Hello, DEATHCON. I am Pen Truder. I'm Gensback. We are here today to present a framework built into the mainline Linux kernel for hacking connected vehicles. It's free, open source, free to all. It uses standard commercial off-the-shelf Wi-Fi hardware. And let's get started. So I'll state of the world, today, automation is becoming widespread in the commercial industry and it's starting to become available in commercial platforms, including in automotive systems. So particular network architectures today, such as Canvas, are not designed for highly complex systems, not designed to handle the throughput, latency, and security requirements. However, these architectures are still being used as the basis for developing future automotive systems. And this is bad, right? As we develop the next generation of automotive safety standards, it is important that we build security in from the bottom up and not use something that is heavily flawed such that we deploy, irreversibly deploy platforms that are vulnerable and weak, especially in the context of safety, critical infrastructure, like automotive systems that pretty much everyone in the civilized world use. Got you. Okay. So I think we're actually one slide ahead. Yeah, buddy. Up. Okay. So we can classify these autonomous systems that we'll see in the future. And so we have a classification of zero to five, where right now we can say we're at stage two automation for vehicles where we can say that non-safety critical functions are automated using the exchange of state information on the internal networks. And the transition up to stage three requires intervehicle communication and synchronization so that these safety critical functions can be automated with the presence of an operator. Yeah. And so some of the barriers to this are, so primary issues are who owns the infrastructure and who's responsible for problems that are resulting from the deployment of these systems, right?  And a good example of this is that the machine learning systems we have that do vision aren't actually robust to a lot of the adversarial attacks that can be constructed. So you see this, this picture's an example of that. So in the top layer we have images that are fed into a machine learning classifying system to try and determine what the image is representing according to the classifier. And you can see in the bottom image we've introduced, or not we, but previous researchers have introduced noise to these images such that the human eye cannot tell the difference but the actual vision system on the car gets tricked. And you can imagine for things like a stop sign, a yield sign, you know, that are present here, that can lead to some very dangerous effects. Indeed. So this leads us to this concept of V to X. What is stage three autonomy? Essentially it can be described as such. Using a vehicular ad hoc network, a VA net, to enable rapid, high throughput exchange of state information between network participants that as such provides enhanced safety and network-wide optimization that isn't possible using the sensor systems on board any isolated system. So this is done by layering a protocol stack, the V to X protocol stack on top of the vehicle control pass to which reactionary instructions are sent to control the vehicle based on proximal network activity in the VA net. And this concept V to X serves as the technological bridge between stage two and stage four automation going from traditional automotive systems to self-driving cars to the future. So the deployment of robust, successful V to V will shed light on the technological but more so legal, ethical and moral challenges that are presented by the use of high-stage automation in public systems, in consumer systems. So the critical aspects, the critical aspects of this technology, using this VA net, promote greater operational awareness in a highly trafficked environment by the exchange of state information between vehicles and infrastructure points with the idea that this can be homogenously applied to transportation systems worldwide. It's designed to be integratable into the existing transportation network, leveraging infrastructure that already exists. And in fact some V to X systems are being experimentally deployed. However, they're being developed very much in isolation, not coordinated between standards bodies in different countries. Ergo, we are, the standards as they exist are very much fragmented and disorganized. So we'll come back to this though. First let's do a little more with the impact of the technology. So I guess one of the most important questions to ask is why the hell should we care about this? So transportation is obviously a ubiquitous thing that we all engage in. Everyone has to get somewhere in society. Not only just people but freight, industrial processes. So the increased levels of automation here and the increased connectivity of these systems, unprecedentedly expands the threat landscape present in terms of the automotive cybersecurity. And more generally in terms of the security of critical infrastructure as all of these systems are in some way connected to critical infrastructure in the transportation network. So I guess more specifically then, what does this mean for consumers? Okay, cool. Let's see. Okay, so the deployment of these strong, you ubiquitous adopted V2V systems have a number of benefits. These are all estimated from the U.S. Department of Transportation based on three pilot studies they ran in Tampa Bay, New York City, and I believe Wyoming. And you see a significant reduction in fatalities, crashes, property damage and significant improvements in traffic throughput and general roadside optimization. So by integrating these systems in with the actual cars, you can reduce the stress of the driver, remove certain safety hazards and just generally improve it for the consumer. But let's expand this perspective. What's the impact on the global industry? So this allows us to scale VDAC technologies across industrial platforms to optimize economic operations, right? Like freight and agriculture. It provides the same kind of enhancement to safety of the operator of the machines. It allows for the synchronization and coordination of logistical operations, right? Think air traffic control for trucks. So it sheds the stress or enables greater transparency to the root cause of inefficiencies and failures. These are what's attractive right from industrial perspective. Let's keep going, right? What's the impact on critical infrastructure systems? So the VA net outside the context of intravehicle communications serves as a potential carrier for data in the absence of something like LTE. So it's a, it provides access to a network that you can easily propagate messages across from one single entry point across the national and potentially global transportation network. And it, therefore you can like distribute information about emergency events. You can distribute, you can use it for distributing software updates right to vehicles to infrastructure systems or potentially for the people in this room. You can use it to do a whole lot of interesting word driving and data collection and fuzzing of critical infrastructure systems that simply wasn't possible before. The barrier to a lot of automotive security is wireless access. I mean we have seen it's trivially easy to physically modify a CAN bus, but can you get in wirelessly? Well now you eliminate having to break a 4G modem. Now we have a Wi-Fi like protocol that has become standardized in every consumer vehicle that doesn't use strong authentication or encryption or association that you can rapidly propagate information across arbitrarily and compromise from one single entry point. That is pretty cool, right?  I mean Duncan run over some of the messages, but I guess generally the exposure of this wireless attack surface means that you can very rapidly propagate messages from one point to another. Say you are at the bottom of some highway system and you send a message off to one car, that carries it to another car, they carry it to another and so on and so on and now all of a sudden you're in New York. So that's, you know, a huge impact and beyond that you can actually do sort of packet sniffing. You can place either on the roadside little sniffers or have your car, you know, actively war driving and actually listening to this traffic and reconstruct behavioral profiles of the cars as they move across the road and this allows you to reverse engineer some of their behaviors. You can send probe responses, try to figure out what firmware they're running potentially and use that knowledge of their firmware and their system architecture to actually exploit. Right. So that means that you can hack cars easier than has ever been possible before, but it also means that your cars are going to get hacked a lot easier. So here's some examples of some of the features that are intended to be implemented through these coordinated system.  So you don't hit them. Advanced driver assistance, cooperative adaptive cruise control which is where you have messages cascading back throughout traffic to try and synchronize how the cars actually accelerate and decelerate to optimize the gaps between them and make traffic smoother. And of course you have things like automated ticketing, automated tolling and other application level products that we'll go into in a bit later. So this gives our primary motivation for developing this free and open source and easily accessible Vita X stack so that we can and you can communicate using just a Linux box with some cheap hardware and mess around with these systems. And participate in the national and potentially global VA net. So let's talk vision. Vision of Saka Vita V, our platform, right, is history tells us that security through obscurity leads to inevitable poning. We have allowed security standards for safety critical systems to be developed behind closed doors and in the general case those that have developed these standards have widely failed us. This is the counterpoint of our vision here in releasing this. We are providing a means for security researchers and global researchers alike to participate in the development of the Vita X standards because they affect us, they affect our daily lives and our families, our wives and our children if we could ever find one. And the deployment of another set of weak standards will inevitably lead to the compromise of systems that are integral to the continuing functioning of our society. It's not just the transportation network but what will the transportation network, the connected transportation network touch. It will touch financial systems, it will touch energy and like all of the infrastructure sectors alike as we move into higher levels of automation. That's why perhaps it's particularly interesting to all of us here from hacking car using Wi-Fi we can potentially gain access to a global transportation infrastructure and to the energy systems that control it. So this is neat for us but at the same time there's a clear need to make these standards