Hello there, I'm Sandy Allknock and today I'm going to be playing with a fluid writer that I just bought. You can put liquids in it and draw with it. So we'll talk about that and I'll paint a bookmark while we chat. So we are going to be painting today and I'm going to paint in inks instead of watercolors this time. So I wanted to show you what I'll be painting with. This Windsor Newton gold is so beautiful. It's my shiniest gold that I have and I just bought a couple weeks ago this bottle of J. Herban ink and it's so pretty. The bottle itself is gorgeous but the color is gorgeous. I love that it has a wax seal on the front and this is an ink I've showed before on this channel that is one of the Hiroshizuku inks and I also have some bleach that I'll use with those two inks because they are reactive with bleach. I'll talk about that when we get to it and use the glass pen with the bleach and now let's talk about that fluid writer. I saw it on somebody's channel. They were using it with masking solution. So masking fluid goes in this and I thought oh I could do lots of other things with it and started looking around and realized hey I could actually put inks in it. You can put paints in it. It has to be thin enough to go through that very very fine tip but you fill that little reservoir with whatever the liquid is you want to write with. It comes with this little gizmo. Mine is bent already because I'm a crazy person but that fits through the end so if you need to clean it out you can do that but you don't want to let anything dry in there. It's a bear to clean it back out so just so you know. I'll give you that warning. It did say so on the instructions that you should clean it out but to put liquid in it you just use a brush or you could use a dropper to put the liquid in. This gold ink gave me fits in here because the gold ink is thick and I think when you use thinner things it's not nearly as much of an issue because I did use some ink in my my writer my fluid writer in this video but yeah I was trying to show you the beautiful gold and on white paper it doesn't do a whole lot so I swapped it out and went got a piece of black paper so you can see how gorgeous this gold actually is and how fluid the fluid writer writes once you get it started. Now if it's kind of gummed up if it's stuck and you need to clean it you need to fully clean it. I had to do that a couple times and you also just don't want to let it sit there even for five minutes while you do something else. You just need to rinse it really well right away if you've got especially if you've got something goopy in it and run the little tool through it so that it it just really cleans out that nozzle because you don't want anything to get stuck in there and once you get this whole thing cleaned up you're going to put it away. This red cap I think this is how it goes the red cap fits on that end you can put the handle of the little gizmo I'm sure there's a name for it inside the fluid writer and then put the yellow cap onto that and then it all stays together it looks like a weird bug of some kind but at least all the parts stay together because you could really easily well I could really easily list them in my studio so now I'm going to paint a bookmark and I'm going to use the fluid writer in a couple ways and some other tools just so you can see how that works and this week is doodle week I have a massive doodle a big doodle coming up on Friday so that's I thought I'd do a smaller doodle here and if you're looking for something to do this week that would be a great thing to doodle you can make a card or a post card or bookmark or whatever and do some doodling on it so I have put down some water and then I watered down this J. Herban ink the first one that I did was like saturated purple because this color is super super hyper purple reminds me of the dioxazine colors that I watered color with recently that were you know so so so saturated with purple so I wanted it to be a little watered down and then just for kicks because I have never done this before I mixed some inks and I put the Erochizuku in with my J. Herban the amethyst and then just wanted to see how they would blend on the paper and it was nice and wet so that worked pretty well you can always spritz it or something if it's dried too much by the time you apply it and then once it was all dry I put some of the mix of ink the blue and the purple into the fluid writer now I would never put really that into a fountain pen like that would be kind of silly to mix up enough to make a batch for your fountain pen but this way I can get the fun of coloring with a color that I I mixed by hand and just put a little bit of it into the fluid writer and it doesn't require having a vast quantity of that color so it's kind of fun to use that to do the drawing with now it is pretty terrible for trying to show you what it looks like because that big cup is right in front of what is being drawn so sorry about that it's a little on the unfortunate side it is a little hard to see around what you're doing so I found myself with my head turned down so I could see underneath of it where I was drawing once that was done I wanted to add some of the bleach and I did that with my glass pen these are really cheap on on Amazon you can just get them for you know 10 bucks I think they are and this again you can use this to dip into any kind of random ink things and draw with them because it's just a glass pen you do have to make enough that you can dip into it though whereas this guy this fluid writer you could just get a little tiny bit I only mix that small bit of the purple ink in order to put in into this I didn't have to mix a bunch of it but you can also do what I've done here which is take that gold ink and dip your brush right into the gold ink and then pull some of it in there that if you fill that and then you don't use it all up you're going to actually lose all that ink so you'll either rinse it out or wash it down the sink or whatever I would not really necessarily be real thrilled about putting it back into the bottle because you don't want to contaminate that but you can just put a small amount whatever the amount is that you want in it I just kept drawing until it ran out because I was doing random doodling anyway it didn't matter if I ended up getting stuck in the middle of something so it was just fun to play around with and doodle this but as I said don't let thick ink like that dry because that would be a bad thing now one other way I decided to apply ink to this piece of paper and this is by the way arches cold press I think is this cold press today I just grabbed a brush and I wanted to use up some of this beautiful purple that I had already mixed up so was able to do that just by painting into it with a brush and adding some areas with really strong contrast in them because if you know me you know I love my contrast and I just wanted something to really make it pop and and to really push the the contrast in the whole piece but I could also put that ink back into the fluid writer so I had already washed out all that gold and it's ready to receive more of this ink and when I put it into the area where I had already painted I got a really nice rich darker color now it could also be that the thickness of the paint the inks that I mixed up was different in this round than it was in the first because it came out much darker or it could be because I was drawing right over top of where I had just painted I'm not really positive what caused that but play around with it and see I was really surprised though that a thin ink didn't just completely run out of the end of the pen I kind of thought it was gonna just pour out if I poured you know really thin ink in there and it didn't there's some kind of science to it I'm sure but maybe it's just magic I don't really need to know I just need to know that it works as opposed to why so there you go can't wait to try this with some other fluids in it and I might try that this week I don't know watch on social media and you'll see some other stuff that I create during the week and on Friday I am going to be doing something special and I invite you to come back on Friday I'm gonna be doing a charity auction all of my doodles this week that are gonna be cards bookmarks postcards I don't even know with what it's gonna be yet all the doodles that I make this week including the big piece that I'm gonna do on Friday are gonna be up for auction to raise money for the Ukrainian refugees and this is the Friday piece quick peek at it I'm excited to try to raise money for a good cause so please do join me Friday back here and all week on social so you can see what else is gonna be in the auction and I'll see you then bye guys


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. OK, we're back. We're live. I'm Jay Fidelis, Community Matters, today, here on A Given Thursday. And we're going to report on two things today. One is how Harvey looks from the vantage of Bob Brown in San Antonio. And the second part of the show, we're going to talk with Ethan Allen, our science host, about a new breakthrough in cancer therapy that just was reported by the newspaper, and especially the MIT newsletter this morning. Very important. Anyway, so let's talk about Harvey first. Bob Brown, welcome to the show. Welcome to Think Tech. Well, thank you very much. Yeah, so you live in San Antonio, and my understanding is the storm did not directly hit San Antonio, but you had significant effects there. Can you describe how Harvey looks from the vantage of San Antonio? Well, you have to know what kind of viewpoint we have here. San Antonio was at the base of the Hill Country. We, myself, are located about 840 feet above sea level. Corpus Christi is about 230 miles from us. And Houston, downtown, is approximately 250 miles from where we sit for the vantage. When the Harvey came in, it was threatening to come up halfway between Corpus Christi and San Antonio. Consequently, it did drift a little bit to the north, and we were in the southwest quadrant. As the storm itself is counterclockwise, all that water was being uplifted and brought in north. Corpus Christi got hit with winds as a category three, just up above it. And we saw winds on the second day, I guess, after it hit, about 40, 45 knots. We can get straight winds here in San Antonio upwards of 70 miles an hour. So 40 knots and winds are nothing really big, although we'll start tipping the limbs and what have you. We had some squall lines come through, but even in the quadrant we are at, you don't get the tornado-tornadic activity that you was reported and touched down in the first couple of hours of Harvey coming ashore. So you lucked out in a way. You lucked out. We certainly