This is the 17th lecture on phasors and their applications in AC circuit analysis. As you recall in the last lecture, the 16th one, we introduced an artificial concept of phasors which basically transforms a voltage or a current which is of the form root 2 v cosine of omega t plus theta into a phasor which is represented as V e to the power j theta and then the cosine omega t and root 2 is taken care of by root 2 e to the power j omega t and we take the real part of this. This is obviously equal to this, real part of this and here since all currents and voltages in this circuit shall contain this factor, we decided to ignore this and we also decided to ignore the real part. In other words if these 2 are cut out, this will be implied for all voltages and currents, then the quantity that is left is represented by a phasor V with a bar above it and we call this capital V e to the power j theta and in the complex plane we represent this by means of a vector whose magnitude is capital V and whose angle from the real axis is theta. If we do this then obviously this is a transformation from the time domain into the complex number domain, complex number domain and it has been shown that with the help of phasors, the circuit analysis, steady state circuit analysis or forced response of a circuit to a sinusoidal excitation becomes extremely simple. Let us consider the 3 basic elements, namely a resistance and inductance and the capacitance. A resistance suppose I excite this by means of a current I, I which is root 2 I let us say cosine of omega t then obviously the corresponding phasor is I bar which is equal to I e to the power j 0 or angle, I also write this sometimes as I angle 0 alright. Now if if this passes through a resistance R, the corresponding voltage phasor V R shall be simply I times R alright. In other words the voltage, the actual voltage we must be able to go back and forth between the time domain and the complex number domain. The actual voltage shall be equal to root 2 I R cosine of omega t. This is equal to obviously you see the phase is 0. So there is no phase change between the current and the voltage it is true in the time domain, it is also true in the transform domain and the ratio of the voltage phasor to the current phasor is simply equal to R which we can write as R 0 degrees alright. Now this is a trivial case if we take if we take an inductance now and cause the same current I to flow that is I equal to root 2 I cosine of omega t which corresponds to the phasor I equal to I angle 0 degree. Then you know the voltage across this is given by L D I D t the actual voltage this will be minus omega L root 2 I sine omega t and sine omega t can be written as omega L root 2 times omega L I can be written as cosine of omega t plus pi by 2 agreed. So if I write this as a phasor obviously the phasor shall be omega L I V L phasor shall be omega L I this would be the magnitude and the angle would be pi by 2 angle would be pi by 2 this is the angle cosine omega t plus theta alright. I can write this as V L its magnitude angle pi by 2 so in the case of the resistor in the case of the resistor if we go back if we wish to draw a phasor diagram that is the currents and voltages then you see the current is in this direction let us say this represents the current phasor I then the voltage phasor is in phase with the current phasor that is the voltage phasor also has an angle 0 so the voltage phasor may be is up to this on different scales current and voltage cannot be represented on the same scale so this would be V R phasor. On the other hand if I represent the current voltage relationship in an inductor in an inductor the current phasor is this and the voltage phasor is this and therefore if the current phasor is along the real axis I then the voltage phasor shall be along the imaginary axis shall be along the perpendicular axis because it leads by an angle of pi by 2. So the voltage across an inductor the voltage phasor across an inductor leads the current by an angle of pi by 2 this may be represented as the voltage phasor where this angle is pi by 2 alright with respect to I as the reference the current as the reference the voltage phasor across an inductance leads it by an angle of pi by 2 you also notice that the ratio of V L phasor to I phasor the ratio of the 2 is simply given by omega L times omega L an angle pi by 2 now is that a phasor no is this a phasor it is not a phasor a phasor is used to transform a time domain quantity into the complex number domain now corresponding to omega L there is no time domain quantity. So this is simply a complex quantity whose magnitude is omega L and angle is pi by 2 what is such a complex quantity obviously it is J times omega L the magnitude is omega L and the angle is 90 degrees that is why it is purely imaginary J times omega L alright and you notice that for an inductor the voltage and the current if one of them is sinusoidal if the current is sinusoidal I am sorry if the current is exponential e to the S t then the voltage is S L times e to the S t and S L was defined as the impedance of the inductor and you see that this quantity of voltage phasor to current phasor when the excitation is sinusoidal is simply given by S L with S replaced by J omega and therefore this can be called as the impedance Z L of the inductor to a sinusoidal excitation of frequency omega that is instead of e to the S t what we have is e to the J omega t and therefore S is replaced by J omega and J omega L is the impedance of the inductor to make this explicit we say Z L of J omega that is impedance of the inductor at a sinusoidal frequency of omega that is S is replaced by J omega alright in that sense what is the impedance of the resistor irrespective of the value of S whether it is DC or an exponential truly exponential quantity or a sinusoidal quantity the impedance is always equal to R and the angle is zero degree however I must caution you J omega L is not a phasor it is a complex quantity J omega L alright it is not a phasor a phasor is a current or voltage which is a representation of the corresponding quantity in the time domain it is a transform of a current or voltage. If I now take a capacitor and allow the voltage across the capacitor C to be let us say root to V cosine omega t alright then the corresponding current is C dV dt and therefore root to omega C minus V sin omega t alright the current is C dV dt is equal to this which I can write as root to omega C V cosine of omega t plus pi by 2 why is that this is minus minus sin omega t can be written as cosine omega t plus pi by 2 yes is that okay I do not want cosine 90 minus theta that is sin theta there is no sin change there is a sin change here cosine for cosine 2 you go to sin and therefore cosine omega t plus pi by 2 and therefore if the corresponding phasor quantities are denoted by V then V phasor is simply V angle 0 degree and I phasor I sub C the current in the capacitor is simply omega C V angle pi by 2 which indicates that is V sub no this is I sub C magnitude angle pi by 2 and therefore in the phasor diagram or the real imaginary or the complex plane diagram if this is V if this is the phasor V alright then the current leads the voltage phasor by an angle of 90 degrees and therefore the current I am sorry A S the current would be like this I sub C phasor and this angle this angle is pi by 2 alright so in a capacitor the current leads the voltage by an angle of 90 degrees we always take rotation in the anticlockwise direction as positive so you say the current leads the voltage by an angle of pi by 2 correspondingly in the case of an inductor the voltage leads the current by an angle of pi by 2 if I take the ratio of voltage phasor to the current phasor you see that the ratio is simply 1 over omega C angle pi by 2 now a complex quantity which is omega C magnitude omega C and the angle is pi by 2 obviously is a purely imaginary quantity and therefore its actual representation would be J omega C and since it is the ratio of a voltage phasor to a current phasor this is the impedance of the capacitor Z C alright this is the impedance of the capacitor Z C is that okay impedance Z C is not a phasor alright it is simply a complex quantity and you notice that it is quite in tune with the definition of an impedance for e to the S T excitation e to the S T excitation impedance was 1 by S C and here S is replaced by J omega and therefore you say Z C J omega alright impedance of the capacitor if I summarize if I summarize this relationships for a resistance inductance and a capacitance L C R then the relationships between the current and voltage phasors it is implied that all excitations all currents and voltages are of the form cosine omega T plus some constant theta root 2 times a constant all currents and voltages are of this form if that is so then the current in the resistance while we cannot represent only in terms of phasors let us do that this is I R phasor and the voltage phasor is V R this is I L phasor and the voltage phasor is V L I C phasor and the voltage phasor is V C with this polarity then the relationships are that V R is simply equal to R times I R phasor or the other way round I R is equal to V R divided by R which I can write as G times V R where G is the conductance alright G is the conductance of the resistance similarly for a for a inductor we have V L equal to J omega L I L J omega L is the impedance of the inductor or I L is equal to V L divided by J omega L alright which indicates that the admittance of an inductor Y L is simply equal to J omega 1 by J omega L that is correct and it is impedance Z L equals to J omega L alright for a capacitor for a capacitor V sub C well it is okay V sub C would be equal to I sub C multiplied by its impedance that is by J omega C is that okay or I sub C bar is equal to J omega C V C bar the impedance of the capacitor is 1 over J omega C and the admittance of the capacitor is J omega C whenever a quantity impedance or admittance is purely imaginary the real part of that impedance or admittance goes by a special name and we shall introduce the name here itself the name is if there is an impedance which is purely imaginary let us say let us consider the inductance for example if Z L is equal to J omega L then the real part of this is known as reactance that is what we do is we write this as J X L where X L X L is equal to omega L and is called the reactance of inductance L similarly when you write Y sub C as equal to J omega C I write this as J B C okay J times real quantity where B sub C is equal to omega C and this is called the susceptance of C susceptance alright it is not that we could not write the impedance also J the Z of a capacitor impedance of a capacitor is 1 over J omega C which I can write as J times minus 1 by omega C can I then we write this as J times X C and X C is called the reactance of the capacitor C the reactance of the capacitor is negative the reactance of an inductor is positive as you see the reactance of the capacitor is 1 minus 1 by omega C we can after we define the impedances for sinusoidal excitations we can combine them exactly in the same manner