Hello, welcome back to Brian. Um, I hope you have enough seats. I see one in the backgrounds of which tickets Let me see if we have Andy in line Andy Hello, I can hear you. Okay, then I guess the sound is working. Yes. Yes. Yes. It is Do you have your slides ready? My slides are shared already there. We are they are okay. I'll kick you off then Tell us about the spec. We never knew we needed Okay, thank you. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening as appropriate to time zones And today I'm talking about reliability the spec you never knew you needed I am Andy Funinger. I'm a senior engineer at Bloomberg in our data services platform scale and reliability Team um Little bit about Bloomberg. We sell data and analysis So my department's api gateway service allows applications at Bloomberg to get market data from each other This is billions of requests per day So, of course, it's important to us that this be reliable Of Of course all my examples today are Made up. They are not related to any actual systems Except maybe the random number generator in microsoft excel So let's consider something What would it look like if we were missing a specification for our system? If we didn't have a spec for the color of our UI, we'd keep getting prompted to change it We'd get a ticket that says please make the UI a little more red Then we get an email that says hey, I looked at the UI this morning. It needs a little bit more green Next thing, you know You're in a meeting and someone says, uh, let's let's put a little more pizzazz in the UI So what would you do? Well You'd call a meeting Get all the stakeholders together And come up with a spec Then you would maintain that spec users the product team Whoever owns it may change that spec over time but if it changes without an intentional change Then in your qa process, you're going to call it a regression and you're going to fix it So when we look at complaints About reliability They tend to look about the same So when you get a ticket, it says the system's down and explains that it's not really down. It's just too slow and then someone calls and says, uh, we the error rate at 5 p.m. Is Too high and then you put on your yearly plan that you want to reduce downtime Then sooner or later you're in a meeting that says let's build a whole new system to address stability concerns The thing is Our response is a little bit different We build a new system or we add some new features to an existing system And then we release it uh, hopefully everybody's happy but Users provide feedback somewhat sporadically product provides some feedback to engineering Tags these as maintenance or bugs or whatever and works on them until people stop complaining Now once the feedback stops the work stops What if we did this a little bit different? What if We wrote specifications for speed error rates and failures We got a new system That's already meeting the specifications at release Since we know what the specifications are we'll have built-in monitoring for this And we can even plan for the capacity Users know what to expect And they should be talking to us when Either their expectations change Or we're not meeting what we plan to meet What does daily operations look like now Well incidents that meet these specs are prioritized When you go to do maintenance, you know just how careful you need to be engineering discusses changes with product whether that's a new feature that's going to Make things slower Or whether it's the need to put performance work in to enable future new features product prioritizes all work if Reliability suffers You block releases just like any other regression Clients now have a very clear way to request improvements And in fact the specs may change over time And that could be upwards or downwards Product may say well, you know what the features are important So we're going to lower the specification Now you can monitor to that new spec This replaces the old don't fix that yet. We need to push forward with features With an actual question How do we get here? Well, let's put some definitions around this service level indicators Are special metrics. They are metrics that are important to your clients And they are quantitative measures reflecting the health of the service aggregated over time They're observable and of concern to your clients SLOs are agreed upon targets service level objectives are agreed upon targets for which the service level indicators Must be met over a longer time period Service level agreements are legal documents Committing to a level of SLIs for clients I will not be talking further about service level agreements Other than to say they usually have penalties and they usually involve lawyers. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not your lawyer There are a whole topic in in and of themselves and they will not be covered in the rest of this talk Now we have a definition for reliability Reliability is simply are we meeting our SLOs? So let's go ahead to some simple sample SLIs The ratio of homepage requests that loaded in less than 100 milliseconds Could be a latency measure percent of accurate responses could be correctness 99th percentile of records process per second Would be throughput Minutes available in non-degraded state would be availability But remember our service level objectives are never absolute and never instant We typically measure the SLIs over a month And we apply a percentile or rolling average to the SLI So you would set your SLI SLO at 99th percentile ratio of homepage requests that loaded in the last in less than 100 milliseconds over the last 30 days 30 day rolling percentage of accurate responses 30 day rolling 99th percentile records process per second 30 day rolling minutes available in non-degraded state Let's look at some corollaries here If we have an objective Then we have some amount of allowed errors and that's our error budget It may be quite small, but it is non-zero We also have some rate at which our application is failing at the moment Hopefully quite low, but that is our error rate And then the rate at which that error budget is being consumed by the error rate is our burn rate So pull up an example If we have a web service that takes a million requests per month and has a hundred millisecond average response time We might say a request is successful if there are no errors. We returned the correct data And we took less than 200 milliseconds to respond How do we get these numbers? Well As an example in a new system, we know That the other systems need this kind of response time to meet their SLOs In an existing system We look at the fact that the clients are happy today And we leave a room. We leave a little room from our current performance Of course, we also need a time component So we're going to aim high And say 99.99 percent successful requests over the last 30 days This is four nines How does this translate? Well Our error budget Is 100 failures per month Or if we translate it into time 4.38 Minutes per month Now it's not exactly 4.38 minutes. It's unlikely that we have a consistent Distribution of traffic But this is telling us that any downtime we have has to be on the order Of four minutes or less per month If we are saying, okay, we're going to run on a single Physical machine and we're going to yank it down and we're going to occasionally do maintenance. No, you're not If you're going to say We're going to run on a very hard to build virtual machine and it's going to take 15 minutes to build No, you are not If you have something that's going to take 15 30 seconds to rebuild You might consider getting away with that And doing your maintenance that way Or you might be looking at the fact that as most systems you need multiple Parallel machines that can do a hot fail over So let's look at Some possibilities Let's consider the possibility that a component causes an SLO miss So let's say ground truth Our processing takes about 70 milliseconds and Authentication changes so that the cache miss penalty on authentication Increases to 150 milliseconds so anytime we have A Authentication that does not hit the cache It's going to take 220 milliseconds to process that request and We are going to miss Our target Every single authentication so what are our options? Well engineering goes to product and shows them this is the situation And product says, uh, well, we could just turn off authentication What we don't really need it Fine done You've you've re-achieved your SLO Uh, engineering can go to the authentication team Or provider and say we need this to be a little bit faster Can you speed this up a little bit? And they can even say we need you to shave 20 milliseconds off 30 would be better 50 would be better Engineering can change the design If we have 70 milliseconds processing 150 milliseconds authentication We could do all the processing In parallel with the authentication Or product could change the SLO product could say, uh 220 milliseconds. It's fine also Your environment might cause an SLO miss So let's say you're using some kind of virtual machines Kubernetes or something And occasionally a request hits an incompletely provisioned instance This happens About 50 times per month If we provision more often then we would reach our SLO So let's say we decide to make Idol instances Be cleaned up more frequently We start reaching our SLO and product might go engineering. We need you to fix this Engineering could say, okay, we're going to keep more spare instances Or Engineering might say, uh, you know what? We're going to take the hitch. This is happening Now 70 times a month But we're going to go make the authentication faster so that we're not getting a A failure on both Of course, you might change the SLO It might make sense especially if each client is Getting their own instance To say, okay, we're not going to count Hits that go to an incompletely provisioned instance That's not generally ideal But it's an option So how do you find Your service level indicators? Well, ideally your product team would know they know what's important to your clients Whoever's owning the product Should know When they don't or when they ask you how to figure it out There are some other options. Uh one your your customers do know Um, they know what's important to them They may in fact already be telling you when they are giving you a feedback They're giving feedback in certain terms Those terms show what Indicators they are looking at And those are If not Exactly your service level indicators candidates You can also look at similar systems elsewhere In your Company or your competitors In general You're going to wind up with something that can be expressed as a number of good events over a number of valid events so Good events under 200 milliseconds valid events excluding authentication Generally, you're