Because I thought this was a good question. So bear with me, everyone, bum, bum, bum. Okay. So this question actually came in previously. So the question is, Jonathan, I've been told that men are supposed to lead the dating process, but that doesn't feel right to me. What do you say? Jonathan, I've been told that men are the leaders of the dating process. What do you say about that? Great question. So happy you asked that. So what's interesting is that I just had a client call me yesterday. Now, this is a client who went through my private coaching program. It's a six-week boot camp that I literally retrain your whole thinking on the way we date, mate, and relate. And literally, I will tell you, I get clients who call me up after they've gone through my boot camp and say, Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy. And she went through the boot camp six months ago. And when she finished, I said to her, I had this intuition. She would meet a great guy. And it turns out she did, and what she called me yesterday to give me the 411 on what happened. And what was interesting was they met during where they lived is in Europe, and they were in lockdown some months ago. And so they met online, and most of their communication for about two months was online. I mean, basically text messaging and Zoom calls and emails and that sort of things, because they weren't able to meet in person. And when they were finally able to meet in person, they got together in a safe way, from what I understand. And they were able to have a date. And she told me they had a really great time. He was really into her. It felt very safe. It felt very comfortable because they had spent some time building up a little bit of familiarity with each other. So when they met, it felt very comfortable and safe for her. So what was interesting is after the date, he indicated he'd reach out to her, and one day went by, and two days went by, and three days went by, and he didn't reach out to her. And she thought that was kind of suspicious based on all the communication they had and everything. And what she was telling me was all her friends said, no, no, don't reach out to him. Don't reach out to him. Don't reach out to him. Men are supposed to chase. Men are supposed to lead. Men are supposed to do this. All the men are supposed to do things. Well, she actually reached out to him and invited him out for a drink. She sent him a text message, hey, hey, I just want to check in with you. I think this was the fourth or fifth day. And he said, hey, listen, I just wanted to, I had such a great time, I'd like to take you out for a drink. And he said, sure. And so when they got together for a drink, he said, you know, I kind of thought it was a little suspicious that you didn't reach out to me after we had this, what I thought was a good day. And he was very forthright. He said, he was, he said, first off, he apologized. He said, well, two things. He said, he said he wasn't 100% sure she was into him. He wasn't 100% sure she was into him, number one. And number two, he was going through some personal stuff. And so, but, and he was incredibly grateful she reached out to him. She was so grateful. She reached out to him. Not because he's this beta male. It's because he was a little preoccupied and he was a little uncertain if she was into him. By making that effort, kind of going back to what I talked about earlier, making mutual effort in the process, it turns out they had a great second date. The second date a few days later turned into a third date. The third date turned into a fourth date. And now three months later, she's calling me up to give me the 411 on everything. They're in a fantastic relationship. So going back to the original question, her advice from her girlfriends was no, no, no. Men are supposed to chase. Men are supposed to pursue. Men are supposed to lead. Folks, here at Midlife, it's a whole different ball game. You can't apply advice for 20 and 30-year-olds to 40, 50, and 60-year-olds. I think one of the things, and this is going to be me being a little arrogant for a moment, what I think makes me unique is a dating coach is I was married, gone through a divorce, lost all my money in the marketplace. I did drugs and alcohol. I was a train wreck. Then I did personal development work to begin to heal. I found my passion in life being a dating relationship coach. Why I share this is I understand alimony, child support, visitation rights, erectile dysfunction. Women are going through menopause. Elderly parents going through assisted living. And worse, going through the trauma of losing my child. Those again know there's kind of right there. So I've been through hell. And why I share this with you is most people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s go through hell in some way, shape, or form. We call this midlife crisis. And the sad thing is you can't apply advice. This whole masculine energy is supposed to do. And feminine energy just leans back. And you just sit back and let the man pursue. And he'll just gravitate towards you. And he's going to claim you. That doesn't work for the 40s, 50s, and 60 categories. We're riddled with flaws. We're riddled with woundedness. This is why I'm such a big proponent of doing the inner work before you do any dating. This is why I continually recommend the book, The Hoffman Process, which helps you heal childhood wounds and traumas, as well as adult traumas, because it causes our negative patterns and limiting beliefs. And what happens is why this is so hugely important in the dating conversation is because most men and women are good human beings. Most men and women are good human beings. They're just bad at the dating process. And the fact is, as I shared before, we come to the table with full lives. And this whole narrative that men are supposed to chase and they're supposed to claim you, yeah, that might sound good to sell you on a program someone's trying to sell you, but that's not how it works for the 40, 50-year-old catty. Yes, there are controlling men who will chase you. There's no doubt about it. There are beta men that want you to chase them. The high value guy is seeking a partnership. He's seeking that woman is going to say, hey, sweetheart, can I take you out for a drink? He's looking for that woman that says, hey, sweetheart, you were just on my mind. That's why I called you because I know you've been so indoctrinated that men are supposed to do 99% of the work. Men, as we age, they get tired, okay? We want you to make effort. The emotionally mature men, emotionally stunted men. Well, here's the challenge. If you don't know how to figure out how to vet for emotional maturity, then I highly recommend checking out the link below to scheduling a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. My area of expertise is to help you vet for emotional maturity and teach you the right questions to ask. So coming back to this client, one of the things she said to me when we had our conversation yesterday was how grateful she was that I helped her form all the right questions based on her personality to really vet if this is the right guy for her. And you know the funny thing was when she was coaching with me, she was strung out on some previous guy. All she talked about was some guy that broke up with her six months earlier and all she could talk about was him. And she was so afraid to date by taking the courage and making the investment in herself and going through my program, she put herself out there, met what appears to be a great guy and their relationship is blooming.  So coming back to the original question was here's the bottom line. Don't be afraid to make effort. In fact, I encourage you to make effort because at the, and by the way, for the men who are listening to this on the live chat, they're, I guarantee you, they're giving the thumbs up. The quality men who are following my work as well are saying to all of you, yes, ladies, we appreciate women who make effort because that's actually how we respect you even more and we appreciate you more and we're gonna lean in stronger to the relationship. Let me end on this one note. Never make more effort than he. It's a two lane street of effort. It's not doing more. By the way, giving more love doesn't get you more love, okay? Especially if you're with someone who can't give you love. Giving more love is not gonna get you more love. I'm talking about effort is mutual and that's highly sexy. And so if you really want a relationship that's co-created, that has a strong bond, I recommend making mutual effort. Thank you so much for that question. I really appreciate it. All right.