that we combined impedances for e to the S T excitation or combined resistances for example yes A plus J B that is right we deserve the symbol B for susceptance for impedance we will use the symbol capital X alright and the real part of the impedance an impedance can be of this form where capital R is the real part corresponds to a resistance capital X is a reactance is a reactance which corresponds to either an inductor or a capacitor or both a combination of them that could also form a reactance we shall come across this in a minute okay now as I said once we define impedance for sinusoidal excitation we can combine impedances exactly in the same manner that we did for e to the S T excitation for example the impedance of this combination Z of J omega would be would be equal to R plus J omega L plus 1 over J omega C so you simply sum up the impedances sum of the impedances this you can write as J omega L minus 1 over omega C and then we shall call this as the resistive part and this as the reactive part and you see that the reactive part you now consist of the combination of an inductor and a capacitor and because we also notice that the reactance of an inductor is an opposite sign to that of a capacitor and therefore depending on which is greater the reactance could be positive if a reactance is positive we call it an inductive reactance on the other hand if 1 by omega C exceeds omega L then the reactance would be negative and then we shall call it a capacitive reactance alright so reactances impedances all of them can be combined in exactly the same manner that we combined resistances or impedances to e to the power S T excitation to take another example suppose we have an inductor L in parallel with a capacitor C then I can either find the impedance or I can find the admittance suppose you find the impedance then Z of J omega shall be equal to J omega L multiplied by 1 by J omega C exactly like resistances J omega L plus 1 over J omega C which is equal to J omega L divided by omega squared well 1 minus omega squared L C is that okay and you see that depending on omega when omega squared L C is less than 1 the impedance is inductive that is the reactance is positive when omega squared L C is less than 1 then Z J omega is equal to J times a positive quantity so it behaves like an inductance on the other hand for frequencies omega squared L C is greater than 1 when the reactance is negative and therefore the impedance behaves like that of a capacitor and when omega squared L C is equal to 1 the 2 reactances cancel each other and the impedance becomes infinite what does it mean it means that no current can flow at that particular frequency that is omega equal to 1 by square root L C omega not squared L C equal to 1 at this particular frequency this circuit behaves as an open circuit and this is called the condition of resonance as we shall see later but let us enough of words let us see from a picture as to what this lead and lag mean in terms of actual sine waves alright we recall that the current and voltage in a resistor they are in phase there is no phase difference the current in an inductor leads or lags the voltage lags the voltage the current lags the voltage across an inductor leads the current by an angle of 90 degree and in a capacitor the opposite happens that is the current the current leads the voltage or voltage lags the current let us see what it means in terms of a picture is this visible on the monitor this curve I will explain 1 by 1 this curve that is the blue colored curve this is the current I equal to root 2 I cosine omega t plus theta and the corresponding drop in a resistor V R is simply this current multiplied by R which I have called I times R I have called V R root 2 V R cosine omega t plus theta and it is this curve obviously this and this are in phase that is the maximum minimum occur together whenever the current is a maximum the voltage is a maximum whenever the current is a minimum the voltage is a minimum and so on alright on the other hand this curve the black one represents the voltage across an inductor when this current flows through this and you can see that the voltage leads the current by an angle 90 degrees which means that on the x axis here it is omega t that when omega t is lagging when well 90 degrees ahead of the current the voltage arrives at a maximum the voltage reaches a maximum half a period is it half or one quarter one quarter period one quarter period earlier which corresponds to a voltage phase advance or phase lead by 90 degrees so this is what it is on the other hand the voltage across the capacitor if the same current passes shall lag behind in other words it will reach its maximum quarter of a period later this is what it means in terms of the actual voltages and currents is this clear omega t is represented in terms of degrees you see because root 2 i is cosine omega t plus theta we did not take omega t we said omega t plus theta to be completely general which means that the maximum will be reached at omega t equal to minus theta and that is what happens the maximum of the current is reached at omega t equal to minus theta this difference is theta and then the maximum of the voltage across the inductor is reached 90 degrees earlier the maximum of the voltage is reached voltage across a capacitor is reached 90 degrees later is this picture clear okay or is there any questions I am going to do an example now all right to illustrate these points but before the example how do k v l and k c l translate in terms of phasors you know that k v l in general is summation v i equal to 0 around the loop and k c l is summation i j equal to 0 at a particular node now if each of these voltages is of the same frequency as it would in a linear circuit it cannot change frequency all right then each of these voltages can be represented in terms of its phasor notation that is each of these could be represented as real part I can take the real part outside root 2 v i let us say e to the power j theta e to the power j omega t now this quantity root 2 e to the j omega t would be common to each of these voltages and the real part would also be common to each of these voltages and therefore I can get rid of this and I can simply write v i phasor equal to 0 is this okay a very simple argument says that k v l should be valid if we replace the time varying quantities by their transforms by their transforms that is that means phasors in an exactly similar manner the k v l k c l translates into i j phasor summation i j phasor equal to 0 all right so k v l and k c l can now be translated in terms of phasors phasor quantities also obey k v l k v l and k c l let us take an example suppose we have a line voltage 230 root 2 cosine of let us say 100 pi t let this line voltage be applied to a parallel combination of let us say resistance and inductance and the capacitance then and let us say the values are r l and c the resistance the currents in the 3 branches if added together shall obviously give the current that is supplied by the source if I represent the currents and voltages all of them by phasors then the corresponding phasor of this would be 230 then e to the power j 0 and therefore the current i r phasor representation would be 230 by r angle 0 the current through the inductor would be 230 divided by yes omega l and the angle would be plus or minus minus pi by 2 so I can also write this as 230 by j omega l that angle is taken care of automatically in a similar manner the current i sub c phasor shall be equal to 230 times j omega c that means 230 omega c angle plus pi by 2 and therefore the total current phasor i total current phasor i shall be i r plus i l plus i sub c I can manipulate these quantities algebraically rather than writing out differential equations and solving differential equations if the excitation is sinusoidal I can work solely in terms of phasors and this affords this offers tremendous simplification in in a circuit analysis. Let us take another example I have a voltage now represent by phasor the frequency is unimportant I represent it by phasor a voltage source I have a resistance in the capacitance I will do this very slowly resistance in the capacitance and I have an inductor l the current phasor in this is i l the current phasor in this is i r obviously i r and i sub c shall be the same right the same current flows to resistance and capacitance so it suffices to find i r it is given that r equal to 2 ohms l equal to 0.2 Henry and it is also given that i r is the actual current through the resistance is given by 10 root 2 cosine of 10 t plus 45 this is what is given alright is that clear a voltage source is connected across parallel combination of 2 branches 1 consist of an inductor l value 0.2 Henry and the other consist of a resistance in the capacitor in series resistance 2 ohms the capacitor is not known alright the question is on a phasor diagram on a phasor diagram show i r and v r on a phasor diagram show i r and v r and draw an arrow to show the direction to show the direction of of the voltage across the capacitor that is v sub c alright this is first part of the question now that is obviously very simple i r i r as you can see the current phasor would be simply equal to 10 angle 45 and the voltage phasor v r shall be equal to 10 times 2 that is 20 angle 45 this is volts and this is amperes alright so the phasor diagram phasor diagram would be take a vector 45 degree at an angle of 45 degree and you represent let us say this length by for the vector i r you take different scales and you represent this a vector in the same direction as v r as the voltage across the resistance alright now this length is 20 and this length is 10 this is in volts that is in amperes we are showing the direction is the same but we have different scales okay the next question is show the direction of v c now obviously v c yeah they are different scales okay we choose to have a smaller scale for v r alright now the current the voltage phasor across the capacitor obviously this will be i r divided by j omega c which means that it is i r by omega c and angle is minus pi by 2 minus pi by 2 with reference to whom with reference to the i r vector and therefore it goes like this this is the direction of v c is that clear the capacitor voltage shall lag the current by 90 degrees and therefore this angle must be 45 is that okay this angle is minus 45 okay the absolute value of the angle is 45 the point is that v c lags i c by 90 degrees so this part of the question is fine the next part says next part is interesting if the voltage phasor if the voltage phasor that is v we recall v is the v is the exciting voltage let me draw this circuit again okay if v is v 0 degree sorry then show v m v c on the diagram and determine v of t alright let us suppose the question like this that you know our original vector diagram was like this i had a v r in this direction and the v c was perpendicular to it v c direction was this let me show the direction this is the direction of v c alright now it is said that v which is the sum of v r and v c is has an angle of 0 and therefore v is in this direction is that