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No So he's got a thousand pounds of pennies and he has to clean them all Wow Are they just gonna I mean at that point you just go well, I'm not I'm not dealing with this Yeah, no, they just they just put it in a no, it's thousands of dollars Thousands of dollars. I thought it was like a couple hundred bucks. No, it's it's like a couple thousand dollars It was their final check.  And it's just sitting in there in their garage and that they were talking to them Right, they interviewed them and it said that they uh, they can't take it to the bank until they clean all the oil Well, don't you have to clean them and then also roll them roll them? Yeah, yeah into into those things Yeah, so I mean how long would that it would take them like forever a month.    Yeah, they had to accept it They had to accept how many it was a lot it was and I broke it up, right? So I didn't give it to him in the role so I got it from the bank So it was all about which you actually went out of your way to do. Oh, absolutely Well, because that they had ruined my day at that point if those that haven't been listening to podcasts a long time Don't remember the story But I used I lived in a in an apartment complex or a condo, right? This where my my first condo was out um, and It this there's a hustle here if you guys don't know about this like a lot of these like Gated communities they work deals out with these tow truck. Oh, yeah, it's always the same company There's always a phone number on the side. Yes. Yeah, and they and it's it's a backdoor deal It's like so the first the the complex so the complex I live in I own the place and pay my fucking hoas that were ridiculous and everything I'm only allowed one car outside of my garage that I have I get a parking pass for well for someone who has three cars or more You're pretty much screwed or if you have a roommate, which I also had so I had a roommate plus I had multiple cars So we couldn't even park in our own gated community. We have to park outside of that So they have a deal at midnight, you know tow truck comes in he has the gate code puts the gate code in Cruises the parking lot makes the money. Yeah. Yeah swoops up a bunch of these So they used to do this to me and I had the attitude of like, you know And if I had a girlfriend over or what someone spent the night or what like that I'll be like, what am I gonna do and by the way at this time in my life I'm living on east side San Jose, which those that don't know it's like that's the ghetto side And in the gated community I felt safe but out right outside of that like your shit's getting jacked Yeah cars get broken into me on blocks. So the way I looked at it was like, I'll just roll the dice, you know With, you know, possibly getting towed or trying to play this, you know hide and go seek the high bill Dude, it's like 300 400. Oh, yeah. So I it was just it was normal every month sometimes multiple times a month I was paying for for tow fees and it was just I shocked it up to the game like whatever You know I'm saying I'm not going to risk parking it out there like I just kept doing it It was I I didn't want to park outside the complex.  You got me again You know, it was like kind of that attitude like I know I'm not supposed to be parking in there They they've got me a bunch of times every time you come you have to bring your ID your registration your license all that stuff And they they they had to fill out in this book and they they have they stamp It's like I had you could go back and you could see me every time every car I've had and which one's been towed every time and this one time I'm late for work too, but already right.  You could see my registration right there It's a week ago, you know, you just towed me.   I was like, that's it. I'm gonna go to the bank and Pay these motherfuckers in quarters. So I got all the quarters, which you know I mean it was like a plastic bag about that big broke them all up and Sat him on the counter. Here's your money. Yeah. Yeah, I walked next door to McDonald's and got Myself a coffee and sat there because I had she had to count. Yeah. Yeah, because they they wouldn't Let me go until they counted it. So that was so I was kind of somewhat shooting myself in the foot Right. I mean if I would have done that in pennies, they would have made me sit there and Count out that's commitment dude. You were committed to getting them back. Yeah, I was so Yeah, I was like, I'm so mad about this. What my day's shot. I'm already late. I'm calling in I'm not going to work today. It's like everybody miserable. Yeah Yeah, so I'm like and I'm over there pretending like I'm not bothering more drinking my cup of coffee But I'm married to fuming inside. So but yeah, this guy does this.  So as you I mean, but I thought that was one of the odds. Yeah What a great what a great move me and my buddy did that but not because for any other reason Then we just thought it was funny.   Totally.  It was dude Without even tipping him to no, we we tipped them, but it was all like pennies dimes and nickels. Oh, that's bad You know what we okay? Come on. Like you guys were never dickheads in high school. Yeah, dude So just because you know you're with your buddy We cut school So we're at his house and we're watching a godfather marathon while we're supposed to be at school and we're hanging out We're like, let's get a pizza.   He's just like yeah, that's exactly what he did. He took it.  Yeah, that's hell. That's messed couple.  So you guys obviously I just moved recently And I had and this is different. This just shows you I love good companies like this. So I have like my dog food on delivery. I've got butcher box being delivered to me What are the companies that we have on like on auto ship right every single month And I it was a headache because the time that we were transferring to the new address It was some of the stuff was already in transit And you know, I I ate it I like my stuff I lost some of that the only company that was rock solid was butcher box butcher box does that Yeah, they not only did they there's their customer service They ate they ate it and they shipped me a whole new box out to the new place They did the same thing to me because my where I live If you type in my address It'll take you to the back where the garage is because the garage is separate from from the place I live in so you can either deliver things in the front door or The the the gps wherever will take you to the garage, right? Well, we don't see stuff that's delivered by the garage unless I'm leaving or coming home And so that happened to us and you know, it's it's packed in the the freezer thing or whatever Yeah, it was over a weekend We were in in the house all day long none of us ever left the garage So I I'm like I see I go on my email.   They like they forgot like bacon They had some deal with bacon and we you know opted in wanted to you know have that in the order and it didn't show up And so we all we did is just contact them and then they gave us like a whole another order of like five or six Like things of bacon. Wow. Have you guys? Okay, please tell me you tried their pork chop I know I bring this up all the time. I still have it. Oh come on. Yeah, I know It's I am not a fan of pork. I'm not a big. I haven't done that one yet It's they're they're like this big, right?  It was delicious. Yeah, but of course, that's really sweet Yeah, I'm a big I'm a big fan. All right. I've been saying I'm gonna do it for all right I got some uh controversy for us. Yes. Yeah, that's my favorite thing So Doug you got that you got that picture for me. So if you could pull that picture up on my telly's guys the background Okay, so today is uh in C double a tournament right March Madness is officially Uh starting I think today Is that wreckable? Huh? Yeah, wreckable So I got tagged I got tagged on this this picture and I actually just went I actually just went back and so I got tagged early on it right on this uh some girl posted this. I don't know who she is Uh small following. I think you sent this to us. Yeah, she was like, I think she's some coach or something I don't know. I don't know who she is, but she's small following like less than less than I think five six thousand followers But this post has gone viral since this morning since last night. So I saw it. I didn't comment I just looked at it and I was like, I thought it was interesting and so I screen shot it I sent it over to you guys. So this is so right now you've got the big tournaments going on So this is the the men's and women's basketball tournaments and they're doing very similar to what the NBA did They have like this bubble, right? So they everybody kovat or whatever. Yeah for kovat They stay there for the entire the entire month or whatever Got it with the duration of the tournament and they and they have and they set up these facilities So the picture on the top Is the men's facility to work out and the picture on the bottom is what the women got Okay, so the top is Yeah for the full-on gym, right you got barbells bumper plates the whole deal I'm gonna take it even further So I'm gonna for the audience so they so they can get an idea I would I would estimate okay based off of what I can see from these photos that the men's facility has probably got About a quarter million dollars worth of equipment. It's a gym. Yeah. Oh, it's more than I mean I can see six or sevens full squat raps and platforms.  Yes Now the women's facility has a dumbbell tree Yeah, it's a little table. Literally. It's like it's like what you find at your aunt's house Yeah, the yoga mat and pro so I would say probably is that the full picture though Okay, even if it's not let's pretend it is for the for argument's sake right now. Okay, so Now I if you guys see look it's already got 94 thousand views I saw some of our peers that I know in the fitness space. Okay, so with this highlight There's some outrage. Oh, there's people flipping out right now, of course. Now. Look, this is and I know what they're saying Oh, it's uh, it's sexist the men get all this amazing equipment the women get this no equipment or whatever And I get the I get that sentiment. Um, but here's the I mean, this is just the truth whether it's fortunate or unfortunate and I'll give you some examples of the reverse Here's the truth.  