18. Global Economy Down, Why You Need Bitcoin In Your Portfolio

Welcome back to the Benneberg Show. Your favorite MBA and high school dropout. Talking about everything, crypto, startups, entrepreneurship, business and life in Dubai right now. How are you, Bert?

Amazing, mate. I'm going really well. We had a brutal week last week. I was exhausted. Caught up with my mate yesterday at his work drinks. That was awesome. Beautiful sunny day today. Went for a walk, caught up with my team. It was just. It's a good day, man. I'm enjoying it. I love life. How are you, mate?

I good, man. I'm excited for today's episode. It's the. The bitcoin episode.

How good?

Not a better time to wear my bitcoin shirt. Pull this one out, mate. I haven't worn this a little while. Put out the.

I'm not sure. Oh, did you find your iron, mate? Or. It's a self ironing bitcoin shirt.

This is self ironing bitcoin shirt, man.

Dude, I think there's never been more important time to speak about bitcoin right now with the world just absolutely imploding. So we're going to talk about everything there with the macro that's going on, crashing fiat currencies, why there's lack of trust in governments, rising inflation, why bitcoin is so good right now. Then we're talking a few pretty interesting points around why people probably don't know or what people don't know about bitcoin. Some more interesting things, definitely.

I've fallen in love with bitcoin again and I jotted down a few things. Some interesting things that people might not know or might not understand that I just find really fascinating. So fascinating. And we're also catching up on, on our accountability of the week.

Let's go.

And we're gonna see if we did the hard things or if you're gonna, you know, suck it down and have to pay 500 bucks to the bar tab for the Benneberg's party when we have one, mate.

Well, I've got good news for you. We'll save it for later. But I'm not paying. That's all I'm saying.

You wouldn't pay anyway, mate.

Yeah, I know.

And then we also wanna talk about a little bit about the metaverse. I'm here in Dubai. It's all about the metaverse here. So much money being deployed, where within the metaverse is going and just generally, yeah, some, some sort of key takeaways of what I'm learning over here in Dubai around crypto and the blockchain summit over here. And then as always, a meme of the week, meal of the week and gratitude and kindness. So let's get into it, mate. Let's, let's kick into it. So look, macro, right now I've seen people comparing this market to like the equivalent of World War II. Like, it's pretty brutal out there.

They've gone right to World War II. Not just GFC like Bang, World War II rations and hyperinflation equivalent to that.

And, and they're saying it could get worse. You know, which is, which is pretty fascinating, right? So what we're seeing across the world is like a flee into the US dollar. So we're seeing people fleeing into, out of their own currencies, out of stocks, out of. Not even, even bonds. People aren't even buying bonds right now. It's all going into cash, it's all going to US dollar. And countries are moving their capital into the US dollar as well. And what this happens, you get this sort of supply squeeze when there's not enough dollars floating around. You get this increase in the US dollar, which is why the US dollar is sort of saying stagnant if not going up. And everything else is kind of imploding around it. So we saw the Australian dollar, it's had a bit, I think it's had a bit of a crawlback over the last sort of few days. But the Australian dollar, British pound, everything is really collapsing around it.

You know, we had the largest trading volume of, I think it was the British pound into bitcoin the other week. I think it was last week in a 24 hour period.

Yep.

And I think this is really coming from a lack of trust of governments. You know, we've got the Fed and government control continuing to print money and continuing to make decisions to try and keep the economy running. But the reality is like it's, it's all heading in one direction. That's south. And you know, for me, you know, I was, I was speaking to a guy from Africa the other day and he was saying that, I think he said that the inflation in Africa in the last 12 months has been 40 in one year.

Yeah.

Can you imagine that? Can you imagine 40? Inflation?

And the function of inflation is to erode capital. So any capital that you have, any commodities money, bitcoin, gold, it erodes the value of that shares as well if it's denominated in your currency. And imagine losing 40% of your wealth in a year. Not only are you losing your wealth, but prices are going up too. So the money that you earn, you have to spend and it's costing 40% more.

Yeah, that's, it's absolutely nuts. So like, I think this is one of the biggest gateways or you know, bullish things around bitcoin. Right? So we, with bitcoin, you know, we're sitting around, what are we right now as of Tom recording? 19,000. So we've been sitting around this 19,000, 20,000 US dollar level for a little while. And the fact that the bitcoin has stayed at that price range for so long for me is really bullish because it's showing to me that it's actually, although, you know, it is down. But if you look at tech stocks, if you look at, if you look at most of the stock market, a lot of those companies like look at Snapchat or Tesla or you know, even Amazon Meta, all of these companies down 40 to 80% on their own. So bitcoin is about the same. But we're holding up pretty strongly right now. And I think over the next few months and years the narrative of lack of trust of governments, lack of trust of banks, lack of trust of anybody is going to filter into having bitcoin as a potential alternative where you don't need to trust governments, you don't need to trust people, you're trusting code and software, you know exactly what the hell you're going to get every day from bitcoin. And as a limited cap supply asset there has a deflationary nature which is the complete opposite and uncorrelated to the monetary system. I think it is so, so, you know, exciting for people that need to get their cash that's slowly eroding away their purchasing power into an asset that is actually holding its purchasing power.

This is exactly right. And even things like interest rates in Australia have doubled in the last like four months. It's so crazy. Like petrol's $2 a liter, things are getting expensive, right? And you're holding Aussie dollars if you get paid in US dollars. And I know quite a few people that do, their purchasing powers actually increased against the dollar and they'll convert it when they need to spend. And you know, like last year, the year before, we were talking about Venezuela and what's happening there and people laughing, oh, it'll never happen to me. Guess what, it's happening right now. Yeah, literally like bitcoin is also denominated in US dollars. It's holding its value and the Australian currency is going down and the, the use case of bitcoin is becoming stronger and stronger. And I'm really looking forward to decent capital inflows going into bitcoin because it's actually functionally what it does. You know, people are understanding that more well.

So I like 99 of my liquid wealth is in, is in, is in Bitcoin, in crypto based Bitcoin Ethereum. I don't even touch it, I don't even look at it, I completely forget about it. But you know, I asked my question this, like if I didn't have my money in bitcoin, where would I have it?

Right? So I've thought about this a lot and generally for me, and of course we talk from a place of privilege, privilege and luxury where we have surplus capital to what we spend and we get to choose where we put it. We're not living hand to mouth, we're not living day to day, we're not making super hard choices that some people have to make. We're lucky, we've got a bit left over at the end of the week. And I heard Michael Saylor say this and it made so much sense. He gave this, you know, one hour rationale as to why. I'll give you the 22nd version. If you need your cash within the next couple of years, put it into the US dollar. If you need it within four years, put it into Bitcoin. Four years plus. And that makes a lot of sense to me. And again, not financial advice, this is just, you know, sailor talking. And really that makes sense because if you look at how everything's competing against the US dollar, how their economy is doing, how everything's denominated in US dollars, the demand for US dollars and you have to, you still got all the trust, you've still got everything they're still able to print. But that is the strongest currency that we have on this planet to put your money in. If you need it short term, if you need it four years plus, start looking at things like Bitcoin, like learning about that, understanding it and it's a better value proposition. I think personally, long term, I totally agree. Yeah.