I'm Ryan and I'm Allie. After falling in love, we decided to ride bikes across America, collecting love advice along the way. This is Love Cycles. No flatties, no waddies, no cruddies. So we're just going to cuddle in the rain and hopefully it doesn't hail because the hail will just turn this thing into Swiss cheese and we're going to be sitting out in a field in a lightning storm. Regardless, it's going to be a good bonding experience. Didn't I say earlier tonight, oh look at the sky, it's not going to rain. This is one of those perfect summer evenings. Alright, so I think the storm went around us. Nothing really happened. And we can hear people leaving the shelters, whooping and hollering, going back to drinking. We'll hear a rag brush, sure like waking up early. It's like six in the morning and the whole world is like having a barbecue outside. How you feeling? It's Americano and another hour of sleep. Good morning, thank you! Happy Thursday, happy happy Thursday, happy Thursday, happy happy hey! What do you think Allie? It's beautiful. Check it out, team love cycles in the house. We're nerds and we know it and we own it. The days are really starting to blend together. I don't know what day it is, what time it is, where I'm going. I just know that I'm in Iowa with 20,000 other people and that's all I really need to know. We're in the town of Sigourney. Awesome, tastes good. Happy Longstocking! Every morning here in Iowa is beautiful. The birds sing, everybody's in a good mood, everybody packs up, gets on the bikes. What if life was like this every day?  They look crazy, we don't have these in Colorado and they make a lot of noise at nighttime. But look, she just picked it up. This is like the sloth of the bug world. I call him Ellaroy. Sorry, did I wake you up? Were you sleeping? Nature is neat. Oh, she just snapped her helmet. That means it's time to go. This is day 6 of Raghbriah, it is Friday. I'm starting to feel a little sad that we're going to be leaving Raghbriah soon. It's been so fun! It's hard to believe that it could ever end. I know, this is the way life should be. Life should be like Raghbriah every day. People, bikes, pie, generosity and costumes. People ask me a lot if I get bored or tired of riding my bike every day all day. The answer is no. I love it. What about you, Allie? No more questions until I've had my coffee.  Paniers made out of trash cans. How we all doing today? It's Friday, everybody's a little bit tired. I get it. What do you have there? It's our new mascot. Oh, this one looks alive. His name is Pork Chop. He'll fit my front basket. Yeah. He'll eat all of our Nutella though. It's our first stop of the morning and we thought we were just getting water but they also have pigs and goats and cats and all sorts of cute things. Aww. Oh, kisses. They're so sweet. This is what goats do. They eat helmets. How could you not want to bring him across the country with us? Oh, yeah, he is pretty cute.   You guys look good together. Can we bring the cat? Yeah, let's bring the cat. You want to come with us? We're in the town called Kyoto and they have been advertising that they have a world famous malt shop. We're going to go. Even though it's 10 in the morning, we're going to get some milkshakes. I love shops like this with all of the old photos of the town on the wall. This one in particular really celebrates the high school. I show all the football teams and all the girls' track records there on the wall. I like small town America. What flavor are you going to get? Chocolate. Thank you so much. Aww, I'm so excited for this malt right here. We waited in a long line and I think it's going to be worth it. Look at how it stands up. When you do that with a spoon, that is a sign of a good malt. Our diet this week hasn't been all that healthy, but, you know, rag brye only comes once a year. It's like Christmas. You got to treat yourself. You had that salad once. Yeah, that's true. I had one salad. We were on our way out of this town and then we looked to the left and there is a wrestling match going on. This is amazing. We made cinnamon rolls. Today I've eaten a milkshake, a piece of corn and cinnamon rolls. Hmm, questionable. My teeth are going to fall out of my head. Order this, but let me tell you, I'm having no trouble at all enjoying eating it. I found a place to get my undercut trimmed. How did you get the idea to do this for rag brye? Well, Habitat for Humanity helped me out with a roof on my house and I figured I owed them back a little money. So I am doing this for Habitat for Humanity. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, I think I do. Adviced for a young couple. Surprise each other. Oh, I like that. Yeah, just surprise each other. And you don't come home today and I'm pregnant with somebody else's child. I'll try not to do that. Thank you so much. We're going to look so good the rest of rag brye and Gavin too. Yeah, what's up? How's the haircut feel? So good, so fresh, so fast. Nothing like a new haircut. You put your helmet on, doesn't fit right. Tighten it down. Those are the little things in life that I look forward to. I under here, I promise. Bye, thank you. Looking for the house of Kevin, our friend we met two days ago. He said we can stay with him, which is great. So we can shower and clean stuff and charge stuff and hang out with good people. Hey, what's up, buddy? How you doing, my man? Good to see you. This is pretty exciting here. What's your name again? I'm Eve. Eve, yes. This is so amazing. I don't know if it's good yet. The food trucks are good, but I can tell this one is really, really good. What's going on in here? You're getting that chain all greased up? We got a new guy in the house. Yes, sir. They call me D-Man. Let's hit the road. Yo, D-Man, you don't have pads in your shorts. No, pads are for the week. I'm all out. Go-Hawks. Oh, man, look at all this cat hair on it. So various. Allie, what is this new design here? This is my sun protection. It keeps my shoulders cool and gives me superpowers. We got to say goodbye to Kevin now, because Kevin went too fast and injured himself. He's not going to be coming with us today. Keep on being just the positive light that you are. Keep on making friends. We got the D-Man. We got the Jasmine, whoa, man. And we got Allie. Let's ride bikes. Nice and cool, and everybody's on their bikes for the final day. Everybody's a little sentimental and sad, a little bit sore, but mostly happy. Good morning! Thanks for having us. We are headed toward the Mississippi River today. Crazy to think that in just seven days we've gone from the Missouri to the Mississippi. A little breakfast popsicle. I'm already having rag brie withdrawal, and it's not even over yet. It's going to be a tough transition, but I am excited to be with Allie again, just the two of us figuring it all out and making bean burritos again. It's been a long time since I've had a homemade bean burrito. I'll miss this event though in the state. This state is incredible. The kindness, the generosity, the smiles, the goofiness, all of it. Iowa is a special, special place, so thank you very much. Boom, boom, boom, yeah! Here we go, my man. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you! USA! USA! Is that demon? That's so faithful. Looking good, my man. Thank you. Keep it up. We're going to give Dyle some props. He's not wearing a chamois. He doesn't ride a bike. He's actually borrowing this bike. He's being a good sport. The Iowa hospitality, from the time you get here to the time you go home, you'll understand what Iowa NICE is all about. We've got people baking pies all week, stopping in churches, stopping to VFW. Every single person is there. Hey, how are you doing? Where are you from? Can I interest you in this homemade pie? It's just a nice feeling when you come to Iowa, and it's the entire week of rag-rack. You can't help but leave a smile on your face. I like it in here. We haven't seen like wild force in a long time. It's been mostly farmland, all through Nebraska and Iowa. So, now I know why Dyle's been having a tough day.  So now he's stuck in the granny gear. What did you do? Let's get to get Dyle high. Good bye, good bye. This is the band.


As many of you know, we've done many interviews with Dr. Jill Carnahan over the years and always exciting conversation. And as most of you know, she is an absolute leader in the functional medicine world and has taken on a rather large task of writing a book. And we're going to be talking about that book here today. So Dr. Carnahan, thanks for being with us. You're welcome, Bob. It's always such a pleasure to talk to you. You know, one of the things I found interesting in your book was one of the words was resilience, fascinating, fascinating word. So tell me why that, why that became, you know, part of the key words that you thought was important for the name of this book. Love that question because really what I wanted to give to the reader is it's my story, really. But the truth is that I wanted to be a reflection of the person reading to know that they too can overcome illness, difficulty, suffering, all the things that life throws at us. And I feel like resilience describes that best. And one of the things underneath that is finding resilience through functional medicine, science and faith. And you can kind of think of this as like the left brain, which we love to analyze and do the pathways like you and I do. But also this intuitive heart based faith side and whatever that means for you, it could look differently. But it's this both and you need the analytical brain, you need that ability to look at things and problem solve. But then we also need this heart space to love others, love ourselves and being a space where we actually fill our bodies and show up in the best of our ability. And I feel like the book epitomizes the combination of those two things. And that to me is the definition of resilience. Yes. And the main title is called unexpected. Interesting. I was I thought about those those words you put together unexpected finding resilience through functional medicine, science and faith. What what led you to the word unexpected? Why did that resonate with you? Yeah, another great question. So. Two thousand and maybe sixteen or so, I had been in a real difficult season of my life to spend through a divorce and was dealing with my own questions about different things and and learning and growing and finding resilience. And I opened a gift from my staff that was a bracelet that was a title that had a little coin on it. And the coin had an acorn in the midst of a big oak tree. And it was the idea that these seeds that we plant can grow into something bigger than ourselves if we allow it to and if we have the faith to believe. And the title of that bracelet was called unexpected miracles. And I remember just opening in it and it was touching me because I do believe in unexpected miracles. And again, whether you think of it as a spiritual thing or you just think of a very secular definition of miracles could be just unexpected occurrences that that surprise us or give us joy. And we have we all have those in our life if we look for them.  You suffered a lot like you're you're the guinea pig of these illnesses. And then the INUS and the Carnion reaction with Bob Miller. So you could look at my life and say, wow, that's tough. That's difficult. And it was. But how I feel like that reframing. And for me, it was looking for the unexpected miracle so that the real titles, unexpected miracles, but we shortened it to make it concise. And the real idea there is that you yourself as the reader can also find in your journey, even when they're struggle, even when there's difficulty, you can find the unexpected. And what that is, is the joy, the miracle, the teaching that comes in those processes. And they're not we wouldn't wish them on anyone. But in the midst of those, we can all find the unexpected. And in my case, it was unexpected miracles. Absolutely. You know, when you think of a book written by a physician, you normally think of labs and all these other kind of things and diagnosis. But as I as I looked at your list of titles, I was I was pleasantly surprised how much of it was related to how we think. And one of the things you said was the first trust your intuition. Tell me just a little bit more about that. Yes.  