did. We certainly did. When we first moved to San Antonio in 1988, we did have Gilbert come through, and it came right up to San Antonio. But, again, it was not much rain, but what we got was we were at that time in the correct quadrant, the northeast quadrant, and a couple of tornadoes hit and tore things up around here. So for you, Harvey wasn't as bad as Gilbert. Exactly, exactly. Plus, we haven't had rain for about a month. We were already in restricted water usage once a week for a certain part of the day, depending on what number you have on your house. So we were looking forward to the rain to help fill our aquifer, and it is going to be filled. We sit over an aquifer that needs about 640 feet of water before the restrictions can be lifted, and it's gone up to as much as 710. But when that happens, springs come up out everywhere. But like I say, it did disrupt our stake sale of treasure hunting, and we cut it short at about five on Friday when the winds started to pick up a bit. So how have you been disrupted? I mean, you must have some disruption, either supply disruptions or something. Well, we have a call to my family in Florida giving us advice on how to survive a hurricane. They know. We had advice coming in from Maui on how to survive a hurricane. They're all concerned about you, Bob. Yes, we had heard from relatives we haven't even talked to in a couple of years, but they all had advice for us, and we pointed out that we have enough bottled water and Dr. Pepper. We had Peter Cho, Jelly Bees, and we had rice. Yes, that was the question from Hawaii, is you have rice? Yeah, if I didn't mention it, Bob is from Hawaii, he's spent a whole career here, and moved to Texas a few years earlier. But anyway, so yeah, one of the disruptions. I mean, have you had trouble getting food? And how about supplies like gasoline? We have not personally had that problem. Like I say, had told you a little earlier that we did have people come out from Corpus and some people from Rockport to come in, but we have all already taken people in from Katrina and from Ike when it came through, and Rita, so we are not ill-prepared for evacuees to come, and we are having about 30,000 of them in San Antonio. As we speak, they may be going back, the waters are receding quickly down there. We've had no problems with food. We had, we kind of wanted our house to rest while we had 49 winds blowing. There was no reason to be out on the roads with things being tossed about. So we just ate leftovers. At least it was a shout-out. However, we have reports from people that they were lined up in the, in getting water and perishables in at the local HEBs. That's how it stands for how are you eat butts? It's big, it's a fairly large, it's like Albertsons or Kroger. It's a regional grocery chain. So where are the evacuees being housed? The AT&T Center where the spurs play and that photograph is where I was on Christmas Day, this past Christmas with my son there in the background. This afternoon, we just came in from going shopping, not for perishables, but for things that were on sale that we could send to our son and daughter in Alaska and in Seattle. And we had a hard time coming down the road because the prices on the gasoline have jumped 30 cents from this morning. Why? So people were, I guess there's a Labor Day kickoff. So everybody was, I've never seen, are we in Hawaii in the 70s, 75 and 72 and saw the increase in fuel there and Hawaii not having the gas. And it can't remember if it was being rationed or not because I did have a Porsche, but it did take much gas but I pushed it more often than it ran. So are there lines for the gas? There are lines out into the road. At, we saw, I guess the worst one was at Walmart. It just backed up. People trying to get in and Walmart has 16 pumps. And they have another Walmart about two blocks away that was probably the same way but just the drag from Randolph Air Force based up about a mile and a half that people were spilling into there. But we had filled up when it was less expensive. How about the news? You live in Texas, everybody in Texas is interested in, in fact, everybody in the country is interested in what's happening with Harvey, but how about in San Antonio, what kind of news are you getting? Constant. Say? We have the people in New York telling us how things are here. And we have people in Washington, DC telling us how things are here. And it's, the regular news is not, is being interrupted all the time. So we get nothing local. And some of it's correct. The flooding in Houston is a perennial thing. They probably got more water than they have ever, I thought they could ever take. But Houston is a foot and a half above the sea level. It's not in New Orleans. They don't have pumps except for some of the places where the interstate goes down. But it, those are all, surrounded Houston was, and still is a rice growing area. So the rice won't be affected that much. You have to remember too that Galveston was devastated to turn of the century, not this last one, but through the century past. And it was the main port for Texas. And it was wiped out with a great loss of life. And that's what actually established Houston as a port. They got, they just, they stopped using Galveston altogether. It was just blown off the map. And so, Houston built itself. It has no zoning. It's probably one of the- It's the fifth largest city in the country. It uses- Fourth largest city in this country, no zoning. No zoning, amazing. No, no. The refineries between downtown Houston, which has got a big BP presence there, just on the outskirts is a Baytown, which has a big refinery. And then from Baytown through Beaumont, through Port Arthur, through Lake Charles areas, just nothing but refineries. Interesting. And that's where all those pipelines coming from the North and from the West going out to the East Coast all originate in that one area. And I understand they're closed down. Well, that's- That's gotta be a reason for the increase in the gas price. Well, I think it's more of a panic for the people around here because if they think about it, Three Rivers is where we get our Valero has their refinery down at Three Rivers. And that's where we get our gas, gasoline. It doesn't come in from Houston. So, Bob, we only have a minute more before we're gonna go up to the next segment here. And I just wanted to ask you for your impressions in general and the lessons you learned or you believe should be learned by this whole event and the way it's been handled. My wife and I have a great pride in being from Ahoy. However, being in Texas is just another world. It's a state unto itself. And we'll do just right. The people come together and they have seen themselves get through Katrina and Rita and Ike. And this was not going to be something that will bring us down. Great. It shows you the sustainability, the resilience of not only the infrastructure such as it is but also the people because they make the community. Well, thank you so much. Bob Brown from San Antonio reporting on how Harvey looks from the vantage of San Antonio. We're gonna take a short break, come back with our next segment. Thank you again, Bob. And as they say, Aloha. Howdy. Welcome to Hawaii. This is Prince Dykes, your host of The Prince of Investing. Coming to you guys each and every Tuesday at 11 a.m. Right here on Theme Tech Hawaii. Don't forget to come by and check out some of the great information on stocks, investings, your money, all the other great stuff. And I'll be your host. See you Tuesday. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good. 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So, tell us about this. This could change our worldies, and don't you think? Yeah, this is really a striking advance. This is the first time the FDA has actually approved a therapy where they literally pull cells out of your body, separate out one type of your immune cells, insert a particular gene into a particular place in those cells, stick them back into, and now those cells are essentially assassins for a particular disease cell. In this case, acute lymphoplastic leukemia.  Right, and that kind of leukemia is bad. It affects young people, typically adults below the age of 20, either kids and or adults up to age 20, about 3,000 a year, about 600 of them each year relapse from it and don't have a very good prognosis. I can tell you that it affects elderly people too. My mother died from that. Really? Yeah. Wow. At the age of 53. Wow. So, yeah, it was a serious disease, but it's only one kind of cancer. Oh, yes. But let's talk about the solution as it is presented for this one kind of cancer. Who invented this? You know what school came out of? What hospital? No, it's apparently, I mean, the government has been funding a lot of different fundamental science, helping science understand these mechanisms.  But, you know, every cell in your body has about six feet long of DNA in it, which has about 25,000 genes in it, and then probably 100,000 other things, not genes. But we have mapped this. We've mapped. Well, within the last 10 years or so, we have mapped every one of those genes. But you've got to take that gene that you want and put it in just the right place, because where a gene lives turns out to be very, very important to have functions. It's a relative to position. Yeah, so you have to somehow, in each cell you're doing this, you've got to be sure it plugs in just in the right place. It doesn't screw up anything else when it happens. Well, let's talk about that. So, when you say plug in, what are you plugging exactly? You're plugging it, it's essentially, it's a gene, so it's a string, a segment of DNA that basically gets translated into a protein. Okay, so it's a certain kind of DNA, which is a protein. It's a sequence of DNA that gets read into, turned into a protein. Okay, so here I am, and I have this person's blood, and I find, say, one cell, just start with one cell, and I get into the chromosomes, the genes on one cell. Chromosomes are inside the genes, and the genes are inside the chromosomes. Genes are part of the chromosomes. Genes are part of the chromosomes. Chromosomes is the sequence of ones. Okay, and so I gotta find the gene in this one little tiny chromosome, in this one little tiny, tiny cell, I gotta find it, and then I gotta modify it by putting the special protein in that gene so as to modify it. You're either pulling out the defective gene and sticking in a good copy of it, or sticking in pieces that fix it, in essence, that make it produce the proper protein. So now this gene is gonna operate differently, so it'll cause the body to operate differently for blood, in this case, it's gonna operate differently. Right, so these T cells now, these T immune cells now are programmed to produce a protein on their surface that specifically looks for a protein that only occurs on phoblastic leukemia cells, and basically latches onto that and then destroys those cells, marks them basically for destruction. Now the T cell, I mean, not to put it into general term, but the T cell is the cell you're looking for in the blood. That's the one you want. That's the one that Novartis pulls out. Separate that out from the blood. And genetically modifies.  