Go away for a time. Joke with none mind. I'm Chris, half Chinese, half Vietnamese, born and raised in England. This is Mia. Hi guys, I'm Chinese, born and raised in Vietnam. So today, both of us are going to tell you our experience about Lunar New Year. Cool, let's get started. The first thing is, it's called Lunar New Year, right? Yeah, it's Lunar New Year because we are using Lunar calendar. But a lot of people call it Chinese New Year. I guess so because a lot of Chinese around the world. Yeah, we are Chinese too. We are Chinese too, so... But in Vietnam, it's also called Tet or... Tet. Take it right. Tet. Dirt. Tea, like tea. No, but tea would be Tet. Better pronunciations from a Vietnamese girl. Commonly known as Chinese New Year or Dirt? Yep. Well, not only does China and Vietnam celebrate it, there's actually other countries that celebrate Dirt or Chinese New Year. Tibet, Mongolia and also Korea. Oh, wow. Yeah, there's over a billion people celebrating this holiday, which is basically Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's all bundled into one. It's like this big celebration that lasts for 15 days and it stops. In Cantonese, like 上云旦, basically is the first biggest festival in a year. Love it, love it! Why Tet holiday or Chinese New Year is the most desirable holiday of the year? You get a chance to get some red envelope or lacy or lacy. This one, which is full of money inside. In order to get more lacy, you have to go buy lins. So basically, it's giving some greeting to the elderly or someone who is married. That's why we're here to help you get more lacy. So some of the things or greetings you might say is Everyone knows that! 恭喜發財 actually means you get more money or be more wealthy in the next year. It's not just like Happy New Year. But I've heard a lot of Westerners use that as the Happy New Year. 恭喜發財 is the standard one. If you say like Happy New Year, you almost always say I hope you make lots of money next year. Yeah, because Chinese love money. That's true, Chinese love money. 身體健康 It's basically a wish of health, right? Wish you good health. What it actually means is like a successful in things you do. But the literal translation is literally a horse invading a city. Anything you wish for will become the truth. So be careful what you wish for. 完才就少 Meaning you get some money without working hard, which is cool, right? So basically it's for anyone who likes to gambling. There's a lot about money, isn't there? Yeah, Chinese love money. The next one would be Just like for the women. You keep your beauty. Why just women? It's my question. Because men, they don't care about their look. Is it true guys? Do you care about your looks? No, we don't. Only women care about it. 總要夠穩 Meaning you wish you always have luck. If you do anything, you need luck.  But also there's some things that you should do during Lunar New Year. What are those things, Mia? As you are a resident expert. Apparently you need to clean your house on a specific day leading up to the new year. Tell us about that. At the end of the year, my mom would like She'd have to look it up on the Tung Seng to pick out one perfect day for everyone to clean the house. Pick up the sofa. Pick up the sofa? We actually have a specific day to do it. So it's like so opiate.  What is this red thing? Another thing, people buy a lot of things. So like you're supposed to wear like new outfits and like new shoes and new hats or whatever. Tell us about that. Why do you buy new things? Like new year, new thing, right? New year, new me. So you have to put on some new clothes. Wish I could use everyone to do that.  I guess so. Probably. On Lian Sa Man, you have to take a shower as early as possible. You have to wash your feet, wash your feet earlier so you will do things faster than people. So it means you are first in line for folks? Yes, first in line. Wow, native. And also on the Lian Sa Man, I'm 29 years old. It's very crucial for you to wear a new shoe. Tai Xiao Yan. Explain what like Tai Xiao Yan is. It's super weird. So what is it? So Xiao Yan basically is some bad guy who will do bad things at you, like talk bad about you. So if you put on the new shoes, like basically you will like stopping them to do that in the next coming year. So weird. But okay. So do you know that on Lian Sa Man, like my auntie always say, you should wear red underwear to attract more luck. Yeah, I would do this. So first day of the new year, we will go to temples, visit a lot of temples, wish for good luck, wish for health, of course money. And of course money. Recurring theme here, recurring theme. And then usually on Lian Sa Yi, the second day of new year, we will have Haolin. There's like rituals in terms of like buying things for the god. Basically you're giving your offerings to the god, right? So we spoke about the things that you should do. What about the things that you shouldn't do? Actually on the new year eve, you shouldn't say bad thing, like even joking is like prohibit. It's a very sacred night. And on the first day of new year, don't wash your hair, you can shower of course. But why is what we want to know? You will wash away your luck. You will wash away your bad luck. You wash away your good luck. Oh. That's why you don't wash it.  And also don't sweep the floor. Don't sweep on the first day of the new year is because that would also sweep away any of the fortune or luck that you might have. Don't give away stuff on the first month. Don't give away stuff on the first month. Why? First month is more about getting more in. If you give away, you probably give away your luck, your fortune. Don't buy shoes and buy hat because shoes are like high, high. Saying like you don't want to high, high the whole year.  Like, hey, yeah, like Uncle Roger. Hey, yeah. And no. No is like basically like nothing. Nothing is nothing. If you buy nothing, it's like, if you buy nothing, it's like, what do you do with that for, right? I've probably done all of these things without even knowing because there's too much symbolism. There's too much like things that are kind of silly. Like a billion people do this. So it's kind of crazy. Let's move on to other random things that you should know about this holiday. Do you know that on the seventh day is like birthday for everyone? On the seventh day of the new year, which is February the seventh this year, it's the birthday for everybody. Yeah, it's like It's like everybody just gets a day off anyway because it's part of the celebration and it's like you can celebrate your birthday again. So you have two birthdays in a year. You just say happy birthday on the seventh. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Some great tip from your mom. Pro tip from mother. If you have B.O. You should buy a mantou, which is a It's like a bun. Yeah, like a bun without anything inside. And then put it on your armpit and just like sit there for like five minutes. You get rid of your B.O. I don't get it. I don't get it too. On the 15th, in here Saigon, we will have a parade. So we are bringing out the God statue from the temple and give them a tour. So it's called Ah Po Chuc Yau. It will like bong chi ah po. And then Tang yong yong. Tang yong yong. How many people get like any of the things you just said? Oh my god. Yes. Yeah, not so in the temple. Cho guan miu. What do you call that? Tuk tuk chang ah. Tai hei ah. Tai hei yeah. Tai hei. So they will perform a Tai hei for the God inside the temple. Tuk tuk chang ah. It's called tuk tuk chang ah mom. That's yeah, that's the slang word for it. It's actually like onomatopoeia. Tuk tuk chang. Because it actually sounds like that. This is what it sounds like. Something is very random and very hard to understand. Even for you, like you have a Chinese root, right? Yeah, it's one of the holidays that you learn something every year that's new that you have to do or not do. And it's really interesting. Sometimes I don't understand about it, but it's just like doing it because it's Chinese new you, right? It's bringing you the vibe. Well, I hope you have learned on how random lunar new year is and how symbolic it is to lots of Chinese people and Asian people around the world. If you haven't had a Chinese new year, I hope you will have a chance to experience that holiday only experience the holiday. Yeah, I hope you can celebrate Chinese new year with us this year. Eat good, rest well, get lots of money. Wish you a happy new year. Peace. Bye. Let's get started. Wait, let's see. Hello guys. Yeah, maybe I'll do this. Okay, I'm gonna take the other one. Let's see. Uh, let's see. I'm Chinese. No. Yes, you're Chinese.  And today we're gonna just be there. Oh yeah, in England, they don't do any of this.  I didn't really understand that. Does that make sense? No. Take a whole pair, tell me. So, ah. I'm joking. Okay, yes. Now that


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I want to raise a question today because Team of the Season starts in just a short couple of days. But do we actually need to be saving our packs for longer than just this Friday? Will live Team of the Season cards be the promo to open for or not? I want to answer that question today and talk through some things as we get closer and closer to the start of Team of the Season and actually being able to open these packs that we have been saving. But before we do that we have to talk about the big Evo that dropped yesterday. It's making one SPC from a couple months ago look absolutely insane. Confirmed red picks on the loading screen you just saw and the icon player pick refresh today on a Wednesday. If you're excited for the video drop a thumbs up on it and subscribe if you're new. Let's get into things from yesterday. It was a pretty quiet day yesterday especially on the SPC front guys. It's just one more day until Team of the Season can get here. Let's be completely honest. We did have the 88 plus campaign mix upgrade refreshed. They didn't change anything about it this time. It is the exact same SPC, a one of four 88 plus exact same requirements. EA just hits the F5 on that SPC and this SPC right now is 8% upvoted for good reason. I'm proud of the community for not wanting to do this SPC right before Team of the Season GG's. That's really all that there is in SPC's besides the daily login refresh. All the SPC's like the 83 times 10 refreshing and stuff like that. That was it in that part of the game yesterday. Now it starts to get good when we go to evolutions though because this is the full back evolution that we talked about and was leaked yesterday. But guess who doesn't fit? Erlen Mendy. Erlen Mendy went from 2k to extinct or almost 10,000 coins on the market and then is now back down to 2 to 3,000 coins because he did not fit the evo. But the evo that we got was actually pretty good guys and this is a crazy evo for a couple of things. First of all, yes I know it's paid and it's 100,000 coins but the cards that you can get out of this I think are well worth it if you have a couple of the top tier upper echelon players. Especially some of the insane left backs like this Zingchenko right here. Now let's take a look at the evo really fast. The pace boost is good. The dribbling defending physical boost and passing boost on the card is very good. It is a great boost for a left back. Also it gives the right back position and it gives my favorite play style in defense anticipate and also gives a 5 star weak foot and jockey plus. This is a really really good evo guys. Now it's kind of like a really good evo but you kind of have to have the right player for it. I will honestly say that. I do have like a Ben Sabine evo that's in my club. When I look at this card though I don't think okay yeah he could play center back but it doesn't look like a card that I'm gonna use a lot. Yes he goes to 5 star weak foot. Yes he gets the anticipate play style which we absolutely love but with those stats for me it just doesn't cut it. Now for some of you guys who kept a couple of lucky cards around in the club potentially from winter wild cards there is