One of the biggest delusions that we suffer from as human beings is that we actually have control of our own lives. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, my channel is all about mental health and what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So if you're into that, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. Real quick announcement, I get a ton, a ton of DMs. I get a ton of emails. I get a ton of comments and I love you all for it. I've set up the Facebook group as well as the Discord server because I cannot answer everybody. So make sure that you check always down in the description below and join those if you would like a one-on-one talk with me. I just added some new stuff over on Patreon. One of the tiers over there is to have a monthly call with me just to chat. Again, I am not a licensed professional. But if you would like a chat with me, I schedule them through Patreon. All right. But anyways, if you would like for free, join the Facebook group and or the Discord server. All right. So anyways, got a flood of requests today to talk about Logan Paul and oh my Lord, this dude, this dude is playing everybody like a fiddle. And it's just like, man, so I'm going to talk about it. Let's talk about it. Like this is something that we see constantly. So like I made a video months ago, months ago, because so many people ask me to talk about onion boy. I don't talk about onion boy because that's what they want. All right. So like, like I said in the intro, we, we suffer from this delusion that we're in control, right? That's this thing. We, we, we have this choice, this freedom of choice. We, we have free will. We may, we choose what we're going to do when in reality we don't. All right. Talking about Logan Paul is giving him exactly what he wants and it's working. It's working. So for example, a few months ago, he came out and went to the Flat Earth convention and guess what? When he went on stage and talked about how he now believes in the flat earth, guess what happened? Everybody on the flat earth was talking about it. That was funny. I'm not interested that everybody was talking about it. Um, so I consider myself a man of truth, uh, someone who hates being ignorant. I try my best to avoid being ignorant. And, um, that's why I decided to come here because if I'm going to, if I'm going to do this, and if I'm going to put my name out there, I want to know the facts, right? The fact that, you know, we haven't been to the moon in what, over 50 years, the fact that, uh, the moon amidst its own light, some of the best scientists, um, that the, uh, the globe heads is that what you guys call them, the globe heads, some of their best scientists can't, they can't explain gravity. Uh, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neil deGrasse Tyson, uh, Bill Nye. At the end of the day, do they even know? And, uh, so I wanted to come here and explore for myself. But yeah, man, if, if, like I said, if I'm going to do this and if I'm going to put my name out there, because I'm sure you guys know there's a stigma, there's a stigma with being a flat earth there. And if I'm going to do it, I want to know, I want to know the facts. So that's why I'm here. I just want to say thank you. Thank you for having me. If you see me in the hallway, say hi, come take a picture.  And I, I think I'm coming out of the flat earth closet. Right. Today, um, the issue is what he said on his podcast. Before I talk about what he said on his podcast, let me make it very clear. You have every right, every single right to be offended. You do. Okay. How you feel. I am not here to judge that. We all have a right to feel the way that we're going to feel, but we need to ask ourselves, what is a productive use of this energy? What is a productive use of this? It's something that I talk about in my book, rewire your anger. Right. It's about using that for something good. Like, what are we going to do? All right. But anyways, on his podcast, he said in 2019 for the, the month of March, he was going to do whatever it is and he was going to go gay for a month. January is sober, vegan January. Yeah. And then February is, uh, fatal February, the exact opposite, the opposite.  Like just while and, and then March. Yeah. Take a guess. It's Coachella. So wait, no, no, that's April.  So you're going to, you're going to be vegan and sober again. No, no, it's, what is it? Mail only March. Mail, why don't you say this part? So it's mail only March. We're going to attempt to go gay for just one month.  That's crazy. But yeah, people are offended. All right, I get it. I understand that. But the fact is, is that Logan Paul got exactly what he wanted. And the sad part about it is, I don't even think he thought that was going to go viral, right? But he did. And now he's sitting there in his mansion, laying on a bed of money, just like, oh my God, look, everybody's talking about me now. His subscriber numbers is going up, his videos, getting more views. That's the video right there. I clicked on it. It's fully monetized. So now everybody who wants to hear exactly what he said or get the entire context of it or whatever it is, he's making money off of it. All right. So much like Onion Boy and other people trying to stay relevant, they're trying to invoke an emotion from us. They're trying to do this through different forms