And I'm definitely in that longer than four year bucket, you know, you just put it away and you forget about it. It's really, it's holding up relatively well. Like if I was to put that money into, you know, at the same time into any stocks or anything like that, it'd be absolutely plummeted. So yeah, I'm definitely holding this for 10, you know, 10 plus years or you know, I may sell some in the next cycle when things get out of control. But for right Now I'm sitting pretty, pretty, pretty happy, same.

And I'm just holding on to it because one day I'll need it. I need the magic Internet money. Like, that'll be the standard or my daughter will need it if it takes longer. Something like, you know, we can see what's building here. We look into the future, we see what's going to happen and we're preparing for that.

Yeah, for sure. Now, do you want to give us a few items or data points that people may not know about in the bitcoin world?

All right, mate, let's go. So this is, this may be super nerdy stuff, but I find it really interesting. So we talk about bitcoin and bitcoin doesn't actually exist in the code base, right? It's just satoshi. So satoshi is like the smallest unit of account and it's 100 million satoshis to one bitcoin. Now, bitcoin did a really interesting trick where everything's denominated in bitcoins. But if you denominate it and we go, there's this 21 million cap. If we denominate it in Satoshis, it is 2.1 quadrillion Satoshis. So could you imagine bitcoin sitting at the top of the chart and the supply is 2.1 quadrillion instead of 21 million? How does the narrative change around that?

Isn't that like saying, though? Like, it'd be like saying we just start talking about, you know, payments in cents than dollars.

No, because cents and dollars are really close. Right. So, like there's 100 cents per dollar.

Yeah.

Satoshi's is like 100 million to a bitcoin. So it's like we just started talking, we started talking in like billions. Do you think we just, we didn't think about millions, thousands or hundreds?

Do you think one day when bitcoin is at such a high price, you know, you're not going to go into the coffee in the coffee store and order zero point, you know, a coffee for 0.0000073 of a Bitcoin. Do you think at some point when the number is so high that we switch to satoshis, is the, the denominated?

This is interesting. I think for now, when you go to a coffee shop, it'll be denominated in dollars because that's the base currency. I think once we get to the future where things are denominated in bitcoin, it will be the amount of satoshis.

Yeah, yeah. So do I. Yeah. Cool.

Absolutely wild. All right, here's the next one. So a lot of people know this, but I want to reiterate it because it's super, super important. So you don't have to buy a whole bitcoin, right? You don't have to spend US$19,000. You can buy one Satoshi and you own Bitcoin. One Satoshi is 0.02 cents. Everyone can afford this, right? And you would need roughly 4,584 satoshis for US$1 that you put in. And this is why we say stack sats. So you keep stacking satoshis more and more, week after week after week. $10, $20 every week. And eventually you build your way up and you work your way up to having a bitcoin. You don't need to have a bitcoin. You just got to be in the game and get off 0, 100%.

Yeah. You don't need to buy a full one. I think the Nathan wrote up an awesome post a while back about the power of owning one bitcoin and what it would mean to own one bitcoin in the future around like, you know, being able to be financially literate in the crypto space, being, you know, having the capital and the credit balance to be able to take out loans with that Bitcoin being one of 21 million people. How? There's 7 billion people in the world. It's only 21 million Bitcoins. Like, that's a very low percentage of the world that can actually have this.

So cop. Exactly right. So cop this. There is not enough bitcoin in the world for every millionaire in the world to have one. So we have more than 21 millionaires in the world.

And guess what? Millionaires own a lot more than 1 bitcoins.

Exactly right, Exactly. And this is it. Like another one is Satoshi holds a million dollars. A million bitcoin. Right. So this is the creator, the initial account, it hasn't moved. It's worth about US$23 billion and it's about 5% of the supply. So already that's gone down. And when we talk about supply chain analysis confirmed, about 20% of Bitcoin has been lost forever. So 3.76 million Bitcoin have been lost forever.

I didn't realize satoshi owned a million bitcoins. Really? That's fascinating.

So 25% is pretty much locked or gone already. And you think about that with chain analysis, you can't really confirm it because you know, someone could be holding on to it. The thing about back in the day where like, you know, a thousand bitcoins are worth like a dollar, you wouldn't care. You just leave on your computer. You know, you trash your computers while all these guys are at the rubbish tip looking for their bloody old computers that have like $10 billion worth of Bitcoin on it. Yeah, it's absolutely crazy. And again, there's only 1.3 million Bitcoin available to buy on crypto exchanges today. So if you think about it, 1.3 million people can buy a bitcoin. That's the liquidity. After that it's gone. That's why we see these squeezes where, you know, people are trying to get at bitcoin and the, the order book just gets eaten up and then you start to go to the high price and people actually run out of bitcoin to sell on exchanges. Well, we saw that in the last session is crazy.

Exchanges ran out of bitcoin, they literally physically ran out of crypto. So like when you get this scramble, people are just chasing higher and higher prices because there's, you know, illiquidity. So an analogy of that is like if you, if the world is running out of Mars bars and you only have five Mars bars left in the world and everyone wants a Mars bar, there's going to be higher and higher bids to get a Mars bar. Right? That's what happened. What's happened in the last bull market.

And it's a self fulfilling prophecy as well. Where you want the bitcoin, you, you have to pay a higher price. So you pay the higher price, but that then drives the price up further.

Yeah, right.

And you see this insanity because you want it and you want to hold it. And that is not the time to get in folks. If you're doing that. And we saw bitcoin go up like one to $2,000 per day. Like bloody hell. Like this is just crazy. Absolutely insane price action.

Here's another one. You can lose your bitcoin obviously by losing your keys, but you can also burn your coins. You can send them to the burn address, which is a wallet that can't be accessed, or you can send them to another chain. Generally you can't do that anymore because a lot of the wallets will stop you and say, hey, you can't send to this address. But mate, having heart attacks when you're like, you type in your address and it's like, did I type in the right thing or did it put a space in there? Where am I actually sending this. And once you sent it, there's gone. There's no give backseize, mate. It's just gone.

Sending you to the burn address. That's an absolute. Sure. That's a ballsy move.