going to look for SLIs in terms of Latency throughput correctness availability and error rate But literally whatever matters to your clients Is what your service level indicators are this is client focused There's also some techniques You can use and of course each of these are their own talk If your request focused you can use the red technique and say What's my rate of requests? What's my error rate? What's my duration? on requests If you're use If you're infrastructure focused Then use suggests looking at utilization saturation and errors Then we come to How do you set your service level objectives? well again product team should know But if sales and product are two different groups Sales is quite likely Advertising something And whatever they are advertising Those are becoming your slo's Um, you can also check your current performance for satisfied customers Uh, that's also another good indicator of what The expectations on your system are Once you have them, what do you do? Well, first of all Check them regularly Every week every month Look at where your slo's are compared to your slo's And if you're seeing a trend there You have time to take action Remember these are 30 day averages So from week to week They shouldn't be trending in anything short term Even a small outage Should cancel out So now you have time to fix issues And adjust plans You might say okay next sprint we need to put a performance boost in If you're consistently beating your service level objectives You can consider offering a better objective to your clients Especially if that has a benefit to you You can also use these once you have them to manage capacity and resources If you have plenty of room between your sli and your slo Then You probably don't need to add more resources If you're thinking about adding more resources And you're close then you need to add resources At least proportionate And this is a Valuable input to your resource Planning You'll also want to use them for alerting But it's not terribly useful To get an alert that says over the last 30 days things have started going bad Instead you want to look at your error budget So take one minus your slo Essentially, that's your error budget Then you can look at your system and say what is your Instantaneous error rate or what's your rate over the last five minutes Then calculate how fast your error budget will be expended at the current error rate So canceling out the time turns terms Error rate over error budget you get a burn rate If your burn rate is less than one You're basically fine You're not expecting to breach your slo's And things are are fine If your burn rate is one exactly Then At the end of the month You will exactly meet your slo So that probably requires some attention But is probably Fine If your burn rate goes up to two You're going to breach your slo in about 15 days For a 30 day slo In this case, you definitely need to take a look at it Probably on the next business set If your burn rate goes up to 30 you're going to breach your slo in one day And that requires action pretty much immediately. It's today's problem If your burn rate goes up to 720 You're going to breach your slo in an hour And You really do need to call someone That is a call out This will let you have your alerting Tied to what your clients actually care about To sum up Speed is usually a feature, but reliability is always a feature If reliability is a feature then we have a spec If we have a spec it comes from product If we don't meet our specs then we need to either fix it Or change the specs Reliability however is a complex feature It involves both time and probability and regressions are not intuitive In fact your regressions are very likely to turn up in prod Continuous monitoring is required And the issues in reliability May come from the environment or underlying systems In fact, depending on how you have things organized This may be the one feature not owned by the development team You may have an operations team that actually owns reliability Nothing says they have the ability to fix it So where do you go to learn more? Well This is sre So you want to go to your friendly local system reliability engineer The if you have an sre team, that's where they are If you don't You may find them sitting in the dev ops team the operations team or the release team And they would love to talk to you There is no reason why they can't be seated on a dev team There's no reason why you can't become the expert on this The best starting source is the google sre books sre.google And sre con 2021 is coming around in october Of course that will be fully online. So there Is a lots of opportunity to attend. I think it might be virtually placed In the western united states But again Travel means nothing right now And with that i'll take questions Thanks So first question we have how do we ensure that product will be prioritizing important fixes that cause incidents in the past So There's two answers here Um, first of all important is defined as what's important to problems So if product doesn't care about the incidents They aren't important and you don't need to fix them um in all probability they do care about the incidents uh, and Then you you need to deal with They need to prioritize And that's that's almost a A flat question entirely aside from this Other thing is if you look at this Uh nowhere in here Let me go back to yeah, this will go nowhere in here. Do I exclude incidents? So if you have an incident that takes this system down for 15 minutes You have failed the slo And all the metrics that both engineering and product are looking at Um are all blown And that should be enough to drive them into prioritizing it Right because the slo is written by product and engineering, right? So they are aligned in that Ideally it'd be great if you could get product to write the slo's entirely But in reality product is not going to come up with an slo in Numbers that are measurable in your system They would come up with something But engineering is going to have to help them rephrase it into something that is measurable understandable monitorable, etc um and that's uh The part where engineering has to help write it Makes sense. Thanks Andy and last question How do we define the starting specs for slo's without without having the accurate metrics in the first place? There's a reason why this entire talk starts with sli's Okay, you cannot you cannot Jump straight to objectives without indicators Uh, you need to start there And those are not easy As much as the talk may jump through suggesting that it is Um, I don't know who answered this who raised this question um Do you want to know how you do sli's without How you start writing the metrics for sli's? Or Is that really the answer that you start with the sli's? So I can tell you the um the original question Which may may give may give more but the the the asker is is writing on the chat So I'll I'll be able to relate to you. So initially the question was how do we define the starting specs? What if we can't count on users or clients to give us accurate numbers? Okay, so usually this means that you have a new system If you have a new system Uh, then what you need to do is Talk to product sales yourself And say what do I need? To be able to sell this thing or to make this thing usable So what does it need to go into the market? What does it need? Uh for Competitive advantage, what does it need for? Users to use it. What does it need to demo? Well? Uh those become your starting approximations and from there You can you can run the whole process forward um Of course as you do get real users There's a very good chance of having some changes um They like any other feature. There's a there's a chance That you'll change and say okay All of a sudden we didn't think we needed to worry about latency because all of our users were supposed to be batch But it turns out that You know the maximum allowed latency is actually five minutes You know and and we We do actually need to monitor that Even though five minutes sounds like such a tremendous uh span of time Compared to you know our throughput of a million data points per second Well, some people are actually sending in Whatever five three hundred million data points And we need to handle a five minute latency Just so that we can say um You know that we're Going to for example reject very large Requests if we can't handle a large request because we're fully loaded We're rejected And that would be a way to meet that sort of slo If you put a five minute latency in and you say well Um At times that we cannot handle very large requests you will get an error Right so you can start from the slo's to figure out what slo is you need to To set them right um Yeah, you I mean the only way you can start from the slo's to get to the slo's Would be if you have A competitor and then you just copy their slo's um a competitor or a direct requirement if you have A service oriented architecture and You have something like a Full process going through your company You can talk to the services that are going to call your service and they'll say well We have a hundred milliseconds That's it Right makes sense. Thanks, Andy. Um Thanks again for coming we we have run out of time. Um And we have now I'll need you to pronounce your name for me I'll pop over to the breakout room cool. I'll see you there


