Welcome back to a very important show, Trump Week, and, you know, our title today is Bob Muller's Day Off, as he's off. It's a triple entendre. We'll talk about that in a minute. That's him, Apachele, Cynthia Sinclair, for our every week Trump. Good morning, Jay. Good morning, Jay. Good morning. I wanted to read you guys an email I got regarding a posting my brother Gene made on his Facebook, and it's a very interesting posting. I'll try to read it quick. How best to understand the pathology of the Trump administration is a question that has increasingly been on my mind. I have concluded that there is, in fact, no administration at all. Instead, what our country is witnessing is the executive branch equivalent of a sole proprietorship, in essence, a business that is owned by a single individual. In such a business, if the owner wants to work from home, it's okay, Mar-a-Lago. Dealmaking, a.k.a. diplomacy, is done personally in North Korea. Secrecy trumps transparency by a country mile that will tax returns, war on the news media, unheard of nondisclosure agreements, refusal to open the Muller report for public view. Nepotism. Nepotism is fine, putting your unqualified son-in-law and daughter in positions of responsibility. New hires for important positions are not vetted, but selected based on the owner's personal instinct, and for reasons other than qualifications or merit. The entire cabinet, okay, making Newt Gingrich's wife ambassador to the Vatican, numerous other senior positions, such as an unqualified proposed nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, who underpaid his federal income tax by $75,000. Advice is welcome from country club friends who have no fiduciary responsibility of the business. Ah, the Mar-a-Lago experts on the VA, delegation of responsibility is a low priority, that is, overturning decisions of subordinates, such as the Secretaries of Defense, the Treasury, and Education. Real advice is purely operational, that is, revolving door of Trump attorneys reliance on over-the-hill Mayor Giuliani, and government itself is viewed as the enemy, deep state. Attacks on the FBI, the intelligence community, expertise in general. What have I omitted? Really? Can you think of other ways in which this administration is like a sole proprietorship, or does a different analogy work better? I really enjoyed that. Wow. Very nice. Yeah, it was good. Excellent. Thank you, Gene. I can't think of another one. I haven't met you before, but I like to. That was very well stated. Well, it's true. It's right on. It's nailing the situation. It's like a sole proprietorship, and it's a one-man band, and nobody else matters but him, you know, part of the narcissistic experience. But let's talk about this week, okay? I guess the big thing we need to react to, the Mueller report. Right. So are you happy with that? No, not even in the least bit. And how someone could go take almost 400 pages we know now, just today. 300. 300. It came out today that it's almost 400 pages. Okay. That's what Barr put out. And he said that he might be able to give us the report heavily redacted in mid-April.  Those are his only dates. The House Committee. Yeah, the House Committee. Thank you. This is the thing. He took a 400, almost 400 page report, and in 48 hours, he wrote a four-page report out of it, and we're supposed to just accept it. And even in his report, the whole thing is that he did not say that he had been completely exonerated. It's the opposite, yet, you know, minutes later, after he's, you know, made this four-page available, more like an opinion piece, if you ask me. Oh, yeah. Well, let's unpack that a little bit. Right. You know, you got, first, you got to report itself, what Mueller did. And Mueller is not my hero. I want to be clear about that. I think he did the country a huge disservice. Report itself, I like your thought about that. And I like your thought about the bar, you know, the bar letter. And, of course, you know, we should also talk about the reactions of Democrats and Republicans to what has happened. Well, let me just hit just briefly on the reactions, because let's go back in time. I like to do that sometimes. That's what we do here in Trump Week. Let's go back in time to a time where there was a special prosecutor named Kim Starr, who was investigating a certain president by the name of Bill Clinton. Now, in true, would the Republicans been happy at that time if Kim Starr would have produced his report? It would have gone to Janet Reno. And Janet Reno wrote a four-page summary and saying, all is fine. There's no prosecution. There's no need for any further warrant of impeachment. What was the reaction from the Republicans in at that time? OK, so let's have the Republicans put themselves in our shoes, the Democrats shoes, and say, well, is this hypocrisy or is it not? Complete politicization. Yes. What it is. It's the height of hypocrisy. You know, I really wonder what Kim Starr was thinking of. Because he spends how long and how, forget about the money. The money goes with the part of it all this time. And we get all these indictments and prosecutions and jail terms. But nothing happened vis-à-vis Donald Trump. I mean, really, we have so much information about what he did wrong and about all the wrong things that are happening just one inch away from him. And what? Nothing? No collusion, no obstruction. Give me a break. And I think maybe there is evidence of collusion and obstruction, except that it's in the report and it has to be reviewed.  And it's complete exoneration.  How about it, guys? And they're standing in the way of showing us the report. I don't like to use sports analogies, but it's kind of like that last call out of the end of a football game. And it's a questionable call. But the coach says, get out on the field and pretend like the game's over, OK? They have done that exactly. And it is the victory dance and keep dancing and keep claiming the victories. And do not cave in on that, just pretend the game is over. Well, it's not over. Yeah, I'm not happy with Mueller. Mueller should have anticipated this. I agree. He should have anticipated his report would not be released. It would be misinterpreted, intentionally misinterpreted. There would be lies from the Republican camp about it. Couldn't he do better? He has done a huge service. He has effectively helped Trump. I agree. Well, I'm going to put this in neutral. I don't know what he said. We don't know what he said. Maybe his comments and his reports are as damning as we suspect that they would be. We just don't know to what degree a Trinidad General Barr has basically massaged the sentences and massaged the pages, the 300 over 300 pages. What did have been wrong for him after the Barr wrote the report letter? Mueller to say, you know, that's not exactly what I meant to say. That's not exactly what I said. And he's taking liberties. And so I just, you guys, you shouldn't make any decisions about this until you read the thing. Right. He didn't say that. No. And the silence is deafening from him, as it has been. I agree. He's not a hero in my mind. He's created a situation where it went the wrong way. But he went the same. Now Trump is talking about the people who started the investigation are traitors. And should be prosecuted for treason. Are you kidding me? They interviewed Comey and Comey even said, listen, you know, and he made this great analogy. He said if it went, Obama was president when he was running for president. If the Saudis came in and said, we want to help you win. And he said, OK, great. And he didn't do anything about it and didn't report it. And then as they went along, continued to help. Would it not be completely expected to have some kind of investigation into that? What would the Republicans have said then? They would have been clamoring. The politicized thing from the beginning. Right. And so that's what has been happening so that it's like Republicans against Democrats when in reality we should be Americans looking at the fact that our president has. He's the one who's done the treasonous things in my mind. And he's such a projectionist. And everything he says is projection. I'm thinking, oh, man, those fingers are pointed right straight back at himself on this calling them treason. That's not the way the country sees it. Right now, you know, Mueller has left this big vacuum and Trump is marching right through it. And, you know, I make a prediction. We're not going to see that report just like we didn't see the tax returns. Just like so many things have been kept secret from us. And the press, you know, he hasn't had a press. He speaks only to his supporters, you know, in faraway states as part of his campaign. But what, you know, what we have here is just shrinking down of the information that is available to the press and thus to the public. You guys feel we're going to see that report? April Schmapperel. I don't, you think we're going to see it? I do. I think you just can't hide that report. And if they do, then, of course, Bob Mueller will be subpoenaed and he will testify to what the contents of the report is coming from the lips of special prosecutor Mueller. I sure hope so. Come on, you guys. This is not going to be put under a rug and reality is going to be reality. It may take longer than suspected. The subpoenas may get caught up in the court system, but it's going to happen. Well, I think it will be so redacted that it won't do us any good anyway. That's my think. You guys are going to take out anything that has anything that's going to be redaction after redaction after redaction. We won't. Or omission because of privilege or grand juries and that's it. Amy. Obashar. Obashar. I was on television last night in C-SPAN and she said, you know, what's the problem? Grand jury testimony has been revealed to the public before and to Congress. What's the problem? You know, what are they coming up with? Getting in a storm. And indeed, this goes to our continuing discussion of distraction. And if we're going to look at this week, we have to look at this week as a week in which Trump, you know, charged the guys who started the investigation with treason. But then he moved on to other things. Journalists. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Journalists or treason, right? That doesn't sound like the First Amendment to me. But anyway, he's done a lot of things, a lot of news this week, and the idea is let's get this behind us. Let's claim victory and get on to other things. We've got to distract the people. We've got to fool all the people all the time, Yui Long, right? So what kind of distractions have we seen?  You know, I really got an earful when I was, when he was talking about the journalist, and no more sudden the crowd broke out into a choir of lock them up, lock them up. Now. Oh my God. You know, am I looking at something in 1938 in Italy with Mussolini at the podium? I mean, what, what are these times?  