I thought the same same thing sounds like I was like, I obviously I knew that men's basketball draws more But how much more I wasn't sure is it like a crazy discrepancy is it right? It's massively. It's not even in the same universe So the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Okay draws over 700 million dollars a year. Okay. Okay the women's Loses money every single year. And that's just for the tournament the rest the whole rest of the year Did you guys know that over 99% of all the women's basketball college programs lose money? Every year and you have colleges like duke university, Tennessee, Tennessee By the way broke records a few years back where the the girls team had like the most unbelievable streak I think ucon did the same thing too all three of those schools They they they spend over a million dollars lose almost a million dollars a year on the women's program So then I see this right and it comes up and I see everybody outraged People say it's not fair, but that's just that's the way look. I'll tell you what there are markets where the reverse is true If you look at for example fashion models Um women out earn men tremendously. Is that true? Absolutely top fashion models Women generally crush men. There's way more name five fashion models that are men named five that are women Well, I don't know either one of those. So oh, you would know. I bet you can name three at least that are women It may be from our era, but that's just one. Yeah, I know cindy crop So, I mean and that's just you know tyra banks. Yeah, and and that's just it's just markets It's just like it's the same reason why men pay more money for car insurance than women Do you know that it's because men get more tickets and more accidents? Yeah, it's all more of a risk It's all market driven. And so and and again, it's okay Look at Hollywood actors right male actors tend to out earn Female actors. Well, the truth is the male actors people pay To go watch them and here's the here's another part of this this kind of inconvenient truth I guess is that even women will spend more money watching Men play basketball than watch women. Yeah, so it's just of course That's true or else it isn't uncomfortable truth. There's a top fashion model. So I don't see any guys, right? They're all no Yeah, it was 19 and they were all women. Yeah, so it's just it's all market driven And here's the deal and this is what I love about this If you think this is unfair So if you're the one that gets their outrage by this and you see this like that's not fair Take a mirror and look at your own face. Do you watch women's basketball? It's our it's us We're the ones that drive it because if the consumers all of a sudden switch to watching all women's basketball It would go in the other direction. I'd like to propose too like so what are the because there are sports that get a lot More attention like let's say, um, let's say tennis for instance like a women's tennis I'm sure that In terms of like getting eyes and views like they're probably making a substantial amount of more money than women's basketball Yeah, they I would I would assume so I would assume so but generally speaking Men's sports tend to do better. Yeah in terms of I just I just it's just interesting because it is it You see a picture like that.  But again, it's an inconvenient. It's an inconvenient truth that you know Like what do you do with that because like if what do we want to do? We want to just throw a lot more money in there to kind of like level the playing field But now it's even more In depth in terms of like like I I just hate that everything goes straight to being sexist or racist Yeah, yeah, like right away we just we right away It has to be sexist or racist instead of like looking a little bit deeper into this like is it really and your point is perfect So it's like If we all just start if we all said, you know what men's basketball is kind of boring Women's basketball is way more entertaining They would be the reverse and we all started watching it Absolutely and buying the jerseys and going to the games and buying all the popcorn Why we're watching and spending all the money and it began it began to make that kind of now The argument on the other side is that they don't get the same exposure therefore That's the reason why they're not it's the exposure follows the the demand It's not controlled by someone at the top who's like, haha, we're gonna make sure that nobody that's not true Okay, look at the ufc right ufc included women's fighting and at one point the top fighter in the ufc Pay was ronda rousey at one point. She was making more money than everybody else By the way, she wasn't the best fighter. She just had the biggest draw In fact, you talked to I know a lot of fighters who fight professionally And they'll tell you and it's frustrating for them that oftentimes The best fighters are not the ones that are paid the most It's the guys and girls that have the biggest draw.   That's not fair But that's just the consumers are the ones that decide so we're the ones that have to it's tough You gotta you gotta turn it back on yourself and like your own habits and what you're into Why are you into it? You got to like really assess that now Where where does where does title nine stand in this like what exactly does that What is what does that do in a situation like this? I know that I'm not super familiar But I do believe can you pull that up duck? Can you do a quick little run down on and give me school me on title nine? If I'm if I'm not mistaken it basically guarantees a certain amount of scholarship. It's more scholarship. Yeah, yeah Is it just that I think there's more to that? Well, yeah Yeah, I'm sure there's some stipulations in terms of like how much money they allocate to towards the programs I would think you know like I would I would be interested to see what that looks like Yeah, I you know and this is this is obviously going to piss a bunch of people off But the irony here is it's a federal law that states no person in the United States Shall on the basis of sex being excluded for participation in Being denied the benefits of or be subjected to discrimination under any education program Or activity receiving federal financial assistance So if it gets any federal financial assistance, which all these colleges do then they have to have men and women's Essentially well, it's not it's further than that. It's also the benefits So then you know, there's the argument right there is that okay all these big schools You know the dukes the harvards the stanford's all these schools are getting Government assistance and so because they're getting government assistance, they should all the women should get equal benefits, right? Uh, I don't know if that's if that if that if it sure sounds like that to me I think it means we're gonna have a program We're gonna have women's sports that are so if we have a men's team We have a bad of a women's yeah, if you read that again, it goes into the benefits of it What does that say done? Yeah, that's not it right there. Oh, that's different. Yeah, that's different Yeah, so no, I don't think it means that they get I think the in terms of money and all that stuff. I don't think it means that I think it just means That they have the they have the the sport that they have it available and that they provide scholarship Well, I mean, so it sounds like it's a gray area, right? I think you're I think you're right and that's why legally the the school can get away with Sticking the girls with the yoga mats and 10 pounds.  It's it's it's interesting to me too because here's the truth and again This is probably an upset people but whatever. It's the truth if there was a school Okay, let's let's take it out of division one and there's like a small school That's trying to get by and they have a men's football team Okay, and it was losing money for three years in a row Programs getting cut gone. Yeah. Yeah programs deleted gone They actually have a lot that protects them to always have a program By the way, the reason why these private colleges spend so much money and energy on some of these sports Is because that's what generates revenue for the colleges. It's what brought it brings people in Of course they buy their merchandise. You got people paying, you know, trying to get into these schools That's the only reason why they spend so much because if you go to some of these colleges You just see how much money they spend go to their stadiums and their gyms and their They spend tremendous amounts of money on their sports programs And oftentimes bend a lot of rules in order to allow students to come in who are really good at certain sports Why do they do that? It generates a lot of money and again, we're the ones that control that I learned this as a kid. I remember as a young kid I don't remember where we were going. We were driving somewhere and I was just looking out the window and I was paying attention to things And I would see liquor stores, right? And I was old enough to understand that, you know, alcohol cigarettes are not good for people And I asked my mom in the front my mom and dad and I said, how come I see so many liquor stores as we're driving But I don't see like as many grocery stores or you know churches or schools and stuff like that And I said that's that's that's terrible. They're trying to get people to drink a lot of alcohol Just giving me what you want and my and my mom and dad said What do you think would happen if nobody went to the liquor store and bought alcohol and cigarettes? So they would disappear So the reason why there's so many of them is because we people keep going to them and giving them their money So it's all market driven. So it all it's all reflected on us And so this is just it's just the way it is It's just it's there's there the men's sports generate a lot of money And and that's just the bottom line But sometimes again, I use the ufc is an example because for a second there ronda rousey was the top paid Athlete in the ufc had nothing to do with the fact, you know, it was because she drew so many Did she surpass everybody at one point at one point? She was because she's she's in the same era as migrager I don't think she ever passed migrager. I don't think migra. I think at one point. She was the highest I don't know. I don't know if migrager was I mean, I definitely know that at one point She was definitely one of the highest she was the first first female to be the main event I know that I know that but I don't know if she ever surpassed What migrager was she definitely was one of the top if not the top she was definitely, you know up there Yeah, in terms of her draw. Yeah, I know she was high. I didn't I didn't think that she ever was I don't I don't know. She was the top at the time or not. I don't think I don't maybe duck can find what her what her Maybe though. Maybe I'm I mean it's there you go Ronda rousey talks being the ufc's highest paid fighter So she was at one point and it just because people wanted to watch her was fascinating And again, she wasn't the best fighter.  