clear v is in this direction and then what does it specify about v c v c is equal to say it again the magnitude of the magnitude shall be equal and therefore if i measure this would be my v c such that when i complete the parallelogram the parallelogram will now be a rectangle is not that right or a square it will be a square because this is 45 this is 45 and therefore this is my voltage phasor you are now required to find out v t that how do you find v t obviously obviously this angle is 45 so cosine 45 cosine 45 so interesting question cosine 45 would be base divided by hypotenuse so v r divided by v alright therefore v r is equal to well v equal to v r divided by root 2 no it is the other way round v would be equal to root 2 v r v would be equal to root 2 v r that is right and therefore what is v t then v t is simply yes come on i r 40 cosine 10 t that is what is v t that is all because the angle is 0 angle is 0 alright you see why did this come because small v r was 20 root 2 cosine of 10 t plus 45 that is what it was alright the magnitude of the phasor v the magnitude of the phasor v is root 2 times v r so root 2 times this will be 20 root 2 multiplied by root 2 which is 40 and the angle is 0 so it is simply i am set cosine 10 t is that clear okay please what we have seen is that our original equations let us say 10 root 2 cosine of 10 t plus 45 so what is v r then v r is 20 root 2 because r is 2 ohms 20 root 2 multiplied by cosine 10 t plus 45 and therefore the phasor v r is equal to 20 log 45 we have seen that the magnitude of v i want to find the phasor v the magnitude of v is equal to root 2 times v r which means that magnitude of v is 20 root 2 and the angle of v is 0 degree therefore the corresponding v t must be root 2 times the magnitude rms value which is 20 root 2 multiplied by cosine of omega t plus whatever the angle is the angle is 0 is that clear and therefore this is what we get we recall that root 2 i cosine omega t plus theta corresponds to a phasor which is i angle theta it is the other way round now we have to find v angle 0 degree what is the corresponding v t so multiplied v by root 2 to get the amplitude and cosine of omega t plus the angle which is 0 and omega is 10 omega is 10 and therefore this is the result where did I write it this is 40 cosine of omega t all right we will carry 2 more examples to illustrate this take another example let us say we have a v we shall make a we shall make a change over from time domain quantities to complex domain quantities and vice versa again and again you must be noticing that the small case letters are reserved for time and capital letters for phasors okay so there is a current i this is a voltage v and the circuit consists of r equal to 2 m and then an inductance l equal to 1 Henry and the capacitance c equal to 0.05 pharad and the output voltage is taken here v sub c these are the time domain quantities and now we specify that v of t let us say is 5 root 2 cosine of cosine of 5 t all right you are required to find out v sub c you are required to find out v sub c and in the process we are also required to find out a complete vector diagram complete phasor diagram that is i want to know what the current current through this resistance is what is its phasor i want to know what is this current let us say i l i r and i l is equal to i c then i want to know what is the relationship between i l and v c in terms of phasors and finally i want to know what v sub c is all right now i also want to know what this current small i is what is the corresponding phasor and what relationship does it bear to the phasor small v let us proceed systematically first of all the phasor representation of this would be v equals to 5 angle 0 okay this is the phasor representation if i want to find out i if that is my only concern then what i do is i find out the impedance all right now instead of impedance obviously it is easier to find the admittance because things are in parallel so let us find out y j omega and we will get very interesting results y j omega obviously is half plus admittance of this which is 1 by r plus 1 by impedance of this plus this so it will be j omega l minus 1 by omega c is that is that okay j omega l is the impedance of the inductor in series of the impedance of the capacitor minus j by omega c all right let us substitute the values and see what happens if you omega is 5 all right and l and c are given and therefore y of j omega is equal to half plus 1 over j omega is 5 and m is 1 so 5 into 1 minus 1 over 5 into 0.05 so this is equal to half plus 1 over j 5 minus 4 so this is simply half minus j all right 5 times 0.05 is 0.25 1 by 0.25 is 4 okay so this is the admittance then what is this current current phasor i this would be the admittance y j omega multiplied by the voltage phasor v all right the current phasor is admittance multiplied by the voltage phasor v so this is equal to half minus j times what is v 5 angle 0 degree and therefore what is the magnitude of this i can write this as 5 by 2 or i can simply write this as 5 half minus j angle 0 degree does not contribute anything and therefore what is its magnitude it is 5 square root of half plus 1 is it okay 1 quarter plus 1 all right and the angle is minus tan inverse not 5 by 2 tan inverse imaginary by real so tan inverse 2 minus tan inverse 2 is it okay now if i simplify this if i simplify this the current phasor is equal to 5 square root 5 divided by 2 is it okay okay and then minus tan inverse 2 i do not know how much minus tan inverse 2 is minus tan inverse 1 is 45 well whatever it is whatever it is you look at the phasor diagram now this is my v 63.5 all right minus 63.5 and what is 5 root 5 by 2 2.5 it is about 31 no no it is less than this how much 2.5 about 5.6 okay all right so the current phasor therefore lags the voltage by an angle of it is not to scale 63.5 and the current phasor is here if that is what i want if that is the only thing that i want all right and the corresponding current quantity i of t the corresponding current would be given by yes can you tell me what will be the current root 2 times that is 5 square root of 5 by 2 is it okay root 2 times this all right then cosine of 5 t minus 63.5 this will be the current i did not manipulate anything i simply manipulated some complex quantities all right now suppose suppose instead of this i want to find out the current through the resistance let us get back to the circuit this is the circuit what is i r i r is simply v small v by r and therefore the i r phasor would be equal to 2.5 angle 0 degree all right suppose i want to find out i l that would be more interesting now look at the phasor i l what do you think its relationship shall be to the voltage phasor v i should be happy if you if you can say v by j x l plus x c which can be either positive or negative how does what does this mean it means that the current made mad by 90 degrees or by 270 degrees is it right 780 plus 90 we shall continue this next time.


Today, I have the distinct pleasure of meeting with Greg Andrews of Search Minerals. How are you today, Greg? I'm very well. Thank you, Tracy. Greg, I'm very passionate about search minerals. I mean, you are one of the few options on this planet, especially in North America, to provide critical wear earths to our market. So I would love it if you would just start by introducing our audience to search minerals and why you're such a real contender in our sector. Well, Search Minerals has a deposit in Labrador, a safe jurisdiction. And we've recently completed our PEA, which takes in our technology with our resource and gives us a robust economics of our project. Well, according to Robin Bromby, of course, he was mentioning your robust economics, your updated PEA has shown how realistic it is for you to actually produce neodymium, dysprosium, terbium, and I think, prosidium. Is that correct? Yes. That's correct. We've started with our breakthrough in our technology back in 2014, which has allowed us to reduce four processes of our float chart, which would be eliminating the grinding and the flotation, magnetic and gravity separation. And for those of our investor Intel audience that are not familiar with Labrador, it is in North America. And in addition to that, I would like to get everyone as excited and interested in the critical wear earth element sector as humanly possible. I think you also have a very competitive strategy. Is that not correct? A triangle, search mineral triangle strategy. The search mineral strategy is to complete our triangle, which comprises of number one, a strategic investor or partner, along with an offtake agreement partner. Of course, I think one of the other advantages of search minerals is that you also have your proprietary technology for extracting the wear earth oxides. Is that correct? Right to, right to commercialization? Yes, we do, Tracy. And that was led by Dr. David Dreisinger, who is a professor and industry research chair at UBC. And he's developed that technology for us. Well, obviously someone believes that you have a substantial group. I think you mentioned you have three PhDs on your team, because I saw that you got, you received 1.25 million in R&D towards your new pilot plan. Is that correct? That's correct. Atlanta Canada Opportunity Agency and Research Development Corporation in Newfoundland have co-partnered with this project. It's a $1.9 million project to test our metallurgy with our concept that are eliminating those four processes will lead to lower costs. And that's what this larger demonstration plant should provide for us. And what's the timeline for the demonstration plant? We should be complete by probably August, September of this year. Okay. So in addition to having your pilot plant up at the end of the year, what else should we as shareholders anticipate? I do recall you had a news release about another project you have and the potential there. Yes. Within our district we have another prospect that we've did some channel samples on in 2015 called Deepwater Fox. And the initial look of that, if it's consistent with Foxtrot, would provide three times larger resource and up to 10 to 15% larger grades. Okay. So we have quite the resource then here with search minerals. Is that correct? Yes. Working towards our district. And then of course we also have your working towards production in the next three years. Is that what we're looking at? Yes. In our timeline would include a feasibility study, environmental study and decision to build. And that would be about three years away if everything was working right. So for those of us, Greg, I really appreciate you doing this interview with us today that are very interested in the compelling issues of sustainability. Can you tell us why search minerals? Why search minerals? Well we have, with our resource, with our technology, with our PEA and the support of both the federal and provincial governments to be able to be a rare producer in Canada or North America. That is our goal to be in production within three years. Well, I'll tell you Greg, thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you, Tracy. It was a pleasure.


