sovietism. It's pretty nuts. (HoO) Where does the pressure come? Because there isn't any pressure from surrounding countries in Latin America. Democracy works to varying degrees in different countries. (MT) It's pressure from Venezuela, Colombia under Petro, Chile under Boric, Peru, that they better seat Lula or they're going to invade. Another reason you're seeing military moving around the countries from the Chocos and securing the borders. But they have no allies, which is insane. I mean a couple of people, Ted Cruz gave a moderately sympathetic statement, but none of the politicians in the West and the US and Europe, nobody even knows what's going on. Swedish press, Polish press, Hungarian press, Slovakian press, but right-wing press, alternative press, the way you and I always are. So this thing doesn't have a critical mass like the BBC or, you know, Rye in Italy or Odyssey France press or, but, you know, TVP has been good. You know, Polish television has been good. I'm a contributor there, so, because I'm a dual citizen. But they don't have any allies. I'm guessing the US politicians who are aware of this, I've talked to many of them, and just said, you know, what's going on here? You should know what's going on here, guys. I mean, Marco Rubio runs Latin American policy in this country, and he's like, the guy. Nothing, nothing. Now, if Bolsonaro does see Article 142 invoked, in theory, he has to sign a letter authorizing the defense ministry to activate the military and invoke this constitutional article. Some rumors say that it's been signed already. I would argue that the military should do this unilaterally and ignore the executive under the guise that he's a lame duck and he's essentially out of power. I know he's still in power. The problem is that the second something does happen that's kinetic and they take action, they raid the Supreme Court and the electoral court, they go out and they take the machines by force. By the way, we have a video of a Sunday in Sao Paulo a week after the second round, a Sunday afternoon, four o'clock, all the machines, not all, but a cache of machines, voter machines from this. And by the way, some of the work done on this machine shows that certain modern series are programmed by default to annul votes and to be programmed, have communication device and all the things that the laws passed on the running of the election it flies in the face of. But this one cache in Sao Paulo of machines was being moved in boxes onto the back of a truck, an unmarked truck. And it looked to be unconfirmed, but looked to be a trucking logistics company because we got the weaponized autists everywhere, that it was a truck belonging to a company that is run and owned by a PT Lula party legislator. So it tells you a lot. The law is very clear, by the way. The machines can't be touched for 60 days. They can't be disassembled, can't be touched for 60 days. So a week after they're being moved. So there's a lot of different things. But I think that if the military does take action, which I believe they will, I think they will, even rumors that Bolsonaro has resigned as president in a private military sort of convocation and given the powers of the executive branch to the military as a caretaker. I don't believe that's true, but it is floating around. So I'm throwing that out there just because it's one of the things I've heard from certain sources. I think that will get publicized pretty quickly if that were the case. But whenever anything does occur, something does occur, I believe that what you're going to see is the revolution now will be televised by the entire global media complex and it, will go, Bolsonaro executes military coup against democratic elections that elected Lula. Nowhere in those articles will it say that Lula was let out of prison by his appointees for looting the country for 10 years. Nowhere will that be said. I read something in Brookings, they're fucking embarrassment, by an analyst saying that Lula was the most popular president ever. His socialist policy, Bolsa Familia, elevated so many people out of poverty and he will win in a landslide because he's so popular and never even mentions he was convicted for anything. And nobody in the country, I mean, you go to stadiums, people are watching the World Cup in stadiums, they're watching it remotely, and they were chanting, or car races, they were chanting, Lula's a convicted thief, Lula is convicted thief. They call him Squid. His nickname across the country is Squid. And it ain't for anything good. So I mean, we're gonna see the global media, you know, take action and run an info war. And then what's gonna happen? I told this to Bannon, I'll tell it to your audience. We need to get real vocal. That's why I'm doing so many of these things because I want people to have real fact pattern. You know me and I think people can hear me. I'm nothing if not comprehensive. I will throw out facts all day long and put them into context so that we can fight back because the leftist media, the mainstream media, the global media, they ain't gonna talk facts. They're gonna say these poor maligned Supreme Court justices that Bolsonaro's trying to go over, never mention they're imprisoning journalists, they're deplatforming everybody, that their ties to South Valle forum. They'll never mention the South Valle forum and how it was started by Fidel Castro and Lula in 1990. Lula's criminal history, Lula being close to all the drug gangs, wears a CPX hat as I said. I mean his base is criminals, criminals and media. So that's a redundancy I guess. (HoO) Just to finish off, where does this leave democracy in many parts if the system is an electronic system that can be controlled by those on the left and the left also have a big hand in the judicial system as we basically saw in the States, even when it went to the Supreme Court, actually they wouldn't call it out. It's very different than where we are. I mean, in Britain, it's just the stupidity of our electorate, basically put to say, it's a paper ballot. So yeah, it's different. (MT) But you also have some really shitty issues going on there where rule of law is also under attack and it's not getting publicized. When constabularies can go to the homes of somebody for tweeting something and arrest them as we've now seen several dozen times in the provinces and these are not you know lefty strongholds then you know this is fraying you know the Orwellian dystopic vision is playing out thanks to big tech thanks to the consolidated powers of information flow that government has control or access to so i mean it is worrisome Brazil is the bulwark I say you watch Bannon and i sit on Bannon and every single time, Brazil falls the far so takes over South America, a very wealthy continent, Brazil itself, you know, one sixth of the world's food supply, but also iron ore, oil, manganese, bauxite, tin, cobalt, copper, gold, I mean, very wealthy. The most, and Amazon, stuff in the Amazon, we don't even know the drugs and therapeutics that we're going to make from species of plants and bugs and shit that we don't even, we've never even discovered yet. And that's part of the play. It's the same thing that what's her face, Maloney was saying about France and the French colonies in Africa. You know that, okay, you're so egalitarian as you rape, you're still raping the colonies of Africa, even if they're quote unquote independent, you're still treating them like protectorates. Well, if Brazil falls, then all of Latin America is gone. We saw Colombia and Chile, the two furthest generally right nation states in Latin America, at least in South America, because Guatemala is pretty decent and Honduras give or take sometimes. But you know scaled up societies that have fallen out to the foreign so Paulo in the left. Brazil falls, China owns all of South America and that's obviously a threat to the Pax American in the west and the US. I mean AMLO, López Obrador in Mexico also a Sao Paulo foreign guy. So I mean it's it ain't good and there's a reason. The useful idiots of our side, the lefties on our side who believe, oh yeah, little socialism and big government's fine and they're not even averse to communism, they're the proverbial, you know, what Lenin said, they're the capitalists who will sell us the rope with which they'll hang them. Biden, the corrupt comatose vegetable that he is, said, and obviously he didn't say it, he probably fell asleep at four o'clock after his ice cream cone or his jello, but he had said right after, like moments after the tabulation was done. Congratulations Lula for the fair free and credible elections. How the fuck would you know that one minute after the tabulation? They don't have, IRI, the International Republican Institute, whose job it is to look at election fraud around the world, silent. Organization of American states, silent. UN, silent. EU, silent. State departments, silent. NSA, silent. I mean it's like, it's a giant global fix because they hate Bolsonaro like they hate Trump. Meanwhile more popular maybe than any leader anywhere in the world. He's probably the most popular, at least in a country of more than 10 million people. We're talking 220 million people. (HoO) Yeah, absolutely, Matthew, thank you so much for your time. Our viewers and listeners can follow you at @MatthewTyrmand. Make sure and follow Matthew on GETTR or Twitter for keep your finger on the pulse and also make sure and watch Gateway Pundit that are bringing daily articles, keeping you posted on what is happening. So we'll certainly watch this closely. (MT) And Bannon's War Room, I'm doing Bannon sometimes multiple times a day. He's kind of tipped the spear on this. Because Bannon and I were talking about Brazil for the last two to three years. We saw what was going to happen. I wrote about this a year ago and talked about it. And then, then obviously everything played out exactly as I wrote about, you know, and published in details in August, September. And so War Room, Emerald Robinson, I'm doing a few times a week and sort of all over the place, posting as much as I can on social media as I get information or as I do these segments and pods. I throw them up there as quick as I can so that people are informed and have information. And again, Brazilian people, the best people in the world. We need to stand with our Brazilian brothers and sisters in arms and cousins, because if they do not fail this coup, it will be Venezuela within a year. The gulags will start in a few months. Hell, he's not even president yet. They're already gulagging people for arrest today. The indigenous leader on Monday, they're already doing it. They've already censored. Now they're already starting Gulag. So, I mean, we've got to fight this. (HoO) Yeah, completely, completely. Matthew, thank you so much.