That's why I love talking to you because I've been an engineer in the sense of I did bioengineering undergrad. And then I went on to medical school and I became a really good analytical problem solver. I love pathways. I love pattern recognition. I love using the analytical side of my brain. But in medical school, we are taught to not trust our intuition that only science is truth and only analytical, you know, brain. Left brain is truth. But the problem is we both have right and left brain. We both have, you know, science and faith we all have. So we have these parts of ourselves that are dichotomous. And when we bring them together, we have such a more enriched way of viewing the world and problem solving and helping ourselves heal and helping our patients heal. And what I had to learn after medical school was not only did the left brain have value, but the right brain, the creativity, the intuitive part, the spiritual part, the emotional part had value, too. So I had to relearn to trust that intuitive sense as a guide. And then I would prove it with science like you still need both. But for me, that journey of integrating left brain and right brain, creativity and science and all of these parts was really powerful because now I can come with a patient and sit in the clinic and I can solve really complex problems. But I have a much more depth of understanding if I follow those gut instincts and truly those gut instincts over time only come from experience. So it's our experiential, you know, pattern recognition and data collection that populates our subconscious and allows us to have an intuitive feeling. So it really still is based on science. But to me, it's fascinating because I didn't have that right from medical school. I was using purely analytical and I have a much better ability to see and understand problems by using both parts and also to heal myself. Absolutely. Now, one of the things you spend a lot of time on in the book is all the toxic things were exposed to you talked about when you were on the farm and just all the things that were exposed to right now. To what degree do you think some of the illnesses that we're seeing today might be related to the toxic world we're living in?  Well, granted I had some genetics that made my toxic load my buckets ability to bring down that water level a little impaired. But on the other hand, I had lots and lots of chemical exposures that had endocrine disrupting effects growing up and there's no doubt that those two played together to create this toxic load. And then it's exponentially increasing. I think the study on cord blood of infants in 2001 which is over 20 years ago, that same year I got diagnosed with cancer was there was 200 known toxic chemicals in the cord blood of babies that were just born. So they're starting at this disadvantage and it's only gotten worse. And then with wildfires and all kinds of other exposures and mold and so I think that toxic load in environmental toxicity is the elephant in the room that triggers all this dysfunction of pathways because it starts to overload a system that should work most of the time but we become overloaded and our immune system can't function. And then we're dealing with auto immunity and our immune system gets confused. But toxic load in all of the chemicals that we get exposed to on a daily basis are a huge part of creating this dysfunction that we're seeing today. Absolutely. Interestingly how the care of people in traditional medicine has changed.  But now as you said, this toxic load that we're being exposed to is changing the dynamics. And that's why something like functional medicine is becoming so important. If someone just has heard the term but not quite sure what it is could you briefly describe your definition of functional medicine and how that may differ from traditional allopathic? Yeah, so back in the day of course we have allopathic medicine which typically gets to a code or a diagnosis. The whole goal is like how do we differentially look at all the possibilities of what someone might be suffering from and get to one unifying theory that says this is the name of what you have. That's kind of the starting point. And then with that name of what you have which is a diagnosis, we say, okay, what drug or surgery or treatment can we pharmaceutical do to alter your metabolism or alter your physiology and change this? And that's not a bad way especially if you have a stroke or a heart attack or some trauma, you need those allopathic very precise and typically pharmaceutical based interventions. But what we do in functional medicine is we go to the root. We say what's under the hood of that car? What's the metabolic dysfunction? What's the genetic predisposition? What's the physiological imbalances? What's the nutritional deficiencies? What's the environmental toxic exposure? What are all these inputs into a very complex system? And then we actually walk backwards and say what thing led? What antecedents, triggers or mediators? What things led to this dysfunction? And can we reverse that trajectory? And the exciting thing is many times with functional medicine as we look at toxic load, infectious burden, genetics, metabolic processes, we can use nutrients, not just drugs to alter and push pathways in the right doses or botanical products or homeopathic products. So there's these layers of things that have physiological ability to alter the course of the disease. And then in functional medicine, we see things that are considered crazy by conventional medicine like reversible autoimmunity where you actually see an autoimmune disease regress or reverse because you've found some of the root triggers and you've gone and addressed each of those. Absolutely. Now, one of the quotes in there that I found quite fascinating, he said addiction is simply a way for us to deal with underlying unresolved trauma. That's an interesting thing to be putting in a, what we consider it's coming from the medical world. Tell me about how you came to that conclusion. Yeah, so this is fascinating because I will never forget the day. And I talk about this in the book, I was sitting with a group of health entrepreneurs, all super successful people. I kind of felt like I didn't belong at that point in my life. And this leader was talking about addictions and he had gone through his own addictions actually with drugs and alcohol and was addressing, having compassion for the addict instead of just judgment and trying to go to the root. And I kind of tuned out because I haven't done drugs and I don't drink alcohol on it. I was like, I don't have addiction, right? I just so, you know, silly Lee in my head was like, this is not related to me. Well, then he paused and look at all of us successful entrepreneurs in the room and he said, all of you are addicts. And he said, your addiction is work and you use it because it's socially acceptable. So that addiction to achievement or that addiction to work, he was basically saying that we're still covering up if a true addict in his first realm was, you know, drugs or alcohol, they're using a substance to cover up pain or trauma that they're not dealing with potentially. And what he was saying is he was calling all of us out and saying, you're using work to do the same thing. And it kind of hit me because I love to work. I love what I do, but I had to question, was I using that as an escape in any way, safe or form? And what I realized was, I think we all have some sort of addiction and it can be good thing. It could be going out and running two miles a day and your addiction is that runner's high and that gets you kind of away from the reality of your life or your world. That's some of the difficulties. Or if we work all the time like I do, which I love and I think it's productive, but could I be covering up some because if I just sit still and I'm not productive, I was uncomfortable with that. And that to me was how I knew that there was some sort of an addiction. If I just worked in, then I could play and relax and never think about it. That's one thing. But I would notice when I would be still or unproductive, I'd actually get really uncomfortable. So I had to deal with that piece because that was the trauma behind me always being busy, moving, working. And again, I dealt with that. But it allowed me to see many people in my space I think have this socially acceptable addiction to work and all of us can continue to grow and learn in those spaces. Absolutely. And not only do you get into all of those emotional things, you talk about some basics like clean air or clean water, clean food. Why did you include that in this book? Yeah, well, I think sometimes when we talk about environmental toxic load, I remember years ago here in King Bob, Bob Raunchy would talk about toxicity and he made it funny, but it was a depressing lecture. And even me talking about now when he really realized all the chemicals that are in our air and our water supply, in our food supply, it can be incredibly depressing. He was like, how in the world can I live in this toxic world and survive and not get sick? And the truth is it's hard. But what I wanted to do is say, okay, you don't have to visit an expensive functionalist and doctors spend a ton of money on testing or do a ton of expensive supplements because a lot of people it's out of their range. But what we can do is we can all choose clean air, clean water, clean food. So it's not only a really practical way to start it's very effective. And it's something we all have access to some of these things. And so what I talk about is clean air 80% of our environmental toxic load is from the air that we breathe. And so when we choose to have air filtration, open our windows or do things to get clean air or avoid toxic smoke, avoid highways or airports or places where there's VOCs from the off-gassing of combustible fuels. That's huge. So that's clean air, clean water, making sure we choose to drink not out of plastic water bottles, if possible, mineral enriched water from the earth or from springs. And if not, at least reverse osmosis or filtered water and trying to drink from things that aren't BPA plasticized. And then clean food. And again, you can have these choices. And even if you can't afford all organic, at least you can look at The Dirty Dozen, which is published every year by Environmental Working Group. Typically on the top of the list is strawberries and celery and red and green bell peppers. And those are also my favorites.  And then of course, whatever possible unprocessed, fresh types of food. And we know more and more people with gluten sensitivity. And I really believe nowadays with the autoimmunity, most of us should be off gluten. So taking those kinds of things out that are triggers. And those basics empower the reader because you don't have to go and spend a ton of money on those things. Absolutely. Well, I'm sure by now people are realizing this has gotta be on their must read this year. So where can they purchase this book? Thank you, Bob. And thank you for sharing this. I so appreciate it. Readunexpected.com is the book landing page. And the really fun thing is if you do buy the book, you can come back there. I put together a ton of free, really cool things. One is a coloring journal. So coloring was something that helped me go back to that right brain kind of creative, childlike and curious self. And here's a quote, Bob, you'll love this. Curiosity is one of the highest predictors of genius. We get back. And one way to engage that curiousness is go back to something that we playful behavior, whether it's running, jumping, dancing, doing a sport, or for me it was coloring. So I bought it online. I've got a coloring journal for you for free there. I've got a lecture on mass selectivation and mold and how that affects so many people. I recorded a secret chapter that wasn't included in the book and all that is free if you come back to Readunexpected after your purchase and you can download those immediately. Excellent. Anyone who will be shipping? March 28th is my pub date. Okay. And people can pre-order now? Yes. Great. Great. So I would certainly encourage everyone to get it because I was pleasantly surprised at how it wasn't just about labs and all those other things and although you talked about environmental factors, so many emotional things that I think some people are gonna have an aha moment because I think we're only beginning to learn how much our thoughts controls what happens as well. In traditional funking, it's like a chemical thing. And I think you're beautifully tying together all aspects, the toxicity, the thoughts, traditional medicine, functional medicine. So I think it'll be viewed as a best seller, I'm sure. I wouldn't be surprised you're gonna get on the best seller list here. Thank you, Bob. Thank you so much as always for your support. Okay. One more time, the website. Readunexpected.com. Okay, very good. Well, everyone go out and order that book right now and we'll be putting this at a couple of places on our Facebook page and all. And after you've read it, feel free to comment what you thought about it. Okay. Best of luck with this and we expect great things out of this that Dr. Huckornahan's gonna be making a big impact on the health of many people. Thank you, Bob.