Same thing that he did with Hillary, you know, but to do that, is it that's like saying lock up the Constitution. He's running it not only as a sole proprietorship, but out of his, his pocket. The only thing I was missing from that, your brother's statement was the fact that he has circumvented Congress on this national emergency. That is a sole proprietorship act. And I'm completely dismayed and dumbfounded that Congress has allowed this to happen. They did not override his veto. And he's taking money from the military and the military says, well, he's a commander in chief. So we got to do it. You know, the loyalty is with him and it's getting more and more problematic as to his ability to pull these things off with outrageous things. And everybody goes along and the Republicans, their names will go down in history. Every one of them for undermining the Constitution and our democracy is happening right in front of our eyes. Very soon. Is it happening to a point where it's so often that it's just everyone's immune to it and it just passes their field of vision and it allows it to occur? Yes. I think we're getting used to a new normal thing. Some of the things that he's doing today, if he had done that in, say, in January of 2017, right after Obama, who was in a relative sense, he was a wonderful gentleman that would have been outrageous in January 2017. But now, little by little, outrage becomes the new normal and we get fatigued over outrage.  Desensitized over outrage. Right. So what's on your list? Well, did anyone have any reaction to calling Adam Schiff out and basically demanding that he resign? Did that surprise anybody? Certainly didn't surprise me. Well, he wants Schiff out of there. Schiff is effective. Schiff, I get Schiff emails every day, including today, where he said, don't worry. I'm not going to be intimidated. And I don't want him to be intimidated. He's a hero. He said something I think all Americans, I don't care what side you're on, needs to pay attention to. And that is, he said, but I do not think the conduct, criminal or not, is okay. And the day America thinks it's okay is the day we've lost our way.   You think that's okay that the president's son said he'd love it and didn't call the FBI or anyone else to report it. And you might think it's okay that that son took that meeting. You might think it's okay that Manafort, with lots of experience, with campaigns, took that meeting. You might be, I think it's okay that the son-in-law took that meeting and then that they lied about the meeting. And you might say, well, that's just what you need to win. You might think it's okay, but I don't. I think it's unethical, immoral, unpatriotic. And yes, I think it's corrupt. I love that quote when he said that. Well, I agree with him absolutely. We've got to have a voice like that. We must have him speak. How can anyone think it's okay? And to try to squash him is really to admit the wrongdoing in a sense. Right, exactly. Well, okay, that gets my nerves going. 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I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 AM, aloha. Okay, we're back, we're not feeling any better. Are you nervous? Not good. Minor shot on this deal.  I mean, the country in general.  So what's happened in terms of like the social safety net? I worry about that so much because it's clear. You know, if you connect the dots and we should on this show, connect the dots and what he's about is taking away the social safety net. What are you guys on your own? And you can die on the street with me, it's okay. What's happening here? So how has he advanced that? And how does that affect the conversation? You know, it's a shattering distraction for one thing. And it came out with it the day after that Barr came out with his letter. It's like, we're done, we can move on, let's look over here now. I'm going to gut the ACA, I'm going to ask the courts actually to gut the ACA. And I'm going to gut, I'm going to gut Medicaid, Medicare, and all these other programs that are our social programs. Hopefully it was my health insurance, if he exceeds in this, it's terrifying. Well, millions of people lose their health insurance. And I was going to say in 200 probably million other people is what they're saying. Not to say that already millions of people have lost their health insurance because he's been systematically dumping on Obamacare. If he hadn't done that, we would have many more people insured in this country, many more people healthy. To say nothing about the effect on national morale. I don't know when you're going to be covered or not covered. You know what they're going to do and repeal it without a plan. My God, that's hideous. That's what really gets me. Okay, so let's go to the sole proprietorship concept. Model, yeah, right. He's clearly acting as a sole proprietorship because many, many voters that are Republican rely on their insurance. And a lot of it is Obamacare insurance or Medicare insurance. So I think Republicans in Congress are going, what are you doing? What is this a strategy that you haven't told us about because it's making no sense? So our sole proprietor president is making some really crazy statements about gutting completely the insurance and Medicare. Well, I think what was behind that for him is he saw the Democrats win on healthcare this last time. That was their big thing and that's what they really want on. So he's like, well, I want that now. I'm going to take it and he says that the Republicans are going to be the party of healthcare and health insurance. Yes, what? What is it? He doesn't have one. We don't know. We never knew. So how can you give confidence to the country that I'm going to gut something that you and your family need each and every day? Yet I don't have anything in the wings to tell you what my plan is. But we're going to give you the best one ever. And he said, then there's talk about a tax increase on the middle class next year. Right. It was only like what a year ago that we had this phantasmagoric reduction of taxes without any plan and was only temporary. What they did was they conned us, they deceived us into believing in that. And now they're going to zip up the taxes again.  April 15th, I believe, is the deadline. That's right. This is the end of March. Right now, conversations are taking place going, I didn't get nearly as much in my refund as I thought I was going to. It was a scam. And those words and those comments are taking place right now across America. I hope so. The other scam is the tariffs. All these people in the Midwest who have their pro-tas sitting in silos and can't sell it, they're really stuck. And I remember an NPR discussion of this sometime in the fall, last fall, where the farmer said, well, he must have some method about this. So we'll support him. We'll continue to support him and hope that he can break China's back on this. And they'll come around. Well, they haven't come around. And we haven't broken China's back. Instead, we broke the back of the farmers. And we're still breaking the back of the farmers. You're going out of business. And so how long is this going to last before they say enough? You guys, you're conning me. Why are you ruining my business this way? It's not for a good reason.  Louis Long, Demagogue at Louisiana right in the 30s. People have got to figure out that these promises aren't being kept. They've got to figure out that the real false news is from. I hope they do, but he's trying to continue to fool them. Wouldn't be the first time voters voted against their own economic interests in lieu of social interests. I can think of Ronald Reagan and many, many loyal followers that voted for him, although in the end, the economy was hurtful to them. But they voted for him anyway. So this isn't the first time we're going to see this. And it probably won't be the last. Well, the problem is he's going to, he is attacking the Democrats like Adam Schiff and others and attacking anybody who, you know, who we can, who's adverse to him. And that is very troubling because it's all leading up to the election. And people, you know, are getting fooled. They're still fooled. I don't know, I don't have a confident feeling about the ability of the Democrats to come together and offer a good candidate.  Well, we have these concerns before the midterm election. And ultimately, 40 seats went to the Democratic side. I still have faith that the voter will look at the pros and cons of this administration and sanity will prevail. I worry about the trustworthiness of our voting. So I think he might just cheat. I mean, he cheats at everything. So why wouldn't he cheat at this? It makes no sense that he wouldn't cheat to win. So how would he do it and how would we protect ourselves from it? That's what we're doing. That's the role of the media. Right? There you go. The media is under attack. It's never before. Never before. He's really letting go of the media now because he knows they stand between him and reelection. And if they are able to tell the truth and call his lies, that'll hurt him. So he wants to be credibleized in every way. At the same time, he's building Fox News as he's never had as his official state organ. All these things sound like Germany in the 30s, honestly. They do. And you know, before the bar letter was released, suddenly there was a shift in all of the Trump family, and Trump himself, coming out with, oh, I don't care if they show the whole thing. Suddenly, they didn't mind if the report came out. And I thought, that's an off the odd shift right now. And I thought, they must know. They already know what's in it. So Barr, or Whitaker, or one of them has already given them what's in it anyway, which is why they're suddenly changing their tune. And I noticed it about a week before, and then all of a sudden, you're there again. Well, they said they were going to look at it before to make sure there was nothing that was confidential, privileged information between the president. They said they were going to look at it. He never answered the question. No, he did not. Quite remarkable. So just as my brother said, he's not handed. He's not honest. He's not telling us anything. He's not, and he's forcing, he's trying hard to force the press not to tell us anything. So what do you think about the fact that Mueller didn't call him in? Did not subpoena him? I don't understand that. I don't understand that either. Mueller is not my hero. I didn't understand that at all. All this stuff for 22 months, and it's what I call a nothing burger, really. I mean, he could have at least, you know, made a statement that there was some kind of shenanigans here, but he didn't do that. I don't know why you guys are saying nothing burger. He clenched it on the main question. I don't know why you're saying nothing burger. We could not conclude one way or the other about obstruction of justice. That is a huge, Richard Nixon went down for obstruction of justice. What do you mean we could not conclude? Right, so that means we still have to, so the report needs to be read and reviewed. By the attorney general who works for Trump. No, this is what the oversight committee is for. This is what the House of Representatives is for. I think Mueller was hoping that it would go to Congress right away. I think he didn't really, I think he's, well, we know that he's friends with Barr. We know they're friends because Barr talked about the fact that they have barbecues together. Their families are friends even. And so I wonder if he put more faith in Barr than maybe he should have because they know each other? I don't know because that doesn't make sense to me that he wouldn't put things more, forward a little bit more forcefully. You don't realize how powerful a president is, any president. So, you know, the other thing is that we have the Southern District, or rather the Manhattan men, and the prosecuting attorney. It's not a federal jurisdiction. And apparently some of the information in the report has gone where Mueller did not want to address it. He sent it to other jurisdictions, state jurisdictions, which are not subject to the president's ardent authority. So there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. That's the question. That's an ongoing question for us here at Trump Week. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? You guys may be more optimistic than I am. But it's okay. He's more optimistic than I am. You've got to put faith in our system, and I'm not hearing that from you guys. Sorry, right now I don't. Because the tactic system has ever had. I understand it's been under attack, but the system will prevail. This report is going to see light of day. And if you do not believe that, then you've got to have more faith. Right. And the Republicans want you to have this discouragement. They want you to move on. Let's not do that. I'm not moving on. I just don't have faith in the fact that we will really get an unredacted report. There'll be redactions? Of course they will be. Well, some, yes, is one thing, but I think when it's over-redacted and things are without. I guarantee there'll be 27 distractions between now and then April 15th or whatever that. Whatever, how much of a deadline it is. The middle of April. I would not take a bet against that. All right, so what's going to happen next week? Any predictions? We're going to talk about the education budget and everything that's happening next week. There's a lot of stuff Betsy DeVos came out with. First she's going to gut all of the money from Special Olympics. And then Trump comes out and says, oh no, no, I've told my people, my people. I've told my people that we are not going to take the money from Special Olympics. Yeah, first he told them this, then he told them that. Next week, they're going to find Betsy DeVos underneath the bus that he threw her under. Yeah, so. Would that mean she can't wreck any more education stuff? That'd be okay. Oh, that's sad. What else is going to come up next week? Give me some wild predictions. We're going to hear all more about the report. That's a wild prediction. I hope so. I think it's going to work. I'm going to hear more about what the Democrats are doing in the House. Yeah, I hope. I think it's going to be more attacks on Democrats. I think he's going to up the ante for his attacks. I mean, it wasn't but like hours after he had put out the tweet that shifts should resign, when the Republicans in that committee meeting, a public meeting no less, called for his resignation saying that he can't be trusted anymore. Yeah, well, you wonder when they're going to crack, but they really haven't cracked yet. Are you guys? But government and politics is a rough and tumble business. And it's high time for the Democrats to realize that it is a rough and tumble business. And when they go low, you don't always necessarily go high. You've got to get in there and fight. And I see Adam Schiff, one of those people saying, I'm not going high. I'm sticking out for the ethics and morals of our democracy, and I'm sticking to it. I cried when I heard him say that. You remember Alex the talk, Bill? He was a philosopher in the 18th century. He said what he said, and he put this word on it. He says, remember, the democracy is tumultuous. But you know what? He never contemplated this. Next week then, is it a date, you guys? It's a date. Next week, we'll see what happens. All right, Cynthia Sinclair and Tim Appichella. I so enjoy this discussion. Thank you, Jay. Thanks for having us. Aloha. Aloha. Aloha.


Hi everyone, this is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome back to reading set number four. And what we're gonna do in this video is read the tick special edition number one and it's the first appearance of the tick. I haven't time to read this comic to you guys. And this comic came out in March 1988 and it's created by Ben Edland and the character first appeared in a newsletter by New England Comics. It's a comic book chain on the east coast in the Boston area and they had a newsletter and they I believe that I don't have those newsstands newsletters. I don't know if they're available for buying. I've looked a few times but I haven't been able to find them and if I ever do I'll definitely try to get my hands on them but it was basically a newsletter that New England Comics was putting out and they tested out you know putting out a story with the tick and I believe Ben Edland was sort of a customer at New England Comics and they sort of collaborated together and they put out you know a couple of stories with the tick and then they decided to print these special editions. This is special edition number one and this is special edition number two. Okay so this is actually put out by the comic book chain New England Comic right and New England Comic NEC and they put out some other comics after this as well. I'm not absent sure if this is the first type of comic that they put out because they put out some stuff sort of spin-offs from the tick and stuff like this but I'm not sure if there was anything before this they printed so this is a tick special edition number one and this is what we're going to read. Okay and these things were limited to 5,000 print run and this is tick special edition number two and again this was limited to a 5,000 print run. I believe 5,000 it might be 3,000 but I would guess it would be 5,000. We might crack it open and take a look at a number because they're sequentially numbered. Okay so this came out in March 1988 and I believe this came out either a month later or two months later and then this is the tick number one issue number one. Okay and this thing came out in June of 1998 right so tick special edition came out in March and then we have April, May, June so three months later tick number one came out and this issue tick number one is basically a reprint of the special edition. I'm not sure if it's got a couple extra pages in it or not but it's a reprint of the tick special edition right and the tick number one has had multiple multiple printings. I don't know how many printings it's at right now maybe nine maybe 10 maybe eight and some of the printings have additional pages added onto them right so this is I don't know what printing this is featuring the first appearance of the tick. I don't know which printing this is this might be the second printing of issue number one which is this in turn is a reprint of the special edition right so this one says four new pages added neat that's one thing that tick says along with a spoon right and I don't know for some reason I don't think I have tick number two this is tick number three and I got two copies of tick number three and then tick number four and this is where Arthur um has his first appearance and he he's uh tick's sidekick right and from what I understand I haven't seen it yet but supposedly Arthur um you can see him in the background as some of the other issues some of the early issues but this is considered to be his first full appearance I guess the plot six and then this is um tick number five this is another character that came off from the tick universe and there's a whole bunch of zany characters from the tick comic book series and this is number six and I have it all the way up to have at least three more issues past this I believe okay I just didn't grab them and this is uh this comic book series is definitely it was on the ground when it came out and the tick really became popular for me as well I didn't really the tick really didn't hit my radar initially until well it I knew about it it did hit my radar in the early 1990s but I really didn't get absorbed into the tick universe until that animated series came out because the tick has been it's been very successful it's been rated as uh you know as as one of the most important comic book superhero characters in the in the comic book realm I guess uh some people have put it into the top 100 some people I put it in top 200 and whatnot right some people have even put in top 50 most important comic book characters in history right and there's been there's tons of toys and I actually have a couple of the toys of the tick from the early 1990s but the tick really hit everybody's radar with the the animated series that came out in 1994 and that's really when the tick uh when I fell in love with the tick right that that animated series is absolutely fantastic and if you haven't seen it I highly highly recommend it there's 36 episodes and ran for three seasons okay and it's absolutely brilliant and the voice for the tick is is fantastic right it's beautifully done and then the tick had a you know there was a tv series that came out in 2001 it only ran for one season nine episodes and that tv series was absolutely brilliant as well okay the actor that played it was Patrick War Burton I can't pronounce his name War Burton I guess uh and he did an amazing job portraying the tick really he did a fantastic job I was very very because I was watching that series when it was coming out in 2000 and 2001 and I was so disappointed that it didn't get picked up it didn't continue um I was so sad that it really didn't because I thought it was one of the best comic book tv series live um that had ever been created and if you've been following um what's coming out in tv series they just relaunched um the tick live action series they just released six episodes uh sort of a pilot episode was put out in 2016 that I watched that I thought was interesting I was curious where we're going to go and I just did a marathon on the first six episodes that came out and I love it it's it's a great series it's a lot darker than what the 2001 and 2019 94 series the animated series were uh really it's it has a really dark feel to me uh this new series that's kicked off um in 2016 I guess 2017 because really when they released it right and they did a little costume change between the pilot episode and episode number two I believe okay and um it's a good series and there's I believe six more episodes to be released in 2018 okay there's only one criticism I have actually with the new series that kicked off we haven't heard the tick say spoon and that's sort of his battle cry I can't remember if he said it or not if he said it please let me know I'll check back on the episode and make sure I didn't miss it because um that's sort of a trigger for me um when the tick goes around saying spoon before he goes into battle right so we're going to crack this open and take a look at it um and you know what let's crack this open as well and I'm just going to show you I'm going to crack tick number one open as well just to convince you that that's a reprint of this because I really have to do it to myself as well right so let's uh let's just crack the number two open look at the numbering on this and then we can put it back in the bag and these books uh the special edition number one and number two we'll take a look at this let's uh let's see what this is like it's a nice copy okay I would grade this special edition number two is around 8.5 and the special edition number one I would grade around an eight and it's beautiful artwork his artwork is absolutely fantastic and Ben Edlon he did the art the script he did everything for this right and this one's numbered 1,095 out of 5,000 I believe should be 5,000 anyway I know the number one is out of 5,000 this doesn't say but this is a nice copy I would definitely give this around well maybe an eight I would give both the special edition number one and number two and eight and this thing's going you could have bought these on the cheap a few weeks ago you could have bought it on a cheap relative cheap anyway a few years ago and just to look on the what was going on with the prices of these things I looked it up and let's put