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In our news wrap Sunday, a Libyan suspect in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 is in U.S. custody and will face federal charges, American forces killed two ISIS officials in Syria, University of South California quarterback Caleb Williams won the Heisman Trophy, and community activist and feminist icon Dorothy Pitman Hughes died at 84. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

Are you an Accredited Investor that's tired of getting crushed by paying so much in income tax? Find out how we're helping others like you keep Uncle Sam out of your pocket. Click the link HERE.  Going Long Podcast Episode 270: How Having The Right Sense Can Go a Long Way in Your Investing Journey ( To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE. ) In the conversation with today's guest, Dmitriy Fomichenko, you'll learn the following:   [00:30 - 03:23] Show introduction with comments from Billy. [03:23 - 07:22] Guest introduction and first questions. [07:22 - 17:12] The backstory and decisions made that led Dmitriy to this point in his journey. [17:12 - 24:41] How Dmitriy's company Sense Financial is helping people with different qualified plans today. [24:41 - 27:57] Some of the responsibilities you should be aware of when investing with Self Directed I.R.A.s. [27:57 - 30:59] Dmitiry explains how you can know the differences between various Qualified Plans and Self Directed I.R.A.s so that you can know what is best for you.  [30:59 - 35:30] Some of the investments and transactions that you can and can't make with a Self Directed I.R.A. [35:30 - 38:06] How leverage or using a loan can impact your ability to invest in something.    Here's what Dmitriy shared with us during today's conversation:    Where in the world Dmitriy is currently: South California. The most positive thing to happen in the past 24 hours: Waking up and realising that every breath is a gift from God! Favourite city in Europe: Riga, Latvia. A mistake that Dmitriy would like you to learn from so that you don't have to pay full price: Learn the difference between investing and speculation!  Book Recommendation: Cashflow Quadrant, by Robert Kiyosaki. https://www.amazon.com/Rich-Dads-CASHFLOW-Quadrant-Financial/dp/1612680054    Be sure to reach out and connect with Dmitriy Fomichenko by using the info below:     Website: https://www.sensefinancial.com/  Instagram: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dfomichenko  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dfomichenko/  Bigger Pockets: https://www.biggerpockets.com/users/sensefinancial      To see the Video Version of today's conversation just CLICK HERE.   How to leave a review for The Going Long Podcast: https://youtu.be/qfRqLVcf8UI     Start taking action TODAY so that you can gain more Education and Control over your financial life.   Are you an Accredited Investor that's tired of getting crushed by paying so much in income tax? Find out how we're helping others like you keep Uncle Sam out of your pocket. Go to https://www.firstgencp.com/goinglong   Be sure to connect with Billy!  He's made it easy for you to do…Just go to any of these sites:   Website: www.billykeels.com Youtube: billykeels Facebook: Billy Keels Fan Page Instagram: @billykeels Twitter: @billykeels LinkedIn: Billy Keels  

The Ford Bronco is the hit vehicle of the decade, and in this episode, we test a version that is smack in the middle of the lineup. The Bronco Badlands is engineered for serious off-roading with 33-inch all-terrain tires on 17-inch aluminum wheels as just a hint of what it offers. Our two-door test vehicle had the special seven-speed manual with the ultra-low crawler gear to enable some very Old School off-roading. At the same time, even the most gung-ho off-roader has to drive on the pavement for a percentage of the time. So how the $58,000 Badlands trim negotiated the wilds of suburban South California proved just as important — and probably more daunting — as any off-road trek. We'll tell you how it all went coming up. Also coming up in the road test segment, Co-Host Chris Teague and his family spent a week with a $120,000 2023 Cadillac Escalade. The big SUV's level of luxury is off the charts with more video screens than a Buffalo Wild Wings on an NFL Sunday. Did Chris Teague's daughters really do somersaults and cartwheels in the Cadillac? We'll check into those claims in this edition of the show. If you plan to buy a car in the next two or three years you'll want to hear the interview with our special guest. Mike Darrow is President of TrueCar and an absolute expert on the car-buying process. He has some very educated advice about what to do in the current situation in which vehicle inventory has conspired to make car buying both difficult and expensive. TrueCar has some solutions for you. In the news, we'll have the results of an illuminating new survey that attempts to answer the question: do Americans really want electric cars? At the same time, Steve Center, a key car company executive at Kia, is speaking plainly about the effects of the federal legislation passed this summer that changed the way tax incentives are determined for electric vehicles. We'll have the details of what he said and why he said it. All that and plenty more coming upon this edition of “America on the Road.”

If you are obsessed with cold marketing and promotion because you believe it's the only feasible way to help your business grow in today's times, think again. The guest for this episode, Jay O'Brien, built an undefeatable real estate empire without any of that, thus breaking age-old myths with the principles of hard work and sincerity. Investing generously and gratefully in his existing customers from the beginning of his real estate career, Jay realized the massive growth he could achieve just through referrals and word-of-mouth marketing - and all he had to do was to respect and reward loyalty. As Client Giant's Founder and Chief Day Maker, Jay helps “business professionals deepen relationships with their existing clients and partners to drive unparalleled repeat and referral business.” In this episode, he looks back at his work life - which began at just nine years old when he started working for free! As a Type A personality, Jay recollects wanting to work because he was “addicted to it.” From working at a video rental shop, Jay took up a catering job at 14, attained his Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Business Administration, and later worked at Best Buy. He finally took a job in corporate America in 2010. The last one showed him what he did not want to do - and helped him realize he wanted to “create his own job” instead of working for someone else, which he did. Joining RE/MAX Prestige in 2011 and Client Grant in 2018, Jay has become a force in the real estate world, impressing every aspiring realtor with his mode of working - which always has customers in the driving seat. Jay shares his willingness to spend $1000 on a client who helped him make a $10,000 commission, which most people wouldn't do. He'll teach you to look at things from a macro level to realize why simple gestures like sending personalized gifts and messages to clients could benefit your business incredibly. Listen up for an unbelievably insightful conversation on real estate success today! Success clues: ● Do not blindly do something because someone else achieved success that way. Every one of our stories is different; every one of our times is different. When times change, it's only sustainable to test the waters yourself and do what ends up working for you. ● If you're not a door-knocking person, don't knock. Find something that's effective for you and feels comfortable for you. ● Throw yourself into the fire sooner rather than later because you'll never be prepared enough for anything. The endless webinars, training, and trials won't get you anywhere unless you put your foot into the water. ● It is through uncomfortable conversations and challenges that you grow in your career. Be ready to face them.  Meet The Guest! Jay O'Brien is the Co-Founder and Chief Day Maker at Client Giant. This company helps business professionals deepen relationships with existing clients and partners to drive unparalleled repeat and referral business.  Time Stamps [00:00] Sneak peek [00:43] Intro [01:16] Meet Jay O'Brien [03:22] Jay's interest in golf [03:57] The best part about living in Orange County, South California [05:46] Jay talks about being a Type A personality and being addicted to working since nine years old [08:48] Realizing his innate desire to “create a job” for himself [11:48] Imposter syndrome + identifying his strengths to make his business defensible [18:11] Jay's first time doing a panel and how it grew into Client Giant [19:35] Some clever marketing tips inspired by Jay [20:55] How Jay's business grew despite never spending any money on cold marketing [22:52] Thinking on a macro level to scale your profits and run a robust business [23:44] What Client Giant does and how it has grown from being just a client-care automated system [26:16] Jay's “Top-of-mind Plus” tip for client retention [28:04] Client Giant's success stories...

10.20.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: DNC's Get Out The Vote, USC's First Majorette Team, Oil Company Profits Explained, Mandeaux Shoes We are 19 days away from the midterm elections.  Some states are seeing record-breaking early voter turnout.  Organizations are using every day to encourage people to get to the polls.  The DNC just launched its but tour.  I spoke to Chairman Jamie Morrison about why they are doing those battleground states where the races are just too close to predict.  A University of South California student wanted to bring some black culture on campus, so she created the Cardinal Divas of SC.  We'll meet the young woman whose all-Black majorette dance team is now a viral sensation.  An Indiana officer faces federal charges for kicking a handcuffed black man in the head.  The Los Angeles City Council has a new leader.  And the two remaining councilmembers caught on an audio recording saying some racist things are refusing to resign despite public pressure.  Texas is handing out DNA kits to students.  And in our Marketplace segment, a black-owned shoemaker uses environmentally sustainable materials.    RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/tiIkXGbXWeQ   The FDA and Da Cheng Vegetarian Food Inc.now recall Da Cheng Vegan Drumsticks.  This product contains undeclared egg.  Those with egg allergies could develop serious and life-threatening reactions should they consume these drumsticks.  This affected product with an expiration date of 9/23/2023 was sold in Houston, Texas and in Orange County, South California.  If you purchased these 6.6 pound packages of vegan drumsticks, do not consume them.  Return them to the place of purchase.  If you need more information about this recall, phone the Da Cheng company at 1-626-444-4980.   https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/da-cheng-vegetarian-food-inc-issues-allergy-alert-undeclared-egg-protein-vegan-drumsticks   #dacheng #veganderumsticks #egg #allergy #recall  