I tested probably a couple of years ago that I hitchhiked back from the trailer and it was like, huh, you've got to be kidding. That would not be a smart thing to do. There's no way, you know, I mean, just the fear that came up around that was a real indication to me that I wasn't to do that. But when the suggestion was made this time, it was like, oh yeah, why not? I mean, I didn't feel any fear about doing it. You know, it's like, sure, this will be fun, this will be an adventure. You know, and it's already all worked out anyway. It's already taken care of and I just get to see who I rode with. I rode with a trucker. And it's a great symbol too because I've never been in a trucker's cab and it's way up. I mean, talking about a vantage point that's like above the battlefield, that's what it represented to me in the battlefield. Wow. Some people would say you were in the battlefield. Right. Above the battlefield. It's a way of being up above and detached from, steps back from that dreamer of the dream analogy. It's great and I would do it again. I mean, and that's where the fun comes in that you're talking about. The joy, the fun that, you know, sometimes I forget. I tend to see the look of this series. It's lighten up there. You know, there is a lightness to it. And it's not bolting and making yourself look like the goal. It's allowing yourself to flow. To go. In my defense, it's my safety lies. And I've been working with that concept of somehow. It's helpful as a concept at this point. And maybe it won't be a concept in the future. I'll be able to bring it to application. But again, like you talk about that fear and letting things go, I think that's one of the reasons why I want to stay in the prisons because some of the most people that I fear, I can't. And so where else can I learn to let that fear go? You know, other people really be defense for the sin. Which is there, you know, vulnerable. And see them, not for their guilt and sin, but who they truly are. It's being invulnerable, not vulnerable. Well, invulnerable. Right. If you were vulnerable, then there would be no doubt. Even the thing was picking up hitchhikers. Until recently, I never picked up a hitchhiker when I was driving by myself. And I noticed I wanted to be able to do that, fearlessly. And I wouldn't do it if I wasn't fearless about it. And so I just kept, like, opening my mind up to that possibility, you know. And again, recently, I was on my way down to the trailer. That was the same trip, actually. On the way down is when I picked up a hitchhiker for the first time. And it was a great holding encounter. He was just immensely grateful. And it was just the easiest thing. And I felt real comfortable with picking him up. I mean, I didn't even question it. I didn't even, like, do I or don't I? Isn't it safe? Isn't it safe? That didn't even come into it. It's just, like, I stopped. You know, it's just an automatic thing. I just stopped. Just as judgments, we have preferences.  They have food preferences.  They have climate preferences. They have, I mean... Relationship. Relationship preferences. Clothing preferences. You know, you can just say, well, there's all these different things. And that's all part of that ordering. And hierarchy of illusions is what Jesus calls it. So initially, when you started, I was like, well, this is who I am. This is who I am as a person. And the more you start to make the metaphysical connections, and say, I want this to loosen up. I want a question.   But just, I know initially when we would travel, even things like drink preferences, coffees and teas and different things like that, some things is like, well, what in the world does what I drink have to do with accepting the atonement? It just does not seem to be... I'm working on forgiving and so and so. And this and that. What does coffee have to do with forgiveness or atonement? But the more you get into the metaphysics and you start to see that it's more than just judging your brothers. But it's this whole scheme of judgments. You know, if I am going into a restaurant and I have a favorite dessert, can I go in there? And I'm all, my eon expectations down here is that they'll have that whatever, cherry cheesecake or whatever, and I'm just going into that restaurant and I have my heart set on it, my eon expectation.  We don't have it. It has a little bit of a dip. You know, a little bit of a poof. Like a let down. That's not peaceful. I mean, you know, you can see in the end how subtle it goes. I have expectations. Even about getting a dessert and they don't have it, then you could take out your instrument for peace workshop and you may seem silly to do with that on about a dessert, but there aren't any large or small upsets. Once you've got a box, you're fragmented. Yeah. Any more than the one box. Yeah. You're fragmented. And it's come up too as I've traveled and been taken into homes and traveled all over is that it's themes as if there's all these different family systems and it's the way it seems that everybody has all these preferences and so, you know, the ego's way of being nice and fitting in is to wear the chameleon, you know, every home you go in put on a different costume and there's no peace in being the chameleon. Yeah. Of walking on eggshells of like, oh, of people pleasing to the max. Like, oh, I don't want to upset this. Oh, and then the next place this and the next place this. The only true peace when you are seemingly in a lot of settings with a lot of different people is to stay with the Holy Spirit before we're back to that again. The one answer. Just make sure your hands are this far apart. This is far apart. Right. Show them where they're coming. So what happens is you end up having, you know, the more you really train your mind, you end up into a real flow and it's a real easy going thing where things just aren't a big deal. You know? So they serve you this or they serve you that. Well, it's going to be a great Holy encounter whether they serve you this or they serve you that.  But it's like once you, if you're just looking for those Holy encounters and you're really tuned in, then it's like all of that just like falls into the background. That's where it's fun. That's where it's fun. It's a real adventure.


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Hey everyone, it's be Avery here and thank you so much for tuning in to another episode of just my opinion I really do appreciate it So you saw the thumbnail of this video and this episode we're going to be talking about Avengers in-game and what it potentially has a chance to make at the box office now when you saw the thumbnail You were probably sent to yourself. Okay, what is it? Well, who is this person? What are they talking about? Are they really considering that a film has a chance to make three billion dollars worldwide that is unheard of? Of course, no film has done that before Avatar is just kind of in its own universe as far as numbers at the box office concern And you know, there's no way any other film is going to come even remotely close to that I disagree with that if anyone is making an argument if any film does have a chance to compete with Avatar or To reach a three billion dollar worldwide mark at the box office I really do think Avengers in-game has a chance of doing that. Now. Why do I feel that way? Well, first of all We have a Captain Marvel that's going to be released into theaters and no more than two weeks from now the reactions from the first Press screening just released earlier this week and across the board.  You're just making this video for views. Well, I will admit y'all did catch me. Yes I did make the video just for views But I think everybody that uploads videos to YouTube are doing it to get views But overall the film captain Marvel does have a lot of positive buzz And if you've seen Avengers Infinity War, which I have right here on 4k go ahead and get your copy as well If you've seen Avengers Infinity War, you know the end You know that Captain Marvel is being contacted to come from across the galaxy to come help out So when you have a leading film like Captain Marvel leading up into the Avengers You know that that's just nothing but good marketing in my opinion now black Panther Which came out about a year ago got that right there on 4k2 It was great leading into infinity war as well black people. I mean a movie for it was for everybody But of course, you know black people black Americans black people are all around the world Are going to be attached to that film and they loved it I mean it made one point three billion dollars worldwide and made seven hundred million dollars here in the States Breaking all types of records and that film was three months going into infinity war And I like to say that that film did boost that film, you know just a little bit But now you have Captain Marvel leading into that film as well, which is possibly I haven't seen yet I've bought my tickets. I haven't seen yet, but with this film only six weeks leading into Avengers endgame I think it's just gonna boost it that much more But only if Captain Marvel is great and if you look at all these first reactions It seems like that is the case Also Captain Marvel is a very popular character Kevin Feige the president of the film division at Marvel Studios He has said many times that Captain Marvel will it will be the most powerful Avenger in their MCU up to date possibly even stronger than Thor or The incredible Hulk which we all know those two characters are very very powerful So if Captain Marvel is coming in and there as well as a female, you know kicking all types of butts You're gonna have a whole bunch of women at the theater in my opinion. That's like, yeah Avengers in game. Let's go kind of like Black Panther did leading into Avengers Infinity War now The Russo brothers have been releasing a lot of information just about the length of this movie Just saying that it right now is standing at about three hours. I really do hope that they will Keep it at the three-hour mark Just because there's just so much story to tell out of 22 plus films or however many numbers We're at right now in this cinematic universe, you know, this is the culmination of everything So there's a lot of story detail. There's a lot of build-up. There's a lot of anticipation So you're gonna have to fit a lot in so I think that three-hour mark is just right on the money You know, I will actually be disappointed if it was two hours and 30 minutes It's who I was in 45 minutes But even you know, they made these films at the same time Everybody knows that Avengers Infinity War and in-game and they know what they're doing before Infinity War was being released. They were just saying we have to deliver We have to deliver on Thanos and in my opinion they delivered on Thanos 100% they didn't deliver on everything 100% in Infinity War and I mentioned that in the second but for them to have that mindset going into Avengers Infinity War before it was released You know that they're gonna do their homework and have all their ducks in a row When they're you know doing all the fine tuning for in-game to make sure it is the best movie possible Joint like I said joint they have we have a ton of interviews collider Of course one of my number one go-to sites to get my movie news They have they've done a lot of interviews. They did one with Steve Frosty One throb who is the editor-in-chief over there where they had a lot of Audience members and fans answering questions We recently had another interview with collider done by Steve where it had Joe and Anthony Russo and three of the leading visual effects artists within Marvel Studios or one of their You know one of their visual effects houses Just kind of talking about all the backhand and the length of the film and you know Just what they need to do to make the film be as best as possible and I really do think that they're going to give us a film That is just gonna knock us off our socks I mean everybody enjoyed Infinity War, but I think that everybody is going to enjoy in-game that much more now It was a one fan that was in that long interview about Avengers Infinity War and the Russo brothers was kind of being Sarcastic and I don't blame them because you know, they were getting criticized a little bit Just like you know, hey, where do we f up and Avengers Infinity War and I really don't blame them for that It's kind of you know, you know, you kind of being a butthole, you know, if you're just like I Don't like the movie.  