What's good jobs for us back again with another video. So we're gonna check out the rise of the hardy boys, man the hardy boys They are a gold team in wrestling If you know anything about wrestling if you appreciate Anything about wrestling then the hardy boys are a group that you definitely Should have been you know aware of and and appreciate what they brought to the tag team division, man It was them edge and Christian the Dudley boys. They Revolutionized tag team wrestling team Extreme and everyone loved the hardies that that's just that's just what it was man. They Are staples in the wrestling community always in forever forever future Hall of Famers I mean the list of accolades go on And this is gonna be a dope video to check out a Wrestling premier is the channel that we're checking this out on I've been subscribed to them for a while So definitely go check them out link to the original video will be down below I'm looking forward to this man just to go back down memory lane and and to see the hardy boys They're sentient to greatness man. Let's get into this one The tag team division in the WWF had felt like a huge priority during the Golden Age Several strong legitimate tag teams that excelled the teams that felt like a big deal at times main event It shows the heart foundation the legion of doom the rockers But as time went on the division lacked interest. This wasn't just a tag team problem. The WWF suffered in all areas It's just the division felt more obvious and glaring with the new generation and full swing the tag teams They just didn't hit the same they're definitely memorable No doubt about it But because the previous teams in the golden era or top 10 it makes things look worse than they were However, the future of the tag team division It was right under their noses at the time emerging from Cameron, North Carolina was Matt and Jeff Hart The two brothers had grown up as lifelong wrestling fans and their passion was wrestling It got to the point where both brothers trained themselves and even created their own wrestling promotion Which was later known as Omega the promotion went by other names initially instead of wrestling and a regular wrestling ring The brothers were having matches on trampolines and simply came down a passion and Matt Hardy himself Elaborate further in an interview and I quote when we would watch TV We fell in love with wrestling whether it was NWA or WWF We begged our dad for a year to buy us a trampoline and when he got us a trampoline for Christmas We started putting together some moves I was always the macho man Randy Savage and Jeff would be stink We would emulate our favorites We then decided to turn the trampoline into a ring by cutting down some trees to use as ring posts And we tied some rope around them for the ring ropes We then saved up for a video camera to film what we were doing We just love doing everything about the wrestling business and we worked hard to follow our dreams And here we are in 2014 still wrestling for TNA on global TV The brothers had gimmicks Matt was high voltage Jeff wills Wolverine who was based on stink Shannon Moore and Gregory Helms joined in and this thing was slowly expanding in interest Connections were made and they started wrestling in public Matt Hardy had done a lot of hard work as a promoter and before he knew it He met the Italian stallion and from out of nowhere They started working as jobbers on TV and this was right after WrestleMania 10 It seems like a mind-trip to see the Hardys in the early parts of the new generation era But with that said the stallion had started taking money from the brothers He's like, oh I give you guys this opportunity, you gotta give me some They make 300, 400, they're left with 150 Because it was giving them the rest of the show Some time later they grew tired of him and he bailed on them once And instead of waiting or calling on them They drove themselves and told the WWF that if they want their services They should call them instead of the stallion Matt did have some praise from him due to him instilling some knowledge of the business Into the Hardys but in general it was a small chapter in their careers Jeff debuted as well in Live Dubai at his age At the time he was 16, however, this worked to his benefit For one, Scott Hall took him under his wing and Hardy had more than positive words for And I quote Then moving forward, Scott Hall was so kind because he thought I looked like Vanilla Ice And he clicks very hard at calling me Ice And I'll never forget one time he told Pat Patterson I was like 16 or 17, too Let's get this kid on the road, get him seasoned I'm not even legal yet There's something very special to what he saw He saw my future through whatever it was and he believed in us every step of the way And that's rare man Matt and Jeff continued wrestling as an entertainment tale And it won't be featured in King of the Ring 1995 opening the doors for the wrestlers They were slowly brought in and trained under Dory Funk One advantage both men had at this point compared to others is that they had experience Back then it was likely a wrestler would have to pay their dues and go through a bunch of things Before becoming an official member of the roster These guys had been wrestling for years so when they officially signed in 1998 All was good Now Matt and Jeff were actually pitched to join DXer on this time Wow You'll see moments if you look back in 1998 when we're in tights And there's several times we probably do it for like four or five weeks straight When we come to the ring we go up in the corners and Jeff and I are doing this And we do the DX we're gonna pledge for DX And then eventually kind of like ended up being like their lackeys to a degree and pledge with them And then they were going to kind of see where it went And then maybe we could legitimately like be a part of the DX when it's all said and done That that was an idea that Vince Russo had they didn't want to try And DX eventually we did it for like four or five weeks and they said okay enough of that We're not going to do this These guys aren't quite ready let them do whatever And then it just like stopped immediately and was never revisited They continued as jobbers with their roles more prominent I would have been interested in them being a part of DX I don't know if they would have gotten a spotlight Old to me I mean yeah they would have gotten a spotlight being a part of that group But I don't know if it would have benefited them much It's crazy how certain things happen in wrestling for a reason And sometimes you may think at that moment it's not a good You know it's not the best of reasons or It's disappointing but ultimately it may be something better for you in the long run so The brothers featured on he more often but they were mostly losing Their opportunity to make something of themselves came after WrestleMania 15 As Michael Hayes was paired with them They had grown up bond with Freebird previously And Jeff Hardy said that there were pitches from Vince Russo for the team to grow beards And look more in tune with Michael Hayes According to Jeff Hayes wanted them to wear some old school outfits But they ended up taking them to hot topic And that's where the iconic Hardy Boys look was created Why would he wear it too? I don't know he was probably undergoing some sort of midlife crisis Michael Hayes at the time had started a feud with the brood who called him out by his actual name Instead of Doc Hendricks And because of this he grew disdain over being disrespected by these young guys On the May 16th 1999 episode of Heat The brood were victims of a bloodbath by Hayes and the Hardy Boys This led to a series of matches which definitely stand out in the era of attitude Because it was fast paced high risk high reward type stuff They brought something entirely fresh to the division no doubt about it It also helped that these two teams were young Back then if you hit some centon bomb the whole crowd would be looking on an amazement Surely afterwards the two teams faced off for the chance to challenge the acolytes of the tag team titles After the champions interfered and ruined everything the match was pushed to king of the ring Once again fast paced action that leaves you wanting more for the Hardy Boys It was a victory The acolytes heading into this title defense were destroyed by Kane the previous line And when told by the doctor to stay in the back they assaulted him The hardies went through well the acolytes were 100% But as they usually did they were kicking ass They came down to a stick shot in timing for the hardies to win the tag team championships This left them absolutely speechless but before they could finish GTV interrupted Well this was a great moment for the Hardy Boys They had worked over five years to get to this point Four and a half of those years were as jobbers They had to work from the bottom all the way up The acolytes were extremely frustrated with the title loss and were desperate to rebound The rematch of fully loaded involved Michael Hayes And it ended the way you expected to with the acolytes victorious They destroyed him and by the looks of it you'd be thinking he was a rookie lost in the locker room The hardies decided to turn on him later on enjoying Gengar El to form the new brood Why? I don't know they fit the vibe though for sure But in storyline it was kind of dumb These guys stitched Michael Hayes for somebody that had less titles Than taught on him or the Orlando magic That's basically what it comes down to Whenever something is called new and wrestling it straight up fails Because it's tied into the old thing which is way way way way way better That said the new brood from a look standpoint were flat out amazing Take away that entrance they still look awesome With the wet hair the red and black shirts the whole thing I like the new brood look wise As a faction they're not that memorable Literally just the Hardy Boys and Gengar El Yeah that's it And the hallways were funny here As for the hardies they had some issues with Edge and Christian and likewise Their chemistry together led to the creation of the Terry Invitation Terry Ronald's managerial services were supposed to be the reward for the winning team And of course $100,000 Once you shorten the Terry Invitation alternative You get ticked It was the best of five series This side traded victories And it all came down to the final match and oh mercy This was gonna be the decider And to say it was a perfect start for the two teams Would be a massive understatement Their multiple years of wrestling had come down to this match Now what makes this match so good is that it was unexpected Not to the guys They knew this was a huge opportunity to make something out of themselves The WWF didn't do ladder matches often If I remember correctly This was the first ever tag team ladder match They changed the way the ladder match was viewed Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon at WrestleMania 10 was absolutely iconic However this match could blow it out of the water In general the world evolves Everything builds upon something Here they changed everything The ladder match was innovated to greater heights And it gets to a point where nobody could really top them Because since then who can we truly say actually Innovated the ladder match to even greater heights We can't really say that The hardies and edgy makes a very fair point What the hardies and edgy and christian were able to do With some ladders It I guess you could say it literally shaped what ladder matches are today Damn they're in every company I'm pretty sure if you ask a wrestling fan What's their favorite ladder match of all time I'm sure the hardies are going to be involved In one of their greatest ladder matches of all time It's just when you think of hardies, team extreme You think of ladders You think of chairs You think of tables You know the whole TLC trifecta And christian you ask somebody their top five ladder matches Three of them are most likely going to evolve somebody from this match The spots were grueling and absolutely show still You understood that these guys wanted to be in the headline And these spots were almost mind blowing in 1999 You have to look at it from that time period's perspective Because the audience wasn't used to action this fast and sudden It was definitely high risk But at the same time it was high reward For the hardies they were victorious that night But in reality all four of these men were winning They received an incredible standing ovation from that crowded man This is Loki one of the most important matches in WWE history The ladder match was reimagined and nobody can make a bigger impact With a ladder like edgin christian and the hardies did There are now stars in the tag team division Now what's odd about this match is that This is why making the most noise on the show Being the standout the four men initially made $5,000 They weren't too happy about it Especially after the road dogs said they should be making at least $30,000 from it And so Jarr doubled the original bonus and so in total they all made $40,000 But despite this there was more value to come out of this match for the four men The next night on rather winners came out and told Michael Cole that they're not the new brood They're the hardies Edgin christian interrupted and the men were quite hostile But edgin christian assured them that they weren't here for that Edge mentioned how they gave them a standing ovation And the fans followed up again Their appearance here was simply out of respect and they shook him I remember the segment that that was that was a monumental moment And he comes out there and we showed out last night man Ah man bro It's crazy The only one that's not in AEW is edge Everyone else in this in this image right here is in AEW except edge And gang rovo was for other reasons He won congratulations for scoring Edges like screw this guy Goes for this big ass punch and they jumped him He saw that and jeff faced him Highly deserved I didn't beat the crap out of you Standing ovation from the fans Now it was only good from here on Upon the ladder match Man hardy had made a pitch to the creative team that he wanted affection Alongside his brother and edgin christian He saw the standing ovation they received and felt that they could grow together But WWF though saw things differently He felt that a feud with DX that had reformed at the time would have been nice But it was the right call Edgin christian as rivals elevated the tag team division Now man jeff didn't really do much Being as a stable I'm sure it would have worked But them being as opponents as rivals Like you said Elevated the tag team division because Yeah, they could have went against DX and the new young guys going against The the veteran uh, you know veteran Season wrestlers has been there for a little bit, you know But I do think them not teaming up Made the division so much better because now Anytime they have a match they're you know, they're trying to steal the show You know and I I appreciate that that's the right call That's one of them situations. They made the right call because we got what we got Years in years later, you know, so throughout the rest of the year Once 2000 came around though, this turned out to be an excellent year for the harris They kicked off the year in a feud with the dudlies Well, actually bubba and divan Initiated this feud as bubba had an appetite for tables He sent the door to a table on the side to the tag team tables match at the royal rumble The match was incredible, especially for something that felt like it was under 10 minutes It was jam-packed to the max It was the perfect representation of man Jeff Hardy going through hell just for an advantage in a match And that image of hardy going for that swat time is absolutely iconic They won the match went on till destroying themselves The dudlies were irritated with how the match went But wanted to show respect to the duo And told them that if they win the titles tonight, they get the first shot This turned out to be a lie and divan and bubba laid them out Terry got involved in since bubba loved tables She went through one Edge and christian wanted to avenge the duo on smackdown And they won the match But it didn't matter in the end And this chaos only caused the dudlies to run into hiding And get the help of the acolytes Now the acolytes at the time were opening up a protection agency They're always getting one over the babyfaces And even earned a title shot for no way out Terry was concerned over getting involved in some action again And so she enlisted the help of the APA This was during the number one contenders match Involving the hardies and edging christian E and C were tough opposition of course But the difference maker was actually Terry Who shoved Jeff Hardy off the top row She slapped Matt and christian hit the unprettier Nobody knew what was up and then the acolytes destroyed them Hardy and Matt got revenge And who died They fully focused on the tag team titles Damn edge has been like this since 2000 The hardy boys made it to the final two in a tag team battle royale However the dudlies ruined everything and destroyed the opposition This meant both teams were inserted into the tag team match at WrestleMania Tensions built between edging christian and the hardies during an interview Edging christian grew annoyed with how Matt and Jeff were Trying to make everything about themselves Matt implied that edge and christian had more opportunities Because they looked like baby faces Edge claimed that they made the hardies famous in their set of matches And this led to the teams costing each other matches So now edge and christian were heels WrestleMania though was another notch in the tag team's belt The inclusion of the dudlies was welcoming Because they brought the element of tables with them Edge and christian had the chair and the hardies of course had the ladder They took that formula they created and went all out again Zero regard for their own bodies They may have been hurt that day But nobody's gonna forget this match any time soon What the performance they had They should be called Shawn Michaels because they stole the show again There were so many iconic moments to come from this match And for sure this was one of the best matches of 2000 Edge and christian emerged victorious this time around And moved on to other things As for the hardies They dabbled in the hardcore division and Matt even won the title Ultimately though the title was Crash Halleys The hardy boys were always near the tag team titles But they weren't making much noise However an additional element to the group A lot for the team to fly to greater heights On the May 25th 2000 episode of Smackdown Matt Hardy faced S.A. Rios Lita had some problems with Rios who was not valuing the relationship And Matt accidentally struck her during the match After the match Rios dropped her with a power bomb in Moonsoul And the hardies saw enough and gave him a bean They carried Lita to the back and this was the beginning of Team Xtreme Lita officially joined the duo a couple of weeks later And quickly started off a feud with Trish Stratus This also meant that the hardies were feuding with TNA The woman's feud was more hated than the men They had so much hatred for each other in such a short time And a six person tag team match at fully loaded was intense Lita made her mark She was getting involved a lot more than Trish Who was interested in picking up the pieces And she showed passion and resiliency to score the victory But right afterwards the heels attacked They left the hardies laying and Trish ended up whooping the hell out of Lita It didn't take long for it to pay back the favor But this feud would be put on hold for the time being As for Matt and Jeff it was back to feud with It's crazy to think that we may end up getting another Well we're most likely going to get another like Feud with Trish and Lita going forward I'm sure Lita will come back to assist Becky Lynch Going against Zoe Starks and Trish Stratus So it's crazy to say in 2023 Trish and Lita are going to be going at it again at some point later on this year You know it may not be in a solos match or one on one But just the fact that they're going to be in a ring together In some like tag team capacity That's crazy In 2023 we're still going to see these ladies out there That's insane The Dudley's and Edgyn Christian That's how it all matched the next side of the row was absolutely chaotic Everyone barring Edgyn Christian looked strong They had to steal it from out of nowhere And Edgyn Christian were basically looking good You know they're coming out of these matches unscathed They were cheating They were stealing these wins But regardless they were always escaping with the titles Even if it meant they got disqualified Here they hit a concerto on Jeff Hardy Since these guys were leaving their marking going unscathed The Dudley's and the Hardy's returned the favor using ladders and tables As a result of this Edgyn Christian laid out Matt Hardy And went on strike and protest of Mick Foley's decisions towards them He made fun of them but said that they have a point Then he lowered their expectations by telling them that SummerSlam is going to be Edgyn Christian against the Hardy's Against the Dudley's and the TLC match This was going to be the first TLC match that's kind Edgyn Christian had made it a mission to retain their titles under any circumstances Even if they got themselves disqualified Now Dudley's the Hardy's Everyone was tired of it And this matches a way of making them pay for their sins Now it doesn't need to be said But this match was tremendous And the TLC element makes it better than the last two ladder matches TLC was somewhat a part of WrestleMania 2000 But not entirely like here Jeff Hardy as expected was done You know what he