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The days of calling it an โ€œalleged recordingโ€ are over. Aidan recorded Karen without her consent. Then he played that recording for multiple people with one purpose- to turn them against her. Everything Iโ€™m saying below is based on what Aidan himself told me, repeatedly, long before any of this went public. And to make it even clearer, Iโ€™m including a clip in the comments of Aidan admitting directly to me that: He did record Karen, He lied about Nurse Kim not hearing it, He said it was โ€œnot a big deal,โ€ and He admitted he has zero proof that I shared anything, because I didnโ€™t. Heโ€™s publicly accusing me of something he knows he canโ€™t prove because it never happened. Who he shared the recording with These names arenโ€™t guesses or assumptions. They came straight from Aidan. -Nurse Kim -Will -Jimmy (Auntie Deb) -Jess Machado -Others Iโ€™m not naming because they havenโ€™t lied publicly or attacked me. Will heard it. Kim heard it. Jimmy heard it. Jess publicly admitted she heard it. Aidan told each of us at different times. The initial list of 4 has since grown exponentially because he forgot who he shared it with. This is what he does. He overshares, forgets who he told, and then lies when the fallout hits. The Timeline August 26: Howie Carr announces Karen Read and team will join show. Aidan melts down and makes now-deleted tweet bashing Howie Carr. Throws shade at both Karen and Howie on his show. He even tried to beg the producer to let him go on with her. He eventually bashes said producer on twitter as well. August 28: Karen goes on Howie Carr show. Aidan throws a hissy fit because she didnโ€™t thank him (after heโ€™d been subtly attacking her for months and for going on Howieโ€™s show at all). Aug 29: Karen and Aidan have a phone call. She gets rightfully angry with him, he stays calm and secretly records her. He then uses that recording to try to convince other content creators to turn on her. At first, he told me only 4 people heard it that same day, but now that is unknown. Like everything with Aidan, he shares things impulsively and forgets who he told after. Aug 30: The very next day, someone tells Karen that she was recorded and that Will and others have heard it. Karen contacts Will and he denies hearing it. Karen accuses Aidan directly of recording her and express what a betrayal it is. Sept 1: Aidan and I speak for the first time in over a month since our breakup. He tells me Karen is โ€œaccusing him of recording her.โ€ I asked, โ€œWellโ€ฆ did you?โ€ He said yes, and followed it with, โ€œBut I think sheโ€™s bluffing because she probably doesnโ€™t have a recording.โ€ I told him thatโ€™s a very specific accusation to make out of nowhere, sheโ€™s never accused you of recording her before, someone clearly told her. He repeated the same four names he claimed heard it. He was sure no one would dare betray him by doing the right thing and being honest with Karen. (Again, that list has grown since, because he lies, shares, forgets, and backtracks.) The Following week Karen repeatedly tells him she knows he recorded her. Aidan repeatedly lies and denies it. September 8 I hear the recording myself for the first time, during lunch with him. I don't ask to hear the recording, he shoves his phone in my face to listen. The recording is not what he described, where he painted Karen as an evil c*nt, just as he's done to his followers. Karen is rightfully angry and fed up with Aidan's antics. By this point, Karen already had the recording. Whoever told Karen was not me, because I didnโ€™t even know the recording existed yet. Multiple people lied to her. She knows who they are. Someone eventually came clean. It wasnโ€™t me. Karen never wanted Aidan to be criminally charged for this or โ€œsend him to jailโ€ as heโ€™s spun his narrative. Neither did I. All she wanted was for people to stop lying to her and for Aidan to stop disrespecting her. I happily lied for Aidan for quite awhile, but since heโ€™s used me as the scapegoat for the recording leak, thatโ€™s over. Why People Lie People ask why these creators denied hearing it. Because they didnโ€™t want to choose between Aidan and Karen. They wanted continued access, relevance, and possible media opportunities. For example, Kim told me during a two-hour call in October that she โ€œdidnโ€™t know it was illegalโ€ when she heard it and felt for Karen. Sure, a loyal Turtleboy follower doesnโ€™t know about wiretapping laws. But she also didnโ€™t want the Turtleboy wrath. She denied it publicly because she wanted to keep doors open with Karen. So she went along to try to keep playing both sides. Fine with me, until she started publicly bashing me too. To the Creators Pushing Aidanโ€™s Narrativeโ€ฆ Shame On You You spent two years defending Karen, raising money off her name, and building platforms on her story, then the minute Aidan needed cover, you parroted every lie he fed you to tear her down. Hypocrisy doesnโ€™t even begin to cover it. Tonight Heโ€™s bringing on the same creators who have been lying for the last two months, the same people who denied hearing the recording even though they did. Letโ€™s see what happens tonight. Will they keep lying? Will they keep dragging Karen to protect him? Or will they finally tell the truth now that the lies have collapsed? Because the truth is no longer โ€œalleged.โ€ The clip Iโ€™m posting proves exactly what happened, in Aidanโ€™s own voice. I never wanted to do any of this. I never wanted a public war. But at some point, youโ€™re pushed so far you have no choice. Now the truth is out, all of it, including the part straight from Aidanโ€™s mouth.
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The days of calling it an โ€œalleged recordingโ€ are over. Aidan recorded Karen without her consent. Then he played that recording for multiple people with one purpose- to turn them against her. Everything Iโ€™m saying below is based on what Aidan himself told me, repeatedly, long before any of this went public. And to make it even clearer, Iโ€™m including a clip in the comments of Aidan admitting directly to me that: He did record Karen, He lied about Nurse Kim not hearing it, He said it was โ€œnot a big deal,โ€ and He admitted he has zero proof that I shared anything, because I didnโ€™t. Heโ€™s publicly accusing me of something he knows he canโ€™t prove because it never happened. Who he shared the recording with These names arenโ€™t guesses or assumptions. They came straight from Aidan. -Nurse Kim -Will -Jimmy (Auntie Deb) -Jess Machado -Others Iโ€™m not naming because they havenโ€™t lied publicly or attacked me. Will heard it. Kim heard it. Jimmy heard it. Jess publicly admitted she heard it. Aidan told each of us at different times. The initial list of 4 has since grown exponentially because he forgot who he shared it with. This is what he does. He overshares, forgets who he told, and then lies when the fallout hits. The Timeline August 26: Howie Carr announces Karen Read and team will join show. Aidan melts down and makes now-deleted tweet bashing Howie Carr. Throws shade at both Karen and Howie on his show. He even tried to beg the producer to let him go on with her. He eventually bashes said producer on twitter as well. August 28: Karen goes on Howie Carr show. Aidan throws a hissy fit because she didnโ€™t thank him (after heโ€™d been subtly attacking her for months and for going on Howieโ€™s show at all). Aug 29: Karen and Aidan have a phone call. She gets rightfully angry with him, he stays calm and secretly records her. He then uses that recording to try to convince other content creators to turn on her. At first, he told me only 4 people heard it that same day, but now that is unknown. Like everything with Aidan, he shares things impulsively and forgets who he told after. Aug 30: The very next day, someone tells Karen that she was recorded and that Will and others have heard it. Karen contacts Will and he denies hearing it. Karen accuses Aidan directly of recording her and express what a betrayal it is. Sept 1: Aidan and I speak for the first time in over a month since our breakup. He tells me Karen is โ€œaccusing him of recording her.โ€ I asked, โ€œWellโ€ฆ did you?โ€ He said yes, and followed it with, โ€œBut I think sheโ€™s bluffing because she probably doesnโ€™t have a recording.โ€ I told him thatโ€™s a very specific accusation to make out of nowhere, sheโ€™s never accused you of recording her before, someone clearly told her. He repeated the same four names he claimed heard it. He was sure no one would dare betray him by doing the right thing and being honest with Karen. (Again, that list has grown since, because he lies, shares, forgets, and backtracks.) The Following week Karen repeatedly tells him she knows he recorded her. Aidan repeatedly lies and denies it. September 8 I hear the recording myself for the first time, during lunch with him. I don't ask to hear the recording, he shoves his phone in my face to listen. The recording is not what he described, where he painted Karen as an evil c*nt, just as he's done to his followers. Karen is rightfully angry and fed up with Aidan's antics. By this point, Karen already had the recording. Whoever told Karen was not me, because I didnโ€™t even know the recording existed yet. Multiple people lied to her. She knows who they are. Someone eventually came clean. It wasnโ€™t me. Karen never wanted Aidan to be criminally charged for this or โ€œsend him to jailโ€ as heโ€™s spun his narrative. Neither did I. All she wanted was for people to stop lying to her and for Aidan to stop disrespecting her. I happily lied for Aidan for quite awhile, but since heโ€™s used me as the scapegoat for the recording leak, thatโ€™s over. Why People Lie People ask why these creators denied hearing it. Because they didnโ€™t want to choose between Aidan and Karen. They wanted continued access, relevance, and possible media opportunities. For example, Kim told me during a two-hour call in October that she โ€œdidnโ€™t know it was illegalโ€ when she heard it and felt for Karen. Sure, a loyal Turtleboy follower doesnโ€™t know about wiretapping laws. But she also didnโ€™t want the Turtleboy wrath. She denied it publicly because she wanted to keep doors open with Karen. So she went along to try to keep playing both sides. Fine with me, until she started publicly bashing me too. To the Creators Pushing Aidanโ€™s Narrativeโ€ฆ Shame On You You spent two years defending Karen, raising money off her name, and building platforms on her story, then the minute Aidan needed cover, you parroted every lie he fed you to tear her down. Hypocrisy doesnโ€™t even begin to cover it. Tonight Heโ€™s bringing on the same creators who have been lying for the last two months, the same people who denied hearing the recording even though they did. Letโ€™s see what happens tonight. Will they keep lying? Will they keep dragging Karen to protect him? Or will they finally tell the truth now that the lies have collapsed? Because the truth is no longer โ€œalleged.โ€ The clip Iโ€™m posting proves exactly what happened, in Aidanโ€™s own voice. I never wanted to do any of this. I never wanted a public war. But at some point, youโ€™re pushed so far you have no choice. Now the truth is out, all of it, including the part straight from Aidanโ€™s mouth.

The old M canโ€™t come to the phone right now

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Full victory speech of The Green Party's Hannah Spencer who wins the Gorton and Denton by Election: 14,980 - Greens 10,578 - Reform UK 9,364 - Labour "Okay. with me because this is a lot" "I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber" "And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer" "Because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done" "I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do" "Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something" "It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere" "But now? Working hard? What does that get you?" "Because talk to anyone here and they will tell you, the people who work hard but can't put food on the table, can't get their kids school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't live off the pension they worked hard to save for, can't even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever "Because life has changed" "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires" "We are being bled dry" "And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life" "And I don't think that if you're not able to work that you should still have a nice life" "I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life" "And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that" "Because I've made clear my position and my commitment to working class communities, the community that I am from" "People in their thousands told me on the doorsteps and at the ballot box, that what we are sick of is being let down and looked down on, that we are sick of our hard work making other people rich" "I lived in this constituency at one of the most difficult and challenging periods of my life" "I saw how strong the community was at holding things together" "But I saw how much harder life is when the things around you are broken, the litter, the fly-tipping, the dirty air" "And when I moved, it became even clearer. And this is why I am fighting for the community that I lived in and that I still work in" "Because I absolutely refuse to accept that we should ever have to move and leave our our communities for good schools, a thriving high street, and clean air. And I will not accept a society where having more money gets you a longer life expectancy" "And so when it came to fighting for people here, to stand in this election, well, how could I not fight? Because here, this is what we do" "We fight for each other in this very diverse constituency, where our struggles might not always be the same, but where we know how hard life can be and we stick together" "Whatever our beliefs, our backgrounds, our color, or our level of education, we stick up for each other" "And to those who voted for me, I know that earning your trust starts now" "One vote on one night is not something I will take for granted or assume will happen again" "I will earn your trust" "And to those who didn't vote for me, I will always work hard for you, and I will always be honest, and I will always be decent" "To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan, whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe" "And whilst we were gathered and eating together, an act of terror could easily have taken place" "And I can't and won't accept this victory tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society" "My Muslim friends and neighbors are just like me, human" "And of course, to our White working class communities, the background that I have become so proud to be from" "We know how it feels to be looked down on, maybe because we didn't do well at school, maybe because we do dirty manual jobs, because we are shut out of places we should be in" "To people here in Gorton and Denton, who feel left behind and isolated, I see you and I will fight for you" "Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labeled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here, especially over the last few weeks, is how similar we all actually are. How we have common ground, how we get along, how we stand up for each other" "The cracks that were starting to show can be healed, and I believe that it is through offering people hope and a chance to do things differently and do things better" "Now to my customers, I'm sorry, but I think I might have to cancel the work that you have booked in, because I'm heading to Parliament" "And when I get there, I will make space for everyone doing jobs like mine. We will finally get a seat at the table" "And to Layla, the little girl who had the pleasure of meeting and holding this week, I promised you I would try and improve the world that you are growing up in. I told you that I am not perfect, but that I always try my best" "I always try and do the right thing" "Now something exciting is definitely happening and I invite you all to be part of it" "Come and join the Green Party so that we can spread hope and win everywhere across the country" "Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together. We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other" "We can demand better without hating each other. We can do that together" "We ran a hopeful campaign backed by thousands of volunteers and activists" "We defeated the parties of billionaire donors" "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all, and we did this with the people who live here side by side, shoulder to shoulder, just as we have always done in this constituency and in the whole of Greater Manchester. Because this is is Manchester and we do things differently here" "Thank you so, so much to everybody" "Thank you"
6:53