That takes 20 days to do that.  Okay, and that's just an infusion, an injection, so to speak, blood into blood. And that's of course the one drawback is that 20 day lag, if you are very, very sick with this cancer. But I would predict it's gonna get faster. Yes, there are other groups working on very similar kinds of things that are applying the FDA for approval for similar types of therapy. It's called CAR-T therapy for chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy. So a couple of things come to mind. I mean, number one is we described how you could fix one gene with this protein and either replace it or modify it.  That's really wonderful. But that's one cell. I think at 20 days to do a lot of cells, how many cells can you do in 20 days? I'm sure it's not that many. I suspect actually they probably do some sort of batch processing where they're dealing with probably hundreds of thousands of cells at a time. Even that is small compared to the number of millions of cells in the human body. Right, right. I don't really know what the actual numbers they actually tweak are, but... So it's a little bit of blood, even with all of that, right? And you inject it back in.  Well, so the T cells are part of your immune system and they're always circulating through your blood, circling it widely and they're looking basically for the bad guys, for the invaders, right? So now you have ordinary T cells that were not modified by the process. You also have these special high octane T cells that are now sort of unleashed. They have, as it were, they're carrying around the picture of the leukemia cell and saying, these are the bad guys. I'm after these specific bad guys. And your other cells are sort of a little bit blind to them. Why does it sound like a computer program? Well, it sounds like that. I mean, a lot of it, it is a matter of coding. It's coding in this case DNA to RNA, RNA to protein. And yeah, so it is not dissimilar in that sense to computer work. Now you were touching on this idea that we'd be able to do this in other kinds of cancers, finding other kinds of parallels to T cells. What's the story on that? Well, so again, you have a number of different types of cells within your immune system that have different jobs. And again, if you can get those cells to recognize that their particular enemy is better, or if you have somebody who has, his or her own cells are defective and you make them effective again, so they can recognize the bad guys they should. You know, in a sense, you fixed the real problem.  It's a very neat, very specific therapy. You're only using your own cells. That is not to say it is without risk. They have had in early trials of this CAR-T therapy, they've had people die from it. They've had people get very, very sick from it because sometimes these chimeric antigenic receptors interact oddly and whether they are not targeting just the right thing or whether something else in your body now looks at them and says, these guys are weird. And so it's a different kind of side effect. It could be profound because we're not really, we don't understand all the side effects. Exactly. The side of the immune system. The biochemical side effects. Yeah, the immune system is tremendously complex. Yeah, and on that very note, it sounds like you have to find, first you have to target the single kind of cancer you want, in this case it's this plastic leukemia thing. And then work on that with the T cell for that, right, that kind of cancer. Now if you want to solve something else, you have to look at that kind of cancer and find the parallel there. And it's intriguing because just a little while ago, a couple of weeks ago they came out with a type, a new approach to cancer therapy that is not cancer type specific. So it hits a mechanism that underlies many types of cancer. Same kinds of mechanisms that underlie, at least on some level underlie, prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer. Or in leukemia. And perhaps even leukemia. I don't remember exactly. So that underlying common denominator is a huge thing. Yeah, if you could combine these two things now, then you'd begin to have a tool that becomes very, very powerful, right? Yeah, yeah, so we really have broken through on something here. Because A, this sounds like, if the FDA approved it, this sounds like it's likely to work on people. Everybody in the country is gonna be interested in this for any leukemia case. Sure, sure. B is that, if we find the common denominator or we use the same technique in other kinds of cancers, this could be cured of multiple kinds of cancers in the same way that it works on leukemia. This is fabulous. Yeah, it's very exciting stuff. I mean, again, it's great. It suggests that we need to be supporting our scientists, supporting the work they do, the work when it seems often obscure or unconnected, it's payoffs come in. Payoffs like this. Who knows, it probably came from a bunch of ideas that just sort of came together for somebody, and somebody realized that this thing works with that thing and now you got a result. I mean, it was 70 plus years ago that Watson and Crick sort of figured out this business about what DNA really was. And that's turned out to be a critical basis for understanding a whole bunch. And now the research money we spent mapping the human genome is paying off big time. And it'll be more pay off along the same lines, I'm sure. I mean, the whole country's gonna want this, the whole world is gonna want this, this is big. So you found it in the MIT download, isn't it? Yes, yes. And you can sign up for that and you can look up this article and read more about it. It was also in the Times a day or two ago. So this is out there, it's happening, not only the FDA approved it, but it is being done in various hospitals around the country. It's about 20 centers around the country that are using it now. They hope to increase that to maybe 30 plus centers out. Fabulous. And I think what's interesting from political side, I didn't mention it in these articles, I don't think, but political side, this all happened before the Trump administration took office. And query whether the Trump administration would fund the kind of research like the mapping of the genome, you know, that somebody else funded before, whether they would fund anything like that now. So we're kind of in a hiatus of sorts going forward with new revelations this way. But happy news is that we had this revelation and it will encourage further research and maybe further administrations. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, thank you, Ethan. Thank you, Jay. Very exciting. Very exciting. Always a pleasure. Yeah. Take care.


Let's backtrack a little bit and look at some of the material we covered last time. What am I showing here? Who's got a clue? John, what are these things? Okay, there are different styles of columns. What do we call this system of a horizontal and a vertical? We call it post and beam if it's not ornamented, but when there is this kind of codified system of ornamentation we have another word. We meaning pretty much me. They're the orders. The orders have to do really with this notion of post and beam structure, but not in its most basic sense. In this highly articulated, highly articulated in a couple of ways. Here we see three Greek orders that we talked about last time. Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. And so some ways that they are articulated and by articulated I mean there is a breaking down of a unit into a system of parts that relate. We have a column capital Doric, Ionic and Corinthian, but we also have a system of spanning. And a lot of the elements we see here in the stone seem to be petrifying on earlier timber architecture. Here we see triglyphs on the Doric freeze that seem to look as though they might have been seen sawn off at an earlier temple. Good. And we saw a system of columns in Egypt, but it wasn't quite so codified. In Egypt there was this representation of a timber of a architecture of reeds and grasses, but it wasn't as systematic.  Archeologists in the 18th century were enthusiastic about the notion of systems and they would say give me just a fragment of a column capital or a column shaft. And based on that fragment I can accurately reconstruct the temple because we know if we see a fragment of a column shaft we can figure out its diameter. If we know it's diameter we can figure out its height. If we can figure out its height we can know the inter-columniation, the space between the columns and so forth. Actually the 18th century archaeologists were fools. You can't do that at all. There's too much variation. But the idea that there was a rule and an order and a logical system that governed the production of these great masterpieces of antiquity was really really attractive. Because again think about the 18th century. This is a period of the Enlightenment where reason is rising to the fore. So if you could look at classical works of architecture and say these are not only works of genius but these are reasonable works governed by mathematics and governed by system. It's an attractive thing to think. In our last talk we discussed general ideas about Greek site planning. Specifically ideas about genius loci that every site is already loaded with spiritual meanings and that architecture simply makes these kinds of presences visible. We've also discussed ideas about sacred site planning like the site of Delphi where Konstantin Duxiedis begins to suggest that there can be some kind of special point within the system that allows the optimum perception of oblique views of the buildings and specific framing of elements within the landscape. Today we're going to talk about the most special of all the Greek sites the Acropolis. Here's Duxiedis diagram of the Acropolis and it's a good one you have to admit. And what makes it so good and I think this was maybe even well it's inside-out let's say from Delphi because here the point which clarifies the whole is the moment that you pop through the gateway and you enter the upper precinct of the Temenos, the sacred precinct. And from this point this is the drawing Korbu did where he begins to see the edge of the Erechtheon, the edge of the Parthenon, the statue of Athena and the