this guy I looked this up and the cgc graded the high grades for this are going for a lot higher prices and the raw copies that aren't graded are going for much more a few weeks ago I saw number one and number two special edition number one and number two both of them graded around nine sell for 120 bucks 140 bucks or so I didn't have the funds at that time to buy it but it was already tapped out that was already hit my budget but right now those same bucks would probably fetch around 250 to 300 right on ebay since the pilot has been released so let's take a look at this we'll keep this in mind okay so this is tick number one from the continuing series and we'll just and this one is a pretty good copy and this was graded better which the board on this on this the board is a little dirty and I bought these tick sets so I'll take it like this okay and I bought these tick these tick comments a whole lot of them on ebay okay that's a lot and the person when he shipped it out to me so we're going to crack this open and just flip just to make sure everything's a reprint right I'm gonna the person shipped it out to me he did it was the most horrendous shipping packaging I've ever received not for the special edition but for the tick continuing series right and it was horrendous packaging and the comic I believe got a little bit of damage got a little bit of dings from the shipping so it's one of the few times ever I've only done this twice I believe even a negative feedback and I went and left a negative feedback for a person uh without even contacting him because it was just horrendous horrendous right and the guy quickly emailed me back and said oh please you know take off the negative feedback he was he was a husband and wife team that were doing selling these books and I said listen uh you know with the emails they said listen you you just threw these in a box without anything and not even a box like a paper package and just shipped them out to me with wrapping that wasn't even wrapped and they'd come loose and the guy goes oh look I'm really sorry could you call ebay and just cancel your negative feedback and I said look man you can't do that and the guy what he ended up doing he refunded me the whole everything for all the books and the shipping so he gave me a full refund on the package and said keep the comics so I felt really really bad so I called up ebay and I talked with them it took about half an hour 45 minutes to jump through the hoops and I had the negative feedback retracted and the guy sent me any message saying thank you very much for calling ebay and taking care of it so I ended up getting all of these tick books for free I was gladly willing to pay what I was willing to pay but the guy did her on this job so just a note if you're ever buying things on ebay never be afraid to contact the seller and I've done this one more time a person sent me a book and he was pulling a scam there was a page missing from a book I bought a while ago and one of the things was loose and my contacts say hey listen there's a page missing in this it was just an ad page it was in the story page I believe it was on the story page and the guy refunded me half of my purchase of everything right so never be afraid on ebay if you're buying anything to contact the seller and let them know that you're not happy with their their shipment so you can see this is tick number one and this is a special edition and it's a full reprint and this is nice and white and this one is a not as white as this because the paper quality on this is better the paper quality on this I believe anyways a little bit thinner right so let's just flip through it we're gonna read through this whole thing I didn't really want to flip through this thing but I'm just gonna flip through it just to make sure there's no extra pages beautiful beautiful artwork like amazing storytelling let's see if the these are the same oh this is a little different right the letters page I guess sort of commentary they're giving and then it goes back to this same this is a character that's like a parody of Superman he doesn't like the tick it's so funny so funny and let's take a look oh there's a little pin-up here take a look this one is a special edition number one and two and this one is a pin-up instead of that page right so let's take a look at the pin-up because we won't get to see it here look at the writing your friend the tick this is a special edition number two that we pulled out took the look of numbering one thousand something and here is tick number two the ad they have for it right and I'm not sure if tick number two is supposed to be because I don't have it or haven't been able to find it tick number two I don't know if it's supposed to be a reprint of this it might be not I'm sure and obviously the text here is a little different and we're back here and the back cover is the same so just in case if you're a collector you're wondering what the difference is between the special edition and number one looks like there's a pin-up difference right there's a pin-up in number one that there isn't there the letters page is different some of the text is different the back of the front cover is different right so let's close this off better put the tape on it actually it's okay if I gotta change the board for this anyway right so let's put this here put this guy back over here they're nice and safe we'll put on their reading glasses all right and have a read through this and let's look at the grid on this again there's a little bit of scuff mark it could use a little bit of cleaning right so I would create this at around an eight seven point five if I wasn't being generous I would give it eight point five if I was being generous but I would give this nice solid staples are good I'm not really doing any restoration or anything or cleaning all the comics but there is a way to get rid of some of these scuff marks maybe sooner or better later but check like this he's got it signed here it's 87 right newsletter the new england newsletter um a comic newsletter that came out it came out in 1986 so the first appearance of the tick there's a little dirty the first appearance of the tick is in 1986 in newsletter format which for comic books is really not well certain things go for I'm pretty sure that things if there's any copies around there probably is it's probably going for a hefty sum and I personally would pay a hefty sum for it to acquire it right but this is the first appearance of the tick and all these are this is electros move and that's a superman's move well as we got here we got a whole bunch of characters here these are ninjas awesome so and these are large format I should have brought a like a regular comic book just to show you that regular comic books smaller than this so these are like they're even bigger than golden age I think or it could be golden age size pages let's read the fine print of this and then we'll read the tick talk as that tick talk as well okay and this is this is number 3125 okay is a limited edition of 5000 copies and let's read the five the tick special edition number one march 1988 published by new england comics press pure box 1424 brockton massachusetts 02403 the tick is trademark and copyright 1988 by ben atlund all other materials is copyright 1998 by new england comics press all rights reserved no similarities between any of the names characters and or institutions in this publication with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended and any such similarity which makes this is purely coincidental printed in a good old us of a by american by bonds so let's have a read through just this letter the first little page they have so we get a feel for what the tick is right and we'll have a good feel of it welcome to the tick special edition what you hold in your hands is one of 5000 specially special serially numbered copies of this deluxe edition of the tick number one this publication is being distributed only through new and comics many of you have ordered this comic through any c ads and catalogs as an ordinary issue number one we've printed this special edition as our way of saying thanks for your support if the tick becomes the popular character which we expect he will be you hold in your hands a real collector's item his very first comic book appearance so who or what is the tick well he's the creation of a young artist by the name of ben atlund ben created tick as a joke at first he had noticed with some discomfort while on a nature outing that ticks have a number of superhero type qualities for one they're virtually indestructible it's almost impossible to crush a tick see later in this issue like most insects they can fall from great heights and walk away would marry a hair out of place of course they have some nasty traits also they they borrow under your skin and take sustenance by sucking blood you'll find here that ben's tick has a figurative way of getting under people's skin does he also suck blood we'll learn about that in due course in these quality qualities ben saw the potential for an interesting comic book character and did some sketches how did new england comics end up publishing the tick well i'm one of the owners of any seat and like so many people involved in comics i've always harbored the notion of publishing my own comic book however unlike so many amateur publishers i haven't wanted to put my name on my companies or my company's name on anything that wasn't top notch for the longest time i was unable to find any project which was really special then one summer day i walked into any seat a brockton location and noticed a little sketch placed upon the store's bulletin board uncrushable unstoppable the tick it was crude compared to what you'll find in these pages but very intriguing i contacted the artist discussed various project possibilities and as they say in hallowood the tick was born so what's the tick all about i'm going to let ben tell most of the story in the pages of this and subsequent issues i will say here that mr etlon has a well-developed storyline which runs through at least the next 10 installments of i for one eagerly look forward to upcoming issues herein you'll i'll give you a few sneak peeks issue number two completes the tale who's beginning you're about to read the thick tick is entitled it is titled the third tick the thing the third tick is entitled night of a million zillion ninjas in which the tick tackles the city's peculiar vermin problem over-proliferation of martial artists in the course of this confrontation he means odiapus a young female ninja of as ben puts it extraordinary ineptitude you may be able to pick out odi as she's known to her friends on the back cover in fact number of characters popping up in future tick pages are showcased on this tick family portrait around the fifth or sixth issue the tick deals with militant militant armed amish crusaders and a hideous monster known as known as the almond blight beast which emerges from beneath the massachusetts parking lot to terrorize new england after that the tick travels to mars where he means edgard warlord of and to 1930s paris where he tangles with some bad guy nazi and a variety of pulp style heroes with matters being complicated by the same kind of tickish communication screw screw ups you will be encountering in this issue how does it take get back from mars and from thirties friends hey what can't we can't tell you everything now in fact for all i know he never gets back i do know that sometime during his adventures he'll encounter a criminal mastermind who