I'm not gonna come at them like that if they said Brandon Here's 250 million dollars make a movie. I would be scared out of my mind like where do where do we cut on the camera? You know, excuse me. I don't mean to hit the mic So, you know, I just say all that to say they know the anticipation of this film They know that people are salivating at the mouth You know to want to see this film as big as a fitting award is they know that in-game has to be much better And you know, I think that they're going to do that now last year at the end of last year I want to say September October ish That's when they was going in to do reshoots for in-game and of course that's standard procedure now They schedule that you know months and years beforehand before pre-production starts. They were you know, they're gonna be you know Since they made Infinity War and in-game at the same time, of course, they're fine tuning everything right now Just locate what everybody like an infinity war. Let's do more of that You know, what did they not like in Avengers Infinity War? You know, let's try to improve on that and you know that that goes also black panther I mean, of course, everything is tied in Kevin Feige knows everything of course he's he's leading the horse in in this race right now and The Russo brothers and the powers that be at Marvel Studios started shooting Avengers Infinity War in in-game before black panther and Of course, we knew that you know black panthers black panther when the trailer first came out for infinity war We found out that you know black panther or Wakanda is you know has a lot to do You know in Avengers Infinity War and so me myself. I would have said myself. Oh my gosh Black Panther was just so great wasn't perfect But it was so great and then when the trailers for infinity where we have this battle that's going down in the Wakanda. Oh my goodness gracious. This is going to be the best thing ever now The Russo brothers came out a number of times Just saying that hey, they did not know that black panther was going to be such a big hit They just did not know and so they did not put as much black panther in infinity war as they possibly thought And in my opinion infinity war hurt just a little bit before that because I mean and they didn't know this It's not their fault, you know if they Because one of the complaints about infinity war was that a lot of it towards the end did kind of seem rushed And I am one of the people that feels that way I mean I it just didn't really make any sense to me, but you know after the movie came out I would just kind of say to myself, okay, man They should have had more black panther in that movie if there's a war in this film With the film with black panther coming out months before so I don't think that they're gonna make that mistake I'm not saying that because black panther was success successful that black panther or Wakanda needs to be in every movie But no Wakanda was an infinity war. So that's why I'm saying this. So I say all that to say that When they were doing the reshoots in October or September of last year, I would think that it was say, okay We didn't know that black you know black panther is gonna be a hit But now we have enough time to go back and do more research possibly bring in more characters of black panther The black audience is going to show up, you know more for this movie If there is more black people or black panther or Wakanda in Avengers in game I mean, but only if that has to do with the story I don't want them to shoe-hunting that in there I mean if they already had you know Wakanda and black panther and all that good stuff, you know Standing out in in game I think that they should step it up just a little bit more to sell those tickets, you know But only if it's going to deliver the best story as possible, but just back to the money All that talking I'm sitting up But all that talking the only way the only way in the world that Avengers in-game will come remotely close to Either avatar at 2.7 billion worldwide or 3 billion worldwide is it has to meet expectations? It cannot fall below expectations. He either has to meet expectations or exceed expectations And with Avengers Infinity War making two hundred and fifty seven million dollars in this opening weekend That's the most, you know, it was the most anticipated film, you know ever in my opinion And I think in-game is more so, you know, if it meets expectations like people can't be walking out of this film It's like, you know, it was good. It was great. Oh, I liked it a lot They have to be walking out of this film saying oh my gosh This was one of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life. All the characters were freaking fantastic I love the development. I love the dialogue. I love the character growth Every single character in this movie had a moment to shine the story made sense the villain made sense I got everything. I want it. That is the only way I mean, I'm pretty I'm gonna go ahead and assume and come to a conclusion right now that Avengers in-game it will make at least two billion dollars like the first film I really don't see how it can't with Avengers in-game being much much bigger in opening the MCU To a whole nother world of possibilities But I really do feel that if Avengers in-game meets Expectations or of course exceeds Exceeds Expectations that fans all around the world are going to show up more and more over and over and over again You know, you know buying tickets three four times just to go see this movie I mean in my opinion with Black Panther the average person the average black person not the average person average black person I think probably saw the film at least, you know two or three times in the theater That I didn't mean the average comic book fan the average black person So if you have that with just comic book fans in general movie fans in general Black people if Wakanda and Black Panthers in-game a lot in general Captain Marvel fans and women if Captain Marvel plays a prominent role in in-game I think all that's gonna happen all Cylinders have to be firing at 100% optimal precision for this to happen And I actually think you know it has a chance of doing that but guys that is just my opinion of This video of Avengers in-game possibly reaching three billion dollars. I really think it has a chance to do it I cannot wait tickets are not on sale yet But as soon as they are I will be one of the first to buy my tickets for that IMX Screening back roll middle is the best seat in the house my guys again. Thank you so much for tuning into my video I really do appreciate it. What did you think of this? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing if you did like this video Go ahead and give me the thumbs up if you don't this fine, but you can still subscribe to my channel You can also look me up on social media Facebook Instagram and Twitter It's right there at the bottom of the screen and I made it easy by providing links to all that down in the description box below But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to another episode of just my opinion and before you go Don't forget there. My name is Brandon Keith. 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Am I still using same talents? So I'm using different talents because it's a different comp. The talents on the YouTube video is like a one-size-fits-all talent spec. As I mentioned in the video, you can adjust the talents slightly depending on the comp that you're playing. So right now I'm playing a cast of cleave comp, so I've decided to try out a little bit more of a crit heavy build. So we've taken three points divine ages, two points of renewed hope. We don't have three in absolution because my shaman is purging more. I'm not purging as much. And then in holy we've gone for full crit instead of any in renew. Maximum inspiration since we're running crit build so it's going to have really good uptime and then the other three points in spell warding since we're not really using any of the other spells that benefit from divine fury. Then gear wise we've actually gone crit on all the weapons. Just incidentally we've got a crit pvp braces and belt just trying it out. It seems pretty good. Then I've chucked on a crit cloak and ring as well. So we're running about 20% holy crit with another 4% from renewed hope during weak and soul and then we're getting 3% from totem of wrath and 3% from the mage buff that brings us up to just over 30. Seems really good so far like you can see the divine ages is doing anywhere from like 8 to 10% of my healing and this is not affected by mortal and then we will give of a powered shield as well that we're running in because we've got a lot of crit. This can actually crit as well so not only do you get the added benefit on the shield of you know an extra 1.6k healing but you get obviously the divine ages from that as well. Some good regen in there and that's like a really strong regen option. You see the gameplay in wrath of the lich king differs from classic wrath of the lich king is a more fast paced. I think the first season is aside from the fact the decays were completely busted originally. People are just better at the game as well now, understand more that kind of thing. Pushing in. I got tremor. Double. Sham trinket. Strang me. Blop blop blop blop blop. Hex me. PS as well. Waddling team. There Ellie. Cod me cod me I can't fit. Can you kill tremor I can say if you do. I believe. Nice. Burning pal. I'll get one. Silence me. Watch the knock. Burning maybe block okay I'm gonna get the burn. I got bubble got bubble. Yeah yeah. Gonna fear. Shackle and fear. Hodge me. Watch out watch out. No PS. Burning burning burning. I got both of you too. Just kill. Plea get the plea get the plea. See me I'm really far away okay I'm really far. I got knocked. Nice dude. Strang me strang me.   It's not a bad game like defensively I think we've just used the scenes as well. Tremor ready. Let's go in. He gripped me no grip for you. Sitting this hodge up here sir. Miss both kicks I'm fine. Yeah I'm gonna first jam him. Miss kick. I'm in trouble now. If this shaman casts on me I'm in trouble okay. Fear both. Fear both. Yeah I got it. I got it. Dispelling pal. Kill pal now. Hit me. Nice peels. I'm in. Rogue's out. Dispelling rogue. Hear everything. Dispel you. Dispel you. Dispel you. I've got cheap shot. I can't. I'll pierce it. I'll pierce it. Dispelling is rogue no cloak. Rogue no cloak. Cheap shot me. I'm gonna try and get it. I can't get it. Priest is fed.   Do it. Do it. Do it. Deaf sheep. Nice dude.