  Melissa Drake is the author of The Orgasmic Entrepreneur: Discover the Sweet Spot of Love, Sex, and Business by Simply Being YOU, Sacred Medicine Integration: A Companion Journal Supporting Ceremonial Medicine Experiences, and TranscenDANCE: Lessons From Living, Loving, and Dancing. She's also a TEDx Speaker with 25 years of climbing the corporate ranks and a decade of entrepreneurial experience. Her TEDx Talk, "The Dance of Collaboration," presents fresh insights on the benefits of collectively beneficial collaborations. As the founder of Uncorped Influence, Melissa helps like-minded businesses and individuals find solutions and go further than they thought possible. Connect with Melissa here: https://uncorpedinfluence.com/   High Lights The importance of finding out who you are and what you are. 2:56 There's a time and a place for fame. 17:19 Stop Fixing Yourself:. 21:38 Who were you before you entered the storm? –. 28:53 Working with people to address their limiting beliefs first. 37:08 What is our greatest distraction? Fear or doubt? 45:38   Intro Guy 0:00 Your journey has been an interesting one up to hear you've questioned so much more than those around you. You've even questioned yourself as to how you could have grown into these thoughts. Am I crazy? When did I begin to think differently? Why do people in general, you're so limited thought process Rest assured, you are not alone. The world is slowly waking up to what you already know inside yet can't quite verbalize. Welcome to the spiritual dough podcast, the show that answers the question you never even knew to ask, but knew the answers to questions about you this world the people in it? Most importantly, how do I proceed? Now moving forward? We don't even have all the answers, but we sure do love living in the question. Time for another hit of spiritual with your host, Brandon Handley. Let's get right into today's episode. Brandon Handley 0:43 Hey there spiritual dope. I'm on here today with my special guests, Melissa Drake. And before I launch into even like the bio right, Melissa, thanks for getting your bio. There's not too long a. That's always nice. Sometimes I get like a full book. And that's okay, too. I'm just we met. We did like an Instagram thing together with Jeremy Snowden. So you and I connected to Jeremy Snowden. And we did like some Instagram work earlier. That's right, right. So I think that was last time I didn't much work there too. So we connected through there. And it was really cool to connect and see you do your work. And as we all kind of got together to support each other and go through that Instagram challenge. So we met there. And so Melissa is the author of the orgasmic entrepreneur discovered the sweet spot of love, sex and business by simply being you sacred medicine integration, a companion journal supporting ceremonial medicine experiences, and transcend dance lessons from loving, living, and dancing. She's also a TEDx speaker with 25 years climbing the corporate ranks and a decade of entrepreneurial experience. Her TEDx talk, the dance of collaboration presents fresh insights on the benefits of collectively beneficial collaborations. As a founder of uncorked influence, Melissa helps like minded businesses and individuals find solutions and go further than they thought possible. You're right there. It's right there that's sacred and perfect. So Melissa, so I look at us as like these conduits for universal energy, call it whatever you want. So here, you and I are. And when we get together on this podcast, we'll have a great conversation. But it's really for the benefit of the end user they're gonna have and listen to this good, they're gonna hear something that we're not even, we're not even talking about, right, like this is gonna, it's gonna be a message that can only be delivered through you to them. Right now, what is that message? Melissa Drake 2:56 Oh, wow. Well, I think the message is related to the conversation and the fact that it's all in the moment, and that different people bring up different perspectives of us, and how important it is to really figure out who it is we are, and what we're here for, and how we can bring that power. And not necessarily power, but just that essence, to help people. And to, as you said, be that conduit to help people advance in whatever that way is for them. And knowing that it's different for every single person. Brandon Handley 3:38 Yeah, it's so great when when you connect with different people, they see you in ways you pletely different Yes, you never imagined right. You're like wow, you that's what you saw. And you're like, I'll take it or Whoa. But I think it also illustrates to you how, like, how versatile you actually are, you're like, Wow, I never saw myself in that light. And here I am. And this is this is somebody else's perception on me. I never even never even thought which I think is which I think is great. And then you know who it is and what we are and you shied away from power. And I think that I think that we get we especially in this space of like spirituality and your mind your P's and Q's buster. Like you call it. Which word do you pick? I mean power, but I don't mean power. I'm not sure if you're familiar with David Hawkins power versus force book. Melissa Drake 4:37 No, I haven't. So really with him as a person but not the book. Brandon Handley 4:40 Yeah. So I mean, it's it is it's a dance right? Of Yes. Which words make the right sense, but I think the essence of who you truly are is actually quite powerful, right? And once you've Once you tap into that, like you're able to share it and you know, it's Get the essence of who you are, is that power that's surging through you that you are the conduit for? Right? Melissa Drake 5:06 Yes, all of us are. And sometimes it's really hard to own that power. And when you get in these, these relationships in these conversations, and people reflect that power to you, and they say things like, well, this is who I thought you are. And you're like, I didn't know that. And it's just, I love that continual opening the continual process of figuring out who it is we are. Because I was a person who, before I was 43 years old, I had no idea who I was, I simply did what was expected of me what was told of me what I thought others wanted me to be. And then suddenly, I was like, Oh, this is all a lie. And then just had to completely rebuild myself from the ground up. And I would say somewhat advanced age. And then I look at my son who's 26, who never had that issue. He's just always been himself. And that was just a beautiful, a beautiful thing. Brandon Handley 6:11 So it's interesting. I always kind of reflect on like, the Bible for one reason, and that's like that was talking about, like, the 40 days of this that the other thing and the age of 40. Right, give or take something something happens to us as as humans, right? Yeah. Do we blossom? Do we have, you know, self realization do we have? What do they call an existential crisis? Do we, you know, something happens, right? I think I think that we, as Alan Watts calls it, I think we're peopling were playing. And it's like, we're at a stage where we don't recognize but we recognize it like innately, right. So truthfully, we're like, we connect with it. So you get to this spot where like, you realize kind of everything's a lie, or some necessarily everything is a lie. It's like, it's not aligned with me. It's no longer it's no longer aligned with you. And like, you can now like, you realize you can make these choices that you weren't making before, right? It's kind of what it sounds like. And that's exactly it. Yeah. Right. And then it's like, and then you start to realize that like, Well, yeah, walk walk us through, like even recognizing that space, like, was there something leading up to that for you? And then, you know, what happened during that transition? Right? Or, you know, what happened during that transformation? Melissa Drake 7:47 Okay, so yeah, Something definitely happened to me, a lot of things actually happened to me. And it wasn't until the universe hit me upside the head with a two by four that I finally woke up to it, like, I spent a lot of times to severely depressed. So much so that I rarely got out of bed. I lost both of my parents in the same year, my son went away to college. And then I got really, really sick with two really horrible, concurrent illnesses. And then I was like, Okay, so maybe it's time for me to do things a little differently. And I started, that's when I actually started dancing. And that's what helped bring me to life and understand what was going on in my world. And then I lost my corporate job after 25 years. And so I had like this perfect storm of really not so great things happen to me. But I call it the blessing that wasn't even in disguise, because suddenly I had a clean slate. And I could make new choices and do what I wanted to do instead of what was expected, or what I had always done. And so it was really a beautiful opening, that didn't look or feel so beautiful at the time. But it was an awesome opportunity for me to just say, who am I? What am I here for? And what do I want to do? And when I lost my job, I was like, I want to write, I've always been a writer in some capacity. And I want to help end the stigma of mental illness. And that was, that was my focus. And I have curated my, my life and my career around that focus. Had I not lost my job? I'm not sure that would have happened. Brandon Handley 9:38 Right. Yeah. I mean, I think that I think that um, I think that that's always the case, right? Not always the case. But it's often the case where you're like, What do you mean my job at 25 years is gone. There's probably like, a little bit of anger, a little bit of resentment, even with your parents, even with your parents passing to like, yeah, you guys still need you like, what do you think? What do you think you're going for? Melissa Drake 10:00 Yeah, and I felt so young to be an orphan. I mean, I wasn't even 40 yet. And to not have parents was wasn't challenged. Brandon Handley 10:07 Yeah. And then and then all at the same time, you've got your son going to school too, which is like, you've done this thing you've probably identified with being this mother and being the ER and all these things, and you have all these identities being ripped away. Melissa Drake 10:24 They were and they were also a distraction. Like, they kept me from looking at who I was, because I was codependent ly taking care of everyone else. And then suddenly, all I had was me staring at myself in the mirror being severely sick. So I was an easy choice at that point. Brandon Handley 10:42 Are you able to talk about this sickness illness? Either that's Melissa Drake 10:48 kind of gross like to have the worst illnesses you could possibly have one was related to my menstrual situation and which cropped up out of nowhere. I had to have a full hysterectomy to rectify that. And the other was I undiagnosed digestive disease that caused me to lose 110 pounds in nine months. Wow. Wow. So Brandon Handley 11:09 those two combos, Melissa Drake 11:10 like those are two of them, you know, just really, it's happening at the same time. And it really knocked me out. Yeah, Brandon Handley 11:20 yeah. So I mean, you you're like, everything's just quite literally gone to shit. Like, it's like, it was a big, right, like, you're like, I don't even like my wife is always like, she'd be like, I couldn't possibly like she was like, I couldn't possibly. So I mean, literally, like, this is like, nine months, I'm sure like, I couldn't possibly but like everyday, you kept getting back up and charged and forth. And kind of getting through it. To explain to me like this dancing, like, you know what type of dancing is like, doing in here that's helping you through this. Melissa Drake 11:53 So I, I met some people online. And we just happen to like the same dance club. And we started going to this dance club, I started a group of women and one of the things I noticed is that when I'm dancing, I'm in my body. And I have spent so much of my time up here around and dissociated. So I didn't even realize that at the time that when I was dancing, I was grounding. And I was being present, it's one of the few times where I'm actually present and in my body. And that was actually the healing modality, I thought it was dance, I thought it was the club. And it really isn't either of those things. It's its presence, it's being embodied, and just being in the moment. And so when I, I lived in Iowa at the time, and so when I lived there, it was all about going to the club, and they only open on the weekends and all that good stuff. And then when I moved to California, there's all sorts of new opportunities here. One being ecstatic dance, which is just where everyone's in their own little world, doing whatever they just moving, like literally moving, shaking your body getting the energy out of your system. And that is such a powerful healing modality and because it's, you're obviously present, but you're also releasing the trauma and the sort of energy in your body at the same time. And that was, that still is today one of the most advanced healing modalities that I have. And I'm, I've done nearly all of them, especially in California, there's so many fun things to do and try here. Brandon Handley 13:29 Yeah, it's all available there. Right? It's all available. And you're like, like you said, You're right outside of LA. So you got you got access to, to the stars. Um, so, you know, talk to me a little bit about, you got a couple of books out, right. You know, talk to me about what you're writing, what you've written, and a little bit about what went into those. Melissa Drake 13:55 Thank you. Sure. So the first book transcendence, I actually, I started taking private dance lessons to learn how to be led, because I like to kind of be in charge and be controlling sometimes. And so what I what I learned through that was that it was the best therapy I ever had, I'll just say that it was literally the best therapy I ever had. And I likened it to being led by the universe, our life, there's one big dance with the universe. And so what happens when the universe gives you a job loss after 25 years? How would you continue that dance with life? And how do you get up and flow and just learning about the energy between dance partners and then bigger with with God or the universe as your dance partner? What does that look like? And so the the real theme of that book is allowing the universe to lead your dance with life. And when it doesn't look so great. How do you manage that? And then the next book that I wrote. And interestingly, the very day I uploaded transcendence, I lost a very lucrative client. And so I had the opportunity then to test the theories, which is, how am I going to let the universe lead this stance, which led me to the next book, the orgasmic entrepreneur, which started with a theory I had about data, who was listening to a podcast and this man was talking about data and how important it was and how it shows people how that how you care, and that he was very meticulous, even referred to data as a love language. And I thought, I bet data geeks are the best lovers. Because they're always looking for the sweet spot. And growing up in direct mail, I know that even when you find the sweet spot, you never stop looking to improve your results. And so that's kind of how the idea for that one started. And it's really a look at the the relationship between business and intimacy. But the final thru line of that book is about being yourself in every aspect. So whether you're on a date or your lunch with a friend, you're with your family, or you're doing business, are you showing up as you are? Are you being yourself? Are you being authentic? And are you being vulnerable? And that matters, that you know who you are. Because if you don't know who you are, it can show up as you. And one thing that's particularly important, I think, in today's world is that we all have this online persona. And does that match with who you are as a person, I had a client that I worked with for five years before I actually met them in person. And she said to me, You are the same person, online as you are here in my presence. That was my favorite compliment. Like she was just really, really powerful to me and versus in the corporate world where I was one person at work, which is highly productive, highly successful person. And then at home, I spent seven years in bed. I I mean, I literally went to work. And then I came home went to bed. And that's it. So there was zero integration of my life. Brandon Handley 17:19 And I always I liken that to the matrix, right. There's there's Neo, and Mr. Anderson, right. We have this book on you, Mr. Anderson. So like, you're you're this person productive, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. And Eric, could be anybody. Right? Yes. Yeah. You're a cog? Yes. And, ya know, you go in, and you and you do do good. And then like, you go home, and it's like, you've got the sun, nothing. Well, you've got nothing and or you've got this whole other life that you really, really want. And it's like, yeah, it's like, never there. Yeah. And so, yeah, that's, I mean, that's powerful. Right. But I love that. You, you have this online presence that you're talking about, and being that person through and through everywhere you go. Yeah, I think you know, you love to hear your opinion. I think there's a time and a place to kind of and maybe not, man, because we've done it for so long. This, this, you got to be this person and go do that thing. And you'll get these results and like you go and you do it, but like it maybe you do get the results, but what's the cost Melissa Drake 18:40 to fame? So it's important. Is Brandon Handley 18:43 there still a place for it? Is there still a place for for that? Do you feel like maybe you need it all that shit to get to where you are today? Melissa Drake 18:50 100% I, I'm embarrassed to admit it. But 100% I needed that shit. Because like the I think it's Oprah's quote that the universe will send you messages and you know, whispers they start as a whisper. And if you don't listen, you'll ultimately get a screen. And I needed this screen to wake up. Yeah, so I definitely needed I don't regret it. Brandon Handley 19:15 But or call you and tell you that. Hey, girl. Melissa Drake 19:23 No, she hasn't called me yet. Not yet. But the but the last book that I wrote that I'm really happy about. And I wrote it in collaboration with other people is sacred medicine integration. And that was something after I wrote the other two that I really kind of delve into plant medicine. And the thing about plant medicine is that you get some really beautiful insights and you learn things about yourself and about the environment and about the collective consciousness. But if you don't take the time have to sit with and integrate those things and actually take action on what you learn. It doesn't really matter. Like it just kind of goes in and out and you get you get stuck in a loop. And my first medicine experience was combo. And we had a lot of people in one room, Brandon Handley 20:21 what is that I'm sorry, Melissa Drake 20:23 I'm sorry, combo is a it's a it's a frog poison. And they actually like pierce your skin. It's almost like a cigarette burn on your skin. And then they apply this, this combo. And it instantly drains your your system. It's an energetic and physical purge. So you instantly start throwing up, like it's just Brandon Handley 20:50 gonna give you somebody that, Melissa Drake 20:52 you know exactly. Well, you know, that's interesting, who would sign up for this? And I'll tell you that the first day I was there, and we're going around the room, and everybody's talking about why they're there and why they signed up. And one of the gentlemen said, I'm doing this because I'm better me is better for everyone. And I thought, how cool is that, like that? There are people that are really willing to do this work so that they're better not just for themselves, and not because they want to manifest money or whatever. But to be better people. Yeah. And so it's, it's a really great cleanse for your body and for your energy, and for your mind, all of those things. And I've done, I've done Bufo as well and psilocybin, and those medicines. Brandon Handley 21:38 You got the you got the South, you got the South California connection. I do SoCal connect, I do. So you know, I would love to do a couple things here, right. Let's hit on that for a second. I'm going through a book right now. Oh, my God. That's each book called stop fixing yourself. Right? In my question, is this right? And, you know, either way, it doesn't really matter. Are we trying to get better? Or are we trying to discover the truth of who we are? Melissa Drake 22:15 I think we're trying to discover the truth of who we are. But it's under the guise of getting better. Because we and I'll tell you, I love the title of that book. Because I worked really hard at fixing myself for a couple of years, only to find out that I'm not really broken that I'm fine. And it's really important. For somebody else, no, no, not at all. Not at all. No, thank you for that. No. It's really more about accepting the parts of ourselves that we don't necessarily like the dark the shadow shadow work. Yeah. So it's, it's not wrong. It's not bad. It's just needs to be integrated. It needs to be seen and heard and acknowledged and accepted. It's not something I was like, oh, let's fix it in like a surgical team. Let's just let's just get rid of it. And that's how it works. Brandon Handley 23:11 Right? Ya know, and that's super powerful. To really accept yourself truly, wholly and fully, so that you can operate at 100% versus like, I'm not this 50% This this baggage is no good for me. Right. But I'm hauling it everywhere I go anyways. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, Melissa Drake 23:34 exactly. It's exhausting. Brandon Handley 23:36 Let's talk about I have never had frog poison. I've never Bufo I don't know. Let's talk about like the differences. And I think what I would love to hear is what are you learning from these different plant medicines? Right like yeah, what's your what are the set and settings you have to let's let's get down into that because all right, we got frog poison. Which is like you're showing up to throw up? Melissa Drake 24:09 Yes, you are. Brandon Handley 24:12 Bufo is what was it the empty? Okay. Is that crystallizing, you're smoking it or is it something else? Okay, so that's like the 10 minute trip businessman. So Melissa Drake 24:24 about 20 gap. It's about 20 Brandon Handley 24:28 to 20 minutes, shrooms psilocybin, we don't want to call it surance because they're always like up in arms these days. Go ahead. And LSD mescaline? Not yet. Yeah. So they are on the they are on the to do list. Got it. Melissa Drake 24:53 So it presents itself Yes. Brandon Handley 24:57 I'm sure that you're in South LA area. They will present itself Melissa Drake 25:02 safely, safely and in a proper setting setting. Right. Right for me is always a ceremony. Brandon Handley 25:09 So there's a there's a woman I read her quite a few of her books. Listen to him actually. Florence Scovel. SHINN? Yes. Yes. With with grace and imperfect ways. So so there you go. Oh, that? Yes. So yeah, walk me through, I guess like, what are these ceremonies looking like? And what are you getting out of? What do you feel like? Which ones are having like, the greatest impact on you how they helped me along the journey? Yatta Yatta, yatta. Melissa Drake 25:37 Okay, so every one is different. Every ceremony is different, every experience is different. And they all kind of work together. So when, when I do boufal, it's, it's combo first. And then they kind of go together. As far as when I'm learning. All sorts of things like a lot of first of all, the masculine feminine integration, being able to integrate those two sides of myself. And as with everything, it's a process, it's not a one and done kind of thing. It's, you have the insights you've worked through. I specifically designed questions to help journal, what what are the insights that you got from the medicine and I have written just pages and pages, every time I get out of ceremony, I spend the entire next day writing about what came up for me what visions I had, how I felt, what the experience was like, there was a lot of information related to generational trauma. I even had some suspected, repressed trauma come up as well. And just, you know, to spending time with myself, questioning what happened. And then really journaling on that and what that means. And I've had family members read my journals, after ceremony, and one, my one of my cousins, who's read all of my books said, I've never related to anything, you've written more than this. Just because there were so much related to my family and the way that I grew up and how it impacted me. But I would say any kind of medicine and I even have, like, I'm really sensitive to medicine, so I even have an out of body experience when it comes to cannabis. Like I just have these crazy, crazy insights. But whenever I do medicine, for me personally, it's always like the files in my brain are shuffled, arranged. And I'm perfectly stored. So much so that I can't stop laughing, because I'm so grateful for it. Like, all the bad stuff, the shitstorm that we talked about earlier, I'm like, oh, okay, I see. Now, I see how that's connected. And how that led me here. And how this connected me to that. And it's just this, this beauty that I can't unsee and I just feel so together. I feel like everything makes sense when I do medicine. Brandon Handley 28:11 Tell me just tell me a little bit about your corporate life. Like what was your role there? Melissa Drake 28:19 I had many, many roles. I started as a, like a data entry clerk at low, low level, and I worked up to being a director who recorded to the CEO, Brandon Handley 28:29 my direct mail business, Melissa Drake 28:32 insurance, actually. And so direct mail was a large part of that. My last role with him was for 10 years I did competitive intelligence and also partnerships. So that's, in large part where my TEDx talk on collaboration came from. And yeah, gotcha. Brandon Handley 28:53 It's always interesting, right to see. What's, what's the approach to the experience of the plant medicine is right, like so what? What and who were you before you entered the storm? Melissa Drake 29:10 Yes. And I'll tell you that, that my son is the one who opened my mind to medicine in the first place. When he was a youngster, younger than he should have been. He was telling me about these medicines or his plants, and saying, you know, really important people have used them to open their mind. Sure, and they're really successful now. And I was like, huh, and I didn't judge him. I didn't get angry. I was just I, I consider I didn't get high till I was 43 years old. So these were things that I just I never would have considered Brandon Handley 29:44 at all right, right. Well, and listen, it's it's interesting. I think that the headlines that are out there right now, eliminating some of the fear behind, you know, what we've been, you know, taught up until like this point, you know, drugs are bad. Okay, type of thing would now it's like, Melissa Drake 30:09 alright, well, John Does our bags. Unknown Speaker 30:13 What if we Melissa Drake 30:14 are a different story? Sure. Brandon Handley 30:16 Like what? And not for nothing like 90% and almost all the drugs are out there derived from some type of plant based so there's there's generally a plant that does like what that, you know, can do when, you know you have this approach, so we're like, it's it is, again, plant medicine even kind of absolves like this other barrier right to that drug. I'm not taking drugs, man, I'm nothing. This is plant medicine, y'all. Right, right. Right. And so, you know, which, which is great. I'd love to hear you. There's a couple, I'd love to hear sounds, you said you had some generational trauma came up for you. I would love to understand like, what was the setting and the space that was there for you. So that you could be safe that you felt safe in that space? Absolutely. Melissa Drake 31:17 So it was actually just really beautiful and serendipitous the way that it worked out, I went to a ceremony and I ran into a woman who I just felt really compelled to talk to. And she happened to be there with her son who was there. He has the same name as my son and is the same age as my son. And he had been dealing with addiction and spent five years in the jungle learning these medicines. And so he was the person who administered them for me, and his mother was there and his father was there. So I also had, you know, in addition to having this, this person with direct experience with the medicine with the tribes, his family was there. And so it was almost like not almost it was like, he was a by proxy for my son. She was my mom, he was my mom. So it was almost like a family constellation at the same time. And it was it was in a private home. It was a private ceremony. It was very, very beautiful. And the way that it was was set. And the way that I was cared for the way that I was loved. It was it was just, it was an amazing, amazing experience Brandon Handley 32:36 here because I think that that's really important to make sure that you know, not only do you have somebody that is well versed in what they're doing, yes. Not just somebody who's been like, I took turns like five times I'm ready. Let's do this. Let's do this, y'all, everybody, everybody. And then and then have like, you have that space created for you. So if and I don't know, like if you had the generational trauma, like if there was a breakdown for you or not, right? Well, there was lots of breakdowns. So making sure that like, you know, I've heard of I think events where there's so much like too many people, right, trying to get Melissa Drake 33:20 my first one there were 40 people in a room, it was way too many people like way, way, way too much. But also, that's what caused me to write the book because the shamans are the people delivering the medicine, the medicine is their specialty. But there needs to be integration afterwards. So how do you help people with an integration and do it in a way that is feasible for everyone? We even have a free download of the book with the questions for people to access so that they can get Brandon Handley 33:51 it right. Like I mean, you know, integration agreed. I think that everybody's everybody's in agreement that integration is essential to plant medicine experience. Let's talk about let's use your generational trauma one as an example, like how did you integrate some of those lessons in your life? What did you do to integrate the lessons he took away from that? Melissa Drake 34:18 So the workbook is designed to actually pull out those questions. There's, there's a whole series of questions, and then a 30 day action plan. So the first thing for me for integration is just taking the time for myself, to go through the questions to spend all that and I've even used these questions for things like I went on a wellness retreat last year where there was no medicine involved, but it was still really powerful. The experience was powerful enough that I needed to spend the time to integrate that. So just from and because I'm a writer, journaling is what comes easy to me. If you know that There are many ways to integrate. And I also have a community that I talk to about and share the writings with and communicate with. Brandon Handley 35:13 So what would an example, one or two examples be of those questions? Melissa Drake 35:19 Well, let's just, let's just pull it up and see what? Sure. So it's, it's designed into there's before ceremony. And some of the questions are what are you committed to an honoring through this medicine work? pure intent means you believe it, what do you intend to shift through this work? What constructed limitations would you like to address through the medicine? A constructed limitation is like a limiting belief that something you believe that is not actually true. For example, believing I'm not good enough is limited. In an actuality, every single person is made of the same magic with the same potential as another, therefore, this belief is constructed. So going into the ceremony before you even go, what is it that you want to want to do? What do you want to curtail? What do you want to grow? What will you say when you achieve the healing you desire right now? And then my, my favorite ones, right before so that's when you sign up? Because the ceremony begins when you sign up, right? And then right before the medicine you ask what what's the healing that you came for? What are you ready for? Speak to your higher self, your best friend, your soul, the energy is ready to support you help is available, because you ask what will you ask for? So it's basically like a really intense intention setting, a lot of people will set intention before they do medicine, but just really delving into an I will say that we wrote this after having completed a I think it was about 14 week, NLP training neuro linguistic programming. So the questions were designed specifically, to help make sure that the words the beliefs and the actions are all aligned. Brandon Handley 37:08 Yeah, no, that's, I mean, it's powerful to combine. You know, all that psychology with with these this work, right? You know, not, not just not just oh, it's just my higher self, man, we're cool, man. It's like, you know, hey, let's, let's, let's, let's leverage some of what we've learned over the past 100 years, give or take on, like, what's working? And, yes, how can we get in there? And, you know, we'll say, it's not surgical with the mind. But it's kind of is, but you because you get in there and you are like, you're like that if you do this work before ceremony. And you're really like, you do the work. And then you get in there ceremonies like atom bomb on that shit, like, Melissa Drake 38:03 yes, yes. And my my belief, like, what I really want to do is work with people to address their because essentially, we get what we believe, right? So if you go into ceremony, believing that you're going to get the healing you need, believing that you're going to be helped, that you're going to be built, guess what you will be, if you think it's just a pain, then that's what you're gonna get. And so I ideally want to set up a system so that people are receiving treatment for their limiting beliefs first, so that they're set up and primed and ready for the healing to be really effective. Like you said, to just drop a bomb on it and then have the most positive impact that you can. Brandon Handley 38:46 Yeah. I love it. Definitely great stuff. You gotta have doing doing that. I think ahead of time is a primo. Yes. Good stuff. So all right, I go in there. I do my I do my pre work. I'm geared up. I go in there. I have an amazing experience. What happens next? What do I do? Like and by amazing experience, I'm like, I was in there. I was like, surgical commander, like my mind was my mind and I owned it. Melissa Drake 39:16 So for me, my amazing experience is rolling around on the ground and puking and screaming and crying and laughing and Brandon Handley 39:25 no, you can keep that one that is mine. Around a vomit, that's a promise. I intend to keep. So amazing experience whatever that means to you. And then you know, what is the integration starts to look like right? So what happens? Melissa Drake 39:45 Number one is rest. Come home and rest. Meditate, breathe, be present. I like to spend time in water whether that's the pool or the hot tub and ocean. Rounding. walking barefoot on the earth is a beautiful thing. aim. And then for me, I usually start the next day writing, I spent an entire day writing. And then the book is actually designed to for every day, too, because a lot of times, I mean, I'll get the bulk of what happens the next day. But a lot of times, the insights don't come until days later or weeks later. And so just monitor, I'm a huge documentation freak, as you can imagine, as a writer. So just writing what came up for me like, oh, okay, maybe this is related. And, you know, you get these just little segments of insights over time, and then just keeping track of them. Yeah. And the other thing that's interesting, so I always do my journaling online, and I do a save as the prior version. And it's really interesting to see the growth, because the questions are designed, like you get all of this stuff out, right? You document everything. And then at the end, you know, like, what are the learnings you get, you know, for me, it's like, between five and 10 bullet points where I can really segment these are the learnings that I got. And what's really interesting to see is from one journey to the next, how the learnings evolve over time, and how I can tell I have learned from what I did last time, or this this last one that I did after a mushroom journey was okay, this is the same thing, like I'm still in the same spot, like I had the same same learning which is good because it's, you know, it's a process that I'm, I'm learning more about that. But also this is this is an area where I need more exploration. And so that we have a couple of different versions of this book. This one is designed so that you can do 11 journeys in one book. So all of your stuff is in one place. Brandon Handley 41:51 Should it be like once a month take a month off like I mean, what's that? You know, Melissa Drake 41:56 witness not for me to decide. That isn't Brandon Handley 41:59 so yeah, I mean, is there a recommendation on like, how long you Melissa Drake 42:06 know individual Yeah, it's very individual I would say that it's up to the person and the shaman like for me personally in it in two years time I've done maybe 10 journeys all together what would Brandon Handley 42:24 you say like a couple of things that you've learned that you don't feel like you would have learned without the assistance of plant medicine Melissa Drake 42:35 the number one thing is the ability to see how connected everything is and how amazingly supported we are by by things known and not known seen in that scene felt and felt and just knowing that that were okay. And one of the things that I wrote many years ago after after the first time I got high was the beautiful intention of every single thing like we think there's this conspiracy that everybody's out to get us and it's really just the opposite that conspiracy is everything set up for us. Yeah, and everything's happening perfectly that's the number one thing like I said all the all the files are filing in my brain and I'm like, Oh, this is so beautiful. Even the mess is beautiful. Brandon Handley 43:22 Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a really good book on like, kind of chaos theory. Even even like as chaos evolves and does it saying it creates a beautiful pattern? Yes, yes. So so um, in and so you know, it's like, you get this you get this knowing what can I do with that Melissa Drake 43:53 well, tell me what you mean by knowing like knowing you need to do medicine or knowing from the medicine Brandon Handley 43:58 I'm in the medicine and I feel amazingly supported that like you know, I've got the support and I have this knowing this innate knowing what does that do for me? Melissa Drake 44:10 So for me personally, I move different when I know that I'm protected I don't move in fear I don't move without I don't move. With hesitation I move with grace. I move with ease. I move with with understanding I move knowing that I'm supported. It's like when a little kid is jumping off the edge of the pool and he knows his dad is going to catch them he just runs and jumps in versus oh my god, I don't know what I'm gonna do and so you just move differently. When when you No, Brandon Handley 44:46 no, that's perfect. Right? And this space does grace and ease and understanding in the space of like this knowing does know that calming because you've been in supportive environments to enhance like that. That Well, 100% money. Yeah, absolutely. Melissa Drake 45:09 I think the medicine does part of that. But I will tell you that seven setting does as much, if not more, just knowing that people that I was with, I could feel their hearts. I know they were there for me. I know they were supporting me. It wasn't about money. In fact, it was completely donation based, and they would have done it for free if I didn't have the money. So just Yeah, that's the people the set the setting. That's huge. Absolutely. Brandon Handley 45:38 That's awesome. Right. And I think that that that's a big takeaway, right? I mean, agrees II. Grace, ease understanding translates really into a confidence, right? Yes. Yes. To like, you know, moving forward. encouraged. Yes. So I love it. I love it. All right. Well, cool. We are kind of at a spot which I like to I like I like in these podcasts. Most it's a little bit too, like spiritual speed dating. Right, but somebody's gonna somebody's gonna tune in this podcast, you're gonna gonna be like, You know what, Melissa has to be my next spiritual date. Right. So, in that vein, let me ask you a couple questions here. He didn't want some new questions like alive, right. Spiritual Bachelorette number one. What is our greatest distraction? Melissa Drake 46:39 Fear? Absolutely. For me, personally, I know that it has been fear I get caught up in what if it doesn't work out? What if what you know, when I when I move with the knowing there is no distraction, there is only inspiration, there is only just being guided by my internal guidance system. And when I'm worried about fear, or when I'm not present, I would say that's probably even a bigger distraction, which is fear based. If I'm not present, I'm either worried about the past, or I'm worried about the future. And just, you know, looking at all the shiny things, instead of being like, Wow, look how grateful I am for what I have right now in this moment. Brandon Handley 47:30 Sure. Sure, that's, I mean, that's a great one, would you say? Is it fear or doubt, right? Melissa Drake 47:38 Good distinction. They're not the same. But they're very similar. And I would say both. And I would also say that they're both limiting beliefs. Brandon Handley 47:59 And I think this is an opportunity for, you know, looking for faith of some type, right? Like you you mentioned, I think way in the beginning of the story, you're like, hit a guy will show me shit. All right. Let's do this. Faith, I don't know and what but like, you know, I've got this theory. Here's the thing. I believe that is going to show up in this in this kind of manner, right? Yes. Okay. All right. Spiritual. Bachelorette number one. Hoo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. Why is there poverty and suffering in the world? Melissa Drake 48:43 Because people don't know or understand their power, because they don't have that knowing because they don't have the confidence. Because they're, they're afraid. And I will tell you that I've had my own poverty and my own suffering. And it's directly related to a lack of belief in myself, and a lack of belief in the universe and a lack of belief in the people who support me. And when tapped into that, you know, when I'm tapped into that knowing, suffering and poverty is doesn't even show up on my radar at all. Brandon Handley 49:26 How does that look for someone who's in the middle of it? Right? I think that's a real big challenge Melissa Drake 49:31 is a huge challenge. So Brandon Handley 49:35 if you Yeah, like, I mean, the question is, like, what if you showed up and told yourself, you know, hey, don't worry, everything's gonna be fine. While you were in this poverty and suffering state, what would you have said to yourself, right? Melissa Drake 49:47 Well, that's still the truth, even when I'm in in that mess. Like when I lost my job and didn't have any idea what I was going to do. The truth was, the truth is, and always will be It's gonna be fine. Sometimes we don't want to hear that. But it is true. And I would say like, when you're going through it, the best thing you can do is just have someone by your side to support you and to see you and witness you and not try to fix it or solve it. But just be there with you until you're ready to come out. And my my son is an amazing example of that. Jeremy is an amazing example of that, of someone who just allows me to, because we kind of have to come to terms on our own time, no one can solve the problem for us. So just someone to witness what you're experiencing, and allow that to unfold in the way that is best because like I said earlier, it's great. We're gonna make it or we're not and that's okay, too. You know, I would say like, Brandon Handley 50:54 listen, listen, I'm all in, right? I'm all in. And sometimes I might get the universe level. And here's the here's the funny thing, right? You know, here, here we are. We're on a, a tiny little ball in the middle of the universe. It's like perfectly suited for us to live, breathe, eat people. And we don't think you know, and and never, never, like, you know, never like you never, like wake up one day and be like, oh, man, the Earth is out of gas. I can't, I can't go to people today. My car, my earth isn't ready. Right? Like, you know, it's always it's always available. And you're use yourself, you pump blood, you create blood cells, you grow hair, you breathe in your sleep, and you do it all in your sleep without even like now we're doing and you don't trust that the universe kind of has your back to like, I don't know, lining you up with something that doesn't suck. Yeah, that's on you. Right. Like, that's because, again, like, you will get what you look for. Yes. Right. And so retraining yourself to look for those things the Melissa Drake 52:13 right, it's the retraining. That's it. And I will tell you, sometimes we're more comfortable in the mess because that's always known. Brandon Handley 52:21 We get double you know, right. Like, you may have like this big shit show of a mess, but it's your my shit show I run this big know how to operate. Yeah, right. Right. Right. And so it's like, All right, well, you don't have to, but like, not just the fear of something worse out there. There's something we're sure there's always something worse out there. But like, you know, I don't know. You make your way through it. So, so great to have you on one real quick question, right? Collab collaborative AF, what's happening behind me here? It's just like, so I mean, what, what, what is what is on the board? For those of you that are listening, she's got a board up behind her says, I'm gonna say it looks like collaborative AF. So like, you are Melissa Drake 53:07 absolutely 100%. Right. So when I, when I released my TEDx talk, which is about collaboration, I decided my business name was going to be collaborative AF. So I did keep that for a couple of years, and then I transition to something else. So that's just my my old branding that you're looking at, but it's still Brandon Handley 53:25 like, not not AF. No, I'm Melissa Drake 53:29 absolutely collaborative as my my new business platform is uncorked influence as in not corporate, but having that corporate foundation. Brandon Handley 53:41 So, you know, where can people go to find out more about that? Melissa Drake 53:45 On corporate influence un Corp, Edie? influence.com, that's my instagram handle and my website as well. Brandon Handley 53:55 Who would you say is like your ideal like client, like who should be they should be reaching out to you. Melissa Drake 54:02 So primarily, I work with authors who tell stories. And so anyone, literally everyone has a book in them. But it's not so much about writing the book. One thing that I have found is that writing a book is one of the best healing modalities available to mankind. You will find all of your stuff when you write about your book. And so I'm the person that's going to be that safe space to support you through that vulnerable, share. And also package your book, edit it and make sure that it looks beautiful, and it's ready for the world. Brandon Handley 54:36 Awesome. Melissa, thank you so much for being on today. Melissa Drake 54:38 Thank you. It was very fun. I appreciated the conversation. Intro Guy 54:43 Really hope you enjoyed this episode of the spiritual dove podcast. Stay connected with us directly through spiritual dove.co. You can also join the discussion on Facebook, spiritual and Instagram and spiritual underscore Joe. If you would like to speak with us, send us an email there Brandon at Spirit Waldo Darko and as always thank you for cultivating your mindset and creating a better reality this includes the most thought provoking part of your day Don't forget to like and subscribe to stay fully up to date until next time be kind to yourself and trust your intuition Transcribed by https://otter.ai                        