It has been a little bit of some time since my last video, but like I said, I'm really trying to take more time and just put a lot of more thought into these videos that I'm putting out this year, so don't be surprised if there's not three videos a week. Anyways, it's good to be back with another video. I gotta open this box though. Do this correctly. I should be able to. One. So I got set this super sick beverage fridge from a company named New Air a couple days ago, and so far it's been awesome and it's only one of the few updates I've made to my dorm in the past couple weeks. I'll be talking a little more about that later in the video, but first I just wanted to give a little bit of a life update. Obviously I've only posted once this year so far, so I kind of miss sharing with you guys. It's something that I've been thinking about a lot recently, and obviously I'm sure you've been so interested in what I've been doing because, you know, my life is so interesting. Anyways, I'm about five weeks into my second semester of my sophomore year here at Yale. It's been good so far. I'm only taking four classes this semester compared to the five that I took last semester, so the workload's definitely a little bit less. I'm doing three computer science classes and then a military history class that's required for my Air Force RTC program, but I have to say this is probably one of the first semesters that I genuinely enjoy and enjoy learning all of the content in all of my classes. Generally it's been pretty good, but every semester previously I've always had one class that I'm just dreading, whereas this semester I'm a pretty big fan of all my classes, which is pretty cool. Just in the past two weeks alone, I coded an AI for Pac-Man in my artificial intelligence class that I'll pop a video up or something right here. Just pretty cool stuff like that. It's nice to finally be progressing enough in the CS major that I get to take some of these cool electives. Even though it's only four classes, don't get me wrong, it's still a ton of work, especially since I was literally gone off campus for the entire past week, so now I'm playing catch up for this week, which is not fun at all. I'm surprised I didn't have time to film this video. Why were you gone? You ask? Well, actually, this last week was my parents' 25th wedding anniversary. How cute. Oh, you know? You just gotta love it. And they've had this pretty cool family vacation planned for their 25th wedding anniversary for the past three years, right? It's ridiculous. Needless to say, I spent last week cruising around the Caribbean just in the middle of my second semester of school. Was that a smart thing to do? Absolutely not. I'm so behind. But it was a good time. It was a good time. And it was good to have some just off-the-grid time with my family because I just really don't see them as much as I would like to anymore now that I'm at college. On the trip, I got the chance to go scuba diving again, and I did two dives off the coast of Grand Cayman and the Cayman Islands. I'll throw up a video or something here. Definitely go check out my Instagram for all the other pictures and stuff from those dives because that was absolutely incredible, some of the best diving I've ever done. Also just by pure virtue of chance, one of my favorite magicians of all time, Dave Williamson, happened to be the magician that was performing on the cruise, so that was wild. I actually got to go see two of his shows. He had a family show the first night, and then he had an adult 18 and over show the second night, which I went to, and he actually ended up picking me as a volunteer, which I think I have a video of. That whole scenario where your money is safe because everybody cares about it. I didn't factor Josh into that. I was right up there. Where's the money? Number two, Josh. You know what to do. Get out of the stage, Josh! That's why I spent my childhood in the Green County Library every day after school. Seeing school, I was that kid who got the squirrelies and the wedgies in the classroom. I was that awkward. You probably relate to that, Josh, but here's the thing. And that was crazy, because he is just such a phenomenal performer, and getting picked as a volunteer gave me a great excuse to go run from my seat and go catch him before he left the back door after the show. Talked over 10 minutes, got a picture with him, signed my card that's hanging up there. I fanboyed a little bit, but it's fine. He's a great dude. Now that I'm back, I'm obviously playing catch up, as expected, because I have two weeks worth of work to do in one week. Literally I got back late Saturday night, and grinded all day Sunday and all day and Monday for an AI piece set that was due that Monday night at midnight, which that was a brutal. And now I just finished an algorithms piece set, and now I've got two more to do before the week ends up. But you know, we're doing okay, it's still a good time. You gotta love the stress, you gotta embrace it. My extracurriculars have been keeping me pretty busy as well. I'm about to go run to a meeting, and then the Magic Society has been prepping for our next big show, which we'll be presenting to not only the Yale community, but also to all the pre-frosh that choose to come during Bulldog Days. So starting to figure out my routine now, and that should be a good time. I'm really hyped for that. Loved doing the Bulldog Day show last year, and I thought it went really well. I also thought I would take some time to rave about the newest additions to this dorm room, because I think it's been a little while since the update, you guys. I know I haven't even done an official dorm tour yet. That will probably happen eventually. I just have to find time to film it, because I want to put a lot of time into it and make it good, but I'll promise you guys that it's definitely going to happen for the end of the semester, so you're ready for that. But anyways, one of the newest things that I've added is actually this really cool Magic Close-Up mat that is huge. Like, it's absolutely gigantic. It takes up my entire desk, like all of this Magic Close-Up mat. I'll actually probably set up the camera. Yeah, I'll set up the camera. Do some magic for your visual crack, just to test it out. Yes, I have also gotten a lot of questions about this little card collage above my desk, so I'm going to explain that now. It's actually pretty cool. Basically, I do a lot of tricks that have to deal with spectators signing a card, and sometimes I let them keep the card, and sometimes I just end up with the card in my deck. So basically, what this is is a little collage of all the signed cards that I've actually performed with throughout the past, I don't know, six months or so. Some of these are performance cards, and some of them actually aren't like this one. It is signed by Luis Otero, one of my favorite magicians when I met him in Columbia. This one is actually signed by David Williamson, who I talked about later, who I met on the cruise, and all the other ones are ones that have been signed by spectators that have actually been used in performance, which is pretty cool. It's kind of a little memento, and I'll look up there every once in a while and realize, oh, I remember performing to them, or I remember when they signed the wrong side of the card or something like that. It's just a cool little kind of memento. And obviously, I can't forget about the biggest new addition to this room, which I actually talked about earlier in the video. This is a new air beverage fridge. Super sick. They sent it to me. Big thanks to them. I will leave the actual model and a special link down in the description below. But basically, I have absolutely fallen in love with this fridge over the past couple of days when I've been using it. As you can see, it just looks absolutely incredible with the last door, and you can see all the drinks inside. And I pretty much designated it my Red Bull fridge. So it's completely stocked with Red Bull. Shout out to Tanner Teveritsky, the Yale Red Bull rep for hooking that up. Red Bull is pretty much my go-to drink whenever I need to stay up until 3 AM studying. So definitely comes in touch a lot. And the new air beverage fridge is the best way to keep all my drinks cool. Also, what's great about it is it has these removable shelves right here so I can change the positions of the shelves to whatever height I need. So I've kind of adjusted this to my liking. But it's completely flexible, completely however you want to adjust the way you want to hold big bottles or cans like this. It's completely flexible, which is great. And also, it's just like the perfect size for a dorm room. So if you're going into college or if you're in college right now and you're looking for a great fridge for your dorm room, highly recommend. All right, that's pretty much it for today's video. A little bit of an update on me and what I've been doing and also a couple of quick updates to the dorm room. Dorm room tour coming soon, don't worry. But hope you guys enjoyed. Hope you are ready for some more videos. I've actually been working on some bigger projects. Should be coming in the next couple of weeks. I've actually been thinking about doing a plan where I kind of put a lot of effort into a video and post it every Monday or something. So I have one solid video a week. And if I want to throw any other side videos that I don't necessarily spend as much time on, more the older style videos throughout the week, I may do that. But not super set on that schedule yet. But maybe I will keep it to one every Monday post a video. Not sure, let me know what you think down in the comments below. I'm definitely trying to prioritize my time in my class and stuff a lot more this semester, which is kind of hard. And balancing YouTube is always a struggle, as you guys know. So yeah, so let me know your thoughts on the whole schedule thing. Would every Monday work? I don't know. So with that, if you're new, if this is the first video you've seen, please press that subscribe button, you won't regret it. 