views beyond. The leakiness of the space is really powerful how rather than define its own boundaries the space completes itself by gesturing to nature beyond. Athens really came into its glory the golden age of Athens came under the suzerainty of Pericles so mid-5th century and he was a great general he was a great statesman a great orator and it was also a time of peace between the Persian and the Peloponnesian wars where resources could be devoted to things that you would not be able to think about if you were at war things like philosophy things like architecture things like art and so most of the prominent buildings that characterize the Acropolis for us now were built at the time of Pericles. Here we see the Acropolis this big hill in the middle of Athens and this is more or less the extent of Athens kind of fortification wall in ancient times empirically in times and down below we see the kind of market square also very important and cutting through we see this windy road which is called the Pan-Athenaic Way. This is a great procession that people would have coming up to celebrate the goddess Athena who is the patron of the city of Athens. If you look at the Acropolis you see this kind of wacky collection of buildings where things seem to be kind of locked into their landscape a couple of theaters sunk into the side of the hill in a way that makes quite a lot of sense and and these buildings up here. Let's look at them carefully one by one. When we arrive we come up here this is where the Pan-Athenaic road takes us and here is the Propolaea the gateway and here is a little tiny temple perched out in front of us the Athena Nike temple. Now the Propolaea didn't actually get finished so it's kind of a fragment even of what it would have been had it been fully constructed but it's still quite a spectacular building and one reason it's so spectacular is that it and really all the buildings except the Parthenon have to negotiate difficult topography and different scales and different distances from which they're seen. So high ground up here on top of the Acropolis Hill and low ground down here where the buildings like the Athena Nike temple or the Propolaea present themselves. So here for the Athena Nike temple you can see that it has this kind of funny platform or plinth that it sits on. It's a kind of datum it registers the line of the top of the Acropolis at the bottom of the flight of stairs moving up through the Propolaea and here it is and it's it's got two sides it's a funny building one toward the city one toward the temple complex it's not a temple with columns wrapping it on all sides because you couldn't possibly do it its site is so precarious that it does not have that same quality. The Propolaea or the gate is even stranger this drawing makes it look like a temple of course it's not a temple it's not even functionally a temple but it has a pediment it has columns you proceed through it and it begins to change its scale as it moves up the hill in a really strange way making adjustments for topography but also making adjustments for different hierarchical engagements that it's making so that when it gets to the top of the hill all of this kind of irregularity and kind of looseness of form that it has as it falls down the hill and allows people to move through it congeals and becomes a much more orderly form decorous appropriate to the meaning of a temple complex and up here this is the view you get this is the sketch Le Corbusier did this is a dog this is what Greek architecture does this is the oblique view of the building showing us how it flexes showing us how it locks into the site it's a beauty but it's it's got its problems and of course one of its problems is the problem of the Doric that simply will never go away and here most of the columns are centered on their triglyph and here when we get to the corner they slip it to the end by the way we know the names of the architects of this precinct of the Acropolis we have itianos and caliquities they were pretty good the proportions have been studied to death and it seems as though the proportions of the golden rectangle had a lot to do with the design of the building or the conception of the building there are also other aspects to the building that show incredible sophistication you see there's always nothing up here on the pediment and that's because all of that stuff got taken to London by Lord Elgin he thought it would be better for the British to have the Parthenon freeze and indeed uh in recent years just actually within the last couple of years the Greeks have built a museum the new Acropolis museum and there is a space there for the Parthenon freeze up until this point the British had been saying we would give you the Parthenon freeze but you have no place to put it and now they do so it'll be interesting to see how things turn out of course Greece is far away and you might not be able to get to Greece to look at this right away so if you're dying to see what the Parthenon looks like you can go to natural Tennessee they have one too this is from the 100th anniversary of the United States many cities were doing something special having their own local celebration and the city of Memphis named after the capital of Old Kingdom Egypt decided that they would build a pyramid and that was tough to beat so the people in Nashville thought what can you do what could beat a pyramid and then they got the idea they could build a Parthenon full-scale Parthenon and much better than the real Parthenon because the real Parthenon is actually a ruin and the one in Nashville is just perfect in fact it even has a giant gold statue of Latina in it and it's cheesy but you get some sense of what the interior space of a temple might have looked like i'm always happy to see architects busy of all the buildings on the top of the Acropolis my favorite one is the Erechtheon and we know the architect here too Maniskel is i like it because it's so bizarre if you look at it it almost looks like a kind of collection of little buildings that happen to be adjacent to one another rather than one building and part of the reason the building is so bizarre has to do with its program and it has to do with the mythological inhabitation of the site the myth tells you that back when Athens was being established as a city Poseidon king of the sea and Athena goddess of wisdom came to meet with the people of Athens to say i think we should be your patron saint Poseidon said i should be your patron saint and they said well perform a miracle let's see what you can do so he took his trident hurled it into the ground and water sprang out i have made you a sacred spring and the people thought this was pretty great and they said Athena what can you do and she waved her wonderful hand and up popped an olive tree here's the olive tree or perhaps not really the olive tree but an olive tree more or less in the place that it's supposed to be and the people of Athens thought wow and all of olives are better than water let's go with Athena and so the shrine is dedicated to Athena and this is the Athena temple Athena polios temple over here but it's also dedicated to Poseidon and here's the Poseidon temple here so it's a hybrid it's a hybrid temple programmatically and there are also two tombs for kings stuck in here and a well and an olive tree go figure it's hybrid it's hybrid for other reasons too and a lot of this has to do with negotiating the difficulties of the site that we talked about high ground low ground and not simply high ground low ground but things that you see really close up you would see that part of it really from this distance and things that you would see from all over Athens this is the facade of the Poseidon temple that engages the city so it has these two aspects and it changes scale pumps up its scale so that it can be seen well from far away and shrinks down its scale not only because it's being seen from a near distance but also it wants to clarify the hierarchies of the site and the Parthenon is the major Athena temple so this little porch shrinks down and becomes tiny so that you can understand very clearly that this is the major temple and it more or less becomes something organized not on the body of its own temple but becomes organized with respect to the center of the Parthenon this is a funny looking porch don't you think and all these Greeks are just obsessed with their mythology and their history this kind of column this female column this enslaved female column forever holding up the roof of the Erechvion is called a carotid named after a group of captive women captured by the Greeks the maidens of cariae Spartan women kind of like a column kind of like a woman and we've already said in talking about the column and the the Truvian descriptions of the column that columns are anthropomorphic head shaft feet and look at the folds of drapery on the carotid looking a lot like the flutes on a column here's our olive tree again and these are a lot of the cults that we're celebrating and this is just another view of the carotid porch the Brits only took one of the carotids to london i guess they were you know over the limit on carion luggage or whatever it's really it's really spectacular really delicate and really really beautiful how most of this wall this big wall facing the Parthenon is a plain masonry wall allowing it to become edge deflecting toward this little object that through its scale deferred to the Parthenon but through its intricacy holds its own so if you're thinking this Greece seems great you're not alone because the early modernists or at least the best of the early modernists had a love affair with Greece probably prime among them is Le Corbusier who we've already mentioned a couple of times in our discussion here he is this is how you should dress when you're a tourist by the way with a white linen suit and your cute hat leaning on a column sketching or you could float in a inner tube smoking a cigar sketching Le Corbusier wrote up his visit to the east in voyage d'orient carnet and it's a collection voyage to the east it's a collection of sketches and he talks a lot about the power of greek architecture not only because of its specificity this is a beautiful temple but because of its general principles principles of proportion principles of simple volumes bathed in light principles of clear geometry principles of locking into a landscape and making the architecture somehow caused the landscape to spring to life another one of the early modernists who just couldn't get enough of the Greeks was a lot more sly about his admiration and that is Ludwig Mies van der Roa a great architect who ended up in the united states designing quite a lot of buildings in chicago including the campus of