I'm so happy to be here. DevOps Days are one of my favorite conferences ever because they're all about the community and I meet interesting people and we get to talk about stuff that nobody else wants to talk to me about, like how databases work. So if you wanna talk about that, hit me up. But today, I'm gonna tell you a few stories. I'm like, spoiler alert, they're all about me. But they say, teach what you know. So, you know, I know me. So hi, I'm Katie. I'm a developer advocate at Influx Data. I've been there for almost a year. I love databases. Did I mention databases yet? Man, I love databases. I also love all the things she mentioned and apparently that was nearly an exhaustive list except it left off candy. So talk to me about Star Wars and candy and databases and we can be friends. Also, feel free to contact me. I love to talk to people I meet at conferences. I like to learn. My Twitter handle is on every slide because I wanna talk to you. So I'm kind of an average expert. In the kind of low area, you get noticed and on the high end, you also get noticed but that middle area, that's what I like to call just good enough and that's sort of my area of expertise. I've been really, really getting good at it in my life and there are a lot of reasons for that probably, right? It's really hard to try really hard and fail but if you try a little, knowing you could have tried just a little harder and you probably would have been great but you didn't want to, like that sort of has been my life philosophy for many years, hence the exhaustive list of jobs but a big reason for this is because of my family. I have three older siblings and generally speaking, they're the most extraordinary people and when I was little, I thought that they were like the Titans, like creators of the universe, like even my parents had nothing on them and it starts with my sister. This is a 100% accurate drawing I did of her. She made it her profile picture so you're welcome. She was the smartest and most clever and really tough, like nothing the world did seem to get to her and I wish still that I had the kind of authority she had when she was 12. She's a high school math teacher so it has served her well but I wanted to be the same kind of authority. I wanted people to just fall quiet when I started talking because that's what I did when she was talking but there was always like a small threat of violence and then I have my brother Jake, also pretty accurate although I couldn't get all of his tattoos in so he's probably the one who's most likely to criticize me on that front. He was what I like to call super cool. He had all the friends. He had more friends than I knew where people we went to school with. I had a friend and it was a book, okay? Like everyone seemed to invite him everywhere and he had a smile for everyone and he kind of navigated the world with a social grace that I found really just baffling but what I wouldn't give when I was a preteen to have that kind of popularity and ease and if it looks like I'm doing it now, that's a lie. And then there's my brother Jared. He lives here in Boston. I came a couple of days early to hang out with him and I'm exhausted because he's the most energetic person on the planet. He's magnetic.  And I wanted to be that. I wanted to be like likable and exciting and I wanted to be like a martial artist who would like hit stuff and be like, everyone likes me. And that's, that never really happened for me. I don't know, I don't know why but I mean, there was just me, you know? I like to read. I had a pretty sweet like WWF shirt for a while I wore every day but other than that, I felt like I was living under a bar and the bar was just like all of their sort of areas of expertise and it almost felt like there wasn't anything left for me to be an expert at. Like they had it covered. They didn't need me. My sister once called me, she said for the first five or six years of my life I was basically a pet, cute but useless. We're really good friends now but. And when I thought about it, I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I was trying to fit in a world that I felt was built for them. I felt like, just don't make that sad sound, oh.  I felt like everything was built for them. I felt like I was, like whatever the bar was for success, I couldn't reach it. Not even when I was jumping, you know? They had defined what success was in our lives and there was just no way for me to be where they were. And when I started at Influx about a year ago, I had shed a lot of this. I was like, all right, writing code, talking to people. That's what I'm good at. I mean arguably one more than the other but don't worry about that. But then on my probably like first or second day they said, Katie, we're gonna go to a lot of DevOps conferences. And I was like, cool. And I wrote it in my notebook and then I Googled it for three days. Because I did not know what that was.  It's just like, what, what? So I don't like to go back to those notes. But I, so I started Googling and what I found was a lot of lists of tools and a lot of like things that said like, we're the solution to your DevOps problem. But none of them really said what DevOps was or why or how. And if anything, I felt more confused, right? I thought, well, okay, I'll just install some, I guess. Like maybe you just learned by doing. I don't know. And I don't know if you've ever tried to install like Kafka on your local machine, but like. Pfft. I was starting to feel like I just wasn't gonna get it. I was like, well, this has clearly been built for someone else who like gets it, it's not for me. But like problem, this is my job now. So I found myself kind of faced with something I had before. So as with everything, I sort of turned back to my own life, right? Like, what have I done before that I could, like I can learn from and like, how can I start using this? Because when I was younger, one of my solutions to kind of being cute but useless was to try to take on the like traits that I thought were the best of all of my siblings. So I started with my sister because she is still kind of the coolest. I mean, don't tell my brothers because they're not gonna watch this. She's the best. So I decided I would just look like her and talk like her and just be like, don't worry about me. I listen to the smashing pumpkins. I was probably like eight when she went through her smashing pumpkin space. She's six years older than me. And we shared a room and one day we decided, you know what, we're fighting a lot. And we had read this story about some sisters who split their room in half when they fought. So she and I decided this was the best way to move forward. So we went to school and when I came home, she was already home and it already split the room in half and had very graciously gifted me the top half. It turns out she didn't really like me imitating her. She didn't like that, you know, I believe the word she used was poser at the time. And I was like, fine, you know what? She hates me more. This doesn't feel like me. Maybe I'll try something else. And so I turned to my brother Jake, who is again, super cool and he was really good at sports. And so I thought, I could play sports, right? Like you just, catch the ball. No, I couldn't play sports actually. I have been hit in the face with every kind of sports ball that humankind has made. Some repeatedly and some have broken my glasses. And I don't know what to tell you, except that I just thought it was something you could just go do. And I really never bothered to ask my brother if he like practiced or if he was just naturally good at it. I always just imagined there was just like not a sports ball he couldn't pick up and be like, I know what to do with this. And you know, I mostly got hit in the face. So I left that one voluntarily because I thought, this is hurting us both really. And adopting sort of his personality I found out was a lot more work. So lucky for me, that's only two out of three. I got one more brother. And I thought, you know what? He's so passionate and likeable, like I can do that. But you know what? It turns out it's a lot of work. And it takes a level of energy that really only he has. And I tried to be as passionate about the world around me as he was. But I felt like everyone could see that like, it just wasn't true.  And I thought, okay, well, maybe I could keep faking it. And maybe like by sort of like styling myself after him, I can like learn how to become passionate, you know? But it turned out that like none of those really, they didn't make me feel good. And they didn't make me feel like I was solving any of my like own problems. It felt like I was trying on these different solutions and they were all a weird fit. And like maybe I could make them work, but it would take a lot on my end. And I'm not looking to do extra work. That's one of the things I knew I wasn't after. So one of the things I learned early on is that average does not mean small and it does not mean irrelevant and it most definitely does not mean easy. Average just means most common, right? It took me a long time to learn this, but once I was out in the world, I realized that there were a lot more people like me than were like those Titans that I thought were ahead of me. And when I thought about this in the DevOps space, I began to wonder, what if there were more people like me than there were Kubernetes masters? And then I thought, no one I've talked to knows how to use this. Well, it has to be true, right? But still, it's hard to know where to start. Because it takes a bit of realization to know that we're not the anomalies. Those Titans, they're the ones who are bigger than life and the rest of us, we're the ones adopting the tech and using the tech and perfecting it, right? Because they can offer us solutions because they have a team devoted to it. When they have a problem, they set aside time and they say, you know what? We're gonna have our best sort of DevOps engineers. And we all know that's not really a job title, but like let's say it is. They're gonna investigate, they're gonna figure it out for us. But like, I work at Influx Data, we have 100 people. There's no one to set aside. We're all doing like 700 jobs each. There's no time to be like, let me just investigate this one thing for two weeks. It's not gonna happen. So if we're the ones who have to use and perfect the tech, then we're the ones who should be lowering the barrier to entry. Not that easy to journey into DevOps. No matter where you start, there's a long way to go. And there are a lot of obstacles. And there may not be a clear finish line because I don't think there's any being done with DevOps, right?  