Today is a serious topic about how we promote freedom using Twitter. I've recently seen some less than nice tweets about leech networks and scams and spam. And guys, when you promote freedom or when others talk about freedom, there's a fine line between criticizing a network because you have personal bad experience or your friend does. And just saying emotional things that really don't make sense and put a bad image on yourself and on the network that you are trying to promote. Guys, when you are criticizing a network use specific examples. Say things like I was not paid for the month of X and I'm really upset. That's a criticism. Or I don't like the dashboard of network why because it doesn't help me grow. And here's why. Don't create general statements like network X is a scam because it's a scam. That's not a criticism. That's just an emotional outburst. And all that does is it creates bad feelings because obviously no one likes to be called a scam. And if you don't support your claim, then other people reading you will think well who is this silly person who's just blasting things out that don't make any sense. Use clear reasons and have an argument with facts, not fiction or opinions or testimonials. Of course, some opinions aren't facts. They're just your opinion. I like blue. That's an opinion. But try not to use these overarching terms that really just get people emotional and nothing else. I mean it might make you feel good to let off some steam. But that's all that's going to be the positive and now the negative is bad impressions. So tell me in the comments below how you promote freedom or how you've seen freedom being promoted by others. I would love to see what the community is doing, what features you feel are really cool. And let's keep this clean. Let's keep all of our tweets and all of our posts and all of our messaging on Skype. Just friendly competition, clean competition and don't say emotional things. I hope this helps guys and I'm trying to make sure everyone understands that we would never endorse something where people use strong emotional language because that's not how we would want us to be talked about. And so we do unto others as we would want done unto us. Does that make sense? All right. Tell me in the comments below. I read everything. I can't reply to everything but I really do enjoy reading your comments and I reply to those that I can reply to. Take care guys. My name is George, founder of Freedom and you've been watching The George Show Unedited.


Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 7.30 to 8.00 AM session of the 2017 Open Simulator Community Conference. As a reminder to our in-world and web audience, you can view the full conference schedule at conference.opensimulator.org. You can also tweet us your questions or comments to at OpenSimCC or use the hashtag, hashtag OSCC17. This session, we're happy to introduce, is called OAR Converter, Using Open Simulator and Unity as a shared development environment for social virtual reality environments. Our speaker today is Austin Tate. His avatar name is I Austin. Austin is a professor of knowledge-based systems at the University of Edinburgh and is the Director of Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University. He is the Coordinator of the Virtual University of Edinburgh View, a virtual education and research institute bringing together those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research, and outreach. His research involves artificial intelligence, planning technologies, and collaborative systems for emergency response, especially using virtual worlds. I would like to welcome Austin Tate. Hello, everyone. Thanks for coming into this session. I'm broadcasting from Edinburgh in Scotland. I'm going to describe today a tool called OAR Converter, the Open Simulator Archive Converter. It's a tool that we've been using to bring material across from builds in OpenSim into Unity so that we can then use them in various other environments that are also multi-user, single-shared kind of environments where people can go into the world and interact very much like we do in Second Life and OpenSim. So I hope you find some of what I'm going to say useful. But the important thing to note is that there is a blog page, a website, which accompanies this talk, and it's got a lot of material that I'm talking about today and all the URLs and links. I'll give that link at the end, but you'll find it anyway if you do a web search. So anything that you're interested in, for downloads, links, for examples, you'll find on that web page when we get going. So let me first explain that I didn't create this tool. I've been involved in testing it and helping refine a lot of how it works and making use of it in a number of different downstream contexts, but the tool was originally created by Fumikazu Ezechi, who was a professor at the Tokyo University of Information Sciences, and he created that there with a number of his colleagues. The tool has been around a little while and I started using it soon after he first, Fumikazu created it, and at the time, it was still pretty rough, rough around the edges. It worked, but there was a lot of other issues to do with it and you still like to do a lot of work on translating it. So let's get into the talk and you'll see a little bit about why I think this is a useful tool and one that I believe several of us could be interested in, make use of, and you'll see what it's meant to do. The Orconverter's purpose is obviously just to convert an OpenSim archive file. So a lot of you know about those archive files, the very useful ways of archiving regions so you can move them between different OpenSimulator grids or save them and restore them if anything's gone wrong and things of that kind. So it's a backup mechanism, but it's also a portability transfer mechanism. And it saves pretty much everything on the region, scripts and particle effects, all sorts of information about the way the environment works as well as the 3D models that you create and the actual 3D content. So with that Orconverter, we've already got an externalized resource. It's largely an XML set of XML files and flattened methods for all the 3D models. In order that you can bring them out, put them into a big zip file. It's a tar.gzip file formally. And that file that can then be used for various purposes. So that becomes the input to the tool I'm gonna be talking about today. And in particular, this tool was created to create the collada, the .dae type files that are used in Unity 3D. In order that we could use Unity as a further development environment, but using OpenSim content in Unity to take it and reposition it and reuse it elsewhere. As I mentioned, that software was developed by Fumikazue Seki. Now Fumikazue's avatar name is Fumihaxe. So if you see Fumihaxe in Second Life or OpenSim, that is Fumikazue Seki. This converter can run in Linux and on Windows. Source code was made available. When I first used it, you had to really have a lot of permissions to be able to use it in Linux and to be able to set it up. And there's really a more of a Linux tool that happened to work in Windows if you got all the setup right. But it was still pretty technical. But for convenience, after Fumih and myself spoke about this quite a bit, Fumih created a Windows UI that makes available the tool in a ready-to-run package. What I'm going to be talking about today is mostly that Windows tool. The tool itself is pretty straightforward. We're talking about going, oh, the root, I should say, the workflow is pretty straightforward. We're going to go from OpenSim to an or file. So you use save or the save or console command to be able to save a region. Once you've got that or file, you're going to run the or converter in two pieces. And I'm going to explain that a little bit more in detail. But you're basically loading in the or file and then creating the output collada DAE type file. That is then going to be input to Unity, but it's going to be done through a specially written shader, as it's called. A shader is a way of modifying content as it's brought into Unity or as it's displayed. And a specialized shader has been written to take the types of files created and bring them into Unity for processing. And I'll explain more about that process in a second. The tool itself when it's running is pretty straightforward. This is the Windows UI version is what I'm describing. Basically, you're going to go into the file menu, open the or file, and then once you open it, it's going to place it all into a directory that basically unpacks that or file in a way that can be used within the or converter. And then you're going to make the conversion. Now there's many, many parameters and settings that you can use to adjust the way it works. There's all sorts of options in the tool for viewing parts of the 3D model and even producing things like STL files which you can use for 3D printing, elements of what you've brought out from OpenSim. So this is a pretty flexible tool. It's got lots of different capabilities. You can do all sorts of X, Y and Z shifts of the content as well. A lot of that you'll find when we're just using Unity isn't needed, but this could be useful for other people or wanting to use this material in different environments. So that's what the interface looks like. And then this is a bit of a dense slide I'm looking at now, but it's some notes on a quick start of how this works. Now just quickly go through it because it gives you a feeling for how this would work. And remember I said this quick start and some of the other notes I'm providing here is on the blog page that I'm gonna summarize at the end, the webpage you can use. So first of all, you're gonna place your OpenSim or file in a directory somewhere and using the defaults, if you just load the or file and do the conversion, you'll find that your or unpacked and the converted collada DAE files in that same directory where your or was placed just with prefixes or underbar and DAE underbar. So once we've got that or file read in and we've got our or underbar, unpacked material, you just select the file menu again and then say convert data and it's gonna convert the whole thing. It runs pretty quick, but it may take a couple of minutes if you've got tens of thousands of objects, but that's gonna then create your DAE underbar with a name and your converted content will be in that. And all the collada objects, all of the textures that are needed for this are all gonna be in that area. And in particular, it separates the solid objects in the region that you've converted from the phantom objects. So we're going to have solid and phantom objects separated and that's gonna be interesting and useful later on when we import it into Unity. The import to Unity is also pretty straightforward. The important thing is to make sure that you use a special shader that's made available in Unity before you take any content in. So anybody who's talked to me about this tool, if they've forgotten to do that, that's usually where they get basically a bit of a mess as things come in, the textures will all be wrong. And the shader is included in the R converter. In the R converter distribution, but you've got to put it into an area that starts in Unity with the file name that starts editor. It can actually be at any level where an editor appears, but typically editor is at the top level of your Unity project. So as long as you put this specialized shader, the name of it is select or shader.cs. So it's a C sharp script. And once you put that into that editor, you can then start importing your material. You can actually just literally drag and drop the whole of the Collada, both the solid Collada file, DAE files and the Phantom ones. You can literally just drop them into the project and it will all be there and you can make use of it. But I find it's more convenient to make yourself an empty game object, an empty Unity game object at the location, zero, zero, zero, and put that into your project before you start. And then you can drag and drop into that and it's useful later on because you can then move entire regions about, especially if you want to compose a Unity scene with multiple OpenSim regions. I'll give you an example of that later