not suck as badly as they have before. So we, let's see, probably the selling point here is that previously to do this required a 2 to 5 to $10,000 DSRC radio. We are enabling you to do it with a $20 commercial off the shelf Wi-Fi card that can run 5 gigahertz and will tell you the couple of simple modifications you need to make to your standard Linux kernel and pretty much after you take a stack and compile it in your kernel and make a few little changes to IW you can immediately start participating in the VA net which pretty much doesn't really exist yet and that's why we're giving it to you. So a little background, begin development, circa 2015. There had been a good amount of work done and published previously in the space which we quickly found was non-existent, non-functional. Pretty much every project that had been started had been orphaned or those that the state that they were developing an open source made them close source and are there no longer compliant as they're being deployed. So we basically spent 2 years of digging deep into the solace chasm that is Linux kernel driver development and at last have managed to surface here again and now I would say the V2V is more real than it has ever been before. So we already touched on some of these motivations but just to reiterate a little bit, increase in automation leads to increase in attack service. Industry is calling for proprietary close source implementations of V2V. Well, let's think about this for a moment. The standards are incomplete and bound for change. In fact, the security layer of the VDAC standards is non-existent as it stands today. So OEMs, big corporate is going close source and developing these standards in isolation while the standards are bound or developing these systems in isolation while the standards are bound for change. This will inevitably lead to the deployment of obsolete systems and hinder the development of V2V any further. And it's already happening today. So this is one of the lessons we learned from previous epic failure, right? Close source leads to weakness and also kernel dev is hard. You keep using those words kernel dev. I don't think they mean what you think they mean. This is an example of we pulled this from a patch that was submitted to the main line Linux kernel by a developer thinking that he was enabling 8 or 211P, which is the physical layer of the VDAC stack. Well, if you look right here, I commented something out at WTF. If it's this frame, return false. If it's this return false, this return false, otherwise return false, right? So pretty much the accepted solution is completely dysfunctional. Like no frame would ever actually be accepted and patched to the wireless interface. That took about a year to find in the millions of lines of code. This is one of many, many, many critical mistakes while things are very, very partially implemented and widely accepted as functional. It simply isn't true and it took two years to claw my eyes out to get here to tell you that. So let's see. Now we're going to do a stack overview. Real quick. Okay. So we'll start at the physical layer of the stack. That is 8 or 211P. This operates on a 5.8 to 5.9 gigahertz OFDM, 5 to 10 megahertz subcarrier width. And right above that we got IEEE 16094, which is the multi-channel operation modes. It determines how you switch between the service channel and control channel. You know, service channel has services and control channel has privileged controls that propagate through the network. And then going above that even further we have 16093, which handles the message encoding for the short messages that are used as the primitives in communication. And we also have things that deal with the RF parameters, the routing advertisements, the service advertisements, and so on. And at the application layer there's J2735, which contains basic safety messages, emergency vehicle alerts and roadside alerts, along with many others. And those are packed inside of the short messages that end up getting down and dispatched finally along the physical layer of 802.11p. So to quickly go over each of those in a little bit more depth, 802.11p comprises the physical and mac layer of the V-to-X stack. So the curl components are 510 megahertz width subcarriers using OFDM over 5.8 to 5.9 gigahertz frequency band reserved for use by intelligent transportation systems. Using multicast addressing with no association, no authentication, no encryption. This is specified to exist at a higher layer, such as in the 1609 and J2735. And to define this networking mode called OCB mode out of context to BSS that pretty much allows you, it's like ad hoc mesh networking just with the beginning association, authentication, encryption all disabled. So next is Wave DSSR. Looks like you got a little preview there of our entire presentation. All right, here we are. So Wave slash DSSR. So Wave is the basis of the Wave short message protocol. Wave stands for wireless access in vehicular environments specified in IEEE 1609. So it's an encoding scheme and it's also a management plane for V2V. So that includes multi-channel operation, service identifier allocations, you know, all of the stuff you might expect in this kind of ad hoc networking that allows the communication of the kind of fields you would expect in vehicles, you know, location, telemetry, trajectory, these kinds of things. Okay. And J27, oh sorry, this is a Wave, this is an example of a Wave short message. So you can see that this is a fairly bare bones, you know, quite literally a hello world example. So you have the version, the sub type, information element block which is similar to that found in other 802.11 stuff. And then at the bottom here we have, you know, the transport identifier which determines how the message is actually forwarded along the network, whether it hops or it floods out and then we have the data field which contains hello world. This brings us to the application layer, SAEJ 2735 provides a grammar and dictionary set of safety messages for use in interoperating V2V systems. So probably the most common example is the basic safety message, a message that will be continuously transmitted at a periodic interval between every member of the VA net to exchange state information about, say, the dimensionality of the car, heading, acceleration. So you can use this to, you know, depredictive optimization of the traffic flow. There's collision avoidance which is exchanged when there's the collision imminent to try and reduce or mitigate the harm to the driver and the, and the stand, those standing nearby. There's emergency vehicle alerts which the emergency vehicles will use to, you know, modify traffic flow in the event that like an ambulance needs to get through or a cop wants to pull you over. So, or say in like the case of a natural disaster.  So this is a great idea, right? This is, this sounds awesome and people have been talking about it since 2004 and people have been making slides and presentations and nobody's really been doing anything and the standards are continually getting changed in there and we're going to talk a little bit now actually about the, the state of the standards. The, there have been multiple major revisions made to, to wave and to J2735 and they are not backwards compatible. They have, they lack a complete trust management framework. They, the current, the current standards that are deployed are proprietary and close source and incomplete. So this is a clear attempt at monopolization of the connected vehicle industry but it's the inevitable outcome is the development of, is the deployment of, of incomplete obsolete and vulnerable platforms. Some, let's go a little more in depth about these changes, right? Okay. So some of the major changes that we've seen is that the, the certificate management system has actually been totally overhauled. They, they added support for some implicit certificates and also a peer-to-peer certificate distribution system. There have been proposals for a trust management system that use misbehavior reporting.  I mean that's the idea. Obviously that is quite a number of ways to actually manipulate that potentially. And, you know, the, the J2735 standard has been completely overhauled several times, such that, you know, the old encodings don't even work, like at all. And we, you know, with respect to the new encodings. So the question is, you know, how are these completely incompatible, not backwards compatible systems and systems where the security is just totally in flux supposed to actually work properly without exposing huge vulnerabilities? And the answer is, they're not supposed to work. I mean. So we, we like to call this possibly unintentional application of the standards, right? Because we're, we're gonna allow the possibility that this could be someone on it, that this could possibly be a mistake, right? We, in, in revision to the J2735, measures verification codes, CRC is our move from emergency vehicle alerts, from roadside advertisements. And some of the, there's almost no specification given for a lot of design choices. I mean, here's, here's something pulled out of, out of the 1609 spec. This guy here affects the receipt. Nothing. So we, we see there's ambiguity, right? What does ambiguity mean in terms of communication systems? It means that there is yet another attack surface in, in the way that the messages are received. So, like, what gives, right? What freaking gives? Just to go over some of the subtleties that are in the protocol, you know, to drive home the point a little bit, there are typing congruities and they're actually typed, there's type redundancy in these messages. So you actually have lower layer of protocols that will specify, or lower layer of segments of the protocols that will specify certain things like location and GPS data. And they'll also be redundantly specified in the higher level, higher layer protocols. And if these two things are incompatible, you know, the values are different, then you can actually have issues where you can confuse the software and, you know, cause the car to go swerve off somewhere. The actual encoding of the 1609 messages, it's a little poor. I mean, so there are, there are points in some of the routing advertisements where there's actually a bite that, depending on who you interpret in the committee, should be there or maybe shouldn't be there. So that can lead to very obvious parsing issues that can just cause memory to crash and do whatever.  