So there's so many obstacles, right? From just understanding the tech to knowing what tools to use to knowing what problem you're trying to solve. So where do we actually start? We start with fundamentals. And these are things I've learned over the past year and I would love to talk to you more about them later. These are my beginner's sort of notes. So we start with insight. And this is basically one question. What is going on here, right? Which is when I was learning to code and really when I've learned to do every job that they just listed, this is the first question I have. What's going on here? And we can wonder that about a lot of different levels, right? We can say, what's going on in my code? What's going on in my infrastructure? What's going on with my sys admin? What's going on? So my sister moved out when she was 17 and I think I was like 11. And it was my first bit of like freedom ever I had my own room. And I was like, I'm going to find myself. No one bothered me for a while. And I don't remember the next year like super clearly. I'm gonna be honest, but my sister likes to remind me that I spent the next year making potions dressed as a wizard. So, and I don't know if I can explain to you why that was sort of what I hooked on to. But what I do know is that it was important for me to like evolve into the Katie of today. I wish I could say that it wasn't, but somewhere inside there's just a wizard, wait and be let out. But insight and tech can mean a lot of different things, right? I was getting insight into myself through this like period of like exploration. And we wanna do the same thing. We wanna like experiment with insight because does that mean you need to do a risk assessment? Does it mean you need to monitor more things? Does it mean you need to analyze patterns, identify patterns? There's so many places to start, right? So my advice that helped me is to choose tools that help you challenge your assumptions and verify your behavior. Now if this sounds a little bit like test driven development, it should. Because that's one sort of philosophy that I cling to as someone who was new to coding. Testing was a way for me to look into the future and try to like imagine what I wanted from my code much later regardless of whether or not I knew how to do it. And I think that that is a good fit for DevOps. We should look really far ahead and say what could go wrong and try to prepare the best that we can. And yes, I work at a company that makes a tool for this. But I will tell you that when I was learning, I used Influx. That's what I needed to learn for my job. But if there's something at your job and everyone you know is like you must use X tool, then that's what you should use. Because you need to start with some things you do know to be able to grasp what you don't. So the first thing I instrumented was a Rails app because I knew Ruby well enough to, and it was old and it was a little bit broken and I expected it to have some weird things to be able to monitor because I had written it. And when I sort of instrumented it with Influx, I began to get back metrics from my database and say like what are the response times like? Why are the queries slow? And within just maybe like an hour or two just depending on like how many times I messed up, I had already improved this like old application. And I thought well if I can make these little improvements knowing nothing in a couple hours, then like what must a DevOps engineer be able to do with their time? So I would tell you that the tool doesn't matter. Choose the one with the lowest barrier to entry and as you get familiar with tools, then naturally what follows is you begin to understand their nuances and you begin to say you know what, I don't need a tool for monitoring anything. I need to monitor just logs or just errors and then you'll get smarter and the tools will get more sophisticated. But don't do it first. The second thing you need to be successful in DevOps is communication because if you don't think about how to communicate, bad things will happen to you. And really we can communicate on so many different levels. There's person to person, there's team to team, there's system to system. There's a lot of ways to be wrong and a lot of ways to be right too. But it's hard to know where to start. So in communication what we wanna do is help ourselves do two things. We want to prioritize and empathize. Now prioritize is important to me because like I said, if we work at this average company and you're just doing your job, well it probably means you have a lot of things to do. So this can be even as simple as knowing that like an email means it's a task that can wait but like a direct message means it's urgent. It doesn't have to be a whole tool, right? It just has to be about expectations because most of the times that I've seen communication go badly, it mostly revolves around people's expectations not being met. So setting those expectations are a way that you can prioritize. What really matters to you? What is the first obstacle that you need to tackle? So empathy, am I right? Yeah, that's empathy down there. Okay, so the most important part for me about empathy is not necessarily that you adopt a tool, right? But this is about adopting a mindset because DevOps problems are the kinds of problems that cross teams, cross companies, right? They're so much bigger than just one person. And as being the person who has just like messed up a lot of stuff, like empathy is a really important characteristic. The most I've learned is from people who are like, you are wrong about that, but so was I one time. Here's how to fix it. Because small changes can still lead to big incidents. So the first time I came home from college, I was like not that excited to come home. I was like a new person, you know? I had been living dorm life and I was just like very cool. But as soon as I got out of the car, my brother Jared ran out of the house and he saw me and I saw the look in his eye and I knew exactly what he was gonna do because he had done it a million times before. And he ran at me for a piggyback ride. He is about three feet taller than me, but this has never stopped us before. So he launched himself at me and in that moment I had these realizations. I'd been reading for about a year, just sitting there and he had definitely been going to the gym. So when he hit me, what happened instead of me catching him and like prancing along happily was that he just smeared me into the gravel and just rode me like a toboggan for 10 yards. And these invisible changes, right, that are hard to test for and easy to miss because you just think, well, that looks about the same. No, not the same. Imagine that your coworker changes just the port number in a config file and it's already taken in production and then you're very sad. And I do wanna touch on one note about optimization. Sound good? No, do do it someday, but if you're starting in DevOps and you think, I don't know where to start and then you find yourself just like improving times and just wondering like, ooh, can I make this better? Don't do it. Prioritize. Because there's always time for optimizations later but if you're in a spot where you need to know what's going on and like, how do I communicate with my team?  I'm not saying never but just maybe not for a while, okay? Especially if you're like me and at these average sort of place. The thing is, is that average is typical, right? Average means it's a good fit and average means, yeah, good enough and sometimes when we're these smaller companies, smaller individuals, then like compromise is just, it's part of how you grow. You say, today's good, today is average and that's a good thing because that means nothing's going wrong. Average doesn't mean that we're never going to be titans of industry. What it means is that we're patient. It means that we know how to prioritize and it turns out average is still pretty good after all. Thank you. I was wondering, you said you're a developer advocate. Yes. What does that mean and what do you do in a day to day?  No, thank you for asking that because honestly it's the question I get asked the most and I had never heard of this job before I took this job because I just wasn't worried about it. No, so the reality is that at Inflex Data we make an open source product. So what we need is someone to be the voice of the company to the community and then the voice of the community to the company. So I am sort of like a technical liaison. So sometimes I write code, I write our demos, I write blogs about how the tech works and I help people who use it on the open source community understand it. I never touch sales because ugh. And I don't have to care about it, which is nice. And then I also basically just, my job is just to explain. I am a technical explainer and friend to all. Okay, awesome. Well then thanks again, Katie and we'll move on to the next thing. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Give me the applause.