Oh, mate. That's it. That's it. A lot of people do it though, like Binance do that quite often where they've got a big supply and they start to burn it, so the supply decreases. So the demand in effect bounces out and increases and has price action because there's less of it around. It's a really good mechanic. Interesting. All right, here's another one. So I love this one. So your bitcoins and your tokens are not on your ledger or hardware wallet. They exist on the blockchain only. And you just use that as a way to interact. It's like a key to unlock it. But I love this part. I love it so much. You control those coins until you die, and then they move on to the next person or they get stuck forever. You never really own them. You can just move them around on the blockchain. You can't like take them off the blockchain, do things with them, put them in your house. You literally just move things around.

The train stays on the train track at all times.

Oh, how wild is it, man? It is just. It is. It blows my mind. And then you don't. You actually don't even own the coins. You just. What you do is you have access to unspent transaction outputs. And that blows my mind. That's like a really deep topic. But when you go into it, you're like, oh my God, too much.

So good. All right, let's do. Let's do a couple more. So there are almost a hundred thousand bitcoin millionaires and rather there are a hundred thousand addresses that have more than 1 million bitcoin in them. How wild is that? $1 million worth of bitcoin. Wow, it's so crazy. And here's. Here's one for you. Okay, I've got two more to go. This one's for you, Ben. So bitcoins 21 million limit can be changed. It's not an immutable thing. It's conditional. Right? It's conditional on a lot of stuff. It's not. This is it. It's forever. It can be changed. So, so how does this happen? It's a difficult thing to do, but it can be done. So what would have to do happen in the process to increase or increase the limit of bitcoin? The Devs would have to get together and they'd have to propose a change, like a bit kind of change, Bitcoin improvement protocol. And they have to write the code to implement it in Bitcoin core. After they've done that, the community, like the Bitcoin community, all of us would have to agree on an activation path resulting in a hard fork. So that's basically a split of the Bitcoin code. So, and what a hard fork is, is something that was not allowed before is now allowed. And that's when you have a hard fork. All nodes on the network would then have to adopt the changes. And they do that by installing the software and running that version of the software, or they're forced off the network because the things that are now allowed, they wouldn't allow with their old software. Both miners and nodes would signal their support for the change and the change would be activated. And then nodes or miners who refuse the change are forced off the new network and they operate on a minority fork, which was the original Bitcoin network. And this is similar to Ethereum Classic. And then the two networks compete for market share, and we saw this in 2017 with Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Core, where there's two chains are being mined by different miners and they're competing for market share. And of course, Bitcoin Core 1. But all of this being said, it's very, very unlikely to happen because it would destroy Bitcoin's issuance and its monetary policy. Right. And that would obliterate the value that's being created and the main value proposition. So why would you do it and why would you vote for it if you're incentivized not to?

Yes, it's possible, but very, very, very, very, very, very, very unlikely.

It's so remote and so many things would have to happen in order for this to go ahead. It is absolutely crazy. And then the final One is the PowerPoint example. Sorry, PowerPoint.

So how much energy does Bitcoin use? So this is from Michael Saylor and I'll put all the references in the notes. And just quickly, everyone's like, oh, proof of work uses way too much. It's ridiculous. They uses too much electricity. Generally the arguments you hear are horseshit. So energy usage is not carbon footprint. So it is not putting heaps of carbon. This can be hydro, it can be renewable energy, it can be a bunch of stuff. It's just energy. The world generates 160,000 terawatt hours of energy per year. 160,000 terawatt hours of that 50,000 terawatt hours of Energy are wasted. We just don't use them. We don't consume them. About a third of that. So a third of the energy we create is wasted. Of that 130 terawatt hours is used to run the entire bitcoin network. Let's put this in perspective. We generate 160,000 terawatt hours. Only 130 is used to run the entire bitcoin network. That's about 0.25% of just the wasted energy. The energy that goes nowhere, you just fucking shoot into earth or whatever you do with it. Think about that. Energy that's not even stored. So bitcoin is the bidder of last resort for energy. If you've got energy you've got nothing to do with, pump it into bitcoin because at least you get some money back. And think about it. Bitcoin is a $300 billion network secured by about $2 billion worth of energy per year. So it's 2 cents per kilowatt hour of discarded energy that has zero value, 2 cents per kilowatt hour. And the marginal value of that is zero, because you just send it away. And if you. And the current cost of energy is 9 to 13 cents per kilowatt hour. So not only are you getting that cheap energy that would have been wasted, you're putting it into something to create value.

Well, that's what we saw in Texas, right? They were using excess energy, some of their grids, the power plants. When they were, like, wasting all this energy, they just started mining bitcoin. One, because they're not doing anything else, the energy, so it's basically for free or no additional cost. And two, it's securing the network, and they're getting remunerated for securing the network. So, you know, it's. It's a much better monetary system that allows people to validate the network and use, as you said, excess energy that's just being wasted anyway, 100%.

And if you think about it, like, I love the example of creating a power plant. When you create a power plant, you know it. You create it for what you need now, but also the future. So you're creating this huge thing. You can only spin up like a quarter of it or half of it, whatever it may be. With bitcoin, you can spin up the whole thing and store that value. You can actually do something and you can manage the load on the grid as well. And when we think about this, everyone's like, it costs a lot of Energy. Okay, let me put this into your brain. Think about how much payment system costs at the moment. So you've literally got EFTPOS at somewhere. You've got that machine that use the Internet that connects to a bank. You got all these people in the bank, you've got branches, you've got huge offices full of bankers that have heating, cooling, electricity, computers. They drive to and from work creating all that, you know, that huge carbon footprint. It is absolutely ridiculous. If you add all of that up you start to really see the value proposition With Bitcoin it is such a false argument. We just have to set the record straight mate.

Yeah, done. Mic drop.

That's good mate. Love it, absolutely love it.

One thing I absolutely do not love, what I want to talk about is CBDCs and Ed, my co host on decoding crypto isn't.

Oh, the one you're cheating on me with, mate, that's the one.

Right.

I don't blame you. She's much better looking.

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She's an absolute legend.

She.

She, she's basically got me onto the train of you know, completely hating CBDCs and to be fair I didn't like them anyway to begin with. But he, she. Sorry. Really, really dislikes CBDCs.

Do you want to define what they are, Ben?

Yes. So CBDC is a central bank digital currency. So they are digital currencies that central banks I. E Like the government basically are creating for different countries and the Australia, Australia's in the pipeworks, America's in the pipe works, India, everywhere, all central banks are wanting to create these central bank digital currencies because they basically give the, the central bank and the government's more control and more transparency as to what everyone is spending their money on and they can you know, use the technology to do faster payments and that sort of things I totally get. But.