Full victory speech of The Green Party's Hannah Spencer who wins the Gorton and Denton by Election: 14,980 - Greens 10,578 - Reform UK 9,364 - Labour "Okay. with me because this is a lot" "I didn't grow up wanting to be a politician. I'm a plumber" "And two weeks ago, during all this, I also qualified as a plasterer" "Because even in chaos, even under pressure, I get things done" "I am no different to every single person here in this constituency. I work hard. That is what we do" "Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades. Because working hard used to get you something" "It got you a house, a nice life, holidays. It got you somewhere" "But now? Working hard? What does that get you?" "Because talk to anyone here and they will tell you, the people who work hard but can't put food on the table, can't get their kids school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't live off the pension they worked hard to save for, can't even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever "Because life has changed" "Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires" "We are being bled dry" "And I don't think it's extreme or radical to think working hard should get you a nice life" "And I don't think that if you're not able to work that you should still have a nice life" "I think that absolutely everybody should get a nice life" "And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that" "Because I've made clear my position and my commitment to working class communities, the community that I am from" "People in their thousands told me on the doorsteps and at the ballot box, that what we are sick of is being let down and looked down on, that we are sick of our hard work making other people rich" "I lived in this constituency at one of the most difficult and challenging periods of my life" "I saw how strong the community was at holding things together" "But I saw how much harder life is when the things around you are broken, the litter, the fly-tipping, the dirty air" "And when I moved, it became even clearer. And this is why I am fighting for the community that I lived in and that I still work in" "Because I absolutely refuse to accept that we should ever have to move and leave our our communities for good schools, a thriving high street, and clean air. And I will not accept a society where having more money gets you a longer life expectancy" "And so when it came to fighting for people here, to stand in this election, well, how could I not fight? Because here, this is what we do" "We fight for each other in this very diverse constituency, where our struggles might not always be the same, but where we know how hard life can be and we stick together" "Whatever our beliefs, our backgrounds, our color, or our level of education, we stick up for each other" "And to those who voted for me, I know that earning your trust starts now" "One vote on one night is not something I will take for granted or assume will happen again" "I will earn your trust" "And to those who didn't vote for me, I will always work hard for you, and I will always be honest, and I will always be decent" "To our Muslim communities, who this week suffered an attempted attack during Ramadan, whilst I was being welcomed by women at a mosque in Longsight, someone just down the road walked into a mosque carrying an axe" "And whilst we were gathered and eating together, an act of terror could easily have taken place" "And I can't and won't accept this victory tonight without calling out the politicians and divisive figures who constantly scapegoat and blame our communities for all the problems in society" "My Muslim friends and neighbors are just like me, human" "And of course, to our White working class communities, the background that I have become so proud to be from" "We know how it feels to be looked down on, maybe because we didn't do well at school, maybe because we do dirty manual jobs, because we are shut out of places we should be in" "To people here in Gorton and Denton, who feel left behind and isolated, I see you and I will fight for you" "Because whilst our communities may sometimes be labeled in different ways, the thing everyone seems to have underestimated here, especially over the last few weeks, is how similar we all actually are. How we have common ground, how we get along, how we stand up for each other" "The cracks that were starting to show can be healed, and I believe that it is through offering people hope and a chance to do things differently and do things better" "Now to my customers, I'm sorry, but I think I might have to cancel the work that you have booked in, because I'm heading to Parliament" "And when I get there, I will make space for everyone doing jobs like mine. We will finally get a seat at the table" "And to Layla, the little girl who had the pleasure of meeting and holding this week, I promised you I would try and improve the world that you are growing up in. I told you that I am not perfect, but that I always try my best" "I always try and do the right thing" "Now something exciting is definitely happening and I invite you all to be part of it" "Come and join the Green Party so that we can spread hope and win everywhere across the country" "Our strength will grow as more and more of us come together. We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other" "We can demand better without hating each other. We can do that together" "We ran a hopeful campaign backed by thousands of volunteers and activists" "We defeated the parties of billionaire donors" "We have shown that we don't have to accept being turned against each other at all, and we did this with the people who live here side by side, shoulder to shoulder, just as we have always done in this constituency and in the whole of Greater Manchester. Because this is is Manchester and we do things differently here" "Thank you so, so much to everybody" "Thank you"

Farrukh

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Some Big Numbers To Get Excited About Regular readers will know I often write of frustration at not moving fast enough. This mission I am on is really hard and sometimes it can seem impossibly big when I am down in the weeds dealing with dog issues on a daily basis. I have to say though that writing this tonight and looking through some numbers I feel for the first time that I am starting to make some large scale progressโ€ฆ A Second Island ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿฅฅ I live and help the dogs on the island of Koh Samui. There is an island of equal size called Koh Phangan just across the water. You probably have heard of it as the home of the world famous Full Moon Party. They have a similar problem with street dogs. Since the the 1st May I have starting funding a wonderful foundation called PACS to sterilise dogs there. They are starting with 50 this month. This is going to stop 1000s of future puppies. A big step. 90,000 Meals Served in 2023 So Far ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ The cooking never stops. The dogs are all starting to benefit from a consistent and healthy meal per day. All the food is prepared in a central kitchen and handed out to volunteers to feed their dogs. With 5000 meals served per week around the island it blows my mind that soon we will serve the 100,000th wholesome plate of food in 2023. It wasnโ€™t that long ago I was driving around on my moped with a 10kg bag of dry food feeding a paltry 20 dogs per day on my own. 7 Puppies Re-Homed ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ  In the last couple of weeks there have been 25-30 puppies show up. It can be incredibly tough to find them homes but thanks to a great Thai lady I have been able to get 7 into their forever homes around the country. It has involved a lot of vet visits, 1000kms of travel and lots of expense but that is 7 dogs who have a future now who wouldnโ€™t have made it otherwise. 2 Miracles For Lady ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜Š The first miracle for Lady was the fact that she got off the street and was able to start walking a little again despite her two broken hips. Weโ€™ve been getting her a lot of treatment and she is thriving. Her 2nd miracle was when a lovely newly retired gentleman called Jamie spotted her and offered Lady a forever home to live out her life right here on the island. Nobody usually wants old and sick dogs so this incredibly selfless act is the huge slice of luck that Lady deserved after all the suffering she has endured. The Best Day Of Tinaโ€™s Life ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿฅฐ Tina was used for breeding puppies. We all saw the horrendous state she was in when she was rescued. Last week she was well enough to be sterilised so as she never has to have another puppy in her life again. It might seem like a small footnote in the bigger scheme of things but it was a moment of closure for this wonderful lady who has suffered so much. She can now just focus on being a dog for for the first time in her life and sharing all the love she has to give. Tina was the 521st dog I have sterilised since starting. King Whacker Of Scotland ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโœˆ๏ธ Whacker is a very special dog who was one of the first arrivals back in November. Someone had tried to kill him with a pick axe. After recovering he turned into a true gent and is the big boss at the land. I promised he would never have to go back on the streets and this week after a process to find him the right home he got the news that he will be heading to Glasgow. Long live Whacker, the King of Scotland. 125 Dogs To Be Sterilised In May โœ‚๏ธ๐Ÿ• I spoke about how abstract sterilising can be for many people to understand but it is what will save the most dogs from suffering. In all of 2022 I was able to do 302 dogs. In the month of May alone I have a minimum target to fund 125. In June I hope to take that to 250 dogs for the month. Not easy and very expensive but Iโ€™m putting the groundwork in place to scale this up. Nothing is more important. Little Rodney was in getting the snip last week as one of the dogs this month. 7 European Dogs ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ›ซ By the end of June there will be 7 dogs who have traveled to Europe. Lottie, Hope, King Whacker, Rodney and Moritz will join Little Squeak and Peaches who just arrived in Germany. I canโ€™t explain how hard it is to figure all this stuff out and get the processes in place. Iโ€™m focusing on Europe now as it is the easiest for travel and paperwork but the rest of the world will happen soon too. Itโ€™s only 7 dogs but seeing them in their homes or about to travel makes me so happy and proud for them all. Progress The suffering I see on a daily basis for street dogs means that I am never really happy with the speed and progress of my mission. I just want to help them all immediately but that isnโ€™t possible. Having said that, reading this update and knowing what else is coming in the pipeline makes me feel that I am making genuine progress. Between food, funding sterilisations, medical care and re-homing dogs I can genuinely now say Iโ€™m helping 100s of dogs per month but also stopping the suffering of 1000s in the future. As I always say I could never do any of this without the online support and good wishes of everybody on the mission with me. I donโ€™t feel like I am alone doing this. My role is to make sure I donโ€™t waste all the support and ensure I think of ways to move faster and execute accordingly. A lot done, a lore more to do. Big Love Niall P.S You can always support by donating here...
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Some Big Numbers To Get Excited About Regular readers will know I often write of frustration at not moving fast enough. This mission I am on is really hard and sometimes it can seem impossibly big when I am down in the weeds dealing with dog issues on a daily basis. I have to say though that writing this tonight and looking through some numbers I feel for the first time that I am starting to make some large scale progressโ€ฆ A Second Island ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿฅฅ I live and help the dogs on the island of Koh Samui. There is an island of equal size called Koh Phangan just across the water. You probably have heard of it as the home of the world famous Full Moon Party. They have a similar problem with street dogs. Since the the 1st May I have starting funding a wonderful foundation called PACS to sterilise dogs there. They are starting with 50 this month. This is going to stop 1000s of future puppies. A big step. 90,000 Meals Served in 2023 So Far ๐Ÿฅ˜๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ The cooking never stops. The dogs are all starting to benefit from a consistent and healthy meal per day. All the food is prepared in a central kitchen and handed out to volunteers to feed their dogs. With 5000 meals served per week around the island it blows my mind that soon we will serve the 100,000th wholesome plate of food in 2023. It wasnโ€™t that long ago I was driving around on my moped with a 10kg bag of dry food feeding a paltry 20 dogs per day on my own. 7 Puppies Re-Homed ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ  In the last couple of weeks there have been 25-30 puppies show up. It can be incredibly tough to find them homes but thanks to a great Thai lady I have been able to get 7 into their forever homes around the country. It has involved a lot of vet visits, 1000kms of travel and lots of expense but that is 7 dogs who have a future now who wouldnโ€™t have made it otherwise. 2 Miracles For Lady ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜Š The first miracle for Lady was the fact that she got off the street and was able to start walking a little again despite her two broken hips. Weโ€™ve been getting her a lot of treatment and she is thriving. Her 2nd miracle was when a lovely newly retired gentleman called Jamie spotted her and offered Lady a forever home to live out her life right here on the island. Nobody usually wants old and sick dogs so this incredibly selfless act is the huge slice of luck that Lady deserved after all the suffering she has endured. The Best Day Of Tinaโ€™s Life ๐Ÿ•๐Ÿฅฐ Tina was used for breeding puppies. We all saw the horrendous state she was in when she was rescued. Last week she was well enough to be sterilised so as she never has to have another puppy in her life again. It might seem like a small footnote in the bigger scheme of things but it was a moment of closure for this wonderful lady who has suffered so much. She can now just focus on being a dog for for the first time in her life and sharing all the love she has to give. Tina was the 521st dog I have sterilised since starting. King Whacker Of Scotland ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโœˆ๏ธ Whacker is a very special dog who was one of the first arrivals back in November. Someone had tried to kill him with a pick axe. After recovering he turned into a true gent and is the big boss at the land. I promised he would never have to go back on the streets and this week after a process to find him the right home he got the news that he will be heading to Glasgow. Long live Whacker, the King of Scotland. 125 Dogs To Be Sterilised In May โœ‚๏ธ๐Ÿ• I spoke about how abstract sterilising can be for many people to understand but it is what will save the most dogs from suffering. In all of 2022 I was able to do 302 dogs. In the month of May alone I have a minimum target to fund 125. In June I hope to take that to 250 dogs for the month. Not easy and very expensive but Iโ€™m putting the groundwork in place to scale this up. Nothing is more important. Little Rodney was in getting the snip last week as one of the dogs this month. 7 European Dogs ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ›ซ By the end of June there will be 7 dogs who have traveled to Europe. Lottie, Hope, King Whacker, Rodney and Moritz will join Little Squeak and Peaches who just arrived in Germany. I canโ€™t explain how hard it is to figure all this stuff out and get the processes in place. Iโ€™m focusing on Europe now as it is the easiest for travel and paperwork but the rest of the world will happen soon too. Itโ€™s only 7 dogs but seeing them in their homes or about to travel makes me so happy and proud for them all. Progress The suffering I see on a daily basis for street dogs means that I am never really happy with the speed and progress of my mission. I just want to help them all immediately but that isnโ€™t possible. Having said that, reading this update and knowing what else is coming in the pipeline makes me feel that I am making genuine progress. Between food, funding sterilisations, medical care and re-homing dogs I can genuinely now say Iโ€™m helping 100s of dogs per month but also stopping the suffering of 1000s in the future. As I always say I could never do any of this without the online support and good wishes of everybody on the mission with me. I donโ€™t feel like I am alone doing this. My role is to make sure I donโ€™t waste all the support and ensure I think of ways to move faster and execute accordingly. A lot done, a lore more to do. Big Love Niall P.S You can always support by donating here...