Yep Found out that they're willing to compete. They're willing to To battle and fight it's proud of them, you know, we were close at times I felt like we came out and moved the football early played well defensively unfortunately gave up You know a couple X plays which you know, you just can't hand them anything and it just I Think our ability to have to kick field goals and their ability to hit some big plays really took the momentum Told the team it was a quick speech at halftime But I felt like at least that was our identity you got to stop talking about your identity and hoping and wishing about an identity You have to go out there and and play to it and find out what it is And I think that that was certainly who we are It's not always pretty But if we can eliminate Turn the football over and we can eliminate easy plays on defense, you know, we got a chance Well, I mean, I hope that we can you know, just just play better and more complimentary You know in the first half we got to stop letting them play defense or we got to stop playing defense inside a 10-yard line early in the game I know that but our jobs to play defense and you know, these guys they're excited They should be all the credit to the players are the ones that I Came out here and you know kept battling and fighting and it wasn't easy This is a tough place to play give them a lot of credit You know, we understand the the pedigree of this football team this organization How difficult it is to come in here and win how difficult it is so I'm proud of our football team Well, I mean, I think that it that it does it's it's who we are But again, you got to put it out there you have to be willing to to throw it out there and execute and fight and claw And make the correct plays into critical situations and I'm and I'm proud to be the coach I'm proud to to represent them, but all the credit goes to the players Well, I'm gonna just it never ceases to amaze me We just got to keep being in opportunities and being football games where he can help us affect the outcome and you know, that's really what happened today and No, go ahead You know what I'd you know, you always go back and forth and you know We've been through there before and I just felt like the way that the defense was playing You know, I felt like the way you know, maybe we you know Just just decided early on, you know, that that was what we were gonna do as far as You know kicking it Well again, I hope that they understand the importance of each and every week You know, I think that that's testament to the leadership of the football team You know like Derek mentioned we don't want to we don't want to coach or work with front runners And we want guys that are just gonna battle and compete. It's tough to win in this league It's it's really tough each and every week and you put a lot into it Whether we went, you know, I mean, we're gonna when we land this we're gonna have to be honest You know Indianapolis that we got to be onto the Colts and and how do we you know win at home and try to You know build on this but we're gonna treat it the same way whether we lost by double digits or or one and overtime Well, I mean obviously, you know extremely happy, you know, I mean happy for Randy, you know, Randy's been you know a lot of places and You know, he's made kicks in this league So happy for him that he could get recognized and and help his football team win But you're you know me and you're helpless like we've all We've all sent our kids out of out of the house into a car and you know, Jesus take the wheel. I guess I don't know There's some mistakes, you know, I mean some some obviously some heirs You know that that that came up and You know one one was You know, they just went up and make a play and we didn't get them on the ground and then You know the other one there at the in the second half or it was just a just a mistake Is that a question or your comment guys stepped up man guys played well and AJ, you know Confident that that he'll continue to to help us win football games I got I have no more confidence in anybody on this football team There's a lot of guys I have the same but I would put AJ up at the end of the top with with some guys Well, we got some new guy, you know, I mean I think so First of all, I think it was when you go toe heel that that's that's out of bounds So apparently they thought that the heel came down on the line when you drag your toe You drag your toe and that's that's that's the end of it But when you go toe heel, you know, they count the heel So guess that they thought that there was something in between or you know, you might want to call the league They got a new guy. They got new people up there working, you know, I'll I'lls not being up there anymore So some of those they stayed with the field would stay with the ruling on the field last year Now there's a new group of guys and that's what they saw. I Not gonna Sit there and say anything other than sure it was really close Well, maybe we saw it, you know every week and again, I'm glad that, you know He played really hard without the ball in his hand. I noticed a few times in blocking, you know That was something that we made an emphasis on And so that's what I'm most proud of. I know they're gonna catch passes and you know, they're gonna score touchdown But I you know, we ask a lot of those guys with how they play when they don't have the football in their hand So that's probably what I was the most proud of with his performance today We just We put the next guy in there Jim. That's what we do. So we've done since That's as far as I can remember as a player in this league and as a coach You put the next guy in there and you hope that everybody's prepared and that's why they come to practice and you know Could happen on the first snap could happen before an hour and a half before the game not sure But we'll see, you know what the situation is and you know make sure that everybody's ready to try to help us on game day We're gonna take a look and see where he's at after the game It's I was focused on the game when I realized that you know that he wouldn't be able to go So we'll try to keep you guys updated I again My concern is is about getting home safe and Treating the guys that need to be treated and Taylor would obviously be part of that since he wasn't able to play in the football game Thanks guys appreciate it


What's up everybody and welcome back to the channel, I'm EvilRabbit, we're here on a set of courses staring at that heckin' good boys S14 of my buddy Dave. So those clips in the beginning were actually from a Fulmott Surrey at Leakery Speedway in PA. My buddy Dave gave me a chance to go for a little rip in his S14, you know, a little ride along in his V8 powered S14. So today we're taking a shakedown of the car that I've been building for him and modeling to basically replicate his car as close to possible. The power, drivetrain and everything is almost similar to what he has in his real car and we're going back and forth with him ping-ponging on physics, tires and stuff like that. Got it to where it's, he says it's almost close, if not almost exactly like his real car. We still have a little bit more work to do on the modeling and stuff like that, but we are getting close to being finished with his car and once it is finished it will be available for you guys to drive as well. So, you know, it's definitely, I'm learning a lot modeling these cars and building replica cars. I have a car of my own that I've been building for myself to just drift around, so we're probably going to get into that today. But we're going to do some shakedown in this S14 and see what we can do with it at the track here in a set of Corsa in the Oculus. We are on the Snowball bike, so we are definitely going to have better audio for you guys because there's no audio guys. We're not liking the audio from the Oculus. I wasn't either. So we're back on the Snowball bike. So there may be times where my voice is a little bit quieter if I'm turning left or right because it's not connected to the actual Oculus, looking into getting a wireless mic option for the Oculus Rift S so I can be fully connected and never change. But the audio is definitely going to be a lot better here today. So we're going to go take this out to PAX race track and, well, we're going to get sideways and see what we can do in his car in the virtual world. So make sure you follow me on Instagram, Twitter, all of which are found in the description box below. Let's go. All right. We are out here in the S14. I'm going to run some laps. So at first glance, there's some modeling things. I got a change up. I got door bars and everything. I know some trim pieces. You've got everything there. Those are custom NRG, evil rabbit seats. NRG. We need to do something about this. I mean, this looks pretty sweet to me. Yep. Yes, they do. All right. So we're going to see what we can do in Dave's S14 here on the track. We're going to work our way over to the track, trying not to wreck his car as our way out. We are on 225 tires. We have some other tire choices, but I think we're going to stick with 225s right now. Yep. Yep. We're not tandeming right now. We're solo. So let's give it a rip and go full send. See how we do with it. There we go. Some clutch kicks. There we go. So going back and forth with him to try and get the car to feel how he wants it to, almost like his real car, a little left foot right there. And he says it handles pretty well. And I'm noticing that it's handling quite well actually. Ooh. Actually, quite well, if I don't say so myself. His car does have physics that have been messed around with some other cars, some grip levels, suspension setups and stuff like that. So this car has kind of been put together by a bunch of other cars to get it to where it's at. And I'm quite happy with it. I'm cutting the grass though a lot. Quite happy with how it turned out. And well, he's happy with it. Now we're just going to do some, fix some modeling and stuff like that. We're going to go full send in. We're going to try and do a backwards entry. You know what's going to happen. Oh, we can't do backwards entries if we go into the grass. Sorry Dave. Clutch kicked this car out in third gear. Geez. Oh man. All right. Okay. Settle down. We got to gain our bearings back and get back on smoothness. There we go. Kind of over angle stalled that car. A little bit on the clutch kick. There we go. Kind of angle stalled it there too. So I think I'm trying to throw too much angle right now. I kind of need to settle myself down and not worry about backwards entries and this car will get back to nice and smooth. There we go. Nice and smooth driving and we'll be able to be back on track. Make sure you guys follow me on Instagram and Twitter so you guys can follow the build process on a lot of these cars. And like I said, once this car is done and everything is good, it will be available for you guys to drive as well. I will have it up in a Google Drive and you guys can download it and take Dave's heckin' good boys S14 out for a rip yourself. We're going to try this backwards entry again. And grass life, grass roots. So the backwards entry is not really working out too well for me. But I am enjoying the car a lot even though I seem like I'm angle stalling it through some of these. But I think I think we got a handle on this car. So the S14 is definitely a fun car and I've been having a lot of fun building it and getting it how it sits. So let me know what you guys think of the car down in the comment section down below. What do you guys think of it so far for my first real attempt at modeling a full car and getting to replicate a real car? And you know, I would say thank you Dave for giving me the chance to build this car because you know, he's definitely a definitely a fun guy and definitely great at driving in real life and in a setto. So definitely going to get more tandem with him out here in a set of courses in his car as well as some of the cars that I'm building. So as always I think you guys are coming back and watching I hope you guys enjoyed this little glimpse at the car that I'm building for a buddy. And as always, I appreciate all the support you guys coming back. I'll see you guys on the track. Oh, we got that perfect now. Oh, now we're good. Now we're flowing. Oh, as I say that, really?