She was very entertaining to walk I mean, she went she ended up in wwe because of it because she was so entertaining What's the name brock lesnar?   I guarantee there's a budget Some conspiracy You know what I'm saying they're like, okay, this is all the money we have to spend Where's some of the money going to go where some of it not going to go and there's Let me tell you what what what runs these people at the top more than anything There's one color that that matters more than any other kind of green. It's green And if they see green it's not sexist. It's not biased.   You're making me money. Cool.  Block, oh no, it's on it's trending on Netflix right now And uh, I almost didn't watch it. Katrina wanted to watch it and I was like, yeah I kind of know this story already But I'm glad I did because there was a lot of things I didn't know like for one Do you guys remember because it was in our lifetime was in the 80s The evolution of uh, movie cassettes movies at home You know, it was not that long ago that you couldn't watch a Movie that was just in the movie theater and I had a cassette tape on your tv at home That was during our lifetime when that transition happened. Do you remember that transition? I just remember I was really we were young.  That was the name of the place we went to get our So there's a couple like really interesting things. First of all, that was actually a very short window It was early 80s when it when it hit and it was only for the very early 80s like 80 to I think 84 By the way, you know what industry drove the creation of those vcrs and tapes morning. Yep pornography So this so that actually brings me to one of my so you guys and think about what a ballsy move It was for the first guy because there was a a blockbuster type of video store before blockbuster It was called I forget what the guy named it. It was in uh, texas Uh, and that that was like what catapulted the first like blockbuster kind of like idea But how ballsy was it that he goes out and builds this super store that was going to have you know 10 15 of every single dv. It's going to be massive and then not have an adult section Think about the think of the cahonas that would take to do that knowing what you just said because before that that was it I mean that's you rented movies early was because and that's why they had that shady back room You got to think that that was where they were making most of their money was if you wanted to make it like family Very family. Yeah, and and go all big like that, but it paid off Right, I mean he did really well and I believe that first one got sold to somebody who later on turned it into a franchise Which is blockbuster But where they really crushed was when they actually made a deal with movies. So when it originally came out I did not know this. Do you know what the original video cassette?  And and here's the thing soon It's gonna be a million people people thought it was a people thought it was a good deal Because the way they thought of it was I could have 10 of my friends over We we would spend that I'll collectively spend almost that much money going to the movie theater Just charge your friends to come watch. I mean, I imagine that's what they did or they all went to place. It was a new technology I mean, you gotta think of that. I mean my dad's first video. It's like a status thing My dad's first recorder to record home movies was like 300 something dollars back then I would never spend that much money on the tech, you know on something to record people nowadays Yeah, but it was just new. Yeah.  So now all the mom paws pop up now What puts them completely out of business Is blockbuster goes and makes a deal with the movie so they get it first Not only they get it first they get a hundred copies per store and they get it for five dollars of movies Instead of 99 dollars a movie and they give them a rev share So they offer them they offer all the the the move offer the movie industry all the big Production companies a kickback on the on all of the rentals. And so and or so they make this deal Oh, okay. Well, then we're going to give you all these copies for super low price So they can fill all their stores and they just completely. Yeah, I remember I remember those mom and pops you get like one or two copies and like if you weren't there Right away like it was gone. I there's there anything more disappointing than going to the the video store You see the box.  Fuck. Yeah, they're gone.  I remember Going up to the guy at the counter This is before blockbuster days, right and being like it wins it do back You know and ask him like well, it's supposed to be due on Tuesday at fourth. Remember be kind rewind. Yeah Oh my god. Yes. Yes.  And so then what he would do is you just fast forward it while it was playing So you could kind of see what's going on I'd be sitting there like yeah Do you know that was one of the dumbest moves that blockbuster ever did to try and compete with netflix when netflix started to come out of nowhere They decided to wave all late fees To try and ride because that was netflix big. I don't know if you guys remember that Yeah, netflix used to mail you dvds.  Yeah, it wasn't didn't netflix try to approach them to work with them 50 They offered they got laughed out of the office dude 50 million dollars is what they could have bought netflix for What is it? What is netflix valued at right now billions, right? Yeah, at least a few bit coin No, they're in the billions right so if they could out of her 50 let's find out What did that cut so they cut out the late fees like what did that hurt them financially? 250 million dollars a year annually Right away just like that instantly just lost it. Well, they were dead. That was like the majority They weren't dead. They weren't dead yet. No, I'm saying they probably were desperate. They're like, what do we do? Oh, maybe thinking they could put netflix out of business. Yeah, yeah by doing something like that Yeah, I don't know if they thought they could put netflix out of business But I thought they I think they thought they could keep you know keep trucking along. They didn't net worth 2020 What does it say there dug 120 by billion? Wow? Wow? So they could have bought it for 50 billion 50 million Maybe you know for a long time netflix didn't make any money. Do you guys know that most of these companies for a long time? It made no, yeah, it made no money and then eventually they started, you know And there was a time when blockbuster they had the power as even when netflix was on the rise and becoming very popular They still had the capital they because netflix was like you said losing and they're just building their network They could have squashed them and they didn't did they get into red box at all because they remember at the same time Like they kind of emerged they reference Netflix and red boxes that the two like major competitors that shifted the market in that direction Talk about a short window of success right red box like they're for a second They were doing great any machine of movies and then done Did it die completely because I you still see those and I'm but do you yeah There was one over there. Yeah, there was one exactly. They were in grocery stores going to a red box right now They're like bro. There's still a blockbuster. There's still one. Yeah, there's still one Where is it like alaska bend organ? That's right. There are ones before it. They were elastic It's probably like more like a terse detraction. It is now. That's exactly what it's turned into.  I was all about the red vines and popcorn That was the thing that was the combination red vines popcorn Is red box still alive dug? Yeah, it is it isn't well Alive and well even I don't know how well but It's I mean you got to think there's there's these rural towns where that don't have access to a lot of stuff Probably don't even have there's a lot of places. Okay, so my where I grew up Near people who want to be off the grid.  