For example in, in India they just announced the E rupee. So it's a digital central bank digital currency. Now I want to be clear that they are not cryptocurrencies. They are central bank digital currencies. They're not cryptocurrencies. They are centralized, not decentralized. They are owned by the central bank and bergs. What I'm really worried about in terms of where this could go to is a, is a, is a state of, of countries where cash isn't a thing anymore because no one uses cash anyway. There's going to be some point in time when societies become cashless and then the only currency that is being used by majority of society essential bank digital currencies. You are losing all control of your finance and your money. The government then has complete visibility on all your transactions. They have complete control on your money. So let's just say for example, there's a minority group or a particular opinion or viewpoint of the world you have and the government doesn't agree with you. They have the ability, if they want to shut you down, they have the ability to shut out you from your money. And this might seem crazy, but it literally happened recently in Canada. When the truckers were protesting in Canada, they were starting to shut down people's bank accounts that they knew were protesting in Canada. And people were fleeing to Bitcoin as a way to actually continue to, to pay for goods and services and, and, and their meals and water.

As a basic human right. It was shut down by the government. How scary is this?

How wild is it? And people need to understand they're not like up. The argument is always, oh, I'm not doing anything wrong, therefore you know, I've got nothing to worry about. I don't need to worry about my privacy. No, privacy is the default. Everything you do should be private. You have that as a basic human right. And the societies that we live in, talking about, you know, Australia, Europe, America, these types of societies, privacy is the default. You have cash. And a lot of societies are removing cash from circulation. Like a lot of countries no longer have hundred dollar notes. Soon it'll be 50s, then it'll be 20s. They'll remove it altogether. What we have today is a majority of people have money in their bank. Even if you go to your credit card statement, what that is is a transaction history of who you've interacted with, at what time, how much value you transacted with them, where you were and what you were doing. There are a lot of times where you may want to do things and not have people know about it. Like if I donate to a specific charity, you know, or if I a church organization, I might not want that if you know, my bank doesn't agree with it all. All of a sudden the people in my church or whatever go absolutely crazy. And now I'm affiliated with them. And we see this on the blockchain with people that enact in interacted with tornado cash. Their addresses got blacklisted. But what also happens is you get dusted where people will send stuff to your account from those blacklisted addresses. And on and on it goes. And really where this is all leading is groups that shouldn't have that ability to censor and control are able to do that. And we see this now in tech, we see it on Twitter where you can just be silenced. Twitter silenced the President of the United States of America. Let me say that again. They silence the president who is in charge here. That is an American company. And you can go, you're not allowed to talk on here anymore. Imagine the stones on you taking on the president. That's now happening, happening with banking and where we spend our money. And your bank account will just get closed because they don't like you doing something, spending it on crypto, donating to a charity, doing a certain thing. It is absolutely ridiculous. And these centralized currencies, you have to understand at the moment the money that you have and you put it in the bank, it's not there like 5% of it's there if that. It's literally a SQL database in the background moving numbers around. All they're doing is they're creating another layer on top of that giving it a fancy name. But it's the same thing. And it'll have more interoperability and ability to, for overreach and to run reports and view things. Because at the moment yes the banking system is connected but to kind of get data, the disparate data sets, the different systems. This will bring it up to a level where it's so easy to see where the money is and who's doing what in your society. It is frightening.

Yeah. So just to make it clear, central bank digital currencies and not cryptocurrencies, they're centralized. They're complete opposite of what we believe in with decentralization. Bitcoin, we own your own capital. It's not tied to anything. And yeah, I'm not a fan whatsoever. So now be interested to see how it plays out.

Yeah, those off don't want them. Like, like some things like are okay. Like if it's to efficiency to get money to people when they absolutely need it, great. If it serves those purposes, do it. But as soon as you get that currency, get the out of it and get into something else.

100 now the other thing I want to talk about just while we're on crypto books is the metaverse. So being over here in Dubai, the metaverse is a huge, huge trend over here. Metaverse and NFTs. And I was actually speaking with someone from Decentraland the other day and it's really interesting to hear what they're working on and what they're building towards and even being over the conferences over here. In Dubai. Like it's all Metaverse, Metaverse, Metaverse, Dubai are actually building and have already built a international.

Metaverse for business, for a business hub. So like Dubai is in the physical world. The they built the Metaverse Edition where they're attracting and actually building this accelerator. They're actually funding businesses to come into the Metaverse and build their business in the metaverse to meet and collaborate with other international businesses there. Super fascinating. You can imagine this world where you're throwing on the VR. You're sitting in your home in Melbourne or Perth, wherever you are, you're meeting with your colleagues across the world in this metaverse. You're walking down, you're looking at different businesses, attending events, you go into fashion shows, you're watching a concert, you're meeting up with buddies, you're playing games, you're collecting NFTs, you're wearing different clothes, you're wearing your Gucci outfit, which then you leave your Metaverse and you enter a PlayStation game and you take your Metaverse NFT with you. And now you've got your Gucci character over there. Fascinating, man, fascinating.

So good. You showed me some of the booths that were at this conference you went to. They're literally like two story houses like you can go into. It's phenomenal. If Dubai is doing something, mate, they're doing it large. That's what it's at.

There's no small stuff here, man.

Yeah, and you see this as well. So to put this in perspective, Gartner, who's a company that does a lot of research in 2026, they're estimating people will spend at least an hour of their day in the metaverse, an hour of your day, which is huge. And that's pretty much going to eat into the time that you would spend on your phone. Or you're going to do it at work.

Yeah.

And with work. Microsoft just announced a partnership with Meta. So Microsoft is teaming up with Meta and all of their VR AR stuff is coming to Windows Office teams, all the stuff that everyone already has embedded in their organizations and like 99% of the organizations in the world run off, which is absolutely wild. So you can imagine the next iteration. Everyone was scared to do remote when Covid happened. Right. And guess what? It was already built into the majority of your Microsoft shit. Yeah, you have to configure some stuff, but you can go remote and it worked. What's the next iteration of that? You know, let's reduce our costs, have smaller buildings, let's have virtual meetings, let's fly less. Let's have more security around our people.

Is that fascinating? Because we went in the COVID world and everyone's like loving working from home. And then people started to get a bit sick of it. People, you know, you don't have the connection. You're not seeing friends, you're not talking to people. Now the next addition of that is you're still working from home, but you're getting that connection through virtual worlds, so.

Exactly. And I've done this with a couple of my mates, so I've got an Oculus Quest. I go in there. Even like Facebook venues. You can go to like conferences and like diplo was DJing and I'm like, this is wild. I'm sitting in my PJs, just like bouncing along. It was the sickest thing. And just talking to people and having virtual rooms where you have like whiteboards and you can. It's like a lot better than video conferencing because you can get around each other. Yeah. The graphics are a bit hokey, but like you can actually write on boards, you can pull up documents, you can share them, you can pin things. It actually works quite well.