happens to be a dolphin a rolling god who knows all about aqueducts another evil genius who's an infant a vigilante lunatic whose favorite weapon is a chainsaw and a certain wind wonder whose first appearance if you look close can continue on inside back cover inside back cover so um a certain wind wonder whose first appearance if you look close can can be seen in this very issue in fact in every issue of the tick it makes real good sense to watch the background in action ben's backgrounds are definitely not just decorative if you get caught up in the action during your first read be sure to get go back and steady everything one more time it'll be well worth your while eventually right and what he's talking about there is arthur i believe right at this point at this point a few of you may be thinking that the tick is just another parody comic well i can't with all this sincerity tell you that's the furthest thing from the truth certain certainly there are parody elements in the tick but ben's incisive treat incisive treatment of certain comic book trusums and axioms is hardly hardly the essence hardly the essence of the comic ninjas don't appear in the tick to increase sales if that were true we plaster them all over the crop cover they appear in these pages because ben considers their overuse in comics to be something worth commenting upon the same can be said for a lot of comic book cliches which will be lampoon in future issues the tick is infinitely more than the sum of a few per paradoxal parts as the tick himself as the tick says himself i am not a roach i am a tic and that makes all the difference i think that's enough of a sneak preview for this issue let me assure you that there's lots more for instance we haven't even begun to touch upon why the tick was an insane asylum or how he escaped or who the tick is or was before he became the in inevitable tick or for that matter if he's really wearing a costume could he actually be a man size insect mutation beats me ben doesn't tell everything even to his publisher now now that i've wedded your appetite i should tell you when when more tick stories will become available current plans are for the special edition to be followed by a regular tick number one which will be distributed through normal comic store channels this will be basically the same as the special edition but with slightly different editorial content the regular number one will be out real soon probably in late april there will be a special edition number two available in april or may to other to order either special edition see the ad elsewhere in this issue then we hope the tick will s tick to to every other month schedule in fact if we can find the fast anchor whose style is compatible with ben ben's pencils we will attempt monthly publication but no promises and somewhere along the line ex expect to see a tick number zero in which we will try to get ben to relate some ticks pre tick experiences if you've ordered the tick through the mail rest assured you'll find out what these projects via our tick mailing list if not send your name or address to moxpress purebox 1424 brockton massitude sets 20403 our last bit last bit of information for those of you who want every single appearance of the tick let me say that the very very first time the tick appeared in print was in back issues of new england comics newsletter a single page illustrating his escape from the asylum appeared in number 14 july august 1986 followed by one page on the lamb interlude in number 15 september october a small christmas illustration appeared in number 16 november december at that point ben began to concentrate his energies on developing the comic book please note that the pre tick story which will eventually be told in the tick comics may well differ from that described in these early experimental newsletter appearances we have limited quantities left of these new newsletter back issues rather than seldom we will send the complete set for free upon request to anyone ordering a one year or longer newsletter subscription see the centerfold for ordering information we will provide originals of these issues as long as our back issues last and afterwards send photocopies of the tick appearances first come first serve and only one set per subscriber please finally ben himself and everybody and nc press are eager to hear your opinions on the tick the tick talk page is for you send your letters to the address at the top of the page the best letter each issue will be awarded an autograph page of original tick art oh my god i wish i would get my hands on that george surez editor nc press february 23rd 1988 uncrushable unstoppable the world's first glimpse of the tick ah so this was the first sketch of the ticket board board board i've only been here two months and i'm already bored one unnecessary sedation no electroshock therapy not even like elevator music this place has become confining somehow i feel restrained you know insane asylum all tied up in the loony bin jacket and yet i sense my destiny is at hand things are changing and a brilliant idea has come to me i would leave this place the city calls me it cries to me of its need and as i approach it antenna twitching in anticipation i see the city for what it is a big place with lots of buildings and lots of rooftops to jump around that's what i do i'm a superhero and the city needs me destiny is a funny thing once i thought i was destined to become emperor of greenland soul monarch over its 52 000 inhabitants then i thought i was destined to build a polynesian longship in my garage that was wrong then but i've got it now i'm the destined protector of this place i'm this city's superhero oh i especially like the part about dancing across rooftops and like a god when i do that people say that i'm out of touch with reality that i'm insane sometimes i forget things who i am where i am unimportant things crash i'm a dick he says there's crime here i can smell it all is in readiness secret crime viewer engaged i am too in readiness i mean the age of dinosaurs and weight he's looking through this you put that round thing in the camera and you clicked it on the side this old school click it on the side and the thing rotates and shows you stuff one more time old man where's odepius you cannot keep the truth from ninja i think my secret crime viewer is broken i had a grave mistake fool i thought who would hold me you guys should really get rid of these full recent lights you're losing all your vitamin d wait a minute you guys are all ninjas ninjas i can't stand them they're everywhere attack him be thrust dodge i cool i cool i all right guys i've had just about enough i sit quitted boop fly sorry citizen there's crime out there and i've got to fight it jump through the window breaks it after him well jump i'm not going to jump you jump then it just says click oh the oval office of the white house it works click bounce off that flagpole and flip the safety snap he's still clicking this thing a bounce off that broad flat surface a lot of pink in the new series tv series out they do this sketch they do the sketch it's pretty cool wait a minute the text says there's no crime here well gee this thing doesn't seem to work very well things don't go what the hell are you huh tixas how are you a superhero oh a superhero well i guess you would be after living through a fall like that you're involuntary no the thing's still vulnerable nigh what the hell is nigh i am ninja i am invincible me too me too he says the ninjas say if you're superhero then why aren't you out saving the world infidel i will kill you i think i'm trying to develop my character take replies and what's going on with that costume it's the pavement what's going on costume what are you supposed to be you some kind of roach or something what some kind of what i think it's a great i've never seen a roach in my life okay okay i didn't mean nothing by cheese oh this guy says so you're a tick huh see didn't you escape from an insane asylum a couple of weeks back my mind reels and spins as the speed of light at the speed of light as i search for the perfect response perfect alibi for the past two weeks uh no it's like what oh well then it was the perfect answer completely and no one could mistake that for you too funny here's the newsletter let's continue on with the story why you're blue no more talking i'm getting bored with you be quiet sh shut up that was close they might not be a brilliant i might not be so brilliant next time he says maybe i should get one of those secret identities i wish i could find some crime fight crime to fight his eyes looking at what's going on there is arthur check it out there he is right there he becomes his sidekick full appearance initiative number four i think this is a normal walk well pain i can't remember who did this painting what are you some kind of weirdo but what i'm a tick your buck tick you tick for arachnids they got eight legs you haven't got eight legs what are you an expert to tick do you suck blood what tick suck blood do you suck blood or uh yeah uh yeah i suck blood all the time i don't believe you the guy says i got a straw right he's like what's going on tick's holding a straw the straw on his mouth flip flip don't think didn't think so he says it took easy big fella easy so you're a tick so what i mean i get all kinds here imperial romans extraterrestrials time traveling fish you think you think being a tick is bad try being a walking dead oh walking danda gee no thanks yeah well see what i mean right no one's got their own problems buddy hell i still get visions from my previous life astuto roosevelt's daughter being a tick it's a problem it's an honor you can't be a you can't be alice roosevelt she's dead she was a woman you can't be you you can't be no dead whoa he never mind the guys that's uh the restaurant owner likes to tick so tired all of a sudden he says i'm bound to get lightheaded sucky hair throw a straw like that are you all right buddy too funny too funny gee it sure is dark in here i must be in a whale great scott someone's in the tunnel and the train's coming isn't a subway tunnel the wonder stun city weekly world planet too many people here i won't be able to change into my costume i can't risk revealing my secret identity the helpless right wrongs and stand for truth justice in the american way then i should write this stuff down got to use my very quick speed to move faster than the eye can follow oh i'm not too upon my whale anatomy but i don't recall them having two metal rails in their stomach it's probably a blue whale wait a minute it's three rails in here this is dangerous the one that's electricity do you want it i guess here comes the superman's fifth dude guy he touches it zowie electrocutes himself quickly citizen we're almost out of time a gigantic well-dressed digested man i'm sorry i am a police citizen the train is almost here hey hands off the tix says no you don't understand i'm a superhero i have to save you hi hi nice try your there's the train coming in the background say what what's going on what is that oh it's a train that takes sense he's got a smile on his face look at that thud rumble clang rumble clang choo choo loud noise rumble i hate getting run over by trains the tix this is happening this guy says there goes his shoes wait a minute that was a subway back there so you're invulnerable too huh i'm not invulnerable too bad parry's going to kill me damn maybe i could fly around the earth on a herd of speeds and reverse time that's a spoof of superman movie right the first one with