was doing He did it to himself during this match And in general this was out of this world Every second something crazy would happen Matt getting tipped over Edgyn spewing some love into Lita That would take five years to kick in And these guys were hanging onto the belt This was some action the fans hadn't seen before And there's always a question of how can they top the previous matches But they do it They find a way to do just that And in addition their tag matches are good Their regular matches are good But then you have this additional weapon in your arsenal It's like a cheat code for them Similar to last time Edge and Christian's hands Were on the belts when it came down to it Iconic The boundaries these men were pushing Were absolutely incredible These matches will leave you speechless Because of how stand out they were And a time where fans really weren't used to action Like this Team Xtreme was quick to rebound With the help of Edge who accidentally gave the hardys The title shot after Blasting met with the belt The champions were fuming But they quickly made a joke out of the hardys By introducing their future selves via time machine They even made fun of Lita Mick Foley put a stop to this And revealed that Edge and Christian Will defend the titles in a steel gauge match He then brought out the present day hardys Who beat the champions out of the ring This taught them a lesson Not to do these types of things in the ring And this led to one of the funniest Edge and Christian segments They sat in front of a projector And made fun of the hardys' old wrestling clips Edge couldn't believe Mets promo skills deteriorated Since then Jeff had zero charisma on their eyes And knowing that they were coming The champions ambushed them And in the process lead a bumper head into the wall This segment was beat It was funny That's funny they used actual footage Edge and Christian were hilarious Hardys were looking on to disappoint Man, they were said They weren't even there Man, they were almost said And I highly recommend you watch this segment if you have As expected, the steel gauge match was pretty good The hardys were isolated And the champions took advantage Lacking Jeff out of the ring Man, they had so many good fusion matches, bro Man Just taking me back Jeff had to ironically use a ladder To climb to the top and enter And he hit the most Jeff Hardy move ever A whisper in the wind from the top of the cage Lead on the outside connected with a head scissors And on the top of the cage Edge got a taste of his own medicine With a concherto And that was enough for the victory Hardys were new champions And again, these teams show their level of depth They could wrestle normal matches They could wrestle ladder matches They could wrestle steel cage matches And this is another good match It was fresh Next night on Run The first episode on TNN Mick fully wanted a historic match So he made Edge and Christian's rematch a ladder match This was only 24 hours after that grueling steel cage match Insane Now I don't need to tell you how good this was Edge and Christian in a ladder match Against the hardys That says it all They're still finding creative spots Even though they had like four of these matches before And it's hard to say whether these guys Were actually injured from the cage match Or they were selling these injuries well But regardless, they had the heart to put on Another match of the night The hardys went through it here Especially Matt Hardy who had to put on A gutsy performance to score the victory Even Lito was banged up by the end of it What this also meant was that Edge and Christian couldn't challenge for the titles So they were desperate to cost Matt and Jeff To get themselves a match This led to Los Conquistadors returning And they assaulted the hardys And nearly cost them the titles on two occasions At the same time They got themselves a title shot for no mercy Edge and Christian wished them luck And went asked about their strategy for the match They responded saying Si senor And of course arriva The Conquistadors showed shades of Edge and Christian The champions realized what's up But they had additional masks under And Matt took an unprettier Which meant they lost the titles The accusations were starting to be made And Edge and Christian tried offering a rebuttal With physical evidence They asked for a title shot and when they received it They were more worried about choosing Which sunglasses they should wear to the ring Christian got ambushed by the Dudleys And Edge, despite this, felt confident That he could take on the Conquistadors alone They didn't follow up on the promise And it turned out to be the hardys Mick Foley then revealed that the cameraman earlier on Left the camera and the details of their plans Were exposed Then he got their hopes up saying their title victory counted Only to drag them down Saying it's one of the shortest title reigns of all time So now Matt and Jeff Hardy The Hardy boys and the new champions The hardys had seemed to have steered them That's such a convoluted way To give them the championship right back with Test Edge and Christian But they once again got on their business During a title match with the right to censor Stevie Richards took advantage of this drama And helped these guys capture the tag team titles Lita and Ivory had issues with the title as well The hardys had issues with RTC over titles And this made its way to Survivor Series Lita was all bloody during this title match She didn't capture that gold And RTC won the elimination match But then the Dudleys returned after the match And dropped the heels The real feud though was with the radicals These two sides had so much hatred for one another After Lita's hem was bumped into a door That was aggressively opened by Chris Benoit Deep down within though, Dean Malinko had an entirely different feeling for Lita Benoit told him that she's just another broad But Malinko didn't see it that way And to his own detriment Because Lita wasn't interested He was too naive and believed he had a chant And even offered Lita a title shot If he wins, she has to go on a date with him though Lita put up a fight But when Malinko wanted to wrap it up He did it with ease The day itself was initially rough But Lita let her guard down And she admitted that she couldn't resist Malinko Mr. Rockefeller as he called himself Was met with the Hardy boys at the hotel And they obliterated him It wasn't all bad for Malinko though Because he rebonded at Armageddon and rocked Lita Even then he upgraded his perv stats And almost had his career ended as if the Hardys caught him staring at Lita in the shower Even then he was still interested in her It was a weird dynamic where he beat her up And showed affection at the same time This reached a boiling point with Lita once again challenging Malinko This time with the help of Matt Hardy She emerged victorious At the top of it all off they kissed after the match And so now it was revealed that Matt and Lita were officially in a relationship As always the Hardys couldn't remain away from the Dudleys and Edging Christian On the March 5th 2001 episode of Raw the Dual captured the tag team titles with the help of Christian This title run didn't even make it to WrestleMania Because ENC recaptured the gold after Rydo made his debut And Gord, Chef Hardy, leading to the title change The Dudleys were supposed to receive the title shot But after their flight was delayed It was given to those two Upon their arrival they demanded their match and received it Despite Dudley's debut during the match And it led to the Hardys winning the titles So it was hot potato heading into WrestleMania WrestleMania 17 in Houston was the apex The peak of what was known as the golden era And my favorite WrestleMania of all time Y'all know this This match alone damn near almost stole the show Just fantastic Of this tag team division The work these three teams put in was for this match And moment TLC2 is no doubt about the greatest TLC match in WWE history I've watched this match countless times And it has never failed to entertain me It's hard to follow up on the previous ladder matches But they did just that on three different occasions How? I don't know But a minor aspect about this match Comes down to each team playing an excellent role in the match The Dudleys you expected were here Hardys, they were here Edge and Christian were here Not to mention the additional interferences It was extremely different to what had been seen in the previous matches Different kind of athleticism Different spots, everything It was nothing short of iconic and like the WWF in general At the time It wasn't going to get any better in the tag team division Especially after putting on a match like that On the biggest stage in wrestling It's not overrated in the slightest It's influential And a huge highlight In all six of their careers And it helped them achieve legend status In the tag team division Edge and Christian emerged victorious by the skin of their teeth With the help of Ryno Who turned out to be the difference maker But in many ways This marked the end of Edge and Christian And the Hardys' feud They did have one more match later on TLC3 But the feud wasn't as intense as it once was As for Matt and Jeff They finally met with the top of the WWF As Vince booked the Hardys In a six-person tag team match against Stone Cold Triple H And Stephanie McMahon This came after Lito was caught talking to Linda That main event was heat Lito won the match for the Hardys And after the match Austin and Triple H began beating up on her Like she was the number one contender to that title It was very violent They were so desperate to establish this new Stone Cold character As a cold-hearted heel Like we all know Austin's a cold-hearted face Previously But he was very, very different here And Jeff Hardys took advantage of his longest promo to blast Both him and the game of the skill chair And dropped Stephanie with a twist of fate Triple H was so fired up over this That he demanded a match Even if it was for the title He received this request and dominated Hardys was without his brother And Lito who were away Sometimes he would find some momentum And Triple H would bend the rules To take advantage Turns out Matt was there He interfered and blasted Triple H with that chair Before Jeff hit the swanton to win that title One of the greatest upsets in WWF history Especially the moment When you look at the crowd They dotted the result But it happened And Jeff Hardy was champion He even sent in an interview with that Triple H Oh man bro this is It's just crazy Where they started As just jobbers to Becoming tag team champs To having these legendary TLC Matches and tag team matches to Now being in some main event Profile situations with the top guys in the company Crazy Everything just started And then it just snowballed into something bigger man Place told him that he hopes to Make a lot of money