So you love spinning, it's your favorite. And it should because it makes all your attacks three times as strong. But you just can't seem to get a hang of it in Blender. Not a problem. First thing you are gonna need to do is select the master root bone. Not the root bone of the body, the root bone of the entire rig. Then press I to key it, move to another point on the timeline, and with the record button active, click an axis on the gimbal and rotate it as many times as you want, you're done. If you press play to test it, you will now see your character spinning that many times in between these two frames. You can also do this by pressing R, X, Y, or Z and type the amount of degrees you wanted to spin. Or you could just go here and type it. Whatever floats your boat. But here's the catch. You have to make sure that you are in Euler mode for this to work. When I was creating the rig, I had my rotation set to quaternion because it was easier to calculate the math formulas for the shape keys and bone correction drivers. And I left it that way ever since. But if you try to do the same rotation trick while it's set to quaternion, it never lets you go past 180 degrees. Rotation has to be set to Euler if you want to rotate multiple times. And you can't really change your mind after you start animating. This is what this animation is supposed to look like. You can see the base rotation controls the direction of the kick. Now watch what happens when I try to switch to Euler after doing all of my animations in quaternion. See that? I just lost all the rotation data for this bone. And it's not just this animation. All of the rotation data for this bone has been destroyed across every single one of my animations. That's right, all of them, gone. So just be careful because apparently it is possible to ruin all of your animations when you're trying to mess with one. Now there's actually one more problem that you should really know about. And it's that rotation kind of just stops working unless your character is perfectly flat. If we tilt it just a little and try and do the same thing, this is what will happen instead. Doesn't matter if you try and do it manually. The rotation will still be broken. So what do you do about it? Well, you really just have two options here. You have the brute force method which is switching your rotation mode to quaternion and manually keying your rotation every 60 degrees. The other method is to design your rig around this problem. You could parent the root bone to another root bone. And that bone's sole purpose would be to spin. So every time you wanted to spin something horizontally you would use this one. And every time you wanted to spin something vertically you would use that one. That's honestly the best solution I think you're gonna get unless Blender finally decides to make sure that this stuff should be working properly. But whatever. I'm looking forward to this being fixed. Anyway, hope that helps. If you enjoyed this video, please don't forget to like, subscribe and ring that bell. Hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


It's easy. I know, I agree. I'm like, dude, 30 minutes. If you can't do something for 30 minutes, I don't know what to tell you. We're not asking you. Zendu Nation, what is happening? I'm here in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I grew up in Lancaster. It's about a half hour away, but I'm here with my man Barry Wiesling, a Zendu Dojo member, and might I add a very busy working man and a father of three and a husband. And dude, what else do you do, man? You're an active guy. I'm an active guy. So growing up, played baseball my whole life, played soccer in the high school, ended up playing baseball in college, continued to play baseball. My kids are in activities, soccer, dance, baseball, different types of sports. So we're always on the move, always active. Nice, man.  Your struggle wasn't so much that you had a ton of weight to lose. You were talking about more being like skinny fat. Always been a skinny guy. Always thought I worked out well, was exercising, realized it wasn't really exercising. Had some excess body fat, didn't love it. One of those abs wanted to get ripped and lean, but thought it wasn't really possible for me because I had tried programs in the past. So I found the jump rope. That's right. That's right. Found the dude fitness, found the jump rope, started in November and here I am. Absolutely brother. So guys, we're going to be running you through today is a quick, short workout, typical Zendu style 30 second intervals. We got some body weight stuff. It's lunchtime right now. It is. Yes. My office is a big building in the background here. I'm in work clothes. Work clothes. This is dude. He's got an office job. He's in work clothes and we're going to do the workout and Barry's going to be in his work clothes. So it's 30 minutes. Dan and Brandon preach 30 minutes. That's all you need. You don't need anything more than those 30 minutes and you got to find those 30 minutes wherever you can find them. Even if that means coming out here on top of a parking garage in Harrisburg on your lunch break to get it done. Dude. Amen. Amen, brother. I love that man. Ladies and gentlemen, if you liked this video, please go ahead and give it a thumbs up below, followed by a subscribe. If you want to continue to receive more information on how to jump rope, get lean and most importantly, have fun. Let's get into this workout Zendu nation. All right, ladies and gentlemen, what is going on? Super psyched to be doing this workout with my man, Barry. He crushed it and also just super inspiring to hear Barry's story of how, you know, him and I are the same age. He's got three kids. He's a busy working guy and Barry makes absolutely no excuses. Like he's doing this in his work clothing and he gets after it. And the thing that when I talked to Barry when I met him, the thing that he kept stressing, which we totally agree with is that it's easy. Like this does not have to be a very difficult thing. You've hit your calories and macros. You know, you work out for at least 30 minutes a day and that's it. You just have to move your body and eat the right amount of food. All right, guys. Next up we got push-ups coming in. Push-ups try to get 20. That's the market that I typically go for. Any body weight type of exercise, whether it be squats, push-ups, sometimes type of lunch, I try to get somewhere in the range of 20 to 25. My beginners, if you get only 15 or you have to do knee push-ups also totally fine. Don't worry about that. The thing that I want you guys to be doing is just going as intense as you possibly can. That's always going to be the most important thing. To do as many as you can, make sure you're coming the whole way up and the whole way down. All right, ladies and gentlemen, next up jump rope boxes skip. Sorry if in the background people are running around. I'm in a Starbucks right now and you know how it's going to be. Kind of loud. That's okay though because we're doing jump rope box or skip. And remember guys, jump rope box or skip does not have to be a whole lot of movement. Notice how my right and left feet are just shifting the weight and I'm letting both feet touch the ground. One leg is taking all the weight while the other leg simply taps on my toe. And if you can't do these, just do regular bounce guys. Like I always say, it's not a big deal if you can't do some of the moves.  Excuse me, next up air squats guys, air squats. Now make sure, as you can see here, both Barry and I are coming down the whole way to that 90 degree mark. You want to keep your back straight, your eyes looking forward. And it helps to have your hands out because it kind of helps to keep you balanced and helps to keep the weight back on your heels where it belongs. You don't want to have your weight up towards the front where your toes are.  So we're just doing a quick little shift. And as you can see here, both Barry and myself mess up throughout this workout. Don't focus on mess ups, don't beat yourself up. Just get back on. Just keep doing the thing. It's all good, ladies and gentlemen. So again, jump rope feet front to back. You don't need to do huge big steps. Just quick and short, low to the ground, back and forth, back and forth. Next up, ladies and gentlemen, we got jumping jacks to throw in a little bit of calisthenics for this workout. So as you can see here, we're just coming up. Legs are going apart as the hands go together. And make sure that you're just extending. You don't want to be throwing your arms around and like popping your shoulder out of its socket like super aggressively. But at the same time, go at a pretty fast pace and try to get 25 to 30 jumping jacks. Even 40. I don't know. Can he do 40? Can he do 50? Do that. Go at your max intensity, guys. Last exercise. This one's a little bit more challenging because I do see a lot of people messing up with the feet side to side just because you're extending your feet outward, which closes the amount of space that the jump rope has to clear your feet. So that can sometimes prove to be a little bit difficult. But just keep going, guys. Just get right back on it and do the thing. And if you guys have questions or comments, leave them below. And as we always talk about, the jump rope that we use in this video and all the videos, the one that Barry's got, the one that I have, it's the cross rope. It's the best one that we have seen today on the market. If you want 10% off that, go ahead and check out the links below. We have a link directly to this jump rope that you can purchase. So check it out if you want to become a jump rope ninja. You know what I'm saying? I think everybody has a little jump rope ninja in them. So check it out. Thank you for tuning in to another Zenduage Fitness workout, guys. We appreciate you and have a great one.