it Illinois Institute of Technology here's a picture of Mies with a building for the architecture school at the Illinois Institute of Technology here's a tiny little plan that you can barely see but the case i'm going to make and i'll make it more clearly in the next example is that this is kind of temple like this is kind of a rectangle there are kind of columns at the perimeter and there is kind of something in the center as though this idea of the temple haunted him and he strove to find a way to take its principles and translate them into a new language here's another building by Mies van der Roa much earlier it is the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain of course this is Mies's Barcelona Pavilion and this is the Parthenon and i'm showing you these two things because they i think have uncanny similarities the Parthenon you know it has a styler bait has a bunch of columns has a cella has a cult figure it's got all the stuff you need to be a temple does the Barcelona Pavilion have that stuff and you might say no of course it doesn't have that stuff it's the Barcelona Pavilion it's this sleek intersection of simple planes in pure materials this is modern this is ye olden days but if you begin to look closely at the Barcelona Pavilion you notice some things like column column column column column column column this pteron or colonnade on a platform or styler bait and you might say well where's the cella i sure would like to see a cella before i buy into this argument and it could be if you look at the way these lines are disposed and the way this platform and this platform and this reflecting pond are all related to each other there could be some argument about the cella sliding apart breaking open and becoming open to the world rather than closed we know that the cella in ancient Greece is closed only to the priest cast nobody sees the cult statue with the priests and here there's a cracking open of the system there's a democratization of the system which makes a lot of sense if you consider that this is a building constructed while Spain was under the rule of dictators and Germany was experiencing this great avant-garde flourishing of culture and the arts during the Weimar Republic so in a sense the building is delivered the anti-hierarchical and the building is deliberately demonstrating a kind of democratic impulse in the face of the host nation which had very different aspirations these are just some fabulously done drawings fabulously quickly done drawings that begin to show you that there's lots of stuff that kind of locks together between the Parthenon and the Barcelona Pavilion for example the proportions are uncannily similar and even if you look at the division of the Naos the Proneos and the cella and some of these different elements that you have in here in the subdivision of these slippy slidey partitions in the Barcelona Pavilion kind of similar here everything we see that's dark is a reflecting pool and this reflecting pool over here has a statue in it you see it over here again visible obliquely throughout the building and it could even be thought that the statue cast into the reflecting pond into the outdoors at the Barcelona Pavilion in some way nods toward the notion of the cult statue which was interior and hidden in buildings like the Parthenon so I think what Mies has done here is find a way to take a precedent from history read it really critically and transform it into something very very different now Michael Graves that the Walt Disney headquarters is also taking the precedent from antiquity he's looking carefully at the idea of the pediment he's looking carefully at the idea of the carotid but he's not being quite so critical in his reappropriation of those elements one of the great moments of military power in ancient Greece came under Alexander the Great and he initiated a period called the Hellenistic period during the reign of Alexander the Great rule of Greece spread like crazy so here on the right we see how far Alexander's reign extended he extended his conquest all the way into India down into Africa all the way across into Spain but but what we're interested in is what happens to art and architecture during this late period of Greece of Greek art and architecture and just to review these are two images that we've seen before the Critios boy got the Contrapasto going and the Joriferous crazy Contrapasto and hyper articulation of interrelated parts so that you can read how specifically the ratios and the proportions work this is not really germane to the material you need to know but the Nazis had a contest who could look the most like the Joriferous and this is the winner right here this is naked Nazi posing like the Joriferous Joriferous means spear bearer and the Nazi has got it right he's got the spear Joriferous has lost his spear Statuary in the Hellenistic period begins to become really much more agitated than the kind of calm severe presence that we have in the you know high Hellenic period the period of Pericles this is all about repose this is all about ideality this is all about a kind of timeless and eternal mask that disguises the psychological difficulties of the individual and somehow universalizes the condition here we have two works the Apollo Belvedere and the Lackawon and they're both Hellenistic works and they're both much more open spatially they're virtuoso works i mean think about making marble do this getting so much liberation of arm and leg and drapery at the same time there's nothing timeless and eternal and generalizable universalizable about the condition of the Lackawon instead a very specific story is being told and it's it's a good story so i'll tell you too Lackawon was a Trojan priest and uh he got into trouble for a number of things there are two different versions of the story i'll tell you just one of them he's the one who said during the Trojan War beware of Greeks bearing gifts when the Greeks presented the Trojan horse this giant wooden horse full of soldiers the Greeks needed to get into the fortified city walls and they couldn't scale them and they couldn't fight through them so they hid inside of a horse and this priest Lackawon said beware beware of them beware of them but Athena who favored the Greeks was very mad at Lackawon so she blinded him but Lackawon kept saying beware of Greeks bearing gifts and so she set serpents upon him and the serpents were to devour him and his children so this is the battle of Lackawon and his children against the serpents bad luck Lackawon a very different subject matter than the subject matter we had in the more classical Greek moment the last topic we're going to talk about today is urban space in ancient Greece i don't know why i'm showing you socrates i'll tell you in a moment why i'm showing you socrates sites like Delphi are not urban sites they're sacred sites these are these are sanctuaries that are specifically located in the landscape charged with the power of the deities that they celebrate but you also have things in ancient Greece like markets and civic buildings and meeting halls and they had their own kind of organization to a certain extent their organization follows the organization of sacred sites a little bit but transforms over time also so this is what the Agora the marketplace of ancient Athens would have looked like during the time of Socrates and during the time of of Pericles let's say here's the Panathenaic way cutting through it and there are kind of odd collection of little buildings here here's a stoa stoa is a long linear building lots of little rooms here maybe you have corn and olives and oil or whatever the goods are that are being sold in the market and this shady colonnade becomes a place for people to meet and talk and exchange ideas some of the things that might happen in the stoa might be somebody like Socrates holding forth and philosophizing and having socratic debates which would be an argument where Socrates never gives the answer but just asks questions leading his interlocutor to come to the answer himself or there might be wrestling matches or boxing matches in the space because there was a belief in ancient Greece that the body and the mind had to be cultivated in tandem or you would not be making sufficient progress so we saw the condition of the Agora in the time of Pericles and you can see as we move forward to the second century BC the first century BC to the second century AD that the Agora gets increasingly filled up with stuff more stoas are added to begin to enclose the space within the enclosure of the space even tighter boundaries of space are made and there was a kind of shifting from Greek space characterized by figural objects to a Roman space characterized by figural voids and this is the discovery that Le Corbusier sketched for us much earlier on this is just a view of the stoa of a telus in Athens and you might be saying wow this is nicely preserved why why is everything else a wreck how did they manage to keep this thing looking so good and the answer is they didn't really manage to keep it looking so good what happened is they reconstructed it they just built a new one they thought they wanted to have one there and that's kind of great if you happen to be an architect you can look around and you can see how it makes an edge to the space how it has a rhythm what kind of light is available inside the space but if you happen to be an archaeologist it's sort of a bad idea because the task of rebuilding it damages the real archaeological evidence and somehow hinders the understanding of future generations to get a more perfect truth of what went on now they built a kind of platform over the archaeological evidence and built this on top of it who knows i like it i wish they rebuilt all the Greek temples they could build some in Ohio a couple more Hellenistic sites that i think are pretty interesting this is Pergamon a Hellenistic town and i think Syria and we can see a lot of the typological pieces that we know here is the piece of the town that we're looking at in more detail over here we have a temple we have a stowa we have a stowa that bends around to become an agora we have a giant altar called the Pergamon altar we have a theater with a number of courtyards and kind of domestic spaces i think that i think is so interesting about the Pergamon town plan is how it almost seems to suggest a transformation from point to line to plane to volume how the pieces in the town of Pergamon seem to be obeying some kind of diplomatic law so that people nowadays could look at this and say wow that's cool and if you're wondering about the Pergamon altar like would you have to go yet with all this difficult political stuff going on no you wouldn't have to because the Germans took it and it's in Berlin in the Pergamon museum i personally think all this stuff should be returned as the military conquests of alexander advanced and more and more new towns got built town planning developed in a way that was much more methodical than the augurs going around and figuring out what the spirit of the place was from from one town to the next and from this period we have our first town planner named hippodamus he gives us the hippodamian town plan hippodamus of moletus had this great idea about the grid and if you look at the town plans of of moletus and priene and you compare them with the kinds of urban space we were seeing in the older town plans it's really quite radical the eccentric condition of the water's edge is met by the grid slamming into it the eccentric condition of a mountain or at least a hill is met by the grid slamming into it it's kind of hyper rationalized you see these town plans again and again in uh hellenistic settlements like moletus or priene or even alexandra which is now in egypt so next time we will continue and discuss rome