It's still today. Wow. Yeah a lot of like my best friend's parents I know a lot of towns like that and like all they have in town is like a mountain mikes pizza. Yeah, and that's it always Yeah, yeah always a mountain mikes pizza Places like that are still rock and dvds. You know, they're still right. Yeah, so they're still until they get the uh The internet blimps that what's the name said he was gonna build. Yeah, what's it? What did you say? Was it is it elan or facebook? I thought facebook was doing that Yeah, the free the free blimps that are gonna go over get everybody internet That's facebook is elan's the satellites satellite. Did you see the news on facebook? They're they're dropping their glasses soon They're I I didn't read the article So they're so what is it? Are they like augmented reality? So, okay, here's they're being all coy about it Maybe dug and pull an article up and we can we can dive into it a little bit But they you can like people and dislike them in real life. They're oh that motherfucker They're trying to downplay it a little bit because originally I think back in 2017 they said like this You know these these vr ar glasses are coming out But they're it's not going to be completely augmented reality yet And so they're just talking about how you got these new glasses. I don't know. It smells very google glasses to me Yeah, it's probably like notifications You know like a visual icon or something in the corner. I would guess I'm like They're probably just trying to flirt with it So you get used to the idea of having something like flashing in front of you Here's what I think would be cool if you got these glass not that I would use them because I think it's getting crazy But let's say you have these glasses on and then you walk up to a restaurant And it immediately shows you all the friends that you know that like and reviewed that restaurant on your glasses I wonder if this is good. You look at it.  Why don't you come back in?  That's the article. I was reading right there, Doug That's exactly one smart glasses. Yeah, speaking of glasses. Justin. Yeah, damn those look good on you Yeah, I'm trying to wear them more often my eyes have been getting strained I noticed like headaches like I thought it was like I was dehydrated or whatever But like I've been on my phone and in computer like a lot more frequently lately and we're getting headaches What frames are those? So these are the Jameson's From phoenix gray. Okay, so they look really really good. I wear the I wear the nash Do you know what? Do you want to show the smaller ones? Yeah, I have those too. I do the nash You have nash. Yeah, I don't have like I don't know you have a narrow face like me.  Like I almost need those grandma frames Now you wear prescription glasses too, right? Yeah, so did you get your prescription into your phoenix gray? I did not these these ones are just the blue blocking ones But I have that pair like I have like three pairs, dude Well, I'm probably gonna start wearing them in here too because uh, I mean you can't see this whole thing We're literally inside a box that's for production and there's zero natural light that's coming there's not a window No, it is I feel like we're in a bomb shelter. It's 100 percent super bright You get a feeling after you leave too, right? I've noticed like wearing these like I don't I don't get quite as like I feel like fatigued almost leaving this place. Hey, did you guys get to see the article on?   Hey, not ours. We're we're already set. Oh, we're okay. Yeah, we're good because we you know That's not what it is. It's the next generation. So it's kind of good news for us Counter this, you know by comparison, you know, you're gonna be huge. Yeah, you're now you're now larger than average No, so this is crazy. This is kind of crazy. So there's a book that came out That talks about uh, shana so the author shana swan She's an environmental and reproductive Epidemiologists, so she's obviously a scientist and she's studying what's happening right now with our reproductive health Testosterone levels like all the stuff and now we've known for decades men's testosterone levels have been dropping And our ability to reproduce has been dropping for a while sperm counts have been going down Women's ability to reproduce. So she did this book where she actually goes and studies everything and highlights everything Bro, this is crazy. You ready for this? This is scary stuff now. This is actually quite terrifying So sperm counts, okay in men since 1973 have dropped almost 60 percent So since 1973, which is not that long before we were born Sperm counts are down 60 if we can continue on this trajectory. So it's there's a there's a graph from When we started measuring this to now and you can see the trajectory It doesn't seem to be slowing down If we continue at the same speed Sperm counts will be zero by 2045. Oh, wow, that's alarming 2045 if we stay on this pace No one's making sperm anymore. What which is crazy. Um women ready for this The average 20-something woman today. So a woman in her early 20s today Is less fertile than her grandmother was when she was 35 Now there's a big difference in fertility from women when they're 20 to 35 So that's a big gap there But women today in their 20s are like women were, you know, a couple generations ago in the mid 30s Now, what do they attribute this to chemicals? Oh chemicals is the biggest factor Yes, and here's the problem with some of these chemicals They call them forever chemicals because they don't go away and they just accumulate So the more of these chemicals we put on piss it out It you know it goes in the water the water you can't filter all of it out Okay, so according to this book they do studies on infants and they find infants are just just full of a lot of these chemicals that affect our You know our hormone systems are reproductive systems.  Yeah, that's that's a buy.  That's you're not you're not showing it. They're not sending dms. I don't see anyways If you are you're some some brave you're courageous Actually, that might work. You might actually get some attention. Hey, it's small.  Um, yeah, there's some stuff that suggests that but it's oh really? Is it pretty is it pretty even? I don't think it's even. I don't know. I haven't I haven't dived into that research I haven't come on the last one I saw since the cillians had to be I mean, I don't I don't know if I believe it. That's not true. No, I don't know about I don't know about that but Because that's I would think I would but they're these they do studies on on animals And they expose them to the same these chemicals that we're exposed to And they find there's a dose dependent relationship. So the higher the dose The more you see like this homogenization of the two sexes it makes me feel like In the future. We're gonna look like mannequins. You're seeing a mannequin naked. Oh, yeah It's nothing like a kendo.  It's just pure bunch all the way up and down. Oh, yeah, isn't this kind of crazy though This is what's crazy is what's crazy is that the the rate it's going and when you said that it should go to zero I mean you gotta hope that we see something disrupt that in the next five bro. What are we gonna do? Look at this here's so here's at what point at what point does it become so alarming that it's like mainstream news I know you're reading like one of your nerdy articles. No, this is making mainstream news. Oh, it is. Yeah, so so they're saying so Fallet exposure is widespread in infants and that the chemicals were found in the urine of babies who came in contact with baby shampoos lotions and powders So so they're in right away as babies that women in their breast milk. They're finding it. It's really great. Look at this Here's here's this is this is true from the same from the book In the united states today, for example, you can't eat the deer meat Caught in a scota michigan Okay, so deer you hunt deer there They won't let you eat the meat because the health the health department there issued a do not eat advisory for deer caught Near the former airbase because of the staggeringly high P f os levels and the muscles of deer there So they deer there because they're near the air bay their air force base or whatever They're so high in chemicals. You hunt them. They say don't eat them They're too high in these particular chemicals. What? Yeah, dude.  So what's the what's the alien theory? So if you read if you read the accounts of people who've been abducted by aliens Okay, how they describe these gray aliens. Yes these first of all the gray aliens have no genitalia They seem to be very homogenous. You can't really tell if they're male or female But a lot of the experiments that these people report Revolve around doing something with the reproductive organs Taking sperm taking eggs creating hybrid alien humans like this is widespread stories from people who are abducted So the theory is that aliens are future humans who've come back in time trying to figure out how to fix the reproductive Problem because we're love this theory at a point where we can't reproduce because we've we've we've killed our sperm in our eggs I know I like that one. Yeah, I like that one that one seems realistic Adams like I now believe in aliens This makes a lot of sense that well I mean we've been drawing them the same for a really long time and they do look like that What that they look like they don't have a sex, right? What if they did? Yeah, they show up like when you have your bottle of jargons and they're like no, don't use the lotion. It has chemicals Oh my gosh. I just thought of that Holy cow and they have massive heads and brains, right? So that we get smarter and smarter, right? So I figure we figure out time travel by that. Well, and so in this article they're talking about how You know, it seems like kids are growing up and are less and less interested in sex Also as a result. Yeah, there's a lot of cultural factors to that too But I mean, yeah the the chemical thing if that's the biggest issue Well, you think about that with Shampooes lotions with soap with deodorant with like all these things you're inundating your skin with constantly and just like You know, all these like xeno estrogens. I guess that all adds up man It does. That's why you know, you want to use glass containers How much of this though is like a correlation thing was like oh the rise of xeno estrogens and then we also Is this so we correlate that no, it's cause the evidence is is becoming pretty clear