with him in the future He saw the potential in Jeff Hardy No wonder it's clear why Team extreme in general around this time period Were so damn cool because of their look What they did and what they represented The fans gravitated towards that You knew that these guys were for real As for the title victory Hardy didn't hold the title for long As Triple H reclaimed the gold on raw They once again tried to assault Lita But this time around The brothers of destruction Looking like the final bosses Came on to save Lita This fizzled out and meanwhile Matt Hardy became the European champion He beat Eddie Guerrero for the gold And this led to a storyline of trust You see Eddie was desperate to gain the Hardy's his trust They weren't eager to let their guard down Especially for him And Eddie even went as far as to turn on the radicals At one point he risked himself for Lita's safety And this storyline ended up being dropped As Eddie Guerrero went to rehab Now my personal prediction is that He probably would have tried to drive a wedge Between Lita and the Hardy's Something a bit similar to Malinko Around the same time period The three teams that elevated the ladder match To greater heights Were gonna do it one more time This time it was TLC3 on SmackDown Chris Menwant, Chris Jericho Though were the additional team Vince wanted to put those men through hell After they captured the gold from the two man power trip And this match once again is a prime example Of the sacrifices that these wrestlers Were willing to make Some of the spots around here were rough And I'm sure it didn't feel good for Edge To get locked in the walls or for Christian To get tipped over without adjusting himself And again creative spots Which almost leave you amazed And have you wondering like how? I was about to say it was a quiet match For the Hardy's but then they did this Jericho and Menwant emerged victorious But suffered the most during the match And that was it for the Edge and Christian In Hardy Boy's arc As for Man, Jeff Jeff won the light heavyweight Championship holding the gold for three weeks He ended up winning the hardcore title And having a great feud with Rob Van Dam Who was a part of the Alliance Their matches were absolutely amazing And the styles matched well And I always have fun watching their matches They're just so damn good Great matches The Hardy Boy's time as a successful team Was slowly winding down But they weren't gonna go out bad They won the WCW tag team championships Holding them for three weeks Before the Dudley's claimed the gold They then won the WWF tag team championships To set up a clash against the Dudley Boy's As survivor series inside a steel cage Winner takeoff It was a pretty good match But it had long term effects on the Hardy Boy's For one it was the tag team in a nutshell Blowing a good thing They were champions They had that match when they had Jeff felt the need to go for the dive again And this cost them the match And it was the beginning of the end of the Hardy Boy's Jeff proceeded to make the same mistake Against Christian for the European title And Matt told them that he's stupid Jeff felt that he was controlling and the team was falling apart Tensions were building between the two brothers Even in victory And this led to a one on one match for vengeance At one point an argument between the two Let to them shoving Lita And Matt complained about her not taking his side So he asked her to be the referee To prove she doesn't choose sides They both cheated during that match And then all came down to a controversial finish With Lita not noticing Matt's foot on the rope This meant more drama He had been bitter throughout this whole entire thing And it increased tenfold He challenged Jeff and Lita to a handicap match And told her that like the Hardy Boy's They're breaking up Matt was going all out He rolled up Lita for the win here But this storyline would transition back To a Hardy Boy's reunion Not personally get why they would start a breakup story But there was a little bit left for the team at this point They got to take her through both Jeff and Lita off the stage Which enraged Matt Hardy And this caused the Hardy to reunite To combat the Undertaker They brought them closer together to get their asses kicked The Hardy boys were rejuvenated in the division But when you look back in hindsight It's clear they weren't the same Not because of them particularly You know they were popular They're popular They're having the same matches You know they weren't bad But because WWF didn't seem to focus as hard on them As they used to Brock Lesnar debuted and absolutely dominated the two men And now learning our lesson They decided to provoke the Undertaker Who wasn't all about that Let's start to an incredible ladder match For the undisputed championship And Jeff Hardy despite the chances of him getting his ass beaten Were 99% Made everyone believe The fans are all in jars This was one of the best matches On Monday Night Raw, bro They made Jeff was already a star But this was the thing that really was Pushing people especially this match This performance how it went The call another match by JR This really pushed it to that next level For him like he could be WWE Champion one day Like this was great This was fan This was star making He was already a star This was main event star making power right here This comment here was excellent He's like make yourself famous kid And Jeff Hardy's gutsy performance Despite falling short Earned the respect of the Undertaker Who despite dropping him every time Would ask for more This momentum that Hardy had from this match Led to him becoming the European champion Hardy was the last European champion The title was unified with the hardcore championship A couple of weeks later Jeff fell short to RVD Which is the story of his career basically Matt Hardy meanwhile wasn't around As he was resting on heat And Lita suffered a neck injury And left her sideline for over a year On the August 5th 2002 episode of Raw The Hardy's return to action It looked like the duel was gonna feud with the un-Americans But that wasn't the case With SummerSyme on the horizon Eric Bischoff wanted Rob Van Dam to face Chris Benoit For the Intercontinental Championship Matt and Jeff were standing in front And Matt in particular had a problem with this Bischoff claimed to not know his name But ended up giving the Hardy's a title shot It was only gonna be one of them though And it was gonna be decided by a coin toss Not even He just put the coin on his hand And decided it was heads And Jeff gets the shot Matt ended up turning on him And costing him the match And later that week He signed with SmackDown Matt didn't wanna live in the shadow of his brother And he was like you know what I'm outta here And he immediately became Matt Hardy version 1 Alright that's the Hardy's story Damn They really had a great run TLC 1, 2, 3 The popularity from the fans Everything These guys were doing everything They wrestled each other for the hardcore title They wrestled each other on paper view They won the titles on multiple occasions And it was a great run What makes it so good is that The Hardy's brought life to the tag team division It wasn't dead straight up or anything like that But at the time there wasn't many big notable tag teams Other than the New Age Outlaws and the Acolytes Edge and Christian coming along Along with the Dudley's Helped bring more interest to the division They elevated the division to greater heights You saw tag teams fighting it out in ladder and TLC matches You never seen that before It wasn't happening But these guys were doing it And they were doing it at such a high level Which is also a bad thing because Them wrestling these matches These grueling matches They had this expectation atop the last match And in turn it would hurt them And slowly the injuries would pile up To a point where it's like these matches aren't sustainable As good as those matches were They're a bad for the guys in the matches But yeah I love the Hardy's They're one of my hair tag teams of all time What makes them so good is everything You know like there are matches there They had unique offense Sentan bombs Diving off ladders The whole tables thing The look Lead up being the missing piece of the group Everything about them was perfect And they ended at the right time You know like obviously they couldn't have gone Till 2003 as the Hardy boys Like they're gonna get cheered a bit here and there But it was best to end it at that point Because both men needed to go their separate ways With that time being Because I think in the day they're brothers They're obviously not gonna deviate away from each other And they were bound to reunite But at that time it was best for them to split Especially for Matt Hardy You know Matt Hardy had to forge his own path Because at the time he was falling down a bit He was wrestling on heat And this gave him the opportunity to go to Smackdown To become Matt Hardy version one So yeah All right what'd you guys think of the Hardy boys? Hey man This was a great video I'm gonna go ahead and give this a like Y'all go ahead and give it a like If you haven't already seen it This was fantastic The Hardy boys Like I said at the beginning of this video is One of the most influential tag teams of all time Some of your favorite tag teams have been inspired By the Hardy boys By team extreme And they showed you why they They should have been taken seriously They love the business They put their bodies on the line To entertain us in a time where There was a lot of There was a lot of top tier talent And tag team wrestling like he said Wasn't what it used to be And for them to bring that excitement To the tag team division And really damn near sometimes Like steal the show from You know potential like top guys Like we're talking about the stone coals The rocks The the the triple H's You know we're talking about the undertakers The Canes and their prime The Kurt Angles and the steel Have people like Give you standing ovations When your match come up Or have people you know Like finally remembering your match On some of these high profile cards It's truly impressive Like I said Future Hall of Famers What else is there to say about this The Hardys The goats man So coming down below Let me know what's your favorite Favorite Hardy boys match Like whatever match it was in They were in TLC one two or three Whatever what's your favorite Hardy boys match man That they were involved in Let me know down below But I appreciate all of the support Guys showing on channel road 250k I'm still getting speedy to reach the rest of the world Appreciate y'all can't give me see y'all next one Peace