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Huge benefits when doing real estate investingThe 3 main aspects of underwritingIs it possible for two individuals to underwrite the same deal?Why you need to select good property managers The Life & Money Show Spotlight:Your Life & Money: What is one thing you're doing to live a meaningful and intentional life by design?Other's Life and Money: What is one life or money hack that you can share that will make an impact in others' lives right now? Life & Money in the World: What's the one thing you're doing right now to make the world a better place? ABOUT RILEY METCALFRiley is the Director of Acquisitions of Goodegg Investments. He grew up in San Clemente, South California. Riley was first introduced to the concept of investing through his father who was a stock broker. He later ventured into real estate, developing his expertise in the industry. CONNECT WITH RILEYWebsite: Goodegg Investments CONNECT WITH USTo connect with Annie and Julie, as well as with other Investing For Good listeners, and to get the latest scoop on new and upcoming episodes, join Life and Money Show Podcast Community on Facebook.To learn more about real estate syndication investment opportunities, join the Goodegg Investor Club.Be sure to also grab your free copy of the Investing For Good book (just pay S&H)--Thanks for listening, and until next time, keep investing for good!

Legally Blonde is a 2001 romantic comedy directed by Robert Luketic. It's the story of Elle Woods, Reese Witherspoon, a fashion merchandising student and sorority girl from South California. She is dating Warner Huntington III played by Matthew Davis. Elle seems to believe that Warner is going to propose to her but we LEARN, that is not the case. Warner is going off to Massachusetts to study at Harvard Law School and he is BREAKING UP WITH ELLE because she doesn't fit this ideal partner if he intends one day to go into politics. He needs a Vanderbilt or a Kennedy or some kind of person with a historic last name and a strong family. Undeterred by this Elle Woods makes it her mission, to go from being a fashion obsessed SoCal sorority girl, get in to Harvard to prove to Warner that she is who he wants her to be…  Is this movie franchise on the list of "you ruined a good thing"? Much is being made of a new Legally Blonde movie, what does that look like?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