on that we've made use of. I use that quite a bit these days. But basically once you've got this empty game object, I typically place my solid OpenSim content into one converted objects into one subdirectory of that and my Phantoms into another one. That lets me then manipulate those separately if I want to. All you then do is literally drag and drop the entire DAE folder onto that area, dropping it in my case onto that empty game object. And within a minute or two, all of that will then appear in your project pretty much instantly. The idea in, the terrain is brought across as you'll see in a minute, it breaks it up into a number of parts because of the limitations in Unity on 64,000 triangles, polygons in any object that comes in and the terrain tends to be a bit bigger than that. But except for breaking that up into parts, the terrain and the objects will all be brought across. The water layer is not brought across. So typically what you do is add a water layer also at 0000 using standard Unity assets. And pretty much that's it. But there are a few issues that may arise. So first of all, you should take care that you do have that or that select or shader.cs file these, but the specialized shader that I mentioned, you should make sure that that's in before you start. If you see anything wrong, it's best to go back, start again, having put that in. You'll get a warning for the terrain being imported, set for the most simplified kinds of terrains. Typically the terrain will be broken open into multiple 64K areas. Typically you'll get three areas. But that's not a problem. They all lay alongside one another and you can even adjust them all separately if you need to. Now during all conversion, you may have seen a number of errors being reported on texture conversions. I find most of these don't cause any visual issues, but it's because all converter is trying a number of different JPEG 2K library converters and some still can't be converted even with all of the options that Fumiya Seko tries. So it tries a number, watching for failures and tries as many as needed until it gets success. And in some one or two cases, you still can get, go through all of those different JPEG 2 conversion libraries and find that they don't convert. I see sometimes when I'm starting up my open sim regions, some of these JPEG 2 conversion, JPEG 2 texture issues. So it is just because we've got so many variants, I think of JPEG 2 in a lot of the various versions we've used over the years. Now bearing in mind though, the open sim converter, the all converter doesn't bring across any active scripting, particle systems for smoke and fire and so on, or very specialized light sources. You need to add these again into your project. But it's pretty good at bringing across most texture visual effects and preserving those. It does use legacy unity shaders and that can be a little bit of an issue if you're going into certain environments. And you can convert that later on by looking at those legacy textures and converting them to a standard unity texture. But the legacy textures is what's used in the current version of the system. I'm just gonna show you an image of a unity editor with a converted region already brought across just to give you an idea of what this looks like in the unity editor. But there's nothing fancy about it. It's basically just all the little parts that have come from the converter dropped in. The first conversions that were done and that we tested the all converter on was the buildings that we've got in our open sim areas for the Tokyo University Information Sciences group. They have their building. And the picture I'm showing is of the conversion with open sim on the left and the unity version after conversion on the right. And the top one is the Tokyo University Information Sciences Institute and the bottom one is the open virtual collaboration environment in open sim and then convert it to the right. And if you can see those images and if you can't look at the webpage later you'll see there's a pretty direct comparison between the conversions. You don't lose much on the 3D conversions at all. It brings across the trees, the foliage and everything like that as well. You can actually in the unity editor immediately visit the all converted region just by using one of the third person controllers. If you use the standard unity Ethan asset, for instance you can literally walk straight into that environment. But the all converter also includes a free unity Japan character, like an anime style character called Unity Chan. So you can pick that up if you want but the Ethan one or any other third party any other third person controller you use works fine. And you can just walk into that area and make a look at it before you even produce it. This is what I'm showing a picture of just the Ethan unity character. Now you can walk around, check it's all working check the collisions work as you expect with walls and things of that kind. During the testing and the work I did with working with Fumi we did a lot of conversions of some quite large areas. Some of these open sim regions that we tested had anything up to 10,000 primitives in them or mesh and not existing collage mesh content in them. So open VC I mentioned the Tokyo entity I mentioned but I also have some science fiction areas with Gerry Anderson style science fiction areas and an oil rig that's from Robert Gordon's university up in Aberdeen, which is quite a complex build. There's the castle there and an Edinburgh region. So quite a lot we use for testing and for refining it. We had some problems initially with things like some of the plants and so on didn't look quite like they did. And a lot of that was then were then tidied up during testing and testing the tool. One thing you may be interested in is a particular use of this tool then with an existing MMO or one of the MMOs that's now arriving. Adam Frisbee last night who was one of the original OpenSim developers was talking about SignSpace last night which is an MMO that uses Unity as its build environment but then provides a massive open online environment with multiple regions that people can then enter into. And we've converted quite a lot of OpenSim content through to Unity and then published it into SignSpace. In fact, Adam Frisbee has done some work to make this process a little bit more efficient. One of the problems with our converter is that it's a little bit profligate with its use of textures because of the way it tries to encode information about the other visual properties of textures on particular prims. For instance, the glows and the shininess and other properties of that kind. It tends to use more materials than it really needs to in describing all the various textures that go on to and material properties that go on to the converted objects. So what Adam's done is provide within the Unity editor is provided a tidy up tool which you can find in one of the menus that's added by the SignSpace development work, development tools inside Unity. So SignSpace adds these menu entries and one of them is to do an all material cleanup and it can significantly reduce the number of repeated textures without causing any visual degradation at all. And in particular, we've brought across 12 of our regions from the Virtue University of Edinburgh which appear in an OpenSim build on our OpenView grid. We brought the 12 regions all across all separate 256 by 256 grids. This is not one mega region. It's just a number of regions. That's the way we've continued to use it. And we brought them all across separately, put them into these empty game objects I mentioned at 0000 initially and then simply shifted them all by 256 meters in an X and a Y direction. And that's let us lay out the whole 12 region grid and then simply publish it out to OpenSim. And I'm showing a picture here of the open virtual collaboration environment with a couple of SignSpace test avatars. And so you can immediately see that you can just go into SignSpace, enter that region and you've immediately got voice and social elements where you can interact together in the environment. The build as it looks as you enter SignSpace, you can see the 256 tiles still in that image I've used but that's the Virtual University of Edinburgh's OpenView grid with an open virtual collaboration environment and various portals all put onto SignSpace using all converter from OpenSim to Unity to SignSpace. And you can, as many of you probably know, you can use the Controls Alt Studio Firestorm based viewer to look at OpenSim content, although as Frank mentioned earlier on in one of his talks in this conference, you can't really get the frame rates for that. But SignSpace is actually implementing virtual reality viewers and Oculus viewers that can be used in SignSpace. So this is another way that you can use virtual reality to see this content when it's been converted and brought across. The license itself has been made as flexible as you can imagine. It basically lets you do anything you'd like with the tool so long as you don't use the names of those who created it or the name of our converter to promote or endorse your own products. Other than that, it's a very flexible license that lets you pretty much do anything you like with it. As I promised, there is a web page. The web page is blog.inf.ed.ac.uk slash 88 slash OAR hyphen C-O-N-V slash. So basically you can find that, I'm sure by using web search as well. But that page will give you all of the links to the downloads and other information and also give you some of this quick start information that I've been discussing. So hope you found that talk useful. Thank you. And thank you. Austin, we did have a couple of questions come up. Let me go back here and see Grimasa says, can DEA step be brought to Blender directly? Not directly. So one of the problems with Unity Collada Import is that it takes a slightly different, it's almost like an illegal version of Collada. So Fumi, when he did the tool, made sure that he produced Collada that could be imported into Unity. Fumi himself is very aware that there's a number of things that could be done to expand the tool and make it more useful for a number of users, including import to Blender and indeed FBX export, which some of us have been starting to get interested in because of FBX being a potentially, although it's a proprietary format from Autodesk, it has been using a number of new environments like high fidelity and Sansa now. So you can imagine that we're interested in a route. I'm gonna put up a further slide. This is about, it's a development path that we're using at Edinburgh for some of the experiments and moving about between these tools. And there are different things you could do. For instance, from Unity, there's a new FBX export tool. And I've done a little bit of experimentation with that, but not a lot. And it could be that that could be a route by which once Collada is inside Unity, you can get FBX out, which might give a route to Blender. But there isn't a direct route to Blender right now because the Collada will be treated as illegal. A lot will import, but not all of it. Okay. And Austin, will you be at a booth for a little bit for further questions? Yeah, yeah, I'll go over there and after we've just given this talk a minute about, the booth is number five. So if any of you are interested in just chatting, but if you can also email me or IM me as my avatar if I don't happen to be online, I will be coming back later on for the Hypergrid Safari because we're visiting one of the OS Grid regions that we run during Thursday's Hypergrid Safari. So, but you can find me around or email me. The contact points were on that previous slide. Okay. Well, thank you very much for joining us. It was really interesting. I think a lot of people are gonna be trying this out. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Our next session will begin at 8 a.m. and is entitled Creating Case Study Educational Simulations for In and Out of World Use. I wanna encourage everybody to visit the OSCC 17 poster expo in the OSCC Expo 3 region to find the company information on presentations and explore the Hypergrid to our resources. You can also go to OSCC Expo 2. Thanks again for everybody and we'll be back in a little bit.