Welcome to the knuckleheads of liberty the the high cost of projecting weakness in both a President and a military and you know for libertarians, you know We like to think of military is mostly for defense So whether or not we should be over there is is you know a question altogether, but The fact that we are over there and we're projecting such weakness not a good thing and That's And and of course You know in fact, let me let me start bringing up some of the images now if we could get some of those too So, you know, so this is what's going on over there God see an end reporting on it for us and that's a this is fiery, but mostly peaceful invasion but On a more serious note though, you know, how did we get here in this projection of weakness? You know, we had a president who literally just Gosh, what was it a two or three weeks ago where he was giving a press conference and he literally said Well, if it's a minor incursion, maybe we won't do anything about And to which the Ukrainian president immediately was telling the world no, no, there are no minor Incursions So yeah, so I mean, you know, did this give the green light, you know, who knows, but you know, it's just projecting weakness. Yes and and you know Also, too, you know with the military and I Sorry, I didn't have a image here But we had talked about this before on the show Tucker Carlson did a piece a while back where he was sort of making fun of some of the things the military was doing with all their wokeness and you know the idea that I was sort of maternity suits for fighter pilots and such it just seemed like kind of a It's it's almost like it's the focus even in the right place and we're advertising that to the world as well so You know, anyways, you guys have any thoughts on this this projection of weakness and My thoughts about uh flight suits for pregnant female fighter pilots um I think you know instead of having the flight suit made. Why don't you just uh, you know, they can do other things They don't have to be flying the chat when they're pregnant. I mean It's okay. I mean, uh, I don't know. I I guess it remains to be seen how well they perform in a chat which pulls a lot of cheese by the way and Uh, the the f16 well can pull up to nine cheese You know, so, um being pregnant. I can't imagine how taxing that would be on on the Pilate of the the pilot the female pilot so So, uh, I don't know but I mean that's female. Is there a difference tim? I I thought there were no males and females You only have good you only have good in people these days. Yes Birthing pilots Good lord Yeah Yeah, I mean Where's the uh genderness in pilot right or even fighter pilot? Yeah, I don't know. Anyway I wouldn't be designing a Flight suit to allow for a big tummy. Well Maybe you might want to allow for a big tummy But not too many fighter pilots are in that bad of shape You have to be in really good shape to be able to even do it. I mean, it's it's it's hard on the body Really hard and then imagine if you're pregnant. You got the flight suit that allows for your excess Roundness in the belly section. What happens if you have to eject? I mean That that ensures or it can't kill. I mean, it's it's it's no fun It's no picnic to be to eject from a fighter jet. Okay, so, um Uh, you know, what happens then? I don't know. I don't know what's going on, but see It for for tuck the military Come on. You're gonna give Tucker Carlson a bad time about having an opinion. I know he did serve in the military I didn't either. Okay, doesn't mean I don't have an opinion about it doesn't mean I can't voice you You know, uh, you know, if I'm all wet, tell me why, you know, if there's something I'm missing here Uh, what is it easy to eject from a fighter jet? And also if I'm criticizing, you know a fighter, um, Suit fighter pilot suit Um, you know If you're in the military, so you're some grunt in the army, you know that that carried an m16 in vietnam And you can criticize it, but I can't seriously How many fighter pilots are there in the whole world? That's the tiniest of the tiny already the pilot population is In contestants be small And compared to the rest of the population. So you're you're gonna say I can't I don't have a Uh, or this other guy this whatever his name is on fox news He can't have an opinion. No, he can have an opinion too.  Let's talk about it. What do you say we are? Should we talk? Well, well, you see, um Wokeness is coming to the military That's what's happening. Wokeness is coming to the military Now I have no problem With women being fighter pilots or women taking part in um, if they If they want to be infantry infantry, I have no problem with it But I don't want different standards for women. I don't okay If if if men have to carry 60 pounds or whatever it is the weight They have to carry over this long distance if if if they have to be in war If a woman has to qualify She have to qualify under the same standard But you see what has happened in the military and this has been going on here for quite a while Is that they have one standard for the men who are fought and won most of the wars that the united states have ever had And then they have developed new standards for women They don't have to run as fast. They don't have to run as long and they don't have to carry as much weight There is a biological reality that everybody wants to ignore in the name of wokeness Oh, women could be just as served just as well as men. No, they cannot I don't want to be in war and some women right next to me having a bad day because of a period It's a biological reality. We can't get away from it So, well I'm gonna say you two may may give us a strike here Your anti-wokeness there go ahead. Let's let's let's let's get that strike. Come on. That's yeah, maybe we can advertise that Yes, that's right, right But we we have to stop we have to stop this is dangerous stuff here. We're talking, okay And and Tim you're right. If a pregnant woman is is is is is flying She's at risk herself and a risk for her unborn child We should not be we should not be Permitting this. I mean everybody's gonna say, oh, it's so horrible. We are the nine equal rights woman No, we are not. It's a biological reality that we have to deal with


The ecological crisis is a big, technical, complicated issue and all too often how this is presented isolates and simplifies and more especially relies on commonly held tropes to convey meaning. What if those tropes are not objectively correct and so as the media feeds back those tropes to the public it increasingly distorts how we react to the ecological crisis. In late 2022 I was asked to review the film The Oil Machine. Let's say I'm viewing it, I was not enamoured of its content. What then dismayed me even more was how, across social media and activist forums, people reacted uncritically to the content of the film, not realising that its underlying narrative was missing form in that discussion and thus misdirecting how we might address the complex nature of ecological change. Philosophy and sociology has a concept called the metanarrative, the idea that society relies on historical, self-justifying narratives in order to provide a framework for how we discuss everyday matters. If jargon is the way experts classify increasingly specialised ideas to both save time and render their discussion exclusive, metanarratives are the way popular debates encompass great political ideas, social beliefs or assumed trends as if they are real, tangible things that affect our lives. Problem is, those metanarratives are often not real. They often assume events or trends with little empirical evidence to validate their existence. For example, the BBC recently carried out a review of its economics journalism. It concluded that the BBC's coverage often risked its need for impartiality. More pointedly, the report concluded, too often it's not clear from a report that fiscal policy decisions are also political choices. They're not inevitable. It's just that governments like to present them that way. In one sense, the all machine does contrast certain social or economic metanarratives as they apply to oil or energy. Where I had problems with the firm was that, in order to make those observations, it used metanarratives from the environmental movement which are equally ill-defined and factually flawed. And so, as in the BBC's impartiality deficit, failed to give an objective view of both the problem and the full range of possible solutions. In Britain, popular environmental narratives are constantly framed within an affluent first world perspective, where any consideration of environmental issues unquestioningly accepts an entitlement to that lifestyle. But what if those narratives are, certainly for the future of the environment, fatally flawed, and are the root of why ecological damage cannot be halted? When I look at the oil machine, I don't see the same thing as the average person. That's because I spent much of the last 30 years researching energy and energy policy, especially as it relates to Britain. The problem I have with the film is that, for want of a better term, it's lazy. These are complicated issues, which, for the average UK consumer, have predictably distressing outcomes when explored in detail. Unfortunately, rather than explain that and create confidence from imparting knowledge, the film falls back upon the tired tropes eco-documentaries used repeatedly for 20 years. I highlight the BBC's view of its economics journalism because I think there's a similar problem of factual impartiality within the media's environmental coverage. This documentary is part funded and presented by BBC Scotland. How the BBC, and the mass media generally, have influenced the public's views on climate change in the past to create the impressions recycled through the film has to be viewed critically, and when we compare what is said in the film against academic research, inconsistencies arise. How the film presents this issue could be seen in the context of the SNP's recent move away from North Sea Oil, promoting Scotland's renewable resources as a more secure, longer lasting alternative. While the BBC in England might have problems presenting this, in the context of the political debate in Scotland, this is not revolutionary. At a more basic journalistic level though, there's a problem with both the accuracy of the statements made in isolation, and when set against the background of all ecological issues. For example, there's a new oil and gas project which is set to be licensed in the cambo field which is in the North Sea. It's one of the biggest North Sea oil fields that's ever been found. So we're here to point out the hypocrisy of approving this new field just after the IEA have said that we cannot approve and we cannot invest in new oil and gas. That is not true. The cambo field has an estimated 600 million barrels of oil in place. In contrast, the fortress field had 4,200 million barrels of oil, seven times more. And within the historic trend of North Sea production, how peak oil influences the size of past and future field discoveries, and what that inevitably means for the present and future production in the North Sea was not explored. I do not expect non-expert