And that can just shut down communication and disrupt peer to peer certificate distribution and no one can talk in some closed area for a very long time. So what does the, are we on attack surfaces yet? No, no attack surfaces. So let's move on to the juicy interesting stuff here, right? What are the attack surfaces for V to X? Well, the entire V to A network is accessible from one single endpoint due to the, the ad-hoc mesh nature of it, such that you can propagate a message from one single point of entry, massively distribute malware, of course it was meant for safety information. You compromise one radio in one vehicle and that could be a compromise due to a proprietary implementation weakness. Then you can therefore potentially compromise all vehicles in the nearby proximity, which will propagate to the global network. You can hijack emergency vehicle authority and execute services like platooning that are built into the V to X standards in order to disable vehicles, you know, for law enforcement or, or whatever reason, you know, somebody might want to make your vehicle stop in the middle of the road on a, in the middle of a highway. So what does the adversary look like? A passive adversary can do, you know, sniffing and mapping of the, of the network, both in terms of, you know, mapping services that are available built into the 1609 standards and those that are left reserved for the manufacturers to implement. So what this means is diagnostic functions built into DSRC that allow you to execute routines on, you know, on, on each vehicle. And there's a lot of services that are defined and there's a lot of, that are left very ambiguous in the 1609 standards. What else? Let's see. We can gain a lot of visibility into the global transportation network that is going to be rather unique to the individual, right?  But more interesting, what does the active adversary look like? I mean, he, he might look like that. You can, he might perform denial of service and man in the middle of attacks between vehicles and infrastructure points so you can manipulate the misbehavior reporting schemes, for example. You can disrupt vehicle traffic and target individuals, not just individuals, you can target, you know, classes of systems. So not only perform, you know, target individual, you can target a company or a corporate entity or a, some kind of other governing body that, that uses these kinds of systems that is going to use a highly proprietary or, or highly specific, you, custom tailored implementation of it.   So now if we consider the threat model that we introduced earlier from a theoretical level and then apply what the information we gave you about the state of the standards, et cetera, how does the threat model change? So the, the threat model that we have in light of this information, so we can corrupt traffic over the air, wirelessly on, you know, on the road.  You can use the RF signatures of the actual radios on these things to break the pseudonym, the pseudonymity schemes that they use to try and protect the identity of drivers. So what they do is, you randomize your MAC address and your certificates time out and you generate new certificates. But the problem with this is that if you have great enough visibility over the network, you can trivially track this and identify anyone as they move across the road, regardless of this, you know, kind of like slapped on attempted anonymity. So obviously V2V has quite a number of problems and, you know, our solution, right, is to, is to just put it on Linux. Yeah, man, just, just use Linux, dude. Just use Linux. So, right, we, we have this free and open source platform that is, I mean, it's, so we have little asterisks here. It's platform independent. It's, it's extensible in a generic Linux environment. So it's, we, we took the V2X stack and implemented it in the Linux kernel networking subsystems. The asterisk there is because hardware that manufactured, manufacturers specify a regulatory domain in the hardware that they produce. So you have to go into the driver and make slight modifications to participate in the intelligent transportation bands. But past that, the modifications to each driver are pretty slight. Right now, we have published support for Anthros 9K. We're extending it to RTL Wi-Fi and, you know, ideally soon enough to, to all standard network and driver architectures. So, just use Linux. It's, it's always, it's never been that easy, right? How we do this? First, we'll start with 802.11p. So we'll go up, up the stack. You just define the ad definitions for the intelligent transportation channels in the Wi-Fi drivers. So this one we stick into Anthros 9K. The same one goes into RTL, et cetera. Next, you modify the kernel and you just space regulatory domains. So this is what we're saying. The FCC and the, the manufacturers like to specify a specific regulatory domain that you're allowed to use in each country. So you can pretty easily modify this by going and doing a little bit of kernel hacking and forcing the kernel to accept a regulatory domain that you specify. So what we do here is we add the intelligent transportation bands, make it OCB only because there's no channel sharing, et cetera. And we do the same thing here in the Anthros driver on the bottom. And then we add support for filtering of 802.11p frames. So this is just a function that we pulled, we stuck in there and these are the sorts of frames you accept. Management data and QoS frames. And then you just make to, to finish the integration of 802.11p. We modify standard Linux user space utilities such as IW, the wireless rig DB, which we went over a second ago in CRDA. So in IW, what we do is add, you specify command that allows you to join an OCB channel, specify the frequency and the megahertz, whether you're going to use 5 or 10 megahertz with subcarriers. We add definitions for the 5 and 10 megahertz with subcarriers in the IW regulatory domain and then using the command specified above, you can see we successfully join an OCB 5 gigahertz network. We publish the code to do this in the GitHub repo, we'll give you at the end. So moving up to... Okay, moving up, sorry, moving up to Wave or 1609. So we have to specify, or rather we had to specify all the relevant data structures, you know, the short message, the service advertisements, the routing advertisements and so on. And all, you know, full modification or full ability to modify any of the fields in there to create custom packets that you just inject off to the wireless interface and send over the air. As well as managing the channels, channel synchronization and channel hopping and just the Mac level extensions of the actual management plane inside, you know, inside the operations. Click. Click. Okay. So the usage of the WSMP, so you have the ability to take the structs that are defined and encode them, conversely decode them as they come over the air because they'll come up through a socket interface and you just take the byte stream and decode it and use the user specified WSMP packet using libpcap to just, or whatever you want, to just inject it into the wireless interface and it's there. It's on the air. So this is the WSM struct, the wave short message. This is the top level structure of the actual message encoding. This specifies the transport identifier which is how the message will actually be routed across the network where they're going to hop, you know, however many times you want and also the data fields and all of the ancillary data gets packed into here. So this is the, this is the information element extension which includes the RF parameters, the routing information and all of this other fun stuff. And other, you know, ancillary structures that include, you know, routing advertisement, service advertisements, channel info and service info, right? So then how do we apply this? We take some of the, we define J2735 critical messages somewhat based on the SAE provided, broken ASN one spec that we fixed and made a heck of a lot more pretty. And then you see we just filled up with parameters that are compliant within the limitations of each field. Then what we can do, generate a WSM message as he just showed.  We serialize it using a encoding function that we wrote. Well, first we pack the basic safety messages that we made right here and you pack it right into the data field of the WSM, serialize it and dispatch it to the wireless interface using PCAP inject. And the result is successfully transmitted WSM messages. So Wireshark has a plug-in for WSM P that's outdated, doesn't support the current encoding types, but at least sort of recognize what we did here. Figured, given the nature of the week, we would avoid doing a wireless demo with 5G tech. But what we can see here is that we successfully transmit and inject a WSM message using Linux, open-source stack and an atheros 9K $20 Wi-Fi chip. And now you can do this too, right? So the exact same thing is possible for the other types of safety messages using the exact same methodology. So we show an emergency vehicle alert, roadside advertisement, you pack it into the WSM struct and you can serialize and transmit it just as easy and actually start interfacing with infrastructure and connected vehicle systems that exist today in isolation. So yeah, what are you going to do with this? You want to be a master? You want to hone some connected vehicles? Well, we're going to sort of go here in increasing level of when. Right, so level one you can imagine would be a denial of service.  It's very possible for single antenna systems and I'm sure there are more clever ways to do it by breaking the parsers. Um, stage two, sorry, level two would be to enumerate essentially map out all of the proprietary services offered at the application layer to get an understanding of the attack service of each car and actually exploit that. Oh, oh. Okay, level, sorry, level three would be sort of masquerading as a toll booth, right? So, um, electronic toll collection is actually a future, or future aspect of this technology. So if you're able to hijack that certificate, you can essentially prop up a mobile toll station and go around collecting fare from everyone, you know, as you pass by.  I'm an ambulance, yep. And if you really want to be elite, maybe you can figure out how to execute the platooning service. That's built into J2735 that lets you, uh, take full control, uh, or rather assume direct control of any vehicle participate in the VA net, right? But, um, I think we have a few more types of pounding here, right? Um, what do we got? What do we got? We can not read at all. So you can, you can put it a bunch more clever ways, um, but really it, this isn't just about pounding vehicles, um, completely. This is about providing an interface that allows you to participate in the development of secure good standards by hacking them. So we're using all these evil superpowers to deploy systems that will be homogenous in transportation systems worldwide. Um, we don't want another CAN bus. We, we don't want, um, to, to get stuck with a fully deployed, completely vulnerable arbitrarily hackable, uh, network protocol, all right? So we give this to you so that we together can make something that doesn't suck, you know, in layman's terms, right? Um, as always, hack the planet, see what you can break, use it to make the world better and please come in, uh, please reach out to us with any thoughts, ideas, questions. We are releasing this. It's posted already on Github. Um, you can find us in the car hacking village. We're giving a talk immediately after this at 3 o'clock and we'll be in the car hacking village afterwards at 4. Um, so thank you, DEF CON.