christivary fantastic movie no i did that last week damn so to take us you're a superhero too you got a secret identity wins listen to me very carefully i am clark up and hymer mild manner reporter got that you don't look like a reporter to me clark clark clark come back you forgot your hat hi rise hi jinx next issue fantastic read what a fantastic read let's read this as well this last page back trail by abdod rod so it's not been atlanta ticks are ticks are small eight-legged parasites that prey on man and pests alike they come off easily with a little salad or mineral oil but i prefer to just rip them out sparky doesn't mind yep look at it look at it he horrible chitinous body it's tiny flailing legs see that didn't hurt at all did it sparky no sir funny thing about ticks is that they're nigh incrustible try as you might the buggers don't just don't smush some folks like to inhale them or on needles and such but i like to wrap them and clean eggs and burn them sparky is that you boy that takes time behind special edition number one and two that takes special edition number one is limited to five thousand serially numbered copies and available only through new england comics it will never be reprinted in this form the tick special edition number one is 32 pages printed on super white offset stock with a hundred pound double glossy four color covers hey we don't have to tell you you're holding one right now tick special edition number two will be available soon it will continue the adventures of the tick in the hectic world of big time crosswords the tick special edition number two will be limited to five thousand serially numbered copies in the same format as special edition number one we are accepting advanced orders now order for the tick comics other foreign foreign should send five dollars per copy canadian customers three dollars must read that if you want to order tick number one special edition tick special edition number one and or tick special edition number two by themselves not as a part of a regular mail order see send a dollar fifty plus one dollar shipping 250 total per copy order canadian customers should send three dollars per copy other foreign should send five dollars per copy fantastic great fantastic great i hope you enjoy that's it for now i'll see you guys in the next video


Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFN Headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, 4 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday as we reach that closing bell and markets finishing off in the red to start off weekly trading. Dow Jones off 116 points, trading at $26,805. S&Ps finished negative $14, trading at $29,76. NASDAQ negative by 63 points or almost 0.8% trading at $8,098. Russell 2000 leading the way off almost 15 points or almost a full percent, trading at $15,60. As we jump over to the VIX this afternoon, we saw some negative action early in the market. $14,40 that VIX reached as the market kind of just tapered off into a pretty calm afternoon. The VIX 13 handle at $13,86. Let's jump over to some of the futures markets that we have over here as I pull up these charts and I just had some of these actually acting up on me right as I was getting ready, but we'll start off with the S&P. As you can see, we'll pull up that opening bell bar in pretty tight trading range. The top end of where we were coming into the day, $29,82. As you can see, we're climbing right back up to that level right now and made it as low as about $29,74 at one point. So you're talking about eight points for the whole day for the S&P. NASDAQ 100, we trade lower on the opening bell. We reach a low of about $77,80 and then much like the S&P, we climb back right at that level, $78,11 almost to where we started the day. Dow $30, pretty much the same as well as we are back up here to where we were at about 10 a.m. this morning, $26,818 reached a low just after the opening bell of $26,746. Crude oil, talk about some volatility. We trade higher from $8.30 this morning, reach a high of about $58.45 and then like a flash at $2.30 Eastern time, you had oil trade from $58 drop about $0.60 in the matter of 10 minutes and we're sitting at $0.5748 and where is my gold contract? There it is. I see it. Gold with some volatility as well. These are some of the available binary options. Don't get distracted by those bars, but gold last night was trading right where it was right now. Actually, we've just reached below those levels as you have gold trading at $13.94, below the low we had at about noon and we were up there at about $14.10 when I was doing the program early today. Have a great night, folks. We're at Larry Pezzavento. We're going to have a replay coming up this hour, the hour he just did and then we'll be back 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. Of course, we have Chairman Powell speaking this week. We've got CPI data coming out on Thursday morning should be an interesting market. We'll see what happens. Have a great night. We'll see you tomorrow.


hit your target body weight in grams of protein. That's hard. I want everybody to understand this right now. It is not easy. I challenge you to do this for more than three days in a row. Watch what happens. If you're a 130 pound female or you want to weigh 130 pounds, eat 130 grams of protein, day in and day out, and I promise you what you're going to end up feeling is full. You're going to say, I can't eat this much food. You'll end up eating less calories also. On a gram per gram calorie per calorie basis, protein produces the satiety of something like 20, 30% more calories. And early on in my career with clients, the struggle was how to get them to eat less. Ah, you ate over eight.  Oh, I know it's really tough. You got to just have the distance. You got to be strong. You can do this. Later, the discussion was, you missed your proteins.  And they would always tell me, I can't. Sal, I'm eating too. I can't do it. I just don't want to eat anymore. And they would all get leaner as a result because it completely crushes your appetite.


Okay, so my name is Vanilo or Dan Ciaroloni and I'm here to present to you Sandboxing Your Sandbox, leveraging hypervisors for WebAssembly security. Now before I get started, can I just get a quick show of hands for who was here for my talk yesterday at Rust Global? Is there anyone in the room that was here? No? Okay, perfect. This talk, the idea is we'll build upon that one so if anyone was here for that, I was just gonna preface that you'll probably see some repeated slides. But yeah, if not, this will all be new and novel and exciting. Okay, so now I'm sure that this title in itself can spawn a million questions in everybody's minds but I wanna start by answering a very simple question of who are you listening to? So as you saw in the previous slide, my name is Dan but other than that, I also work at Microsoft with a project called HyperLite. Now HyperLite is a project where we leverage virtual machine managers or hypervisors to execute untrusted or third party code safely. If you're into social media or GitHub, those are my handles right there. If you have any questions they wanna ask that maybe we can get to right now, that would be a good place to reach me. So you may think that with working with HyperLite, very security driven project, what I'm saying here is that, you know, I'm something of a security expert myself. But no, that's not the case. In fact, I made my very first contribution to HyperLite and consequently security only about one year ago. So what I'm trying to get across here is that even if you yourself are not something of a security expert, that's okay because I've been there and I am there and hopefully this will be a comprehensive talk and we can sort of learn together. Cool, so now what is this talk about? And before I tell you directly, I wanna show you a little clip from Microsoft Build with Azure CTO Mark Rusinovich when he introduced the project that I work on HyperLite. It's one of the things that inspire this talk in the first place. So I feel like he gives us a little bit of context. Now, the way is that we keep our infrastructure very efficient is by tightly packing customers together. Either virtual machines and that technology has been around for a long time. More recently within the last decade, we've introduced hypervisor based isolation for containers with Hyper-V. So you can see that in the middle. And those address, you know, traditional OS based applications, containerized applications, but we really see a place for user-defined functions, small functions that will execute either in the network data plane, like on a front door service, or as a user-defined function sitting inside of a storage service. But we need to strongly isolate them as well. And Wasm, while it has a great sandboxing technology and it's really got a great ecosystem around it, lacks the kind of isolation that we require for running a public cloud. So we've been... Okay, so I wanna focus on that very last statement from Mark Russ saying that Wasm, while it has a great sandboxing technology and has really got a great ecosystem around it, lacks the kind of isolation that we require for running a public cloud. That's what this talk is about. It's entering why. Why is Wasm's isolation sometimes not enough, and particularly in our use case of running a public cloud? I don't know how many people here were here listening to Nick Fitzgerald's talk. Mention how much Wasm time goes through fuzzing and whatnot, so why is that still not enough for us? And perhaps maybe more importantly than that is discussing how do we solve it and how do we address that we make it be enough for running a public cloud and still utilizing Wasm. Okay, so today's agenda is we'll start off with an overview of Wasm security. Then we'll split it into two. We'll discuss binary security and we'll discuss host security. And in the middle, we'll have an aside for what role language choice plays in generating secure Wasm. This was an aside that I had here for my Rust global talk, as you can imagine was discussed Rust, but I figure it will still be interesting to point out. So I left it in. All right, and lastly, we'll finish the talk talking about strategies for improving your WebAssembly security. Okay, so let's begin with the very first item in our agenda, overview of Wasm security binary security. So what comes to mind usually when I say Wasm security? Whenever I ask people these questions, two words bob up the most. The first one is sandboxing, right? Wasm is completely isolated from its host environment and that's resource isolation. And so any functionalities that it does have to use have to be explicitly stated. That's the number one thing that people mention. And the second one is also memory isolation with WebAssembly's linear memory, preventing out-of-bounds accesses and accessing the host. Those are the two main things. And those are great, those are great things that we definitely do need, but is that all we need? And to answer this question, I want to kind of flip it upside down. The snippet there you're seeing here is a snippet from the WebAssembly specification itself. It discusses, it introduces buffer overflows and it says that something, mitigations that exist for preventing buffer overflows in native binaries, such as data execution prevention, DEP and sex matching protection are not needed by WebAssembly. So to answer that question, perhaps I figure, like I said, to look at it in an inverse way, is this something that we don't need to play around with this statement. But