members of the public who feature throughout the film to know such details. What I do expect is that when members of the public and especially expert talking heads present contested or partial information that it is explored against the known technical and scientific criteria which influence those issues. If that basic thing does not happen then, as outlined in the view of the BBC's economic journalism, wholly misleading meta-narratives will arise and distort how, as a nation, we decide to deal with these issues in the future. Environmentalism often frames arguments within an idealised morality where blame or culpability is a reason why it's good to take certain actions because who would not want to do the right thing? Yeah, they're going to blame us and we're not even the ones in control here. As the wise lad in the film succinctly puts it, once you admit that you are not in control then that creates a whole new set of problems through environmentalism's moral imperative for action. Not only is it not your fault, but also how can you possibly hope to take action to avert this crisis? It does come into question how much we are like living in democracy. How much our politicians are actually representing us or how much they're representing big business. It's not the demonstrable lack of political power that is the issue here. It's the question of whether we have ever lived in a democracy, and for those who believe we do or once lived in a democracy in Britain, there are five key words which must be considered, the monarch and the house of lords. Environmental campaigns in Britain do not deal with the hard issue of political and economic power. Those aspects of the ecological debate were jettisoned by the movement in 1980s as it sought inclusion within the mainstream political arena. Therein lies the root of the problem. As the philosophers Mark Fisher and Slavoj Dizek say, people are more willing to accept the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Perhaps literally that is an idea far more applicable to environmentalism than any other social movement. Fisher's exploration of capitalist realism accurately frames the way this film contrasts the political and economic reality of North Sea oil and gas extraction with both the ecological impact of that and the response of the environment movement. The rationality presented by both sides in the film contest technical issues, but at no point ever challenges the basis for why these resources are being exploited to maintain the consumer society. And at no point is the perceived entitlement of minority of the world's population to energy and the economic power that confers ever explored. Without an accurate diagnosis of the root of the problem, how can it be solved? And why is it environmentalists cannot see this limitation? This year E.F. Schumacher's book Small is Beautiful turns 50 years old. He makes an astute observation in advance in his case. We might remind ourselves that to calculate the cost of survival is perverse. No doubt a price has to be paid for anything worthwhile. To redirect technology so that it serves man instead of destroying him requires primarily an effort of the imagination and an abandonment of fear. The laws of thermodynamics are absolute. We can physically test them and validate their existence and for that reason we know that we do not have the power to change them. Our knowledge of geology and the occurrence of minerals is certain in that it is not absolute but within a known probability we can show that our knowledge of the earth and its systems is accurate. In contrast concepts such as money or debt only exist in the mind of humans. That said what is made in the mind can as easily be remade, an idea which was explored by David Graber. If there is anything essentially human it is the capacity to imagine things and bring them into being and the alienation occurs when we lose control over the process. Graber's book on social movements considers why failure to be able to change the world around us creates alienation resulting in the kinds of stress and eco-anxiety that the film presents. In fact that same contradiction between knowledge and action is stated at the beginning of the film. It can feel like you're up against something that's so massive that's got the support of governments and people who are so much more powerful than you that it's quite difficult sometimes to know what to do to change that. I think that's basically what eco-anxiety is being constantly worried about whether or not you're going to have a future. The rules of the system which are enforced upon us are defined to favour those with political power because they make the rules. They are not physical laws they are not geophysical limitations they are simply ideas which could be as easily reimagined and as the BBC's review of impartiality stated most often these rules are political choices not based upon objective facts. Why then cannot society simply reimagine these rules? Is it perhaps because they are not routinely tested or validated by popular debate? The environmental movement consistently argues about technologies or policy or targets. Why can it not argue for the dissolution of corporations banning technologies or the elimination of property rights? The fact is since the 1980s leading figures in the environmental movement have appropriated the language in neoliberalism to make arguments for change and not only has this failed to stem the decline in the environment that decline has also become far worse over that time. The film doesn't quantify the timescale for when this ecological damage took place in fact given how it is described in the film the timescale presented is misleading because it assumes the problems began in the late 19th century. Oil was discovered in 1859 at that time there were about 800 whaling vessels in the world and that was how we powered lights in cities whale oil. About 10 years later half of that whaling fleet was worthless because nobody needed the whales anymore it's going to take a lot longer but the rigs of today can be equated to the whaling vessels of 150 years ago. There are three problems with that firstly whales were already in decline in the mid 19th century just as oil is in decline today. In fact well before fossil oil was widely used the use of coal to create town gas was already filling the demand for lighting in new urban settlements. Secondly to say oil was discovered in 1859 presumes oil production began with the Pennsylvania oil rush. In fact from 1850 the world's first commercial oil refinery was operated in Scotland at Bathgate in West Lovion using mined oil shales to manufacture oil paraffin and naphtha. Thirdly fossil fuel exploitation is not a linear process it is an exponential one. In a 270 years from 1750 to 2020 roughly 1,700 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent have been emitted from the use of fossil fuels. It took 220 years to emit the first quarter it took 22 years to emit the second quarter it took 16 years to emit the third quarter and it took 12 years to emit the last quarter. Let's state this really clearly half of all the carbon emissions produced by fossil fuels since 1750 have taken place since 1992 when the world agreed the UN framework Convention on Climate Change in order to reduce carbon emissions. When we talk of blame within eco debates we don't have to look to the world of victorian england or even the early 20th century. Half of this problem has been created in the last 30 or so years by the world as it operates today the system we all know and benefit from right now. With this shard of knowledge about emissions people sometimes jump to the issue of population and yes at some level population plays a part here however when we look at who it is within the human population benefits the most from energy consumption just over half the world's carbon emissions are attributable to around 10 percent of the global population. It is not the mass of the human population it is creating this problem it is a small minority about 800 million of the globally affluent. At some point we have to stop falling back upon lazy arguments about corporate power or a lack of democracy and actually examine what it is the environment movement stands for. Why is it that the environment movement out of all the movements which arose out of the political and social upheavals in the 1950s and 1960s is the only one which has not only failed to make progress but has presided over an absolute regression of the problem it was formed to address and this being the case why does the movement not reassess its fundamental approach and tactics rather than trying to maintain the same tired statist calls for action. But not framing the issue of climate change with an analysis of political and economic power both who wields that power and who benefits the most from it the film not only fails to highlight the scale of damage but also the weight for who created it. Again that is a fact of which points directly at the affluent western lifestyle and thus solutions to this problem cannot be contemplated without directly confronting the excesses of that lifestyle. We see this basic failure to test ideas in the way the film presents renewable energy as an uncontested good an impolarisation fossil fuels is bad. The urgency of the climate crisis is not entirely unlike the threat we would face if we were to be hit by a meteorite and therefore we cannot rely on self-serving capital gains making shareholders in oil companies for that transition. A commentator makes the point that fossil fuel lobbyists are present at climate negotiations often as part of government delegations and that renewable energy interests are far less represented as if progress could be made if that were reversed. Thus far the expansion of renewable energy has not led to a proportionate decrease in emissions there are a number of factors affecting that. Firstly as energy consumption grows renewable energy often just keeps pace with energy growth rather than supplanting fossil fuel use. Secondly the current focus on renewable energy sources necessitates the mass electrification of society the process of which increases the demand for resources creating carbon emissions leading to an energy emissions trap. Thirdly the large expansion of mining necessitated by the adoption of mass renewable technologies has the same impacts of biodiversity loss including the proposed new impact of deep sea mining the creation of neocolonial relationships and the exploitation of civil conflicts all of which the environmental movement has previously blamed the fossil fuel industry for causing. The Green New Deal the plan to transition to 100% renewable energy is not discussed which is a major emission. In the film a person comments on the International Energy Agency's call for ending new fossil fuel developments the IEA have also issued a report highlighting the possible resource restrictions on