one player that has become very popular in this evolution. If you held on to winter wild cards Kai Havertz. His left back card here goes mental in this evolution. He stays with the whipped pass plus but he gains the right back positioning so he's left mid left back right back and look at those stats. Those are insane stats. He gets the 5 star weak foot boost as well so he can play on either side for sure. The only downside is the work rates guys. You look at the play styles. He has 6 different play styles with anticipate being very important in size of pass and then of course has jockey and whipped pass plus. A lot of players that used this Havertz earlier on in December in January when he was still pretty good liked his attacking capabilities because of the whipped pass plus to put in those crosses and his other passing play styles right. Well now he has a little bit more defending to him 89 defending with that boost 88 physicality with 99 jumping 94 stamina. This is a really really good left back like this is one of the SBCs turned into an evolution that makes I don't know I just think that it makes cards from earlier on in the game feel so much more fun and makes it like wow thanks EA I did this card two three months ago I've had it in my club unused for the last month or two I held on to it because I like the card and now I have the ability to upgrade it once again. I love that about specific evos not all evos are this good in that in that way and this one is now he's the number one most popular player in this but Kama Vinga if you have the Kama Vinga fire card which unfortunately now is extinct on the market as everybody goes and tries to buy him to put into the evo he looks really cracked as well with aerial plus jockey plus and of course the left back the right back positions 93 pace high 80s everywhere else almost on the card. I mean he has nine play styles guys and two play style pluses that's absolutely crazy I mean petite fits it there's a couple of other good combo evos in here as well this is an evo to honestly just kind of store away if you're not having somebody in your club right now that you want to do straight away because this could be a really good evolution to chain in the future next couple of days maybe the next couple of weeks because it is out I think for 20 days usually when evos drop yeah you have to unlock it within 20 days so might be one to keep around just in case something else drops or you're able to pack maybe one of the good informs that fit into this like Ona Batie or Basha Basha is a very very popular card who fits this evo as well if you were never able to use a version of Basha and there was a lot of hype for her earlier on in the year now you have an opportunity to do so through that evo so I'll stop yapping about the evo because you know not everybody's invested or interested in those but that's a very very good evo guys for the price and the upgrades that you get now let's talk about UCL madness for a hot second because we had two crazy games yesterday with PSG and Dortmund coming out on top so upgrades confirmed the first upgrades of these next few of this of this last quarter final round I guess have been confirmed it is PSG and it is Dortmund headed on to the semifinals and that means that Nicholas Suley and Donoruma will be getting plus one inform upgrades there are no play style pluses added yet we are still at this point of the competition where they just qualified for the semifinals which means plus one inform upgrade this Friday the other games today those players will be playing for a plus one upgrade as well crazy price fluctuations guys Pedri was 1.4 million basically max price and now he's down I believe under 500k he's 420,000 coins because Bartha lost yesterday so also what that means is we got a big upgrade on the way guys for Mukiella I did Mukiella yesterday right before the content drop to have some skin in the game and I'm so glad that I did this card is going to get a plus two because of PSG winning the game and he's going to go to a 91 rated card this 92 rated version that also is tweeting out here is the version that will likely be able to be acquired through the showdown boost evo when Mukiella gets his plus two you put him into that showdown boost evo to get that extra plus one that is a disgusting looking card PSG French links that's a right back that a lot of people are going to use he's going to have the with the whipped pass plus as well what are his uh what are his play styles I don't even remember is it like whip pass plus and um jockey no it's rapid that's going to be an insane card so that's going to be a wild card uh he probably won't be upgraded for the next couple of days you know how EA is with the showdowns they like to take their sweet time when it's the most annoying so that's one thing to be looking out for in the next couple of days in the coming days right according to ea sports let's look at the loading screen the last piece or a bit of information from yesterday kind of confirms what we already knew that champs rewards are changing on friday guys i guess we actually won't know the champs rewards and when they're changing until content on friday because that is what the loading screen counts down to usually when they update stuff we see it on thursdays but since champs is starting later on this friday that is maybe the reason why it says on the loading screen counting down until friday so that's kind of a round up of yesterday of what is going on let's talk about the meat of the video today guys the pack saving and really the question that i want to pose as we get closer and closer to team of the season and we're all probably getting a little bit uh impatient ready to try to pack these team of the season cards with packs saved up my pack snatch now was up to 25 packs saved all very high quality packs i'm not saving any player picks as i've mentioned um 85 plus 84 plus a lot of 83 tens the 86 threes back here 87 fours again we're gonna have even more um division arrivals rewards in the next day tomorrow to add to that stash as well the question is when do we need to start opening our packs or do we actually need to save for a little bit longer i want to kind of dive in a little bit to what i think this tots live promo might look like just because of kind of the vibes i'm getting from the leagues guys live tots cards sound fun and it's a lot of hype and there's going to be hype for these cards that come into the game on friday but what we've kind of mentioned already i think is going to be different about these cards is they're going to be a little bit lower rated because they are live they have the potential to grow and get upgraded based on the club's performance that they represent right but does that mean it will actually be worth opening your packs for with so many players being leaked and again in this tweet from asy foot trader who's leaking all these cards said there will be at least 11 more players with so many cards in packs guys i can already kind of see it these cards are going to be very packable especially the lower tier you know maybe some of the lower rated players like jedi robinson this buyer card hink upy maybe maybe john mcgin lofty's cheek besak vasquez i don't know what all the ratings are going to be i'm just guessing that the pack weight on the middle to lower tier is going to be super duper high and what it's going to do and what ea is going to try to do is to get us to open all of our packs in this first weekend because it's the first version of tots cards that come out everybody right now is just ready for tots they're saving packs they're ready to see team of the season blues be in these packs right i think the play though is guys to be careful with how many packs we open straight away if the pack weights very high for these live tots cards it's going to make everybody want to open their packs because the fun of packing team of the season cards is the pack weight that usually is higher than most other promos because you're packing really great cards during the regular leagues in the regular weeks of team of the season right i think they're going to start off with these cards being very highly packable to let us think that that's how it's going to be for the rest of team in the season but when we actually get the higher rated and boosted cards the real team of the season players in the next couple of weeks after this i think the pack weights not going to be as good but still people are going to want to pack them and that's where ea is going to get people to open up all their safe packs for this and then once we get to prem tots la liga tots league one bundes league a siria people are going to have a lot less packs because they've already opened right we see this almost every single year with the community team of the season ea release community tots first so many people open up their saved up packs and then they're left with not as many packs for prem tots the week after an ea makes bank on the lightning rounds right i think the lesson that we can learn here is maybe we wait and see really how good the pack weight is and how i'm guess hyped we are individually it might have to be a question you have to answer for yourself when we get to friday when we see how packable these cards are impacts the live tots cards and we see the boost on the cards how high rated they are as well then we might need to make a decision and say okay i'm going to open my packs now or i'm going to open some now and save some for later i am definitely going to be saving some for later guys because nothing hits different than the real team in the seasons some people might even start calling these live tots cards fraud blues or fraud tots cards right because yes they are a team in the seasons but if they are going to be super packable even though they're live kind of compared to like the fantasy promo right those lower tier fantasy cards we packed julie p so many times or maybe you packed poletano so many times in his first release right they were very very packable i feel like the live tots team is going to be that same way but then the second week when the real tots cards come out they're going to be higher rated more boosted up i think they're going to be a little bit less packable but that's going to kind of give us a good start to team in the season and make people feel like they can pack these tots cards and it's going to make a lot of people open too many packs this first week so that's kind of what i wanted to bring up today especially with some of the new pack code that has been released there's some pretty crazy packs that have been put out guys packs that we don't have access to right now like 87 times four is probably one of the best packs that i have in my store at the moment packs that have just been added to the code they could be related to the new season that is coming they could be related to the new footchamps rewards they could be store packs i don't think they're store packs they seem too small to be in the store but in 87 five and 88 three and 88 five and an 87 times three my guess straight off of reading this is probably new season packs they're going to come out with the new season next week that's just my guess notice it also doesn't say anything about them being untradable which i can imagine if ea is putting a pack in the code like this it could either come out as tradable or untradable but that's the type of pack that you want to be opening during team of the season so wherever those are i want to be there whether it's footchamps whether it's the season rewards that looks really really good to me and the other thing that is interesting from these added packs to the code we have an 85 times 20 and we have an 81 plus team of the week player pack which says contains one team of the week player rated 81 or higher from weeks one to 30 guys this might be this one does not say untradable i know we have the untradable team of week sbc that has been in the game for a long time could this be the first ever tradable team of