We continue today with chapter 24, the treachery of specialness. Comparison must be an ego device, for love makes none. Specialness always makes comparisons. It is established by a lack seen in another, and maintained by searching for and keeping clear in sight all lacks it can perceive. This does it seek, and this it looks upon. And always whom it thus diminishes would be your Savior, had you not chosen to make of Him a tiny major of your specialness instead. Against the littleness you see in Him you stand as tall and stately, clean and honest, pure and uncelled by comparison with what you see, nor do you understand it is your self that you diminish thus. Pursuit of specialness is always at the cost of peace. Who can attack His Savior and cut Him down yet recognize His strong support? Who can detract from His omnipotence yet share His power? And who can use Him as the gauge of littleness and be released from limits? You have a function in salvation, its pursuit will bring you joy, but the pursuit of specialness must bring you pain. Here is the goal that would defeat salvation and thus run counter to the will of God. To value specialness is to esteem an alien will to which illusions of yourself are dearer than the truth. Specialness is the idea of sin made real. Sin is impossible even to imagine without the space, for sin arose from it out of nothingness, an evil flower with no roots at all. Here is the self-made, quote, Savior, the, quote, Creator who creates unlike the Father and which made His Son like to itself and not like unto Him. His special sons are many, never one, and each one in exile from Himself and Him of whom they are apart. Nor do they love the oneness which created them as one with Him. They chose their specialness instead of heaven and instead of peace and wrapped it carefully in sin to keep it, quote, safe from truth. You are not special. If you think you are and would defend your specialness against the truth of what you really are, how can you know the truth? What answer that the Holy Spirit gives can reach you when it is your specialness to which you listen and which asks and answers?  And that vast song of honor and of love for what you are seems silent and unheard before its, quote, mightiness. You strain your ears to hear its soundless voice and yet the call of God Himself is soundless to you. You can defend your specialness, but never will you hear the voice for God beside it. They speak a different language and they fall on different ears. To every special one a different message and one with different meaning is the truth. Yet how can truth be different to each one? The special messages, the special hear, convince them they are different and apart, each in his special sins and, quote, safe from love, which does not see his specialness at all. Christ's vision is their enemy for it sees not what they would look upon and it would show them that the specialness that they think they see is an illusion. What would obey? What would they see instead? The shining radiance of the Son of God so like His Father that the memory of Him springs instantly to mind. And with this memory the Son remembers His own creations as like to Him as He is to His Father and all the world He made and all His specialness and all the sins He held in its defense against Himself will vanish as His mind accepts the truth about Himself as it returns to take their place. This is the only, quote, cost of truth. You will no longer see what never was nor hear what makes no sound. Is it a sacrifice to give up nothing and to receive the love of God forever? You who have changed your Savior to your specialness and given it His place. Remember this, He has not lost the power to forgive you all the sins you think you placed between Him and the function of salvation given Him for you. Nor will you change His function any more than you can change the truth in Him and in yourself. But be you certain that the truth is just the same in both. It gives no different messages and has one meaning and it is one you and your brother both can understand and one that brings release to both of you. Here stands your brother with the key to heaven in his hand held out to you. Let not the dream of specialness remain between you. What is one is joined in truth. Think of the loveliness that you will see within yourself when you have looked on Him as on a friend. He is the enemy of specialness, but only friend to what is real in you.  His need to give it is as great as yours to have it. Let Him forgive you all your specialness and make you whole in mind and one with Him. He waits for your forgiveness only that He may return it to you.  You have come far along the way of truth too far to falter now. Just one step more and every vestige of the fear of God will melt away in love.  Yet it is not illusions that have reached this final obstacle which seems to make God and His Heaven so remote that they cannot be reached. Here in this holy place does truth stand waiting to receive you and your brother in silent blessing and in peace so real and so encompassing that nothing stands outside.  Here is your Savior from your specialness. He is in need of your acceptance of Himself as part of you, as you for His. You are alike to God as God is to Himself. He is not special for He would not keep one part of what He is unto Himself, not given to His Son, but kept alone for Him.  Not special, but possessed of everything, including you. Give Him but what He has, remembering God gave Himself to you and your brother in equal love, that both might share the universe with Him who chose that love could never be divided and kept separate from what it is and must forever be. You are your brother's part of love was not denied to Him. But can it be that you have lost because He is complete? What has been given Him makes you complete as it does Him. God's love gave you to Him and Him to you because He gave Himself. What is the same as God is one with Him and the only specialness could make the truth of God and you as one, seem anything but heaven with the hope of peace at last in sight. Specialness is the seal of treachery upon the gift of love. Whatever serves its purpose must be given to kill. No gift that bears its seal but offers treachery to giver and receiver. Not one glance from eyes it veils but looks on sight of death. Not one believer in its potency but seeks for bargains and for compromise that would establish sin's love substitute and serve it faithfully. And no relationship that holds its purpose, dear, but clings to murder as safety's weapon and the great defender of all illusions from the, quote, threat of love. The hope of specialness makes it seem possible God made the body as the prison house that keeps His Son from Him. For it demands a special place God cannot enter and a hiding place where none is welcome but your tiny self. Nothing is sacred here but unto you and you alone, apart and separate from all your brothers, safe from all intrusions of sanity upon illusions, safe from God and safe for conflict everlasting.  The key you threw away God gave your brother whose holy hands would offer it to you when you were ready to accept His plan for your salvation in the place of yours. How could this readiness be reached save through the sight of all your misery and the awareness that your plan has failed and will forever fail to bring you peace and joy of any kind? Through this despair you travel now yet it is but illusion of despair.  You but emerge from an illusion of what you are to the acceptance of yourself as God created you. And from the workbook lesson 185, I want the peace of God to say these words as nothing but to mean these words as everything. If you could but mean them for just an instant there would be no further sorrow possible for you in any form, in any place or time. Heaven would be completely given back to full awareness, memory of God entirely restored, the resurrection of all creation fully recognized. No one can mean these words and not be healed. He cannot play with dreams nor think he is himself a dream. He cannot make a hell and think it real. He wants the peace of God and it is given him. For that is all he wants and that is all he will receive. Many have said these words but few indeed have meant them. You have but to look upon the world you see around you to be sure how very few they are. The world would be completely changed should any two agree these words express the only thing they want. Two minds with one intent become so strong that what they will becomes the will of God. For minds can only join in truth. In dreams no two can share the same intent. To each the hero of the dream is different. The outcome wanted not the same for both. Loser and gainer merely shift about in changing patterns as the ratio of gain to loss and loss to gain takes on a different aspect or another form. Yet compromise alone a dream can bring. Sometimes it takes the form of union but only the form. The meaning must escape the dream for compromising is the goal of dreaming. Minds cannot unite in dreams. They merely bargain. And what bargain can give them the peace of God? Illusions come to take his place and what he means is lost to sleeping minds intent on compromise each to his gain and to another's loss. To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams. For no one means these words who wants illusions and who therefore seeks the means which bring illusions. He has looked on them and found them wanting. Now he seeks to go beyond them recognizing that another dream would offer nothing more than all the others. Dreams are one to him and he has learned their only difference is one of form for one will bring the same despair and misery as do the rest. The mind which means that all it wants his peace must join with other minds for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine the means for finding it is given in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand. Whatever form the lesson takes is planned for him in such a way that he cannot mistake it if his asking is sincere. But if he asked without sincerity there is no form in which the lesson will meet with acceptance and be truly learned. Let us today devote our practicing to recognizing that we really mean the words we say. We want the peace of God. This is no idle wish. These words do not request another dream be given us. They do not ask for compromise nor try to make another bargain in the hope that there may yet be one that can succeed where all the rest have failed. To mean these words acknowledges illusions are in vain requesting the eternal in the place of shifting dreams which seem to change in what they offer but are one in nothingness. Today, devote your practice periods to careful searching of your mind to find the dreams you cherish still. What do you ask for in your heart? Forget the words you use in making your request. Consider about what you believe will comfort you and bring you happiness. But be you not dismayed by lingering illusions for their form is not what matters now. Let not some dreams be more acceptable reserving shame and secrecy for others. They are one. And being one, one question should be asked of all of them. Is this what I would have in place of heaven and the peace of God? This is the choice you make. Be not deceived that it is otherwise. No compromise is possible in this. You choose God's peace or you have asked for dreams and dreams will come as you requested them yet will God's peace come just as certainly and to remain with you forever. It will not be gone with every twist and turning of the road to reappear unrecognized in forms with shift and change with every step you take. You want the peace of God and so do all who seem to seek for dreams for them as well as for yourself. You ask but this when you make this request with deep sincerity for thus you reach to what they really want and join your own intent with what they seek above all things perhaps unknown to them but sure to you. You have been weak at times uncertain in your purpose and unsure of what you wanted where to look for it and where to turn for help in the attempt. Help has been given you and would you not avail yourself of it by sharing it? No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it for he merely asked that he deceive himself no longer by denying to himself what is God's will. Who can remain unsatisfied who asked for what he has already? Who could be unanswered who request an answer which is his to give? The peace of God is yours. For you was peace created given you by its creator and established as his own eternal gift. How can you fail when you but ask for what he wills for you? And how could your request be limited to you alone? No gift of God can be unshared. It is this attribute that sets the gifts of God apart from every dream that ever seemed to take the place of truth. No one can lose and everyone must gain whenever any gift of God has been requested and received by anyone. God gives but to unite. To take away is meaningless to him. And when it is as meaningless to you you can be sure you share one will with him and he with you.  It is this one intent we seek today uniting our desires with the need of every heart, the call of every mind, the hope that lies beyond despair, the love attack would hide, the brotherhood that hate has sought to sever, but which still remains as God created it. With help like this beside us, can we fail today as we request the peace of God be given us? Amen.