It's Wednesday, it's 11 o'clock, it's July the 28th. That could be only one thing. It's time for What Now, America? I'm Tim Apachele, your host, and today's title of the show is U.S. To Follow France to Combat the Unvaccinated. You know, a couple of days ago, French President Macron said the following. I'm in favor of the French line right now. I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, my time, my freedom for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time, they should stay home, not us. Well, that's pretty dramatic, pretty black and white, and that's something that the United States, either President Biden or former President Trump, would be hesitant to do, to say to the American people. Macron also said the following. I'm aware that of what I'm asking of you, I know that you're ready for this commitment. This is in a sense, part of your sense of duty. And on this show, we've talked many times before about Americans and whatever happened to our compact with one another, our social obligations to our fellow Americans. We certainly knew that it was strong in World War II and in the other conflicts, and it was certainly a country that came together during 9-11. But we now have a virus that's killed over 611,000 Americans, and yet we have maybe almost a third of our population who are refusing to be part of the solution to combat this virus. And it's not just the COVID virus anymore, it's the Delta virus, far more transmissible, far more virulent, and far more deadly. So let's address this. Let's address what France has done, and let's compare to what the United States might or might not do in the future as we combat the Delta variant. But before we do, I'd like to introduce our guests. This morning, we have Jay Fidel, Winston Welch, and Cynthia Lee, Sinclair. Good morning, one and all. Good morning, Tim. Hey, Jay. French President Macron is really putting it to him. He's saying, I'm done. I've had enough. We've had multiple shutdowns up and down. The economy has been racked, and now we're at a point where we can diminish or clamp down on this Delta variant. And I need cooperation for the French people to do so. So I'm going to make sure that you can't go in any public restaurant. You can't go in any public museums, any public government facilities, anything that's public. If you don't have a vaccination or proof of vaccination, you're not coming in. Pretty bold. What do you think? Great. Wonderful. And I've been thinking about my momentum theory on this. I'll tell you what it is. And I have a rhetorical question for you. The momentum theory is that Trump started all of this because he made us question government. He was skeptical of government. He was skeptical about the disease. And even though it was under him that they worked on the vaccine, somehow all that skepticism crossed over into the vaccine itself. And his skepticism has a momentum to it. And we're still having that. His base still carries that around. And as I was telling him before the show, Tim, I believe it's a gradient. His base is not a bright red line. It's not a sharp line. There are people who are not strictly speaking in his base. Maybe outside of his base, who are also, he used the term infected by this kind of skepticism. Skepticism about science, about the CDC, about medical research, he created it. Then we're living under that now, including people who were not in his base. It's terrible. But my return, that's my momentum theory. But the rhetorical question or idea I have for you is this. Had there been another president back then? Had Trump been a reasonable human being and not such a jerk? Glad he, the president, was she, said, look, we have an emergency on our hands. We have to treat it as an emergency. We have to wear masks. I'm going to make a national mandate on masks. I'm going to make this a national issue. I'm not going to fob it off on the states the way Trump did. And I'm going to require you to take the vaccine. I mean, I think Biden should do that now. You have to take it, and I'm going to make it clear that you have to take it. I'm going to do what Macron has done last week. Had this happened, this kind of attitude, this kind of charge attitude back in March of 2020, would we be having this conversation? People would have recognized it as an emergency, and they would have abided by the national government as their protector. But somewhere along the line, it got really screwed up. And now, but they don't. And then the tragedy is, it didn't have to be this way. Right. We could have had solutions all over the place if we'd only come together. Trump divided us on this, and we are still having the division. Let me explore your rhetorical question, because it was a good one. Because on this show, and for many years while we've been doing these shows, we talked about the nature of propaganda, and we have sliced and diced the elements of propaganda and how it works and why it works. But let me suggest one of the things about why we're not fully invested in vaccination as a population is because when you hear propaganda initially, you believe the first lie, and it takes far more and much momentum and energy and messaging of the truth for you to just dislodge yourself from the initial lie that you believed. And that is the power of propaganda. And I suggest, or it's my theory that most people listen to that first big lie that the COVID virus was a hoax. It was a democratic plot to undermine the president of the United States and his chances for reelection. And it's a government plot to make sure that you comply. And it's not necessary. And that's the lie they believe. And that's the lie that they can't shake. And that's why I think we are so resistant in getting a 70% compliance of vaccinations in this country, particularly, of course, in the red states. Yeah, I totally agree. That's my view of it also. And there's been quotes on that very point. It's relatively easy to set up a propaganda lie. It's much more difficult to reverse it, even if the person who wants to reverse it is the same person who set up the propaganda lie in the first place. And that's why Macron's message and his national proclamation on these points has met some resistance in France. Because it didn't happen right away. And because Trump's lie, Trump's propaganda affected more than just the United States. It affected everywhere. This is the kind of leadership he provided for the free world. And so Macron has a burden of running up a hill against that lie, that propaganda. And he's suffering it. And we're suffering it, too. I mean, even the reversal of the CDC mask ruling, the last one that they put out, which we all thought, we here all thought was a mistake at the time. The reversal of that is hard. And people are opposing it, objecting to it. What about my freedoms, my liberties, all that kind of propaganda? And so it's always hard to go back after you've lied to them. And we're having the same experience that Macron is having. Okay, thank you, Jay. Hey, Winston, in Joe Biden's, maybe tomorrow make an announcement. You're certainly doing it with the Veterans Administration that all federal facilities will require a vaccination before you enter the premise. Good idea. And then the second part of my question is, could Joe Biden try to pull off what Macron is doing in France? And that is to say, all public facilities, whether it be government, city, county governments, or just private industry, you ought to stay out of those institutions. We're not going to force you to get a vaccination, but we are going to force you from entering those premises so that you could potentially infect those who aren't vaccinated. Well, in fact, those that are vaccinated because there's the crossroads. There's the point where people were vaccinated are coming down with COVID. What do you think? Anything, any steps are in the right direction. So if he starts it with just federal buildings and courthouses and those sorts of things and says, if you're not vaccinated, then you must get a test before you enter this facility. And I don't see any reason why we shouldn't spread that to airlines. But if they don't spread it to airlines, then maybe we need to have completely different facilities for people that are vaccinated. But I think the route that we're seeing is not that. It's going to, it's the tide is turned. You're seeing the shifts in people that were vaccine hesitant before already moving in the direction of being vaccinated because they can see this is real. You know, as what we're doing here in Hawaii, I saw UH Manoa, 95% of the faculty and staff are vaccinated, 92% are vaccinated. The university has said, if you are not vaccinated as a student, okay, you can still be a student but you're not going to be able to participate in a lot of activities or have a hold certain jobs. And even if you, and that aside, that you will not have a full student experience, I think is how they phrase it, something along those lines. And they also said that you have to be tested every single week. And I think that is a, that's perfectly reasonable at this stage. One thing that you didn't mention when, when Macron said that, and again, we are having to look, I'm happy to see the French and the German standing up as leaders of the free world too. So that Joe Biden doesn't have to shoulder at all. He's dealing with the fair, Joe Biden is dealing with also very difficult population where maybe half, only half the population has been vaccinated where you have the governor of Missouri saying he will fight any laws that have people wear masks where you have five states where it's forbidden for children to wear masks in schools.  So as Macron also said, he said, we cannot make those who have a civic sense to get vaccinated bear the burden of inconvenience. That's what Macron said. The restrictions will weigh on others. Those who for a reason incomprehensible in the country of Louis Pasteur, science and the enlightenment still hesitate to use the only weapon available against the pandemic, the vaccine. That is true. It's still the only weapon we have except complete isolation and quarantine. And he's just saying, no, I'm not staying at home anymore. You are, you don't want to go out. And eventually, I'm not sure how it's going to play out, but I could see that, that increasingly, you know, our governor, even in Hawaii, he's saying he's going to have a looking at a mandate for that. I think people are really, they're waiting for the FDA to give full approval to this vaccination. And then they'll say, everyone in the military has to get it. And the courts have already found that you can require this for your workers. So I think that the move is already going to be there.  