of, I guess you can call it manipulation. So like what I try to teach everybody and this is something that I had to learn myself like you guys, I don't give you guys advice, I haven't taken myself. All right, it is much easier to change how we respond to the world rather than focusing our energy on trying to change everybody around us. So for example, for example, I get a lot of comments. I was in the Discord server today and people like Chris, you should really change your thumbnails, you should really change your tags or your video titles. And I'm like, nah, I've just been saying, nah, right? Because one of the things that keeps us in such a foul mood and makes it so upset is that we sit and we think that you should do this. You should do that. You should do this. You should say this. You should say that. You should say this, right? This is something else that I talk about and rewire your anger. Am I plugging my book? Sure. If that upsets you, maybe you should check in with yourself and see why that is. All right. But we all have this idea of what everybody else should be doing. But think about it. If you have two people, if you have just two people in a room and this person thinks everybody should do things their way, that people, that person thinks everybody should do their things their way, you already, you immediately have conflict, right? When I would do groups in front of 60 and 70 people, I would say, how many of you can relate to this, right? If everybody would just do everything that I thought they should do, everything would be wonderful. Everything would be fantastic. I'd say, raise your hand if you can relate to that. You see dozens of hands go up in the room, right? And it's like, think about it. If two people think that way, you immediately have conflict. How much time are you wasting letting people rent space in your head because you're obsessing about what they should or shouldn't be doing? Right? Wouldn't it be a more valuable use of your time to figure out how you could respond in a better way? Something I've been talking about lately is learning how to respond rather than react when you get emotional.  You're reacting at a lot of times, you're feeding into exactly what the other person wants, but you say you don't want this person to keep being successful, keep making money, keep getting views or whatever that is, right? So what's the answer to all this? Guess what? It's mindfulness. It's mindfulness, you guys. When things happen, we pause, we check in with ourselves, we get curious and we say, why am I responding to this situation like this? All right. What would be a valuable use of my energy? Okay. Is this a healthy or unhealthy response? Is this useful or not useful to me? All right. Are there things that you could do by not giving somebody Logan Paul a response or somebody like Onion Boy a response that will still allow you to vent out your frustrations, right? Without giving them attention. Here's a couple of ideas. DM a friend, text a friend, all right? Journal, meditate. Okay. There's so many things that you can do because eventually, like we see with Onion Boy, his views and his subscribers are tanking. And so because more and more people are giving him less and less attention. A lot of you have requested for me to talk about them lately and I refuse to talk about that situation unless I feel that, you know, I can somehow provide another voice if legal action were to be taken. But other than that, I'm just not talking about it. All right. But anyways, you guys like, I appreciate everybody who has been reading, rewire your anger. I released it last month. I apologize. I still need to get on the audio book. But you guys, so much of the stuff in that book is what I just talked about in this video.  It's $5 and you can download the Kindle app for free on your tablet, on your, on your phone, on your computer, your laptop, whatever it is. All right. I just did a giveaway for it over on Instagram too. Make sure you're following me over on Instagram too, because I do giveaways and all that stuff. But anyways, like, yeah, just realize who in the spotlight is manipulating you and how to avoid it because this is actually happening to you, maybe in your workplace. Okay. Like let's talk about that real quick.  Then you quit. Okay. Were you in control? No. They just played you like a puppet, right? You're out at the bar or, or wherever, maybe you're on social media and somebody just keeps jabbing at you, jabbing at you, jabbing at you. You have a public freak out who's in control, not you. All right. So get this thing under control, baby, start working on it. All right. But anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you struggle with anger issues or, uh, or controlling your anger, let me know down in the comments. I can make more videos about it and I have some more mindfulness videos coming out as well. All right. 