Hey there, Chad Barnes. You're here for High University Libraries. If you're looking to understand a company strategy, you may be able to learn something from the companies that they are acquiring or they're merging with. This video shows you how to find company acquisitions and mergers using a database called Nexus Uni. So here you go. So when we first get to Nexus Uni, we're going to use the guided search and click on Company Info, then search for the name of our company. In my case, I'm going to look for information about L Brands Incorporated. And we're going to change the drop-down menu to Mergers and Acquisitions because you're looking for that information. And then click Search. We get a nice list, but we get a lot of information, so I want to narrow that down by date, looking particularly for mergers and acquisitions in the last year or so. Once we do that, we're going to get a good list of mergers and acquisitions in which L Brands has been a part of. A typical record looks like this in which, in this case, we see that L Brands has acquired American Beauty LTD for US $44 million. And some of the terms of that are so they can do additional business in China. And while this does not necessarily spell out all the international expansion strategies for L Brands Incorporated, it does give you a glimpse into what the company is up to in terms of trying to get into or be more involved in the Asian market. So, again, a good way to kind of get a ballpark area where the company may be headed and what strategic direction they might be going in. Hope this quick video helped you. Should any more help? Look for the contact link on the business blog. We're glad to help you. You might can't take care and best of luck with your research.


Keith Olberman wants Jimmy Dorr banned from all platforms Proving once again. He doesn't care who he has to step on to claw his way to rock bottom Fallen liberal media hero Keith Olberman has called for the complete removal of left-wing comedian and podcaster Jimmy Dorr from all internet platforms Time to ban this feral succubus Jimmy Dorr from Twitter and all other platforms Olberman told his one million Twitter followers on Friday Olberman's wrath was incurred by a short video clip Bizarrely described as misogynistic in which Dorr portrayed out-of-touch liberal elitist Emma Viglund as an out-of-touch liberal elitist Saying that if people like her ever tried to bring their esoteric University Marxist wankery around actual working-class people they'd get punched in the face and told to go back to their cul-de-sac Probably also didn't help that Dorr has done multiple segments on Olberman's slide into flag-draped gibbering lunacy following the election of Donald Trump including his public apology to war criminals George W. Bush and John McCain His demented Russia hysteria and his support for NSA surveillance of US media figures Someone got their feel-feels heard and now they want to censor their critics like a regular authoritarian fascist Dorr responded to Olberman's post You can always count on the less reality anchored pundits to say out loud with the rest are thinking in private Support for internet censorship is now a mainstream position among the so-called moderates of the warmonger and corporatist Democratic Party not just for people to their right, but for people to their left as well If it were up to these freaks The entire internet would just be a bunch of Wall Street liberals agreeing with each other that Trump is bad And Jen Sackie is a strong yet sensual warrior princess The Emma Viglin tweet that Dorr was riffing on in the clip was more hand-ringing about a red-brown alliance that all grown adults Should realize by now was never anything other than a narrative management campaign to keep leftists from moving too far from the establishment authorized Overton window of acceptable opinion For years a strain of Western leftist thought has been shrieking hysterically about an impending alliance between Socialists and fascists and yet the only evidence they've ever been able to produce in all that time that this is happening are things like Glenn Greenwald Going on Tucker Carlson Dorr interviewing an anti-war boogaloo boy one time and me making some mistakes early on in my writing career Only by the most determined mental gymnastics is this anywhere remotely close to the same universe as the night of the long knives Strasserism fantasy that red-brown alliance fearmongers have been masturbating to And it's time for everyone to admit that they were wrong about this imaginary threat And while everyone was freaking out about the idea of imaginary fascism sneaking in through the window actual fascism strolled in the front door More and more excuses are being invented to censor De-platform and marginalize everyone outside the Overton window of war oligarchy ecocide and oppression and More and more people within that window are becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea Internet censorship Jailing journalists for telling the truth about the powerful mind-warping mass media propaganda campaigns and Rapidly escalating authoritarianism are all becoming normalized throughout our society and it can't lead anywhere good


Hello everybody. Welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro 2020 tutorial guys. In this one, I'm going to show you how to make text in like seconds. If you want to add text to your videos, you used to have to go through quite a process where you would go to file, and then you go to new, and then you'd have to create title. And now they call it legacy title. Just a heads up, the old school way of doing things is still around, but it's very cumbersome and it's time consuming. I'm going to show you a better way. You'll see here, I've got some stock video footage here of a puppy dog, and he's just getting kind of sleepy if you ask me, right? He's going to have a nap, right? So I'm going to write in here, oh puppy dog is tired or doggo is tired, right? Beautiful dog, by the way. That snoot needs a couple of boops, but that's besides the point. So to add text, really, really simple guys. And this is kind of almost too simple to even make a video about. But here we go. You know, you've got your selection tool by default selected. Just go down here to your type tool. Make sure you select type tool, not vertical type tool, unless you want to do some up and down typing and presto. You've got a type tool. Now all you got to do is pick the part where you want to put in the type. So I'm going to put it right here when he closes his eyes. I've got the type tool selected, and then I'm going to type it up in the top left quadrant here. So I'm going to just left click, and then I'm going to write doggo is tired. Okay, perfect. There we go, guys. Now this, for some of you, that is probably all you need to learn because, you know, you just want to put a basic bunch of text in there.   All right, cool. Into the hole we go. So the next step here to, if you want to modify this some more is you'll notice that I'm in effect controls. It might be somewhere else on your computer, depending on what your screen is set up. If you don't see it, head up to window, make sure the check mark besides effects controls effect controls right there. Boom. So we go into effect controls. And when we're in there, you're going to see a line that says text. And then it's got what I wrote in it in brackets, which is great. Now the little triangle on the side there or the Chevron, we're going to left click on that. And as we drop that bad boy down, now you're going to see we can start making some changes. First check by me, the first change I made part of me is you can change the font. Most people default to minion pro as the beginning font, because I don't know why, but that's what the hell they've chosen. But it's not really a favorite of mine. So everybody's got their favorite fonts. I'm going to select one that I like. I like Helvetica Noia, for example. And I'm going to go with a light. Okay, doggo is tired. Perfect. That looks pretty good. A couple of the things here, you can change it bold, italic, thin, regular, depending on the font and what the font allows you to do. Helvetica Noia has quite a few options. So that's kind of why I chose that one. Here's a big one, change of scaling. That if you want your wording to be bigger, well, there you go. All right, cool. And then you can always switch over to the program panel, notice that I have the selection tool, and I can just move it around till I like it. Let's say I like it there. Okay, cool. Other things you'll notice here is you have all of the justifications.  So you can make those changes. I don't want to go into all the details with you, just because that's a different tutorial.  So just keep that in mind. But here's the bigger ones is the appearance fill.   And I'm going to say I want, let's go with some sort of dark blue, why not, right? Let's just see what it looks like. We want dark blue, and it doesn't look good at all. But whatever, that's okay, I'm just doing a demonstration. And in this dark blue text that we just changed, I want to add a stroke. So I added a white stroke around it, as you can see here, so it's got a little bit of dimensionality. And maybe I want to increase that a little bit. So I popped that up into like, sure, seven pixels, I don't even know. And a couple of the things guys, if you want to add a shadow, add a shadow just like that. And if you want a background, you can do that too. A lot of times you want that if you can't get a good contrast on the colors of the font. So again, I'm just I'm just sort of rambling these things off here. But let's say we want a red background. Okay, we've got a red background now, and we want it to be 100% in terms of opacity. Now we actually want it to be larger. So we want to increase the size. And you'll see here that, you know, we've got a little bit of space on the edges here. So there you go guys, this is really all there is to it. You can do things like scaling and you can do things like changing the position here, all stuff that you should be able to, you should know how to do rotation. Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, and opacity and all that other good stuff guys. But that's how you add text in seconds in Adobe Premiere Pro 2020. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. I've got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned. Thanks.