Everybody forced here rip in 2022 top Star Wars chrome black hobby double case number one random character style Give me one sec. We're gonna scroll through the results here before we do that I'm gonna say a couple things about this break. So it's random character style You get all the base that is associated with the the so we have the auto name So it's like Andy circus Billy Lord Hayden Christensen. It has their autos, but So Hayden Christensen you're gonna get the Anakin Skywalker base cards essentially There's a spot for all non names on this list if that makes any sense So if you have Andy circus, you're gonna get all the Snoke base any the Snoke base or parallels that come out of it So that's that another thing There's a few D Bradley Baker since he voices a lot of the the clone troopers and like the guys from Bad Batch So he has six total spots D Bradley Baker does there is a code There's a number a letter code next to D Bradley Baker name.   There's six different D Bradley Baker spots Just making you aware that right now before we scroll through I'm gonna drop the link again before we get started guys But again, so if you have Harrison Ford, you will get all of the Han Solo base or base parallels That's how this works. We just use this for the it was a auto list It's easiest thing to move over essentially and then there's gonna be a spot for all other all cards non-named Scroll through here again. There's a link in chat again. I'll drop it again. They're always available on the website the results Yeah, man, this is gonna be so much fun Carl Weathers Even McGregor baby Billy D To the land it would be so sick. Yeah, Paul. You got Sabine. That's actually really cool Yeah, Sabine runs it as a good animated auto to get for sure the one of one Sabine. That's really cool refer That's really cool one of ones being out of Masterworks. That's awesome. That's awesome There you go. That's the whole list right there I'll drop you a link so you can find out who got Harrison Ford So I'm not going back through we're behind guys. We got to do this. We got to do this There we go. Simeon C I'm gonna open both cases again. I'm all stacked up here Some more got kept Yeah, the first time we saw the break it was beautiful There was that super low number of Hating Christians and I remember correctly Lightsabers Stays on the overhead cam there sure that is in the back coincidence joy panel relic Here we go. Oh, that's awesome Yeah, guys those those giveaways I have some really cool cards, so you're definitely gonna be on look out for that like Some big time Star Wars cards Alrighty, so again, we have a three-card base pack which should have one parallel per box Then we have it in case auto every single box here guys. Oh, baby. It's finally here.  There's a record right there. So director Krenick Green IG 88 57 of 99 IG first hit of the break Frog lady That is a misty rosa says frog lady first hit We can try and recap I guess By the way, I'm not going in case order. I'm going one from each stack, so it's not gonna be in case order nice frog lady Frog lady with the first hit She's got a savor eggs at least Dude Grogu was a jerk and things were going fast. Oh, it was a jerk, dude Boca 10 how another green we've got Cobb Vance. That's pretty cool The one to the this Timothy all offense have autos in this That a spot Timothy all offense No, that should be all other than I believe because all offense does not have autos in this Yeah, I don't see it. I don't see it auto. I'd be sick if you did have autos though and Next hit is a Rick Oli a Rick Oli a that is Ralph Brown as Rick Oli a That's the guy from the bill Yeah, he's in what the first one like Cobb Vance character though I like Timothy all offense a rose Tico a lot of that'd be a nice one massage ventures quill That's a quill refractor actually that one's number to 199 eyes. You got a Padme Amidala gold 50 of 50 Nice Padme almost a garment match There you go on the Padme that's a Natalie Portman spots and Victor You go Okay, no, so that was just an extra parallel Next up is a champs and doula auto champs and doula Robin Atkin Downs as champs and doula That's what's her name's dad. Yeah, here is that he was in what was on what Badmatch? Yeah Okay, moving on here oh Bodhi Rook got a refractor of Django Fett 12 out of 199 He was my favorite growing up Justifies a good show. I don't know what that is Green auto now who we got who we got who we got Ezra Bridger Taylor gray green. That's a lightsaber match auto 54 of 99 Ezra Bridger Taylor gray Nice card Yeah, you guys wait once you once you all see him and Thrawn and Hera and Sabine and live action whoo It's gonna be a good time Jersey number Boba Fett good call good call And there's a Luke well, we got an orange coming up to the after the Hera here orange 16 of 25 That goes to the Rosario Dawson spot God that it's like it honestly is like a skin tone It's a skin color. I don't want to sound weird Yeah, yeah, it's her her face is orange.  It's a very nice one another green auto coming up Another green is a record. So this is D Bradley Baker DBW DBW is the code it is no it is noted in the results So this one we just search who this one would be DBW This one is how Chun see this one's going to how Chun Green record auto D Bradley Baker to 99 So that's what I was saying beginning of the break. Yeah Yeah, make it bigger so yeah, that's We'll have Make sure we don't take that right now for you guys Jabba Oh Lobot and a green Qui-Gon lightsaber match 94 of 99 Man if Liam had autos in this baby. Have you seen the new show Taylor Jedi? No, not yet. Oh, dude Next up is a Admiral Ackbar auto Tim Rose that's a Fractor auto. It's not numbered though Tim Rose Admiral Ackbar Was not a base though, right? Yeah, that's a refractor. That's a refractor for sure Just throw me up because in baseball the refractors would be numbered on the autos Yeah, top scrim black is so we Should have top scrim black based on a bit. Oh, we got an orange auto coming. Oh Boba Mayfeld refractor There we go to 199 one of space bill Burr and a green Bolo 53 of 99 We will have some bill Barato than this. I mean, yeah Orange auto. Oh, I know who it is. I know who it is Thrawn Grand Admiral Thrawn Lars Mickelson 16 of 25 as Grand Admiral Thrawn That's pretty dope. That's awesome, man Grand Admiral Thrawn M No We get some of the big Rosario's close and on here Kelly moto a soka refractor now. Jeez, man Austin spots doing well 96 of 199 and Captain rex green Captain rex 41 of 99 That's a crazy captain. Oh, that's the captain rex outfit in rebels. Yeah older old heavier Next up is a Dio auto Lynn Robertson Bruce puppeteer for Dio Ronnie James Dio, I think of all right Princess Leia IG 11 and a Peli moto refractor 100 of 199. Yeah, there are one of ones in this Peli moto and it looks like a gold auto now It is a and this nest that's a pretty cool one. That's Aaron Kelly man 27 to 50 Good actor. I need to watch solo again Solo is overhated. It's a fine movie. Yeah, and fist nest auto gold to 50 Aaron Kelly man set 27 to 50 there You got a black Sabbath album signed by the band when Dio was in it. Wow, dude, that's super cool That's like a priceless piece Metal bands Band that Ozzie became part. Yeah, Mon Mothma grand inquisitor refractor general Grievous general Kenobi 163 of 199 Hello that And a gold Hondo auto Jim Cummings as Hondo Onaka 21 of 52. Hondo is the best Hondo is a beast Love Hondo Like go buy me a Hondo Civic Heck yeah, hope you feel better Admiral Icy Yoda Sedan if Hanno guy Grievous blue that's the first blue parallel right 64 of 75 Grievous Yeah, I'd love to see Hondo in some live action next up is refractor auto of Margrave Juro Andrew Kishino as Margrave Juro We I think we will that's one of the people from Oh, is it? Yeah, that's what I thought for a second. That's from the very first one, isn't it? Yeah That first visions episode is bro. Awesome. So good. Some of them are hit or miss some are fine But that one is so good. Like half of them are really good three of them are amazing and one of them is I'm a hold. Oh this party's over. They squinted you got a Magenta or pink this will be low numbered Cut log Wayne that is a I forget. I don't know. It's nine of ten. It's not pink Is it like fuchsia or magenta cut log Wayne to ten? That's the clone that that left, right? Yeah, the former Next up refractor auto Nambi Gima Kiran Shah as Nambi Gima Yeah, you gotta watch till Like so good like so so so good. Yeah jurors from visions. That's right. I don't like what you're saying that. Oh Cassian that series has been awesome and or has surprised my mind like it's so good It's Mandalorian level for sure Green big 69 of 99 big dark lighter But Jenta, thank you Admiral and next up is another D. O. Otto Lynn Robertson Bruce All right, so we're ever halfway through now guys We need a big I want some big hits now to finish this one out We're halfway through both case basically so I stacked them one-on-one We have two more of these cases going tomorrow everybody But two more dual cases going tomorrow Fennec we got a Kylo refractor nice 192 of 199 to the Adam driver spot nice Kylo and go into the This is all other director Krennic Otto to 60 of 75 does a What's what's the actor's name Ben Ben Mendelson? Yeah, see I've autos in this. I don't think he does this is all others 60 of 75 he has autos in some Star Wars products though. Yeah He's a really good actor and I mean road one is road one other frog lady. He makes it amazing Misty Rosas is frog lady on the base auto Boogie down want to get salmon go. There's grief Karga Carl weather spot here 16 of 199 and Blue Supreme Leader snow going to the Andy circus spot 10 of 75. Oh, that's cool He has autos in here, right? Yep. He does. That would be awesome a circus ought to be pretty cool Yeah, yeah, and a Sajj Ventress auto great animated character Nika Futterman as a Sajj Ventress The older I get the more I appreciate his acting as Tom like to be able to act like that is insane He's like he's like that kind of best actor. He was also Caesar and the planet the A's true Yeah, he's he's he's amazing To us so Galen or so and a wedge until he's refractor wedge 90 of 199 Which next up is an aura sing. Oh, no, that's pretty cool gold Michonne, but I don't even Bore argue. She's definitely for 50 of 50 a Sajj Ventress auto gold. That's pretty cool That I say size ventures. Yeah, sorry, they're both very pale or a sing. Oh You know what? It's the finest the it's the error card. You're right Yeah, why am I like realize? Oh, yeah, that's an error and you'll find it Han Solo. There he is He's the only one that shot by the way. There's our sing And refractor vice admiral Rampart 185 of 199 Next up refractor auto of aura sing. This one is Jamie King the animated aura sing To our sings to actors Come on. Come on. We're gonna do a big hit. I think the animated one Dooku Anakin. Oh, do cool Anakin backpacks kind of cool. That's chop that guy's head on me a Darth Vader gold nine of 50 Sick Vader That is fire There we go, there we go Come on big auto big auto tied together Hunter that's a pretty solid one D Bradley Baker. That's a DB H. D Bradley Baker hunter refractor auto Yeah, I think that's for sure.  