Scientists say men want to get rich subconsciously because they know it improves their love life. So we never are trained social skills. So I'm gonna show you, I'd say the biggest return, I'll give you an example. I went to a Berkshire Hathaway meeting years ago, my first one, and I sat way up high because it was hard to get seats. And I remember, I always had mentors that told me to be social. And I didn't, who here is just, sometimes you don't feel social. You just wanna be a veggie. I can see some of you just veggie now. Okay. And I was at this eight hour thing. It starts, you get there at like five in the morning, you run, has anybody ever been to Berkshire Hathaway? It's the biggest investor meetup in the world. You run through the thing to get it. It's all these like, you know, adult men who are on over warm buffets to talk. So I was tired. It ends around three o'clock. It was like 2.45 and I was like, and I'd been sitting next to this older dude. And I just, something in me, I was like, always be social. The asymmetrical return means you do this much energy and you make that much return on your investment. So I was like, Ty, did you sat next to this dude? Talk to him. I don't remember what I said, but I started talking and it was in right when I had launched my, I launched my brand on Book of the Day. It was before here in my garage. It was in 2013. I launched a newsletter. And at the time, I BCC'd 20 friends. I said, I'm gonna read a book a day and I'm gonna summarize it for you. And I put 20 emails of just buddies of mine. And then I said, if you like this, forward this to a friend. It started to grow from 20 BCCs to about 150, 200 people. And I would send an email every day. It was a lot of work. I'd spend three hours a day reading a book and writing out a cool summary. Fast forward six months into it. I'm at this meeting. I don't feel like being social. I'm sitting next to this dude. Now I still know him to this day. Start talking to him. Turns out I'm like, and we were high up. So I didn't think there would be like good people high up cause like all the billionaires were sitting down. You could see them all around warm up. And he goes, and I told him about my book of the day. I'm like, yeah, I do book summaries. It's like, oh, I love books.  I don't wanna spam you, but if you put your, so he went on his website, put it in. No, it's way before MentorBox. It's about three years before that. So I leave sending out my daily emails. A month later, I get an email, a reply. And it was like, hey, I was the guy who sat next to you. And I could see like his name was also the domain. Okay, it turned out it's one of the richest guys in the world. It's like the number one entrepreneur. I'm not sure if he's a multi-billionaire but he's almost the richest guy in Germany. He was a German guy at a thick accent.  Then I told some friends who go to Berkshire, half the way you're like, oh, you were sitting by Warren Buffett's friend. I'm like, what am I typing? Keep sending my emails out. Two weeks later, hey man, I want you to come to Germany. I have 14 CEOs.   We're now sitting in a luxury chair in the sky. And people are like, I don't know, I've got to go to the airport in a way. I'm like, bro, what planet are you on? Pop, pop, pop, pop. People used to go, I just read the book about the guys that had to go from England under Argentina and come back. It was one of the biggest scandals in the 1800s. Like 400 men went, like four came back, took them 12 years to get back. They all died.  We can now go to London, and be back the same day almost, 24 hours. So I remember telling Maya, who's my COO now, but back then she was just like my right hand and I was like, I have to be somewhere on Wednesday. And he invited me to speak in Monday. On Monday in Bonn, Germany. And I remember my mentors were tough guys.  I said, Maya, I'm gonna try experiment. I leave Sunday, land Monday, speak at night, fly back Tuesday for my Wednesday thing. I was like, I'm gonna try experiment. What happens if you just do a quick thing? It was a glorious meeting. I'm still friends with this guy. I said, powerful person. Two lessons, talk to strangers and don't be afraid to travel. I read books on the way, never think about travel. My next door neighbor in Beverly Hills, one of the richest guys in America, he told, I was like, what's your secret? He built a big clothing brand, sold it to JCPenney. Rich guy, owns a lot of Beverly Hills, most expensive real estate in the world. And I asked him, he's in his sixth year. I was like, what's your secret? What was your daily habit? He said, well, I'll tell you my weekly habit. Sunday, he's like, I had eight kids. Sunday, I would get on an airplane at LAX. I'd fly to Milan, Italy. I would look at the styles and I would come back on Tuesday or Wednesday. And then I could be with my kids, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and all of the morning, Sunday before I flew again. I was like, well, that sounds like a tough trip. How often do you do it? He goes, oh, every week. I said, how many years you do that? I said, oh, my whole career, 20 years. He said, nobody was willing to do it. And I was like, I just figured out fun stuff to do on the plane. I met people. I read and he's probably worth, I don't know, $500 million to $5 billion. Tough people make the money.  Some people, I was like, you wanna come to Vegas? There was people like, you're too busy. I'm like, well, fly and come back the next day. So two lessons, talk to strangers and do not be afraid to get on a plane at any moment. It's the safest travel. The last time someone's died in American commercial traffic death was like 2013. Nobody dies. They're safe as hell. They're way safer than driving here. So social skills. I'll give you one thing and then we'll go practice it tonight. We'll talk more on social skills. And this directly makes you money. In fact, Jim Collins, you ever heard of him? Good to great. He wrote, he's the kind of the most, he's the new Drucker. I had a mentor me once, I had a little session with him. And he wrote the best selling business books of modern time, Good to Great, Built to Last. He has in there. The luckiest thing that will ever happen to you for making money is not a business idea. It's not catching a trend. It's who you will accidentally meet at some point in your life. And the richest guy I've ever had dinner with, Steve Ballmer's like, you know, most of my success is like I happen to be in the same dorm as this kid named Bill Gates. The best money story, by the way, somebody like money. What's the best investment of all time? Huh? Find the copper pot? Okay. Who's the person that did it? Let's do modern, the last 50 years. Greatest investment. Apple and my mom. Nah. One luck event kid was at a dorm at Harvard, met another kid. Said, not Zuckerberg. He said, I'll give Zuckerberg like eight, 10 grand to run the servers. In exchange for a large chunk of the company. It was Eduardo Severin. He gave Mark Zuckerberg to it. It wasn't Mark Zuckerberg. Eduardo Severin made, nobody knows the number. He left America. IRS changed the tax law because of one kid. He worked approximately one hour and made between 18 billion dollars. You know how much money that is for one hour of work? He smoked everybody. What was it? He talked to strangers. There was other kids in there. In the dorm with Mark Zuckerberg that didn't talk to him. There was other Steve Baum. Your shyness has already robbed you for sure of seven, maybe eight, possibly nine figures. Let me repeat that. The shyness, the social anxiety. The, oh, I'm an introvert. I have to recharge my batteries. Who believes that's a good psychologist? You think that's real? Science of introversion? This is, let me give you a prime example of how stupidity spreads on social media. Who here has heard that an introvert needs to recharge their batteries? That's the definitive. Who made that up? But who studies psychology?  They get spread around social media that allows introverts to have excuses for not overcoming what's more likely anxiety. You don't believe me? Who invented the word introversion? An extrovert. Carl Jung, read his book.  It's on iBooks and Amazon. Nobody reads the sources anymore. That's why you all are lied to. You listen to influencers who regurgitate stuff, but they didn't read it either. I go to the source. Carl Jung said that's not what an introvert or extrovert is. An extrovert processes the world through his exterior senses. The introvert processes it through inner thinking. Stephen Hawking maybe was an introvert. He was paralyzed. He thought about the universe in his head. That's kind of introverted energy. Extrovert is me. I learn by actually talking with you all. I'm glad you all are here.  You're doing me a favor. As I talk and interact, I learn. So who here has bought into I'm an introvert, so I'm just not the kind of person who talks to people? Strangers, be honest. These should be half the hands. Who here has missed an opportunity because they haven't talked to a stranger?  Why? Strangers, you can't be embarrassed by strangers because they'll never see you again. Men are funny. What do men say? Red pill men. Women shouldn't be president because they're more what? More motion. The most emotional people, if you define it by illogical, is men. Men go to war for a cause they don't believe in to die for rich men when they're from the ghetto.  You know who got in big argument with my grandfather who was pro-Vietnam war domino theory run by all people in America presidents? My grandma, I thought women weren't logical. My grandma said, why are you fighting in a war? That we don't even know what's going on there. Leave it alone. So, men, on a logical basis, see women that they're attracted. Women don't fall in love as quickly just by looks. Men do and men push out the most. So if you were logical, wouldn't you be a robot and say, I am a robot. There is a woman I am very attracted to.  