Shout out to Squarespace for sponsoring today's video. So Conan Exiles, the famous or infamous game with the Dong Slider. Let's take a look. To start out you have male or female, and although you don't see the character until you pick one, luckily you can just change it on the fly. You don't actually have to go back to the other menu screen in order to pick it again. And then we have race, which is not necessarily race more like presets, but the reason they call it race is because I think it ties into the Conan lore, which I know nothing about. But there is a fun little blurb underneath for each one if you're into that whole role-playing business. Then after that you have a starting religion, which depending on which one you pick will give you specific gameplay bonuses or benefits from the looks of it. I don't actually know how much this plays into the game because I've never played this game. And you can gain favor with each of these religions by doing certain things in the game, like gathering human hearts and all that good stuff. From what I understand you can learn every religion, so you're not just tied to the first one that you start out with. As long as whatever alters you have for them aren't too close to each other, which makes sense. Joe Crap, for example, doesn't want the longsword anywhere near him, even in the same continent, just out of fear of being tripped over. Then we have four voice presets here. Pretty standard stuff. Then head options, which is like general head stuff. We have a few head shapes here, which oddly enough, there are less for male than there are for female. For some reason, females have a few extra options. Then you have things like hair and eyebrows and facial hair, eyeshadow, you know, the usual. And all of those things have a set of colors that you can choose as well. And then we have face detail, which is the nitty gritty. This is where you'll find the sliders for various parts of the face here. We can see, you know, jaw and chin sizes, things like nose proportions, eyes can be tilted and resize and add the spacing and pretty much every significant part of the face. Then we move on to body features, which is what it says on the tin. We have a height slider, which more so just resizes the character. You have the physique slider, which changes how intense their muscles are and how veiny you want them to be. And we have these other options as well, because as many of you probably know, Conan Exiles has full frontal nudity in it. And you have an option here, depending on what server you're playing on, to show none partial or full on nudity, which is where the famous dong slider comes in. So yeah. And one last thing is every option on this menu can be randomized. Each one has a randomized button, which is pretty neat. So not a lot to this character creator so far. What's bad about it? Some nitpicks. Firstly, the background ambience consists of a constant drum beat. It can be pretty repetitive, especially with those of you who like to take your time with character creators. Luckily you can mute it, but it's still, you know, it just keeps going. When going through the face and hair options, the character flashes for a split second. Every time I go to another option, which is pretty disorienting and makes it really hard to know what's changing whenever you're going through different options sometimes. And it's just kind of irritating to look at. Minor problems with the menus. Whenever I try to scroll up or down, it like kind of shuffles and stutters in place. And it's a little annoying. Another minor nitpick instant preview while hovering over the options. Subjective and minor, but I prefer selectable preview where it only appears on the character after you select it. Body size options are limited to just height, which will rescale the character's size and nothing further. And not even that much at that. You have this physique slider down here, but that's more for how pronounced you want the muscles to be rather than the actual body types. The common defense is that you're playing an athletic character in a fairly grounded world, which sure makes sense. But then there's a lot of things you have to suspend your disbelief for in video games in the first place. I'm sure we can extend it a bit further and have fat and skinny people do incredibly athletic things too. I think in a lot of cases that excuse doesn't really hold water when explanations and reasonings for things in video games can be pretty much whatever the creator wants them to be and shouldn't be limited to what's realistic. Next, you can't really change your angle of viewing your character at all aside from turning their head because of the artistic choice of having them tied to this cross here, which thematically makes sense and works within the context of the game, but I feel it gets in the way of a functional and user-friendly camera. You also can't zoom in or out at your own control either. You have to select a corresponding category in order to do so and it always goes to a fixed amount. This isn't a massive deal since zoomed into the face. It does show a decent amount of detail and enough for the face to be able to make informed enough decisions, but I think having a little bit more control over the camera would be nice. One major problem I have with this menu is the same thing I had with Skyrim is that a lot of the sliders for options I feel have no business being sliders like the hair and face and eyebrows and all that stuff. It makes comparing options really really finicky. I think having visible previews of them would be much nicer on the user experience of this menu. If I ever wanted to look at one hair option and compare it to the other, I have to scroll through every single one first instead of just being able to select which one from a grid or a series of panels or something along those lines. Another major problem I feel is though there are not that many options to pick from as far as hairstyles and facial hair and face styles, especially for the men considering they have less faces than the women. This is made up for by being able to manipulate the face a little bit more, but that doesn't change the fact that there's not that many hairs, not that many beards. Could use a few more. And there are no unlockable or new hairstyles or beard styles from what I could find. All I could find were things like mods. So yeah, the game does not have that many choices for you. Overall, there's a lot to be desired from this character creator as I feel it's fairly unremarkable in terms of what it lets you do. But every cloud has its overlining, so what's good about it? Though I did cite the lack of body options as a negative, I gotta give props for the height slider as it's more than most games get. Like, really, you'd be surprised how many games don't let you change your height. So I'll give Conan Exiles that one. Being tall or short can go a long way in distinguishing your character from each other more often than people think. I can say the character model's quality, at least their face, is pretty good. Not the most amazing graphical fidelity, but it looks nice. Especially the hair. I like the hair a lot. It looks fluffy and soft and it flows in the wind. Where I think this character creator shines the most is in the face options. There's quite a few sliders. And although maybe not as many as other games, they give you just enough control in the right places to get some pretty good results on some distinct faces. Just like, look at the eyes. You can change their size and angle and spacing and there's a lot you can do with that. And if you don't believe me, look at the random button. There's a lot of different face shapes that you can do. That's always nice. And admittedly, the sex appeal slider is something that I think is good, depending on the subject matter of the game. In this case, the gritty, brutal, dark tone of the Conan universe, which is deep and classic barbarian style stuff, which includes a lot of casual nudity. And heck, it's filling a desire some people have in character creators that a lot of times it's not catered to.  Filling a need and all that. Now, there might not be much to this character creator, but there's something to be said about only having to adjust a few things and then getting right into the game. There have been games in the past that I've put off covering just because of how overwhelming the character creators are, and I'm sure a lot of people have that same issue. So, sometimes, it's nice to just only have to adjust a few things and then jump right in. Conclusion. It's nothing special and fills the basic expectation of an average character creator with the bonus of having a few extra options, like a boob and dong slider. Which is probably the only remarkable thing about it. It's okay.  A sexy website. And what's the sexiest web building service of all? Today's sponsor, Squarespace. You know it's sexy because of how many s-sounds are in it. The head honcho of quick and easy web building that anyone can use so there's no excuse that there isn't a web shrine dedicated to the greatest weapon pairing of all time yet. 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Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE. Covering Microsoft Ignite, brought to you by Cohesity. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite. I am your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Stu Miniman. We are joined by Dave Totten. He is the CTO US Partner Ecosystem at Microsoft. Thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. Of course, absolutely, thank you for having me. So this is an incredible show, 26,000 people. We are here at theCUBE, we're in the middle of the show floor. High energy. We're going to talk about what you do at Microsoft, but first I just want your impressions of this show in particular. It's incredible, I was saying as I just walked in. At first off, 26,000 people. I think I shook 10,000 hands already. It's pretty amazing. I'll say two things. One, the partnerships and the groups and the companies that are building on Microsoft technology, if you just look around this room, it increasingly gets bigger. They had to take over two new halls this year, it's incredible. And the customers that we're getting at this event are extraordinary now. Everything from SMB, small business accounts, to every single enterprise company that I can think of in the strategic 1,000 here in the US, they're here right now. And it being a worldwide event, I hear languages, I hear people introducing each other to, the energy in this room is just absolutely incredible. The United Nations of Microsoft. It really is, it really is. And it feels that way when you walk around the room, for sure, yeah. So you are the Chief Technology Officer of US Partner Ecosystems. Talk a little bit about what you do at the company. Yeah, yeah, so what we're trying to do, obviously Microsoft being a channel company, right? We built services and solutions through the channel, sold them through the channel since we started inception 45 years ago. So my team helps build that technology practice and those solutions with our partners. If you think about how do you get access to the best and brightest engineers at the company, I'm pleased to say I actually have a bunch of those that get to work for me. And so every day we sit down with partners, we help them think about what technology solutions they want to create, where we see gaps in the marketplace, how do you make the biggest and best applications possible on the Microsoft stack, and then we help take those to market with our partners. So it's a wonderful experience of working with partners both mature and sometimes immature startups, brand new. Well Dave, one of the challenges, the surface area that Microsoft covers is so much bigger than before. This is not the company that I used to get a disk in the mail to get started. You're now in the data center, of course, a strong player in SaaS, in public cloud, at the edge, in devices. How do you manage all of those pieces and give us a little snapshot? We feel like we're getting today at the announcement this week, really a rethinking of how hybrid should be thought of today and in the future. Yeah, I'm glad you said that. It's a really important differentiation there because if you think about our stack, we're a Windows company, I've heard that before. Then we became an Office company, we're the company that does Office and Xbox. Now we're really a services company and that's how we want to make sure that we talk to people about what we do every day is we build services, applications, and the layers that connect people to their productivity, right? And so there were a lot of announcements this morning about Azure, which I think is phenomenal. Azure touches everything that we do. Identity, security, monitoring, it