before we get, we dive too much deeper into that, I just want to make sure we're all on the same page with what sex matching protection we're also known as secondaries are. So here on, I believe, your left, we have a very simple C++ program or a function called vulnerability. It takes in a string and we have a buffer of length eight and we do a string copy onto it. As you can probably guess by the name of no function vulnerability and also by the code because it's very simple. It's very easy to get a buffer overflow there, right? You pass in a string that's very, very long and we'll go over the buffer. Now, in native binaries, what we have is that the compiler will insert prolog code that will run with each execution to generate some bytes, i.e. the secondary, that will allow us to detect buffer overflows. So the stack will look somewhat like this, right in the binary, we have a buffer, we have a secondary and then we have things like the return address or so forth. And so if the buffer does get overflowed, it will corrupt the stack in an area which is something that we knew at the beginning of our program and so we know it's been corrupted and we know we were suffering all the stack smashing attack. Now, back to the question. Is this something that we don't need in a while, essentially? And rather than telling you, I figured we could look at a demo. This is a demo, it'll be displaying a vulnerability in the libpng library. This is a library written C. The vulnerability, as you can see, is an out of bounds write in libpng, the 8.8 vulnerability. And this is a demo I got actually from a paper from Daniel Lehman saying everything old is new, again, binary security of WebAssembly. And as you can probably guess by the name, this is something that we don't have in native binaries, but that perhaps has made new again. And I wanna follow my own demo, but we'll take a look. So, close this real quick and we'll open TS code. All right. So the example that I have here is we have the C++ program. And what it's doing is it's gonna use the libpng library, libpng as png utilities, right? And in this case, we're utilizing a function, PNM to png, which is where that vulnerability exists. And as you can probably guess, we'll convert our PNM file to a png file. And we're being, I'll say, pretty naive, right? To display the vulnerability here. What we're doing is we have, we're writing directly to the browser, so this will display it there. We have this image tag, right? We call convert and then we append that directly onto our document. Now, let's take a look at how that works. And we'll see a good example. So, let me run Python. Server.py, cool. So now we're serving this application. And I should say, so this is a C++ program, utilizing in script and we compile it to Wasm and then we have it running like that. And here we go. So I'll show you a good example first. I have a repos, inputs. This monarch.png, so it's a monarch butterfly and if everything works, we get a beautiful monarch butterfly. So that was a PNM file successfully converted to PNG. That means our users are behaving and the program is behaving as expected. However, what if we provide something, what if we're malicious, right? What if we provide something that it's intended to break the program? We can provide this. Now, I don't know how many people here know PNM files, but this looks very different from a normal one, which VS Code looks a lot like this. So what we're doing here is we're performing a stack to heap overflow attack. And so we write a bunch of garbage up until we reach the point in the heap or the linear memory that we're concerned with and then we can sort of mess up with that point of memory. And as you'll see here, we have some fun planned. So now let's upload that file. I'll reload the page, choose file and I will upload our exploit and lo and behold, we get a cross-site scripty attack. Now again, we didn't have that anywhere in our C++ code, right? All this does is it converts the image and put it to there. But with that exploit file, what we did have is we had this script alert and we have it even more. If we click okay, we see that we got pund. So yeah, this can be pretty catastrophic, right? And there's a reason why that's an 8.8 vulnerability because I mean, this is a pretty simple example, right? But say we had a social network, whatever, someone could post in our behalf, right? So if someone's having using Wasm, they're in someone posts on Twitter or X or whatever people call it nowadays. Cool. So that is a vulnerability in binary security. But how does that look with native binaries, right? I told you that the title of the paper was everything old is new again. And now, like I asked, how does this look with native binaries? This looks someone like this. I don't have the example with libpng, but I brought back that example that we had prior with that vulnerability function receiving in the string and passing in a string that's too big. We see that we do get a stack smashing detected. So we do corrupt our stack canary and this just doesn't exist with normal C or C++ or native binaries while it does exist with weather assembly now. So why does the Wasm specification say that we don't need SSP, right? Like, are they lying to us? And no, no, not really. And that's because in Wasm, we have two types of memory. We have managed memory and we have unmanaged memory. Managed memory is our code space while unmanaged memory is our linear memory or heap or whatever you want to call it. And those two are completely disjointed. So normal things that people will use, buffer overflows to do, like corrupting your own execution environment. This will not happen with WebAssembly. You can't have any go-tos or jump arbitrary locations in memory because that's in your management in your code space. So to quote Dango will look back at the people that you might have seen around the conference. At worst, a buggy or exploited WebAssembly program can make a mess of the data in its own memory. This is from another paper bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly. Cool. But as we've seen, this can still be sometimes pretty bad with that A-pay and A-formability that's made new again in WebAssembly. But enough to speak, how can we counteract this? And I'll go deeper into this later in the talk as you saw in our agenda. Our item two is strategies for improving your wasm security, but that's the time and the agenda where we're talking about that side of language choice. So I wanna say Libpng, like I mentioned, is coded in C, right? And memory unsafe languages will still generate memory unsafe wasm modules. They will not fix your code for you, so you still have to do your due diligence to ensure that your modules are not vulnerable to malicious input. People can still mess up your memory. I didn't show it here, but say you have one vol function and you have another vol function, if they look the same or somewhat similar, you could even corrupt other stack frames and go and mess up another function. So we can use Rust, and that's one option, you know, it's a memory safe language. And to keep it simple and to maintain our theme of buffer overflows, I have a very, very, very simple example where on the left we have a C++ program, we have an array with a length five and we write it on the fifth element and that in C++ does compile, obviously you can get warnings, right? And it even runs and you can have undefined behavior while in Rust it doesn't even compile. And the point that I'm trying to get across for that very simple example is that with Rust's memory safety guarantees, like, you know, having to be explicit about unsafe code and even the ownership model, it's way harder to follow the common pitfalls that you would follow with C or C++. But let's put that in the back of our minds for a second because we'll get into strategies for improving wasm security later on in the talk. Right now it's time to talk about host security. So is this the world that wasm has secondaries? Is that all there is to it? No, previously we looked at a module that is vulnerable to malicious input, but what if the module in itself is malicious, right? What if we, the ones that are running the module have malicious intent? That is the concern of host security, which is, that's a beautifully stated here, the ability and fortification of the environment against wasm modules with negative intent. So this has a whole new attack factor with a couple things that we have to be concerned about because now we also have to be concerned with where we run our code. Like, what if the runtime allows us to break out of send box or linear memory things as you can probably guess can get pretty bad because we'll have access to the host. But again, rather than me telling you, I want to show you a demo. This time it's a demo from wasm time. This is another out of bounds write on x86 and 64. This is a 9.9 vulnerability, so pretty much as bad as it gets. And I'll say thanks to Alex Quikton for helping me put this together. Cool, so let's take a look. Now I am on a Mac M1, so I have to go to my VM, my dev box. Okay, so here we are. And we have two watt files. Very first one, all that we're doing is we have this load function that will load somewhat arbitrary looking piece of memory. Actually, let me make that a little bit bigger. Is that better? Some watch arbitrary piece of memory, but that's related to how the vulnerability works. And then in B, and I just want to point out, all we do is we have this function that calls load, right? It's not modifying its memory in any other way. So technically, A's memory should be all zeroed out. But we have B. B will import A, again, right? And every functionality has to be explicitly imported. It, like A, it sets up its memory and we have a function called trigger, which will call A's function again with an input that's related to how the vulnerability works. But other than that, it's also setting something in its own memory. It's setting that value 42 there. So what we're gonna do is now we're gonna run this. And okay, thankfully I have the code here, I have the command. We're running wasn't time run, polling allocator. What this does is that it will put the two modules side by side. So we have, we're aware of how the memory layout is gonna look like. And we preload A and then we call B and we call a function in B trigger bug. So again, A doesn't have anything in its memory with A calling, with B calling A, that trigger bug we should get nothing, we should get a zero. However, we get 42. That's pretty bad, right? We have one module breaking out of its sandbox, accessing another module and getting hold of its memory. And now again, this is very much crafted to display the vulnerability, right? We have the polling allocator putting the two modules side by side. But if you think about say an embedded example, right? Where we have sort of linear memory or non-linear memory, restricted memory. Again, things are very tightly packed together. It's very easy to grab ahold of your embedded host and who knows, maybe we're running in a Cisco. And that's the reason why we have that 9.9 vulnerability there. So let's go back to our example or to our slides. So now we're reaching the final point or agenda for strategies for improving wasm security, right? We displayed a binary vulnerability, we displayed a host vulnerability. If binary vulnerabilities can sometimes even leak into host vulnerabilities, so we have an idea of the landscape and how things look like there. But what can we do to fix all this? The strategy that we're proposing