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So, Putin has finally made a move, issuing a decree formally recognizing the sovereignty of the separatist-held Donbas territories in eastern Ukraine known as the DPR and LPR. Russian troops are being deployed to the region and what Putin describes as a peacekeeping mission amid a dramatic spike in ceasefire violations. The recognition of the DPR and LPR means Russia's withdrawal from the Minsk agreements, which were signed in 2014 and 2015 to establish the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, writes Anti-Wars Dave DeKamp. Under the Minsk agreements, Ukraine agreed to cede some autonomy to the DPR and LPR. Russia has grown increasingly frustrated over the fact that Kyiv hasn't fulfilled its end of the agreement. Needless to say, the U.S. Empire has not been happy about this move. President Biden has already imposed strict sanctions on the DPR and LPR, saying Moscow's recognition of their independence, quote, threatens the peace, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Tomorrow we will be announcing new sanctions on Russia in response to their breach of international law and attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki added. This decision represents a complete rejection of Russia's commitments under the Minsk agreements, directly contradicts Russia's claimed commitment to diplomacy, and is a clear attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, adds Secretary of State Tony Blinken. Other member states of the Empire were equally upset about this unforgivable violation of Ukraine's sovereignty. Canada strongly condemns Russia's recognition of so-called independent states in Ukraine, tweeted Justin Trudeau. This is a blatant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and international law. Canada stands strong in its support for Ukraine, and we will impose economic sanctions for these actions. Tomorrow we will be announcing new sanctions on Russia in response to their breach of international law and attack on Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, tweeted U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. This further undermines Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, erodes efforts toward a resolution of the conflict, and violates the Minsk agreements, to which Russia is a party, says NATO Secretary General Jen Stoltenberg. There are all kinds of criticisms that one can level against this move by Moscow, if one feels that the entire Western political media class, screaming all these criticisms in unison, does not have enough amplification. For myself, I would just like to point out that the U.S. centralized empire is the very last institution on this planet who has any business babbling about the sovereignty of other nations. Absolute dead last. I say this not out of any kind of fondness for Putin or support for his decisions, but because the absolute worst violator of national sovereignty in the entire world by a truly gargantuan margin, complaining about violations of national sovereignty, is batshit insane. Pointing out things the U.S. empire has done while it shrieks about the actions of a foreign government will get you accused of whataboutism. But it's not a whataboutism.  If the U.S. wants to legitimately complain about the transgressions of unaligned governments, then it must cease being the worst transgressor. This would after all be the same empire that is currently circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and waging wars which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century. Its sanctions and blockades are starving people to death and mass every single day. It works to destroy any nation which disobeys its dictates by toppling their governments via CIA coups, proxy armies, partial and full scale invasions, and the most egregious number of election interferences in the entire world while threatening the entire species with nuclear brinkmanship on multiple fronts. What the U.S. and its proxies are doing in Yemen alone is orders of magnitude worse than anything Russia is doing in Ukraine. Or in Afghanistan. Or Venezuela. Or Syria. The Biden administration has already done worse than what Putin did just in recognizing Israel's outright annexation of the Golan Heights. To say nothing of the fact that the U.S. thought so little of Ukrainian sovereignty in 2014 that it was still perfectly comfortable staging a coup there with the support of actual neo-Nazi militias, who the liberal media are still running PR segments for to this day after years of yelling about Donald Trump's intimacy with the far right. The U.S. thinks so highly of Ukraine's sovereignty that it's willing to ramp up Cold War brinkmanship with a nuclear power to defend it, but not highly enough to refrain from backing literal Nazis to topple its government. The U.S. Empire criticizing Russia for violating another nation's sovereignty is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticizing someone else's eating habits. After watching the insane, erratic, dishonest way the Western power alliance has been navigating the Ukraine crisis, it is clear to anyone with open eyes that this is the very last institution we should want negotiating a power struggle that could quite literally end our world. We can only hope that the Empire's demise arrives before it manages to get us all killed.


G'day, May 40 here. So I was just watching a terrific Robert Wright video, and it's not often that I can say that. But I was, I was given a link to this, the age of secular gurus to Robert Wright interviewing a professor at the famous Central Queensland University. Right? So I got a lot of family in Central Queensland, my, my grandparents on my mother's essentially owned Tannum Sands and Tannum Sands Queensland is in Central Queensland. And so this is a terrific, terrific interview, discussion of a highly popular relatively new podcast called Decoding the Gurus. Decoding the Gurus. Have you heard about this? But it's not so much that they're debunking the ideas of all these secular gurus, it's that they're analyzing the reasoning. So this is a podcast by two academics and, and you know, I love, love me some academics. And they were great. They were great on Brett and Eric Weinstein. I've never had much time for.  I've never, never been able to develop much enthusiasm at all for the intellectual dark web. That maybe once every three years, I'll listen to something that Sam Harris has to say. I think I probably spent an hour and a half of my life listening to Eric Weinstein and didn't feel that I got any benefit from it. Who are the other leading members of the intellectual dark web? That doesn't really mean anything to me. But I love this idea of secular gurus, because we are living in the first time in history where most people are not religious, where most people's lives are not substantially affected by religion. Like you can, a lot of people think America is such a religious country, 40% of the country supposedly goes to church every week. But you can also look at America as the most secular country, because the way Americans do business has absolutely nothing to do with religion, right? Americans are probably the most mobile of all the major countries, and people who are mobile tend to be secular. And when they do practice religion with their mobility, it's such a watered down, synthetic substitute of community that they're obviously reaching for. That real community means you live in an area where your parents lived and your grandparents lived. And that's genuine community. But the reason that the churches and some synagogues and other religious institutions are so friendly is because mobile Americans are so desperate for intimations of community, of rural values. And that's what belonging to a friendly church or synagogue can give you is intimation of rural values. And people evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to live impacts with up to a maximum of 150 other people. That's how we evolved. And so even though our world has changed, that's how our instincts have developed. So that's why it's rational for us to fear public speaking, because if you speak publicly in front of your clan, there are very good odds that you'll say or do something that will offend people, which will then place your well-being, even your life at risk. So here we are. We've got the secular age. We've got hypermobility. We are disconnected from traditional sources of meaning. We less than left have any sense of communal feeling, right? Our real community tends to be specialized, specialized from our occupations, specialized from our hobbies. We live with specialized frequently virtual community. This is not how we evolve. So we have a lot of mental distress. We have a lot of addiction. We're wired to connect. And if you can't connect normally with other people, you're going to connect to substances or processes. So into this big, gaping hole of our secular world, we have all these secular gurus. And this is just a fun podcast. And they develop a guru meter. So of course, one outstanding characteristics of gurus is they tend to be, let's just say, narcissistic. So that's certainly true for me. I would not be sitting here talking to you right now if I did not have perhaps a beyond reality regard for my own wisdom and sagacity. And if I did not have an above average desire for your admiration, otherwise I would just be kicking back reading a book on my own. But here I am inviting your admiration doing a live stream. So this is very characteristic of religious gurus, secular gurus. And you can pretty quickly get a sense how needy people are for your admiration. Right. So Dennis Prager, he can't hear enough about how much people admire him.  All right.  So these these blogs doing decoding the gurus podcast, they come up with a list of 10, 10 qualities of secular gurus, but it also applies to religious gurus. So what is galaxy brainness? So this is someone who presents ideas that appear to be too profound for an average mind to comprehend, but are in truth trivial, if not nonsensical. And so of course, primary reason I'm going through this list of what constitutes a guru is to just confirm in my own mind that I'm not one of these charlatans. So I don't think I do this. Gurus present themselves as founts of wisdom. And it's an all encompassing knowledge that tends to span multi disciplines and topics. Oh, that's painfully. Okay, that one's hitting a little painfully close to home. Their arguments often link together disparate concepts, such as quantum mechanics. Yeah, someone's on YouTube talking about quantum mechanics, yards at 99 to one that they're a fraud. Quantum mechanics logic in the nature of consciousness. Now I think like Kenneth Brown, he has a lot of really smart things to say. The guru will often present themselves as a polymath who can offer novel insights in many different fields. They will allude to their own accomplishments and exaggerate them to a shameless degree. Okay, I don't think that's me. Now constantly offer hot takes on technical topics. I don't think I do that. And with a wave of the hand dismiss the perspectives of genuine experts. I don't think they do I do that. So this is a confidence trick. They use unnecessary references to high or specialist literature. They use jargon and technical terms. Okay, I don't think I do that. These references tend to be superfluous and tangential. So these references are most effective when the recipient does not understand them at all. They are merely illusions intended to signal a deep level of knowledge. All right. Quality number two on the guru meter, courtishness. Being a guru is a social role. A guru is only a guru. If there are people who regard themselves as such and Bernard, Bernard of Scandinavia said 40 days, you set yourself up as a guru. So how gurus interact with their followers and critics their in group and their out group is often revealing gurus not usually burnified court leaders. However, the social groups they cultivate often with themselves positions as intellectual leaders can have some elements reminiscent of a court. So key characteristic of court is establishment of clear in group and out group identities. I don't think there's a clear in group and out group at 40 University. Primarily between the court members admirers and outsiders. Yeah, I think there are these dynamics at 40 University will often be internal discriminations made within the court, such as between an inner circle of favorite members. Well, there are people that I really like. And there are people that I feel comfortable with.  