the renewable transition but this wasn't mentioned. In fact a move to 100% renewable energy is extremely uncertain due to the limits on mineral resource production not only the speed at which those resources can be produced to meet emissions targets but also their ultimate availability. We have to ask what is the root cause here fossil fuel use or generally the supply of energy and resources to maintain our economic model. Both fossil fuels and renewable energy require a large-scale globalized mining effort to sustain them with all the ecological impacts this entails on current evidence while there are differences in the degree or type of impacts there is no structural difference between a mass consumption system using fossil fuels and one using renewable energy. Arguing about the source of energy is a misdirection from the root of this issue energy consumption. The core polarizing assumption in the film that renewables are good and fossil fuels are bad is a distortion of the available evidence there is no objective reason to assume that renewable energy is an incontestable good that it would solve the problem of carbon emissions or that it would cure the ills of neocolonial resource exploitation for which the City of London Finance establishment featured in the film in relation to its support for oil is also a global centre for metal mining interests. Initially the environmental movement focused on changing lifestyles in order to guarantee a future for all species on the planet today that deep ecological focus as was foreseen 40 years ago when the movement began to fracture has been sold off from an eco-modernist perspective which does not challenge business as usual and which amuse all introspection on lifestyle. Instead the focus for change are techno fixes which try and make that mode of living less harmful but which ultimately have no significant impact against the forces driving consumption. The film's perspective is not one which makes change it's a perspective which creates stasis. Practically what environmentalists advocate is not replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. Practically what the advocate is replacing the mining of hydrocarbons to provide energy with the mining of metal resources to provide energy. At no point is that demand for energy or the global equity of energy use ever seriously challenged. Of course this flags the question of what are the alternatives. The Paris Agreement relies on technologies which do not exist or which have a questionable efficacy in order to perpetuate the current global economic model. How is this possible or permissible? Through our landmark North Sea transition deal we are backing the decarbonisation of the oil and gas sector to support high-value jobs and safeguard the schools necessary to develop new low-carbon industries across the country so they're spoke to person. I mean that doesn't really make sense because yeah I mean they're talking about decarbonising the oil and gas sector it's like you can't decarbonise oil and gas. The future development options for the North Sea mentioned in the film do answer this question but it was not explained why this is the case and why it is wrong. The reality is that these technologies not only perpetuate fossil fuel production in the North Sea they also seek to increase it. For example the proposal for hydrogen production on T side assumes that the carbon dioxide is captured and buried in the North Sea. What was not said is that this buried carbon dioxide would likely be used for enhanced oil recovery flushing out more oil and gas from underground rocks. So when as commonly demonstrated in the film the industry talk of net zero operation. In 20 years time I would live in the UK that we're still producing at the same level at the same level of hydrogen carbons that we're producing now but with a net with a net zero footprint. The net of net zero means subtracting the amount of carbon buried from the direct emissions of their operations to produce the net zero part of the statement but this does not include the carbon value of the oil and gas sold or the extra oil and gas flushed out with all that buried carbon. This insistence on business as usual written into the Paris Agreement and then justified for absurd notions such as net zero fossil fuels is a principal obstacle to real change. Unless we tackle these assumptions by proposing a new paradigm for change the outlook will be no different to the past two decades of inaction. There is a growing body of academic research which outlines what we need to do and which sets some broad guidelines for how we must change. Firstly, ending economic growth since within an environmental justice or ecological perspective it cannot be justified. Secondly, a rapid simplification of the most materially advanced lifestyles both relocalizing to closed resource loops and eliminate transport and cutting consumption to reduce demand. And thirdly as an inevitable consequence of these options degrowth, a reduction of perhaps 75 to 90 percent in the most materially affluent lifestyles in order to guarantee a viable chance of life for all species on earth. Why do environmentalists not enact these ideas as a solution to civilisation's imminent extinction? If the business as usual lobby can write fictitious technologies into international agreements thereby guaranteeing failure why can't the environmental movement in an act of self-preservation propose collapse in the excessive consumption of a minority of the world's population in order to ensure that everyone can have a viable future? The answer is quite simply those who lead the environmental movement are members of this minority of consumers trapped like hostages in a system which engenders their winning compliance. Unless we challenge the leaders of the movement demanding they present a truly radical paradigm for change this history of failure will continue this idea was alluded to in the film.  We live in an energy infrastructure that means we have to use oil and gas currently because other alternatives are not being promoted. We are beyond the point of solving this with new technologies this was debatable even if the alert over ecological collapse had been heeded when it was first raised in the 1970s. It was not only the political and economic establishment who rejected those radical calls for change many well-meaning people concerned about the future of the earth also rejected them as too extreme because of what it meant for their own economic status. As I often say we're not in a situation of having problems with possible solutions we're in a predicament with only a few mostly unwelcome outcomes to choose from unless we consciously act from that reality offering up as Schumacher suggests our entire modern lifestyle as a necessary price of change the outcome is inevitable. It is not possible to consider why change has failed to happen or why the ecological situation has become so much worse without considering the structural failures of the environmental movement itself both why the options they currently promote have historically failed to make an impact but also how it came to be that the movement was forced into this literal dead end by passively supporting destruction as usual. I could write far more about the problems with this film the issues glossed over the empty field good statements which have no true substance the history ignored because of its unfavorable implications for how we live our lives today and for all of that the failure of the environmental movement to make change but i think i've said enough to make the points required. The problem is not simply carbon emissions the problem is all forms of human economic activity which across many different environmental media are driving ecological destruction in ways that are as equally serious and or catastrophic for our future as climate change clearly even BBC Scotland isn't about to make that film and the reason is very simply while a highly compromised environment movement panders the excessive consumption of a globally affluent minority the media will not listen to any case which argues for more radical change. It's a painful thing for people to admit that they've been taken for a ride but if you want to address ecological collapse this is what the environmental movement must do. The green agenda adopted 30 years ago backed up by industries and politicians keen to perpetuate business as usual sounded convincing. Today not only does the statistical evidence demonstrate these ideas have failed to make any real impact but also we have sufficient evidence to show that these green ideas cannot work we need a new more radical paradigm which exposes the modern technological lifestyle as an economic suicide cult


So you see you need to be true to yourself. You need to be true to who you are Be authentic See when your heart wants something when you're drawn towards something the best thing for you to do is to go after that To live out your dreams to be true to who you are Excuse me sir. I don't mean to interrupt, but I don't think what you're saying is true Who are you and why are you interrupting my Ted talk? Um, sir, this is not your Ted talk This is my YouTube channel Hey, what's up guys? It's Isaac and welcome back to the daily disciple channel where I help you follow Jesus daily Okay, let's talk about it. You be you be yourself these questions tap into our identity as people What is our identity? Well, we look back at the beginning of Creation God said you are good our identity was good, right? But then we rebelled against God turned away from him went to our own ways In turn we're turning to this flesh that we're fighting against to this day And our identity is no longer categorized by goodness, but actually evil the Bible says we can't do anything good without God in romans it talks about the fact that we've all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God It says our good works are like filthy rags to God So if we're going out and we're proclaiming this message of be yourself be true to you What are we really saying? Are we really saying that they should be true to this sinful nature that they have that this flesh that is Actually rebelling against God this flesh that says well, I want to be selfish because this is what I want her I want to have this because this is what makes me happy Or should we be pointing people to something else because it's a really nice feel good fuzzy message to say Oh, be yourself be true to you But when we actually think about it, who are we without God? That's my question to you guys who who might disagree with me here Who are we without God? Are we this, you know, great person who's just like, you know Doing great things and if we just be true to ourselves and we're gonna be you know Just wonderful to others and just be doing great things and all this kind of thing No, without God we have no goodness within us But you see when God saves us