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Hello, we're in the office this week and I think we're gonna be able to finish the office off which I'm very excited about because it's kind of been in a stagnant state for a little while. I've been struggling so hard to find artwork and a light for the space, but I did end up actually laying this rug out on the wall this morning, which this is kind of a really nice, I ended up against a really tall canvas. It's a really, really pretty reddish, kind of burgundy rug and it's a four by four foot rug. I actually had this in my breakfast note, if you guys remember. I like the color and I like the scale of this in here. It's kind of hard to see with me and like being a little bit backlit. First thing I wanna do is actually hang up the curtains in this room, so then we can actually see all of the walls painted, the floor, the ceiling and then the curtain panels in the space. So for these curtain panels, I'm actually going to be mounting our bracket from the ceiling going down. That way I'm able to get the rod pretty far back against the actual beam itself. This is what the bracket looks like here. I think I just came up with a little mounting tip. If you unscrew this and if we flip it 180, this is the shape of the bracket. So then when we actually mount it on the ceiling, if you could imagine like this is the ceiling in the wall, mount it here. So it's holding it closest because if I mount it like this, it's actually gonna hold it pretty far out and we already have about four inches of the corbel popping on right here. Oh my gosh, that's perfect. That is exactly what I wanted. It's hard to see. That's great. Now for my actual rings, these were left on the previous curtains when I purchased the home, but I didn't love those ones. So I ended up taking them off. They were sewn onto the panels and so I'm gonna repurpose them. These right here are the curtains that I ordered for this room. Now these are from two pages. The same company I got the curtains for the lobby and these are in the color light khaki. I shared them when I actually picked the paint color for this room. I knew I wanted to do a lighter curtain against the darker color in here. This is the color I opted for. The only thing is I accidentally sent them the measurements for the living room while height instead of in here. I don't know how or why I did that but I looked back at the email after just checking the link and they're longer than I expected. I am going to hang them and see how much longer they are on the bottom because sometimes that could be a look. I think they're gonna look really pretty hanging here. I might just have to have them. I bought these on Amazon and I'll link them below for you but they are basically curtain hooks and you just put this in the pre-done pleat. So if you were to purchase these two pages curtains and you were to use older rings or smaller curtain rings that don't have a huge loop, they send you some with them but they're kind of like a plastic one that's a bit thicker and the ones that I'm using require something that looks like this. So I wanna share with you how to apply them. You can see the pleat right here on the end.  That's all you gotta do. And then it allows us to really easily hang it on the actual curtain ring. It's pretty backlit to share the curtain panels but they look great over here. I love them as you can see, way too long though. I'm definitely gonna have to hem these. I think I'm gonna leave them though for the time being work on the window mullions or like the inserts which arrived outside. Sorry for the mess out here as well that is still there from the ceiling. But I do need to seam these and then I did go ahead and order some of those window inserts that go in the windows that kind of make them look like pained windows as opposed to just a big open block. This is how they come and I've kind of just been ordering them per room as I've worked on the rooms and like gotten to the next one.  I think it was like $180 to do this room but it really makes the windows look so much better and I wish that the original windows were in this house but they aren't. So I feel like this gives you the look. Okay, these are what they look like. Now as you can see, they're gonna go in the windows like this and I got them in four panes. Like it's gonna be basically like a two by four grid and there's two that are the same which are these two and then this one goes in the door frame. So let's add them and hopefully I got the measurements right. Ooh, this one just needs like the time. Oh no, it like literally, it fits perfectly. Ooh, the side windows, I got perfect. Those ones are great. So I just placed a bunch of artwork in the office on the back wall here. I've been looking at this art and kind of maneuvering around for that past like four hours you guys. I have been spending so much time trying to figure out what I wanna do and I don't even know if this is exactly it. I'm gonna have to see once we get the light fixture and if I need to move anything but I wanted to just share like where I got some of these pieces from because I just love them. This one here is a great watercolor landscape. It is so beautiful. I love the matte and the gold. I feel like it adds a nice touch. Picasso print that I got at Flea Market and it's in the chunky wood frame. Just felt so me like and that's why I wanted it kind of dead center in this space was because it's really like what I wanna be underneath. Like it's just, I don't know, I really like it. And then this is a great portrait. This is actually from Vienna from 1941. The colors in it and just how it is kind of very tattered in a sense. Like it's not really perfectly placed on here. It kind of has some age and some wear to it. It's signed down here. I love this landscape. I love the blue in it. It's so pretty. And then these two here actually are etchings and they're vintage etchings. I got them at a state sales, both of them, 10 bucks. And this one was like, I think like $4. I got two of them. I got two of them in the kitchen. And then this guy right here is the tiniest oil painting I've ever seen. I found this at a flea market in my parents' hometown. How freaking cool are these sconces? Hopefully you can see them over the top of my shirt. But got these at the flea market. They are like a wired sconce. Super interesting. And I love the wire wrapping here. The patina on the metal is great in the shape.  