Niall Harbison

193,419 Aufrufe โ€ข vor 3 Jahren

Bruce Greenwald invited Li Lu to speak to his class on value investing. The result is a 90 minute masterclass on how to be a value investor. If you haven't watched the video, do it now. If you have, it's worth re-watching. Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Li Lu ๐Ÿ‘‡ PERSONALITY OF A VALUE INVESTOR โ€ข "Understand who you are as an investor, because you will be tested. You will have to ask yourself if you truly are a value investor." โ€ข "Value investing goes against our evolution of following the crowds to survive." โ€ข "You will spend most of your time as an investigative journalist. To have insatiable curiosity." โ€ข "You almost have to be curious about everything. Because you never know where you'll get that one major insight." INVESTOR CRITERIA โ€ข Is it cheap? โ€ข Is it a good business? โ€ข Why is this opportunity available to me? "Once you answer those questions, you really have to go for it." INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 1: TIMBERLAND โ€ข "The first thing I check in a company is it's valuation." โ€ข "If you're an investor you don't care where it traded before." โ€ข "What matters isn't the price-to-book ratio itself, but what's in the book value." โ€ข "You want to compare the capital invested in the business to how much pre-tax cash flow the business generates using that capital." โ€ข "So Timberland generated $100M on $200M in capital invested. So why does the opportunity exist?" - Nike, Reebok, all the shoe brands fell off a cliff during the Asian Financial Crisis. - Founder owns 40% of the stock - Company was profitable and didn't need financial markets (no sell-side) - Tons of shareholder lawsuits โ€ข "What would be your conclusion if you were a normal mutual fund hearing this information? That management is milking the company for their own gain." What does Li Lu do next? โ€ข "I download every file of the shareholder court cases. That's the investigative journalist part." โ€ข "The result was that the founder withdrew guidance and shareholders didn't like it. That was it." How do you determine if management are decent people? โ€ข "You've got to be an investigative journalist and find the trail of evidence. Go to their community. Introduce yourself to their friends/family/neighbors." Total Time Commitment: "A couple of weeks of diligent/obsessive work" โ€ข "Investing is intensive work for short bursts of time." HOW MUCH TO BUY? โ€ข "If you go join a fund, they'll tell you not to risk anything more than 25-50bps." โ€ข "Think about how much effort you put in to this work. You have no downside and its trading at 5x profits." โ€ข "So, I put a shitload of money into Timberland. Over the next 10 years it went up 7x. It was never more than 15x earnings." โ€ข "If you're not a good analyst, you'll NEVER be a good investor." โ€ข "When it goes up, you don't have to do a damn thing. You just sit on it and ride with it." INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 2: KOREAN COMPANY โ€ข "Don't think about per-share numbers. Think of yourself as an owner." โ€ข "$236M in book value, $60M market cap, $25M net earnings." How do you know it's cheap? โ€ข "You must confirm that the earnings are there, and that the book value is real, liquid, and tangible." โ€ข "They're trading at the cash value in the bank with no debt. They have hotels and department stores that they own outright. They're making $30M+ in pre-tax earnings. And insiders own 50%." The result: Went up 5-6x VALUE INVESTING IS NOT NATURAL โ€ข "There's a lot of money in value investing. But it's still unnatural to most people." โ€ข "One thing you have to do, is you have to do the work. You have to do the reps. You can make a ton of money if you really do this stuff." โ€ข "I benefited by listening AND THEN DOING my own work. Making my own investments and mistakes." WHAT MAKES A GREAT ANALYST โ€ข "You must provide accurate and complete information. If you can't succeed on that, you can't succeed in this business." โ€ข "If you're not confident about your prediction and what you know, you can't put any money when the stock's in free fall." WHAT PROVIDES THE BIGGEST RETURNS โ€ข "Your biggest returns will come from no more than ten tremendous insights. That's it." โ€ข "The only way to build those insights is intense curiosity, intense study." INVESTING MISTAKES โ€ข "The biggest mistakes come when you buy before you've done all the work." โ€ข "My biggest mistakes aren't buying and losing money. It's not buying and missing out on 50-60x returns." HOW MANY COMPANIES SHOULD YOU BUY โ€ข "I don't have any set rules on how many stocks or companies I buy. Opportunities are sporadic and it depends on the environment." โ€ข "I usually have 3-4 big ideas. If the market is exciting, I have more opportunities. Or if the market is boring, I have fewer." HOW LI LU ALLOCATES TIME โ€ข "Most of the time I spend reading and studying about everything. Learning new companies and industries." โ€ข "If I find an idea that captivates me. I stop everything and obsess over that idea." โ€ข "Besides that, I spend a lot of time with my kid and my wife." TL;DR: โ€ข Be an investigative journalist. โ€ข Work obsessively in short bursts and spend the rest. of your time learning. โ€ข When you've done the work and have conviction, buy a shitload to make it worth it. โ€ข Before you invest $1, make sure you can answer the three big questions: Is it cheap, is the management team good, and why does the opportunity exist. โ€ข Never stop learning. โ€ข Become a curiosity machine.
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Bruce Greenwald invited Li Lu to speak to his class on value investing. The result is a 90 minute masterclass on how to be a value investor. If you haven't watched the video, do it now. If you have, it's worth re-watching. Here is a list of my favorite quotes from Li Lu ๐Ÿ‘‡ PERSONALITY OF A VALUE INVESTOR โ€ข "Understand who you are as an investor, because you will be tested. You will have to ask yourself if you truly are a value investor." โ€ข "Value investing goes against our evolution of following the crowds to survive." โ€ข "You will spend most of your time as an investigative journalist. To have insatiable curiosity." โ€ข "You almost have to be curious about everything. Because you never know where you'll get that one major insight." INVESTOR CRITERIA โ€ข Is it cheap? โ€ข Is it a good business? โ€ข Why is this opportunity available to me? "Once you answer those questions, you really have to go for it." INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 1: TIMBERLAND โ€ข "The first thing I check in a company is it's valuation." โ€ข "If you're an investor you don't care where it traded before." โ€ข "What matters isn't the price-to-book ratio itself, but what's in the book value." โ€ข "You want to compare the capital invested in the business to how much pre-tax cash flow the business generates using that capital." โ€ข "So Timberland generated $100M on $200M in capital invested. So why does the opportunity exist?" - Nike, Reebok, all the shoe brands fell off a cliff during the Asian Financial Crisis. - Founder owns 40% of the stock - Company was profitable and didn't need financial markets (no sell-side) - Tons of shareholder lawsuits โ€ข "What would be your conclusion if you were a normal mutual fund hearing this information? That management is milking the company for their own gain." What does Li Lu do next? โ€ข "I download every file of the shareholder court cases. That's the investigative journalist part." โ€ข "The result was that the founder withdrew guidance and shareholders didn't like it. That was it." How do you determine if management are decent people? โ€ข "You've got to be an investigative journalist and find the trail of evidence. Go to their community. Introduce yourself to their friends/family/neighbors." Total Time Commitment: "A couple of weeks of diligent/obsessive work" โ€ข "Investing is intensive work for short bursts of time." HOW MUCH TO BUY? โ€ข "If you go join a fund, they'll tell you not to risk anything more than 25-50bps." โ€ข "Think about how much effort you put in to this work. You have no downside and its trading at 5x profits." โ€ข "So, I put a shitload of money into Timberland. Over the next 10 years it went up 7x. It was never more than 15x earnings." โ€ข "If you're not a good analyst, you'll NEVER be a good investor." โ€ข "When it goes up, you don't have to do a damn thing. You just sit on it and ride with it." INVESTMENT CASE STUDY 2: KOREAN COMPANY โ€ข "Don't think about per-share numbers. Think of yourself as an owner." โ€ข "$236M in book value, $60M market cap, $25M net earnings." How do you know it's cheap? โ€ข "You must confirm that the earnings are there, and that the book value is real, liquid, and tangible." โ€ข "They're trading at the cash value in the bank with no debt. They have hotels and department stores that they own outright. They're making $30M+ in pre-tax earnings. And insiders own 50%." The result: Went up 5-6x VALUE INVESTING IS NOT NATURAL โ€ข "There's a lot of money in value investing. But it's still unnatural to most people." โ€ข "One thing you have to do, is you have to do the work. You have to do the reps. You can make a ton of money if you really do this stuff." โ€ข "I benefited by listening AND THEN DOING my own work. Making my own investments and mistakes." WHAT MAKES A GREAT ANALYST โ€ข "You must provide accurate and complete information. If you can't succeed on that, you can't succeed in this business." โ€ข "If you're not confident about your prediction and what you know, you can't put any money when the stock's in free fall." WHAT PROVIDES THE BIGGEST RETURNS โ€ข "Your biggest returns will come from no more than ten tremendous insights. That's it." โ€ข "The only way to build those insights is intense curiosity, intense study." INVESTING MISTAKES โ€ข "The biggest mistakes come when you buy before you've done all the work." โ€ข "My biggest mistakes aren't buying and losing money. It's not buying and missing out on 50-60x returns." HOW MANY COMPANIES SHOULD YOU BUY โ€ข "I don't have any set rules on how many stocks or companies I buy. Opportunities are sporadic and it depends on the environment." โ€ข "I usually have 3-4 big ideas. If the market is exciting, I have more opportunities. Or if the market is boring, I have fewer." HOW LI LU ALLOCATES TIME โ€ข "Most of the time I spend reading and studying about everything. Learning new companies and industries." โ€ข "If I find an idea that captivates me. I stop everything and obsess over that idea." โ€ข "Besides that, I spend a lot of time with my kid and my wife." TL;DR: โ€ข Be an investigative journalist. โ€ข Work obsessively in short bursts and spend the rest. of your time learning. โ€ข When you've done the work and have conviction, buy a shitload to make it worth it. โ€ข Before you invest $1, make sure you can answer the three big questions: Is it cheap, is the management team good, and why does the opportunity exist. โ€ข Never stop learning. โ€ข Become a curiosity machine.