the week pack of fc 24 because they have not dropped any tradable team of week packs yet this year or sbcs could this be it because today is wednesday right and last week on wednesday we had what ea told us was the final team of the week of the year is this the way that ea is going to keep requiring team of the weeks and sbcs but also keep them supplied on the market so their prices don't go crazy is this going to be a pack that gets dropped in an sbc i doubt it would be in the store but maybe is an sbc or somewhere else that is tradable that's a question that i have at this moment i don't know if it's going to be dropped today i could see it being dropped today i could also see it being dropped later on that's just something i wanted to point out to you guys and because of this news team of the weeks are dropping they are now 20 000 coins per card it's because also there's not a whole lot of demand for them and investors are starting to sell as well as they're still getting supplied because that's the only thing that's in packs right now is team of the week card so that's one thing i wanted to put a kind of just a warning honestly out for you guys i've been lazy selling some of my team of the weeks they're still selling for like 25 000 coins which i will take um but i do believe the prices could go lower unless we get something today that requires team of the weeks that's an sbc the people actually want to do last but not least this we 80 plus players pack i don't know what that is we 80 plus it's kind of funny uh we've already had 80 times fives in the game there's literally one through the daily play i think that we get every single day so i don't know what's up with the special name for a pack that we've had for a long time but that was edited to code yesterday as well now those big packs that we just talked about let's go back to this for a second the 87 583 and stuff like that as we always see during team of the season we see high rated fodder drop because the tats cards bring a lot more high rated in and push that market down the markets already pushed down so far on these cards could they go lower though i really think that they could i think i'd really be careful with 92s if i had a 92 like 92s are 62k for the cheapest one it's katoto and linaker um and you have vialli and kane at 93 and prince which who is great for sbcs at 94 rated i think i would specifically be careful with some of my 92s and 93s um just because the ones that even you think might be used in game a little bit right now they're going to end up dropping lower and they're going to be fodder because there's going to be more a lot more 90 91 92 rated team of the season cards that's going to be like that lower fodder base of the team of the season squads those are going to be on the market like crazy so i'd probably look to sell any of those that you have in the higher rated department i still don't love high rated fodder at the moment if you invest in fodder and you're seeing prices go up not a terrible time to sell ahead of the weekend with live tots just because i can see ea running a lot of lightning rounds tradable ones they've been running a lot of lightning rounds in the last couple of promos i mean guys they keep running lightning rounds right now with only team of the weak cards in packs shameless they're running uh promo pack lightning rounds i mean they're technically oh they still are no they're not out right now this isn't the global limit packs but they even dropped some of the global limit packs yesterday like crazy i don't know who's opening those but i guess if they release in them and somebody is if they keep those lightning rounds up and going for team of the season that's going to make the high rated fodder and probably a lot of the fodder in general continue to drop so last chance for fodder to rise up a little bit today before it probably drops tomorrow at division rivals rewards however there probably is not going to be that many people opening the rewards tomorrow at division rivals because of of course team of the season pack save being in full swing but i just wanted to mention fodder for a second and the situation that is going on there now last thing let's talk about wednesday today what's happening on a wednesday today on this game on core icon pick is refreshing right that's a nsbc that refreshes almost every single wednesday the sunday icon or hero pick refreshes every wednesday and this one's going to refresh here today i'm steering clear man i i got me a ham done yesterday so i'm just kind of more so putting my higher rated cards into exchanges more than anything else especially because there's only a couple days left of these exchanges fingers crossed that they do come back and return and get refreshed i think they will but you know you never know right you never know what the a sports so i'm kind of putting some higher ratings into that hitting some more player picks and still making sure i get all of my 83 times 10s done each and every day that i want to get done but if you want to hit an icon pick it is going to refresh today and likewise the daily refresh of all of the sbc's right make sure you hit your daily gold upgrades make sure you hit your 83 times 10s the 82 times 11 which is a little bit of an iq test but i'm still stacking it because you know why not that's a pack i'll probably open uh during live team of the season just because like the technically you'd have the best chance any of the e-fix packs guys i think i'm going to open those during live thoughts they're intradable and they're not league specific they're just top five league specific and in this promo team you see there's a lot of the top five league cars so i feel like the e-fix packs to kind of go back to our earlier point might be good to open during live thoughts and then any specific packs that we get for like Premier League La Liga Bundesliga maybe down the line those would be good to save for the actual team of the season week for the league that gets released that's just kind of a shout from me and something i thought about doing but i'm going to do this again before it expires i got to get that cooked up for that 85 rated squad but that's refreshing once more time today and other than that guys i mean it could be another quiet wednesday to be honest that we had a pretty crazy day yesterday maybe a player sbc maybe an upgrade pack they said we're getting something daily in the upgrade pack department really today is going to be a last day to get your rivals games in those last rewards before team of the season starts and technically the last rewards i believe as well before they refresh them next week with the new season one thing i will point out is if you want to try to save xp for the new season when it starts if you're already level 40 do not claim your weekly objectives xp it's going to refresh today or tomorrow sorry tomorrow don't claim it because that's how people can sometimes get a little bit of xp carried forward into the new season if you do not claim that for like the whole next week it's a bit annoying but it can get you some extra xp and again no team of the week coming today guys team of the week is going out of packs team week 30 the best of team of the week will stay in packs so the ambape the board mati viney karchawi right on this part of the loading screen they will stay but team of the week 30 will be going out of packs phoden cold polymer right out of packs and that will be the end of team of the weeks in fc 24 so we'll see if ea surprises us with anything today watch out for some pre content weeks of course and uh yeah market-wise i'm not buying like pretty much anything at the moment some quick flips only some lazy listing i'm just some fodder type cards only just because the market right now is pretty cooked and there are some fluctuations but i just don't feel like it's worth trading right now i'm just kind of sitting back taking a quick break right before we get into the start of team of the season so let me know down in the comments when you think you're going to be opening your packs what league of team the season you're most excited for maybe influencing when you're going to open your packs and uh any thoughts you have right now in the waiting times till we actually get to team of the season real quick i forgot about a couple things of news sbcs we actually could see soon probably between thursday and friday garasi has won bundesliga player the month that was leaked foot chef said he's going to come as an sbc in the coming days so if you're a bundesliga stuttgart fan there you go and then also the league one player the month is zagrova so he's going to be getting a player the month sbc in uh the next couple of days as well for the league one so zagrova and garasi player the months up and coming that's the info that i have for that guys i will see you in the twitch stream today that link is down below in the description catch you guys there it's been nath for account so you guys there peace out


Mr. Congressman? Yes. Thank you, sir. Does that come on in, Ms. Bundy? Yes, sir. And Congressman Teague of Texas on 9-2. You know how much trouble is that you've got on this poverty for me, but Walter indicated that if it meant the difference that you'd go there, and I appreciated it, and I'll make it up with interest. I don't know how, but I'll start tomorrow anyway in the world that I can get in with you. I sure do, because I appreciate the guts it takes. But I want you to talk to some of these folks like you that look to you. If they rule me on this one, it'd be just like when they beat Roosevelt, I'll lose my leadership to Charlie Halleck, but I'll never get that tall back. And this is the only bill I've got to have this year. They can take the rest of them. I don't care about... I want them. I'd like to have Appalachia, but they vote against it, they have to. I'd like to have ARA, but they vote against it, they have to. This one, if I don't get it, I'm in deep trouble as far as being a leader of this country is concerned, and they ought to vote against me now, and it doesn't do any good for some of these liberals to go around and say that. They can't get any votes. But if you can say it to two or three folks, you can make the difference, and we're within five votes who won in this thing. Well, Mr. President, I don't want to vote for the bill, but if my vote means the tax, then I'm going to vote for it. No, Walter told me that. Then I'll talk to... I'll offer these others, and back to how I already have. I'll run these kids out of the ears of A&M, though, with this bill. It'll be a real thing for a little rudder. I'll put enough stuff down there that I've got there. They'll be calling the old and teen college. Well, I'm talking. I've now told them that I'm on a team, and that I owe some obligation to the Democratic Party, and as bad as I'd hate to it, it's nice of me to stand up and change the vote and say I'm voting for it to pass. I'll damn sure do it. Clef and Walter told me that, and I'll never forget you, and they didn't help me with it. Joe wants to help. He's a good boy, but he's going to leave, and he's afraid some of his clients will be mad, and he doesn't want to vote for the bill to begin with. I'm not so sure. I'm talking to Joe, and I think Joe may vote for it. Well, he wants to help.  George Mayhawn's worried, and if George Mayhawn and Clark Thompson shouldn't go against me, well, then I just had it. I want you to get around that delegation talk a little. I don't want to be coming up there because they'll be calling with me. I was up until 2 o'clock last night. I've been up to New York today, but this is a vote I just can't take. I just lose all my leadership.  I guarantee you that.   Some of these liberals can't do it, but you can if you work at it, they do, and I'll give you two hours for one. For everyone you certify, you spend on me 29 Friday, I'll double it. I'll try. Thank you, Tiger. Call me and tell me what you hear and who I might be able to talk to. I'll do it. Thank you, Tiger. Hello.