Do I know a Steve Assan's work on courts? Yes, I'm aware of him. He seemed to say some smart things about that that court that would brand women's thighs. Nixium Nixium. So yeah, he seemed to say some good things. Generally, Rick Ross, I'm generally speaking a fan of Rick Ross. I don't know Steve Assan as well as I know Rick Ross. So 90% plus of what I've seen by Rick Ross, I respect. Okay, so you guys feeling the strong internal discriminations between the inner circle of favorite members? Oh, yeah, the channel members, the broader normal members and problematic or troublesome members, members who may need to be reprimanded, temporarily excluded or exorcised. So courtage behavior is characterized by emotional manipulation and control. You're feeling manipulated and controlled right now. So gurus tend to act in a manipulative fashion with their followers and potential allies. So they use excessive flattery, such as intimations that their followers are more perceptive, more morally worthy and more interested in the pursuit of truth than outsiders. Oh, Kenneth Brown says people get attracted to extreme right wing politics because of social and personal problems. Yeah. So what's going on in the chat? Steve Assan has been self promoting last couple of years, comparing his experience with the moonies for the cold of Trumpism. Richard Spencer has been retweeting Kenneth Brown videos. Kenneth Brown did a live stream discussion with Matt Parrott. So yeah, I think Kenneth, Kenneth Brown is a young, smart, interesting dude who I don't see much of a downside. If anything to what he's doing, I frequently learn a new insight listening to Kenneth Brown. So I think he's probably the most productive, thoughtful member of the new right on YouTube of whom I wear with more original thinking. Okay. A guru will put some effort into signaling a close and personal relationship with their followers. So encouraging the development of parasocial ideation. So I don't think I encourage this, right? This is not a real relationship. This is a performance on my part aided by your interactions. But am I, am I encouraging the development here of parasocial ideation? Keith Woods ratioed Jordan Peterson on Twitter. What does that mean to ratio someone? So I've heard that term a lot. Clean your room.  What does it mean to ratio someone? That means that there are more negative comments than positive ones. I think that's what it means. So I don't attach significance to the number of likes or dislikes on a video. There's no relationship in general between importance and popularity. So just because one video got 25 million views, another video got 55 views tells me nothing about which video is more important. It tells me nothing. Like it does tell me something about which is more compelling to watch. But as far as the importance of what's discussed, the number of views, number of likes, number of dislikes tells you nothing. Okay. Praise in regard for the guru is usually reciprocated while criticism is dismissed as coming from an unworthy person. I don't think I roll that way. A worthy person does not truly understand the significance of the guru's ideas. I don't think I roll that way. Guru wishes to avoid appearing like a controlling leader. They don't want their privileged position challenged. Okay. Well, we all like to feel comfortable and so we all develop caricatures of other people and other groups to maintain our own comfort levels. So we develop inherent attraction and like and love for a certain person. And when you're attracted, like and love certain persons, you automatically will dislike and want to distance yourself from other persons. So I think that's just inherent. Which alt-right leader most fits the description of secular guru Richard Spencer, Keith Woods, Mikey Nock, Eric Stryker. So I think Steve Saylor does not fit any of these categories at all. The guru will prime a particularly special or controversial idea with various cautions as I know many of you won't be able to understand this, but I think the more perceptive among you might. So a few of their followers are one to admit that they lack the necessary qualities to appreciate the brilliance of the guru's insight. And those that do reveal themselves to be troublemakers. Yeah, I guess maybe Nick Fuentes. Nick Fuentes is now saying that America first has to ally with blacks and that white nationalist and blacks have a lot in common. It's amusing to me that Robert Wright cites intellectual dark web figures for his discussion of secular gurus. How about Dr. Fauci? Yeah, is Dr. Fauci a guru? Well, not in this sense, because he does not pretend to expertise he doesn't have. So Dr. Fauci is not giving opinions on, you know, all sorts of issues outside of his expertise. And so I don't think I don't think Dr. Fauci qualifies. So they said on that discussion with Robert Wright that 90% of what Dr. Fauci says is fairly grounded in the science. So they didn't seem to grapple with they talked about you've got to how important it is to trust science. But if science is strong and good, why do you have to trust it? I mean, scientific research may well have through a lab leak given us the COVID catastrophe. So I don't I don't get trust science, let alone trust scientists. No, actually, my perspective is the very opposite. We cannot trust science. Science has proved itself it cannot be trusted, because science is overwhelmingly funded by just a small number of huge funders who only fund with a specific agenda. So I would take the opposite perspective. You cannot trust least big science. So science is not gentleman science conducted by a gentleman just, you know, researching their interests. Science today is funded by a very small number of entities who pour enormous amount of funds to achieve particular ends. And scientists who want to receive the largest and keep that money coming have to feed results that the funders want. So you tell me to trust science and I will tell you that I distrust science that the science incorporated has proven itself to be untrustworthy. Now science as a technique is frequently useful. It makes contributions. But science incorporated big science and almost, you know, when we talk about scientific research, it's almost lavishly funded to achieve certain results. So in the trust science, distrust science, I'm very strongly in the distrust science incorporated. Okay, anti-establishment. So again, I am not anti-establishment anymore than I'm pro-establishment. My self-perception is that I'm right in the middle. Sometimes the establishment's right. Sometimes the rabble is right. Sometimes the populace is right. Sometimes the establishment and the elite are right. I don't regard myself as either inherently knee-jerk, anti- or pro-elite. So sometimes the elite are right. Sometimes the elite are wrong. I don't think you can get any closer to the truth by automatically assuming that the elite are wrong or right. It's going to be contingent. That's a word that academics love, but everything is contingent. I get along great with Riccardo, contingent on certain things. I feel happy contingent on, I don't have a toothache, I don't have any bodily illness, I have money in the bank, I have friends, friends, family, community. Take away all those things that make me happy. I've got my health, I've got vitality. Take away all those things that make me happy, and my happiness is gone. This is my self-perception anyway. I am a mellow, easy-going guy 95% of the time, but this is how I go. I go like this, then I get triggered, then I'm like up here.  And I just made like abject apology, and she accepted it very graciously, and then I like made two more abject apologies on top of that today. Because my self-perception is anyway, I go along like this 95% of the time, but then I get triggered and then I just like and when I get triggered, I'm not a very nice person. Pill eater told me you aren't eating well, Luke. Oh, I don't need to worry about eating well now. I have, guys, this podcast is brought to you by grass-fed beef organs. This is cattle in New Zealand, eating grass, and they harvest their organs, and it's got New Zealand grass-fed liver, New Zealand grass-fed heart, New Zealand grass-fed kidney, New Zealand grass-fed pancreas, and New Zealand grass-fed spleen. This has changed my life, right? A life spent with ill health, often bedridden week, turned around by taking six of these capsules a day, completely turned around. I'm biking like 10 miles on average, probably four days a week, and feel good, man. I just feel good doing the push-ups, doing some light weights. And the only variable that's changed about two months ago is grass-fed beef organs by ancestral supplements. So I didn't have any scientific evidence for this. It may be entirely placebo. I have no scientific expertise. I have no health expertise. This just, this change, this feels to me like it changed my life, right? I feel like I've been living in a veil of tears from my horrible vegetarian diet. I think the vegetarian diet is so unhealthy. Almost all the big studies into the health benefits of vegetarianism are funded by people with a pro-vegetarian agenda, right? Those are the only people who fund major studies generally speaking into vegetarianism. They've got an agenda, and so the studies tell them what they want to hear, but obviously we evolved to eat me. Our teeth are designed to eat meat, right? Being vegetarian is just so crazy. I'm a self-hating vegetarian. On the other hand, let's be honest, our imprinting essentially decides for us in our first 10, 12 years of life what type of food we like.   Luke, when are you getting to apologize to ultra testosterone and Lyft, bro? Well, if they feel like I owe them apology, then I certainly want to entertain that. I want to, I want to clean my side of the street. What is my opinion of Mickey Mouse? I really like Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse and I ran in the same social circles for, I don't know, seven years or so. So I saw Mickey a lot. I really enjoyed Mickey. He wrote a lot of very nice things about me on his blog. He is so smart and I think he's got a lot of sharp, sharp insights. Do I chug those beef pills? I chug them with a protein drink in the morning. Okay, I'm still trying to figure out if I'm a secular guru. Yeah. So it's necessary that the orthodoxy, the establishment, the mainstream media, the expert consensus are always wrong or at least blanket and limited or incapable of grappling with the real issues on the rare occasions when they're right. They are right for reasons other than what they think. So yeah, you can call this science, hipsterism. A guru consultant agree with the establishment because it is crucial to their appeal that they are offering unique insight of fresh, hot take that is not available elsewhere that may be repressed or taboo. And the guru's popularity benefits if his iconoclastic view coincides with the prejudices or intuitions of his lay followers. So look, what people want on live streams like this is confidence and assurance. People want certainty. People don't want answers that are contingent. People want certainty. People want to hear. Ricardo's a good guy. Ricardo's a bad guy. Richard's a good guy. Richard's a bad guy. Keith's a good guy. Keith's a bad guy. That's what people want. People want certainty in their YouTube personalities, in their pundits, in their newspaper pundits, in their Fox News pundits, in their MSNBC pundits. One quality people want more than any other also with their religious leaders. People want certainty. That's the path. You want to give people reliable certainty on why their way of viewing the world is correct. And people will see pictures of this social media post and this video and say, oh, 40, look at the evidence here. It's so clear here. I've got a picture of some unsourced pronouncement on Twitter. Here's the basis for my thinking. So in a world of uncertainty in the secular world where there are no eternal verities, people want certainty so badly, so badly. Am I on the spectrum? Yes, I'm on the spectrum. And so are you. We're all on the spectrum. We've all got AIDS. Everyone's got AIDS. So yeah, you peddle anti-vax. There's like an enormous audience for that nonsense.   