really Yeah, the evidence. So here's a deal. It's not an evolutionary thing. There's no Okay, you're talking about four or five decades where we went from, you know men averaging, you know, I don't know eight or 900 You know testosterone to five or 600 to sperm counts dropping 60 percent in a very short period of time That's not how evolution works. It doesn't happen in two or three generations without serious pressures coming on On the species but and so it's these chemicals and they test these chemicals on animals and they can reliably They can reliably Change the sex of an animal or or fundamentally change it in in the womb by exposing them to chemicals So based on the same chemical so based off the this alien theory because I like this theory Yeah, that they're and the rate that we're going based off what you said because it's 2000 and would you say 45? Okay, that's our lifetime. Okay, we're gonna see that shit, right? We're gonna be around that's what i'm saying So it based off of that that's when infertile then that's what you say, right? So based off saying if it goes on the same trajectory, right? There's no more sperm So it would make sense that these UFO sightings and everything is really going to escalate in the next 10 years or so because they would I would imagine future us if we're aliens Is going to come back to the the pivotal moment when it really happened shit went down Yeah, so which would make this this the last 20 years to the next 20 years, right is the window Wow, so we should see that here's what i'm thinking here's what i'm thinking so 2045 How old are we going to be we're going to be in our 60s, right? So we'll be in our 60s And there's no more sperm.   Are you going to go to the bank bank and just can we can we can grand? Can we start banking that right now and freezing it? How long can why wouldn't we do that right now? What if what if we don't realize everybody if this is like early bitcoin white white gold Yeah, right you throw it away and whatever not a big deal. This is brilliant actually could be worth millions of dollars This is brilliant. Yeah, we should save it. We saved it now. It could be good frozen, right? We could set our future generations of children up with retirement Wow, I know wow literally called to spank that after we're done with this. We're gonna have a meeting maybe That's a good idea. Maybe and hey, you're gonna do it anyway might as well save it Got some good DNA brilliant Oh Hey before we get into the questions, we are going to be talking about squatting quite a bit in this upcoming segment of the podcast I want you to know we have a free guide on how to get a better squat. You can find it at mind pump free Dot com. It's great information. Go check it out. All right. Enjoy the rest of the podcast First question is for from pb for the soul What are the best exercises to build mass in the quads? Yes quads. We love building them quads The one you're not doing. Yeah. Well, that's always a good answer I whatever you used to oftentimes changing it up will get your body to Respond like it's a like you did the first time you start working Well, this reminds me of just the recent debate that we had on the show about the whole hip thrust and squat thing And you know this back and forth of which one's technically better And you know, I would make the argument that if somebody squats all the time Introducing hip thrust would be the best thing for the but if someone always hip thrust and never squats I would say go do squats and I bet you that will give you the greatest results Now generally speaking though, right generally speaking if you're comparing all the lower body exercises I really don't think there's anything that can compare to a back squat or a front squat In terms of quad development. Now, I'll tell you just for myself Personally and for my clients, but I'll speak for myself first You know, I my my legs my upper legs respond quite quite well to exercise So one body part I have That I feel like is you know, a little bit genetically gifted The rest of my body got to work really hard to get to respond. My legs just seem to grow And I've gone through stints of not barbell squatting But still doing lots of other exercises still doing lunges still doing You know leg presses and sissy squats and you know Hack squats and everything out and keeping the volume high and then I'll go back to doing Squats and nothing my quads just explode. They're just nothing my quads don't respond to anything Like barbell squats. Now for my clients. It was very same thing Barbell squats and comparison anything else They nobody saw results like they did with the squats. They just didn't absolutely no I could make the case for um, Bulgarian split squats I I not but here's the thing though is I had already been squatting for a long time When I introduced Bulgarian split squats So you could argue my argument that I was just making see I like hearing your your um, Your experience because you had said for a long time your legs were a hard body part Yes develop and and so I like to hear what worked for you. Yeah. Well, I mean for sure. Uh, well a couple things actually Getting to a deep full range of motion a squat was a big difference too So just squatting was great I mean that was obviously built some of the the foundation of my legs getting starting to do that Because before that I was the leg extension leg press kid avoided squats like to play Um, then I started squatting consistently notice my legs really start to develop Then I got into like Bulgarian split squats Really saw my legs blow up Then I got into a place where I was working on my mobility and my deep squats And I've never had to do less work to keep my legs the size they are when I deep full range of motion squats Develop my legs more than anything that I've done by themselves. And again, this is you know, my experience I still think though that if worse who I'm talking to really matters if I'm talking to somebody Who's like a fresh clean slate? You don't really train at all. Um, I would I'm with you Sal I would make the case that you know squatting is probably The the quickest best way that we can develop your cool.  Yeah, I mean, I even feel I told you guys that when I started squatting really deep I saw my calves come up, of course That blew my mind away, especially at the bottom Yeah Because I was I was starting to get into really deep heavy squats and I started to notice that I was getting some calf development from it and hamstring development from it So I don't think anything is a bigger bang for your buck than just getting it affects the entire leg Yeah, I can totally echo that I think You know in terms of like what specifically blew my quads up even more was when We would actually elevate our heels and we did front squats But we still kept it like it was all about keeping that heavy load So if you started to work on it as a skill of front squats, you know Challenging for a lot of people because they just don't do it, you know And so that was something that you have to kind of work your way into then Being able to add a substantial amount of load like you could in a back loaded squat for it to have those types of gains and results But the majority of clients in general like it was not hard to build their quads In fact, they were more likely to be quad dominant than they were You know to to to have more development in their glutes or hamstrings, right now There there's camps and we have friends that are in these camps that hack squat Is the best way to develop your quads in terms of machines just in general That that that would get behind trying to isolate it that way Yeah, because because a hack squat mimics a squat a normal squat more than the leg press. That's for sure Oh, yeah, if you like press is a very short range of motion even if you do a deep leg press It's a short range of motion in comparison Yeah, and because of the lack of ankle mobility in most people most people can't Actually squat deep full range of motion and so they can in a hack squat And so that's where I can get behind like I know our good buddy Coach Eugene Tao like he's he definitely touts this a lot That the hack squat is better for leg development for most people And where I can get behind that argument is that case is that most people can't do an astagrass Barbell back squat and so if that same person who can't you can't break 90 degrees on their their barbell back squat Could go to a hack squat and get all the way down because of the way your feet are positioned relative to where your back and hips are And it doesn't take very you don't have to have any ankle mobility really to do a hack squat No, your feet are in front of you Yeah all the way down to the floor for that reason it's it's a basically a squat with full range of motion So I would argue it's it's superior right now Now for me there was actually a period of time where I was having a lot of fun developing my legs And I wanted to compare Training styles and I went through a period where I did my this was my workout it consisted of leg press hack squat leg extension leg curls And then I compared that to a period of time where I would just go and do 10 or 12 sets of just squats The squats one I did the same thing. They built my legs more. I did the same thing. I did the same thing with deadlifts I've talked about this about deadlifting from my back And not doing all the other, you know, you know top exercises that people say and nothing did compare to that That's why I think we're I think we're so adamant about pushing people in that direction that Squatting and deadlifting are just a big five. They are it's consider them always. Yeah, it's just they're All things equal right mobility's fine, you know level of training all that But and this is why these sometimes these questions are hard to answer because it is nuanced if you have a client who Limits ankle or they have a very poor ankle mobility Then you can make the case that some other exercise might