Yeah. I think the hardware is still lacking a little bit in terms of development. I'm sure there's a shitload of money being poured into that. But to carry around big ass goggles and look like a complete idiot. Like, I feel as though we're still very, very early in that sort of sense. But this, you know, things that. There's a lot of money being poured in.

I think once I've had a few breakthroughs, especially in the hardware space, it's just going to be exponential.

Yeah.

It's like, you know, when mobile phones came out, you had these big brick phones and you had a suitcase and your hair would go from the static. And then you got like smaller brick phones. Then you got like Nokia 3210. And eventually you got smaller, smaller phones and you got a smartphone. Now you can do more on it. It's just, it's just deep tech and hardware iteration. But literally, is this going to be like the glasses you've got now or they'll just beam it straight into your head with neural link?

Well, literally your smartphone is just an extension of your brain. It's outside of your brain, but everything you have is in there. Your life, your notes, ability to. Okay, this is what smartphones are. So if you think about it back in the day, if you could have, if you could answer any question, you are all knowing or you had telepathy where you could just, you know, telepathically communicate with someone. You can literally do that with smartphones. You can ask Google any question, you'll get the answer instantly. I can pick up a phone, call any of my friends or video chat with them and we can talk, like across the entire world instantly, as if we were telepathic. How wild is that?

Yeah, that's great.

Like, it's these absolute superpowers, man. Yeah, I love it, man.

Let's. Let's. Let's get on to this, mate. Let's get on to the accountability of the week.

How did you go, mate? Did you go to the gym five times or did you not, son?

Crushed it, son.

Oh, here we go.

At that gym. I've been going to the gym every day since. I'm. I'm about nine days. Oh, sorry. I had the weekend off, but yeah, five, five days in a row. I haven't done that in goodness knows how long. And I'm backing it up this week as well, dude. Even when I was hung over, tired, miserable, felt like, couldn't be bothered going to the gym, I was like, so.

Yeah, so Ben sending me these photos and it's him at the gym and he's like, you. I pain.

It was so good.

It was so good, dude, man, it's.

It's amazing. So I did mine, I did my yoga sessions. I did more than the five. And I'm feeling really good, man. Feeling nice and loose. Don't, like, have any back pain or anything like that. And I literally did it because the 500 doesn't bother me. What bothers me is losing to you. That's ridiculous. That stings. And you will say it for the rest of my life, you will have that over me. And I'm not willing to have that 100%.

Do we have another one for this week? Have you thought of one that we can do? Bearing in mind is Thursday and we're probably going to record on Monday, so it might have to be a shorter period. 1. Is there something that you've been putting off, like a conversation or doing your taxes or whatever? It may be something that's really hard that you need an accountability partner for in order to achieve and knock that off your list.

Yeah, I've been thinking about it. I.

It's a tough one, right? Because I feel as though. I feel as though already I've been doing harder things. Like, it's just, even since the gym thing, this accountability, I've been trying to be more accountable myself. So on the weekend. Last weekend, I took the whole weekend off. No slack and no email, which is. Yeah, I have not done in a fucking long time. That was. That was crazy. So that was one. The other one. I was. I was trying to get some time off. So during the week that in. I. So I had booked that in for today and tomorrow. That's not happening.

So you have to rebook to another day off.

Maybe.

Maybe you got to be putting something off, mate.

Maybe to. Maybe.

I know, maybe it is a day off. Maybe I do need to.

What about. You have your tummy.

I do, but I don't want to say because I don't want to do it.

Yes, yes.

So I've. I've been putting this off for like five years, man. Like, it's been that long. Right. And it's a relatively simple thing to do, but in my head, it's. It's just a See you next Tuesday of a job, mate. Like, it is.

Oh, right.

So I'm gonna. I'm gonna do it because I'm like that. This is selling my arcade machine. So you've been in my house. I've got a few arcade machines. A few too many.

Yeah.

And there's one in particular that I need to sell. It's a bushy Bashi machine.

There is another one I need to sell as well, but I just won't have the time between now and then to like, fix it up to be able to sell it. Yeah. So with this one, I have to take. I have to fix up a little bit, which would be two to three hours work, take photos of it.

Oh.

Put it on like Gumtree and Facebook, have absolute dogs bail me up about it, and then come to my house and tire kickers and all this sort of. I'm just don't want to do it. I hate it. It's gonna be. But because I'm about that life and I'm about personal growth, mate. Actually, I talked to one of my mates and like yesterday I was at his work drinks and they're like, what's the podcast about? And I was talking about it and he's like, it's a personal growth podcast. And I was like, oh, that's gangster. Like the stuff that we talk about. Okay, so this is my thing. I have to put my arcade machine up for sale. I can't control whether it sells or not, but I have to clean it up, get it up to spec, move it out, make sure it's all working, connected, fix a few things on it, solder some Wires, take photos of it and put it up for sale. And I've literally got like three days to do it.

That sounds like 500 bucks.

Horrendous.

500 bucks. Lock it in, Lock it in.

You're lucky you get off this week.

I've got. No, I've got one. I've got one. All right, so I'm trying to get like a real KPI here. So.

I.

I am trying to reduce my social media time. We've been speaking about this for a little while.

Right.

So, yeah, I'm trying to reduce. I'm looking at total screen time, but I like, I'm looking here and I genuinely use a lot of this. So, you know, like Google Meets WhatsApp, you know, Safari. Like, I actually need that stuff. So I don't want to just like blanket a, like total phone screen time down looking at either.

Choose an app. So I've done this before with one of my mates, okay. And he chose Instagram and YouTube. And he has to show me a screenshot at the end of the week of how much time he has used. Now, to be fair, for YouTube and Insta, you do post stuff to those. Yeah. So you can just do it on your MacBook, but it's your phone time that you want to minimize.

Right, okay. No, let's. Let's reassess this. So I'm looking here. Last week, right, Last week, last week's average. Here we go. You want to see my stats? Let's. Let's talk stats here.

Oh, lad.

Here we go. Last week, last week's average, I spent five hours on my phone a day.

Per week or fucking hell. All right, what were you doing? Let me check mine.

So five hours on average.

Most of this, if I look at. Can I look at averages here? Yeah, so. So most of this. Okay, so over the course of a week, 34 hours was spent on, on my phone.

That's one week.

So if I look at how do I get the percentage of Instagram here? So if I use five hours on Instagram.

Yeah.

14% on Instagram.

So that's not too bad. I mean, what's that? 14% plus if. Okay, if I add Tick tock and Snapchat. So it's not an hour each. So we're talking about eight hours out of the 35. So 22% of my time of my phone is social media. The rest is WhatsApp, Google Meets YouTube, Safari, Uber, Google Maps. Spend an hour on Google Maps because I'm in Dubai. Telegram.

So mine is today. I've spent 43 minutes on my phone. The most of that is Twitter and LinkedIn. And that was actually for work.