You know, this battle between Americans who are vaccinated and Americans who are not. I mean, when I was on the East Coast for 30 days, you know, some of these states were 75, 80, 85% vaccinated. And I, you know, I heard horrible things for my fellow Americans about those who are not vaccinated. And I've heard them in all sorts of circles, friends and all sorts of circles. And the one that really hurts my heart the most is, well, that's their choice. You know, if they're so ignorant, they don't want to get it. And if they die from the Delta variant, well, won't that just mean one less voter in 2022? And although it may be true, there may be a lot less GOP voters because they've perished or impaired by the Delta variant. That's a hell of a statement to say about our fellow American. But yet I hear it over and over again. I'm hearing it more and more times. What does this whole effect of the vaccinated versus the non-vaccinated Winston have upon are the polarity, the polarization of America?  And unfortunately, it falls more disproportionately on our Republican compatriots here. And that's that's a real tragedy because this is not a partisan virus. It's not seeking out people who are Republicans or Democrats or independents. It's seeking out humans.  You need to get vaccinated. I think people are waking up to that. They're waking up to it also feeds into well, what else have I been lied about? So perhaps this is going to be helping to open eyes. You know, the one poll that I thought was telling was in the Newsweek. And it was it was the poll that was conducted by the economist and you go. And sadly, it says that most people feel less than one in 10 trust medical advice from Dr. Fauci of the vaccine deniers or vaccine rejecters and only one in five trust the CDC. This is really hard to come over that because they suggest that in the same poll that perhaps are in another poll that was put out by Forbes, I believe it was on who is refusing this. And they're they're making it in terms of Republicans. But in fact, it's not just Republicans. I know people on all sides of the spectrum who are believing things about this vaccine that are not true. And how you counter that when there's such little faith or trust in government is a real problem. And the Forbes article, which was on July 28th about who is most likely to refuse COVID-19 vaccine suggests that we need to go into communities of faith where the intersectionality of vaccine deniers and Fox Watchers or religious groups are queuing on supporters. And the whole nine yards, how we try and penetrate that. But if at the end of the day, when people start getting shut out of Costco or their workplace or other things, it's going to make a lot of people very mad. And that's one thing that we got to expect. But I think Macron's right that at some point you have to put your civic duty above your partisan or irrational or just playing just ignorant of feelings and thoughts. Right. Thank you very much, Winston. Cynthia, some time ago, remember the day when Donald Trump called a national emergency? And that was over the border wall. And he was able to secure all sorts of things he normally couldn't secure under the guise of a national emergency. I'm not sure if we're in a national emergency right now with COVID. I think I recall one a long time ago, but I don't know if it's still enforced. But if it's not enforced, what's to prevent Joe Biden from declaring a national emergency and relate it to the Delta variant and do some things that normally presidents don't get to do. And that is make hard and fast guidelines that people don't like. But for the good of the nation and the good of the health and welfare of the nation, these national emergencies are used from time to time in our history. What Macron did is, again, very difficult, particularly for the United States, where people are very conscientious of their individual rights and freedoms. And no one can make me get my vaccination. But how do you feel Joe Biden is doing? Do you think he should go that step of Macron and say, it's not just going to be federal buildings, but it's going to be all public entities that will require vaccination or proof of vaccination before you enter? What do you think? I think starting with federal agencies is the place to start. And I heard a message earlier while I was getting ready on the TV that he was saying that he is going to institute it, not tomorrow or the next day to make the announcement. He made it this morning. It's going to happen. And if you won't take the vaccine, you will have rigorous testing that you must submit to. And I think that's important because the statistics are pretty staggering. New cases are up 65% since last week. Deaths are 22% since last week. We only have a 49.3% fully vaccinated percentage here in this country. We've got six states in this country that are under 40% that are all in the 30s and their percentile of vaccination rates. Of course, they're all the typical states that you expect, the red states, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, but then you got Idaho and Wyoming in there too. And then we've got the big high ones that are all in that northeast corner, like we were talking about where you were on vacation, Tim. They're all way in the high 60s or 70%. Now, Hawaii, hate to say it, guys. We're only at 53.3%. And I wonder, does that have something to do with our large military contingent that's here? We've got five active bases. So once we get that federal mandate in place, then of course our numbers will go way up. Let's go to what Winston said about some of the sourcing of where people get their information and therefore correlates to their resistance to vaccinations. And certainly, certain news sources, Fox, some social media websites. We know that they've been spreading disinformation. Allegedly, they're trying to clean it up. We have Newsmax. We have a whole pocket of sources where people are tuning in and it's confirming the big lie they believed in when Donald Trump said, this is a democratic hoax back in March of 2020. What should be the consequences for these sources that continually misguide, misinform, and quite frankly lie about the nature of the Delta variant, COVID, and the vaccination itself? What kind of consequences ought to be levied out for these institutions? Well, I think they could come up. If any, if any. I mean, I'm not saying they should, but if any. So I say yes, there should be. They should be severe. They should be extreme because they're killing people. And so the consequence should be big, too. It should start with massive fines. And if those don't work, then just shut them down if you can. Make them become an opinion station instead of a news station. And I think if we could just get that established better, maybe it would be easier to go in. I was reading and make a difference. I guess I was reading an article just this last week about looking into some of the people that are the least vaccinated and the percentages of people that are the least vaccinated. And they went in and they looked at all the churches. And most of the mainstream churches did not show a lower percentage of vaccinated people. Until you get to the born-again Christians, the holier-than-how conservative Christians, these people are really extreme. And they are the ones that watch One and Newsmax and Fox and all that. And those are the people, they say, that have the least percentage of vaccinations. And then the QAnon folks are the ones that have the least of all. And it just kind of goes down the list from there. Okay, so again, I think Winston accurately described the sources of the disinformation. And I guess I go to the question is, what can President Biden or President Biden's administration do about it? Jay, I take that to you. Can you declare a national emergency and say you're working against the interests of the United States? You're working against ultimately the economy and the welfare of this country. Under a national emergency scenario, can President Biden start imposing sanctions, penalties, ramifications for those sources that are working against the national best interests? I think we have an emergency. I'm not sure that entitles him to do anything more than if he didn't have an emergency. But I think he's been soft. He's been soft on the masks. He's doing a tip-toe. And he's saying, I don't want to influence my agencies. Well, come on. Look to him for leadership. Influence the agencies. It's okay. Tell the agencies we want a mask proclamation. We want the CDC or whatever it is, I guess the CDC, to at least suggest that masks be everywhere now. I don't know why we don't do that. And the vaccine thing, like Macron, absolutely he should do that. And he should do it at every level of the federal government, everywhere that he can reach as the leader of the federal government. And it's really shameful that the military doesn't have a regulation. They control the lives of their troops. They can implement a regulation along those lines instantaneously. And it would be completely and irrefutably legal for national defense. I cannot imagine why he's being soft. He's got to be harder like Macron. He should follow Macron. But there's one other thing, and I sent you guys a Wikipedia article on section 230 of the federal communications statute that was adopted. And 230 gives immunity to the networks, to the media, including social media for lies that they promulgate with very few exceptions. And that is a critical hole in the boat here. There have been moves to try to change that in the courts, not completely successful, and in the Congress. If that were changed, repealed, amended, what have you. So to make the media legally responsible to citizens who are affected by lies. It's not only COVID, it's all kinds of other lies. But COVID is a really good example. So what happened to Uncle John? He died of COVID. Didn't he get a vaccine? No, he was watching Newsmax and they told him not to. And he relied on Newsmax, didn't take the vaccine. He was immune vulnerable and he died. Well, doesn't that sound like a good cause of action? You know, Jay, you hit the nail on the head. Under that provision, section 230, Uncle John cannot sue because it wasn't Facebook or Twitter or any media that said that. They were really republishing what somebody else put on their platform. If you change section 230, that changes. And all of a sudden, Uncle John can take a whack legally at the people who propagated the lie. This is very important for us. And we have let social media, and for that matter, media like Fox News and Newsmax run away with us. You've been asking, Kim, why are they backing up? Why are the opinion casters on Fox News softening their position on taking, not taking the vaccine? I think the reason is they're afraid that there's going to be some lawsuits against them where people died. This sounds to me just as an intuitive matter. Like it should happen. I think it probably needs some legal impetus from the president. But one way or the other, we have got to get that crack off these social media and network platforms. Well, two points, Jay, is remember the voting machines. I forget the name of the company, but they are suing Fox and some of the pundits for billions of dollars because of the misinformation about the