be or if you have a client Who has actually got great form but it's been they've been squatting for years And they've never done a Bulgarian split squat or they never do a hack squat Yeah, or I mean if you've never done some of these movements then right away as a coach and a trainer I'm gonna and they're saying to me Adam I want to keep developing my quads and I squat three times a week and I've been doing that for the last four years And they go how long of when was the last time you hack squatted or when's the last time you did a Bulgarian split squat And they go oh, I never do that I'm gonna go well those exercises are gonna build your quads more than anything else Yeah And I want to add one more thing all things being equal and I love heavy lifting everybody knows that right If I if I I have a tendency to go five reps or lower when I'm working out just have a lot of fun doing it But I'll tell you when I do sets of 12 or 15 reps in the squat and I'm consistent Blows my legs up the muscles just just explode. I get a lot of hypertrophy from that relatively high rep range Well, this is the stan effort in camp, which I love that he he talks about the 20s You know and to me that's just because the novelty of it because most people even if you are a regular squatter Very few people like to squat 12 15 reps I don't know very many people that are you need I need personally a couple hours of nothing after most people that are Most people drawn to squatting and that are good squatters They like to squat because they like to increase the weight and get stronger and stronger and stronger And that doesn't play very well into 15 20s But for for gains for for hypertrophy for building your legs Building your quads if you've never done 20s If you've never gone in front squatted 20 or done a backs barbell backswap for 20 Have fun with that.  What's the quickest way to recover from soreness? Oh god, you know what I've tried everything In the past as a kid especially to because I thought that soreness. There's so many products for this, too I'll tell you what there is nothing that compares to movement There is nothing that compares to movement to get the soreness to go away faster and And into speed up recovery. So you could try, you know cold Therapy and an ice bath. You could try massage. You could try sauna You can try all that stuff or you could stretch and do very light Resistance exercise, you know trigger sessions and maps anabolic That's part of where they come from was I noticed that when I was sore no matter where I was sore Let's say it was my chest and I go do Some very light intensity push-ups throughout the day Not only did the soreness go away, but my recovery would be a lot faster. I'd be stronger the next time I work out Yeah, I know it's the same things but not I love rubber bands for that to do like these like real light pumping type exercise You literally view it as like I'm pumping blood throughout where I feel like sore and Like immobile like you start to regain You know a bit of mobility and range of motion like almost immediately And so you just kind of carry that and lightly go through these movements. Yeah when your muscles contract They literally squeeze blood out and then when they relax they allow blood in and so the process of Contracting and relaxing, which is what these reps are is literally Flooding your body your your muscles With nutrients with recovery agents with all the things that your body wants to send there anyway to recover Now I used to when I was younger. I thought the fastest way to recover was to not move I thought okay if I work out and I'm really sore what I need to do is kick my legs up on the couch Let my body heal like don't move don't cause any more damage Let it heal the truth is that's the worst possible thing you could do In fact you if you want if you want to be an experiment if you want to experiment on yourself Go do Overreach in a workout go hammer your legs super hard beyond what you normally would and then for the rest of the week Lay in bed and then go back to your workout and you'll be weaker You'll actually lose muscle and strength from doing that. Um, so movement movement crushes everything It depends on how much You know money we have or the access you have to what what tools, right? So I mean I per because I have access to a lot of cool stuff I mean I have like a formula for this for myself. I'm really trying to maximize my training and recovery Uh, I mean I would I would obviously train after our training hard Uh, I'm in the infrared sauna. I'm I'm uh hydrated. So I'm drinking a lot of water. I'm well fed While I'm in the infrared sauna or right afterwards. I'm doing a good like stretching session So like mobility or like really good deep stretch or you know, if I'm lazy I've got Katrina doing like a deep tissue massage on me and then the next day I'm doing bouts of uh mobility or trigger type sessions to facilitate recovery That formula for me wet well fed hydrated infrared sauna stretching and mobility moving work getting blood flow and fluid moving around I think we'll speed up recovery more than any supplement out on the market, right? There's all kinds of cool things out there for you know people touting bcaa's and uh turmeric and all those things great They have benefits sure you could take that too in addition to it But those things I just said Stretching after a hard hard workout infrared sauna hydration Being well fed and then not laying around the next day and moving those muscles and getting them Getting them we're not training them hard again getting them moving and getting blood pumping in like a trigger session That to me that's the best formula. Well, I do find value if it's there It's like a swollen type of an issue too like of getting elevation like doing some L Doa's where I'm up against the wall my legs are up And I'm actually like you're still active though in those in those poses and stretches and squeezing the muscles but You're allowing gravitational forces to kind of you know, bring that fluid back in and you know, express it out Next question is from m becker 11. How do I know when to stop a reverse diet? I am four months in and have gained muscle and improved my metabolism. How long do I keep going? Well, um, you you stop the reverse diet when you're feeling very healthy Your libido is feeling good. You're getting good sleep So hormones feel like they're back in balance And you've reached a calorie amount that you now feel like you can reverse out of or you can cut from right? So typically for clients it was When they would tell me all those things I feel good everything feels great and then they come to me and say I'm eating a lot. I feel like I I'm eating. I feel like I can't eat anymore And then I'll tell okay now we're at a good place Well, we could start to cut from because then we'll end up will be a good place to start I like that answer because this is very individualized right like it's not a time thing It's not oh once you hit five months You're at where you're supposed to reverse diet Reverse dieting can take a very long time for some people it could be relatively quick for other people if they have a very Responsive metabolism to things like this also matters where their calorie intake was before where it's at now The generic answer that I is the where you just went sow I always like to if we are gaining muscle We like the way we're looking. We're not putting on a lot of body fat I'm increasing calories whether it be week over week or month over month I'm going to keep doing that until my client comes to me goes like adam. This is too much food I mean this is I just it's a lot to eat place to be Yeah, it's a great That's a great place to be to now reverse and go the opposite direction and start cutting What I don't want to do if let's say this person's getting great results, but they're still only eating let's say 1500 calories or something and they're like i'm still kind of hungry keep reversing If you're still hungry keep feeding the body keep building muscle keep going in that direction Until you get to a place where you're like this is a lot of food And it's almost hard to get and that's that's how this is how I treated all my competitors That's why I would never take on a client Who who would want to sign up with me and say adam? I have a show in november And get me ready for a show because I wanted to do this with them before we cut for a show I wanted to build their metabolism up to where they looked at me and said i'm eating so much food I can't eat anymore adam. I don't want to do this. Okay. Now. We're ready to prep for a show Now let's start talking about restricting and cutting and getting ready I think everybody should go through that phase for sure if you're thinking about competing and if you're this person Just a normal person.  