Yeah. Okay. So here, what I want to be accountable for, I actually want to be accountable. Oh, fuck, here we go. I've always, I have thought about this in my head. I want to do this. So when I get my best work done, I don't use social media in the morning because I get up again to the day, I'm hustling, I'm vibing, I'm like, I'm clear. If I get up and I look on social media sort of cloudy and I sort of aren't that. I'm not that into it.

Bergs. I am committing next week.

For the next four days and next week. This is, I want it like, this is two episodes. I want to do this all next week. No social media.

No Instagram. Let me just confess. No Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, any of that before lunchtime every day.

Oh, mate, I'm gonna bail you up and give you notifications and then just see opening your dog and I'll see you and I'm gonna bail you out. 50, maybe for 500 bucks, mate.

Right.

Now, man, I'm a bait.

You.

I'm going to create all these hot girl fake accounts and send it to you, mate, you got no chance first thing in the morning.

So my plan is I'm going to. I've got. I don't have notifications turned on for any of those apps. I'm not going to look at them. Not going to think about it until after lunch and then I'll do it. By the way, I've tried to do this before and failed miserably every time. So.

Oh, mate, I've got no faith in you whatsoever. This is gonna be brilliant. Like, oh, the bar tab gonna be huge.

Oh, mate, this is brilliant. This is so good.

Okay, good luck with the AR machine.

Oh, mate, I'm probably not going to do it, eh?

Oh, so painful. So painful, mate. Oh, bloody hell. Now we, we do have a new segment and mate, this is failure of the week. So I had a failure and I just have to tell you about it. So this one was. It's coming, the weather's heating up and you know, the first thing you do is you go out in your lawn, you check your sprinklers, all this sort of. So one of my sprinklers is like all the way down, the grass is growing up and it's not popping up enough to, you know, get good coverage. So I go out There. And, like, I'm digging, digging, digging more and more. It's like this deep, this deep, this deep. And I'm like. I'm just, like, swearing, you know, getting all of it out. And then eventually, like, undid the sprinkler and had to put a riser in. So instead of being that short, it's now that short. And then you put the sprinkler on the top. So I'm doing all of that. I'm bloody cutting my fingers. There's dirt all under my nails and everything because the bloody gloves weren't working. It was just a of a time. So anyway, put the sprinkler back in. Everything was tight. It was good. But there was a lot of sand in the pipes. So what you do is you just put a little. Little nozzle, and then it all flies out. So there's a couple of guys next to me. They're playing basketball next door. I'm like, oh, guys, just move your bikes off the lawn. I'm gonna turn it on. Go turn it on. And, you know, the water starts firing out great. But then just stops. I'm like, oh, the. So I went over there, and there were, like, little, like, rocks and everything caught in it. So I thought, oh, yeah, no worries. I'll just, like, undo the thing, put my thumb on the top, and it will just fly the other way. So I undo it. It's like, half undone, and, mate, the whole thing just pops off and bang. Just, like, literally within a quarter of a second. It's like I jumped in the ocean, mate. And I was like, oh. I was just so. I was like, oh, my God. People are walking their dogs. Everyone's looking at me. It was just ridiculous. And I'm like, oh, look, whatever, it's done now. I'm soaked. I just walked and then turned it off. I'm like, great, this is all sorted now. And then, like, the people are just looking at me, like. And I'm like, what? I got wet. Like, big deal. And I look down at myself, and, mate, I'm just covered in sand. I've got sand all over my face, all in my eyes, everywhere. And it's like. It's not the nice sand. This is, like the dirt. Black, dirty sand. So I had to go under a tap, wash my face. And the more I wash it, the more it's making my face all black. Like, I've got shoe polish on. It's bloody grading into my hand. And it's just everywhere, mate. And it's just on my shirt. I Can't get it off. And I have to go back out, spend another half an hour tidying everything up, go in the house and the Mrs. Like the happened to you.

And I was soaked. I was soaked right down to my undies, mate. Like, it was a good soaking. Like.

Oh, dude, that's hilarious.

I didn't have a story that good, but, dude, I've had an absolute ringing with a washing machine last week. This washing machine at the best of time. I hate doing washing managers. Like, I'm just not good at all this sort of stuff, right? What I found out, I'm actually not good at much else actually outside of crypto.

This is the thing you have to understand about successful people. They're hyper successful in a sliver of their life. And when it comes to normal things in life, they're absolute potatoes. Ben is the classic example of this, mate.

I'm an absolute fucking walking broccoli when it comes to anything outside of crypto. I tried to wash my stuff the other day, so I put all my stuff in the wash. Turn it on.

He's close.

The clothes? Yeah, close. Great. Cool. Yeah, I think it's washed, by the way. I don't know this. There's like 15 different, like, buttons and settings. I don't know what any of it means. There's like little like, icons and they're all so confusing. Finally, wash it then.

It's the simplest thing in the world. Everyone does it, mate. You literally run a crypto startup that is complicated, right? And you're like, oh, can't figure out fucking three buttons.

So I turn it to what I thought was dry, which was this like little thing that looked like a fan or like a. I don't know what it was. It looks like a tornado or something. I was like, okay, well, that. The air, you know, that must be washed. I mean a dry. Turn that on. Go away. Come back. I need. I need some clothes. Like all my clothes and I've got no clothes. Come back like four hours later. The fucking. Mate, the clothes are wetter than they were before. I said, what the fuck is going on here? This is not. Try. Try a different one. So that looks like it's like a sunshine and like a T shirt. Okay, that looks like good. Turn it on. Come back.

That's line dry, mate. We talking wetter again.

I'm like, I can't dry these fucking things.

End up getting help from Amazing.

Needed help to find the dryer. Finally found it and. And. And everything was. Now. I have not touched the washing machine. And I get. I just put it in the bag and to do the laundry here.

So look at this, look at this guy. Useless. Useless. You can't. Last week you try to iron your shirt and it was crinklier than when you started.

Okay?

You have zero life skills. You are what's wrong with Gen Z, mate.

I had a date. This is at home. I had a little date over here in Dubai. Get out My. My one nice shirt. Crinkly as all hell. Pulled out of the suitcase.

Look like absolutely me going out shirt. Mate.

We're going. Actually, it looks like absolutely terrible. Like we have to iron it. I was running late, as per usual. Running late. I need to iron this thing. Spent 20 minutes ironing. No, 20 minutes ironing it. Trying to fill water in the iron. Like trying to press the buttons, you know, it goes. I was like, I know what I'm doing here. Ironed it up.

Put the steam bra, steam.

That's what gets the wrinkles out, mate. Just pro tip, pro tip.

Dropping belly bombs.

Honestly, just wet your clothes under the water, walk outside and you'll just dry in like two minutes.