Hello and welcome to yet another Bob Cook reviews a psychotherapy book with me is Bob Cook from Manchester Institute for Psychotherapy and Bob is journaling via video his polymathic knowledge of psychotherapeutic literature and today's books a real treat really isn't it because it's a it's a seminal book in the world of counseling psychotherapy and it's called Beyond Empathy so why is this your choice for this particular book review Bob? Well this is the second book review after the Burns book last week which was psychotherapy 1971 book so this is probably my favorite book actually in the world of psychotherapy and counseling and it's by Richard Erskine and I like it because of two major reasons one he spells out clearly an integrated model of psychotherapy and secondly what I particularly like is this full of case studies and transcripts and explanations about clinical theory into practice and it brings the world of psychotherapy alive. It brings the actual therapy room of therapist and client alive. Wow so it really is a book of not just a book on dry theory but one that actually paints a vivid picture of what goes on that interchange that delicate play into play between clients with the theory intertwined between it would that be would that be a good summary Bob? That would be a good summary it's a master craftsman in action he's been around for 50 years at least. Wow. He trained with Fitz Pearls he nearly saw Eric Burton but missed it by 20 minutes which he's always saying to me about is a disappointment in his life but he goes back a long way and his integrated model which really is taken from his ideas on transaction analysis psychotherapy and he takes it further a step further he produces a methods inquiry and treatment involvement a how-to-do psychotherapy and an integrating model which is taken from mega states in fact really but he talks about an integrating adult and it's fascinating reading absolutely fascinating if you if you just open the first book and it goes through sorry the first chapter it goes through a review of the literature and outlines his model and then takes I think I'm not quite sure many case studies but brings that model alive in the room so you can see integrative psychotherapy in action and then he explains why he did that what he did what he did in terms of interventions clinical theory and also goes on to explain a treatment plan so he talks not only about how you do it in the actual clinical setting but where the therapy is heading so it gives a very holistic approach to the therapy it gives you not only not only an example of his interactions but also a real overview of how he plans to facilitate and move therapeutic change within that particular clients yeah it's very humanistic his definition of integrative psychotherapy I like it has two parts one a model borrows from you know many very well-known schools like self psychology psychodynamic theory transaction analysis cohort so he brought so it's influence so there's an integrative concept there and secondly which I really do enjoy the idea of the integration of the self that the therapist is always aiming to help the client take ownership of the different distinct fragmented disowned parts of the south and help him become aware of these parts in the service of an integrating whole yes yes and for those of you who are wondering what this book looks like I'm going to put a slide on the screen now for a few seconds and we'll put that slide on at the end and also a link to where you can buy the book from so you can click on it and if you want to buy it that you can so so there's the book so what is it that draws you to this book what is it that kind of makes it a very special piece of literature in your life well of course I know which it is gonna well as the author of the book and the person created integrative psychotherapy I've been a lot of psychotherapy workshops with him but he also trained me for nine ten eleven years in the whole art of psychotherapy and how to look towards helping the person become aware of the cutoff parts of the self and help him integrate take agency and ownership of the self so I love the concepts but I also have seen him utilize these concepts in action so I have a personal identification a personal touch if you like because I've been there when I've seen him work and I followed in his footsteps in terms of training with him and then I would call myself an integrative relational therapist so I work within the relationship helping the person get in touch with the part himself he's lost the trauma whatever way you want to look at this deficits and help him integrate that whole different parts of himself so that he so that he can utilize the energy that was stuck in the disowned parts and use energy to actually affect cure so for me it's the clinical ideas and also seeing the man in action so I've got a personal and a professional affiliation to this book absolutely and what kind of level of therapist would find this book beneficial Bob is this a student book is this someone who's been around therapy for a long time does it fit with any particular theory who is the kind of person who would benefit most from this I think a student person who's done a first training and some type of psychotherapy because they'll see the advanced nuances of the work that he does and they've already got a first training on under their belts so in some ways students master people who actually have had a first training want to refresh their skills or develop the knowledge they know already so it would be for beginning students all the way up to people who already psychotherapist who want to read a book of advanced nuances master craftsman so you've got a wide range there is it for somebody who doesn't know any about psychotherapy in my opinion they would find it interesting to read but they're going to get much more out of it if they have a have a background in psychotherapy in some way yeah they're going to be able to draw from their experiences of training and that would just add to the book and add to what they know and so it's very much of a text to enhance someone's existing skills that yeah yeah so counselors and psychotherapists we found it fascinating that have a glimpse into what happens in the clinical world you know they have to go out in the world and do placements tossing ions this will give them via transcripts a picture in the world of how clinicians work so for example in our training in psychotherapy the Manchester Institute it is a it's a first year book which the students will visit revisit and visit again all the way up to graduation beyond so it very much is a staple for your student training you know one yes on the reading list yeah it's a must book to buy and I think anybody is interested particularly if they're practicing or going to practice would find a certain aliveness and uniqueness in reading this book particularly the explanation of clinical theory into practice that's why I think enjoy the most and a lot of books you don't get that you have a theoretical explanation but there's transcripts aren't there to bring it alive so I really recommend it to counselors therapists alike and people perhaps soon just starting the world of psychotherapy just to get a glimpse on what a master craftsman does in the therapeutic room well it sounds like a ringing endorsement for this text you know Bob Cook thank you so much for sharing this book it seems to have a real personal place in your heart as Richard Erskine trained you and you've seen him in action and also it's one that you pass on like a treasure to your your students so so we'll put a link at the end if anybody wants to look at the book they can click on it and this isn't a paid endorsement for the book this is just Bob talking about his books if you click on click on the link at the end underneath the video you'll take you there and you can see a bit more about it so so the book we reviewed today is Beyond Empathy by Richard Erskine and there seems one not to miss so Bob Cook thank you very much thank you Roy for giving me chance to talk about this fantastic book a pleasure thank you


On a thousand street corners, in a thousand cities, on endless miles of country roads, laughing, talking, playing, are the hope of this nation. Here is America. In their name, this nation was born, and in their hands will lie its destiny. A new world will be born under their footsteps. A new nation will be built. The young, the energetic, the restless, strong, determined, unyielding are children of the proud inheritors of all that has gone before. They are born of our flesh. They grow through our toy. They mature with our guidance. And so to their generation, we will pass the dream that was planted on these shores long ago. That dream is embodied in the spirit of freedom. Over this ocean, 1607 Jamestown, 1620 Plymouth Rock, here was America, the sea, the sky, the virgin continent. We came in search of freedom facing unknown dangers rather than bend the knee or bow to tyranny. We came to these fertile fields, thick forests and great rivers to find freedom, and we built a nation of farms and factories, towns and cities. We came for more than the country. We came because of an idea, an idea bigger than the country. Without the idea, the country might have remained a wilderness. Without the country, the idea might have remained only a dream. We took an ax and out of the native oak and pine, we built a church, a watchtower, a log cabin. We cleared a field and there a colony of free citizens, prospered and grew. We carved new states out of the green wilderness. Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Carolina. 