You got to maintain that that so not sustainable No, you want to get it up With good lean body mass feeling good that way when you cut where you end up is a is a great place An easier place to maintain Next question is from saraya gram. I want to add running to my weightlifting routine I was thinking of running a mile or 10 minutes prior to lifting My goal is to keep and improve on gains, but also weave in some endurance training Or is it better to run after weights or run on my days off help after after weights or days off Yeah, I well it depends. Okay, so we're splitting hairs a bit because you're not running a ton You're running a mile, but here's that's a good point. Here's the deal What's more important to you the endurance or the strength if endurance is more important than you run before You work out if strength is more important than you run after you work out The best answer is on the days off in my opinion On the days off when you're not lifting then you don't have these kind of competing signals But if it's on the same day studies will show Whatever you do first you tend to improve the most Um in your workout by the way, this is true for exercises too So whatever your exercises you do at the beginning of your workout tend to be the ones you get the most Improvement in and the ones at the end of the workout you tend to get the least improvement But again, we are splitting hairs here. You're only running one mile. So it's not gonna make a huge difference either way I feel like we address this all the time and I and I feel like too because You know, everybody is is so inactive and sedentary in general I think like even like having a pursuit to Jog run do whatever like to to acquire more steps throughout your day Something everybody should consider even if you're sitting all the time just to gain more activity in general I mean, there's a lot of other ways to accomplish that and which I tend to prefer like the neat method where we're just like focusing on Just being up and being active and and you know being more productive and and using that time Uh, you know, you know to accomplish things within your house or work or whatever Versus just like running on a treadmill like a hamster But you know, if this is something that you really enjoy to do You know, I see no problem in it in incorporating that. But yeah, I would definitely put at the end of Your workouts if the priority right now is strength. I love this right after a workout, especially a mile Less than 10 minutes.  Yeah, that's a that's cruising and and if you do it every single day You will build some endurance. You'll get good at it relatively quick So and I like that this is This is actually the place that I kind of go back to like if I haven't ran in a while This has been actually on my mind because I haven't in a while Is I like to just make sure I can run a mile And then my logic behind that is I'll probably never have to in my life run longer than a mile You know say this for the most I'll ever have to so I want to be pretty good at it I want to be able to if I got to go take off with my son or do something where I got to run for a straight Eight minutes or so. I'm pretty efficient at it. I don't have any desire to run five 10 15 beyond that and so I want to catch a burglar and because it's such a because it's yeah, exactly right if a guy steals from you He's not getting very far. He's not getting longer than a mile. You know what I'm saying? So to me if you're only running that short of a duration It's not that conflicting of a signal to build muscle at the same time. You're talking about a very short window It's not I mean it's almost a warm-up Honestly, it is if you're if you're in endurance is decent, you know if I ran a mile before it wouldn't be a warm-up It'd be a hard workout But if if someone else did any of your endurance is okay It's kind of so I'm glad you brought that up because this is what I would do during when I was competing Um, I would actually run a mile before I started working out and it was like a warm-up It was like I'm just going to do that and because my priority now is to cut and to lean out I'm like, oh, I'm going to go into the workout lifting heavy. Yeah, I'm not lifting I'm not training really heavy. I'm all my gains were done in the off season now It's time to shred peel down So I just want to burn and so I'm gonna I'm gonna burn as many calories before going into the workout Then I'm really gonna burn when I'm getting into my workout and then sometimes I'd even walk for 10 or 15 minutes afterwards So yeah, that's sort of a duration I think you could do every single day and be totally fine and make great gains Excellent. Look if you like mind pump if you like our podcast, you got to go check out mind pump free.com We have a lot of guides and written information That we created for listeners and viewers Just like you you can also find all of us on social media It's instagram is where we're found so you can find justin at mind pump justin me at mind pump sal and adam at mind pump adam I do have this train that at some point Modern medicine when they recommend you go exercise They say we want you to go do resistance strength, which by the way can be performed with your body Can be performed with bands. Of course, you can use weights or machines. By the way in the book I put workouts in there as well actually put programs in there


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Welcome to the first plenary of the conference. I'm Judy Chang, Executive Director of the International Network of People Who Use Drugs, otherwise known as INPUD. I'm very honored to be invited to chair this panel, comprised of community and harm reduction advocates who've been working for many years to progress changes in drug policy reform, scaling up life-saving services for people who use drugs and for decriminalization. We all know that working for change is a hard and long path. In the midst of this, we're also facing a new set of challenges, shrinking civil society space, decreased resources, horrific political repression, played out most notably in the Philippines. And these are forcing us to work to defend and protect the gains we had thought we could take for granted. In this climate, we need political action and global priorities for action. We need researchers to create an evidence base. We need drug user and allied advocates and activists to translate that research into action and also to define priorities and track any needed changes in priorities. Global priorities should be grounded in local realities and lived experience. And in this sense, people who use drugs need to be placed front and center in the response. So to kick off the next three days, we have a fantastic group of advocates and activists, researchers, and harm reductionists. First off, we have Katie Stone. Katie is a research analyst at Harm Reduction International and is the author of the last two editions of the Global State of Harm Reduction. And she'll be presenting a global overview of the harm reduction response from the latest 2016 edition. Hello, everyone. Thanks for the opportunity to speak at this conference. I'm gonna be going through some of the main findings of the Global State of Harm Reduction 2016. And before I do, I'm gonna give you a very brief intro to the report. So the Global State is a biennial publication and the only independent civil society-led monitor of the response to drug-related epidemics. Since 2008, Harm Reduction International's Global State has become a key publication for researchers, policymakers, civil society organizations, and advocates mapping harm reduction policy adoption and program implementation globally. The publication on which the data I'll be presenting is based, integrates updated information on needle and syringe programs and opioid substitution therapy based in the community and in prisons. It also gives information on anti-retroviral therapy for people who inject drugs, regional overdose responses, policy developments, civil society developments, and information relating to funding for harm reduction. Over the last five editions of the Global State of Harm Reduction Report, the evidence of the failures of the so-called war on drugs is today further magnified. The Global State 2016 highlights the effects of this failed campaign in every corner of the globe and illustrates the continuing lack of an appropriate harm reduction response. Needle and syringe programs, opioid substitution therapy, and overdose prevention and reversal, to name but a few, are evidence-based, cost-effective, and continue to be vital. Although the harm reduction response is well established and recommended as a key pillar of the HIV response by the World Health Organization, it is an approach that sadly necessitates a continuous struggle. In a changing political climate, there is no room for complacency. In a recent report, UNAID stated that an estimated 11.7 million people who are in direct drugs worldwide. Yet our latest figures show that no new countries have established needle and syringe programs since 2014. This figure has remained stagnant at 90. It is the first year since the inception of the report when no increase has been reported. Although 17 countries have increased their NSP site provision, 20 have witnessed a decrease. Making these figures even more worrying is the increase in injecting of amphetamine-type stimulants, which has been a factor linked to HIV outbreaks in some countries. The frequency of injecting of ATS, amphetamine-type stimulants, is much more regular than for opioids, highlighting the need for urgent attention and a global scale-up of this service. Slightly better news stems from opioid substitution therapy provision and the initiation of drug consumption rooms. OST has been initiated in three new countries, Kenya, Senegal and Monaco. However, in both Senegal and Monaco, this is limited to just one site. Drug consumption rooms, also known as safer injecting facilities, now operate in 10 countries around the world. All but two of these are found in Western Europe. The others are in Canada, with two opening very shortly in Montreal and Australia. When the global state was launched in 2016, there were in fact nine, hence the infographic, but since then a new DCR opened up in Paris. It's a good sign that our information on this is already out of date. There's also hope for DCRs to finally open up in the UK, with one in Scotland and hopefully one in Dublin. With overdose and AIDS-related mortality continuing to be the leading cause of death for people who use drugs, DCRs have been shown to reduce morbidity amongst this population. Naloxone, a highly effective opioid antagonist, forms another line of defense against overdose. This is available, by the way, from Jill in the well-being room on floor four, floor three and a half, floor four. Although more countries now implement the peer distribution of Naloxone than ever before, on a global scale, this response continues to remain extremely limited. Evidence by the figures behind me, with a 327% increase in drug-related deaths linked to heroin and morphine in Canada since 