our narrative changes our identity changes You know from before when our identity was just grounded in sin Selfishness that sinful flesh that we talk about and if we're saying be true to that that's not right We shouldn't be saying that but our identity has changed our narrative has changed when God saved us Lots of people talk about authenticity. Hey, it's important to be authentic. But what is Biblical authenticity Biblical authenticity is not just saying be true to yourself be true to whatever you desire in your heart Whether that be selfish or greedy or whatever self-centered. No Biblical authenticity actually says to step into the new identity that God is forming within you step into that New creation step into who he is transforming you to be that's why as christians I don't want us to buy into this be yourself be true to you because it's so stagnant It's so lifeless because we're just saying look, however you are now just be true to that no movement It's kind of this uh postmodern idea that whatever you want to be is okay No, there's a calling on our lives that God has put on our lives He has called us to himself And it's not this idea that we can just deny that be who we want to be No, we got to step into who God has created us to be and who God is transforming us to be I want to make one clarification here sometimes when people say be yourself They're just kind of meaning. Hey, don't really change yourself for other People don't change your personality just to fit in look. I'm on board with that But when we start saying oh be true to who you are just kind of look within yourself and try to figure out what you want That's where I have a problem because the bible says to do something very different God tells us not to look inward at ourselves But actually to look at him and his word and who he is Transforming us to be by the power of his holy spirit But when we start encouraging people to embrace the sinful sides of themselves that sinful flesh Be like, you know do what you want to do whatever makes you feel good I got a problem with that and I think God does too secular authenticity says be true to you what you have in your heart What you want be true to that and that's all you need Biblical authenticity says be true to who God is transforming you into and who God has created you to be When we talk about stepping into biblical authenticity here I think that totally includes look embracing your skills and talents and gifts How you look your personality Embracing all of that being authentic and real not trying to fake to impress others and not trying to fake to impress God in someone You see dead religion is duty Without transformation. It's saying oh well. I have to do this I have to look at what God wants me to do just because that's what i'm supposed to do and that kind of thing And so we're we're being pulled by this flesh, but at the same time we're like, oh well I gotta do this stuff. We're compelled by duty Well, what God is calling us into is a transformation by which our heart has changed Obviously, it's not going to happen right away. And of course we still sin But now we desire to do what God wants us to do So my encouragement to you is this be biblically authentic pursue biblical authenticity Not a secular authenticity where it's like be you be be yourself Just whatever you want that's good when you're looking inward But look outward at who God has made you to be and who he's transforming you to be It's not about saying oh man, I hate myself because I'm just bad and I'm evil and all this kind of thing No, it's saying hey god. Thank you for saving me. Thank you for creating me the way you created me And now I want to be real and authentic to who you're transforming me to be and not fake to impress others or impress you But just to be real Well guys, thanks for watching a huge shout out to my patrons on patreon Thank you so much to all my gospel partners on there your support and partnership in this ministry It means so much It's crazy like it really is if you want to join and partner with me on patreon So I can continue to continue to make these videos and other resources on other platforms head on over to patreon.com Slash daily underscore disciple and you can partner with this ministry on there. Thanks so much for watching guys And i'll see you next time


Hello, everyone, the title of this work is Algebraic Meet in a Middle Attack on Low MC, and Fu Kangliu. This is a joint work with Sato Nusaka, Gao Liwang, Willi Meir, and Takanori Isube. Low MC is a very famous block cipher. It was proposed at Eurocrypt 2015, and is designed to be MPC, FHE, and ZK friendly. A notable feature of Low MC is that its parameters can be chosen in a flexible way, including its affine layers. The key schedule function and the number of S-boxes per round. In this work, we focus on the cryptanalysis of Low MC, and the previous results can be classified into four types, and we focus on the third type, where two children play a test, where two children play a test, and a cypher test pairs can be obtained. The attacks in this setting are related to the security proof of the picnic signature scheme, and we improve the attack in this setting by proposing a new technique called Algebraic Meet in a Middle Attack. To understand our attack, it is necessary to first understand the difference in numeration attack. Its general idea is very simple. First compute the improved and output difference, delta 0 and delta r, according to the plane test pairs and cypher test pairs. Then at step two, pre-compute and store all possible delta i computed from delta 0, and at step three, again we compute delta i, but from delta r, and for each compute delta i, find a match from the pre-computed table. Once a match is found, the trail from delta 0 to delta r is determined, and the key can be computed from the trail. So this is an illustration of the original difference in numeration attack framework. It's a simple Meet in a Middle Attack, so according to the above description, so the memory complexity is very high and exponential, and it is exponential in R1. To reduce the memory complexity, in crypto 2021, Algebraic method was proposed, so different from the previous attack, for a given challenge delta r 0 plus delta r 1, instead of trying to find a match from a huge pre-computed table, the attacker tries to solve a linear equation system to recover the different transitions in the middle R1 rounds. However, the maximum value of R1 is limited in this attack. So there are some problems left. First, how to further reduce the memory complexity of the original difference in numeration attack, and second, how to further extend R1 by using additional memory based on their attacks, based on the techniques proposed at crypto 2021. So motivated by the two problems, we proposed the deeper Meet in a Middle Attack. The idea is very simple, so different from the previous Meet in a Middle Structures, instead of storing many values in a table, we store many linear equations in a table, and for a given challenge, we try to find a linear equation system that can be matched from the challenge, that can be matched with the challenge. So in this way, it's obvious that we can reduce the memory complexity, because some values are computed by solving a linear equation system. So this is our new attack framework, and for the middle R1 rounds, there will be two phases, offline phase and online phase. As the offline phase, we compute some information, and as the online phase, for any given challenge that R0 plus R1, we use the pre-computed information to retrieve the corresponding linear equation system to recover the different transitions in the whole middle R1 rounds. With this technique, the security margins of LoM C are significantly reduced, as can be seen from the last column of this table. Similarly, for the backdoor cipher LoM C and V2, the security margins are also significantly reduced. In summary, we propose new algebraic attacks on LoM C, and the attacks are highly related to the feature of the partial linear layer. At last, we want to mention an interesting problem. Can we further improve the attack? For example, can we extend R2? That's all. Thank you.


Olga Runa versus Daniel Medvedev, fourth quarter final at Indian Wales for 2024. And both players have been super impressive to get to this stage. Runa entered the tournament as the number seven seed, and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Rayonich. But unfortunately Rayonich was injured and couldn't take the court, handing Runa the walkover. In the third round he take on Moussetti in the number 26 seed. And after a close second set, we get through in straights. 6-2, 7-6. Fourth round he take on the number 12 seed Taylor Fritz, who'd won this tournament two years earlier. After going down a set and saving match points, Runa would come back to win 2-6, 7-6, 6-3 to advance to the quarter final. Medvedev entered the tournament as the number four seed, and we get a buy in the first round. In the second round he take on Bayanna. There's no problem with Medvedev getting through in straights. 6-2, 6-3. Third round he take on the number 29 seed, Quarter. We've been a problem for Medvedev in the past. And this was an ugly match, with Medvedev dropping the second, but eventually winning in three. 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. Fourth round he take on the 13 seed Dmitrov, who hadn't dropped a set all week. It was too easy for Medvedev getting through in straights. 6-4, 6-4 to advance to the quarter final. These two guys have only played the two times before, and both of those were last year on the clay courts, with Medvedev winning the Rome final, and lifting his first clay court trophy. So it's going to be interesting to see them both play on a hard court, which of course is Medvedev's specialty. Runa's going to win this one, and he needs to get up to a much better start than he did against Fritz. He looked out of it against Fritz in the second set especially, and then saved the match points, just got out of jail, but Medvedev's not going to let that happen, if Runa does get up to a slow start. If Medvedev's going to win this one, he needs to play better. He's been a little bit lucky the last couple of matches, that he's been a little bit better than his opponents, but he hasn't been playing well since the first round. So he needs to really get off to a good start as well, and play much better, serve big, and get the ground strokes working like they usually do. What a great matchup. So much fun to see these guys play. They played twice last year. First time on a hard court, but I've got to go with Medvedev in this one. I think he just gets Runa in the end. I think Runa might be a little bit sore after that Fritz match, and that was yesterday. So, you know, he is coming off factor-back matches, fresher for Medvedev maybe, but let me know down the comments below. Who do you think is going to win this one?