Therefore, you're equally illogical or more so than women. Don't go down that deep red pill. Red pill is 80% true and 20% massive garbage and you don't know which 20 is correct and what's the truth? Women are more emotional but not more illogical and God help you if you ever meet a dude who tells you about his PhD or his engineering degree. You have met an emotional bitch, trust me.   He's afraid because he's dominated by emotions. So, in my third pillar for both men and women but especially men, it's harder for me to speak to the experience of a woman because I'm not a woman. I try to give my insight to women but I can't tell you the deep experience of a woman but I can tell you the experience of a man and that is put on your big boy pants, talk to strangers a lot. So, I have this thing in 40 moves, you talk to 40 people, strangers in the next 40 days and once you do that and you put a little thick skin, you then talk to 40 people a week and then you do 40 people in one day and when you get to that level, now you're at a black belt level, all things in your life that suck begin to go away. One chest move, you meet somebody like, by the way, when I flew to Germany to meet that German guy, you know what he told me? Ty, I'm in, he owns a lot of the magazines, print magazines. He said, I think this business is dying. Think of good businesses to sell educational stuff online. This is me in 2013. Ty, I think this is something, let me show you some tricks on how I became a publisher of information. Do you think that was helpful meeting for me? Did I make any money in selling, publishing information online? I think I may be the most in human history of revenue from selling online education from an individual person. Grant Cardone maybe has, I've stopped for three years kind of. Who's gonna try 40 strangers in 40 days? Don't just make it all about women. I was just with mystery. He's the most famous pickup artist. He's a true genius. I've gotten to know him. I've read his books for years, but he's great at just talking to people, including men, including men. It's a big mistake that men can serve all their energy and only talk to women. In fact, what mystery one of the surprising things, he pretty much only likes to talk to women when they're with men. He said all hot women are protected by men. So he knows how to disarm. He does, he's like, my favorite is a five set. Two girls and three guys. He's like, I walk in there and control the whole thing. And he's like, I can walk out with both the girls. And the dudes are like, yeah, take them. They're so mesmerized. He's like a magician. So all men here, now women, I also highly recommend that you learn the skill. Women just have to be careful of talking to strange men because men can misinterpret it. There's a famous study where women were told as cashiers at a grocery store to smile and be friendly to every dude who came, strangers. The amount of stalkers went so high they had to shut down the study.  So women have to learn how to talk to other women because women are very catty to each other. Even right here, right now, I can tell a body language, not all the women have talked to each other. Here's how women do.  I don't want to know her. Women, men don't do that. I rarely see a dude like bra, motherfucker, got shorts on. I'm not, women do a different level. Women have their own illogical behaviors. Women, don't bring your cultural standards into things. Go talk to women who even look slutty. Once in a while, you're talking to the next Rihanna. Who I've met Rihanna is probably, a people ask me the greatest celebrity I've ever met that made a biggest impression would be Rihanna.  You know, like, I'm a queen. I'm like, I've met a queen before.  Even stronger than any dude I've met. So, but if you met Rihanna, when she was doing one of her performances, she might have on something that you're like, oh, she's slutty.   You may learn something that helps you in your own marriage. But it doesn't mean you have to become your best friend where you spend every waking moment with them. But when you bring your cultural biases, and this is men and women, two social settings, you judge things that you know not of. So that's why I said it's better to be a robot. When I was helping some guys get better with women, I was in Finland a couple of months ago, and there was a guy.  You ever seen those where Simon used to say that?  You have won the award. I've never met a human. Like for example, mystery would like teach, he teaches guys how to be playful with women. So he'll be walking, this famous pick-up artist guy, he'll be walking, and if there's women behind him, he'll turn and be like, oh, are you guys stalking me? And just like open the conversation. But they're just walking behind. This dude would do it like this. Or stop stalking me. And they would leave. And I was like, delivery, buddy, delivery. Are you stalking me? And I was like, so this guy was the worst guy I've ever met with women. But what I told him is, let's do, there's an old rule, turn right. Sorry, first on the right, or first on the left. You walk into a building, first person on the right, talk to. So he was like, that won't work. I'm super picky. I only want to talk to the pretty women. I was like, watch this. So we were in Helsinki, Finland, it's called the, is it May 1st or May 5th? I was there for a week. May 5th, it's called. It's like their 4th of July. So there's a million people out in the city. And we're on this hillside. And I go, I'm gonna talk to every single group that walks by. So I'll talk to one, I talk to them. The second they leave, the next group goes. He's like, oh, I don't believe, it was a weird guy. He was from French.  Most mental illness of any Western country is France. So the new study just came out. So I just said, okay. So I talked to this guy. Nothing came of it, walks. I remember this dude comes by. It was like four guys and four girls. And he had like complete tattoos over his body. But they were kind of cool. Like four guys, four girls.  I couldn't tell there was this one pretty girl because they were in front. So I turned to the guy and I remember when you do this rapid fire, which is great to do, you just say anything. So I was just like, you don't, cause you can get into pickup in conversational social game where you're like memorizing routine. And that's also good to do. I have opening, they call them like openings. You can stack on top of each other. But I just turned to this guy. I was like, I've always wanted to get a tattoo. Where'd you get that? And obviously a dude loved his tattoos cause they put them on his face. So he stopped and he was kind of like, oh yeah. Like I got it. And he named something in Finnish. It's not an easy language. It's like, here's the truth of the street. And there was this girl that was way shorter than the guy. It was probably like six six. And she comes out and I saw her finally. And so I said, it's like, what did he say? And she's like, oh, and she spoke, she was super exotic. I actually posted her on my Snapchat. People were like, who is this woman? She was half Finnish, half Spanish. She looked like the cat woman, like Halle Berry. But like no contact. She had like green eyes. It's a wild look. Anything mixed with like Swedish. So she was like super beautiful. And I go, can you DM it to me? Cause I'm never going to find that street. So she's like, DM me that address. Like a week later, I like went out to dinner with her. It's not like somebody I fell in love with. But that guy was blown away. I was like, talk to anybody. I didn't go, well, I'm only gonna make the income of the five men that I spend the most time around. This guy's a face tattoo. Therefore culturally, he's probably not that good at business and that.  Rapid fire machine gun. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If any of you were extra skilled, by the time this two days is over, you would have probed every person in this room. You can't do it by looks. That's where women mess up. Women are wacky, judgemental on looks. Men in general aren't going like, oh, that guy's better looking. I'll talk to him. Women, they call that the halo effect.  Talk to every woman at this thing. Give everybody a chance. You never know.  So when we go to the foundation room, just walk around and your friend tapped you on the shoulder, turn right. Who's ever there, talk to him. And your goal is for women to not yet find you attractive. It should take 67 days to build any level of street game. So you're going in with the intention tonight of people thinking you're a tad bit weird. It's okay. That's another thing that freaks men out. Women going, ew. The best guy I've ever seen in the world, this guy Drago who worked for me, he was, I asked him once. Because I've never seen a dude that talented. Even mystery's not like Drago. Because Drago is a 10 in looks. He was like Chris Hemsworth with the ultimate social game. But he told me, I was like, how often do you get rejected? I thought he was going to say like 5% of the time. He's like, oh, like at least 50% of the time. And when I realized that the best looking dude in the world with the most social skills, he helped me build a whole night club. 40 to 100 women a night came to my club because he was the doorman. He was a magnate, it was like made me money. It was before only fans, I had my doorman. When I took over that club, I fired everybody because it was an old kind of hostile Colombian group that owned the nightclubs. But Giorgio told me, whatever you do, don't fire Drago. And I was like, what? He's like, trust me, wait until the first night. He'd wear a tuxedo, be out front. It was like having like Brad Pitt, or it was like having, he looked kind of like Johnny Depp in his prime. It was like having DiCaprio as your doorman, prime Titanic DiCaprio, and you own a nightclub for 20 year old women. So, but that guy still was at a 50% rejection rate. So this is where men go wrong.  You can be the best looking guy in the world with the most social skill and a billion dollars.  