They almost like hang and they feel kind of like bottom heavy in a sense, but I love that. I feel like it really weights down either side. I cannot wait to see the light. So tomorrow the light should be here or I'm gonna be picking it up and we can see it in the space. The house is being pressure washed right now for you may be able to guess in the comment section below what might be happening to the exterior. But we are still working on the office. Be a little voice over-y today in the clips because it's pretty loud outside. But the light is here. Look at the light you guys. I have never been more excited for a light fixture. This is my favorite light fixture I've ever purchased. Gonna do a quick little chatty spiel during this audio but this is a 19th century French cloche that the shop owner actually had an iron frame made for and they turned it into a light fixture. And I just, when I saw this, it had my heart. I had to get it. Like I loved it. I loved how it had this kind of soft and feminine feel to it. Whereas I feel the office is pretty masculine at the moment. And I wanna add like an element of softness just to make it feel a little bit more inviting. Not as, I still want it to have kind of some elements that give it like airiness. And I feel like this light adds like this really unique shape to the ceiling. It's not like a block that kind of blocks everything behind it. And I'm on my own today. So we're gonna see how this goes. It's actually not too heavy as you can see. This is not smart. What if I tie it? If I tie it to the ladder, then it will not fall. And I could totally mount it. Got some rope. Okay, I think this is pretty strapped up here. Always gotta Google which wire it is. Okay, I stole a light from the big chandelier just so we could test. Oh, we have light. There's actually three different balls in this which I love, it's more than one. So should give a really nice glow in here. I'm so excited to see this light on. Looks like we could take it down. Welcome to the office. Look at that light. I absolutely love it in here. And honestly, if it was to drop any more it just wouldn't work. But it is a little lower. However, totally fine. It's above a table. It's basically dining room kind of table height. And I'm not gonna have a desktop computer in here. Anything like that. It's just like my laptop. And then if someone else wants to work in here too. So I love this. I actually love it in my line of sight. It is such a cool piece. And something else. I'm gonna change the sconces. These just, they're so cool but they feel so similar, the shape of them. So I'm actually going to do these cool ones. They're like a squiggle, a zigzag iron sconce. And I was gonna do these kind of like, I think like right here-ish or so. I put some chairs in here just because it has the tallest back to it. And this was, I was gonna consider using one of these in here as the chair. I have a couple extra of them. However, I think it kind of competes again with the light. And I found a chair this morning at an antique store. I went to actually find a chair for the front up here. Normally when I see chairs like this at an antique store, they're like, I don't know, $600 to $1,000 a piece. But these are only $165, which I don't feel is too bad. And I actually tested them. They're citable. The leather is so great. It's like really patina-ed. But I think I would just get one of these for the chair that's in front of the office space. And I need a higher back chair for behind. That's actually why I'm here. Okay, I just came across this chair here, which is a high back. I've been looking for something with a higher back on it. And this one's actually really cute. It has these arms. It's an antique wood chair. It says it's on sale too. It was 395. It's marked down to 295. Antique carved wood chair with new upholstery. And the upholstery is actually really pretty. Kind of looks gray on camera, but it's more of like a mushroomy kind of mink color. So I got a chair for the front and also for behind the desk. And I want to share them both with you. So this is the chair. And I'm hoping it doesn't feel like off in the states because I feel like, I mean, I can't really tell yet, but I love it. I think the chair is so cool. It's really comfortable too. And it's like a perfect, perfect height. I love the mix of just different elements. Like you kind of have this bamboo style piece here. Then we have some harsh iron, but the glass just kind of contrast with the iron. And then the curvature, the waves that kind of like, I love everything about this. Oh, the chair that I got for the front looks like this. And I love this chair. It is like a leather sling chair, if you guys can see. So it's actually just a