My name is Charlie Schwedler. I am the executive director for senior services. So we try to do absolutely anything that a person needs, whether it's activities, whether it's meals, whether it is volunteering, just to keep people happy and keep them active and keep them from being lonely. So in regard to loneliness and health, there's an incredible connection. We see it all the time. Folks that weren't active and become active become more healthy. Folks that were really, really lonely and they become active and they come to our services. They find connections. They find people to just talk to and they just become happier. It's obvious. Every day we see it absolutely every day. The most rewarding thing for me is to see the change in people and to see folks that are happy. My name is Janice Reed. I like coming to the senior services for the companionship and the tenderness of all the people that come here. Before I came to the senior center, I didn't do anything but sit in a chair and did nothing but watch movies on television. I came here all of a sudden, just came to the senior center and walked over to a table of ladies and said, what are you playing?  And I say, well, I've played cards and they said, you know a king from an ace or you know cards? I said, yes. Well, then sit down and we'll teach you. So I started coming every day and I think what was I missing all those years? My health was declining and now it's better than it's ever been. The best thing that ever happened to me. Do all kinds of programs that are working at retaining my memory. It's a great place to be during the day. We have a whole slew of opportunities for our volunteers. We have meals on wheels drivers, transportation drivers. We have friendly visitors. We have people that go to the centers on a regular basis and help out there doing whatever needs to be done. Then I ask them, why do you continue to volunteer? And they are all, I get so much more out of it than I'm putting in. I think the benefits of volunteering are just huge. It makes you feel good. It makes you live longer. That's something that's been proven, I think, in the research. And I think it gives people a connection with their fellow man. We couldn't do what we do without our volunteers. My name is Dan Thurlow. I'm the volunteer. I volunteer for Meals on Wheels, Team Handyman and Shared Food Driver. The first time that I went in on Meals on Wheels, you go through this door into where the food is prepared and two of the prepared there are many. I looked up and right away greeted me as if I had been there for many times. And each time we'd go through the door, I became more aware that everybody was that way. Everybody was just glad that you're there to help. It lights up their day because you care. The joy that they have for albeit that minute that will last hours after everybody's left and they're all alone again. I think we need to really appreciate, someday that could be us. Something I never thought I'd be doing and I'd totally enjoy it as much as I do. We can make connections and feel better.


So this is the Vanguard Way marathon. I did this four years ago. It was my longest time ever for Americans. So let's see how it goes today. We are in Lloyd Park in Croydon. This is South London. We're going to do a 13 miles out through the fields, the parks, the woodland, all the way out south of London. We're going to cross the M25 motorway and then we're going to turn round and come exactly the same way back to Lloyd Park. 40 minutes gone and we are four and a half miles, seven kilometres in to the Vanguard Way marathon. Beautiful little wooded area here. Very steep hill. You've got to be careful on your way down it. Easy to slip. But look how beautiful it is here. Even with the M25 below us. Kilometers into the Vanguard Way marathon. One hour 46 minutes and there's first and second place in the marathon. Just gone past on the way back. Okay steepest, toughest climb on the Vanguard Way marathon. We came down it earlier on. Now it's payback time. Two hours 35 in. 26 kilometres done. So 29 kilometres done of the Vanguard Way marathon. Two hours 57 minutes. So final aid station, well first aid station and third aid station. Hi guys. So we are socially distanced. We are filling up our own crops. 37 kilometres into the Vanguard Way marathon. So four or five to go. Might be just under a marathon. And the time is three hours 49 minutes. Beginning to flag a bit now. But I think I'm in seventh position. But the guy behind isn't far behind me. So I've just got to keep an eye on navigation now. Make sure I know where I'm going. Vanguard Way marathon done. So that's it from Lloyd Park in Croydon at the Vanguard Way marathon. First official run of mine at least since the UK lockdown began. Finished in seventh place which you can't complain about. Top ten is alright isn't it? In four hours fifteen and it was at least an hour and five or ten minutes faster than the last time I did it.  Here come two finishers coming in. Well done guys. Great job. And that's it from Film by Run. Take care. We'll see you for another marathon, another ultra, another crazy adventure next time. Bye bye.


Hello everybody. Happy Friday, January 20th. Tomorrow is obviously Saturday, January 21st and it is the start, the kickoff of our 60 day shadow work challenge. So many people, hundreds of people have emailed me and received the template and are ready to go with these 60 days. If you have not emailed me yet and you still would like to participate, it's never too late. You can email me 40 days in, 20 days in, 60 days in, and I'll still send you the template because this is very important work. It never ends. The work never ends. We had such a successful 30 day challenge back in November. I can't wait to see what unfolds with this 60 days. 60 days is a lot and there are so many people who have contributed to this challenge, especially, I want to give a very special thank you to Emmy Simpson from Holistic Genie with Emmy as well as Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa. Both of those two ladies contributed a lot to this challenge and it really, really, really helped me out and I'm so excited where they were willing to contribute as much as they did because they are both very, they're powerhouses in their own modalities of healing and I'm so excited that you're going to experience some of their words and some of their prompting with you during this time for you to get to know yourself. Now, last 30 day challenge for those of you who did the 30 day challenge, you know that I did a video every single day of the 30 days to help prompt you through the 30 days because this is a 60 day challenge. I will not be doing a video every single day on the 60 day channel. Of course, the regular videos I do will still be released that have nothing to do with the challenge, but I'll only be updating you guys every week or every few days. Now, when we get to a very intense part of the challenge, especially Emmy section and Shanti section, I'll be bringing them back on the channel to be talking you through some stuff as well. And I really, really highly suggest that if you are not subscribed to their channels that you go ahead and subscribe to both Holistic Genie with Emmy as well as Aquarius Rising Africa and Solutions by Aquarius Rising Africa to make the most out of your learning process and the support that you need and the help you need from all of the sponsors. Go ahead and subscribe to every single one of the sponsors just so that you have that help as you make your way through yourself. We also had a lot contributed by Catherine Edwards, which you're going to see. I'm going to go through the first few days with you in a minute. We had a lot contributed by Catherine Edwards. We also have a video on the first day that was given to us by Holly, who is someone who works with Emmy a lot as a healer. And I have put her channel up in the opening letter. So I hope that you'll go ahead and subscribe to Holly's channel too. She's a healer as well. And so you have a plethora of videos and support to help you get through this time. As I've said over and over again, and I will reiterate over and over and over again, if at any time this work does get too much, if you feel like it's a little bit too much and you're feeling overwhelmed, please reach out to someone, whether that be a trusted therapist or a healer like a Reiki healer, you know, whatever you feel like you need. There's no shame in getting help. We all get help. I've had loads of help in my 17 years on this journey. So please, please, please, if it feels like it's overwhelming and it's too much, reach out to someone. With that being said, let's go ahead and take a little peek at the 60-day challenge at the beginning part of the 60-day challenge. Let's see here. Let me go all the way back up to the beginning. You can tell I've been sending this out and copying and pasting. So once again, you have your opening letter here. They are challengers for the next 60 days. Esoteric Atlanta and Friends will be hosting a global shadow work challenge. This challenge will last 60 days and each day will hold a few activities for you to do to help you in your journey of self-healing, self-discovery, and self-empowerment. I'm so excited that you've decided to do this. Please know that all of these activities are for you and your experience only. No one will be watching you judging you or reading any of your journal entries. This is simply a private experience for you and you alone. Since you have submitted yourself to do this challenge, your name will go into a raffle to potentially win prizes at the end of this challenge. These prizes consist of access to workout websites, tarot card private readings provided by Stephanie Schapp, healing treatments with Emmy, courses provided by Katherine Edwards and Aquarius Rising Africa, and a private lesson with me. I didn't offer that last time, but I'm offering it this time. Winners will be picked at random, but the biggest reward of all is seeing just how strong you truly are by doing this challenge for yourself. It is recommended that the exercise portion of the daily challenge be done first thing in the morning before breakfast and before the start of your day. But if this is not doable for you now, you can do the exercise at whatever time of the day works best for you. Okay, so don't be beholden to that. Yes, we want you working out first thing in the morning because of Ramamortha and it helps get set you up and your stomachs empty, so it helps the blood flow to the muscles better and helps you become more raw and real with your emotions. But if that is not okay for you right now, then that's fine. If working out in the afternoon is better for you than do it in the afternoon, just do what works for you. Okay, please know that this challenge is nearly a template of what you can do to jumpstart your shadow work. With that being said, if a day passes and you don't get in all the activities, don't stress.  Don't stop because you had one bad day.  