Put the shirt on 21st. I was feeling so excited, so proud. We're gonna look good this day with the shirt. I'm walking in front of the mirror, it's crinkly as all hell. I was like, what the. It looked good on the ironing board.

What?

Mate, what are you doing? You just look homeless all the time.

Why wear T shirts?

There's literal courses for people like you to learn basic life skills.

Don't have time for that, mate.

Oh, mate, come on. It's like a. It's a one day course. It's like how to not die.

So good. Just outsource it, mate. Just outsource it.

Oh, so good, man. Mate, shall we get into meal of the week? Let's. Let's crank that up.

Let's do it, man.

Let me load this up so you can go. You can go first. Let me just share my screen here.

Okay. I am so excited about this. Bergs.

This looks amazing.

This has become a staple of my, my consumption of food this past two weeks. So I moved into this new hotel. I'm now in business bay in Dubai and downstairs they have this Mexican place. And dude, their burritos are so unbelievable.

These look fat. These look like this like.

Dude, I'm literally, I'm literally having one a day. I'm about to go down. Have another one after this. It's not.

It looks like. It looks like risotto inside, mate.

Dude, it is so good. So this one here, we've got rice that's like, literally risotto rice. It's amazing. We've got black beans. Steak. Got steak and chicken and black beans, mayonnaise and cheddar cheese wrapped in this huge tortilla. And, dude, the service is great. Everyone in there is buzzing. This guy comes in. We're like. We're like, dapping it up as we come in. He's like, man, what's going on? What do you want? Today, like, I become a local here. I'm down there every day.

So good.

Get this Mexican cola. They. I've got a seat. They take me to my seat. They send me down. They give me, like, these, like, 20 tortilla chips and deer while I'm waiting. It's like an open, open kitchen. So all the guys are, like, flinging tortillas around, like, cooking up such good vibes, man. Unbelievable. This is probably. And. Oh, but there's another. There's another burrito, mate, that's got chips in it, and I can't. I don't even know what's it. That's unbelievable as well. This is a 9.6 burgs.

9.6?

Yeah.

Unbelievable, mate. That's. That is up there. It looks like it's got all the major food groups in there. Even the beef in there is cooked really well. You can see it's medium rare. It just look amazing.

It's great, man. And it's fat, too. Like, this thing's filled up, man. It feels shot.

It's. It's like a dirty kebab. But not super bad for you. Yes, only half bad. How good? Oh, mate, that's amazing. All right, so this is part one of my meal. So this was a Whitlof salad, and this was amazing. This in itself was like a 10 out of 10. Right, so Whitlof is like a small little vegetable. Tastes quite bitter. And it's got parmesan, walnuts, some random kind of, you know, micro herbs, pear. And I had this amazing dressing over it. It was just like a fresh, vibrant, amazing salad. And, Ben, I needed this salad because what did I have with it? Chicken burger.

This looks legit. Is that bacon? Oh, my.

Yeah, mate. This, this. It looks filthy, but it was amazing. So it was, like, lovely, like, potato bun, amazing cheese with heaps of flavor, heaps of bacon. The lettuce was just crisp as you bite into this thing. And the flavor was incredible. It wasn't greasy at all. And that is because it was like pan Seared chicken, mate. It was unbelievable. Like this thing had so much like glaze and flavor in it. You can see the grill marks there. It was just amazing. Like, this was cracking. This was cracking. I'm going to give it this. In the witlof salad combined a 9 out of 10. And the only reason it didn't. Oh, no, actually 8.5. The reason it doesn't get it is because they put pineapple in it, which is great, but they always put in the pissy little ring of pineapple. My burger's this big. I don't want a pissy little ring of pineapple in there. Put two in there or sort it out and get a proper sized pineapple. And the other thing was because it was pan seared as well and there was so much in there, it did fall apart, which is fine. Yeah, it could be my heart could have cut it in half, could have done all this stuff, mate. I was hungry, man. I was hungry. I wanted to get at it. So eight and a half. I would gladly eat this again at any time, mate.

Love it.

This was delicious. It was so good. Amazing, mate.

Now you got a me, you got a meme for us?

I. I do have a meme, mate. So here is the meme of the week. I've got a couple this week.

So this is a couple. And it says, my parents in their 30s, let's buy a house. Me in my 30s. And the guy just looks decrepit. Rings around his eyes, hasn't shaved million years. Looks like he works in Web3. And it says, well, I guess I can't afford to have teeth. Literally. Your parents, let's buy a house. You. I can't afford to have teeth, dude.

No. Sorry to interrupt. Keep going. No, no. You made a comment to me the other day. We had a call with, with someone and your comment to me was like, he clearly looks like he's in web three. He's soulless. He looks like he hasn't slept in a month. He has no emotions, he looks defeated. He looks like he's hating his life. He looks like he's in web 3.

He legit looked like this guy here and he was putting in a token effort. We have to drag yourself out of bed and you barely perform. You're just a robot. You're on your 70th coffee. And I was like, oh, lad. I didn't even want to, like, you know, like, normally when you like the meeting that we were in, you'd kind of be. You push back, you'd be a bit Adversarial. I was like, oh, this guy, mate, he's had enough. He's had enough issues in his world.

Empathy for him.

Oh, for sure. And I like this because that's the reality of people back in the day. Let's buy a house. And now you're like, I can't even afford teeth. I laughed at this for, like, five seconds. And then I was like, oh, this is actually really bad. I was like, this. This is the situation of a lot of people. Yeah. And that's why I love this main because it hits so hard. It's putting a truth out there, getting a message out there, but in, like, a kind of fun way. All right, I got a meme just for you. So this is airlines. When you're 20, you're only 20 minutes early to your gate. And a Spongebob is like, you're only 20 minutes early. And then airlines, when they delay your flight by four hours, they're like, oh, sorry about that, guys. This is like classic Ben. Every day, man, they stitch you up. This is also banks as well, where it's like, oh, you know, interest rates have dropped. They're like, oh, we have to look at our finances and see how we do that. Oh, it might take a while to reduce your rate. And then it's like, oh, if they go up, bang that day, here's another half percent. Suck it.

Yeah.

Like, instantly.

When it's for me, it's happening now. When it's for you, don't care.

Yeah, exactly right. And then I got a meme for me as well. So this is when you're getting ready to tell the homies some gossip. And there's a cup of tea with five spouts on it going into five cups. It's just so good. It is so, so good. Get around, have a cup of tea and have some gossip. I loved it. This one made me laugh so much, it's like, oh, lad, have you heard about this?

So good. They. They are the memes of the week, man. Those ones made me very happy.

Now we're gonna we're kindness for the Weightbergs.

So I was thinking about this. My kindness was kind of too private for the pod. But what I did want to talk about, and I've been thinking about this for a while, is.