Here's a Kylo Bush Or layup a blue refractor crosshair nice 69 of 75 blue crosshair Next base auto Nambi Gima again. That's Kieran shot again Different picture though that must be a separate series. There's like a B and C variations on some of these so Yep, rise the planet the apes. Yeah, the first one did have Tom. What's his name the Malfoy actor? Oh What's his name, man? Why can't I think of his name? Yeah, he's in the he's in the first one. He gets wrecked dude Ken and Jarrus Salacious crumb That's a great picture of him So they just be crumb here we go make that the thumbnail of the break and it gold throng 15 out of 50 Tom Felton. Why can't I think of I wanted to say Hillson? I was like, it's clearly not Tom Hiddleston and auto of Thrinally Chai chow Thrinally Paul Casey Paul Casey For now the four boxes left guys And we have two more double cases tomorrow everybody Random character style are two Ezra low bot refractor 186 of 199 Why ask me rich Gold auto is general Merrick Ben Daniels as general Merrick 27 to 50. I think it does right. Yeah, people love record John Like he's the most loved from that show by far So We'll probably see all of them in live-action, how are they gonna do that live-action though? Yeah, and have the same voice actor for every single guy. I'm just gonna take you guys similar voices. Yeah. Yeah, I think they It goes to I mean he played is Vader Yeah, and Obi-Wan. He's he's Vader was a Kira, which is the most recent Hey for the John Boyega spot a fin refractor fin fractor 103 of 199 in a blue Bolo 62 of 75 see how the Vader is gonna go to the Hayden spot Since it that he does play Vader in the in the new series as well. So there's no James Roll Jones spots Bolo blue refractor that goes to you Who an orange auto come on? It is benzene Natal Anna Anna Brewster has benzene Natal 8 of 25 Which was what episode seven yeah She's the girl shown that snitch on them. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right Alerts the first order Yeah, crimson dawn is really bad batch it bad batch is really good. There's Obi-Wan. Oh, we got a refractor the Mandalorian We got a we got a fuchsia bird fuchsia behind it Mandalorian's give me a 199 fuchsia wedge three of five. What's red three of five wedge? Yeah nice pack and The Mandalorian is one 12 of 199. I Don't think there's a case hit in Star Wars from black refractor auto of ornfreet. Ah Phil Lamar is ornfreet. Ah From bad back take a lot of bad batch in this No, there's not a Pedro Pascal spot. He didn't sign Quadrant color match. That's so funny Lando Max Max Rebo has the deep voice, right? Yeah, and blue echo Nice 5775 and Last hit is a magistrate Morgan Elsbeth Diane Lee and Osanto magistrate Morgan Elsbeth. Yeah, the not-named was gonna be pretty good A lot of nice parallels are gonna go the not-named spot in these breaks. There we go. That's gonna do it There was another go over not named I think there was like oh It was a the cop van I think all the Django's and bobas will go too because tomorrow Morrison is not not signing in this which is kind of crazy Let's recap all the autos really quickly guys not gonna do all the parallels It is a fairly quick break for a dual case or but I do want to get Sam in here So I'm gonna go quick guys We go Dio and again, I'm just gonna call the characters on this one not the names that are on our list Dio Grand Admiral Thrawn orange Admiral Ackbar wrecker green Ezra green Chamson Dula Rick Olie Frog lady Morgan Elsbeth You guys two more of these tomorrow you got nighttime break starting in less than an hour with Sam Bezinatile orange Are a sing or a sing gold. Those are two different or a sings The live action is different from the animated Assaged Ventress frog lady Dio again Nabi Gima Hunter Born free ta gold hondo onaka gold enfis nest uh margrave giuro gold general marik chai thrinale Nabi Gima again any gold vader parallel that we did mag. That's a nice one there. Thanks again everybody that will do it


Aloha and welcome to Lillian's Vegan World, the only show in Honolulu where we cover topics about veganism and the plant-based diet. We're up to episode 10 and today I have asked the wonderful chef Paul Onishi to return for a part two of Veganize Your World, Confessions of a Food Addict the next chapter. It is with great pleasure I introduce you Aloha, chef Paul Onishi. Nice to be back. Thank you. Thank you so much. Great to have you back. How's how's it been? How's your past two weeks been? Very busy. Very busy years. Chef Paul is also a vegan chef and instructor and I'm very grateful that you took the time out to join the show to talk more about this awesome veganism and plant-based diet lifestyle. So just to read, introduce you chef. I did take another look at your article, the article that you wrote in the Island Vegetarian for the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii. Chef Paul has two articles in that I believe and one of them you go on to mention if you don't mind I'm going to read a paragraph from your article and it says at a kahi which is the program that you took that sort of introduced you to this lifestyle. At a kahi I learned how to realistically transition to a plant-based diet, exercise daily, meditate and practice emotional well-being. I honestly feel as though I have been given a second chance to live and experience life in a very positive way. I also sorry I am also very aware that because of my culinary background and training I've been very blessed to have a renewed passion for the preparation of food and would like very much to extend this passion to others who are struggling in this area. So I'm wonderful to hear that you've turned your life around and in particular your health and you're feeling pretty great of late. Very well said I can't believe I wrote that. It is yeah it's very well said that's why I wanted to share it with everyone. So how long have you been vegan again if you don't mind me repeating the question from the last show. I graduated I think it's going on about a year and a half. It hasn't been easy because I'm traveling to Europe and then to Japan and of course the places we visited weren't really vegan friendly or maybe I just didn't find the right place but I know now that it do exist you just have to look a little harder to find. Yeah I think that when you become plant-based or vegan your whole dining experience changes because you can't really just go to any restaurant pick up a menu and expect to be able to order a well-rounded meal. No. Yeah so that is something that changes. I didn't ask you on the last show you must have lost weight from the time you began your program at the Iqahi clinic until now. Do you mind me asking how much weight you lost or 30 pounds. Which is interesting because I just went and saw a business associate the other day when I went to shake his hand he kind of stopped and looked at me he said looks so different I said in a good way he goes well you look like a totally different person now and I said well how did I look before and he said well you know you were always kind of thin but I don't know and then I said well maybe I had a triple chin and more of a beard belly and he said oh well yeah if you say so and I know that was the case so I've kind of cut down two pants sizes and I feel better I definitely feel better. That's a very substantial amount of weight you drop right and with that came the some health ailments that you used to have that you now no longer have or are you in that sense how's everything well I I've been going to a routine checkup with my doctor and I from a little acid reflux probably from a lot of the stress I'm going through which I need to you know manage this part the numbers that I'm showing are pretty amazing even to those people I know it I'm on the right track when you get that kind of feedback you just are more inclined to want to do it of course yeah I mean you look great I I honestly can't imagine you 30 pounds heavier but you know here you are and it's it's something that is very doable it is doable and I think that's that's where people get scared when we mention the word veganism or the plant-based diet I think people really believe that it's centered around only the food but it's not as you mentioned in this article that I just read out you you also self-meditate you you know it's about your well-being and taking care of your stress levels all of these things really play a very important role in one's health so not only about food but definitely food very very important there is one more paragraph if you mind I would like to read to the viewers after graduating from the a car he ornish lifestyle medicine program it has been a solitary journey down the road towards renew sorry toward renewed good health many of my carnivorous cohorts abandoned me on the side of the road as soon as they got wind of my healthy lifestyle change in their place appeared cohort members of a different persuasion that is something that I hear a lot and it's very unfortunate that some people I don't know if the I wouldn't I don't want to use the word threatened but feel almost uncomfortable when someone becomes vegan and sort of you know is getting healthier and healthier before their eyes it sometimes makes people feel a bit awkward and you mentioned exactly that so yeah I I was known to make a very excellent primary which you know I don't have the opportunity to do now because it's uncomfortable for the people probably but I can still execute those types of dishes however it's here that I don't have the passion for and I remember hating a party where I did a salmon dish which used to be like I could do a blindfolded with no problem but I caught myself after I