Brandon Beylo

2,750,292 Aufrufe โ€ข vor 2 Jahren

If you're a Christian man, it is obvious to see that the world is controlled by Satan. Everywhere you look, we see evidence of thisโ€”from entertainment to politics to social media. It is clear that the enemy's agenda is at play, and it's an agenda designed to sabotage the men who have influence in the kingdom of God. And if youโ€™re an entrepreneur whoโ€™s been struggling with your weightโ€ฆ You are being affected by this satanic agenda. Why Your Health Is Under Spiritual Attack: My name is Gabe Pluguez, and since 2019, alongside my business partner Joey Yochheim | Default Kings , weโ€™ve been helping men break free from unhealthy patternsโ€”for good. And we donโ€™t just help men โ€œget in shape.โ€ We teach them a faith-based approach to changing their unhealthy habits so that they actually keep the weight off permanently. Like Jimโ€” shown in the video, a 70-year-old C-suite executive who lost 53 lbs in 5 months, kept it off through the holidays, and has sustained it since after working together. Like Alexโ€” shown in the video, a crypto entrepreneur and a dad of one whoโ€™s lost more than 40 lbs, has gotten abs, competes in Jiu-Jitsu, and has kept it off for over 2 years since after working together. Like Gavinโ€” shown in the video, a 50-year-old father of six who was busy running multiple businesses but still lost 32 lbs in just 12 weeks. Or like Vinnieโ€” shown in the video, an entrepreneur whoโ€™s lost 50 lbs and has kept it off for over 2 years since after working together. So hereโ€™s the thing. You already know the truth. You know that you shouldnโ€™t be eating garbage. You know that you should be exercising consistently. You know that God made you in His image and that youโ€™re designed to be strong and actually commanded to honor the body He gave you to carry out His mission for your life. Yetโ€ฆ that's not the reality you're experiencing. Why You Keep Failing to Fix This (Romans 7:15) You're experiencing exactly what Paul talks about in Romans 7:15: โ€œI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.โ€ These are your unhealthy default actions. And if youโ€™re like most Christian entrepreneurs, youโ€™re probably sacrificing your health at the altar of your business. You tell yourself: โ€ข โ€œIโ€™ll fix it later.โ€ โ€ข โ€œBusiness and family obligations come before me.โ€ But hereโ€™s something that might make you uneasyโ€ฆ That is the exact lie that the enemy wants you to believe. The Lie Thatโ€™s Keeping You Weak, Tired, and Ineffective: Satan wants you to believe the lie that you are incapable of honoring your body while stewarding everything else. He wants you: โŒ Exhausted โŒ Weakened โŒ A slave to gluttony and sloth โŒ To set a poor example to the people youโ€™re called to lead And additionally... Satan wants you dead... Early... Because if your body is weak, youโ€™re easier to tempt. If youโ€™re out of control, you have less influence over the people youโ€™re supposed to lead. And if you die earlyโ€”then youโ€™re not even here. And maybe youโ€™ve known this for a while. Youโ€™ve tried keto, intermittent fasting, Weight Watchers, Personal Trainers, or even Ozempicโ€ฆ But hereโ€™s the part you havenโ€™t heard before. Youโ€™ve Been Lied To. Youโ€™ve been trying to use a temporary Band-Aid on a spiritual wound. Mainstream diet methods promise a quick fixโ€ฆ but they leave you discouraged and defeated. Thatโ€™s why studies show that 90% of people who try these diets gain the weight back. And after so many repeated failures, you start to accept the lie from the enemyโ€” โ€œI just canโ€™t figure out this one area of life.โ€ And hereโ€™s what makes it even worse. Your pastors arenโ€™t helpingโ€”they donโ€™t talk about gluttony because theyโ€™re still struggling with it themselves. Other Christians make it harder. They say: ๐Ÿ’ฌ "Itโ€™s no big deal!" ๐Ÿ’ฌ "God gives you grace!" ๐Ÿ’ฌ "Come on, one donut wonโ€™t hurt!" But I need you to ask yourself: Are the men telling you this the type of men you respect? Are they disciplined? Are they leading by example? Or are they justifying their own addiction to comfort? How I Know Exactly What Youโ€™re Feeling: Maybe youโ€™re reading this, and you already know all of this. You know you shouldnโ€™t be eating junkโ€ฆ but you do. You know you should be working outโ€ฆ but you skip it. You know you should stop turning to food for comfortโ€ฆ but you still do. And if youโ€™re feeling convicted right now, I understand. Because I was once enslaved to sin in the exact same way. For over a decade, I was addicted to pornography. I was having premarital sex while still trying to be a Christian leader. I read my Bible, went to church, and knew exactly what I needed to doโ€ฆ Yet I kept falling into the same old pattern. I felt like I fraud. And, there was even this moment when I was finally convictedโ€”just like you are now. I told my ex-fiance: โ€œWeโ€™re not having sex anymore.โ€ She looked me dead in the eyes and said: โ€œIf weโ€™re not going to do that, then Iโ€™m leaving.โ€ And I looked right back at her and said: โ€œOkay. Leave. I choose Jesus.โ€ She walked out the door. And I was proud of myself. I thought: โ€œThank you, Lord, for the strength to make this decision. I can finally honor You.โ€ And thenโ€ฆ Less than 24 hours later, I completely caved. I went right back to the very sin I swore to leave behind. And I remember standing in the bathroom afterward, looking in the mirror, so disgusted with myself that I couldnโ€™t even make eye contact with my own reflection. I had completely lost hope. I told the devil: "You win." But that was a lie. And what I experienced next completely changed my lifeโ€” And itโ€™s the exact same process that will change yours. The Turning Point: How Everything Changed When I applied the process that Iโ€™m going to share with you today, not only did everything changeโ€ฆ I experienced blessings in this area of my life that were so far beyond anything I had ever imagined. I broke free from addiction, married the love of my life, started working on a family, and 10x'ed my business, all while staying consistent and leveling up in my own fitness And thatโ€™s when I realized: ๐Ÿ‘‰ This isnโ€™t just about losing weight. ๐Ÿ‘‰ This isnโ€™t just about not being fat anymore. This is about the blessings that God has for you on the other side of disciplineโ€”blessings so powerful, so life-changing, that once you experience them, you will be incapable of doing anything except saying, โ€œGlory to You, Lord.โ€ How Do You Actually Go About Doing This? This is the exact process that Iโ€™ve helped over 800 guys (at the time of this post) go through inside our Christian-focused coaching company, Joey and I were responsible for all the transformations you'll see at These were men just like you. Men who were: โ€ข Losing weight temporarily but always gaining it back. โ€ข Struggling with multi-decade-long food addictions. โ€ข Convicted that they were called for more. โ€ข Fathers, husbands, even pastorsโ€”who knew God could redeem this area of their life but struggled to connect their faith to their fitness. But they finally broke free. And there were three key things that made that transformation possible. #1: They Changed the Unhealthy Default Actions That Were Keeping Them Stuck All of these men were struggling with things like: โŒ Overeating and mindless snacking โŒ Skipping workouts โŒ Eating late at night, binge eating โŒ Hitting snooze, sleeping in โŒ Overdrinking, struggling with food addiction โŒ Falling off the wagon on weekends, vacations, or business travel And worst of all? ๐Ÿ‘‰ They would lose some weightโ€ฆ then let their habits slip againโ€ฆ which led to the weight coming back. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Their body fat affected not just how they fit in clothes, but how other people saw themโ€”even their daughters and wives started noticing and nagging them about it. ๐Ÿ‘‰ For some of them, their hearts had become ticking time bombs, and they knew if they didnโ€™t change, they would eventually suffer consequences that affected not just them, but their families and marriages. And even though you would think these things would be motivating enoughโ€ฆ Like youโ€™re probably thinking right now, โ€œI should be motivated enough to change.โ€ They were still choosing: โŒ Comfort over discipline. โŒ Food over their families. โŒ Laziness over being the leader their people needed them to be. #2: They Didnโ€™t Have a Sustainable, Effective Approach That Worked With Their Busy Life Most of them had already tried: ๐Ÿ“Œ Dieting, weight loss challenges, personal trainers. ๐Ÿ“Œ Just trying to โ€œget seriousโ€ and eat cleaner. ๐Ÿ“Œ Fad diets like Keto or Intermittent Fasting. ๐Ÿ“Œ Making their wife their accountability partner (which never works, because no man wants his wife to be his mommyโ€”and no wife wants to be her husbands mommy). But nothing worked, because none of these were tailored to their bodies, goals, and lifestyle. ๐Ÿ‘‰ The plans didnโ€™t fit the busyness of home life and work. ๐Ÿ‘‰ They didnโ€™t account for vacations, networking events, or client dinners. ๐Ÿ‘‰ They made them feel weird or awkward at dinner time with friends and family. ๐Ÿ‘‰ The nutrition was too complicated for their wives to support. And worst of all? They were straight-up unsustainable. So they would always fall off the wagonโ€”and the weight would always come back. #3: They Didnโ€™t Have Real Accountability From Other Christian Men They Respected They tried using: โŒ Their wives (againโ€”no wife wants to be their husbandโ€™s accountability partner). โŒ Their business network (but those guys were focused on business, not health). โŒ Their church groups (but their brothers in Christ didnโ€™t have the specialized knowledge to help them actually execute). So between: โŒ Unhealthy default actions โŒ A lack of a sustainable, effective plan โŒ Not having real accountability They stayed stuck. Thatโ€™s Why Default Kings Is Different We developed a system that actually worksโ€”one that helps you realign your default actions with your true identity in Christ. Because the problem isnโ€™t that you donโ€™t care. The problem isnโ€™t that youโ€™re unaware of these things. The problem is that your current system is failing you. Right now: ๐Ÿ“Œ Your default actions have brought you here. ๐Ÿ“Œ You donโ€™t have a sustainable approach. ๐Ÿ“Œ You donโ€™t have an effective plan. ๐Ÿ“Œ Your environment is full of people who reinforce your excuses instead of calling you higher. And every time you try to change, you keep getting pulled back into the same cycle. Thatโ€™s exactly why we built Default Kings. Because this is not just another weight loss program. This is a battle plan for Christian men. A system designed to permanently rewire your habits. A system designed to rebuild your discipline. A system designed to finally help you take back control of your body and mind. Hereโ€™s What Youโ€™ll Get Inside Default Kings: 1. A Network of Christian Entrepreneurs Who Refuse to Let You Fail Youโ€™ll be surrounded by other Christian entrepreneurs who are walking the same walk. Youโ€™ll see the men who have already broken free. And when life gets hard, when you get busy, when motivation fadesโ€ฆThis brotherhood will step in and keep you accountable. Because this isnโ€™t just about fitness. This is about transforming into the man God called you to be. 2. The Default Actions Framework This is where the mindset shift happens. We help you reprogram your default actions at the core so that: โœ… Instead of battling cravings, you instinctively make better food choices. โœ… Instead of forcing yourself to work out, you naturally show up and execute. โœ… Instead of gaining the weight back, you become the man whose habits keep the weight off. This isnโ€™t about forcing discipline. This is about making discipline natural. 3. A Simple, Results-Driven Eating System That Works in Real Life Forget: โŒ Extreme diets. โŒ Cutting out carbs or red meat. โŒ Being too busy to eat healthy. Youโ€™ll learn to eat in a way that actually increases your energy while still enjoying life. You will not be: โŒ That weird guy bringing Tupperware to client dinners. โŒ The guy starving himself and feeling miserable. โŒ The guy who canโ€™t enjoy a meal with his wife and kids. This is not a temporary fix. This is a sustainable way of eating that you can stick to for good. 4. A Custom Training System Designed for Busy Christian Men Your training plan will be completely customized to fit your schedule. You donโ€™t have time to train like a bodybuilder for 2 hours a dayโ€”so we focus on efficiency. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you can commit just 45 minutes, 3โ€“4 times a week, you can do this. ๐Ÿ“Œ If youโ€™re even busier, we can make it even more efficient. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you have more time and want to push harder, weโ€™ll structure it accordingly. This isnโ€™t just about losing weight. This is about building muscle and becoming physically capableโ€”so that when the weight is off, you look in the mirror and see a man who reflects the strength and discipline God created you to have. 5. Direct Access to Expert Coaching and 24/7 Accountability You will not be left to figure this out alone. Inside Default Kings, youโ€™ll have one-on-one access to: โœ”๏ธ Me โœ”๏ธ Joey โœ”๏ธ Our client success specialists Whenever you have a question, need an adjustment, or feel stuck, you will have direct access to expert support. No matter: ๐Ÿ“Œ What adjustments you need ๐Ÿ“Œ What schedule changes come up ๐Ÿ“Œ What travel plans you have We will personally make sure you stay on track. And even if you have pre-existing injuries or limitations, we will customize everything specifically for you. 6. Weekly Live Group Coaching Calls Inside the DK Inner Circle, youโ€™ll have access to weekly group coaching calls where weโ€™ll: ๐Ÿ“Œ Give you direct feedback to ensure you see results as quickly as possible. ๐Ÿ“Œ Help you rewire your default actions and overcome spiritual and mental barriers. ๐Ÿ“Œ Bring our faith into our fitnessโ€”yes, some of these calls will involve opening your Bible and seeing what God has to say about your health, habits, and mindset. This isnโ€™t just physical transformation. This is spiritual transformation. 7. The Default Kings Private App Everything you need will be housed inside our private DK app, including: ๐Ÿ“Œ Your custom, step-by-step workout plans so you know exactly what to do. ๐Ÿ“Œ Structured meal guidance that adapts to your life. ๐Ÿ“Œ Real-time progress tracking so you can see how far youโ€™ve come. No more guessing what to eat or wasting time in the gym not knowing what to do. This is a battle-tested system built to make results effortless. And yesโ€”if you have any injuries or limitations, the entire plan will be built specifically for you. The Most Complete System Ever Created for Christian Entrepreneurs: ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t just another weight loss program. ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t a fad diet. ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t another โ€œchallengeโ€ that leaves you gaining the weight back. This is the most complete system ever created for Christian men who are ready to: โœ… Change their default actions โœ… Lose the weight โœ… Keep it offโ€”permanently And when you join Default Kings, youโ€™re stepping into more than just a plan. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re removing the obstacles that have kept you stuck. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re eliminating the second-guessing and the self-doubt. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re finally committing to a system that guarantees you never fall off track again. The Default Kings Promise: We guarantee that: โœ”๏ธ You will lose between 10โ€“50 lbs in the next 90 daysโ€”or weโ€™ll refund you in full. โœ”๏ธ You will keep the weight offโ€”or weโ€™ll refund you in full. If you follow the system, stay coachable, and engage in the process, this will be the last fitness program you will ever need. Howeverโ€”if you: โŒ Ignore the coaching โŒ Skip the workouts โŒ Refuse to be communicative, honest, and humble Then, of course, nothing will work. Thatโ€™s why we track your progress every single day. We are personally committed to your success. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you struggle, weโ€™ll step in. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you start to slip, weโ€™ll call you higher. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you feel lost, weโ€™ll guide you back. That is the entire purpose of Default Kings. We are here to make sure you win. Right Now, you are standing at a crossroads. You have three choicesโ€”and only one leads to transformation. Path #1: Do Nothing. Go back to life as it is. Click away from this page, pretend like you never saw this, open up the Uber Eats app, and order another comfort meal. Keep making excuses. Keep telling yourself, โ€œIโ€™ll figure it out later.โ€ And six months from now? Nothing will change. Six years from now? Youโ€™ll still be frustrated, still lacking discipline, still convicted every time you look in the mirrorโ€”until you just accept it. And when that moment comes, youโ€™ll wish you had taken action today. If you go that route, I pray for you and trust in Godโ€™s plan for your life. Path #2: Try to Do It Alone. You can take what you learn on X or chat GPT and try to piece together your own plan. You can do hours of research, attempt to hold yourself accountable, and try to willpower your way through it. And while thatโ€™s better than doing nothingโ€ฆ Thatโ€™s the most common way that men fail. Because if you were capable of holding yourself accountable, you would have done it by now. If you had the time and knowledge to create a sustainable, effective, Biblically based fitness plan that works for your lifestyle, you would have done it by now. But you donโ€™t need just another diet plan. You donโ€™t need just another workout routine. You need a proven system that: โœ… Removes the confusion so youโ€™re never guessing what to do next. โœ… Holds you accountable so you never fall off track again. โœ… Surrounds you with strong, Christian men who push you to succeed. โœ… Rewires your habits so that discipline becomes automatic. Going at this alone means you donโ€™t have the coaching when you need help. It means you donโ€™t have a group of men who can come into agreement with you about what God can do in this area of your life. It means you donโ€™t have the battle-tested frameworks that have helped 800+ Christian men permanently transform their health. And thatโ€™s why most men who try to figure it out themselves end up right back where they startedโ€”or talking to me again six months later. Path #3: Say โ€œMaybe.โ€ You donโ€™t have to say yes right now. Just say maybe. Maybe youโ€™ve tried and failed before. Maybe youโ€™ve thought about committing to a plan before. Maybe you know you need a real system that actually works for high-achieving Christian men. If thatโ€™s the case, then I want to make this easy for you. Instead of asking you to commit to the entire program right now, Iโ€™m asking you to commit to just a few minutes of your time for a Free Fat Loss Assessment. ๐Ÿ“Œ Youโ€™ll chat directly with me, Joey, or one of the other experts on our team. ๐Ÿ“Œ Weโ€™ll dive deep into the root cause of why you keep losing weight and gaining it back.| ๐Ÿ“Œ Weโ€™ll give you clear action steps on how to fix this permanently.| And if it makes sense, weโ€™ll show you exactly how Default Kings works. This time is different. This time, you will win. But you have to take the first step. Click the link below and book your Free Fat Loss assessment today. ๐Ÿ‘‡