I need more perspective. I need to get out of my own head, realize how good I've got things. And I also need to help as well. And this comes towards volunteering. And a lot of people are like, volunteering is an act where you give up your time and you do something for someone else. But they need to understand it's also a very selfish act. Like people do this for a reason, because they want perspective or yeah, they want to help people, but they want something out. They want perspective, they want to feel good. They want to feel like they're giving back. They might want to teach their kids something. You want something out of it. Like it is definitely a trade your time for something else, but you can do good along the way. And I wanted to ask you, man, like, how did you go about that? Because you did some volunteering a while ago. How did you find what you wanted to do? What did you end up doing? And then how did you feel about it? And have you done anything since?

Yeah, I volunteered at a food.

Restaurant shelter thing where homeless people come in and eat for free. And I, I did a lot of preparing and cooking and worked in the kitchen. And it is fucking hard, man. Like I worked in, it was like a four hour shift. @ the end of the day I was so cooked and then was like chopping up like a million onions and cooking and all this sort of. It was actually really tough. It was really nice. Like it was a feel good thing. But it was actually, I found it, I, I found it actually too difficult to work in my schedule, you know, to volunteer for four hours of it because. And standing on your feet in the kitchen, like it's hard work. I've shown it to all the people that, you know, cook and do all that sort of stuff. But yeah, it's, it's, it was. I found it difficult to, to fit in with my schedule. That was the only issue. Now I'm traveling and it's hard.

Hard. But because I still quite regularly like volunteering my time because I used to work at the hospital, working for a. Not for profit and that was just easy to do. Yeah, you know, doing talks or helping people, mentoring people, whatever it may.

Be. See, I think you've got to find enjoyment out of it too. Like I didn't particularly enjoy that side of things. Like I didn't find that much fulfillment at all. What I find I prefer is like, you know, teaching students for example, around like business or crypto or like, you know, going to a school and talking to under privileged kids around like how to build a bizarre business or you know, I'd love that. That stuff makes me feel good. And I would do that for free every day of the.

Week. The one, the one I would do for free every day is teach people either like basic, it Skills or teach them about finance like I used to get a kick out of. Even at the hospital, I was chief digital officer, but I still go around and I help people on their computers with basic word stuff. And it's just, you can help quickly. You can teach someone.

Something.

Yeah. And it just accelerates their life. These are like basic life skills that you need to.

Have. So I think, I think you just find something that you enjoy and you find passion over and that you, you can volunteer. Like, I think that's a good spot to.

Start. Yeah. Awesome. I already, like, I do volunteer stuff like I'm on the school board, those kind of.

Things.

Yeah. But it's not hands on, active, it's not regular. It's not something I have to commit once a month to go to a meeting and read some.

Notes.

Yeah. And also the other side is I probably want to do a family activity because, you know, the station of life we're in, we are, we are a comfortable family for now. And my daughter sees that as well. And our friends are comfortable. We're on a similar income level or education level. Socioeconomic level is probably a better word for it. And we don't see a lot of things. We only see what we want to see, interact with things that are.

Comfortable.

Yeah. And we just need better perspective on the world. So I'm going to investigate this and hopefully I can report back next week. It might be short because then you'll be four days, but we'll see how we go with that. So how about you, mate? Do you have a gratitude or kindness?

I do, I do have lots of gratitudes, actually. So definitely for our team, man. So we went through a of a time last week. We had a lot going on in the company and just grateful to have the team that we do rallying around each other, supporting each other and just getting after it. No matter how hard things get, we're all there to.

Work, to work hard, but then to do what needs to be done. And a lot of things are way out of people's jobs descriptions. But people still show up, they still support each other, they call each other out, they check in, they make sure that everyone's okay. It's just amazing. I'm so grateful to have that team because going through, you know, the things that we went through last week without that kind of team would have just been so.

Difficult. Ass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. Double down on that. The other one is, for me, kindness. The week is just the people, the service, whether it be taxi drivers, Uber drivers, people in Restaurants, the hotel, people. Like, everyone is just so nice here. Like, everyone you know greets you by, you know, Mr. Band or sir or like, how are you? And like, how can I help you? Like, everyone's just wanting to help out and make your life, like, so much easier and better. It's such an awesome place to be. Like, I actually really like to buy. It's.

Awesome. Absolutely, man. So.

Good. I've got one booger I'm gonna throw on it. Not three under the bus, but I'm gonna put you on the spot here. I want to add a little quick segment called tech tip of the.

Week. All.

Right? Something that you've used or you are using that has changed or improved your life from a technological aspect. Could be a mobile app, could be software, could be hardware, it could be whatever that our listeners can, can take away. I'll start us off. I want to. My tech tip of the week is Timeshifter, a mobile app which for anyone that does international travel, Timeshifter, you basically plug in the flights you have upcoming and it tells you hour by hour leading up to when you leave, when you should sleep, when you should have coffee, when you should see daylight to improve your jet lag. She basically arrive and you're not really jet lagged at all. So I use this whenever I travel internationally and it's so fucking good. It prepares you two days out and two days after, and it basically makes the whole process smooth as hell because of those people that know traveling internationally is just an absolute bastard. And you know, you're super tired and you're out like a week afterwards is just so cooked. But this app really, really.

Helps. So that's amazing, man. Yeah, that is so good. All right, Tech tip of the week. I'm gonna have to think about this one. You've just sprung it on me, mate. All right, what's. What's some tech that I use regularly? I use a lot of apps, but then it's more setting up tech. What tech do I.

Have? What's a.

Mobile? Okay, this, this is, this is one that really helps me. So this is on Windows and it's called Fancy Zones. So you have to install a thing called PowerToys and you get Fancy Zones. So I've got a huge monitor. It's like 32 inch ultra wide.

Screen.

Yeah. And what you can do with Fancy Zones is you can set up your screen any way you want. So you could have three little panels, you can have eight panels, you can have nine, whatever you.

Like.

Yeah. And when you're working. I just automatically like, I've written a little script, like a little batch file. Just look up how to write a batch file and you can execute all the programs you have. So when my computer starts, it'll automatically load up and all those windows will just snap to wherever you need to be nice. So my desk, my space is already set up and bang, away you go. And it literally saves me like five minutes every day from loading up all that crap and going. So if you're on Windows, you want to install powertoys, activate fancy zones and then look at how to write a batch file for.

Startup. You would hate living my life of just laptop everywhere you.

Go. No, I've got a laptop and I barely use it, man. Like it's only if I'm going out somewhere and I absolutely need it, I'll be on my phone and I can use that if I need to type somewhere. It's literally just web based stuff because I've got like, you know, discord up here, slack there, then I've got like couple of pages side by side and it's just perfect, man. It just gives you just bird's eye view of everything. Saves you heaps of.

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