— Ayurveda gives you a holistic approach to living -- preventing dis-ease, aligning with your nature and nature around you, a wholesome diet, self-care practices and a way of being that suits YOU. Ayurveda helps you improve the quality of your life and add longevity. The goal is to awaken and reignite your innate ability to heal. Each cell in your body has the profound wisdom it needs to be healthy. Ayurveda helps you realign to that wisdom. Valeria interviews Dr. (Vaidya) Ram Tamang — he is an Ayurvedic Physician, trained as a doctor at the esteemed Ayurvedic University, MGR Medical University at Coimbatore, India. Dr Ram grew up learning about herbs and medicines from his grandmother, in the foothills of the Himalayas in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dr. Ram also holds a Certificate as a Master Herbalist from GCNM, USA and is one of 700 elite Certified High Performance Coaches (CHPC)  in the world. After graduating as a Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine (BAMS) he headed the Panchakarma department at The Ayurvedic Retreat Center in Kunoor, India and worked side by side with Allopathic Doctors. Over the next few years, he was invited to teach and tour many schools and organizations in Europe, Nepal and India. As the founder and owner of The Healing Gardens of Ayurveda, Dr. Ram has helped build and sustain a growing community of people passionate about the value of Ayurvedic Medicine.  Dr. Ram is a charismatic speaker and educator and offers numerous workshops and seminars for various organizations. In 2006, he started his practice in Orange County, South California and has been practicing full time for the last 18 years at the Healing Gardens of Ayurveda, a full-service Ayurvedic clinic. He is also a faculty with several Ayurvedic schools in the US such as Kerala Ayurveda Academy and the Dancing Shiva Yoga & Ayurveda School. Over the last 20 years of his practice, he has served thousands of his clients to make changes in their lives and empower themselves with self-healing. He truly believes that “health is in your hands” and that each of us has a responsibility and desire to be healthy for ourselves, our families, our higher purpose and contribution to our world. To learn more about Dr. Ram Tamang and his work, please visit: thehealingardens.com           — This podcast is a quest for well-being, a quest for a meaningful life through the exploration of fundamental truths, enlightening ideas, insights on physical, mental, and spiritual health. The inspiration is Love. The aspiration is to awaken new ways of thinking that can lead us to a new way of being, being well. 