really nice piece of leather that's just like attached onto either side. And it has this great base to it. Like I love the design. Has these beveled studs that look like they're like handmade. And overall, the chair is so cool. It's also so comfortable. Such a cool, just like casual chair. And it worked so nicely at this desk as well, which is exactly what I got it for. And it was a great price point too, which I love because it kind of has that Spanish vibe, but it's small. But I'm gonna go downstairs and grab the table lamp that I got. I got myself a birthday present this year. It's a table lamp and I love it. So let's go get it. If you didn't know, my birthday's on July 24th. And I'm not one to buy myself gifts or anything like that, but something about this light when I saw it, I was like, I want this. I want this for my desk. It's a splurge. It's French. It's from the 50s. It is a task lamp, like a desk lamp. It has the most beautiful brass patina I've ever seen. I just wanted this in my office. I don't know what it was about this piece, but the color, the shape, the style, just what it was gonna bring to this space, I just couldn't see myself finding it similar anywhere else. And I actually Google lensed it to see if I could find it anywhere else. Nothing that kind of had the little ball at the bottom and the streamlined curve right here. Like, could you guys picture me right now, just doing some little meetings maybe? I mean, not actually, but maybe editing videos or, no, maybe I'll do a client project one day and my client could like be right here, you know? How fun is that? I love this light though. It's so cute. In the office, this is the other space of wall that we have to put stuff on. So there's a wall in front of me, which is right here that has all of the gallery on it. Then to the right of that is a small window, which we're gonna be doing a stained glass DIY in there. But because it was 4th of July and the weekend, the stained glass supply store was closed. So I actually was planning on doing that first before all of this, but then I thought I'm not gonna wait like four or five days. I really wanted to jump into styling this. So we're just gonna be the stained glass a little later, probably in like a week or two. I do wanna hang something on this wall though. And I got something from a Facebook marketplace. I've had this for like a week now. And I actually was thinking of putting it in the entryway downstairs, but I walked past it earlier and I was like, it would look so good on this wall I think. And it is a pretty crazy mirror. Look at this mirror that I found. There is an antique Eastlake style mirror, which is a type of architecture I believe. I don't know if you can see the little details like at the top here. Do you see how they made them into like little peaks and it almost is reminiscent of like a castle. This was only $100 on Facebook marketplace and the guy said that he's had it hung in his house for over 50 years. I also definitely need to give this a bit of a clean. I love that in here. That is so cool. It has a little rosette details that I've also been kind of including throughout the home like in the top of the bookcase in the living room area and also little corners of the window trim in the kitchen. It also has a V and then three right after it. So it's eight. I don't exactly know what that means. Today we are going to be styling the built-ins in the office, which there are two set of built-ins on either side of kind of the archway that leads into the living room. And I just want to style these with some decor pieces that I love that I've been collecting for a while along with some just random books that I have just to make it feel office-y, you know? Kind of thinking I'm going to start by placing just some books and I got some that I really, really love the colors of that kind of have these moody tones to them. Got this pretty kind of bronze and brass vase, which I'll use kind of as a bookend. And this actually shared because I found this at a flea market a while back and then I found one actually at a antique store and I looked at the price of it and it was like 350 bucks and it was a signed rodent sculpture. So when I got home, I too found out that mine's a signed rodent sculpture, which is so cool.   And I think I'm going to use it kind of as a decor element here. I love the bit of silver that it adds and like shine taper candles. I have these like wooden burl candlestick holders. And I kind of just played around with this side and did a little styling over here. And I think this looks really cute. I wanted to share this piece. I got this back in my parents' hometown and it is a memory box, like a picture memory box. It's made of gum wrappers. It's a little trampart piece, which I think is so fun and the color looks so pretty in this bookcase. And then this is my favorite piece of studio pottery I've ever found. It has some little people crafted into the top of the pottery, two lip taper holders and then some books. Another studio pottery that I love, cute. It could be like a little storage box as well. And I love how the artwork in here and the bookcases and decor can kind of be interchanged as I find things that I like. So I can just swap them out on the nails or like swap them out of the frames. And this kind of just gives me a setting for the pieces that I find. And