voting machines and how they are rigged. And that is damaged to defamation their company. So those lawsuits, as you suggest, are actually taking place right now. The second point is, remember, Donald Trump tried to abolish rule 230, but he didn't do it because he was concerned about the American public and the COVID virus. He was upset because they blocked him from being on their airwaves and from the social media. So that's why he wanted 230 abolished so that he could sue him and force himself back on the airwaves. Yeah, I would distinguish the voting machine situation. Yes, in that case, the networks had no evidence whatsoever to back up the defamation. They are sitting pretty for a multi-billion-dollar judgment on that and good for the guys who were suing them. The case of Uncle John and how he died from COVID is a little different because in that case, we're talking about these platforms propagating lies from someone else. And that's the whole impetus on fixing 230. So I think one way... See, the government under the First Amendment cannot come in and start vetting the information that's going to the public. That would be a clear First Amendment problem. So the real solution is to find a way to have the individuals who are being harmed, namely you and me and anyone who has been either defamed or hurt or killed by COVID to do a class action or some kind of legal proceeding in the courts. That would change everything. And regrettably, Congress right now is locked up. And maybe that'll change, but not right away, I'm afraid. The other thing is Congress could help solve this. And because it's locked up, that's a problem. The various governors that have said, well, we're going to change our position on the vaccine. Good for them.  My question is while I agree that there's a certain change happening, a certain change in the air, there is also a certain resistance happening, and that's still happening. And so you have two contending lines on the chart. You have people who are becoming more enlightened, including some public officials, and also people who are hunkering down, as usual, doubling down the Trump model. Make no mistake, he's behind this. So the question is, where do those lines meet? Can we reverse public opinion on these issues quickly enough to subdue the emergency? And the jury's out on that. Yes, both of those lines are in play, but what's the timing? Yeah, the timing is everything. The, as you say, the TikTok of the Metrodome continues. Hey, Winston, last comments were out of time, but... So you know some of the research you sent shows the trend line of those red states. They're starting to get vaccinated now. The numbers are starting to slowly shift, and the percentages are getting better. Should Joe Biden look at those numbers and say, okay, we'll give it us a little more time before I really start cracking down hard? Or regardless of the trend line of vaccinations improving, we need to act now and act fast. What direction do you think President Biden should take? He's a pretty moderate, centrist person, so he realizes that half the country still isn't there, but they're getting on board pretty quickly. I think even though people don't believe the CDC, they don't believe Anthony Fauci, they might believe their minister. They might believe their governor. They might believe their mayor. And so the messaging needs to really bleed down to people that they trust and have some faith in, and their family members, and having a generous conversation with them. It doesn't help when you have the Attorney General of Missouri saying he's filing suit to stop a mask mandate in St. Louis County. This is not helpful, but hopefully when you've got one in five people who are resisting this vaccine, believing that chips are implanted in it, you're fighting an uphill battle, but I remain confident that the message is getting through, and this dealt this freaking people out. And if it's not, it should be because there's a thousand times of particles. They say that before when you were exposed to 15 minutes with someone without a mask, the equivalent now is one second, one literal second. Was that an analogy? Was that a metaphor? No, no, that's literal. There's a thousand times more viral particles that they're getting. But the other thing is that 90, what is 97, 99% of the people that are getting sick and dying are unvaccinated. The problem is, is when this like this Delta Plus, what's next for the people, as these things keep brewing, what about Delta Plus Plus or Epsilon or Zeta? And this is the concern is that we need to do it, not just here, but all around the world, so that when the next one comes up, when Lambda comes up or when the next one comes up, we're better prepared to at least have the huge majority of our population vaccinated. So slowly, surely, through laws, through mores, through leadership, small, large, personal, state, city, local, it all needs to be part of the story. We need to welcome people on board to change their positions to a better position now that they have more information. So anyone that says, I was afraid, yeah, who wants to get a shot of anything? Nobody. But when you realize people aren't dropping dead from this vaccination, they're staying alive because of this vaccination. And I think as they're surrounded by it, and they're all sick of COVID at this point, we just got to step up and do our civic and personal duty. And if nothing else, go for the enlightened self-interest here. Get your shots. Well, let's just say slowly, Winston, but it should not be slowly. It's happening rapidly. It's happening more and more rapidly. And the way is that Biden must take affirmative action, just like Macron. And that way we'll get it done. And I think at this point, he's not going to have as much resistance as he would have had a month ago. This goes again to our social compact. The points we raised at the beginning of this show is what happened to the social compact that we had with our fellow Americans? I'll repeat Macron's comment again. His quote is, I know that you're ready for this commitment. This is, in a sense, part of your sense of duty. The operative word is duty. We have no duty left for our fellow Americans. And maybe sometimes people need to be forced to be reminded of their duty. I don't know. But let me go to Cynthia for closing comments. Cynthia, your last thoughts? Public safety laws. We've got lots of them. Why can't this be one of our public safety laws? I mean, you've got to put on a seatbelt to get in a car. You cannot drive drunk. All of these things that are laws to keep us safe that none of us like, but we do. Well, maybe we like that don't drive drunk one. But it seems to me that it's the same sort of thing. And what really gets me when I hear these anti-vaxxers and these anti-masksers from these main big red states, these Republicans, the very same people that want to govern a woman's body in regards to reproduction. But boy, they don't want to put a little mask over their face.  But they want the government to tell you that you can or cannot have a baby or what. If you've been raped, you still have to have that. These same people that are voting things. That points out the absurdity of their argument. At least it does to me. Well, if it's not absurd, it's hypocritical. So you get the last word on that point. I want to thank you very much, Cynthia, for making those points. And I'd like to thank everyone, Jay Fidel, Winston Welch, and you, Cynthia, Lee Sinclair, for joining us this week on What Now, America? Please tune in next week at 11 o'clock on Wednesday. And I'm Tim Appichelle, your host, and we'll see you then. Aloha.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overlord here So we got another image released yesterday regarding Halloween kills a very fresh image showing Michael Myers looking very bad ass and David Gordon Green gave us some tidbits on what we can expect from the upcoming film and what it's all centered around Now just gonna jump into what David Gordon Green had to say in the interview from total film He went on to state that Halloween kills is about the creation of fear And it's one thing to be afraid of the boogeyman to have someone who might be in the closet under the bed Creeping around your house, but we wanted to explore what we wanted to explore next was confusion Misinformation and paranoia. What happens when fear goes viral? You can't just stick your head under the covers anymore So when I'm hearing that the first thing that comes to mind is that's just them kind of reinforcing the mob mentality Vibe that we're gonna be getting in this film We have all these people coming back that are gonna be sharing their experiences and how Michael Myers affected them from all these years ago in 1978 how they've been dealing with that for the past 40 years and now they're finally gonna get to let out all their frustration in This image you see here released via total film We see Michael Myers at the top of a staircase and I've already seen people speculating on what this is I too believe that this is inside the Myers house because the Myers house is supposed to be featured in some capacity in Halloween Kills, we're gonna see it return for the very first time in quite some time and As you see it looks like this is the Myers house and people have also speculated this might be the scene where Allison is standing at the bottom of a staircase She looks like she stand at the bottom of a staircase in the wallpaper is matching a similar image We've had where she's screaming and it looks like this could be matching up where she's looking at Michael Myers up on this staircase And she just letting out an audible scream Maybe this is the part where he unfortunately has killed Karen Stroll because I believe Karen Stroll will die in this movie and Maybe this is inside the Myers house People have been trying to shoot down that theory that this is inside the Myers house because of that stained glass window Or that window in the back of them now to my knowledge the reason why I think this is the Myers house the most of Concrete thing that has me confident in this is the very opening scene of the original film If you go back and look at the opening scene just look at the opening When they're first introducing us to the to the world of Halloween and we're seeing this six-year-old child They become the note going into his house to kill his sister everything that we see shows off everything from what we see From the staircase and a room next to it It's kind of dark in the back So we don't see that window, but it's very much possible based off of that This is the Myers house because it's very similar if you look at that opening scene the way Certain things in that scene match up with this image that's been released It's easy to believe why this could be the Myers house now The only other thing is of course that window in the background. Yes We don't see it in the opening scene of the original film But the way the staircase is designed the way The