was looking at it on the line and I realized that because my heart wasn't in it the whole execution that I normally would do didn't pan out and fish got overdone usually I have it spot on no problem people rave but I could tell they're kind of like picking at it and I just felt bad but at the same time I realized that I had stepped over into another world another type of preparation and it was not just cooking but it was a lifestyle but for me it's kind of slowly evolved that way yes not to say that you know in my travels because in certain cases in Europe and in Japan there weren't alternative side to compromise but when I got back I realized that I'm gonna maintain regimen I'm the one that has to exercise that definitely that's such an interesting point because yeah definitely when you see food being cooked even in restaurants you can tell how much love has gone into that dish it can be a very neglected dish or it can just be something very simple that comes to the plate and you can see there's been a lot of effort put into that so certainly yeah when you're cooking something that no longer excites you I can't see it turning out perfect the way us chefs you know sort of expect from ourselves so totally understand well seeing as though we both share the passion for food and cooking I do want to talk about the food today about vegan food and how how far we've come in you know such a short time I think about when I transitioned to becoming vegan from being vegetarian all my life throughout my childhood I that was 12 years ago and 12 years ago the vegan world was nothing like it is now so things definitely heating up and it seems to be the buzzword at the moment all this some you know all these interesting products on the market that are coming out and make making people sort of think about their choices a little bit more so yeah we're living in very exciting times as that's how I feel as you know because there's so many alternatives that technology is getting behind there maybe a couple years ago there was not a commercial cheese that was reasonable right but now there is and not that you want to fool people but if people are so into having something similar and not you know like for example burgers the two burgers and possible burger and the other yes beyond those two I just did a class last night and I used the beyond burger of course two little patties like that it was over $10 but amazingly scary the texture the look the taste yes they've really done their homework they've done exactly what the public wants and beyond that because I don't think people realized how close to the real thing you could get yes and have it be healthy right so yes all these products are the beyond burgers are yeah also zero cholesterol no GMO they're just they're kind of a no brainer like you you might as well give them a try but you and I were talking before the show and I also agree that they are still a little bit on the expensive side that will eventually change once you have more volume yes definitely but it's great to see that people are enjoying them and giving them a try even the non-vegans I just I mentioned on the show last on the last show 40% of the people buying those beyond burgers are non-vegans so definitely the times are changing and in a good way you know people are more conscious about their health there's more information out there that all points to plant-based diet being the healthiest diet on the planet and we're here to show you that it's not just alfalfa sprouts and you know boring brown rice and avocado so Paul I recently got back from my honeymoon I'm happily married now to my lovely husband Dave thank you and we we chose to go on the seven night cruise around the islands around the Hawaii Islands so I was very looking forward to the cruise but very keen to see how they were going to feed me as I'd heard stories that you know cruises are not very vegan friendly so let's take a look at the first shot I took some photos of the food so that I could share with everyone all vegan Paul chef and you know they made pizzas for me anytime at the day 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. they were happy to do a vegan pizza one day I felt like a dip so chef made me a hummus a homemade hummus just on the you know spur of the moment beautiful fresh salads there was a fried rice and vegetable dish there simple christini with some tomato and basil all vegan and none of these were on any menus so have a look at the next one that's what I've been doing the past two weeks I did have my cashew cheese making demo and that went very well I do have my other one tonight my second one tonight and which you are going to attend attend I'm very excited we are gonna take a quick break chef and come back to talk more about what kind of food you've been cooking and serving and teaching to because your food is just incredible and I can't wait to try yours so stay tuned and see you after the break I'm Marcia Joyner inviting you to join us on Wednesdays at one o'clock for cannabis 10,000-year Odyssey where we take a look at cannabis as food cannabis as medicine cannabis and religion cannabis and dear old Uncle Sam so please join us to learn all about cannabis again Wednesdays at one o'clock thank you welcome back to Lillian's vegan world where we talk about everything vegan and the plant-based lifestyle I'm very very happy to have my wonderful guest chef Paul Anishe with me for part two of veganize your world chef Paul is very very famous here on the islands and you can catch him at some down-to-earth events when's your next down-to-earth event have you got it's Tuesday next Tuesday so you you can find that information on Eventbrite if you're interested chef Paul is an amazing chef and has become vegan in the past year and a half so you're doing plant-based cooking demos and classes so definitely do catch chef Paul on the island so getting back to the cruise Paul I do have two more photos that I would love to share with you about the delicious food they made for me so this is again one of the restaurants of sorry I have the same photos there the bottom left is mushroom fettuccine that they made with with olives and when they asked what I felt like I said pasta with olives and mushrooms and that's exactly what they made it was just incredible beautiful you know fresh salad on the side hungry I don't know what that wine is doing they're naughty wine and I do have one more the next slide is breakfast so the interesting thing is I don't eat breakfast or lunch I do what is called intermittent fasting so I eat only four hours a day but on this honeymoon I did decide to indulge in the breakfast buffet and it was incredible the baked beans happened to be vegan not the ones at the buffet they were not but at the restaurant they did make fresh homemade baked beans that were amazing so I had to go back to them every couple of days and you know totally you look at that it's a totally unhealthy diet some you know potato croquettes and stuff but everything vegan and they did have on the bottom left there the photo is of the gluten-free and vegan breads and yeah products that you could ask them to toast for you that lady Mary again I don't know what it's doing there somehow ended up on the photo but chef Paul you have also brought in some photos that I would love to share with everyone so let's have a look at your first one tell us a little bit about this that is a kind of a shot we were doing at down-to-earth emotional thing a fig salami that came from Greece wow that looks very very very appetizing I must say yeah it's kind of different because you expect the salami taste with the fig prominence comes out pretty strong yes well I used to be a huge fan of figs I used to love figs but it was brought to my attention chef about a year ago a little over a year ago I did a recipe on my youtube channel Lillian vegan and the recipe was for a vegan mac and cheese and the crusting the topping that I put on the cheese was a vegan parmesan cheese with walnuts and dried figs and all that was you know crushed up and topped the mac and cheese and then baked it in the oven it was delicious and I used to cook it all the time and then someone who saw the recipe did comment and and asked me whether I believed figs were vegan or not vegan or not to me I was really kind of surprised and didn't really understand what she was going on about so after delving into this whether vegans are sorry whether figs are vegan or not I did find some information that I would like to share with everyone so a fig is more an inverted flower than it actually is a fruit okay and they require a specific kind of pollination that can only be managed by fig wasps they cannot be pollinated by the wind or bees so the the wasp the female wasp lays her eggs inside the fig and then sour yes that's how they pollinate the figs so the fig ends up using an enzyme called fixing that breaks the body down the body of the the wasp that dies inside breaks it down into protein and this is where the question is whether you think they're vegan or not so it's bro it's not like there's a you know a wasp sitting in there looking very morbid and almost alive it's broken down the protein is broken down but the remnants of the wasp do remain in the actual fig yes that I didn't know neither did I I honestly didn't know that's why I always it's always interesting how you know the more you sort of continue on this journey of plant-based diet the more information and things you you come to you come across that are quite interesting so I did so I got this quote from the daily the daily meal which is a sort of a vegan site on the internet the fig ends up so it uses an enzyme called fixing to break the the body into protein once the baby wasps are born the males are often born without wings so they crawl their way out of the out of the fig before fertilizing newly born wasps the females emerge from the figs and then go on to spread pollen to other fig trees and then the reproduction cycle starts again so I'm interested what do you think do you think do you think there's still you can consider figs to still be vegan or does it make you think twice about it I don't know well I know there's people that won't eat honey because of the bee but that's kind of a simple thing what you're telling me I've got a digest in my mind because that's more complex than I expected you to tell me yeah and to be honest I was so disappointed