For the ladies who are practicing in this challenge for the first couple of days of your cycle, you might want to either rest or do a cycle-based exercise. Here is a link you can substitute on your cycle if you decide to do so. Always, as always, this is totally your choice. So here's those links. If you need a warm-up before your daily exercises, a link to my sun salutations and hip opening stretches are available during the daily exercises. Please note, if you have lower back issues, that's a common issue, hip opening stretches will help. Please try to do them before you proceed with your daily workout. I do hip opening stretches before I do my practice every morning. It just helps my body get the blood flowing, get my tight stuff to start unsticking so it can move more fluidly during the practice. For pregnancy, please be mindful. Depending on where you are, your pregnancy, you might want to only do the bar exercises, replacing them with the more cardio exercises on other days. What you will need for this challenge is the Internet, which I know you all have because you're watching me now, a journal. Castor oil, if you wish to participate in the Friday night oil baths, such as an optional Friday night thing, oil baths. I will put a link down in the description box below of me talking about oil baths so that you have a better idea of why you're actually doing or have the option to do the oil baths. There is one video with the option of a two to three pound hand weights. Please note that this particular video can be done without weights or you can substitute weights with soup cans or water bottles, etc. Find the resistant networks for you. You might want to take a before photo on day one of the challenge and an after photo on the final day of the challenge so you can see how your body changed during the 60 days for your eyes only. This is optional. I personally advise against weighing. That's my personal belief. Now, I know some people can handle weighing. I know that a lot of people get very addicted to the numbers on the scales and I want you to understand that numbers on the scale is just your gravitational pull to the earth, right? They mean nothing. What means something is what's happening emotionally and internally for you and the more you start to shed the emotional weight, the body weight's going to just naturally fall off, right? And how strong you're feeling you. Your body can change and look so much healthier without one pound being lost because you've transmuted the fat to muscle, right? So don't, if weighing is an issue for you, don't weigh, okay? The numbers on the scales do not define the internal and emotional work being done, but it's always this up to you. So, but if you can handle weighing and not get attached to the numbers, then that's fine. Totally up to you. If the trauma work becomes too overwhelming, as I previously said in this channel, please reach out for help. Again, this is just meant to be something to start your own personal work. If it becomes a lot, please reach out to a trusted therapist or healer to help you navigate. If you have any issues, issues pulling up links, please copy and paste them into your YouTube tab. Please note that I will be posting each day's challenges in the evening before on Esoteric Atlanta's community tab. For example, January 21st, tomorrow's challenge is going to be posted today on my community tab with this opening letter so that you have a reference point. During this challenge, there will also be optional book club run by Nicole and Emmy. If you wish to join the book club, here are the two books that will be read during the two months. Nicole and Emmy are in charge of the scheduling for this book club. So here's the signal, the link, it's in your opening letter to that signal group. And the first book of course we've talked about is polishing the mirror. The second book is walking each other home. There will also be an optional fast towards the end of this challenge. This fast is going to be run by Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa. Again, this is optional. If fasting is not for you, a cleanse will also be presented, a kitschery cleanse, okay? Please keep your health up priority.  It is advised that you not do the fast or do the cleanse. Please note that fasting or cleansing is not for weight loss and nor should ever be used for weight loss. So let me explain this a little bit. So yes, we want to trigger your triggers during the shadow work. But if triggering your triggers, if you have disordered taking in a food, I'll say so I don't trigger the algorithms on YouTube, doing something like a fast is probably not going to help you. It's probably going to end up hurting you and feeding into the disorder, okay? So only do fasting if you have that type of disorder. Only do fasting when you really know you've worked through it and do it with a medical professional helping you so that you're not gaslighting yourself, your ego's not tricking you, all that kind of stuff. So we have to be very careful with that. But again, take your health into your own hands. There will also be a 21-day Sun Salutation Challenge within the 60-day Challenge starting on February 27th. This challenge is like all things optional. Once we get closer to February 27th, we will release a template for those who want to practice or participate. If you decide not to do the Sun Salutation Challenge, there are other exercises listed on those days. You can also do the Sun Salutation Challenge on top of the Challenge Exercise listed in this template. This of course depends on your level of fitness. Shanti from Aquarius Rising Africa will also be leading the Sun Salutation Challenge. If you would like to join the Esoteric Atlanta Signal Support Group, please follow the link below. All right, here are all the participating challenges. So please make sure you're subscribed to everybody on this list. Good luck and have the best 60 days ever.  Never forget that. So for more information and tips from our last Shot of Work Challenge to help you with this challenge, there is the link to that playlist. Lots of love, Bryce. That's me from Esoteric Atlanta. So bonus challenge. This is from Katherine Edwards. And this is something for us for you to be thinking about and contemplating throughout the whole 60 days. So I say to work on during the challenge, share and share in the Signal Support Group if desired. Really think about this during the duration of the challenge from Katherine. One, in the spirit of all sharing our knowledge, every person spends one day researching something that will improve the health and well-being of others. Write up bullet point notes and share. It could be a natural remedy, how to use an herb, essential oils, how to preserve, how to make something homemade, for example, soap, a healthy habit, how to save water, mend something, anything that others can incorporate into their lives. After the challenge is over, we hope to put this all together on one large board. Two, share your three focus points of 2023. They can be personal or collective. Basically, this would be to really focus on what we as a collective do want to happen.  This will help every person in the challenge move forward collectively as well as personally. All right. So day one, which is tomorrow. So super important guys. Today, so tomorrow, Saturday, January 21st, M.A. Simpson will be doing a group Reiki class. This class will help you establish your intention and prepare your energy for the 60 days to come in this work. If you would like to participate, this class starts at 2 p.m. Eastern time. I don't believe this is going to be recorded. It's just going to be working with Emmy to help you set yourself up. The link is provided here in the template. So this is something you want to do at 2 p.m. Eastern time. So make sure you choreograph that or coordinate with that with your own time zone. So if you are in the central time, that's going to be 1 p.m. for you. If you're in mountain time, that's 12 p.m. for you. So forth, so forth, so forth. If you're in the UK, that's five hours ahead. So that's 7 p.m. your time. So just make sure you're looking at these times so that you're coordinating them with wherever you are in the world. So we have coordinated this 60 day challenge to end on March 21st, two days before the 23rd. March 23rd is a very important astrological day for us globally. We normally would not start a challenge on a rest day. This particular challenge is the exception. If you feel you need to take a 40 to 60 minute walk today, you may do so. The two days leading up to the 23rd post challenge will be up to you to design to help you gain more autonomy leading up to the 23rd of March. So have faith that over 60 days, you will have a better grip on what you need to do to continue your own shadow work. The teacher's job, listen, super important lesson here, the teacher's job is to eventually not be needed. So my job is to eventually step away and let you do this yourself on your own. Now, with that being said, you are always welcome to ask your teacher's questions moving forward. I still ask my teacher's questions. I've been doing this for 17 years and every single day now for most of my years, me doing this myself, but there are times that I have to go and ask my teachers for some advice or for some guidance. So it doesn't mean you don't ever seek out further education or guidance. It just means that my job is to help you become more autonomous and so that you can do this by yourself. So on this Self Study Saturday, rest day, your challenge is to mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically get yourself prepared for the work at hand. For more information, I've put some videos up here, the shadow side of being a healer with Holly and I'm so excited. Holly is doing this. She's an incredible healer. She works with Emmy a lot and her channel is right here. Right here is Holly's channel. So make sure you're subscribed to her because she has so many great videos of talks and stuff to do that can really help you get yourself through these next 60 days. We also have a video here, a very real and raw conversation with Emmy and Bryce and the Dark Knight of the Soul and India stories right here. Okay. So that's stuff you can watch to kind of really help you get your mind around what you are embarking on. So for yourself, study, research, shadow work, what is shadow work? What is the shadow side? Why is working through your triggers important for your growth spiritually? How is exercise an integral part of shadow work? Right? Please journal your research and ask yourself some personal questions. Why are you doing this challenge? What do you hope to accomplish during this channel? What is your intention? And that could literally be, I have no idea why I'm doing this challenge. I just thought it would be fun or interesting. Like there's no correct answer here. Nobody's going to be reading your journals. You don't have to answer all the questions. These questions I just put out are prompting you to start writing and start digging into yourself. Okay. So you don't have to answer all of them. It's just something to get your mind going. All right. Is there something you're nervous about regarding this challenge? What are you aware or what are you most resistant to regarding this challenge? What are you most excited about in this challenge? So what about this challenge scares you the most? And what are you