touches everything that we absolutely do. But we bring that to life with applications like Microsoft 365 and our productivity tools. There was a great demo this morning on Power Apps. Power Apps is something I'm really, really partial to, having grown up a developer and then lost a lot of my technical skills, right? Like I don't get to code anymore. Something like Power Platform and leveraging all the bots that we now have to democratize development work and make sure that the citizen developer can build really cool applications on our technology stack as part of that. I will say, everything for a while there moved to Pendulum to Azure because it was this huge market opportunity and there's lots of services out there and being that we're a really secure, trusted, enterprise relationship partner, a lot of people wanted to build applications and services on Azure. There's still a gigantic market opportunity within Microsoft 365 productivity. What we're doing with exchange migrations is still a huge part of our business. And then Power Apps and Dynamics 365, the ease of implementation and integration across all your applications leveraging Dynamics 365, an equal opportunity. Yeah, so Dave, I want to tease apart, you said a word services because Microsoft still, it's a software company, but it's more about the platforms that Microsoft delivers because one of the big challenges for users out there is there's just too many choices. There's no way anybody can listen through all of the announcements this week and say, oh okay, I'm up to speed on everything and I know what's going to work for my company. It's in many ways, it is the integration partners, the SIs, the MSPs, the channel partners, they're going to help pull those together. So, right, how do you make sure that you have comprehensive offerings that people can consume easier rather because we think that's one of the challenges where at a certain inflection point with cloud is remember cloud was supposed to be cheap and easy and it's neither of those things. So how do we make sure that in today's day and age, where do they turn to be able to move their business forward, not spend hours and hours and months and years trying to figure out what the latest thing is when by the time I start doing it, the next thing's out? Yeah, well if you read a lot of the publications, it's like cloud is everywhere. The cloud adoption rate is actually fairly low across US and international business rates and there's several reasons for that, right? There's some trust issues there, there's some, I've got some on-premise applications that I need to make sure that I migrate over. We launched today, Arc, right, which is about really connecting all sorts of data services and wherever your data center is we'll come meet you and I think that's a really nice platform story for Microsoft to tell. We've always been a customer and partner first experience. So now we're going to meet you where you are. Wherever you are you have the ability to manage, control, secure your IT environments. If you're on-premise, if you're with another cloud provider, if you're in a co-location data center and I think that ability to show along the journey to the cloud and along the journey to digital transformation where you're at, how are we going to help enable you? How are we going to make sure that we protect those endpoints and give you a consolidated, efficient UIW through, right? Yeah, actually, so there's Kubernetes inside that Arc from my understanding. We've been watching this trend for the last four plus years and one of the concerns is this is the Microsoft way to do things. Google has the way to do things. There are lots of Kubernetes options out there and it's not a magic layer, so there's still work. How does this become a driver for the ecosystem to participate and we don't end up with, well, I've got my Microsoft silo, my Amazon silo, my Google silo. Yeah, something like Arc is a great example of that, though. We want to meet the customers where they are and we believe our technology stack in the long run, the different plugins to applications, ISVs, different services partners, the way customers want to see their data, we believe it will win out in the long run. So we're okay integrating our backend with SAP on Azure, for example. We're okay with this data exchange with Oracle that we just announced a few months ago. Last year at this very event, we were talking about before, the SAP Adobe Microsoft Data Exchange Program. We are officially an open services company that we believe you should have management control and identity across all of your services, all of your data. And eventually you'll see, well, Microsoft parties in our services and the ISVs that are built on our services will win out in the long run. We really believe that. I think there's another thing about the Microsoft way. It's much different now, right? I mean, I can remember still six, seven years ago where certain companies, whether it's IBM or Oracle or even Red Hat, were enemies to us, right? Now we embrace those relationships and we embrace that data exchange because we're all trying to make sure that we optimize the experience for the customer and we think you can do it best through our shared services environment. And the final thing I'll say is, one of my favorite examples is our number one cost cell scenario out there with our ISVs is Red Hat. Now, if we said that when Mr. Balmer was here or even on the, five years ago, it was a much different experience there about Red Hat and how we embrace open source technologies. Red Hat, even something like OpenShift, which is their container services, we now enable as a first party through Azure. So it's okay, you don't have to use our Kubernetes brand. You can use third party services, put that on Azure for the most secure, integrated experience possible. We absorb and we love, we embrace those relationships, right? Because we think once you get in there and you start leveraging the monitoring, security, identity, provisioning services or within our stack, we think you'll start adopting more and more services from Microsoft. So what's leading this trend? Because I mean, it's so interesting that we're talking about this kind of open source approach to everything and this open brand in terms of using a little bit of Microsoft here, a little bit of AWS here. How are, is it that we're using so much, is that we're so willing to go for different companies in our lives as customers? And then, or is it the technology industry that is pushing this? Yeah, I actually think it's the former. I think that the technology industry would love to say, you're an Amazon person, you're a Microsoft shop, right? You're an open source shop, right? And Microsoft used to be that way. Like in fact, you'll still hear some people talk about it. Oh, I'm a Microsoft shop because I have Windows Server on premise. Now customers are looking for best in breed services, best in breed point solutions. When I started at Microsoft 15 years ago, you were a Microsoft customer and that meant you bought Windows, you bought Office, you bought Windows Server. And then when we started launching SQL Server, okay, you went to SQL Server. Now it's a little bit different. You might use a security ISV solution here. You might use a data transfer or an identity management solution here. Microsoft has embraced that proliferation of purchasing based on point in time solutions, right? Before, the integration was very tricky, right? Between these applications or these different service layers. Now with something like Azure that integrates across all of these platforms, we're winning, we're winning that share. Because we have, listen, if you have an AWS data lake out there, we're okay with that. You can secure it, you can monitor it, you can do analytics on it using Microsoft services, right? And eventually you'll see there's probably some cost benefit, there's probably some integration and some usability scenarios out there on why you'd want to migrate that to Azure. But while you get there, while you're on that journey, we're going to enable the connected infrastructure across that because customers want to buy best in breed. They want to buy what's available, what's easy to consume, what keeps their data secure. And so we're going to develop, we're going to surround all those technologies with our service layer and one by one, right? Show the integration and that true best in breed connected experience that we think Microsoft can provide. Yeah, Dave, I love that message and I think it speaks to one of the reasons you said why the ecosystem is growing. For those people that can't go through, come to the show, give us a little bit of a viewpoint. I mean, you know, we don't have an hour to go through all the options and I'm sure every partner is your favorite, whether it be the biggest or the smallest, but give us around to some of the areas that maybe, you know, you're hearing the most from customers that they're most interested in and some of the new areas that maybe might not have been here in previous years. Absolutely, I mean, where we see success in the channel and frankly in the marketplaces, you know, when we get out of talking about Azure or Office 365 or Windows and we talk about what's the business outcome we're trying to drive, right? So like, contract management is a scenario that every customer needs, right? So something like ICERDIS, which is a really strong contract management ISV solution that is embedded and built on Dynamics 365 is a great example there, right? Do you want your contracts to touch your customer relationship database to get extended through Outlook and Exchange and then to be able to mark up contracts with our productivity tools, whether that's Word, PowerPoint, et cetera? Contract management is an outcome that all customers need. We don't have to talk about Azure or Dynamics 365, we talk about contract management. So I think ICERDIS is a really good example of somebody who's defined a market leading position for an actual workload, a business outcome that all customers need to drive and it just happens to be pulling through our technology. Another company, Nintex, Nintex is right around the corner here. Nintex does an exceptional job of managing workflow. Any sort of scenario you need, are you trying to hire a candidate? Are you trying to process paperwork? Are you trying to run your supply chain or inventory management?  Instead I can say do you have workflow that needs to be managed and connects to your database?  They've got 30 plus offerings that you can take to catalog and customers want those outcomes. Customers at this day and age are getting less and less, I guess picky I would say, about the baseline infrastructure that runs all the services that they need. They're really about what's the application or the experience that integrates, that's secure, that is easy to implement and that does a specific job to make me more efficient. So I can spend more time with customers, I can drive more value. The fact that 90% of those applications are powered on Azure is an okay secret, right? That's okay for the channel to exist with all of these applications and services that are built on Azure, built on Dynamics 365 that just happen to pull through business outcomes. And if you're recommending them, Microsoft is this trusted brand and so that's the other part of that too. I think so too. And I think there's groups like Cohesity, another great organization out there that obviously we spend a lot of time in infrastructure with, right? Very driven to business and what are customers doing? If you think about the innovation curve that Cohesity has with their products in the marketplace, it's another great example of solve a business problem, find a business problem worth solving. Go out and invest in the IT and infrastructure to go out and build it, build a marketing and customer success plan around that. And the fact that they can develop and take new solutions to marketplace in Azure quicker, more efficiently, with more customer outcomes focused in that solution stack, they're using our shared services to build and have a faster time to market, right? So it's not even just about the services that are built on Azure. It's how Azure and Dynamics 365 and Modern Workplace 365, how Microsoft 365, how we can enable partners to build solutions that solve customers problems faster, right? And more efficient than we ever have in the past. Well, Dave Totten, thank you so much for coming on theCUBE. It was a really interesting conversation. Absolutely pleasure, thank you for being here. Thank you to all of the sponsors that are out here, all the partners that are here to invest in this event. We appreciate your energy and support. I'm Rebecca Knight for Stu Miniman. Stay tuned for more of theCUBE's live coverage of Microsoft Ignite.