when I found out I almost wished that I had not known so I could continue eating things because I find them to be very delicious well you know like in Asia people might say well what's a few insects especially on a stick you know I put a little sauce you know more protein yeah but I think that's kind of now that you brought it to my attention I think that's kind of one of those where some people might say well it doesn't bother me or for some people it might really you know be almost gross to think that an insect has died in it and then there's a fertilization process right yeah very complex very complex and something that you know it's not your normal everyday fact yeah so food for thought some vegans do and some vegans don't totally up to you whether you want to continue you know consuming and other viewers out there so good cocktail conversation yes let's have a look at another slide this is a multiple shot of some of the students in my class the lady on the right hand's a left hand side I just ordered her own pineapple for I guess for a party yeah it looks beautiful basically we make it so that every student gets a quarter pineapple and they're able to do the hands-on portion of it right and obviously from the look on her face I remember when she did that she was so proud of it yeah it looks really good quite a quite a good job for first try and the shot's up on the right the shot on the right hand side upper is part of my chef training in Portland that I just went through we had some prep going on everybody participated in the preparation and we all combined it together and I think we're putting together some sort of a cool rice salad okay have a look at the next slide chef there's more of your yes some more prep work there what what kind of cream are you working with on the top left well that was my big aha moment because I had already always heard about this thing called aquafaba and basically it is the liquid from a can of carbanzo beans yes or chickpeas yeah chickpeas which I usually would throw away and a lot of people do yep and look at that kind of murky blonde brown liquid and actually think that it's going to turn out like yes across between whipped cream and meringue is pretty amazing but I was the one assigned to do the whipping that day with the hand hand mixer and I actually saw this thing take shape before my eyes and tasted it and I was so shocked and I felt like I had stepped into another zone of you know creativity in the kitchen and so we did it in one of our classes and I think this is just the tip of the iceberg for me because I'm going to I can see myself spinning off in a lot of different definitely yes that aquafaba works well in a lot of desserts and as you pointed out meringues too which is quite amazing that you can make vegan meringues from the chickpea water that basically ends up you know drained in the sink often yeah there there are little things that you know obviously because it's not a normal type of meringue if you were to do like a pavlova for example where you put it in the oven and you bake it yep that process would take about three hours to bake at low heat very low heat yes yeah and a lot of people might just say well forget yes I when I first started experimenting with that I could not get it to work and it just took so many you know trial and error for me to get it to the stage where it would bake and as you said on the lowest heat possible for a very very long time and then the question is was it worth it exactly that's that's how another thing yeah let's have a look quickly at another one where sort of uh that that looks beautiful what's the one on the bottom left jeff that is um these are the student class examples and we did our version of a spanakopita using phyllo pastry which is vegan yes um i love that stuff earth balance vegan butter which works just like regular butter yes and that a lot of people don't realize is vegan exactly and then we took a spinach uh pate onion uh and uh paragon uh and a vegan fettuccine awesome that looks amazing um again chef paul it has been a pleasure having you on the show again and I find that the time just disappears we're not with you because here we are again we have so much to talk about and so much in common um I thank you you know from the bottom of my heart for joining the show again and sharing your journey and your beautiful um dishes with us so do it again huge mahalo would love to do it again and thank you also to everyone for joining in i look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks so keep it on lillian's vegan world and mahalo have a great weekend


Sup guys welcome back to another video today. We're looking at the 86th ranked NFL player for the year of 2022 His name is Shaquille Barrett. He's a linebacker for the Bucks and As previously mentioned, you know the Bucks are a team that I am going to follow pretty closely this year I want to see Tom Brady do it again, and if you don't then What's wrong with you? He's only got one more year left in the league. Anyways guys one one man that is gonna help Brady not on his side of the ball, but on the other it's Shaquille Barrett and he I'm pretty sure he came in He came in at like I don't know mid 50s last year from memory Alongside Devon White and there is another fella who I the name escapes me anyway, you know I'm I'm sort of I'm pretty interested in this one being that he is from the Bucks and Let's get into it my rookie year in camp It's like he was throwing these moves at me that I'd never seen before There's a pass play and it seemed like Tristan whirfs Tell you what? What an absolute pleasure seeing this guy on camera. He's a behemoth He's a track star and now he's an NFL star and a Super Bowl winner I blinked and Shaq was was past me and I was like what just happened and I didn't I didn't know what to do. I was like I kind of like this glance back and You know cuz I mean obviously can't hit the quarterback, but he just ran right by Tom. I was like, oh my goodness I was like, I don't know if I'm ready for this Right, so whirfs plays offensive Tackle Offensive tackle left tackle. What is the defensive line? It's defensive what D? Shit, I've got to get this down before I um You've obviously got defensive ends, but who's inside is that a defensive? DT defensive tackle Right, so you got two defensive tackles two defensive ends Three linebackers two safeties two corners or a mash-up of all five positions. All right Tristan whirfs an offensive Tackle though Yes, that's right. Sorry guys. I'm just doing this doing some sums in my head. You got two guards two tackles the QB a tight end Wide receivers running back Center Jesus Christ, it's all coming back to me That's what happens when you don't watch any football for six months From the 15th of staff out of the gun hurts passing the ball left side They set a screen blast up and it's stuffed out nicely in the stop made by Shaq Barrett in the backfield Barrett who's been all over the place out there to make that stop It's not surprising to see Bucks linebacker Shaquille Barrett around the football Then there was Shaq Barrett Johnny on the spot to pick it off It's Barrett's speed getting to the ball that often catches opponents off guard Shaq Bumble Shaq Barrett, but I'm gonna actually say he looks undecided Simmons was out of his stance Shaq Barrett was already even with a bit of a hybrid Tell you what I tell you what for a guy his size to come up against that 73 Who's clearly you know at least 50 pounds heavier and just have the utmost confidence to get Not only around it, but underneath them That's a fantastic play Fresh Scott first out of the pocket running for his life Barrett point just three lindless chasing Prescott Prescott thinks he's outside the pocket And all the sudden Shaq Barrett shows up out of nowhere with that speed and acceleration You ain't getting away from Barrett mate and with that in mind. Let's look at some stats No, not Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Barrett 6 foot 2 250 pounds played at Colorado State went undrafted to the Broncos played there for five years been at the Bucks since 2019 he's a two-time Super Bowl champion one with the Broncos and one with the Bucks and He ran a 437 Sorry 4 7 3 40 yard dash 29 inch vertical 9 foot 5 on the broad jump 16 reps on the bench So I'm going to say that he was a pre-draft phenom and that's most probably why he went undrafted, but Thankfully he's managed to get two Super Bowl rings And he lands himself with a brand new deal a four-year contract extension last year with 72 million And he's playing like it. So 107 total games 317 tackles to interceptions, which we just saw one off For a total return of seven yards Okay, so he's not a return man, but he can take an interception 18 forced fumbles five of them recovered with a return of two total yards all right Now Snip that one out from the backside and herds had no idea he was behind him A good run like 38 yards shot came down and caught me high shack down here I'm gonna be honest cool down Patterson doesn't look too fast But this is a fairly decent chase down. Let's have a look at this I'm thinking I was going oh He definitely thought he was scoring. Oh, mate.  I need to speed up a little bit He Already is a natural speed demon, but it's it's what he's able to do with it He's ever do the inside out outside spin like it's it's just counter moves.  It's weird. I'm like, how do you get people like that? Whether you're a rookie in camp or a seasoned vet Barrett's boundless speed and countless moves are not only hard to deal with but also hard not to respect God there's a lot going on in there isn't there Yeah, I'm playing though Don't see this very often This is like an inside bull rush And Shaq Barrett's able to lean on that tackle get around and swat's the ball Shaq Barrett is It's almost as if as long as he gets one arm on the inside or the outside as long as he's got that leverage with one arm That's all he needs to you know Get to the quarterback a relentless past Russia Relentless does not stop Unless you put him on the ground he ain't stop He's quick. He's twitchy. I feel like he has so many moves But yeah, he's he's pretty good Here we go first QB of the list was it Mac Jones, would you believe the second coming of Tom Brady big call that isn't it He's at the right team and he's doing the right things. Anyways guys Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next one. Peace