You peddle the great replacement, enormous audience. People want certainty. So gurus are drawn to topics where there is a split between the expert consensus and the public opinion, such as climate change, GMOs. I think GMOs are great. Vaccinations, I think vaccinations are great. Climate change, I don't have an opinion, but I'm sure the climate's always changing, and I'm completely open to the idea that human behavior has an effect on our climate. Lockdowns. So I think lockdowns in some times and places are a great idea, and other times and places it's not so clear. So if a guru is merely agreeing with an expert consensus on a topic such as COVID, there's no reason to listen to the guru. Why not listen to the relevant experts? So the guru is highly motivated to undertake epistemic sabotage. Epistemic is how do we know what we know, and to disparage authoritative and institutional source of knowledge. So the more the guru's followers distrust sanded sources of knowledge, such as that emanating from universities, the greater the perceived value that the guru provides. So yeah, that's like Dennis Prager, like he's always knocking the elites and the universities. So this is a little at odds with the guru's natural tendency towards self-aggrandizement, which usually involve emphasizing their limited academic intellectual recognition. I mean, come on there. Do you know how much 40 would love someone to do his PhD thesis on the life and thought of 40? Some guy at Wichita State is doing his PhD thesis on 40 University. Yeah, gurus strategically use ambiguity and uncertainty within their criticisms to give themselves the means to walk back claims that prove to be wrong. And the dynamic of sabotaging other sources of wisdom is evident in their fractious relationships with other gurus with whom they often make alliances of convenience that are also strongly incentivized to compete with. Oh, grievance mongering. Right. I'd like to think that I'm largely free of this. But yeah, that's true. You notice that everything that Eric Weinstein and Brett Weinstein get haughty about and make these world-changing proclamations about it's always because they got screwed over some ways. So it was like, Eric Weinstein didn't get the recognition that he felt he deserved at Harvard University and Brett Weinstein didn't get the orthodontic care that he thought he deserved. And so they come up with these grand galaxy spanning theories that are based in their grievance about some, you know, slight petty slight that they suffered. Opinion on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being banned from YouTube. So I don't have a big problem with YouTube banning anti-vax perspectives. I don't support it, but I don't stay up at night worrying about it. To me, it's a difficult issue.  Josh Neal says he is debunked and destroyed Curtis Yavin's arguments and claims on Tucker Carlson's show. I can't summon much interest in that. I don't have much interest in Curtis Yavin. And I don't have much interest in debunking Curtis Yavin. I thought I'd do a show critiquing Curtis Yavin's appearance on Tucker Carlson. I just haven't been able to summon the energy and the desire to do that. I think Curtis Yavin, he swings for the fences. So to me, he bats about 100. So nine out of 10 of his proclamations I find useful. And about one out of 10 of his proclamations I think is really sharp, meaning of his original proclamations. And I think Casey Godwood podcast is kind of similar. So most of his original proclamations I find suspect, but occasionally I feel like, whoa, that's a really sharp insight. So Mouldbug cried on stage at Justin Murphy's live event in LA. I don't think that makes him less of a man. I don't dismiss Curtis Yavin because he cries in public. To me, it doesn't speak either ill of him or well of him. It's completely a matter of indifference. Okay, characteristics of, this is true, grievance mongering. I notice this grievance mongering, but I encounter a grievance monger. I know that I'm dealing with someone who's a waste of time. Like this is someone who's toxic. Like someone who is running on resentment and grievance, like Eric Weinstein, Brett Weinstein, and the whole grievance crowd, like it's toxic. I just don't want anything to do with the people who are overwhelmingly motivated by grievance. Now, there are going to be some situations where grievance is a very powerful energy, but it's not the way I approach the world. I don't believe in monsters and I don't believe in demons and I don't believe in devils. So for everyone who says like, Hitler was a monster. Hitler cared about animals. He was a dutiful son. He loved his mummy. He was a decent painter. He was an honorable and courageous soldier in World War One. So even Hitler was not a monster. Stalin was not a monster. I don't believe in monsters and demons. I don't believe in grievance mongering, though at times I'm human and so I'm susceptible to it. I probably dished out my share of hate porn, but I would like to think it's not a dominant characteristic of what I do. So yeah, grievance mongering is probably the most powerful way to drive engagement because the more angry you are, the more likely you are to get engagement. So gurus love personal grievance narratives and not only encourage emotional connection and sympathy for the guru, but they explain why their unique talents have not been widely supported and given the recognition that they deserve in the wider world. And they also lead to conspiratorial ideation. And they explain, like Eric Weinstein, why their special ideas and perspectives have not been recognized and accepted by the outside world. Their ideas have been suppressed by malevolent powerful actors for selfish reasons. Half Galician is here. Brett Weinstein used to come through my line at Safeway. He always seemed too smart and witty. I've been listening to a pro-Trump psychiatrist who claims he can prove that schizophrenia is literally possession by demons. I think that perspective helps anyone. So the demon perspective can help give you energy and in-group solidarity. So I see that Rabbi Mizraki is angry with Luke Ford for not following the Sabbath sufficiently for wasting too much seed and begging for one stars. I have been master of my domain for eight years. Don't you want to shake my hand? I think that's an accomplishment worthy of a Yashakaak and shake my hand. I have not been spilling my seed for eight years. Self aggrandizement and narcissism. It's impossible to be a guru without having a sense of grandiosity and inflated idea of one's self-importance. Being a guru involves cultivating praise and attention, demands a certain level of charisma and charm. There's a belief in one's uniqueness and that only special people can appreciate them. Gurus tend to have a very thin skin when it comes to criticism. And they expect the world should recognize their talents far more than it does. So narcissism is the key personality trait of gurus. So people without overconfidence and attention seeking will find the role of guru very uncomfortable. So I think I'm so fascinated in this decoding the gurus podcast because I see that I have many of these tendencies where if I don't keep myself in peak spiritual condition I very quickly relapse. People on the spectrum of narcissism will find any attention in regard highly satisfying. Ouch. That hits home. This is the motivating factor for engaging in going beyond what talents they have to engage in the pseudo-profound BS techniques. The lack of self-awareness common among narcissists also explains why gurus seem to believe their own BS. I think I have a fair degree of self-awareness. Oh. Cassandra complex. Another sign. So I'm not into grievance mongers. I've got all the narcissism that I want. Don't really want to be around narcissists. And Cassandra complex people who get so much energy and enthusiasm from claiming that the war is coming to an end. I don't have time for those with a Cassandra complex. So the gurus like to claim prescience. Their heightened insight gives them a superior ability to predict the future. And they enjoy dwelling on those instances which they made a purportedly correct prediction. Okay. That is the point of me. I'm not so thrilled to mention and to acknowledge all the times when I got it wrong. So I'd much rather tell you about where my predictions were right rather than wrong. So a heightened sense of how the world is not right and ought to be fixed and they are the persons to do it is a common feature of gurus. Unfortunately, the broader public fails to recognize their genius and heed their advice. And so the world just lurches from calamity to calamity. So gurus position themselves as a Cassandra. They see the future and warn of possible calamity. So yeah, certainly being susceptible to this at times. And their followers have a positive role in supporting, defending and promoting the guru that could help make the world a better place. Revolutionary theories, trait number seven of secular gurus. So if galaxy brain and nurse refers to a breadth of knowledge, the ability to forge connections between disparate topics, their professed development of revolutionary theories displays the depth of their knowledge. They don't just have the breadth. They also have the depth coming up with these revolutionary ideas. And then there's a lot of pseudo profound BS. This is their stuck in trade. They're most comfortable in the role of the arm chair opinionator, the wise man graciously offering their advice to eager seekers of wisdom, a you an eager seeker of wisdom. So pseudo profound BS describes the form of their discourse. So revolutionary theories and galaxy brainedness describes the content of the discourse. So the guru's language is easy to process. Superficially appears to be profound. Turns out to be trite, meaningless, contradictory and tautological. So tautological means you're just repeating yourself. So classic examples of pseudo profound BS, best exemplified by Deepak Chopra, who I've always had an allergy to. He said, there are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he has a place to fill. Every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle of the universe. To think is to practice brain chemistry. It is the nature of babies to be in bliss. Then conspiracy mongering, to gain real insights, real special knowledge that nobody else can see. That's hard work. To be a guru, to set yourself up above the orthodoxies, above conventional wisdom, above the established political and ideological groups, beyond contrarianism, beyond skepticism, into the world of conspiracies. So the expert consensus seems to supply us with the most reasonable and evidence-based view, depending on current information, while the guru needs to provide a contrasting perspective. And then has to supply the arguments that back up their bold claims in a compelling way. So this inevitably leads down the path of conspiracy mongering. And then quality number 10 of gurus, gurus desire admiration, but they feel that more worldly and tangible recognition of their talents is appropriate. So they are willing to undertake activities such as shilling health supplements that would otherwise be a little surprising for intellectual caliber. So gurus tend to go further in the effort to monetize their following, while avoiding the appearance of such, because that would detract from their guru status. So think about the actions of London Real, venue for gurus such as GPCs and David Ick, who constructed an elaborate censorship justification for gathering over $1 million from their followers to move their content from YouTube to a dedicated platform for which they can monetize their content at a much higher rate. All right, this is from the two academics who give us the excellent decoding the gurus podcast. Bridget Spenser vs. Stixon Hammer debate tomorrow on the killstream. John David Ebert interviewed Deepak Chopra. Luke, you have the glow of someone who's been caught up to the Torah. What can I say? Sheminiat Sarat off the hook this year, Torah. We stormed the heavens, mate. Absolutely stormed the heavens. It's just such a great time. And it's like you have a ticket to the inner party, mate. I had a ticket to the inner party where we decide what interest rates are going to be for the next six months, and what movies are going to get green lit, and what TV series are going to get picked up, and who's going to go to war with whom all the time with so much good food and drink and singing and dancing and just socializing off the hook for hours upon hours. Sheminiat Sarat. So Kenneth Brown says that people are attracted to right wing politics because of a lack of importance in their own lives and for a need to feel grandiose. Yes, I think he's absolutely right. Everybody wants to feel important, and if you don't have normal reasons for feeling important, then you're going to have to seek out delusional reasons for feeling important. So Kenneth Brown has a lot of smart things to say. Let's check him out here on why some people are attracted to extreme politics. The answer is grandiosity, right? I think I want to feel important. Everybody wants to rule the world. People want self-right wing is sort of like glaring red alarm that something is ignorance of the sort of issues that I've brought up here, or they're acting out of extreme emotional attachment to a certain branding out of loyalty to that branding because it's become a kind of pseudo religion for them. It's not a real religion about something like Christianity or Islam or Judaism or something that would actually provide real organizational moral and spiritual instruction for a person to put them on a better path, to give them a tribe, to give them a group, to give them a sense of purpose and belonging. Now the right wing is not sufficient for any of those things, but it's a kind of pseudo religion. It's sort of like a hermit grab that a mollusk dies and it leaves behind the shell. The right wing is kind of like this hermit grab and goes into the shell and claims it and basically occupies that shell. The shell of course represents your mind here. The right wing goes into your mind and says, oh, we can't talk about religion. That's too divisive. We can't work on our personal lives. We don't have time for that. We've got to be political. We've got to be pragmatic. We have to ignore that. So the right wing basically distracts people. It obsesses people with this idea of importance.  Who cares what your individual life? Who cares about your relationship with God or your friendships or your family? And part of the reason why people are inclined to ignore these quote unquote petty problems or small personal problems is because they feel like they're intractable. People feel like they're lack of friends, they're lack of family, they're lack of relationships, they're lack of religion. They feel like this is something that they can't overcome. It's just too big of a problem. It's a civilizational problem. And so for a person who feels like they're stuck in life, like they can't make any progress, it feels like, well, I might as well try to defeat the globalists because, you know, the learning how to get up in the morning and be disciplined and have good personal relationships and have a functioning marriage, all of those things seem impossible. So if we're going to throw out impossible ideas, hey, why not, throw out, we're going to defeat the left. I understand that feeling and I sympathize with that feeling, but it's not correct. It is simply not correct. We've reached a new stage in history. Leftism has been around for a while. I would say the core of leftism is as Heidegger describes it and as Byzantium describes it. It is technology and it is more fundamentally techniques or you could say themematics and linguistics. That is the core of leftism. That is the spark of what differentiates humans from other animals and it's what's been leading us in this direction through urbanism, through civilization, through monotheism, all direct history to the current day. And with all the new technology we have that's opening up even new potentialities that were latent in all of these superstructures and technologies are now coming out in this explosive way in the same way that we sort of laid a bunch of dynamite under our feet and now there's little sparks going on and it's flying everywhere. There's explosions and loud noises. And for people who just want to stable family life, that is very disruptive. That is something that's extremely difficult to deal with and I understand that. But trying to deal with politics in a way that is unrealistic in a way in which you are emotionally dependent upon these political outcomes to the extent that you are distracted from what I think are more important problems, I think at some point it does not serve a purpose that in terms of helping you is actually serving to hurt you. And I think that if we could solve some of these more instrumental or fundamental I should say problems, if we could solve some of these more fundamental problems, the problems where people feel alienated, the problems where people feel like they can't go to church because helping you to talk to somebody at church, you're not connecting with the church. We have to rebuild these very, very basic structures of socialization, of acculturation, of belonging that are not going to be solved by some like super ideological, biological materialist, racialist, we're all like brothers, that's not going to solve it. Donald Trump is not going to solve it. Vladimir Putin is not going to solve it. Ultimately, there have to be people who want to address this problem who are willing to prioritize this problem. Now, would life legitimately be better if we had some kind of political structure that had an counterbalance to the billionaire class, where middle class values were promoting work that's good for the middle class, was actually enshrined in law, and we're defended and protected through unions, or we had some kind of representation in terms of our government or our military, something to defend us. Would that be nice? Sure. Is it something that, you know, is there a chance that Donald Trump might move us in that direction? So, why not go ahead and vote for him? Sure. But if it's getting to the point where your support of the right wing for Donald Trump then leads to a massive black killing event because you don't get what you want, and then you become more radical and more extreme and more esoteric and more bizarre with these things, to the point where you're advocating violence, you're advocating marching in the street, you're advocating, or that's the warrior style, if you're more of a priestly style, you're going to say, we have to read all this esoteric ebola, this like weird, Byzantine, irrelevant, just crazy stuff. I mean, people are going to be post-modernist with it. They're reading Derrida, they're reading Deluz, and all of this stuff.  I feel like the dad, and I'm walking into our collective, you know, and this is also self-repleted, right? Because I've done this process for you, but are you a women's son? And what is the response? We have to ask ourselves that question. If you feel that you're on these beliefs, or any of the beliefs that I call lies or fallacies, you identify with those, and you think those are just fine and anti-great problems, or whether Trump loses. All of the disappointments that come from politics, and all of this reinvestment that I see people doing, this danger is doubling down, where things don't work out politically. It becomes a situation where people form these destructive political groups that continually have this cult-like mentality. They're not quite religious because they're not very functional. You know, a lot of the doxing that happens on the right-wing is not left-wing people doxing right-wingers. It's right-wingers doxing right-wingers, because these people are such idealizable purists, whether it's the American Nationalists, or whether it's the right-wing post-modernists, or all these weird, different factions.  It's like in the meantime, you haven't done much. You know, in the meantime, you've got these glaring rocks in your eyes, and you're focused on these sky-in-the-clouds, your head is in the clouds.   You have to clean your room before you take on the world buck-o-world. I'm saying that people, you should be focused on your eternal life, you know, just because of this personal life. Is there a way to solve these issues and to solve these problems? I don't know. Stick out like a sore thumb, and basically set off the red alert of the establishment and say, I'm a threat. I'm a threat. I'm going to insult George Floyd. Oh, you don't like it when I say a certain racial slur. Oh, I'm going to say it all the time. That kind of immature mentality is really funny when you're 13 years old. It's like a dead thing. You've got that whole Olympian cycle or, you know, the Assyrian and the revolutionary spirit, the Patrocyle spirit. You want to question all the taboos. It's very funny when you're 13, but at some point, just questioning taboos and just saying things because they're offensive, the most obtrusive and the most noticeable Wow. Oh, I feel like I'm on the, uh, feel like I'm very much on the same page as Kenneth Brown there. Woman is the jogger of the world. But are you winning, son? Are you winning, son? Bye-bye.


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