the most excited about before you go to bed tonight? Go ahead and lay out your workout clothes for tomorrow. This is all a well known secret in the yoga world. Your morning practice actually starts the night before. Okay. That's a very well known secret in our little yoga community. Your morning practice starts the night before. And I do this. I lay out my yoga clothes. I lay out right on my dresser right below the TV every night. I lay them out for me to get up in the morning and just put them on. Okay. So your morning practice or morning workout if you're not a yoga always starts the night before by getting your clothes ready. You start to prepare your mind for the next morning. Turn off all electronics one hour before bed instead. Read a book or write more in your journal. Go to bed before 10 p.m. Bonus challenge which you'll have these things will be true every single day. Drink 64 ounces of water today to help detox from the exercise. If you're a meat eater, can you try to go without meat today? Replacing it with veggies. Take a pot bath with salts before bed. Try to relax into the bath allowing the muscles and the mind more importantly to unwind. Day two, Sunday, January 22nd. So for Sunday, Sunday, Monday during this challenge as in the last challenge, Sunday will be filled with fun exercises. The good time to get your family together or take time alone to dance or walk. This is a time to experiment with finding the joy in exercise. This is especially important for those who don't like to exercise and have a bad relationship with exercise. So if you're someone who is very resistant to doing any type of workout, there's a trigger for you. Why are you resistant to exercise? What is it about exercise that triggers you? Okay and the Sunday, Monday is going to kind of revolve like showing you the joy of exercise too to help change your perspective on what exercise really is. So I have here exercise. Please select the one that's appropriate for you. Warm up for both beginner and experienced. Here is the hip opening exercise. Beginners. We have a Zumba dance class for beginners. Ten minutes. I told you there was going to be more selections for exercises in this template versus the 30-day template. We also have Jane Fonda's low impact aerobics. That's 45 minutes or you can just choose to do 15-minute sun salutations with me. Experienced people who've been doing this for a while. You could do Richard Swimmons sweat into the oldies for 60 minutes or for both experienced and beginner challenges, take a brisk walk outside for 60 minutes. You could either do this alone with your friends or family. Just make sure to have fun and I also have an option here. So as a lot of you guys know, I am now offering my live classes that I do at my Sunday classes and in studio classes at Sacred Garden Yoga. I do it 8.30 Eastern time. So that's Eastern time every Sunday. And so you're welcome. Here is the link so you can register to the class. If you would like to participate in my Sunday morning half primary Ashtanga classes at Sacred Garden Yoga, you could sign in virtually to be on Zoom. Now once again with Ashtanga Yoga, I want you to make sure you are super familiar with the half primary series before signing up for this class. Okay. And we're going to be looking at the half primary series again during this challenge with Ashtanga nurse. So for Sunday journal questions to ask, have you ever considered exercise to be fun? Is this a new concept for you? How did it feel to raise your heart today? What emotions did you feel post exercise? What emotions did you feel pre-exercise? All right. Again, once again, before you go to bed tonight, go ahead and lay out all your workout clothes for tomorrow. This is a well, again, a well-known secret.  Day three, which is Monday, January 23rd. I feel like during the week, the first week of the challenges when shit starts getting real, right? So exercise, please select one that's appropriate for you. So warm up for both beginners and experienced. There's the hip warm up for both beginners and experienced challengers. Try to start your exercise program by doing five Surya Namaskar A and three Surya Namaskar B. If this is too much for you in the beginning, just do the beginner exercises for the first week and then try to add in the Surya Namaskar A and B next week. So here's a link to my video of the Sun Salutations. And then we have beginner exercise, eight-minute bar exercise with Marnie Alton. Experienced, we have the 45-minute bar exercise with Marnie Alton. Or you can do a 60-minute bar with Fit by Lori note. She does use hand weights in this video, but you can always opt to do the workout without the weight. So she's a different bar teacher. There's quite a difference between her and Marnie Alton. I of course, Lori is great. I think she's fantastic. And so I added her into the challenge, but I of course am partial to Marnie Alton. But I wanted to give you guys a different, so you can see the difference between the two bar teachers. Sometimes one teacher is going to say something that you, that you go, aha, light, lighting, lightning bolt moment, right? Where another teacher's been saying it forever and never like hit you right. So I wanted to add her into so that you guys can experience her as well. Journal questions to ask yourself, if you did this first thing in the morning, how did it affect the rest of your day? What was the experience of the bar class like? Did you feel any emotions come up in the class? If so, what were they? Can you explore those emotions more privately? If this is your second time in the challenge, you did the 30-day challenge. How are you feeling this time in comparison to the last challenge? If this is your second time, which exercise selection did you pick and why? So if this is your second time in the challenge and you pick the beginner exercise, why did you do that? There's no wrong answer. You could have really needed the beginner exercise this morning. Maybe you were tired. Maybe there was something emotional at eight minutes was all you could handle. But I want you to explore that. Or did you pick the beginner exercise because you knew it was only eight minutes and not 45 minutes or an hour? See if you can see where the artful Dodger is sneaking in. Only you can answer that. All right. Day four, Tuesday, you're going to repeat the same exercise at the same selections as the day before. I repeat exercises a lot, even though there's lots of different exercises in this challenge. There'll be a few days where you're repeating the same exercise. This is done intentionally. So day four new challenge during your morning shower, try to make the water cold for the last five minutes of your shower to help with inflammation and blood flow. So you're also going to be looking into cold therapy or cryotherapy today, why I'm having you take a cold shower. Here's some links. Here's a link with Gwynne Hof. So journal, were you sore today? If so, how did the soreness affect your workout? What emotions did the soreness invoke in you today? It's okay to exercise when you're sore. If you don't exercise because you're sore, that's your ego. That's the artful Dodger. Every single person who has a daily workout program has most of the days they work out their sore. I've been sore for now 17 years. So that's not an excuse not to exercise. Did new emotions pop up today different from yesterday? If so, what were they? How did going to bed before 10pm affect your sleep and your energy levels the next day? Surprisingly, that was one of the biggest feedbacks I got from people from the 30 day that making themselves go to bed before 10 really changed them. And so I'm curious to see how that happens in the 60 day. What was the five minute cold shower like? Were you able to breathe through it? Is cold therapy new for you during the course of this challenge? Notice how your body starts to respond to the cold shower. Does inflammation go down for you? Do you have more energy during the day? How does this cold shower affect your mood? List five things you like about yourself. Same closing for the day. Day five, Wednesday.  So you can warm up with the sun salutations, have openers and you have the beginner, 20 minute beginner, our strong yoga or the half primary, which again, this is the link to the half primary I want you to be very familiar with before you start coming to my live classes. Alright, so during your morning shower, try to make the water cold for the last five minutes of your shower to help with inflammation and blood flow. So once again, how was your soreness today? How was yoga different from bars? So start to notice the subtle differences between how your body and your nervous system responds from one exercise to another exercise. We're going to look at this deeper and deeper and deeper as we go into the challenge. What is bar pull up for you? What is yoga pull up for you? What is kickboxing pull up for you? What is dance pull up for you? These are all different activations of the body that are going to invoke different responses. And that's something for you to get to know about yourself. Okay, does yoga pull up different emotions from the bar? How is the five minute cold shower affecting you? How is going to bed before 10 affecting you? List five things you like about yourself and list three things you want to work on. Alright, look three people in the eyes and smile at them today. Same closing for the day. Thursday, you're once again, let's see you're doing, you can either do, we've got the same warm up, alright. Or you can do beginner 20 minute ashtanga yoga with Ashtanga nurse or the 30 minute bar class with Marni or try them both together. Experience, you can do the half primary series with Ashtanga nurse or you can do the 60 minutes with Lori with the weights with bar. Okay, so same thing. Do you guys kind of get a feel for this, right? Now for Thursday, you have a new challenge. Do one thing today to help another person. This could be opening the door for someone to buying someone lunch or donating clothes to charity or simply telling someone how beautiful they look etc. No kind task is too small. Look through people in the eyes and smile at them. Same closing for the night and then again Friday. So this is your last day of exercise before your Saturday rest day. All Saturdays are rest days. So you're going to do the same warm up, same beginner options and experienced ops and journaling and then you have your oil bath optional for Friday night to get information to help you rest on Saturday. And again, I will put that video down in the description box below if you're curious about the oil bathing. Alright, you guys, let me know if you have any questions. We will touch back in a couple of days to see how you guys are doing. Again, if you're totally new and you don't have the template yet, it's never too late. If you know family and friends who want to join next week or the week after or whenever, just have them email me. It's never too late to join. It's never too late to start. You'll just shift the dates basically, right? So anyway, I hope you guys are doing well and I cannot wait to see how this turns out. You are the storm. You got this. The best is yet to come. Bye, you guys.