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If you're a Christian man, it is obvious to see that the world is controlled by Satan. Everywhere you look, we see evidence of thisโ€”from entertainment to politics to social media. It is clear that the enemy's agenda is at play, and it's an agenda designed to sabotage the men who have influence in the kingdom of God. And if youโ€™re an entrepreneur whoโ€™s been struggling with your weightโ€ฆ You are being affected by this satanic agenda. Why Your Health Is Under Spiritual Attack: My name is Gabe Pluguez, and since 2019, alongside my business partner Joey Yochheim | Default Kings , weโ€™ve been helping men break free from unhealthy patternsโ€”for good. And we donโ€™t just help men โ€œget in shape.โ€ We teach them a faith-based approach to changing their unhealthy habits so that they actually keep the weight off permanently. Like Jimโ€” shown in the video, a 70-year-old C-suite executive who lost 53 lbs in 5 months, kept it off through the holidays, and has sustained it since after working together. Like Alexโ€” shown in the video, a crypto entrepreneur and a dad of one whoโ€™s lost more than 40 lbs, has gotten abs, competes in Jiu-Jitsu, and has kept it off for over 2 years since after working together. Like Gavinโ€” shown in the video, a 50-year-old father of six who was busy running multiple businesses but still lost 32 lbs in just 12 weeks. Or like Vinnieโ€” shown in the video, an entrepreneur whoโ€™s lost 50 lbs and has kept it off for over 2 years since after working together. So hereโ€™s the thing. You already know the truth. You know that you shouldnโ€™t be eating garbage. You know that you should be exercising consistently. You know that God made you in His image and that youโ€™re designed to be strong and actually commanded to honor the body He gave you to carry out His mission for your life. Yetโ€ฆ that's not the reality you're experiencing. Why You Keep Failing to Fix This (Romans 7:15) You're experiencing exactly what Paul talks about in Romans 7:15: โ€œI do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, I do.โ€ These are your unhealthy default actions. And if youโ€™re like most Christian entrepreneurs, youโ€™re probably sacrificing your health at the altar of your business. You tell yourself: โ€ข โ€œIโ€™ll fix it later.โ€ โ€ข โ€œBusiness and family obligations come before me.โ€ But hereโ€™s something that might make you uneasyโ€ฆ That is the exact lie that the enemy wants you to believe. The Lie Thatโ€™s Keeping You Weak, Tired, and Ineffective: Satan wants you to believe the lie that you are incapable of honoring your body while stewarding everything else. He wants you: โŒ Exhausted โŒ Weakened โŒ A slave to gluttony and sloth โŒ To set a poor example to the people youโ€™re called to lead And additionally... Satan wants you dead... Early... Because if your body is weak, youโ€™re easier to tempt. If youโ€™re out of control, you have less influence over the people youโ€™re supposed to lead. And if you die earlyโ€”then youโ€™re not even here. And maybe youโ€™ve known this for a while. Youโ€™ve tried keto, intermittent fasting, Weight Watchers, Personal Trainers, or even Ozempicโ€ฆ But hereโ€™s the part you havenโ€™t heard before. Youโ€™ve Been Lied To. Youโ€™ve been trying to use a temporary Band-Aid on a spiritual wound. Mainstream diet methods promise a quick fixโ€ฆ but they leave you discouraged and defeated. Thatโ€™s why studies show that 90% of people who try these diets gain the weight back. And after so many repeated failures, you start to accept the lie from the enemyโ€” โ€œI just canโ€™t figure out this one area of life.โ€ And hereโ€™s what makes it even worse. Your pastors arenโ€™t helpingโ€”they donโ€™t talk about gluttony because theyโ€™re still struggling with it themselves. Other Christians make it harder. They say: ๐Ÿ’ฌ "Itโ€™s no big deal!" ๐Ÿ’ฌ "God gives you grace!" ๐Ÿ’ฌ "Come on, one donut wonโ€™t hurt!" But I need you to ask yourself: Are the men telling you this the type of men you respect? Are they disciplined? Are they leading by example? Or are they justifying their own addiction to comfort? How I Know Exactly What Youโ€™re Feeling: Maybe youโ€™re reading this, and you already know all of this. You know you shouldnโ€™t be eating junkโ€ฆ but you do. You know you should be working outโ€ฆ but you skip it. You know you should stop turning to food for comfortโ€ฆ but you still do. And if youโ€™re feeling convicted right now, I understand. Because I was once enslaved to sin in the exact same way. For over a decade, I was addicted to pornography. I was having premarital sex while still trying to be a Christian leader. I read my Bible, went to church, and knew exactly what I needed to doโ€ฆ Yet I kept falling into the same old pattern. I felt like I fraud. And, there was even this moment when I was finally convictedโ€”just like you are now. I told my ex-fiance: โ€œWeโ€™re not having sex anymore.โ€ She looked me dead in the eyes and said: โ€œIf weโ€™re not going to do that, then Iโ€™m leaving.โ€ And I looked right back at her and said: โ€œOkay. Leave. I choose Jesus.โ€ She walked out the door. And I was proud of myself. I thought: โ€œThank you, Lord, for the strength to make this decision. I can finally honor You.โ€ And thenโ€ฆ Less than 24 hours later, I completely caved. I went right back to the very sin I swore to leave behind. And I remember standing in the bathroom afterward, looking in the mirror, so disgusted with myself that I couldnโ€™t even make eye contact with my own reflection. I had completely lost hope. I told the devil: "You win." But that was a lie. And what I experienced next completely changed my lifeโ€” And itโ€™s the exact same process that will change yours. The Turning Point: How Everything Changed When I applied the process that Iโ€™m going to share with you today, not only did everything changeโ€ฆ I experienced blessings in this area of my life that were so far beyond anything I had ever imagined. I broke free from addiction, married the love of my life, started working on a family, and 10x'ed my business, all while staying consistent and leveling up in my own fitness And thatโ€™s when I realized: ๐Ÿ‘‰ This isnโ€™t just about losing weight. ๐Ÿ‘‰ This isnโ€™t just about not being fat anymore. This is about the blessings that God has for you on the other side of disciplineโ€”blessings so powerful, so life-changing, that once you experience them, you will be incapable of doing anything except saying, โ€œGlory to You, Lord.โ€ How Do You Actually Go About Doing This? This is the exact process that Iโ€™ve helped over 800 guys (at the time of this post) go through inside our Christian-focused coaching company, Joey and I were responsible for all the transformations you'll see at These were men just like you. Men who were: โ€ข Losing weight temporarily but always gaining it back. โ€ข Struggling with multi-decade-long food addictions. โ€ข Convicted that they were called for more. โ€ข Fathers, husbands, even pastorsโ€”who knew God could redeem this area of their life but struggled to connect their faith to their fitness. But they finally broke free. And there were three key things that made that transformation possible. #1: They Changed the Unhealthy Default Actions That Were Keeping Them Stuck All of these men were struggling with things like: โŒ Overeating and mindless snacking โŒ Skipping workouts โŒ Eating late at night, binge eating โŒ Hitting snooze, sleeping in โŒ Overdrinking, struggling with food addiction โŒ Falling off the wagon on weekends, vacations, or business travel And worst of all? ๐Ÿ‘‰ They would lose some weightโ€ฆ then let their habits slip againโ€ฆ which led to the weight coming back. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Their body fat affected not just how they fit in clothes, but how other people saw themโ€”even their daughters and wives started noticing and nagging them about it. ๐Ÿ‘‰ For some of them, their hearts had become ticking time bombs, and they knew if they didnโ€™t change, they would eventually suffer consequences that affected not just them, but their families and marriages. And even though you would think these things would be motivating enoughโ€ฆ Like youโ€™re probably thinking right now, โ€œI should be motivated enough to change.โ€ They were still choosing: โŒ Comfort over discipline. โŒ Food over their families. โŒ Laziness over being the leader their people needed them to be. #2: They Didnโ€™t Have a Sustainable, Effective Approach That Worked With Their Busy Life Most of them had already tried: ๐Ÿ“Œ Dieting, weight loss challenges, personal trainers. ๐Ÿ“Œ Just trying to โ€œget seriousโ€ and eat cleaner. ๐Ÿ“Œ Fad diets like Keto or Intermittent Fasting. ๐Ÿ“Œ Making their wife their accountability partner (which never works, because no man wants his wife to be his mommyโ€”and no wife wants to be her husbands mommy). But nothing worked, because none of these were tailored to their bodies, goals, and lifestyle. ๐Ÿ‘‰ The plans didnโ€™t fit the busyness of home life and work. ๐Ÿ‘‰ They didnโ€™t account for vacations, networking events, or client dinners. ๐Ÿ‘‰ They made them feel weird or awkward at dinner time with friends and family. ๐Ÿ‘‰ The nutrition was too complicated for their wives to support. And worst of all? They were straight-up unsustainable. So they would always fall off the wagonโ€”and the weight would always come back. #3: They Didnโ€™t Have Real Accountability From Other Christian Men They Respected They tried using: โŒ Their wives (againโ€”no wife wants to be their husbandโ€™s accountability partner). โŒ Their business network (but those guys were focused on business, not health). โŒ Their church groups (but their brothers in Christ didnโ€™t have the specialized knowledge to help them actually execute). So between: โŒ Unhealthy default actions โŒ A lack of a sustainable, effective plan โŒ Not having real accountability They stayed stuck. Thatโ€™s Why Default Kings Is Different We developed a system that actually worksโ€”one that helps you realign your default actions with your true identity in Christ. Because the problem isnโ€™t that you donโ€™t care. The problem isnโ€™t that youโ€™re unaware of these things. The problem is that your current system is failing you. Right now: ๐Ÿ“Œ Your default actions have brought you here. ๐Ÿ“Œ You donโ€™t have a sustainable approach. ๐Ÿ“Œ You donโ€™t have an effective plan. ๐Ÿ“Œ Your environment is full of people who reinforce your excuses instead of calling you higher. And every time you try to change, you keep getting pulled back into the same cycle. Thatโ€™s exactly why we built Default Kings. Because this is not just another weight loss program. This is a battle plan for Christian men. A system designed to permanently rewire your habits. A system designed to rebuild your discipline. A system designed to finally help you take back control of your body and mind. Hereโ€™s What Youโ€™ll Get Inside Default Kings: 1. A Network of Christian Entrepreneurs Who Refuse to Let You Fail Youโ€™ll be surrounded by other Christian entrepreneurs who are walking the same walk. Youโ€™ll see the men who have already broken free. And when life gets hard, when you get busy, when motivation fadesโ€ฆThis brotherhood will step in and keep you accountable. Because this isnโ€™t just about fitness. This is about transforming into the man God called you to be. 2. The Default Actions Framework This is where the mindset shift happens. We help you reprogram your default actions at the core so that: โœ… Instead of battling cravings, you instinctively make better food choices. โœ… Instead of forcing yourself to work out, you naturally show up and execute. โœ… Instead of gaining the weight back, you become the man whose habits keep the weight off. This isnโ€™t about forcing discipline. This is about making discipline natural. 3. A Simple, Results-Driven Eating System That Works in Real Life Forget: โŒ Extreme diets. โŒ Cutting out carbs or red meat. โŒ Being too busy to eat healthy. Youโ€™ll learn to eat in a way that actually increases your energy while still enjoying life. You will not be: โŒ That weird guy bringing Tupperware to client dinners. โŒ The guy starving himself and feeling miserable. โŒ The guy who canโ€™t enjoy a meal with his wife and kids. This is not a temporary fix. This is a sustainable way of eating that you can stick to for good. 4. A Custom Training System Designed for Busy Christian Men Your training plan will be completely customized to fit your schedule. You donโ€™t have time to train like a bodybuilder for 2 hours a dayโ€”so we focus on efficiency. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you can commit just 45 minutes, 3โ€“4 times a week, you can do this. ๐Ÿ“Œ If youโ€™re even busier, we can make it even more efficient. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you have more time and want to push harder, weโ€™ll structure it accordingly. This isnโ€™t just about losing weight. This is about building muscle and becoming physically capableโ€”so that when the weight is off, you look in the mirror and see a man who reflects the strength and discipline God created you to have. 5. Direct Access to Expert Coaching and 24/7 Accountability You will not be left to figure this out alone. Inside Default Kings, youโ€™ll have one-on-one access to: โœ”๏ธ Me โœ”๏ธ Joey โœ”๏ธ Our client success specialists Whenever you have a question, need an adjustment, or feel stuck, you will have direct access to expert support. No matter: ๐Ÿ“Œ What adjustments you need ๐Ÿ“Œ What schedule changes come up ๐Ÿ“Œ What travel plans you have We will personally make sure you stay on track. And even if you have pre-existing injuries or limitations, we will customize everything specifically for you. 6. Weekly Live Group Coaching Calls Inside the DK Inner Circle, youโ€™ll have access to weekly group coaching calls where weโ€™ll: ๐Ÿ“Œ Give you direct feedback to ensure you see results as quickly as possible. ๐Ÿ“Œ Help you rewire your default actions and overcome spiritual and mental barriers. ๐Ÿ“Œ Bring our faith into our fitnessโ€”yes, some of these calls will involve opening your Bible and seeing what God has to say about your health, habits, and mindset. This isnโ€™t just physical transformation. This is spiritual transformation. 7. The Default Kings Private App Everything you need will be housed inside our private DK app, including: ๐Ÿ“Œ Your custom, step-by-step workout plans so you know exactly what to do. ๐Ÿ“Œ Structured meal guidance that adapts to your life. ๐Ÿ“Œ Real-time progress tracking so you can see how far youโ€™ve come. No more guessing what to eat or wasting time in the gym not knowing what to do. This is a battle-tested system built to make results effortless. And yesโ€”if you have any injuries or limitations, the entire plan will be built specifically for you. The Most Complete System Ever Created for Christian Entrepreneurs: ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t just another weight loss program. ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t a fad diet. ๐Ÿ“Œ This isnโ€™t another โ€œchallengeโ€ that leaves you gaining the weight back. This is the most complete system ever created for Christian men who are ready to: โœ… Change their default actions โœ… Lose the weight โœ… Keep it offโ€”permanently And when you join Default Kings, youโ€™re stepping into more than just a plan. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re removing the obstacles that have kept you stuck. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re eliminating the second-guessing and the self-doubt. ๐Ÿ‘‰ Youโ€™re finally committing to a system that guarantees you never fall off track again. The Default Kings Promise: We guarantee that: โœ”๏ธ You will lose between 10โ€“50 lbs in the next 90 daysโ€”or weโ€™ll refund you in full. โœ”๏ธ You will keep the weight offโ€”or weโ€™ll refund you in full. If you follow the system, stay coachable, and engage in the process, this will be the last fitness program you will ever need. Howeverโ€”if you: โŒ Ignore the coaching โŒ Skip the workouts โŒ Refuse to be communicative, honest, and humble Then, of course, nothing will work. Thatโ€™s why we track your progress every single day. We are personally committed to your success. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you struggle, weโ€™ll step in. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you start to slip, weโ€™ll call you higher. ๐Ÿ“Œ If you feel lost, weโ€™ll guide you back. That is the entire purpose of Default Kings. We are here to make sure you win. Right Now, you are standing at a crossroads. You have three choicesโ€”and only one leads to transformation. Path #1: Do Nothing. Go back to life as it is. Click away from this page, pretend like you never saw this, open up the Uber Eats app, and order another comfort meal. Keep making excuses. Keep telling yourself, โ€œIโ€™ll figure it out later.โ€ And six months from now? Nothing will change. Six years from now? Youโ€™ll still be frustrated, still lacking discipline, still convicted every time you look in the mirrorโ€”until you just accept it. And when that moment comes, youโ€™ll wish you had taken action today. If you go that route, I pray for you and trust in Godโ€™s plan for your life. Path #2: Try to Do It Alone. You can take what you learn on X or chat GPT and try to piece together your own plan. You can do hours of research, attempt to hold yourself accountable, and try to willpower your way through it. And while thatโ€™s better than doing nothingโ€ฆ Thatโ€™s the most common way that men fail. Because if you were capable of holding yourself accountable, you would have done it by now. If you had the time and knowledge to create a sustainable, effective, Biblically based fitness plan that works for your lifestyle, you would have done it by now. But you donโ€™t need just another diet plan. You donโ€™t need just another workout routine. You need a proven system that: โœ… Removes the confusion so youโ€™re never guessing what to do next. โœ… Holds you accountable so you never fall off track again. โœ… Surrounds you with strong, Christian men who push you to succeed. โœ… Rewires your habits so that discipline becomes automatic. Going at this alone means you donโ€™t have the coaching when you need help. It means you donโ€™t have a group of men who can come into agreement with you about what God can do in this area of your life. It means you donโ€™t have the battle-tested frameworks that have helped 800+ Christian men permanently transform their health. And thatโ€™s why most men who try to figure it out themselves end up right back where they startedโ€”or talking to me again six months later. Path #3: Say โ€œMaybe.โ€ You donโ€™t have to say yes right now. Just say maybe. Maybe youโ€™ve tried and failed before. Maybe youโ€™ve thought about committing to a plan before. Maybe you know you need a real system that actually works for high-achieving Christian men. If thatโ€™s the case, then I want to make this easy for you. Instead of asking you to commit to the entire program right now, Iโ€™m asking you to commit to just a few minutes of your time for a Free Fat Loss Assessment. ๐Ÿ“Œ Youโ€™ll chat directly with me, Joey, or one of the other experts on our team. ๐Ÿ“Œ Weโ€™ll dive deep into the root cause of why you keep losing weight and gaining it back.| ๐Ÿ“Œ Weโ€™ll give you clear action steps on how to fix this permanently.| And if it makes sense, weโ€™ll show you exactly how Default Kings works. This time is different. This time, you will win. But you have to take the first step. Click the link below and book your Free Fat Loss assessment today. ๐Ÿ‘‡