in this talk is security in layers. What does that mean? This is where we grab rust that we put in the back of our minds right at the beginning and we bring it back out. Because rust is the very first layer that we can add a memory safe language which can go a pretty long way. On top of that, we're gonna layer wasm. You know, it will provide us with resource and memory isolation, but as we've seen, it can still have problems, it can still have bugs. So we need a third item there. Now, as you can probably guess by the title of the talk, this is where we leverage hypervisors for other things like security. And that's where we bring in harder virtualization or virtual machine managers, right? So what do hypervisors bring to the table? But before that, I just wanna say, we're adding hypervisors on top, right? To address the fact that humans are fallible, right? And we can still have issues, we can still have bugs, but no solution is perfect. In the same way that we have bugs in wasm time or whatever runtime we wanna use, we can still have bugs in here. The whole point of security in layers is to increase the hurdles that an attacker has to overcome to reach an issue. So we're decreasing the attack surface. Okay, now let's do address that question. What do hypervisors bring to the table? The principle behind VMMs is running multiple VMs under one physical host, right? So something, so things will look somewhat like this. We have a physical host, we have a memory safe Rust wasm app. On top of that, we have a wasm sandbox and then your memory. And on top of that, we have our VM. And what that brings, first and foremost, is deep isolation, right? So if a wasm vulnerability, binary vulnerability that leaked into a host vulnerability caused a problem or even a wasm runtime has a bug, everything or any damage that it causes will be restricted to that VM. So it doesn't touch anything outside of that. That's one thing. The next one is resource control. That is the capability to hold execution if an app is taking too many resources. So something modern hypervisors allow, give you. And so if say a program is hogging, you can stop it. And lastly, again, another feature of modern hypervisors is snapshotting and rollback. So if we do have a security incident but we had a previous state that we're happy with, we can always rollback to it to our snapshot or rollback. Okay, so now I wanna finish off with sort of coming full circle and showing the demo from Mark Russ again, the demo that he showed at MS Build display and how we're using HyperLite with to answer that question or case study here. Let's go see just how awesome this is. This is one of my favorite demos here. So here I've got, I'm gonna show you, I've got, running on a Linux machine, Linux DOM zero is what we call Linux as the host partition for a Hyper-V and you can see Microsoft Hypervisor there. If I take a look at the amount of free RAM on this system, you can see it's, or the use RAM, it's got 1.1 gigabyte used. Now I'm gonna kick off a script that's gonna launch 2,000 micro VMs. And it did it and you can see it did it in less than two seconds. I've got 2,000 micro sandboxes running on this VM. And if I go take a look at how much memory I've consumed, each one of those is just about 300 megabytes in size. So tiny, able to handle user defined function. Now I'm gonna have, make some function calls just to show you that this is kind of performance that's close to just calling another function across a process, but I'm actually calling into a virtual machine. And you can see the latency was about 250 microseconds. And as far as programming models, we wanna make it really easy for people to create these. So here's a Blazor app, which is a website that says hello and prints a request count, which is a static variable. And if I launch this, there it is, running on plain vanilla OS. And if I do refreshes, every time I refresh, I'm gonna see the request gonna go up because that's a static variable that's increasing. So let's say that I wanna strongly isolate that code, I'm gonna use the HyperLite isolator. And it's as easy as invoking that chunk of code and giving it to HyperLite to put it in a sandbox. And now each time I call invoke, a new micro VM's gonna create it from scratch, which means none of these are gonna share any state with any other. There it is running wasm. And if I do refreshes now, that count stays the same, which is because each one of those is a fresh micro VM. So that's the kind of programming model that we're creating for this thing. I think I'm back on. So what just happened is that we had, or WebAssembly module, at the time module right now, it could be a component, right? Running on top of your host OS and your hardware, and that was about it. But what we did is we thinly wrapped within a HyperLite isolator micro VM. So we're adding that layer on top to provide extra isolation. And that allowed us to have 2,000 micro VMs in under two seconds, where each micro VM is about 300 megabytes in size, and also capable of making 50,000 function calls with an average response time of around 250 microseconds. So that was a big challenge there, right? We don't just wanna add another layer on top of WASM, say just a normal VM that has a full OS and then lose everything that WASM has, that's interesting. We wanna have a thin layer, just that micro VM, that maintains WASM benefits, but also provides an extra layer of security on top. Now, and also while keeping a very simple and easy to use programming model with that invoke that has like that Lambda function that creates a brand new VM for each request, right? That one-to-one relationship between user defined functions and VMs and WASM, all hugging each other. Okay, so now before I open up for questions, just wanna do a quick recap of what we did today. We one start off with an overview of WASM security, right? We discussed things that people usually think about with sandboxes and linear memories. Next, we look at binary security and we looked at a vulnerability there. Then we looked at host security and a vulnerability there and we saw how security in layers is our proposed solution to sort of counteract this and remedy bugs that can exist in different layers of the stack. And then we showed at the end, our case study Microsoft's approach to address this with hyper light and saw sort of the challenges of maintaining WASM's benefits while also adding more security on top of things. And that is where I end. Any questions? Please go ahead. So there's no network stack there. We're just speaking with the VM as if it was like a normal function call. Yeah, please go ahead. Yeah, that's a good question. So we're using sort of the term micro VM sort of loosely here and that sort of used around sort of literature to describe a myriad of different things. But for our case, we have this micro VM or sandbox and that does not have an OS. So yeah, WASM was running even without an OS in that case. So yeah, so you may think, right, how are you even handling WASI, right? What, how can you have a system interface if you have no system? And the idea there is that we obviously we have some sort of smokes and mirrors, right? But the idea is that we have, so say, we had a printf function, right? That printf function is actually routed towards your hypervisor function, your host function. In that case was host print, I think we call it. And that prints within the hypervisor host that you can implement. And we have different implementations we have. For hyperlight, we leverage a KVM. We leverage hyperv, hyperv for Linux. And so it depends on the hypervisor as well. It functions host there. Please, can you say that again? Yeah, there's a little bit of, we'll add a penalty because we are going inside of the VM with guest and function calls. So the guest will call onto the host. That's one barrier that we have to cross. And then the host also has to reply to the guest. And we can get sort of exceptions, right? Everywhere in the stack. So say a host gets an exception, guest gets an exception, and handling that creates the overhead that you saw. Please. Yeah, so we fully intend to use this for production. We're discussing it internally to utilize for Azure Front Door, so our functions servicing. But we're also planning on open sourcing this. We have a very hand-wavy timeline for an open source in this. And I can discuss with you after and in the all. But yeah, definitely for production and moving towards that. And hopefully if things work out, open sourcing. Very soon. Yeah, we had another question, or? Oh, with open source? Yeah, all right. Lots of good questions, please go ahead. Can you say that again? Yeah? Yeah, there's still quite a lot of benchmarking work that I think we have to do to sort of see and compare bench or performance with, I think others. There's also similar projects, right? From AWS and Google, like Firecracker and G-Visor. That's sort of somewhat target similar things. So we definitely have work to do to compare there. But yeah, I feel like it's inevitable that we're gonna have increased size and also decrease the speed by a little bit. But the goal really is to continue and try and decrease that to get closer to the benefits that Wasm still provides with the added security. Yeah, please. So we have 300 megs, 300 megs per micro-VM. And the total there, I think we spent up to 2000 micro-VMs. And it's, well, I forget the words played in the video, but I think we went from 1.1 gigs to 4.1, something like that. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if I made the math wrong, but you can probably correct me there. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate that. Even better? Yeah, so you can, well, obviously we didn't get to display it here, but with HyperLite, you can completely define your memory configuration. You can define how much memory you'll get on top. So you could over-provision and have more over the minimum that it does use. Any more questions, Joe? So does the binary vulnerability that I just played in the beginning escape the sandbox? That's your question? Yeah. It doesn't, no, it doesn't, I don't believe you could escape in that sense of messing up your host. All that it's doing really, it's messing up its own memory, right? So we have management, we have code space, and we have unmanaged memory. So, you know, your heap or your linear memory, and that's what is messing up because we have structures that are set there. And like I mentioned in another example, we could even corrupt different stack frames, right? So you have one buffer, you could corrupt the other buffer, that's all in your own, linear memory, the only problem. Yeah, I mean, one thing that it does add, you can have, right? It's if you write a bad program, that's easily exploitable buffer overflows, that's still gonna display with your awesome. And that's one of the reasons for perhaps using Rust. But yeah, yeah, so that's correct. Yeah, I haven't gotten to play around much with vetting, and also fuzzing. Nick's talk was actually quite interesting because I think there's a lot of work that we can do with fuzzing and also vetting for even hyperlite with wasm modules there, even wasm's myth generating a bunch of wasm modules for testing things could also be pretty interesting. Yeah, another question? Yeah. Yeah, so the idea there, right, is to target the multi-tenant. So you have one function, one VM, but we have VCPUs, right, that are specific to your sandbox. And so those will be one-to-one relations. Any other questions? Okay, if not, I think that is the end. Thank you.