This week on EVN Disrupt, Arek Der-Sarkissian from Hero House Glendale joins us to recap the 2022 Armenia Tech Trip, a program that brings tech professionals from the Diaspora to Armenia to familiarize them with the country's tech sector. During the program participants visit the offices of Armenia's leading tech companies and participate in networking events with members of the industry. We also discussed Hero House Glendale, a start-up hub in South California.

In the second of our Main Channel Minisodes, Tom and Ben explore the unsettling case of John Leonard Orr. Orr was a fire captain and arson investigator in South California responsible for starting thousands of fires throughout the 1980s and 1990s. One particular fire Orr started - the 1984 South Pasadena Fire - claimed the lives of 4 people, including a baby. Tune in and all will be revealed! Check out our new merch: www.icmap.store Support ICMAP on Patreon HERE https://www.patreon.com/couldmurderapod Follow our socials: @couldmurderapod Written & Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter | @nozzer89 @thisiscarts Produced & Mixed by Dan Lambert at Boston Sound | @bstnsnd Artwork & animation by Phil Whitton | @philwhitz Opening theme by Alfie Indra | @alfieindra **Please kindly give the show a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you find us in your ears at the moment. It helps us so, so much and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks for your support. Until next time!**

Today’s featured guest isDr. Sanjay Merchantwhois Professor of Theology at the Moody Bible Institute where he teaches classes like Philosophy, Apologetics, and Trinitarian Theology. Dr.Merchant has a Bachelors’ Degree from the University of South California, a Master's in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics and a Masters in Theology from Talbot School of Theology, and a Masters in Christian Apologetics from Biola Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Merchant's dissertation focused on “Discerning the boundary between Trinitarianism and Tritheism.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep 060: One thing that we hear all the time from our clients – “You know what? I could write a book!” And we will add, our clients are great storytellers! They've lived many interesting lives and can weave their experiences into story ideas that are very compelling. BUT many of us have never written before! Where would we start? What are some things that novice writers do that get us stuck? What things SHOULD we know before we go down this road? Well, that's the premise for this show..."HOW TO WRITE YOUR BOOK AND GET PUBLISHED!" Our next guest is an award-winning investigative journalist and novelist, he is the author of 21 books and more than 4,000 articles. He also served as the senior speechwriter (wrote 232 speeches) and consultant to a guy who served two terms as Mayor of Los Angeles.  Additionally, he was the Executive Editor of one of the largest business magazines in the US, and for several years he worked as the Publishing Director for a series of health books.  He has successfully negotiated publishing contracts in 15 countries. He is also the co-founder of Sixty Degrees Publishing. Our guest enjoys sharing his passion for telling stories about the sometimes inspirational, sometimes illegal, but always compelling things that people do. His newest novel, GODS OF OUR TIME: A Paris Love Story, recently won the Best International Novel of the Year award from the Book Publicists of South California. He has written for the L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, and Reader's Digest, and he and he has been featured on CBS, NBC, ABC, 20/20, the Oxygen Channel, HBO, and more than 150 radio stations nationwide. He has worked as a freelance writer and editor for several years and now serves as CEO of Sixty Degrees Publishing, which offers an author-friendly environment 'where art and literature meet'.  He loves working with authors to help them write, publish, and promote their work. Please welcome Michael Bowker to The Retirement Success in Maine Podcast! Chapters: Welcome, Michael Bowker! [3:00] What are the right steps to take when starting your writing journey? [15:55] What things lead novice writers to get stuck? [20:25] What if I have a great story in my head, but I can't develop the skills to write? How can I get my story told? [27:20] What if my writing has some commercial success? What does a publicity tour for writing look like? [35:43] What is the process of turning a story you've written into a television series or movie? How is ownership of your work affected? [43:47] How do we go about writing our own life (or someone else's) story? [49:36] How will Michael find his personal Retirement Success? [57:49] Ben and Curtis discuss the episode. [1:01:52]

It's once again time to Bust the Slump and enjoy another episode of the Slumpbuster podcast! Kyle Ledbetter and Ju-Ju breakdown the most important headlines from both College Football and the National Football League. We begin the show by discussing Washington's 30-29 victory over the New York Giants. The Giants once again will begin the season 0-2 following late mistakes from their defense and an inability to capitalize on a late Taylor Heinicke interception. Daniel Jones may have not committed a turnover but was unable to secure the win for his team. Will the Giants begin another rebuild without Jones, Joe Judge and Dave Gettleman at the end of the 2021 season? #Giants The University of South California has big decisions to make regarding the future of their football program. The Trojans and Clay Helton parted ways earlier this week following another upset loss to Standford. Helton had 70-46 record with USC but was never able to have the team ranked within the Top-10. Names like James Franklin, Luke Fickell, Chris Peterson and more have been floated about but who is the best fit? #USC Lastly we give out week 2 picks on the following games: Dallas Cowboys (+3.5) @ Los Angeles Chargers Las Vegas Raiders (+6) @ Pittsburgh Steelers New Orleans Saints (+3.5) @ Carolina Panthers Tennessee Titans (+6.5) @ Seattle Seahawks Kansas City Chiefs (+3.5) @ Baltimore Ravens Enjoy the Show! #NFL Recorded : Friday, September 17, 2021 Music: "Flama" by Lalo Production Beats Host: Julian "Ju-Ju" Martinez Ig: @jujutalkssports | Twitter: @jujutalkssports Kyle Ledbetter Take It Easy Podcast Ig: @kyle.ledbetter619 | Twitter: @CSM_MemeInsta Sponsors: CavemanCoffeeCo.Com | PROMO CODE : SLUMP Social Media: Ig: @slumpbusterpodcast | Twitter: @slumpbusterpod Website: https://www.theslumpbuster.com/