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FULL TRANSCRIPT OF ELON'S CYBERCAB AND ROBOVAN PRESENTATION 00:00 Welcome 01:16 Cybercab & Future of transportation 04:33 Cost 05:53 Timeline 07:13 Self-driving technology 10:05 Inductive charging 10:24 The cities of the future 11:04 Robovan 12:13 Optimus Welcome Welcome to the We, Robot party. We have quite a show for you tonight. I think you're going to like it. As you can see, I just arrived in the Robotaxi, the Cybercab. And there's 20 more where that came from. So they've been traveling, there's no people in them. As you can see, the car is just going by with no people. We have 50 fully autonomous cars here tonight. So you'll see model Y's and the Cybercabs, all driverless. You'll be able to take a ride in the Cybercab. There's no steering wheel or pedals. So I hope this goes well, we'll find out. You see a lot of sci-fi movies where the future is dark and dismal, where it's not a future you want to be in. So, you know, I love Blade Runner, but I don't know if we want that future. We want that duster he's wearing, but not the bleak apocalypse. We want to have a fun, exciting future that, if you could look in a crystal ball and see the future, you'd be like, yes, I wish I could be there now. That's what we want. Cybercab & Future of transportation So, when we think about transport today, there's a lot of pain that we take for granted, that we think is normal. Like having to drive around LA in 3 hours of traffic. Yeah, people that live in LA, I mean, you know, try to get from Pasadena to El Segundo during rush hour. You can fly to another city faster than you can get to LA. And you have to drive the whole way, unless you're in a Tesla. Of course, our Tesla already does quite well at this supervised self-driving. So, supervised full self-driving is actually working quite well. I'm sure there's people in the crowd who are using that. So, we'll move from supervised full self-driving to unsupervised full self-driving where the car, you could fall asleep and wake up at your destination. But there's also a challenge for a lot of people that cars cost too much. I mean, when you factor in everything that goes into a car and the car insurance and the car payments, storage of the car, it's very expensive. You say, like, how many hours a week are cars used? Your average passenger car is only used about 10 hours a week out of 168 hours. So, the vast majority of the time cars are just doing nothing. But if they're autonomous, they could be used, I don't know, five times more, maybe ten times more. So you could actually, for the same car, would have five times as much value, maybe ten times as much value. There's 168 hours in the week, and like I said, only ten of them are used for driving. And then, a bunch of those hours are looking for a parking spot, which can be pretty annoying at times. So, with autonomy, you get your time back. This is a very big deal. So it's not just, it'll save lives, like a lot of lives and prevent injuries. I think we'll see autonomous cars become ten times safer than a human. I mean, if you think of times past where there used to be an elevator operator in every elevator but once in a while, they get tired and accidentally shear somebody in half. Now, we have automated elevators. You just get an elevator and you press a button and you don't even think about it and it just takes you to the floor. And if you did see an elevator operator with a big relay switch, you'd be like, that's weird. That's how cars will be. And it's not just the lives saved in injuries, but if you think about the cumulative time that people spend in a car and the time that they will get back that they can now spend, well, I guess, on their phones or watching a movie or doing work or whatever you want to do you can think of the car in autonomous world as being like just little lounge. You're just sitting in a comfortable little lounge and you can do whatever you want while you're in this comfortable little lounge. And when you get out, you will be at your destination. So, yeah, it's gonna be awesome. Cost So, in fact, I think the cost of autonomous transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualized mass transit. The average cost of a bus per mile for a city, not the ticket price, because that is subsidized, but the average price is about a dollar a mile, whereas the cost of Cybercab we think probably over time, the operating cost is probably going to be around twenty cents a mile. Including taxes and everything else, it probably ends up being 30 or 40 cents a mile. And you will be able to buy one. And we expect the cost to be below $30,000. And I think there'll be an interesting business model where, let's say somebody is an Uber or Lyft driver today where they can actually sort of manage a fleet of cars and like, sort of manage, I don't know, 10, 20 cars and just take care of them. Like a shepherd tends their flock. You have a little flock of cars and you're the shepherd and you take care of your flock of cars. I think that would be pretty cool. I think it's going to be a glorious future. It's going to be really something special. Timeline We do expect actually to start fully autonomous unsupervised FSD in Texas and California next year. And that's obviously, that's with the Model 3 and Model Y. And then we expect to be in production with the Cybercab, which is really highly optimized for autonomous transport in probably, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames, but in 2026. So, yeah, before 2027, let me put it that way. And we'll make this vehicle in very high volume. But well, before that, you will experience a robotic taxi via the Model 3 and Model Y program and model S and X, too. But the Model 3 and Y will achieve unsupervised full self-driving with permission, in wherever regulators essentially approve it. In the US, and then to follow outside the US. And Cybertruck, too. All our cars are basically, all cars that we make. Let's not get nuanced here. Self-driving technology One of the reasons why the computer can be so much better than a person is that we have millions of cars that are training on driving. It's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would not see. With that amount of training data, it's obviously going to be much better than what a human could be because you can't live a million lives. And it's also, it can see in all directions simultaneously and it doesn't get tired or text or any of those things. So, it will naturally be, like I said 10, 20, 30 times safer than a human, just for all those reasons. And I want to emphasize that the solution that we have is, AI and vision. So, there's no expensive equipment needed. The Model 3 and Model Y and S and X that we make today will be capable of full autonomy, unsupervised. And that means that our cost of producing the vehicle is low. Now, we are going to actually over-spec the computer for the Cybercab. So, our AI 5 computer will be somewhat over-spec'd because I think there's actually also an opportunity, sort of like an Amazon Web Services, where if the car is driving for 50 hours a week, there's still over 100 hours left and there's a potential there to have a massive amount of distributed inference compute, where if you've got like a fleet of 100 million vehicles and a kilowatt of efficient inference compute, you have 100 gigawatts of compute, which is really quite substantial. And if it's there, you might as well use it so that I think will make sense. So, our autonomous future is here. As I said, we've got 50 Teslas driving autonomously. We're trying to give you a sense of what cities will be like in the future. And when you get in, you'll see like, it's really quite a wild experience to just be in a car with no steering wheel, no pedals, no controls, and it feels great. So we have enough vehicles here, so everyone should be able to try it out and experience the set that we've built here. It's a very big set. So it's like really we've used I don't know, 20, 30 acres or something like that. It's really big. So, it goes on, the ride's long. And we set it up to feel like a ride, like a park ride. So, it'll be cool and you'll get to experience it tonight. Inductive charging Something we're also doing is and it's really high time we did this is inductive charging. So, the robotaxi has no plug. It just goes over the inductive charger and charges. So, yeah, it's kind of how it should be. The cities of the future One of the things that is really interesting is how will this affect the cities that we live in. And when you drive around a city, or when the car drives you around the city, you'll see there's a lot of parking lots. There's parking lots everywhere, parking garages. What would happen if you have an autonomous world is that you can now turn parking lots into parks. And so, from we're taking the inglot out of parking lot. You're welcome. So, there's a lot of opportunity to create green space in the cities that we live in. So, like, that would be quite fantastic. Robovan Oh, and also, what happens if you need a vehicle that is bigger than a Model Y? The Robovan. We're going to make this and it's going to look like that. Now, can you imagine going down the streets and you see this coming towards you? That'd be sick. So this can carry up to 20 people, and it can also transport goods. You can configure it for goods transport within a city. Or transport of up to 20 people at a time. The Robovan is what's gonna solve for high density. If you want to take a sports team somewhere or you're looking to really get the cost of travel down to, I don't know, 5, 10 cents a mile, then you can use the Robovan. One of the things we want to do, and we've seen this with the Cybertruck, is we want to change the look of the roads. The future should look like the future. Optimus Speaking of robots. Everything we've developed for our cars, the batteries, power electronics, the advanced motors, gearboxes, the software, the AI inference computer, it all actually applies to a humanoid robot. The same techniques. It's just a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with wheels. We've made a lot of progress with Optimus. And as you can see, we started up with someone in a robot suit. And then, we've progressed dramatically, year after year. So, if you extrapolate this, you're really going to have something spectacular, something that anyone could own. So, you can have your own personal R2-D2-C3PO. And I think at scale, this would cost something like, I don't know, $20,000, $30,000, probably less than a car is my prediction, long-term. It'll take us a minute to get to the long term. But fundamentally, at scale, the Optimus robot, you should be able to buy an Optimus robot for, I think, probably $20,000 to $30,000, long-term. And what can it do? It'll basically do anything you want. It can be a teacher or babysit your kids, it can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks whatever you can think of, it will do. And, yeah, it's going to be awesome. I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind, because I think everyone of the 8 billion people of Earth, I think everyone's going to want their Optimus buddy. And there's going to be maybe two. And then, they'll be producing products and services. I predict, actually, provided we address risks of digital superintelligence, 80% probability of good outcome, look on the bright side, the cup is 80% full, the cost of products and services will decline dramatically. And basically, anyone will be able to have any products and services they want. It will be an age of abundance the likes of which people have not, almost no one has envisioned. It will be something special. So now, one of the things we wanted to show tonight was that Optimus is not a canned video. It's not walled off. The Optimus robots will walk among you. Please, please be nice to the Optimus robots. You'll be able to walk right up to them and they'll serve drinks at the bar. I mean, it's a wild experience just to have humanoid robots and they're there, you're just in front of you. So yeah, with that, let's party!
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FULL TRANSCRIPT OF ELON'S CYBERCAB AND ROBOVAN PRESENTATION 00:00 Welcome 01:16 Cybercab & Future of transportation 04:33 Cost 05:53 Timeline 07:13 Self-driving technology 10:05 Inductive charging 10:24 The cities of the future 11:04 Robovan 12:13 Optimus Welcome Welcome to the We, Robot party. We have quite a show for you tonight. I think you're going to like it. As you can see, I just arrived in the Robotaxi, the Cybercab. And there's 20 more where that came from. So they've been traveling, there's no people in them. As you can see, the car is just going by with no people. We have 50 fully autonomous cars here tonight. So you'll see model Y's and the Cybercabs, all driverless. You'll be able to take a ride in the Cybercab. There's no steering wheel or pedals. So I hope this goes well, we'll find out. You see a lot of sci-fi movies where the future is dark and dismal, where it's not a future you want to be in. So, you know, I love Blade Runner, but I don't know if we want that future. We want that duster he's wearing, but not the bleak apocalypse. We want to have a fun, exciting future that, if you could look in a crystal ball and see the future, you'd be like, yes, I wish I could be there now. That's what we want. Cybercab & Future of transportation So, when we think about transport today, there's a lot of pain that we take for granted, that we think is normal. Like having to drive around LA in 3 hours of traffic. Yeah, people that live in LA, I mean, you know, try to get from Pasadena to El Segundo during rush hour. You can fly to another city faster than you can get to LA. And you have to drive the whole way, unless you're in a Tesla. Of course, our Tesla already does quite well at this supervised self-driving. So, supervised full self-driving is actually working quite well. I'm sure there's people in the crowd who are using that. So, we'll move from supervised full self-driving to unsupervised full self-driving where the car, you could fall asleep and wake up at your destination. But there's also a challenge for a lot of people that cars cost too much. I mean, when you factor in everything that goes into a car and the car insurance and the car payments, storage of the car, it's very expensive. You say, like, how many hours a week are cars used? Your average passenger car is only used about 10 hours a week out of 168 hours. So, the vast majority of the time cars are just doing nothing. But if they're autonomous, they could be used, I don't know, five times more, maybe ten times more. So you could actually, for the same car, would have five times as much value, maybe ten times as much value. There's 168 hours in the week, and like I said, only ten of them are used for driving. And then, a bunch of those hours are looking for a parking spot, which can be pretty annoying at times. So, with autonomy, you get your time back. This is a very big deal. So it's not just, it'll save lives, like a lot of lives and prevent injuries. I think we'll see autonomous cars become ten times safer than a human. I mean, if you think of times past where there used to be an elevator operator in every elevator but once in a while, they get tired and accidentally shear somebody in half. Now, we have automated elevators. You just get an elevator and you press a button and you don't even think about it and it just takes you to the floor. And if you did see an elevator operator with a big relay switch, you'd be like, that's weird. That's how cars will be. And it's not just the lives saved in injuries, but if you think about the cumulative time that people spend in a car and the time that they will get back that they can now spend, well, I guess, on their phones or watching a movie or doing work or whatever you want to do you can think of the car in autonomous world as being like just little lounge. You're just sitting in a comfortable little lounge and you can do whatever you want while you're in this comfortable little lounge. And when you get out, you will be at your destination. So, yeah, it's gonna be awesome. Cost So, in fact, I think the cost of autonomous transport will be so low that you can think of it like individualized mass transit. The average cost of a bus per mile for a city, not the ticket price, because that is subsidized, but the average price is about a dollar a mile, whereas the cost of Cybercab we think probably over time, the operating cost is probably going to be around twenty cents a mile. Including taxes and everything else, it probably ends up being 30 or 40 cents a mile. And you will be able to buy one. And we expect the cost to be below $30,000. And I think there'll be an interesting business model where, let's say somebody is an Uber or Lyft driver today where they can actually sort of manage a fleet of cars and like, sort of manage, I don't know, 10, 20 cars and just take care of them. Like a shepherd tends their flock. You have a little flock of cars and you're the shepherd and you take care of your flock of cars. I think that would be pretty cool. I think it's going to be a glorious future. It's going to be really something special. Timeline We do expect actually to start fully autonomous unsupervised FSD in Texas and California next year. And that's obviously, that's with the Model 3 and Model Y. And then we expect to be in production with the Cybercab, which is really highly optimized for autonomous transport in probably, I tend to be a little optimistic with time frames, but in 2026. So, yeah, before 2027, let me put it that way. And we'll make this vehicle in very high volume. But well, before that, you will experience a robotic taxi via the Model 3 and Model Y program and model S and X, too. But the Model 3 and Y will achieve unsupervised full self-driving with permission, in wherever regulators essentially approve it. In the US, and then to follow outside the US. And Cybertruck, too. All our cars are basically, all cars that we make. Let's not get nuanced here. Self-driving technology One of the reasons why the computer can be so much better than a person is that we have millions of cars that are training on driving. It's like living millions of lives simultaneously and seeing very unusual situations that a person in their entire lifetime would not see. With that amount of training data, it's obviously going to be much better than what a human could be because you can't live a million lives. And it's also, it can see in all directions simultaneously and it doesn't get tired or text or any of those things. So, it will naturally be, like I said 10, 20, 30 times safer than a human, just for all those reasons. And I want to emphasize that the solution that we have is, AI and vision. So, there's no expensive equipment needed. The Model 3 and Model Y and S and X that we make today will be capable of full autonomy, unsupervised. And that means that our cost of producing the vehicle is low. Now, we are going to actually over-spec the computer for the Cybercab. So, our AI 5 computer will be somewhat over-spec'd because I think there's actually also an opportunity, sort of like an Amazon Web Services, where if the car is driving for 50 hours a week, there's still over 100 hours left and there's a potential there to have a massive amount of distributed inference compute, where if you've got like a fleet of 100 million vehicles and a kilowatt of efficient inference compute, you have 100 gigawatts of compute, which is really quite substantial. And if it's there, you might as well use it so that I think will make sense. So, our autonomous future is here. As I said, we've got 50 Teslas driving autonomously. We're trying to give you a sense of what cities will be like in the future. And when you get in, you'll see like, it's really quite a wild experience to just be in a car with no steering wheel, no pedals, no controls, and it feels great. So we have enough vehicles here, so everyone should be able to try it out and experience the set that we've built here. It's a very big set. So it's like really we've used I don't know, 20, 30 acres or something like that. It's really big. So, it goes on, the ride's long. And we set it up to feel like a ride, like a park ride. So, it'll be cool and you'll get to experience it tonight. Inductive charging Something we're also doing is and it's really high time we did this is inductive charging. So, the robotaxi has no plug. It just goes over the inductive charger and charges. So, yeah, it's kind of how it should be. The cities of the future One of the things that is really interesting is how will this affect the cities that we live in. And when you drive around a city, or when the car drives you around the city, you'll see there's a lot of parking lots. There's parking lots everywhere, parking garages. What would happen if you have an autonomous world is that you can now turn parking lots into parks. And so, from we're taking the inglot out of parking lot. You're welcome. So, there's a lot of opportunity to create green space in the cities that we live in. So, like, that would be quite fantastic. Robovan Oh, and also, what happens if you need a vehicle that is bigger than a Model Y? The Robovan. We're going to make this and it's going to look like that. Now, can you imagine going down the streets and you see this coming towards you? That'd be sick. So this can carry up to 20 people, and it can also transport goods. You can configure it for goods transport within a city. Or transport of up to 20 people at a time. The Robovan is what's gonna solve for high density. If you want to take a sports team somewhere or you're looking to really get the cost of travel down to, I don't know, 5, 10 cents a mile, then you can use the Robovan. One of the things we want to do, and we've seen this with the Cybertruck, is we want to change the look of the roads. The future should look like the future. Optimus Speaking of robots. Everything we've developed for our cars, the batteries, power electronics, the advanced motors, gearboxes, the software, the AI inference computer, it all actually applies to a humanoid robot. The same techniques. It's just a robot with arms and legs instead of a robot with wheels. We've made a lot of progress with Optimus. And as you can see, we started up with someone in a robot suit. And then, we've progressed dramatically, year after year. So, if you extrapolate this, you're really going to have something spectacular, something that anyone could own. So, you can have your own personal R2-D2-C3PO. And I think at scale, this would cost something like, I don't know, $20,000, $30,000, probably less than a car is my prediction, long-term. It'll take us a minute to get to the long term. But fundamentally, at scale, the Optimus robot, you should be able to buy an Optimus robot for, I think, probably $20,000 to $30,000, long-term. And what can it do? It'll basically do anything you want. It can be a teacher or babysit your kids, it can walk your dog, mow your lawn, get the groceries, just be your friend, serve drinks whatever you can think of, it will do. And, yeah, it's going to be awesome. I think this will be the biggest product ever of any kind, because I think everyone of the 8 billion people of Earth, I think everyone's going to want their Optimus buddy. And there's going to be maybe two. And then, they'll be producing products and services. I predict, actually, provided we address risks of digital superintelligence, 80% probability of good outcome, look on the bright side, the cup is 80% full, the cost of products and services will decline dramatically. And basically, anyone will be able to have any products and services they want. It will be an age of abundance the likes of which people have not, almost no one has envisioned. It will be something special. So now, one of the things we wanted to show tonight was that Optimus is not a canned video. It's not walled off. The Optimus robots will walk among you. Please, please be nice to the Optimus robots. You'll be able to walk right up to them and they'll serve drinks at the bar. I mean, it's a wild experience just to have humanoid robots and they're there, you're just in front of you. So yeah, with that, let's party!