2008, and a 137% increase in the US over the last decade and a half. Where these figures should be going down, regretfully, we are witnessing them increase. With harm reduction stagnating in the community, things look particularly inadequate in prisons. Currently, only eight countries implement a needle and syringe program in at least one prison. These are Armenia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Moldova, Spain, Switzerland, and Tajikistan, while only 52 provide opioid substitution therapy. This is despite the fact that up to 90% of people who inject drugs will be incarcerated at some point. Although there has been some momentum around decriminalization in the last years, mass incarceration continues to be the favored approach to drug control. Globally, one in every five prisoners is held on drug-related charges, the vast majority for personal use or possession. Nowhere are the human consequences of these figures more striking than in the United States. Human Rights Watch recently revealed that 1.25 million arrests for drug possession were made in the US alone. That's one every 25 seconds. Prisoners are also disproportionately vulnerable to drug-related overdose, both during their sentence and in the immediate post-release period. In Puerto Rico, for example, almost half of the prison population have witnessed an overdose in prison, with one third knowing someone who have died of an overdose whilst incarcerated. HIV and hepatitis C prevalence are also substantially higher in these settings. The provision of harm reduction both inside and outside of prison is a legally binding human rights obligation. The facts can no longer be ignored and they are begging us to direct our attention and funding away from the so-called war on drugs and into a harm reduction approach that protects health, well-being, and dignity of all human beings. Globally, an estimated 100 billion US dollars are spent on drug control every year with little impact on drug consumption. At the same time, funding for harm reduction is shrinking and services to reduce drug-related harms are failing to keep up with the growing need and emerging trends such as ATS injecting. A UN target to halve HIV among people who inject drugs by 2015 was not only missed, but HIV is actually increased by a third between 2011 and 2015. The sustainable development goals now pledge to end AIDS by 2030, but there is no way we'll ever achieve this goal in the current climate given the lack of leadership and funding for harm reduction for people who inject drugs. Funding for harm reduction remains critically low in many parts of the world, with donor contributions dropping 7% between 2014 and 2015. It takes political courage to look at these figures and bridge the widening gap of an increasingly unnerving politics of exclusion, which sees the most stigmatized and discriminated groups left behind in terms of their public health and human rights needs. In light of this, HRI launched a campaign in 2015 called 10x20, urging governments to take 10% out of their punitive drug control budget and divert it into vital harm reduction services by 2020. Analysis has shown that if this is done, new HIV infections among people who inject drugs would be virtually eliminated by 2030. Lastly, I'd just like to say thank you to all the people who contribute to this report, many of whom are in this room. I've given a small snapshot of the main findings, but the report contains a load of information and it's available from our booth upstairs. Thank you.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let's discuss the following question.  To solve this question we should know the theory of combination which says that our objects from n objects can be selected in our ways. We should also know the fundamental principle of counting which says that event A occurs in m ways, m different ways and event B occurs in different ways then event A and B occur in m into n ways. So this knowledge will work as key idea. Let us now move on to the solution.   This is by the theory of combination. Again the number of ways to select blue balls, blue balls is equal to 5C3. Now the total number of ways to select blue balls is equal to 5C3 into 5C3. Again this is equal to 6C3 is given by 6 factorial upon 3 factorial into 3 factorial. 5C3 is given by 5 factorial upon 3 factorial into 2 factorial, 5 factorial upon 3 factorial into 2 factorial. Again solving this, 6 factorial can be written as 6 into 5 into 4 into 3 factorial upon 3 factorial 3 factorial can be written as 3 into 2 into 1 into 3 factorial into 5 factorial can be written as 5 into 4 into 3 factorial upon 3 factorial into 2 factorial 5 into 4 into 3 factorial upon 3 factorial into 2 factorial. Now 3 factorial gets cancelled with 3 factorial, 2, 2's are 4 and it is equal to 5 into 4 into 2 into 5 into 2 into 5. That is it is equal to 1000.  And this is the required answer and this completes the question. Bye for now. Take care. Have a good day.


The state can only develop when the people imbibe the culture of citing their businesses in the state. This is the position of some youth leaders who are campaigning for industrialization of the state for economic development and sustainability. A cross-pondent on Bias's state, Jesse Esser reports. Bias is one of the 90-delta states blessed with crude oil and natural gas. Many years down the line, the dependency of the state on federal allocation is now a source of worry. This has moved some youth leaders to the streets in a campaign tagged Think Bias or Fest in the last one month. They want Biasans who are the financial means to stop citing their businesses aside the state. We need to call our people to relocate and let us build this state together. No one can do it alone. Not even the elderly can do it alone. So, sanitizing, co-operating, working together in a source of progressing mindsets, not limited by thinking, not limited by party affiliations, will be the answer to this campaign. Government cannot do everything alone. If you had today been blessed, what is wrong if I do a road to my streets to enable me at a settlement? Those who are in the industrial sector, bring your industry to this town and ensure that whatever you do, I line your closets in the political space, in the social space, in the religious space, in the educational space, and you like our space. And in government, you should put the interest of Bias first. They also advise young people against acts that are alien to development. If the environment is not conducive, it is not friendly for investors. Investors will not come. So, for young people who are on the street, for young people who believe that kidnap is a means of livelihood, for young people who believe that cultism and petitive is a way back. You should also have a rethink and think by Bias first and show the energy to more meaningful ventures. To make this 10-year vision feasible, the group is taking the campaign to the nooks and crannies of the state, talking to those who might have to join the train. Yes, yes, for plus TV Africa. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Welcome folks, we at the Dow Industrial finished down 279, Nasdaq was off 328, S&P is off 54, that's a downdraft folks of 2.2% and the Nasdaq 1.3% in the S&P and 8.10 to 100% in the Dow Industrial. Bottom line gave everything back that we got higher yesterday. Gold, gold contract down $6.30 trading at 19.21oz, we had Silver off 22 cents, $24.37 an ounce, light sweet crude off $3, $100.15 a barrel, notes and bonds, they just got slammed once again, you had the 10-year down a full point plus 7 ticks at 1.2027, the 30-year off a full 2 points plus 13 ticks at 146.14 and right now the 10-year folks we got to a new all-time high, I mean not new all-time high but you know for the last 5 years, we're 2.54 right now on the 10-year, that's it and the way the note and bond market is going folks, okay if we bring up this note, the 10-year note right off the bat, what you're going to see, let's bring it up because we're very close to doing an ABC structure on the way down, we needed, I think we needed 1.7 million contracts and we got 1.6, you didn't hold price so you broke the B point, let's go look at this again, 1.7, yeah, so check it out, we broke the B point with 1.6 million shares, it was 1.7 to need, the B point was 1.2030 or 1.2027, might take, we're going south and we're going south right now, again, okay, this is going to be a very fast acceleration inside of the credit markets folks, I mean in a monster way, that's how this thing's been shaped now, we're going to take a look at the SMPs, what you also have out here is this, you're going to go after the B point tomorrow, that B point out here, bottom line inside the spy is 449-14, what I expect we'll do, the way this set up folks, you can expect we're going to jump this little creek, that's a little, you know, it's really, I suspect we're going to jump it, that means that you can have the futures open down tomorrow, you can open down 10 or 20 and guess what, that's going to be the beginning of going after this high volume swing low, now what has happened is this, we did a 0.618 retracement of the whole move down, so that says that on the next light down, you won't break the low, that's probability wise, that's where that shakes out, which is really cool because guess what, you have a price projection that you can basically get trades around, have a great night folks, have a safe night, come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning, kicks us off 9 o'clock in the morning, great show, and don't forget about our Tigers trading room, great room, it's only a buck for the year folks, check it out the front page of TFN and


You know, one of the most healing things you can do for yourself is to take care of yourself in the way that you feel others should have in the past or should be doing right now. You don't need to wait for anyone to take care of you. You need to start taking care of you.