The Cube at OpenStack Summit Atlanta 2014 is brought to you by Brocade. Say goodbye to the status quo and hello to Brocade. And Red Hat. Here are your hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman. Hey, welcome back everyone here at Live in Atlanta for OpenStack Summit. This is The Cube, our flagship program. We go out to the events, and instruct the students from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the founder of SiliconANGLE. I'm joined by my co-host, Stu Miniman, analysts at Wikibon.org, and our next guest is Cube alum and frequent guest. We've done a couple OpenStack events at San Francisco. Randy Byas, the CEO of Cloud Scaling. Great to see you again, welcome back. Thanks for having me, John. So OpenStack's happening. It's the real deal. Things are coming together. Big board meeting, technical committee last night. You can't really talk about it. We'll try to poke at you. There's always been kind of the API debate. We had the thing on Neutron in San Francisco. Real active community. So I really want to get your perspective on a couple things.  It's 4,200 people, almost double in size from Portland. Clearly the developer community is galvanized around OpenStack. It is the future of Cloud here, and the enterprise and service providers. But they're still being built up. The foundation's being set with hearing about the trough of this losement, ramping up into reality now. And so I got to get your take on what's happening. What do you see as the key momentum shifts up into the right here for OpenStack? Yeah, so I think when we are kind of talking to our customers about it, we look at OpenStack as having evolved from kind of a science project into a mature open source project that has a number of different vendors that are building products around it, and that the enterprise is going to really be successful at consuming by going to those vendors, trusted vendors, and basically working with them to get an OpenStack deployment up and running. So I've been here since the very beginning, even before OpenStack, working on Cloud, and we've seen just a lot of failures, right? And unless you're prepared to really invest into doing it yourself, it doesn't really make sense. The way I like to think about it is, OpenStack isn't like downloading MySQL and turning it on, turning on a database with a couple of commands. It's more like downloading the Linux kernel and building your own Linux distribution. That doesn't really make sense for most businesses to be in that particular business. You're really referring to a product versus platform. Product versus platform, that's right. And challenges there, people have learned and avoid now with the kind of that position. As a platform, what should folks be thinking about in terms of embracing OpenStack, whether it's an enterprise CIO or a service provider? Well, the big thing that we see is that if you comment this and you're trying to get sort of a cheaper VMware, you're going to run into a lot of problems or run into a lot of roadblocks, because the reality is that something like VMware is doing a pretty good job of what it does inside the enterprise today, which is supporting a number of legacy applications that were designed in kind of the pre DevOps era. If you look at where OpenStack really shines, it's for the same kinds of workloads that exist on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform today, which is applications that have been designed in that DevOps model and are actually architected to route around failures. So they notice when there's failures in the underlying infrastructure, and that's why somebody like Netflix can have a four, five, nine app running on a two and a half nine infrastructure. And we think that enterprises, if they really want to see success, are going to actually take something like OpenStack and use it to support these next generation applications, which in the next five years there will be as many next gen apps as there are legacy applications today. So Randy, if you think about the enterprise, they're used to buying solutions. Most of them aren't good at taking the pieces and rolling it up together because it takes too much time and takes too much expertise. And most IT staffs have kind of flat to negative budgets and they're already overworked. We spend, they spend 70, 80% of their budgets on keeping the lights on. If we look at OpenStack, there's dozens of distributions out there. I think you called it in one of your articles that it's the open snowflake that we have out there. So if we're going to have the solution be repeatable and delivered broadly, what do you think we really need to see? Well, first of all, I just want to make sure but it's clear that like OpenSnowflake applies to things besides OpenStack. You know, I remember talking to the Stradius guys before they were acquired by Dell and they were having the same problems supporting multiple different cloud stack installations because different architecture choices had been chosen when it was deployed. The problem isn't really about the software. The problem is about the architecture. When you go and you take a piece of open source software that's this complicated, it distributes a software system that's designed to build a private cloud at scale and you have to make a certain number of design decisions as you're going through the deployment process because it is a platform, you can use it for a number of different kinds of things. And so what the networking choices you make, the storage choices you make, the hypervisor choices you make, all of the choices that you make in aggregate create an architecture and if you made significantly different choices from the guy next door to you, it doesn't matter that your software is the same. Conversely, if you have completely different software and you make very similar choices, you wind up with systems that are almost identical. You look at Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform today and they're semantically, architecturally and behaviorally almost identical. It's like looking at the same system but they have a different API and they're written with completely different software. It's just that they largely made all the same design choices. And so open stack as a platform, it has no reference architecture.  That's why somebody like Cloud Scaling made a decision that the reference architecture is Amazon and Google and just to use that. And what we'll see is we'll see a number of different flavors like we have in the Linux distribution world that are designed to solve different problems for the enterprise, for HPC, and so on. And then enterprises will adopt one of those flavors and within the flavor there will be high levels of interoperability. All right, so Randy, you said that if people are just thinking that they're, say, gonna do something like VMware but it's cheaper. That's really not what open stack is for. Where do you really see that the big opportunity is the customer's gonna save money? Is it the agility? Where is the big opportunity? It's all about agility. Saving money is a side effect, right?  You're still trying to reduce the cost of your data center instead of generating new opportunity. I mean, we've moved into a world now. I think it was Forrester, their analyst, Craig Leclerc, who said that basically over the past 10 years, 70% of the Fortune 1000 have turned over because they were unable to adapt to change. And that is a sign of the times, the era where we have these big, gigantic companies that are incumbents that can sort of sit on their structural advantage like as an oil company or steel company or something like that is gone. Almost all companies today are starting to realize no matter what industry they're in, that they're a technology business first and they're in their vertical second. And they have to use technology to get strategic competitive advantage and that if they don't do that, then their competitors will and they'll be taken out to the woodshed. And so I think what this is about is understanding that OpenStack's the foundation for that next generation modernized software-defined data center that will allow them to drive new value faster into the business and stay relevant. Do you see OpenStack as an extension of kind of the software-defined meme that's going around then? No, I actually hate to use the software-defined meme. It's just a fancy way to talk about cloud when you're one of the enterprise vendors, three-letter ticker symbol who feels threatened by cloud, right? So it's not software-defined, whatever, it's the same thing as cloud. Really, containers are all the rage now with Docker. How do you see that impacting OpenStack or at the past layer, certainly Cloud Foundry versus Pivotal, you got to see Red Hat promoting it heavily. HP didn't really talk about containers in their announcement. Do you see that as a big part of this debate or conversation? Yeah, so in full disclosure, I'm an advisor to Docker, so I want to make sure I've got some skin in the game on this, but one of the things that we saw really happen over the past 10 years is just this big shift away from virtualization, especially in the past three to four years. And the reason is that if you look at next generation applications, cloud-native applications, they're actually designed in sort of a scale-out, multi-core way. A lot of virtualization was built around the era where the applications, say like SharePoint, was single-core, single-threaded application that could only use four gigs of RAM, sticking on a gigantic box, and suddenly there's all kinds of unused space. And that's sort of what drove the server consolidation meme. But we're now entering into an era where you've got workloads like Hadoop, scale-out, Java applications, Python, Ruby, all of these things that can actually use up 16 cores, 128 gigs of RAM on a single box without breaking a sweat. So virtualization and that kind of situation actually adds a lot of overhead that doesn't make sense. And I don't know if people saw it, but there was actually a blog post that went out in the OpenStack ecosystem a couple of days ago, I think Friday. I can't recall the name. And the gentleman was doing performance comparison between Docker and KBM. And in some cases it's incredibly dramatic, especially for like database workloads. So I think there's a lot of good reasons to go to containers or to go to bare metal on demand and see kind of those as sort of alternatives to virtualization. Still always going to have virtualization, but you're also going to have containers and bare metal as alternatives and you're going to mix and match depending on the workload. So you've got the big guys coming in, obviously IBM and HP, big commitments in terms of dollars, in terms of ecosystem support, in terms of code, red hat out there. What's your take on the big guys in terms of the balance between organic community growth and the big leaders coming in into the sandbox? I mean, it's a tricky question. You know, on one hand the big guys are great because they validate the space. They really help the enterprises understand that OpenStack matters and it's really going to be their future. It's the new Linux of their sort of, you know, cloud operating system they're going to put in their new modernized data center. And so that really helps. On the other hand, you know, what we've seen today is that the vast majority of large enterprises aren't actually innovators. I mean, the whole reason that startups exist and are very successful is that startups tend to be the place where the innovation happens and then they're acquired by large players who then roll up their offerings into it.  It was nine months late each time when it came out, nobody was happy with it, even VMware. Now it's deprecated and they're basically not pushing it anymore. And so, you know, that's a very common kind of thing to happen. And so I think that the big guys are doing a lot to validate the markets based and improve the code quality and to, you know, make a platform for OpenStack better. But, you know, I'm not seeing a lot of innovation from them around the product. So for example, you know, if you look at OpenStack today, a key shortcoming is the networking stack, which, you know, in my opinion, is unacceptable for any enterprise to deploy into the default networking options.   Randy, can you help us unpack the state of OpenStack in the hybrid cloud environment? If I look at some of the players here, you know, IBM's got SoftLayer, HP made a big announcement last week and they've got their HP public cloud. You know, Rackspace can either host your environment or they can help you with the private. So, you know, most of the big guys have both, you know, an on-premise solution that they're helping build as well as kind of some service provider or public offering.  