In this episode we want to understand how easy it is to change our beliefs when we receive new information, a process that can be really uncomfortable and lead to great resistance in the psyche. The scientific community, whilst educated to update their world view based on new information and theory, are by no means immune to this resistance; today we'll find out to what extent it is just a human trait we have to accept. Now that the scientific method has become more water-tight from our biases than ever, and data collection is more sophisticated than ever, the difference between hard data and the opinion we draw from that data should also be more clear. However, the introduction of the internet and the separation of the population by social media algorithms into tribal bubbles of like-minded people, has mixed together data and opinion, confusing the scientific community and the lay population alike. So understanding the biology of belief, our discomfort and resistance to new information, and how beliefs play a part in our sense of self can really help us stay open to new data and to update our world view to match it with the necessary flexibility demanded by the sheer speed of change of our current era's technological revolution; in my opinion this awareness offers essential tools for navigating the next few decades. So who better to help us navigate this mine-field of human behaviour than cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Jonas Kaplan. His research focuses on the neural basis of consciousness, self, empathy, social relationships, action perception and creativity. Using a combination of fMRI neuro-imaging and behavioural studies he aims to examine the neural mechanisms that underlie our experience of resonating with other people and being aware of ourselves. He is the assistant Research Professor of Psychology at University of South California's ‘Brain and Creativity Institut'e and Co-Director of the Dana and David Dornslife Cognitive Neuroimaging centre. Today's chat will begin discussing his research with Sarah Gimbel and Sam Harris into a possible Backfire Effect when faced with new data. What we discuss in this episode: 00:00 Split brains and 2 separate consciousness' in one head 07:10 The Backfire Effect explained 09:00 Why do we find it so difficult to change our minds about things that we care about? 12:40 Less flexibility to changing mind associated with activated Amygdala and Insular cortices 16:00 Avoidance of situations that will challenge us to change our minds 18:15 The evolutionary intertwining between emotion and cognition 23:30 The difference between Cognitive Dissonance and The Backfire effect 25:30 Reason is coloured by underlying motivation 29:00 Sam Harris and the neural basis of belief 31:45 The algorithmic belief bubbles of a post internet world 37:20 The Default Mode Network's narrative about self, is less active in meditators 40:00 Utilitarian values VS idealogical/sacred values 45:00 The Left Brain interpreter and making up narratives to keep our world view consistent PART 2 58:00 What is self and is it an illusion? 1:01:30 Demasio's ‘Core' and ‘Autobiographical' self 1:04:00 Mental concepts are useful provisional illusions in some sense 1:08:00 The blur between ‘self' and ‘other' 1:11:50 Belonging and social group membership and it's influence on beliefs 1:21:00 Self is a narrative about ourselves 1:22:00 Exceptional experience revealing the illusion of self and the fear of ego death 1:26:45 The biology of belief: the mind body connection References: The left Brain Interpreter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter Antonio Demasio ‘Descartes Error' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_Error Jonas' new podcast

For a Party chosen by history, the CCP spends a lot of money targeting foreign media outlets and governments. In this episode, a panel of researchers discusses why China—or any autocracy—cares what the world thinks of it, and how it tries to shape its global image. We ask whether the CCP’s media outreach and lobbying operations bear fruit, or are readily seen through as clumsy propaganda. This week, Graeme is joined by Louisa and the Little Red Podcast’s researcher Julia Bergin, discuss a survey on China’s global media outreach that they've just conducted for the International Federation of Journalists, as well as political scientist Erin Baggott Carter from the University of South California, and Alex Dukalskis from University College Dublin who has just written a book called Making the World Safe for Dictatorship.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the great things about investing in real estate is that the returns you get from a property can come from so many different places. Today's guest is Guido Nunez and he joins us to talk about all the creative ways he has boosted his net operating income to take home bigger profits at the end of the day. Our conversation with Guido centers specifically around the strategies he has implemented on his 16-unit in South California. He kicks things off by sharing how he has utilized government rebates to save money on his value add and increase CapEx too. Next up, we drill down on how Guido is leveraging economies of scale by partnering with nearby services, and how he has managed to raise his rents by offering pet-friendly and refrigerator rental services to tenants who need them. Tune in to hear some actionable and creative strategies from today's great guest that you can use to bump up your NOI on your next deal!Key Points From This Episode:A quick intro on Guido and the real estate he has under management.How Guido found out he could get rebates while revamping his 16-unit in South California.The process of applying for rebates and how much Guido ended up saving.CapEx benefits provided by the low-flow toilets Guido got rebates for.Tips from Guido about looking for rebates and how to apply.How Guido is leveraging economies of scale to save money through collaboration.Pet-friendly value adds Guido has done to boost prospects for new tenants.Another competitive advantage Guido found by renting refrigerators to tenants.Guido's asset management superpower.How to get in touch with Guido online.Tweetables:“We saved about $3000 on low-flow toilets. We saved about 35% on the water utility bill.” — Guido Nunez [0:02:35]“You have to be unafraid to go up to everybody and anybody any time you think they could help you with your circle of operations.” — Guido Nunez [0:04:32]“Every time we put out market information we make sure we advertise pet-friendly. From that end, we always boost up the number of prospects we get.” — Guido Nunez [0:06:24]Links Mentioned in Today's Episode:Guido Nunez on LinkedinAsset Management Mastery Facebook GroupPassive Income Through Multifamily Real Estate Facebook Group Free Call with Kyle or LalitaKyle Mitchell on LinkedInGary Lipsky on LinkedInGary Lipsky on TwitterRedIQGarzella Group 

https://youtu.be/fHmxbQqefrc Chad Willardson is the founder and CEO of Pacific Capital, a fiduciary wealth management firm, the co-founder of The Draft Sports Complex, and twice-elected City Treasurer of Corona, California. He recently published Stress-Free Money: Overcome These Seven Obstacles to Find Financial Freedom, which already accumulated 89 five-star reviews on Amazon.     --- Gain 100 Points of Clarity with Chad Willardson Our guest is here Chad Willardson, who is the CEO and founder of Pacific Capital, which is a fiduciary wealth management firm. Chad is also the co-founder of the Draft Sports Complex. He is the twice elected treasurer of the city of Corona in California. And most recently, he is the author of the book, Special Money, that recently came out and has 89 five-star reviews on Amazon. So welcome to the show, Chad. Thank you. I'm very happy to be here. I appreciate it. I'm excited to have you. So you seem to have your hand in a lot of different parts. So tell us a little bit about your journey. How did you become an entrepreneur? I became an entrepreneur a little bit by accident. I'm not one of those people who was a kid that started all kinds of businesses. That wasn't really me. But I was at Merrill Lynch. I'd been there nine years in the wealth management investment department, if you will, and I just felt like it wasn't everything that clients wanted and it wasn't everything that I wanted. It just wasn't ideal. After the financial crisis of 2008, a lot of things changed with the big banks and it very impersonal and bureaucratic and slow. And it just felt like this is not where I'm gonna spend the next 30 years of my life. And so on 11. 11. 11, I started Pacific Capital, an independent advisory firm. And it was a big risk to leave that corporate Wall Street environment. There were a lot of security, even just the having a nice big income there and security of that, everything disappeared as I became an entrepreneur for the first time. But looking back, it's the greatest move I could have made. So since then, we work with entrepreneurs as our clients, and I've been able to come across other opportunities to be a part of, like the Sports Complex business in South California here. That's been great. So that's kind of how my journey came out of discomfort and dissatisfaction that led me to become an entrepreneur. And I think that's probably a lot of the stories of your audience that and your clients that really just felt like there has to be a better way. And so they decided to create that way. That definitely happens. There are people, they either get tired of being in a big bureaucratic organization or they feel like they create more value than they get paid for. And they think they can do it for themselves. Or sometimes they get laid off and then they pick up a franchise and they do it. So there's many, many different ways. Very few people do it the way that maybe most people think entrepreneurs are born, which is they want to be an entrepreneur all their lives and they do it from the get-go. So where are you with Pacific Capital right now? What was the journey? It's been nine years. Yeah. You have a bunch of employees now. It's been nine years, so we've grown. Thankfully, we've grown each of those nine years. So every year has been a record year. We started from scratch, obviously, but we've grown significantly. In all my responsibilities, I'm now in charge of about $620 million. So it's a lot of money for me to be essentially have stewardship over. And I've got, luckily I've got a great support team. So we have specialists in many different areas on our team at Pacific Capital, but we've got really seven full-time employees and then some part-time and some interns and things like that, and some more independent contractor types outside of that. But our core seven really do the bulk of the work here on the team. And how did you build this company? Was it just by trial and error or did you use so...

On this episode I chat with Tommy Gelinas owner and creator of the Valley Relics Museum located in the famous 'Valley' of South California. We talk about how he started the museum, and his passion for preserving the past, and how he shares his love for the valley with everyone. We talk about the amount of history that the valley has had over the years from the automobile industry, the bmx industry and the film and music industry. There is so much history in the valley, so much started there and it needs to be shared and acknowledged with the world, and Tommy has created the perfect museum for all to enjoy. So listen now to how Tommy lives a healthy PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) lifestyle and his approach on continually accomplishing his goals and dreams to inspire others. Stay Rad. FOLLOW: @rickthorne @goodguysinblack @therickthorneshow @theprintlab @merchmethod @valleyrelicsmuseum