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The District Attorney race in Travis County/Greater Austin is among the most important this cycle. Everyone able should vote by March 5th. Watch this video and read the following to understand why โ€“ and share with others. I donโ€™t like to get directly involved in politics, and prefer to stick to building social enterprises that bring people together (i.e., KIND Snacks, Builders, SOMOS Foods, Empatico ), but the stakes are so high for Austin that I feel the need to share some facts: Austin is facing a rampant rise in crime. All the data demonstrates it. And all of Jose Garzaโ€™s policies point to it. Some specific examples: โ€ข Garza let Santos Celso-Flores, who was awaiting trial for participating in the gang rape of 13-year-old girl, out on a $40 bond. While out on bond, Celso-Flores molested two more young girls. โ€ข Hilario Adrianโ€™s bond was lowered to just $1 after Garza failed to bring his aggravated assault case to a grand jury in time. Shortly after his release, he brutally attacked an innocent bystander in downtown Austin, stabbing him to death. โ€ข Richard Williams brutally raped his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint for two hours while strangling and beating her. Garza cut a deferred adjudication plea deal with Williams, meaning he was released after just 90 days in prison without anything on his record. โ€ข Garza released Dedreuain Reese, who had been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for pistol-whipping a woman, on a personal recognizance bond. Just weeks after he was released on bond, Reese committed a murder at the same house where he pistol whipped the woman. Friends have been telling me about the rise in crime in Austin. A family who lived downtown had their home burglarized. Another was held up. A friend who leads the Public Safety Commission shared the above examples. I assumed these were isolated cases and initially dismissed the issue. Eventually I did dozens of hours of research. The data is staggering: โ€ข 127% increase in the murder rate since Garza took over! โ€ข Car jackings more than doubled! โ€ข Convictions are down 61%! โ€ข Zero Jury Trials by Garza since he took over as DA! How is Garza responsible for this? Some examples: โ€ข When he took office, Garza abolished the DA division that sorted out cases. As a result, today there are over seven thousand unindicted felony crimes! Not 7. Not 70. Not 700. Seven THOUSAND pending cases that the DAโ€™s office has failed to process. โ€ข In 2021, Garza released a bail reform plan that explicitly included releasing people on bail for just $1. Since then, Travis County has been plagued by crimes committed by people out on bonds. โ€ข Over 75 (out of a professional staff of around 95) experienced prosecutors have left the DA's Office since Garza took over in 2021. He has hired inexperienced and untested lawyers to handle the most serious and complicated cases in Travis County. โ€ข Here is testimony from a Mother whose children were sexually assaulted: These are not theoretical issues. And the people they affect are the most vulnerable members of our society. โ€ข Lynn Isaak survived a brutal attack while running in Travis Heights. She solved her own case through Nextdoor, trusted the DA's Office with the prosecution, and was then shocked when her attacker got probation with no jail time and no electronic monitoring. โ€ข Lashonda Lemons was beaten so badly by her partner that she lost her baby. The DA's Office got the case and lowered the charge from aggravated assault to a lesser offense and gave him deferred adjudication - a punishment that allows the offender to walk away without a conviction. This was all done over Lemons' objection. There is hope on the horizon: Jeremy Sylestine is a lifelong Democrat running in the Democratic Primary for Travis District Attorney. He is Native American member of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. He went to UT, served as a Public Defender, and then for 15 years as a highly respected member of the DAโ€™s office in Travis County. Meet Jeremy: He is among the highest integrity people you can meet. He is sacrificing a very good job and risking a lot for the sake of Austin and Travis County. Jeremy is compassionate, but he understands the duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our community from violent criminals. Itโ€™s quite a contrast: It took me months to understand why, in contrast, Jose Garza would allow a violent criminal who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl to get off without anything on his record. Why would he plea down everything to misdemeanor, including when a violent felon beat his pregnant girlfriend so brutally that she lost her baby? Even the most kindhearted also want justice and public safety. But Garza has a radical ideology that ANY prosecution ever is evil. When he was a public defender, that position was acceptable. But as DA in charge of enforcing the law, he is subverting his duties and violating his oath. Under Garzaโ€™s simplistic ideology, everyone is a victim or an oppressor based on their background and position in society rather than based on their actions and behavior. For Garza, the criminals that commit violent crimes are the victims so even if they committed rape or murder they cannot be at fault. Itโ€™s the systemโ€™s fault. For Garza, the DAโ€™s office he presides over is the oppressor and so he is slowly dismantling it (not just reform it, but dismantling it, which is why he disbanded the division that processes cases, resulting in over seven thousand unindicted criminal felonies thus far). Itโ€™s so extreme itโ€™s illogical. But that is what radical extremism does. In terms of financial backing, virtually all support for Jeremy comes from people that live in Travis County. Garza came into power with $1 million from out of state money. The people that put Garza in power do not need to live with the consequences of his actions. Jeremyโ€™s supporters are locals whose families and loved ones live in Travis County. Our only agenda is to protect the community. For us teachers, entrepreneurs and parents itโ€™s uncomfortable to get drawn into politically divisive issues. But the stakes are so high that everyone is stepping in. Itโ€™s very unusual for other elected politicians to stand up against an incumbent from their party. The amount of Democratic leaders that Iโ€™ve met and have told me how much they dislike Garza but canโ€™t speak up is stunning. And even then, you have icons of the Democratic establishment speaking up: โ€ข David Butts and Alfred Stanley are among the most highly respected Austinites and life-long liberals helping Jeremyโ€™s campaign. โ€ข Former Austin City Councilwoman Ora Houston, former Travis County Commissioner Karen Huber, as well as the Austin Bar Association Preference Poll, the South Asian Bar Association of Austin, and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas have all endorsed Jeremy. โ€ข Even former State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos & Travis County Commissioner Margaret Gomez, fellow Hispanics, are so shocked by Jose Garzaโ€™s actions and so impressed with Jeremyโ€™s integrity that they have endorsed Jeremy Sylestine. Extremism seems to be taking over our country. But the proper response to rigidity and dehumanization from one side is not denial of facts and โ€œus vs themโ€ dehumanization from the opposite extreme. Personally, I identify as independent because I find political parties hyperpartisan. I support moderate candidates on both sides. Itโ€™s high time for builders to transcend these labels and all join together. It doesnโ€™t matter if you are Democrat or Independent or Republican. You are a human being. You are a citizen. When it comes to public safety, itโ€™s not about politics.Your children should be able to walk downtown without fear for their safety. Your spouse should be able to go for a run in the park without fear of being assaulted or raped. Itโ€™s about enforcing the law to protect victims while showing compassion wherever justice guides us to. Itโ€™s about all of us being together to BUILD a better community for all. Everyone in Travis County should go out and vote for Jeremy - not just to keep our community safe - but to break the shackles of extremism from either side and show that the people in Austin are ONE and refuse to play divisive games from extremist ideological politicians from either side. Regardless of political affiliation, anyone in #TravisCounty / Greater #AustinTx can go into a voting location, request a #DemocraticPrimary Ballot, and vote for #JeremySylestine in the most consequential election to the community. Where and How to Vote: Vote for @Jeremy4DA during Early Voting today through March 1 or on Election Day March 5.
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The District Attorney race in Travis County/Greater Austin is among the most important this cycle. Everyone able should vote by March 5th. Watch this video and read the following to understand why โ€“ and share with others. I donโ€™t like to get directly involved in politics, and prefer to stick to building social enterprises that bring people together (i.e., KIND Snacks, Builders, SOMOS Foods, Empatico ), but the stakes are so high for Austin that I feel the need to share some facts: Austin is facing a rampant rise in crime. All the data demonstrates it. And all of Jose Garzaโ€™s policies point to it. Some specific examples: โ€ข Garza let Santos Celso-Flores, who was awaiting trial for participating in the gang rape of 13-year-old girl, out on a $40 bond. While out on bond, Celso-Flores molested two more young girls. โ€ข Hilario Adrianโ€™s bond was lowered to just $1 after Garza failed to bring his aggravated assault case to a grand jury in time. Shortly after his release, he brutally attacked an innocent bystander in downtown Austin, stabbing him to death. โ€ข Richard Williams brutally raped his ex-girlfriend at knifepoint for two hours while strangling and beating her. Garza cut a deferred adjudication plea deal with Williams, meaning he was released after just 90 days in prison without anything on his record. โ€ข Garza released Dedreuain Reese, who had been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for pistol-whipping a woman, on a personal recognizance bond. Just weeks after he was released on bond, Reese committed a murder at the same house where he pistol whipped the woman. Friends have been telling me about the rise in crime in Austin. A family who lived downtown had their home burglarized. Another was held up. A friend who leads the Public Safety Commission shared the above examples. I assumed these were isolated cases and initially dismissed the issue. Eventually I did dozens of hours of research. The data is staggering: โ€ข 127% increase in the murder rate since Garza took over! โ€ข Car jackings more than doubled! โ€ข Convictions are down 61%! โ€ข Zero Jury Trials by Garza since he took over as DA! How is Garza responsible for this? Some examples: โ€ข When he took office, Garza abolished the DA division that sorted out cases. As a result, today there are over seven thousand unindicted felony crimes! Not 7. Not 70. Not 700. Seven THOUSAND pending cases that the DAโ€™s office has failed to process. โ€ข In 2021, Garza released a bail reform plan that explicitly included releasing people on bail for just $1. Since then, Travis County has been plagued by crimes committed by people out on bonds. โ€ข Over 75 (out of a professional staff of around 95) experienced prosecutors have left the DA's Office since Garza took over in 2021. He has hired inexperienced and untested lawyers to handle the most serious and complicated cases in Travis County. โ€ข Here is testimony from a Mother whose children were sexually assaulted: These are not theoretical issues. And the people they affect are the most vulnerable members of our society. โ€ข Lynn Isaak survived a brutal attack while running in Travis Heights. She solved her own case through Nextdoor, trusted the DA's Office with the prosecution, and was then shocked when her attacker got probation with no jail time and no electronic monitoring. โ€ข Lashonda Lemons was beaten so badly by her partner that she lost her baby. The DA's Office got the case and lowered the charge from aggravated assault to a lesser offense and gave him deferred adjudication - a punishment that allows the offender to walk away without a conviction. This was all done over Lemons' objection. There is hope on the horizon: Jeremy Sylestine is a lifelong Democrat running in the Democratic Primary for Travis District Attorney. He is Native American member of the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas. He went to UT, served as a Public Defender, and then for 15 years as a highly respected member of the DAโ€™s office in Travis County. Meet Jeremy: He is among the highest integrity people you can meet. He is sacrificing a very good job and risking a lot for the sake of Austin and Travis County. Jeremy is compassionate, but he understands the duty to protect the most vulnerable members of our community from violent criminals. Itโ€™s quite a contrast: It took me months to understand why, in contrast, Jose Garza would allow a violent criminal who drugged and raped a 13 year old girl to get off without anything on his record. Why would he plea down everything to misdemeanor, including when a violent felon beat his pregnant girlfriend so brutally that she lost her baby? Even the most kindhearted also want justice and public safety. But Garza has a radical ideology that ANY prosecution ever is evil. When he was a public defender, that position was acceptable. But as DA in charge of enforcing the law, he is subverting his duties and violating his oath. Under Garzaโ€™s simplistic ideology, everyone is a victim or an oppressor based on their background and position in society rather than based on their actions and behavior. For Garza, the criminals that commit violent crimes are the victims so even if they committed rape or murder they cannot be at fault. Itโ€™s the systemโ€™s fault. For Garza, the DAโ€™s office he presides over is the oppressor and so he is slowly dismantling it (not just reform it, but dismantling it, which is why he disbanded the division that processes cases, resulting in over seven thousand unindicted criminal felonies thus far). Itโ€™s so extreme itโ€™s illogical. But that is what radical extremism does. In terms of financial backing, virtually all support for Jeremy comes from people that live in Travis County. Garza came into power with $1 million from out of state money. The people that put Garza in power do not need to live with the consequences of his actions. Jeremyโ€™s supporters are locals whose families and loved ones live in Travis County. Our only agenda is to protect the community. For us teachers, entrepreneurs and parents itโ€™s uncomfortable to get drawn into politically divisive issues. But the stakes are so high that everyone is stepping in. Itโ€™s very unusual for other elected politicians to stand up against an incumbent from their party. The amount of Democratic leaders that Iโ€™ve met and have told me how much they dislike Garza but canโ€™t speak up is stunning. And even then, you have icons of the Democratic establishment speaking up: โ€ข David Butts and Alfred Stanley are among the most highly respected Austinites and life-long liberals helping Jeremyโ€™s campaign. โ€ข Former Austin City Councilwoman Ora Houston, former Travis County Commissioner Karen Huber, as well as the Austin Bar Association Preference Poll, the South Asian Bar Association of Austin, and the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas have all endorsed Jeremy. โ€ข Even former State Senator Gonzalo Barrientos & Travis County Commissioner Margaret Gomez, fellow Hispanics, are so shocked by Jose Garzaโ€™s actions and so impressed with Jeremyโ€™s integrity that they have endorsed Jeremy Sylestine. Extremism seems to be taking over our country. But the proper response to rigidity and dehumanization from one side is not denial of facts and โ€œus vs themโ€ dehumanization from the opposite extreme. Personally, I identify as independent because I find political parties hyperpartisan. I support moderate candidates on both sides. Itโ€™s high time for builders to transcend these labels and all join together. It doesnโ€™t matter if you are Democrat or Independent or Republican. You are a human being. You are a citizen. When it comes to public safety, itโ€™s not about politics.Your children should be able to walk downtown without fear for their safety. Your spouse should be able to go for a run in the park without fear of being assaulted or raped. Itโ€™s about enforcing the law to protect victims while showing compassion wherever justice guides us to. Itโ€™s about all of us being together to BUILD a better community for all. Everyone in Travis County should go out and vote for Jeremy - not just to keep our community safe - but to break the shackles of extremism from either side and show that the people in Austin are ONE and refuse to play divisive games from extremist ideological politicians from either side. Regardless of political affiliation, anyone in #TravisCounty / Greater #AustinTx can go into a voting location, request a #DemocraticPrimary Ballot, and vote for #JeremySylestine in the most consequential election to the community. Where and How to Vote: Vote for @Jeremy4DA during Early Voting today through March 1 or on Election Day March 5.