Yeah, so, we see hybrid as being the future. When we look at pretty much everybody that we talk to in the enterprise, even financial services, everything one of those folks is really thinking about hybrid cloud, even if it's in the future and they want a hybrid cloud solution. And the problem is that, you know, when people say they want hybrid cloud, what they really mean is they want application portability. If you boil it all the way down, you want to be able to define and deploy and manage application on multiple environments and have it be and act and look the same. Now, this sort of gets to the heart of the problem which is that most of the people who are pushing hybrid cloud today haven't come at it with the same kind of nuanced kind of thinking that we have. They're just seeing hybrid cloud and they're just mashing any two clouds together. And if you don't have matching performance, if you don't have matching SLAs, if you don't have a matching architecture, you get into real problems. So for example, you know, Rackspace really pushes their hybrid cloud capabilities, but their public cloud has virtual machines that default to having two network interfaces on them and their private cloud operating system has a virtual machine that defaults to having one nick on it. One private cloud uses Zen or the public cloud uses Zen, the private cloud uses KBM and so on. And there's just a ton of fundamental differences. The reference architectures for their two clouds are hybridizing aren't the same. And when we've gone in and talked to customers and pointed that out, they said, yeah, that creates a problem. I can't get application portability. And I think that's really sort of what is happening here is that a lot of the big guys haven't figured out what does hybrid cloud mean if you really boil it down to the technical realities? Yeah, do you think we'll get there, Randy? Wikibon did a survey a year ago and we asked customers, do you want that same environment in your private environment as your public? And they said, yes. And then when you poked, of course, what do you have? Say what's your public environment? AWS, and what's your private environment? It's VMware. So they talk about that's the nirvana state that we want to get to, but the reality on the ground is people are moving in a lot of different directions. We're hopefully breaking down some of the old silos on specific bespoke architectures for specific applications, but there's a lot of work to get IT to take their application portfolio and create some kind of standardization. Yeah, well, that comes down to the fundamental disconnect and misunderstanding about what cloud is and where the value is, right? If you have a VMware environment, that's, I mean, I think it's a stretch to call that a private cloud, no offense to VMware. I think that's a virtualization platform, which could be an element of a private cloud, but it's a single, small individual element. So cloud is not about virtual machines. I mean, we've established this years and years and years ago. Cloud is about bringing the new IT paradigm that the web scale folks like Google and Amazon and Twitter have created and bringing it down into the enterprise that are using the same techniques like something like Hadoop is clearly a cloud technology and it's just a recreation of Google's MapReduce technology with its same reference architecture. That is core cloud technology. And so, if you were trying to take your virtualization platform and hybridize it with Amazon, you got a whole ton of problems. First of all, the kinds of applications that go in those two systems are fundamentally different, right? One's designed around DevOps style and routes around failure and the other's a legacy application that assumes that the infrastructure is always there, highly available and is going to prop it up. And so, you just can't come at it from that point of view. So I think we're at today is that people are starting to understand that they need a net new private cloud system that's designed and looks like Amazon web services and certainly that's where we're seeing success and then that system can more easily be hybridized with an Amazon or Google cloud platform. Yeah, so that makes sense. So I got to ask you, what are some of the workloads that are popular running on the clouds right now in this net new cloud? Because obviously Amazon's pretty clear in the enterprise in those guys. They know what they run on there. It's the shadow IT market. They're trying to be more enterprise. But what are some of the most popular workloads running on the clouds now? And what's emerging? So any web application basically is a great fit. The way I like to think about it is that if you got to share nothing architecture that was designed kind of anytime after 1999, that that's almost always a good fit and maybe with a little bit of work on the cloud. Basically, if I had to boil it down the key to finding characteristic of all of these systems is that the application is taking responsibility for itself. It deploys itself onto the cloud. It scales itself up and down. It monitors its own progress. It looks for failures and routes around them. The other sort of emerging places are like social and mobile. A lot of people are doing social analytics and things like this. Sometimes you're using big data platforms for that. And the other is mobile, right? There's sort of this API in the sky kind of effect happening now. You want to go and you want to engage with a customer based on Facebook or iOS or Android, then you've got to develop an application. You've got to push it onto those platforms. And then almost always that application has sort of a back end that's in the cloud that it needs to talk to in order to push data backwards and forwards and do correlation and things like this. How are customers choosing cloud providers? I mean, is there a groove swing at this point? Is there key things that you see in terms of it? Is it simply I want to consult with it? What are you seeing in terms of how they're making decisions? Do you mean a public cloud provider or both? Or it could be the, like you said, the net new. I want to tinker with it. I want a little bit of Amazon. I want a hybrid. I mean, the hybrids are the action. So there's no doubt about that. I agree with you on that, but I'm an enterprise and maybe there's some shadow IT. And let's just take this use case. How do I decide who to go with? I have legacy stuff. I got a data center. I see the economics. I see the tool and opportunities. I want to go open stack or I want to go build some Linux on there. What do I do? How do I decide? So it's a little bit of a broad question, but basically I've had to boil it down. I sort of see, we sort of see three entry points typically with open stack and our product open cloud system. And the three entry points are people who are focused on, you know, driving agility into their businesses. They're adopting DevOps. They're sort of early adopters. An example of this would be somebody like Hyatt, for example, who's got a whole big initiative in there. Around building new cognitive applications and moving to a DevOps model. Ancestry.com is another one as well. There's a whole bunch of these enterprises that are emerging. The second bucket is people who want to build hybrid clouds. And what they're doing there a lot of the time is it's like Zynga kind of use case. They're trying to cost optimization. They've got steady state workloads on the Amazon. They've run the math and they know that they can actually run them on their own system for, you know, much less expensive price. And then of course they want to hybridize with the existing public cloud because they're going to do all the new product launches there and so on.  What is, what's new about it? What's different about it? Obviously there's some investment, either tire kicking and or participation. Or just I'm jumping in now, what do you advise those guys now when you have the elevator chat or the meeting, the first meetings? What do you advise them around? What's happening today around OpenStack? Well, first thing is I just try to make sure they understand the difference between investing into a virtualization platform that won't get them to that modernized data center versus going with a true elastic cloud platform that looks like Amazon that will get them there that's focused on business agility. And once I've gotten them to that point, then it's really a discussion about, look, you need a trusted partner who's actually got experience building private clouds, understands what these new application workloads look like on top of them and can work with you in a consultative manner to make sure that your teams are successful in not only bringing the cloud up but adopting it and using it to drive new value into the business. All right, so Randy, you've been coming to the show, Ice House is out now. Is OpenStack ready to take the next step? When you come back next year or even let's look out six months to Paris, what are some of the things we should be looking for to see if OpenStack is really starting to break into the mainstream? So, the OpenStack platform's been ready for production, most of the components that matter since probably full sometime frame, maybe grizzly depending on who you talk to. So, we're already there. The problem is you just have to consume it via a vendor who's got a baked product, right?  And then I think what we're looking for as we are moving forward into the future is, and this is the place I think where I maybe diverged from some of the others is that I wanna actually see more of a, I hate to say fragmentation, but at least the emergence of OpenStack for different purposes. I think right now what happens is there's this sort of misguided belief by both the users and the operators and developers and even the members of the board that OpenStack is a monolithic thing, right? That you take OpenStack and you use it for in the same way everywhere. And I actually don't think that's accurate. If it's like the Linux kernel, then we know that the Linux kernel actually has a number of reference architectures. Look at Android. Android is the handset operating system that Google creates. That's based on a Linux kernel. It has none of the normal Linux user land. At the same time, we've got the Linux kernel that runs on a Cray supercomputer and those are two very different kinds of Linux. So we need to see the emergence of OpenStack for enterprise, OpenStack for HPC, OpenStack for web scale businesses. And then as we see those flavors of OpenStack emerge, we'll see kind of the early formation of kind of like the Red Hat versus Ubuntu versus you know, Monovista type kind of flavors inside of Linux. So on the future of OpenStack, obviously I know you can't talk about some of the minute stuff, but how do you feel the governance is going? Obviously, there's people talking about that's a key part of it. It feels good. I'm not really seeing anything negative at this point. Still a lot of rah-rah, some good signals, a lot of good love coming out towards some tweets last night, although nothing specific. I know you can't share it, but give folks a taste of the feeling around the governance right now. Yeah, so, you know, governing something that has grown as fast as OpenStack and as big as OpenStack is very, very challenging. We're into, you know, really a lot of uncharted territory.  And, you know, there's more than two governing bodies. I think if you bake it all down, there's something like five governing bodies. You've got the board, you've got the technical community, you've got the foundation itself, you've got the user committee, you've got the operator folks who are doing kind of their own summits and talking a lot. And so there's a lot of people who are deeply involved with trying to figure out the direction forward. And I think that the key challenge, as it is with any kind of large development project, it comes down to communications. And so we're starting to see some breakthroughs. I know it took a while, but, you know, yesterday was the first time that we had the first kind of joint board and technical committee meeting. And I think there's a lot of reasons and a lot of back history why it took us so long to get there, but, you know, I think the net of it was that people were able to air a lot of concerns and issues and thoughts and feelings about the way that we could communicate better together. And even that made it, through that process, it became clear that we weren't actually very far apart, both the technical and product folks. And we made some very key decisions about how we're going to do specific governance around the product roadmap and the product management going into the future. And I think that that's going to really smooth things out a lot. Who's leading right now in your mind? In the OpenStack community, who can you point to in saying that horse is running well, those guys are doing great? In what regard? In both technology, community support, community participation, really pumping on, the ideal citizen, if you will, of the OpenStack community. It's hard for me to call anybody out like that. I'm not sure that there is sort of a shining light there. Okay, well, we're excited to have you on theCUBE. We'll give you the final word. Obviously, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Red Hat and Brocade. Want to give a shout out to those guys for supporting theCUBE this year. Thanks to those guys. Certainly, winners in our book right this week. Final word, share the folks out there in your own words. Why this year is so important? What is going on this year around OpenStack that really is going to tip the scales for the kind of traction that people want to see? Oh, well, we've seen the adoption really start to shift this year. I think I've got some stats in my upcoming slides on Wednesday, but we're a small startup. We're still in the process of getting traction, but if you gauge anything by us, then I think we're doing pretty well. We're supporting over 10 clouds. I'm not going to say exactly how many, but we're supporting over 10 clouds that are in production, that are running production workloads, and those 10 clouds constitute 8,000 cores, almost 600 servers, and eight and a half petabytes of storage. So that's a pretty significant amount of stuff to have deployed as a small startup. I'm sure some of the other folks, they're bigger than us, they're doing a little bit more. But the point is that if you see that with just us as a little startup, then you add up the entire OpenStack ecosystem and assume there's similar unparity with us, then the overall size of adoption and production deployments is actually looking very, very good. Very nearby, it's always a pleasure to see you in theCUBE here live in Atlanta for the OpenStack Summit. Great stuff happening, always good to see these startups and the emerging players. There's a great balance right now between the organic growth and then the big guys coming in and really putting their feet in, getting their feet wet, playing nice in the sandbox, certainly bringing some cash to the table. As they say, there's a lot of dough coming in from HP and IBM, putting a billion dollars in it. Like I said, the joke in the consumer web business is 10 million users is now the one, is the new one million. So 10 billion is the new one million. So IBM HP, come on, more than a billion, come on, put up 10 billion then it will be. That's just table stakes. That's just table stakes, a billion dollars is nothing in these days. Anyway, this is theCUBE, right back with more coverage after this short break.