13 colonies spread north, south, east and west. The dream took substance and the idea took form, but then came the first threat to that idea. It began in Boston and spread to Lexington and Concord. The shots heard round the world. The cause was oppression, the Stamp Act, the intolerable acts, the denial of representation, tyranny. We were outraged by England's disregard of the human rights of our own citizens and we resolved to fight. Their farms and businesses to fight the British at Bunker Hill, at New York and Trenton, at Valley Forge and Saratoga. Inexperienced and undisciplined, ill-equipped and underfed, our First Army held together. Defeat meant hanging, victory meant a nation where Americans ruled themselves and for this they endured. A new and revolutionary doctrine that had been expressed by men. All men are created equal. All men are entitled to the blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yorktown, 1781, six years after Lexington and Concord, three years after Valley Forge, we were a free and independent nation. The new idea had won its first test. Now we were faced with a task of passing it on to future Americans. We wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the sacred charter of we the people, the blood and sweat of we the people, the life, liberty and happiness of we the people. The people were to rule. Not some of the people, not the best people or the worst. Not the rich people or the poor. But we the people, all the people. In men of vision, we spread out and explored a vast new continent, the Susquehanna, the Ohio, the Monongahila, the Mississippi, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana. It was a big land. Rich and fertile, there was room for everyone. But for some, there was no hope. In 1808, Congress prohibited the importation of slaves, but refused to ban slavery itself. And so, in the halls of Congress and across the land, the debate dragged on. We were to learn the hard way that no nation founded on the principles of individual liberty could long endure the bondage of a few. The question of slavery had divided the nation. And by 1861, economic differences between the industrial north and the agricultural south had prevented any chances for compromise. The seeds of civil war had been sown. Atlanta, Chickamauga and Tito, 600,000 Americans were killed. Their blood was shed on a hundred battlefields in a thousand towns and villages across our land.   Peace was restored at Appomattox. The union had been preserved. Out of the bitterness of civil war, arose the understanding that our strength lay in one another and that a nation divided against itself could not stand. So out of the ashes emerged a new and a stronger country, ravaged by war yet dedicated to freedom. Troubled yet anxious to rebuild. They heard the wind blow through the buffalo grass, blow over the wild grape and briar. This was the frontier and this your house was frontier. Prince upon this hill and now men lie buried under. There was land, great wide land and a promise unfulfilled. Westward the wind beckoned the pioneers and a great flood of humanity spread out across the plains. A rolling, restless wave of seeking men, settling and planting, struggling over mountain chains, pushing up river valleys to the new ground, past the Rockies, past the Great Divide, across the Colorado and the Snake. On they pushed, on to find a promise, a hope, a dream.  Yes we have come a long way since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock from log cabins and water mills. Over this ocean had come the first seeds of a new idea and as the idea had grown so had the land until by the turn of this century our nation stretched from one ocean to another. But to the east across this same ocean Europe was also caught up in change. Centuries of decaying alliances and intrigues had brought her to the brink of war. The world was shrinking fast and we could no longer turn our backs on what was happening beyond our horizon. And so we felt the first winds of ominous change, of a coming era of violence and upheaval, a century of war. A time that would pose the greatest threat to our way of life. When it was over it was called the war to end all wars. But it was only the prelude to coming disaster and even greater violence. The world rested in the uneasy peace while the first League of Nations struggled into existence.  It was the era of the boom, prices were up, stunts were big, laughing was good and the Charleston was in. It was a decade of Saturday nights, a time we would later call the Jazz Age, the good old days. But for every Saturday night there was a morning after. And when the hangover hit us it came with an economic crash heard round the world. The stock market fell. Suddenly we found ourselves plunged into the darkness of a world depression. Millions lost their jobs, businesses closed, thousands lost their homes, bread lines stretched for blocks. Yet in the midst of one of the bleakest hours of our history, we still believe in the future and in our democratic way of life. We picked ourselves up, began new programs and hoped for better times. But 5,000 miles away it was a different story.  Once again innocent people would become victims of the madness of war. Once again the democracies would have to fight for survival. But this time, this time the sacrifice would be unparalleled in human history. Poland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Holland, we tried to stay out of it but we too found that evil cannot be ignored except at a terrible price. December 7th, 1941. The tragedy of Pearl Harbor horrified the world and shocked us into action. Once again we had to fight to protect the idea that our country was built on. And on sea and in the air, American fighting men were spread around seven tenths of the world's surface. Africa, Italy, Sicily, the Philippines, Normandy, Iwo Jima. Once again we had to fight to protect the idea that our nation was built on. Once again we fought, suffered and died in the cause of freedom. And once again the tragic sacrifice horrified the world. The war had ended in the burnt out ruins of Berlin and Tokyo. It had wrought unbelievable devastation and death. The legacy of madness and dreams of power. Optimism could no longer cover the scars. There was only a sense of relief at its end and an apprehension about the future. The age of the atom was with us. The world was still not safe nor was it to be at peace. Now there were smaller aggressions, smaller evils which had to be stopped. Korea, Lebanon, Cuba, Berlin, Vietnam. The era of violence had not ended in the place of major wars. But there would be cold wars and wars of limited objectives. And through all of this we would watch another era come. An era of jets and rockets, television and traffic jams. By now we have conquered our land, the mountains, the fields from shore to shore. We have conquered the air and now reached beyond to space. America has never stopped growing. That is our most significant trait. We have always believed in the future and what it holds. We work for it, sweat for it and many have died for it. This is America, built by the toil and the sweat of the men from all nations. And so we look back and see how it was done. And remember the countless millions who left their mark on this great land of ours. Of the millions more who shed their blood on the battlefield to preserve the spirit of freedom. We remember them because they left a priceless legacy to the children who bear their names. The spirit of freedom is their heritage and our hope for the future.


Trying to get better at Tekken 8 has been a grueling journey, but I've never been closer to reaching the red ranks than right now, and I'm hoping today might finally be my day. So with that said, I'm not gonna waste any more time, I'm hopping in with King into some rank matches just to try to get that oh-so coveted red rank.  Black t-shirt and sunglasses, yeah, we're cooked.  Three, can you break it? Then I'm gonna have to hit you with the fourth grab.  Oh, I golfed me. Uh, uh, uh, grab? Oh, you're not ready for the grab? Well, then I gotta put you in the dirt. Uh, let me get this low, oh, never mind. Your Kuma, I forgot that, I forgot your Kuma, I gotta respect that. Alright, check him, check him, check him twice! I've gotta make sure you're willing to block, if you're not, then I've gotta punish you for it. Now I will sidestep, that was not a sidestep chain grab, that was me going at the key, key, key charge. Hey, all right, why do I always click a button against Kuma, like I'm about to do something? Stand up. Oh my God, RKO out of nowhere, wrestling fans, you've got to be happy, I'm saying the names right now. I responded to the comments, I saw you guys roast me for that, so we're gonna mix it up, hit him with a something different. Oh, wow, that was crazy.  Once you win grab, thank you very much, I think we've got that every time, so until that doesn't work, I am just gonna keep doing that. Why am I, I'm still clicking buttons on his wake up, like that's gonna get me anywhere. Oh my God. Oh my God, when do I get to play? When do I get to play? All right, I'll play right now, I'll play right now, heat move. Now watch as I space this, and then I hit the button, he's gonna hit jab right here. Oh wait, miscalculation, had a bit of a miscalculation there. Do I start with a hop kick? Does that work? It does. Wow, hop kick round star, you know I can't be that mad about it. Step back, no. All right, how about this, if you crouch, I'm gonna tell the whole world that you crouch, oh, don't crouch, don't crouch, I'm begging you not to crouch.   All right, well we are in kind of some dire straits here.  Oh my God, I don't know what to do, he's just going crazy, he's literally just going crazy, I don't think he respects me. Counter hit, that could have been so much more, but I'll take it. Don't ever try to hit me.  