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It is now the third quarter of 2023, and already the media are gearing up to distract you, extort your attention and pumble your brain with more FUD, and anxiety than ever before.  This is all in the lead up to the US 2024 Presidential Election.  Regardless of the barrage of lies and distorted facts you will be subjected to, in this episode I want to give you a set of tricks you can use to hack the media and keep your sanity through these trying times.

You work hard, you earn money, but you are broke.  Why?  In this episode I’m going to put out there a theory in the western world why people are broke, and it isn’t the reasons the media and society will tell you. It is not rampant inflation.  It is not that you are not paid enough.  It is actually far simpler – it is about the decisions you make, and the fight to control your mind.

• News!
• Atari BASIC AI training - https://discord.gg/WnEcxSvtS
• Nabu computer - https://nabu.ca/
• More Contests!
• Amiga Jam - https://itch.io/jam/amigatooljam
• VisionBASIC Game Contest - http://visionbasic.fun/
• AMSTRAD ASCII Compo - http://logiker.com/AMSCII-Compo
• BASIC implementations for iOS (iphone/iPad):
• BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - free - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbcbasic/id6444498023
• Commodore BASIC - Hand BASIC - CBM flavor by Ahmad Hawwash - free - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-basic-cbm-flavor/id394924289
• Hotpaw BASIC (iPad) - $4.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hotpaw-basic/id295464266
• See: http://www.hotpaw.com/rhn/basic/iphone/ for a more complete description of the Basic language syntax
• Smart BASIC (iOS/Mac) by Nikolay Denislamov $11.99 - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/basic-programming-language/id1540244170
• BASIC implementations for Android
• "BASIC Programming Compiler" - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.krazeapps.basicprogrammingcompiler
• BASIC implementations for MacOS:
• PC-BASIC - (Windows/Mac/Linux/Python) - https://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
• BBC BASIC by Richard Russell - https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html
• PureBASIC - also Linux, Windows, RPi, AmigaOS 4 - https://www.purebasic.com/
• Chipmunk BASIC - https://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic/
• BASIC implementations for Windows:
• Vintage BASIC - http://www.vintage-basic.net/download.html
• SpecBAS - https://github.com/ZXDunny/SpecBAS
• https://hackaday.com/2021/05/10/sinclair-basic-for-today/
• SmallBASIC - https://smallbasic-publicwebsite.azurewebsites.net/
• QB64 - https://qb64.com/ - Windows, Linux, MacOS
• FreeBASIC - https://www.freebasic.net/
• BASIC implementations for Linux:
• Matrix Brandy BASIC VI - http://brandy.matrixnetwork.co.uk/
• Also check out this BBC BASIC reference - http://www.riscos.com/support/developers/bbcbasic/index.html
• BASIC implementations for Web Browser:
• SPIDERBASIC - https://www.spiderbasic.com/ (Web/desktop)
• Applesoft BASIC in Javascript - https://inexorabletash.github.io/jsbasic/
• Quite BASIC - http://www.quitebasic.com/prj/games/hangman/
• Applesoft BASIC Editor CyanIIDE - https://paleotronic.com/applesoft/
• wwwBASIC - https://github.com/google/wwwbasic
• https://hackaday.com/2018/09/17/its-the-web-basically/

What happens with capitalism when AI takes over the economy? I’ve been giving this some thought, but to be honest I don’t have a conclusion yet. I cannot see an upside to this, and despite all the WOW factor that AI seems to have in the social construct, I don’t think anyone has really thought through the impact on capitalism & economics yet. Let’s give it a shot in this episode…

I just was reading the recent paper produced by the WEF entitled ‘Pathways to the regulation of crypto-assets – a Global Approach’ and it is frightening. Those that frequent Davos each year seem are throwing more and more resources in crafting a future for all of us, and it is a future that no-one other than the ruling elite would want.

In this third and last part of my series on what's on my investment radar, we are going to talk about energy and what I’m doing in terms of investment strategy regarding it for the next 3, 5 and 10 years.

In this 2nd part of a 3 part series, I'm unveiling my investment strategy regarding AI.  No, not my philosophical position, but my investing position.  Yes, there is a difference.  Enjoy.

If you are looking for financial advice, that’s not what I do.  But I do share with people what I’m doing from a holistic position on my own investments, and this episode will cover some major strategic shifts I’m doing in light of new technologies and changing macro dynamics.  So settle back and relax and I’ll share what I’m looking down the barrel at.

I was having lunch with my accountant and the subject of how different life felt outside the USA than within came up. I told him that after I had returned from a few weeks in Mexico, I found that I wasn’t getting anywhere near as much productive work done in the USA. And the one reason – distractions.

The temptation when a podcast gets to 200 episodes is to celebrate how we got this far.  But when I did that, I realized that my success with this podcast came because of those who came before me, had faith in my work and befriended me.  Gary Collins was one such person, and with his passing last year, I was shocked to see how his work was being lost to Internet fade.  So in this episode, I'm joined by my friend Remso Martinez, who also was a good friend of Gary, and we look back at the message of The Simple Life and how it touched and affected all of us.