Daniel Lubetzky

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I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction โ€” telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work โ€” correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn โ€” they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed โ€” because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation โ€” they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian โ€” whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say โ€” became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States โ€” the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous โ€” posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five โ€” Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver โ€” appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.
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I am the Senior Vice President of Late Night Strategy at CBS. I am the person who turned a comedian into a priest and charged advertisers to watch the congregation. I want to be precise about what I built. Not a comedy show. A permission structure. For eleven years, six million Americans tuned in every night to find out what they were allowed to believe by morning. We didn't sell jokes. We sold certainty. Certainty costs nothing to produce. People will pay anything for it. We charged $50 million a year and still lost money because it turns out permission is even cheaper than we thought. In 2014, we had a genuinely dangerous comedian. A man who once testified before Congress in character as a fictional conservative pundit and made the entire chamber look like they'd been pantsed on C-SPAN. His fake persona was the most brilliant satire on television. Layered. Ironic. Unpredictable. The character could say anything because nothing was real. The character was the art. The character was the comedian. We killed the character and put the real man on stage. The real man was a lecturer. Earnest. Thoughtful. Correct about everything. Correct is not funny. Correct is not dangerous. Correct is the absence of danger. We promoted the absence of danger and called it growth. His character could make a Senate committee squirm. The real him makes an audience nod. Nodding pays the same as squirming. Nodding is easier to produce. His final words on air were "We love doing this show for you, but what we really, really love is doing this show with you." The audience wept. I wrote that line. Not the words. The architecture that made those words feel true. For eleven years, the audience believed they were participants. They were not participants. They were the product. "With you" is what you say to a congregation. A comedian says "at you." We hadn't said "at you" since 2015. Our internal metric was called Affirm Rate. It measured the percentage of monologue segments that generated applause instead of laughter. I invented this metric. I also invented the bonus structure tied to it. In 2015, our Affirm Rate was 34%. By 2022, it was 94%. I received a raise every year. We are crushing it. At the things I made up. That's performance management. But I need to tell you about the real discovery. The one I put in a deck called "Content Strategy 2019-2024." The one that got me promoted. Agreement gets applause. I knew that early. But correction โ€” telling the audience their vocabulary is slightly outdated, their outrage is aimed two degrees off-center, their feelings are valid but their phrasing needs work โ€” correction gets them back tomorrow. Agreement is a transaction. Correction is a subscription. We converted a comedy show into a nightly software update for moral vocabulary. Churn was near zero. They couldn't afford to miss an episode. Missing an episode meant using last week's words in this week's meeting. That's social death. We monetized the fear of social death and called it entertainment. I want to be honest about something. The content was not bipartisan. We chose a side. But I need you to understand: we did not choose it because we believed in it. We chose it because that side's audience is more responsive to correction. They want to be updated. They want to be told their language is outdated. They experience correction as care. The other side does not respond to correction. They respond to provocation. Provocation is harder to monetize. You can't build a subscription on provocation because the audience doesn't come back to learn โ€” they come back to fight. Fighting is unpredictable. Correction is scheduled. We optimized for the audience that wants to be told what to think. That audience leaned one direction. That's not ideology. That's market segmentation. The writers' room had a whiteboard. In 2015 it said "What's funny?" In 2018 it said "What should they feel?" By 2021 it said "What are they still saying wrong?" I watched that whiteboard evolve like a finch beak and I never intervened. The market was speaking. We listened. Listening to the market is the same as leading the audience. They can't tell the difference. A writer named Marcus raised his hand in 2019. "What if we just tried to make them laugh again?" I thanked him for his passion and scheduled a creative alignment conversation. He transferred to streaming development within the month. The Affirm Rate the week he left was 91%. Laughter would have brought it down. That's risk management. Here is what nobody will say out loud. I will say it because I am proud of it. We made our audience worse at politics. Not better. Worse. Every night for eleven years, we expressed their outrage for them. Professionally. With a band and good lighting. And because the outrage had been expressed โ€” because a man in a suit had furrowed his brow with the precise calibrated degree of indignation โ€” they didn't need to express it themselves. They watched. They clapped. They felt the catharsis of resistance without resisting anything. They went to bed having done nothing and feeling like they'd done something. That's the product. Not comedy. Not information. Catharsis. Catharsis is the enemy of action. A man who has screamed into a pillow does not then also scream in the street. We were the pillow. A $50 million pillow with a house band. If you feel the outrage has been expressed for you, you will not march. You will not organize. You will not call your representative. You will tune in tomorrow to feel it expressed again. That's retention. Our retention was extraordinary. I want to talk about the comedy-to-catechism pipeline because I think people underestimate what we achieved. Stage one: comedian makes jokes about the powerful. Audience laughs because the powerful are absurd. This is the Carlin model. The jester punches up. Everyone below feels relief. Stage two: comedian makes jokes about people who disagree with the audience. Audience laughs because disagreement is stupid. The jester has turned around. He's still on the stage but now he's facing the crowd with a pointer. Stage three: comedian stops making jokes. Comedian identifies incorrect beliefs and explains why they're dangerous. Audience does not laugh. Audience claps. The jester is gone. In his place: a hall monitor with a desk and a band. Stage four: audience watches not for entertainment but for certification. Having seen last night's episode means you know which words are current. Not having seen it means you might use yesterday's vocabulary in today's meeting. The show is no longer comedy. It is a credential. Watching it means you are educated. Not watching means you are the person being discussed. We made a show that you watch to prove you're not the kind of person who doesn't watch it. That's a closed loop. Closed loops don't need content. They need continuity. We provided continuity for $50 million a year. A comedian โ€” whose entire historical function was to say things too dangerous for anyone else to say โ€” became the person who decides which things are too dangerous for anyone to say. And the audience applauded. Every night. For 2,500 nights. Because being told what is forbidden feels exactly like being told what you already knew. Prohibition performed as validation. I put that in the deck too. Our audience was correct about everything. I know this because they applauded everything we said. The applause proved the correctness. The correctness justified the applause. We called this audience research. The methodology was peer-reviewed by the audience. They approved unanimously. Every night. The actually funny comedians left. They went to podcasts. To clubs. To rooms where the audience doesn't know what's coming and that uncertainty is the point. They took the laughter with them. We kept the applause. We called those spaces problematic. That's market differentiation. The problematic spaces are funnier. But funny is not our product. We lost $40 million a year. We didn't lose it because the show failed. We lost it because we spent $50 million producing what a podcast host in his garage gives away between mattress ads. The podcast is funnier. The podcast is more dangerous. The podcast has an audience that laughs instead of claps. But we had the Ed Sullivan Theater. We had 461 seats. We had a former Beatle play the farewell episode. Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello, Jon Batiste, and Louis Cato playing "Hello, Goodbye" like it was a benediction. I booked a Beatle for a funeral. The Beatles played that stage in 1964 and the audience screamed so loud you couldn't hear the music. Our audience didn't scream. They wept politely. That's the difference between entertainment and church. We ran a church. Jon Stewart showed up to the finale and did a bit where he pretended to deliver a corporate statement from Paramount about the cancellation. The audience laughed. It was the first time they laughed in a way I didn't recognize. Involuntary. Surprised. Dangerous. For ninety seconds, a comedian was in that building. Then it was over. John Oliver said "At some point, this may come for all of our shows" and then added "but Stephen, what's important to remember is that tonight, it is going to eat you." The audience laughed again. Involuntary again. Two moments of actual comedy in a three-hour farewell. Both of them about death. The finale drew 6.74 million viewers. Biggest weeknight audience in our history. More people came to the funeral than ever visited the patient. I know what they were mourning. Not comedy. The comedy died in 2016. Not the man. The man is fine. He's wealthy. What they mourned was the permission structure. Starting today, they have to decide what to believe on their own. They have to form an opinion without waiting for a man behind a desk to form it first and deliver it with a knowing look. Some of them haven't done that since 2015. The funeral wasn't for the show. It was for the certainty. He joked about the Peanuts theme music licensing cost on his last night. "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!" The audience laughed. It was a joke about money. About the network losing money. The last joke was about money. Not about truth. Not about power. About a licensing fee for a cartoon piano riff. Eleven years and the final joke was about accounting. I think that's perfect. The show was always about accounting. We just dressed it up as conscience. The President of the United States โ€” the man we spent eleven years explaining was dangerous to an audience that already believed he was dangerous โ€” posted an AI-generated video of our host being thrown into a dumpster on the Late Show set. Then Trump danced to "YMCA" in the clip. Viewed more times in four hours than our farewell managed in a week. His production cost: zero. Ours: negative $50 million a year. We manufactured his relevance every night at 11:35 for eleven years and he never paid us a dime. We were his marketing department. He turned our funeral into content. His ROI was infinite. Ours required a write-off and a farewell concert. The Strike Force Five โ€” Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Oliver โ€” appeared in a segment about late-night losing "one middle-aged white man who makes jokes about the news." They were joking about their own obsolescence. All of them know. None of them will say it. The format is dead. The audience moved to phones. The phones don't have desks or bands. The phones have men in garages who are allowed to be wrong, allowed to be surprised, allowed to say something their audience hasn't already approved. That's comedy. We stopped doing that a decade ago. We did approval. Approval looks like comedy from a distance. Up close it's church. I do not feel guilt. Guilt would require me to believe I took something from them. I didn't take anything. They came to us. Every night. They chose the catechism over the comedy. They preferred correction over surprise. Certainty over danger. Instruction over laughter. They wanted to be told. Not challenged. Not shocked. Not made to laugh against their will at something they didn't see coming. They wanted to see it coming. They wanted to mouth along. That's not comedy. That's karaoke. We ran the most expensive karaoke bar in television history and the only miscalculation was charging a cover when the songs are free on every phone. We turned a jester into a priest. We turned an audience into a congregation. We turned laughter into obedience. We turned political engagement into passive consumption. We turned a comedy show into a permission structure and charged $50 million a year to tell people what they already believed in a voice slightly nicer than their own. They were so grateful they showed up to mourn us. 6.74 million of them. Weeping. For the certainty. Applause is more reliable than laughter. I proved it. The proof cost $450 million, one character, one comedian's capacity for danger, and one audience's willingness to act. The metric went up.

Peter Girnus ๐Ÿฆ…

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