I cannot wait to share this space with you. I love my office so much. So let me reveal it to you guys in three, two. You guys enjoyed this makeover. It was for myself a little bit of a challenging one. I'm not gonna lie, on the light and the artwork I was struggling for probably like a week and a half, two weeks. I was constantly looking every day for inspiration. I just didn't know what I wanted to do to like fill the back wall, but I really love the pieces that I found. So some of these might swap out here or there and something else I wanna say, I'll be getting a new desk chair. I tried working in this last night, like actually working now that I have a light in here. And it's great for like a 30 minute session, but for a four hour editing session, I think I need something a little bit more comfortable, you know? So I'll be browsing Facebook Marketplace to find something for back there, but I'll just use this probably in a bedroom or something. It's such a beautiful chair. So I actually love that I have it. And yeah, I hope that you guys loved this video. And I did want to mention at the end of this, we had a vintage drop over on loanfox.com like two weeks ago. However, I forgot to share it on the channel. Like I didn't share it. I only posted it on Instagram.  Check out loanfox.com and just click the vintage tab at the top. That will show you all of the vintage items that were part of the drop. I think you guys loved this one. And we, I think, are going to be diving into Marie's bedroom next. That's going to be our next space. And I also wanna quickly thank you guys so much for all the sweet comments on Trevor's apartment. And I love, love working on small spaces and the architecture in his apartment was just so beautiful. So I think it turned out incredible. And I'll catch you all in my next one. Have an amazing rest of your day. Bye guys.


How's it going guys and welcome to this little secondary set up I got going on right here is using a lot of the stuff from my first setup And I have it set up in a separate area of my room I decided that I wanted to show you guys some of these really interesting slip cast molds that are a variety of different ages my fiancee's mom actually got these from a lady who was collecting them for about 30 years and This is one of them and if we zoom in right here We can actually see that this one right here was manufactured all the way back in 1977 it looks like by Duncan Enterprises I'm not really sure what that is, but you know if they're around still that'd be kind of cool So it says TM 19a you can see from the age. There's a pitting inside of the actual Kind of lettering right here And if we go ahead and have some dirt falling out it's going to zoom in on that real quick if we move over here we can actually Open this up Which reveals that this is a mold for a toucan And we're gonna be cleaning this out real good today because these have been sitting outside before she got them for quite a large amount of time these are very old and Surprisingly they're still able to be actually used so we're going to be cleaning this up And then you know eventually if you guys want to see we'll fill this up with some slip and then in another video I'll show you the outcome, but just in this video. We're going to do a really nice clean Let's go ahead and get started so for the cleaning I'm just going to be using some bristly kind of paintbrushes of different thicknesses and I'm going to be kind of getting out all of this dirt from the cracks and whatnot So let's go ahead and start doing that You see there's like this little kind of thing in here That's kind of you never know if that's like a bug egg or something. I have no idea what that is It's just like a little rock a little pocket of dirt in there So we knock that out I Would have been terrified to get All of this stuff on here on this white thing before I changed it Because it would have completely ruined it, but this is going to be my my dirty setup So I'm not too worried about that right now I'd like to have some thicker brushes but the setup tools are the work tools that I wanted to use I wasn't able to find them So we're using a little bit of lighter brushes today So a lot of the kind of work that we're going to have to do I'm getting a lot of the harder stuff off It's going to take a little bit longer Like all of this discoloration and stuff none of this stuff is going to come off. This is very old and it's It's it's old so you're not going to get anything perfect But you are going to be able to get a lot of this dirt out of here and anything that has like I have some stuff right there anything that has like you know Harder pieces Will show up in the mold actually so you're not going to want that And I'm going to try to clean that out as good as possible So as you can see right there, it looks loads better than before There's still probably some work that should be done on it, but you know, you can only do what you can do, right? so here's this one do a light kind of general wipe off and take one of these smaller brushes and try to stipple out the Kind of extra stuff in here. You can see some of the dust probably on camera Tends to kind of flake off a little bit It's probably because it's what it's made out of but It's amazing that since you know, I'm just barely rubbing it You can see these these dusts and particles