there's a room to the side though the positioning of the staircase All of that points to the Myers house now, of course that wallpaper is a bit off I don't see that wallpaper anywhere in the opening of the original film But you know, whatever they were going to green also went on to say when we made the last one We wanted to find a way for someone who's never seen the original to get up and get up to speed with the story But this one gets right to the action is very aggressive is more efficient We wanted it to be an explosive middle before things get streamlined and personal again And at that end there I believe he was referring to how things will progress ultimately into Halloween ends because Halloween kills is the bridge between Halloween 2018 and Halloween ends So I expect this to be a very action-packed film. They've already made it out to sound like this is gonna be one of the most brutal Michael Myers Halloween films we've ever seen this is gonna be Michael Myers most brutal outing probably since Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 I don't think it's gonna top that that Michael Myers portray I've said this a bunch of times in previous videos The way he was portrayed in Rob Zombie's Halloween 2 all that grunting and all this overly gory violence Just for the sake of being violent. I was not I was not there for that. I Honestly was not I don't think it's gonna be anywhere near that I think it's just gonna be very much in the same style of John Carpenter's Michael Myers minus all the grunting and just the overly Bloody violence just for the sake of being overly violent I Expect that we'll see a lot more images released as things start to Lead to the fall and the summer when they start to up up up the ante with as far as the marketing and everything to get As hyped for the movie since it's gonna be released this upcoming October Jason Blum It's promised we will not have no other delays It's coming out a hundred percent this year no matter if it's in theaters I guess or straight to VOD or some other form of release that they might come up with Whether it be limited theatrical release and then straight to VOD That's probably the route they will end up having to take a limited VOD limited theatrical release and then straight to VOD, but That was a very cool image that they released Michael Myers looks very badass the lighting in that image is very Very flattering to the way he's positioned in that image. I liked it a lot and it's very obvious to me that Not obvious, but I'm gonna be one of those people who yes is gonna jump on the train That is inside the Myers house It's probably in that same sequence where we see allison at the bottom of the staircase And she is screaming up at Michael Myers who has probably most likely killed her Killed her mother. I think this is the scene where Karen strode is gonna die And that's why allison will venture into the Myers house because that's somehow I'm gonna assume Karen ends up there and then this is where halloween kills will end It'll end inside the Myers house and it'll probably end with us hearing allison's audible scream as michael appears from behind That room where karen and him are supposed to be teasing us To Teasing us to wait for halloween ends where we'll finally find out if karen actually died or not I think that would be a very clever way to end the movie We don't get a we don't get a clear ending Or a clear answer as to whether or not she lived or died But having michael Myers appear after a brief moment of silence And then we just hear allison scream because she was convinced her mother just died And then maybe we hear lori screaming for some reason and then the screen just fades to black Also, this is a very much reminiscent of the ending of halloween 4 where we have uh jamie standing at the top of that staircase after she was booked after she was stabbing her stepmother While she was running her bath water We could also be that this is just a promotional image and we don't get to see this scene at all in the film But I think we'll get this shot. I think this is this is going to be the very final shot of the film possibly It could be taking place at the very tail end in the Myers house And I think this is the moment where karen strode will unfortunately die at the hands of michael Myers But let me know what you guys think about this image down in the comment section below Turn on post notifications so that you never miss a video in the description I have links to my social media accounts on my facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there, of course Let me know as any movies news or views you would like me to cover in the future Also down in the comment section I'm going to have a link to the facebook group join that and if you haven't already Subscribe if you thought it in my guys. I will see you in the next video


If one of your dreams was to go on a long holiday on a secluded island, then you should definitely hear about this beautiful island called Lagomera. Part of the Canary Islands, the beautiful island offers a lot of entertainment, from diving, snorkeling and local villages, to ruins and even mountains you can climb. That's where one family and their kid spend some unforgettable moments, meeting a strange sea creature. We have to admit, it's a one-of-a-kind story. The beautiful island offers an incredible scenery, starting with its high mountains, diverse flora and fauna, and ending with a valley, a coast and a beach soaked in the sun for an entire year. The most popular place on the island is without doubt Valle Gran Ray, the Valley of the Great King. This place is the most known beach on the island, and it's close to where the family in our story went to have some fun. Little did they know mother nature had one big surprise for them. The waters around Lagomera are beautiful, and they wash over its beach that has fine black sand. This is the perfect destination for snorkeling or just swimming around. There's also a secluded beach right behind the Vuelta's harbor. And that's where things get a bit strange. As you approach the harbor, you'll see many fishing boats that sometimes take tourists on board to show them a good time. When Joel, the little boy in our story, got ready to visit the beach that morning, he had no idea he'd be greeted by something in the water. The plan was to get on the boat and go fishing, but as Joel got ready to hop in the boat, he saw the waves looked a bit strange. Then, as he approached the water, something brushed against his foot. Was it a fish? As you all know, one of the main attractions at the Canary Islands is to visit the underwater creatures. This is why many people go snorkeling or scuba diving, but Joel didn't even need to dive to encounter and see creature. Before Joel came to spend his holiday on La Gomera, residents heard of tourists that stumbled upon strange creatures. However, they knew better than think of stories told by frightened people that may have never even seen underwater creature up close. Plus, all the stories were of them swimming in the dark, so they might have been mistaken. Nonetheless, people recommended tourists not to swim during the night, considering many accidents can happen, and there are no lifeguards around during the night. But that morning, Joel had no intention of swimming. And when he stepped on the wet stairs, something touched his feet, and it wasn't just water. Was Joel imagining things? The water was pretty dark, and something touched him again, with more strength. He realized it wasn't a wave. Since he was in the harbor, he thought maybe it was one of the fish that the fisherman threw back into the water. But that thing wasn't a fish at all. Nobody dared to move as Joel told them something touched his feet. It was a big creature and tourists feared it was a shark. They were stunned and didn't know if screaming at Joel to come back was a good idea. They feared the boy would slip on those stairs and who knows what would be at the bottom of the sea, waiting for its prey. Joel took a better look and realized that the huge sea creature was actually quite friendly. The mysterious creature people saw at night and terrified tourists was looking to make some friends. What was it? Believe it or not, but Joel became best friends with this giant stingray. He made a habit of visiting it every day during his holiday and always made sure to bring it some food. Because the stingray is always around, waiting for Joel, fishermen have started to throw at all the beacatch they didn't need, so you can imagine this huge stingray found a great home. Every morning, Joel would go to the harbor to see his best friend, and with time, they began developing a great friendship. What's even more incredible is that they decided to stay longer for Joey's sake. As Joey walks along the stairs in the harbor, the stingray swims close to him and touches his feet. Joey bends over to greet his pal, and the stingray greets him back. Check them out in the next photos to see for yourself. As soon as people heard of Joey's new friend, they joined him during his morning routine. One person caught the whole moment on camera, and it's safe to say the video got viral overnight. As news of Joel and his stingray friend traveled around the village, more people came to see how the stingray comes around every morning to say hi. Then, one of the fishermen came to offer Joel a box of fresh shrimp. Now Joel had something to offer his friend in return for their everyday interactions. He was eager to feed the stingray all of that fresh shrimp, and that became part of their ritual. Joel fed his stingray friend until he was full, but he never said no to fresh shrimp, even if he had enough. Then, Joel would pet the friendly sea creature one more time before saying goodbye. Joel would then watch as the stingray disappears into the ocean, knowing they'd see each other the next day. But aren't stingray dangerous, you'd ask yourself. You see, when they feel threatened, they can use their poisonous stinger to defend themselves. If left alone, they're not aggressive. Joel understands that he has to make the stingray feel safe around him. Joel teaches other kids how not to be threatening around the friendly stingray. This way, it feels safe around humans and will let Joel pet him. Giant stingrays don't usually live in shallow waters like this stingray and don't have such behavior. It seems this one is that one exception, since it's so friendly. The person that captured these amazing moments has uploaded the video on YouTube, and it obviously went viral overnight. A YouTube user said, my faith in humanities restored. These boys have good souls. Another person said that the boy looks like he knows to respect boundaries and doesn't go too far, and that the ray flapping back to the boy was so fantastic. This unusual friendship is certainly one of a kind, and Joel will never forget his time at La Gomera. Hopefully, he'll relocate there with his family to keep visiting the friendly stingray.