It ain't a day where you wanna talk to a guy. Anybody? Be honest. Women have those moments, they're not like men. Men are like always like, ah, I made a pretty girl. You could have like lost your arm and like a pretty girl like, I'll talk to you right now. I'll talk to you before I go to the hospital. Women are more selective. So men, tonight when you go into it, if there's a woman there at the foundation room, you should be at like 5% right now. So you should need to approach 20 women before one of them is remotely interested in you. And that's if you're a decent looking guy in decent shape. If you're not a good looking and you let your body run down, you can be at 1% but just do it anyway. Because it also motivates you in the gym. I motivate some of my friends. I told them, put a picture on the fridge of the woman you find the most attractive that has you in the friend zone. And before you grab a Twinkie, before you grab a ice cream, it's like the massive men lead lives of quiet desperation. What we call resignation is confirmed desperation. What we call desperation is confirmed. So I say, you open that, you eat the Twinkies and the cookies and the ice cream, you confirm the friend zone, buddy. Don't ever think women aren't visual. The good news is you can have an ugly face and make up for it in other things. So get your body right, but today you should be at a 1 to 5%. Unless, remember tonight I was with a friend, we went gambling. Remember the two guys talking to the girl that thought they were 9.9? There's hookers in LA. I've been in Vegas. These two dudes, Mindy went to the bathroom and I was like, I should film these guys but I don't want to because they don't know they're talking to a hooker. And she was like a nine. And he was like a five. And boy, you let a man have confidence. They were spitting every line they knew. And I was thinking, bro, I want to go up to them and be like, you don't even need to talk. Why are you talking? These guys were talking game for like 30 minutes to this girl. I was like, she just wants your money. Just get it over with, man. So tonight, if you meet a woman and normally, 9s don't approach you and talk to you for a long period of time, it's a hooker. So you can practice on that, but don't get too excited. Don't get too excited.  I'm gonna give you one line. Write this down. This is for men. Women do not have this problem. Women get too much attention from men. Any women here ever feel you get too much attention from men? Men, anyone here? Any man feel you get too much attention from women.  I just can't handle the volume. Everywhere I go, I just wanna go to the gym and work out in like these beautiful women. Man, raise your hand if your life is impaired by approaches from women.  Women, have you ever been bothered by approaches from men too much? Okay, so this is why we're talking. The sexes are different. Gender, I'm not gonna talk about, but we'll talk about the sexes. So men, here's a good opening line. I'm gonna give you a good and bad, is my opinion. And I do think all men, you should be able to approach an attractive woman even if you're married, not to cheat. But beautiful women also are often attached to the most powerful business men.  So here's a couple horrible lines with women in my opinion. Now, a lot of the guys teaching pickup on social media are so against what I'm about to say, but I've done okay with women in my day.  So I don't think you should do anything sexual or romantic at the beginning at all. Where did I get that? Well, my life experience, but also who's the most famous man in human history with women? We call men who are good with women a certain name. We say they're a Casanova. Who has ever gone to the source of Casanova? He's so well known, he was born in the 1600s. We still talk about him 450 years later, but yet there's some new dude with 17,000 social media followers, some dude who you don't can't verify does well at all with women and you're listening to his advice. What did Casanova say? Be chameleon one, be the flame, not the moth, but another thing he said, I didn't like, it's a long paragraph. You should read it. It's the memoirs of Giancomo Casanova. I've read it like once a year. He said, show women more than tell them. If you like a woman, show it by your action, spend time with them, but I think it's a big mistake to walk up to a woman, one of you today, at Vegas and say, I just wanted to say, I saw you across the room. I just, you know, you're really beautiful and I just wanted to introduce myself. I don't know who's teaching this on Instagram, but I would love to go film them in a double blind, scientific and just watch their numbers be decimated versus what I'm gonna tell you. So I just think it's wrong.  How are you gonna stand out by just saying he's beautiful? Number two, you're projecting low value to yourself. Number three, you're not engaging her mind, which puts you in the category of every dude on planet Earth. So a good one that I like is something, when you're close to somebody, first off, I don't think a man should direct approach right up B line to a woman. That's a sign of aggression in any primate. You don't go straight. Men are often times. Who's a man here who weighs over 220 pounds? Raise your hand. Okay, UA2, female next to you. How much do you weigh? Okay, 105. So you're roughly over 1x, 2x what she weighs, correct? Okay, how would you feel of a B line, 460 pound dude? How tall are you? Five foot, how tall are you? Six foot. Okay, so she's 5 6th of you. So how'd you like of the mountain who weighs about 450, the guy from the Game of Thrones? And he's about six foot eight, six foot nine. He just B line approaches you. I saw you across the room. I wanted to know, I found you pretty attractive and I needed to introduce myself. You know what this is actually called? Dr. Bus is doing new scientific studies. It's actually called mind reading. Some people call it empathy. There's other words for it. To be good social, you have to get in the mind of a five foot woman who weighs 105 pounds. Men are, that's where men are oblivious.  So much better today, try to position yourself in a natural position to where somebody is. Preferably you're with a group of people. High status men are around other people wanna be with them. So subliminally, don't just move. This is even worse. You're 450 pound dude, okay? Women notice people at the club. Men are oblivious. Women have already staked out.  No friends, nothing. And then you B line and it's horrible. You put cortisol spikes through the roof. So better is to position yourself with a group of people. Can be men or women, preferably not a ton of dudes. Or now you have gang warfare. What's even worse is if the mountain and his six buddies approach you. Found you pretty attractive over there. We just all needed to go talk to you. It was like a prison scene here, okay? So you walk up, walk position where you can speak over the shoulder. It was less aggressive. And say something like, me and my friend, we were just talking earlier. We had a little bit of an argument. Do you mind settling it? Is it better to be wanted or needed? And why? Pause.  She knows you're talking to her because you find her attractive. Why do you need to state it? That's like Elon Musk walks up and you're like, Elon, I wanted you to know that I admire you as a business guy. And that's why I want, he already knows that's why you're talking to him. He doesn't think it's because, you know, he's named Elon. So just get to the point. But illicit, so that's a good one. Is it better to be wanted or needed? But then shut up, let the woman say what you're gonna say. And from there, you can bounce around. So those are, I call those intellectual openers. I think it's better. I think, we'll talk about this tomorrow in my 13th thesis. I think women seek five things from a man. One, it's archetypes. One's the surfer archetype, that's your body. Lean muscle, like a surfer. Brad Pitt has that. In Chris Hemsworth, Australian was a surfer that you guys rated a 10. So that phenotype, body type should be surfer.   Yeah, so you need to have an intellectual side. Third, a man should have the James Bond vibe. It's not wealthy men that do well, it's James Bond.  So at night you need to be able to switch like at a dinner party and do a classy mode. That's like a king vibe, James Bond. But you don't have to be a billionaire. Then the fourth vibe archetype a man should be, who else does well with women? Yes. You? Oh, you just raised your hand as if it was, no, behind you. You were saying you do well with women. Now I was saying an archetype. I like your confidence. I was like, what other archetypes do well? Me, you are the archetype. No, the other one is a local celebrity. So it's good to go to the same restaurant and go to the same nightclub where you know the bouncers. You don't have to be a fan, and it's good to throw out house parties because then you're the celebrity. Then lastly is the spiritual artist. Women are attracted to somebody who has depth too. Musicians have a different depth. It's not just logical and they do very well. So tonight when you're meeting strangers, whether it's male or female, but if it is a female, you want to show you have all five archetypes.   So this opening line, one other opening line that I think can work well too. It's simpler, talk to the guy, it's way better. 80% of the time, the guy, if it's a group of guys, is not actually dating her. Men, women who are single, a lot of times love to go out in groups because it keeps men off of them. So approaching women in groups is often better and what not? Here's the good news. If she is dating somebody, let's say you approach, they call this a mix set.   So I approach the guy. The guy's not afraid of you, right? He now knows you're not trying to hit on his girl because he may be in the friend zone and secretly like her or maybe dated her. If she's beautiful, and she has Waylin, Owen's beautiful, he's probably a higher status man who may become a business ally. You talked away, Lynn, for a while. I don't like, but not too long because then sometimes the girl leaves and it's like, oh, my friend's been occupied. Then you say this, how do you two know each other? Then you'll find out the truth. If they says we're married or something, I'm not a big fan of, I don't think you should try to steal people's girls. I think it's weird. And you can get everyone in 100 times you do that, you get shot in the face. It's not a good. Napoleon's main general, one of the main generals that, Napoleon was the first trillionaire. He got shot in the face for, he was sleeping with too many wives. Finally someone's like, this guy's gotta die. He's sleeping with our wives, pal. So I talked to you, if you're dating or in a relationship, then I just talked to both of you and make an ally and a friend for the future. If I find out it's friend zone, you can talk a little bit more to her. It's a, you can't lose. You can't lose in that scenario. And if they're both boring, you move on in five minutes and you've honed your skills like bodybuilding reps. You need, let's say you need 15,000 reps to really be strong in this world. You've repped out five minutes of it.