RKO I don't know, nope, I actually hit the wrong button, but I'll take the legs, I'll take the legs and I'll just take what I can get into a big win. 300 points, is this going to be the video where we hit red rank? Spoilers, probably not, but I hope, I'm saying that like this first match wasn't a brutal grind, dude, and he is too chill, bro. Honestly, I'm hitting him in my picnic basket, but that's just me, let me roll back, like that was going to do anything. All right, let me get up, all right, all right, all right, all right, bro, come on, stop. That was not supposed to be a hop kick, I think we all understand that, I think we all know it was supposed to be this, stand up, RKO, let's do that again, huh, RKO, I would never do it three times, that's just, that's just childish of me to do it three times. All right, I did hit heat, yep, I'm not dead, I'm not dead, and I still have heat, so we could still pretty much easily win this, I don't know if he has anything other than fish rockets, but he would need like a fast hitting low or something, because I'm going all in, oh my goodness, yeah, he probably shouldn't have done that, but I can understand why he was feeling the big time hop kick, nope, but I go over his head though, what does Bear do, like I don't even, like to be honest, I don't even know what I'm going up against, so it's a little hard to, what was that, did he just like wave dash it, oh my god, I mean, what was I supposed to do, Tekken just be like, Tekken is honestly like, someone who described this pretty well in the comments on the last Tekken video, but Tekken just feels like Yu-Gi-Oh, bro, it's just first season of Yu-Gi-Oh, it's like people make stuff up, when you don't know how to play Tekken, it just is the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh, like yeah, of course he had a sweep that did that, of course, like he had that the whole time, that's what it does, I'm just checking him, I'm just checking him nice and easy here, does he go low here, nope, just into a grab, now he goes low, I can't get up, sit down, sit down right now, right now, young man, you need to sit down, my goodness, no respect for his elders, I'm just going to armor up, so did he, well what if I do it now, okay, oh, I thought I'd pop them one in the mouth, electrics, okay, okay, you got those pretty fast, pretty fast stuff, all right, so you're gonna get a perfect, so what, so what, so what if you get a perfect, in fact, you're not gonna get one, in fact, you're not even gonna win the match, because I'm going crazy, okay, you got it, you got it, you got it, is what you thought, huh, you just thought you had it, you thought it was over, you thought I was gonna sit here and lose, Jaguar stepped back, oh my god, I popped the one in the mouth, GG, I can't believe I lost, I honestly thought I just had it in the bag and I just slipped up, I didn't get my animation too, whoa, the lag into the no lag low, that was crazy, I honestly respect it, check this guy, armor, yeah, I kind of thought you throw some armor in, all right, how about this, blue spark, oh, I didn't get my input, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, that kind of sucked, no, brother really thought he was gonna get some free load there, he thought he was just gonna get a free round win off me, I can't really allow that to be, oh my god, so many points, put me to the mid of eliminator, oh, we're kind of in eliminator, oh, please, at least, you know, if this isn't the red promo video, please don't let this be a demotion video, yo, is that Lars? I really wanna learn how to play Lars pretty bad, 16, damn, what rank is that? I didn't check the ranks, honestly, Shinryu, okay, so, you know, I've played against the Shinryu once or twice, this guy's making stuff up, dude, I don't know how to explain it, but this guy's making stuff up, Shining Wizard, I would never instant Shining Wizard if that's what you're working, what the, oh my god, damn, does he know, does he go low? Yes, he does, it doesn't matter, I can't just let him do whatever he wants, I think I'm in trouble, no, the lightning dive kick, I was going for like a cheap little combo, let me hit this chain grab real quick, let me hit this chain grab real quick, okay, we're not gonna get that, oh wow, into a grab, heat attack, slam him down, I could have done so much more, big foot, bam, he's gonna go low, yup, yup, come on, I know, when you got that little bit of health left, you want it, oh no, yep, okay, it's not looking too good, boys, what do I do that can just make a statement win here, just armor up, that's what I'm feeling, okay, don't let him get anything cheap, there we go, that was pretty cheap, armor up, stand at his face, never mind, we get launched, probably should have done something a little more calm, a little more casual, okay, I know this is looking over, but at least, let's go, how does that not punish, all right, all right, we got three of, that's, you know, it's fine, that guy was, this guy is clearly a little better than us, but not so much better that I think it's impossible to win, if we get random enough, we could win, oh god dude, okay, check him, check him, check him, check him, no, check this guy, oh, the sidesteps, I don't know, I don't know what to do to keep this guy in place, come off it, man, come off it, man, let's go, one, two, one, grab, take the cheap damage, oh damn, all right, just armor up, armor up, get him out of my face, oh, where you jumping to, I told you we were gonna get random with it, I told you we were gonna get random, down right, disgusting, go ahead, crouch, go ahead, crouch for me, off, I just had a little more time in heat, if I just had a little more time in that heat gauge, man, I could have done, I probably could have cheesed out a little round one victory, go low, go low for me, oh no, that's not low, go low for me, okay, I just didn't know when it was safe, oh, defense is so hard and Tekken, one, two, one, grab and it actually goes off, I know it was kind of just, we cheesed him out there, I could have done so much more, mix ups, power bomb, yes, RKO, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's RKO, okay, look, old habits die hard, especially in the clutch, I think we all know that, oh god, so many lows, oh no, why am I, a jumping jab, that's how it ends, a jumping jab, I don't even know how I got that input out, man, damn, not the demotion, oh, see this is what I was worried about, fellas, and here's the demotion arc, oh, it's Maki, damn, we cosplaying, hold on, I gotta chain grab, Maki watch out, oh my goodness, she needs a stronger heavenly restriction, Maharaga saved me, get him up against the wall, all right, let me, let me get them toes real quick, let me get them, side step, side step, side step, hop kick, wow, okay, well, all right, I've changed, I've changed my stance, I won't be doing any of that, I won't be doing any of that, instead get off me, jumping grab, I keep getting that input instead of my, my thing, wow, how did that still work, what, it still goes off, he an attack, it's too good, we cheese out a free round, insane, round two, you know I'm just gonna start with armor because they're pissed, they're definitely pissed, I understand that, give me that, chain grab, Maki, oh my god, you gotta break out of it, you've never seen Jujutsu like this, all right, all right, hey, that's fine, that's all good, I'm blocking this every day of the week, I'm blocking this every day of the week, but can you block the arc, oh, you crushed it, that was equally as good, okay, okay, pretty impressive stuff, okay, you got some lows on you, okay, now I'm going in, okay, you got a, you got a heat attack too, oh no, so much, so much, why does that cost heat, oh, I could have done so much better, no, no, the walls, dear god, the walls, okay, all right, hey, it's all good, we just gotta win one round, okay, it's looking not so all good, oh wow, what a side step, I gotta just, I gotta just take advantage of that, one, two, one, grab, maybe I'm overthinking this game a little bit, maybe I'm overthinking this, okay, we'll take some cheap damage, okay, I like it, I like it, all right, so we've slowed the pace of the game down a little bit here, oh, free grab, no, that's a grab, damn, one, two, oh, chain grab, how did you break that, I was behind you, oh, it's gonna be dicey, this is looking a little too hard to come back from, oh, no, oh, armor up, but it's not over, it's not over, it's looking a little over now, wait, wait, a huge chance, give me your legs, oh my goodness, no, wait, when the motion was knocking at the door, we just stand strong, and was it cheesy, yes a little bit, was it our greatest round ever, no it wasn't, but I still am in the rank, now do I hop, kick, round, I'm thinking I don't ever try that again in my life, oh, put them in the dirt, come on, give it a grab, all right, all right, so you crouch, you crouch, so you're gonna make me expose to everybody that you crouch, because normally I would never do that, oh, normally I would never do that, oh, crouch, thank you, why, why would I have a little bit of heat left and they have a little bit of life, do I not just go for the mix, armor up, instantaneously, I think it's just smart, crouch, okay, I could be doing much more, okay, there's the crouch again, I don't have a lot of heat left, if I have a chance I'm gonna definitely, well, oh, you can't just throw out buns like that, Maki, you can't do it, you can't do it, oh, another grab, all right, but they do have their heat attack, so we're just gonna kind of wait it out here, wow, you have a move that kind of looks like both, check them, check this, check it out, check it out, down forward one, I'm just gonna be spamming it, let's try some armor, into the RKO, oh, it's big time, I would never do it again though, except I'm lying, I totally would and I plan on doing it soon, all right, oh, there it is, there it is, I've only got a little bit of juice left and it's out of time, when do I crouch right now, when do I crouch right now, okay, right now, oh, that was big time, okay, I did duck, accidentally, no, I should have just done something, hold back, oh, no it doesn't work, oh, where's my, where's my reaction time bros, if I just hit one there it's just a different ball game, hold on, still a little bit of time, oh, nice reaction, nice react, I'll give it up, oh, come on, chain grab, no, no, no, we need chain grabs here, no, no, why am I, why am I just saying, all according to plan, all according to plan, all according to plan, all according to plan, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine, we're fine, I can't believe she escaped that much, all right, oh god, do rounds of peace, I kind of need to go 2-0 here, I'm not gonna lie, let's go, big opening, 1-2-1 grab, thank you very much for the chip damage, we're just gonna put her in the mix now, crouch, no crouch, RKO gives us a little bit of heat back, we're not gonna risk anything, we're just, it's over, it's over, perfect for king to end the round, and that's how you need to do it to keep a Limitator Rank around here, that's gonna get us to almost halfway through the rank, can we make it to red ranks, another Limitator Rank has entered the lobby and they're on a promo match too, they're trying to get to red ranks, unfortunately if, if I want to succeed I have to be the, I have to be the end of his story, I have to be the bad guy, oh no but he's got his victor launcher bro, it's his victor, I'm really not trying to be out here against victor like that, oh god, I don't, what's the tech on that, what's the tech on that, I can't be exposed, I can't, what did I hit a button, I thought I was just trying to get up man, well this is his round for sure, pull back, oh god, no take that, how do you take that, how do you take that, I need to know, comment section I need your help, okay well we'll let him have his low, I mean okay he likes crouching, he like, okay so this grab is gonna expose me for being very fraudulent here in a second, don't you ever use moves like that ever again, get off the ground, give me your legs, okay so you were ready to, you wanted me to take your legs, oh no is that a two plus three grab or what, what, no sidestepping the world's getting me away from that, oh no, oh no, oh no, I just realize this guy's a shotgun on his back too, let's just go into heat, okay nice and simple, nice and simple combo, gets me a little bit of damage here, crouch, thank you very much, thank you very much, okay you don't want to crouch, you don't have to, oh that's gonna give me a little bit, why not go ahead, crouch, thank you, all right good enough, oh how does he hit me with that, okay I don't know how to take that grab, that's true, but so far he hasn't punished me for just getting up and kicking him, low, thank you, no okay should we play it slow, I don't know, I really don't know, we used all our resources, I used all my cheap resources, oh except for the little hop kick, except for a little dangerous hop kick to keep me in the game, he needs his promo chance, he's never been sweating more than now, all right, preheat activation but we'll take it every day, I'm just gonna activate it, crouch, thank you, oh wow we don't get there in time, oh that's just not a one plus two attack, it's no way, oh my god fraudulent brah, this is the worst feeling attack in brah, I just don't know, I just don't know what the break is, but do you, do you know the break, now you've got to play the game, you were happy to make me play it but now you've got to play the game, go ahead, what's the break, oh you found it, oh you're better than me, is that what you wanted here, oh no, is he gonna go low, oh he knows I don't know, you know I don't know, that's cheap bro, oh he knew I didn't know, well now I'm going up against a red rank, congrats on the evolution, no no, why is it lagging, no that was not my, that was not my intention, all right let me check this guy, let me check him, okay, all right you kind of passed the check, you passed the check, oh I would never do it twice though, get off the ground, you know that I'm coming for you, oh that's so good, it's so cheap off the ground, I don't understand, I'm coming for you down there too, low parry, you know he's got to be feeling it now, he thinks I'm gone like, oh but never mind, he reminded himself I'm not, that was pretty quick too, he reminded me, look at him trying to grab me, look at him, all he knows is to grab, oh I'll take the freeload damage, I probably should have used that bar a little more though, oh get off, it's a one break, no, no that is definitely not a one break, oh launcher, that grab is by far the most exposing thing this set, if I could figure out how to break that we stand a much better chance, Shining wizard, I would never do that to you again though, get up, oh I don't know the break, I don't know the break, okay you got me bro, I'm just a king player bro, I don't know how to break grabs okay, the lore is right, I don't know, oh no, oh no, how long does that just make me, damn, all right so it was a long time, no it probably feels over now, it feels over, I can't get run over like this, no, oh no that's probably it, let's go and I didn't get the thing, all right big damage, big damage you can't crouch that, oh no, it's over bros, it's over we couldn't get a win there, we're back in the motion territory, okay another chance, oh chain grab, warang, I needed this, I need this bro so don't break it, I'm begging you not to break it, I need a little pick me up, I need some rank points, I just needed so bad bro, thank you, thank you bro, thank you please, take a seat, take a seat over on that wall okay, let me get this, that was supposed to be the low, oh god, RKO, I need, wow that did a lot of damage, I wasn't expecting it to do all that, go ahead sit down for me, give me your legs, okay so you armored up, you saw that I was armoring up for a while, oh oh I thought he let me do it, I thought he let me have it, but here it comes anyway, here it comes anyway, big grabs, my heat's almost out so you gotta wonder how am I gonna abuse the armor here, I've got a little bit of it, flip him, I could have done so much more, I could have done so much more but instead we're just gonna let it ride out and just take the down forward one two to get, get it moving, get it moving, get it popping, armor up, oh into the giant swing exactly what the armor was made for, can you tech roll, that's a no, oh armor up, I don't know we don't make that, one two one grab, something new, haven't used that this set, I'm gonna use it now, armor my veins, muscle up, where's my muscle, muscle up, I think we're going to the moon, yeah it's looking pretty bad, it's not looking too good dude, once you would grab, it's got crouches, oh how many kicks bro, how many kicks can you do in one jump, I'm gonna hop kick, all right it was wrong, it was wrong but I'll never regret it, oh god, let me do it too, thank you, that move is so annoying, that move is so annoying like high mid, what do I do, I guess I can duck hop kick maybe, oh my goodness, I'm getting waranged, bro got me falling like a loony toon's character, no I gotta strike back bro, honestly the only way I'm winning this set I think is if I'm just in the driver's seat the whole time, that's the only way I'm winning this set, so I just gotta, I gotta pretend like he's just going to do whatever he needs to do and then hold on, oh put him in the dirt again, I think this is where we go for it though, okay, no chip damage, no damage on him though, that's bad, just mash it out, mash it out, I'm taking the set, I'm taking the set, you know I had to rob you, you could click all the buttons you want but I was in rage and you weren't, so guess who won, me, give me my rank points, give them to me, that's all I care about growing better as a player, overrated, rank points, that's my stuff, now he kind of exposed me the last like two sets in a row, even three honestly, but I gotta, now I just gotta get crazy with it, I just gotta get crazy with it, again, the only way we win this I think is by just running over him, max speed, no brakes, so that's, that's pretty much what I'm gonna do, oh my god the, the low advancing attacks are, it's crazy, oh my god, oh my god, we're gonna have to cheese him again though, bro throws in a sneaky little boot every three seconds, no, no, where was my side, no, no I can't accept this dude, where was my side step, where was my side step, okay, okay, all right, yeah, yeah, that's a lot of damage, I don't agree, I don't agree with the amount of lows you have, never have, oh god, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, he hesitated, I took the bait, I definitely took the bait there, I thought he was the type to dash in, warring, I'm begging you, I'm begging you to be normal, bro, all right, I just gotta, I gotta throw all the cheese out, oh no, we don't get armor for that, what do we grab, thank you, there's still a chance, there's just a small modicum of hope, oh no, why did I even try that, I knew that that wouldn't win, all right, last game, last game of the video, let me clutch up, let me clutch, I still stand by the fact that we probably win if we just like really just overwhelm him, but that's just happened to happen, no, we got overwhelmed, so that's stuff I said, bad info, bad coach job, no draft capital, can you sidestep king for the love of god, why are we crouching brother, why are we crouching, I hate, I hate warring, now you might be wondering why I don't do faster moves on the ground, and I don't know, this is so, this is so bad, this is so bad, help me, warring, just stop, you don't have to be the bad guy, pick him up, you don't have to be the bad guy, warring, you don't, you don't have to be, oh no, yes, how are you alive, oh my god, oh no way, well that's the video, unless scaling, unless scaling is so incredible that I have one more shot, nope, we're not demoted, but we're damn close, and that red rank seems all the farther, even though I guess it's the closest we've ever been.