coming off that these things haven't completely just like disintegrated through Sitting for such a long amount of time You can see I'm Getting a little bit of that off the beak right there Trying to get it to work. It's a little bit more clean push that out of there Thinking about ordering some other tools off of Amazon rather than completely destroying all these brushes but Let's go ahead and take this bigger one now. I'm kind of go in here and See things don't really matter. These are the things to line up the mold correctly You see I'm gonna zoom down a little bit This is a lot of the stuff that ended up coming out of it. I'm gonna go back up and Lock the camera down A lot of that stuff that was in there ended up coming out as you see now Outside of some of it see this is actually slip that was in it before and slip is the clay and you see There's a little bit stuck on there from the last time it was used And you see this is why you don't do this. So what I just did with that if you notice so we zoom in right there Actually make it a scratch mark and That scratch mark can show up inside of the actual like you know mold once you pour it in there And this is how it actually works. Let me zoom back in my camera's being funky So you put these two pieces together, right and then through the bottom portion right here You actually pour the slip down into here and you set it upside down you wrap around some rubber bands or something Hold it there pour the slip in and then you pour it out very quickly after a certain amount of time and Then it will adhere to this because this type of material is kind of Porcelainy kind of material it absorbs the moisture and helps to cling to the inside and then After it is kind of gelled or you know kind of stiffened you can peel it out of there and then fire it in a kiln So yeah, that's a little bit of information here on These kind of interesting Molds I'm gonna do a series on these and there's a lot more of these that are significantly dirtier like very dirty caked in mud and dirt and Dead bugs and I want to clean them out. I want to see how good we can do this And then once we get these slip all set up. I want to See what comes out What do you guys think? Let me know in the comments below if you want to see more and I'm really excited to be able to show you guys these things these things are literally a once-in-a-lifetime see you will not find probably this same thing on the internet anywhere else because of the age and whatnot But yeah, huge shout out to my patreon. Thank you guys so much for your support. You guys are awesome Even to this video don't forget to comment rate and subscribe feel free to check out my patreon I've got a multitude of tears that can help me support the channel, you know buying the brushes But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you in the next video


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It was kind of pretty too, and we were in no hurry, so every few hours we stopped and got down into the shade of some little hill and had ourselves a smoker too. I don't understand it, Mr. Dillon. I understand what, Chester? Well, sir, if the Santa Fe Railroad had to start a town like Dodge at all, why didn't they do it down here? This country ain't at all borsam. I agree with you, Chester. Well, there's one thing, though. This is a better outlaw country. A man can keep out of sight and mighty easy among these hills. Oh, that reminds me. What? It's all kind of an animal. I saw some antelope tracks headed toward the other side of this hill. I just might sneak up there and have a look. Well, you sure do with some fresh meat? Yeah. What rifle did you bring, Mr. Dillon? Springfield 45. 10,000 yards. Providing I hid it. If you can't just give me a yell, I'll come help you. Good hunting. Not an antelope in sight. But he was shooting at me, Chester. What? He hit you? Can you see him? If I cut out, I had a bullet in him. You didn't see him at all? I saw the smoke from his rifle. Maybe you hit him? If I didn't, it came off all close. Can I take a look now? You better stay where you are. What was he shooting at you for, Mr. Dillon? I'll ask him when we get close enough, Chester. We'll skirt that hill to our left there and come up on his flank. I don't like getting bushwhacked. Well, that's where he was, Chester, behind that clump of beard grass there. Well, he sure ain't there now. Yeah, I guess I didn't hit him after all. I don't see no sign of blood. No, but we can track him anyway. You ride to one side and I'll follow his trail. All right, sir. I'll out if you see anything at all, Chester. Yes, sir, I sure will. Here's where he had his horse. Now, by having those are mule tracks. Hey, look, beyond them trees there, Mr. Dillon. There's a little stream over there. Yeah, that's big enough to hide his tracks. All he has to do is ride down the middle of it. 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Well, he hasn't shot at us yet. That's chancet, huh? Walk right up there. Okay. Well, I'm back beyond that wagon, Mr. Dillon. Yeah.  Well, there must be somebody home. I hope they don't come out shooting. How do you do, ma'am? What do you want? We're looking for your husband. Is he home? We don't know who people are out here, mister. My name's Dillon, and, uh, it's Chester Proudfoot. I do, ma'am. Never heard of you. Who are the strangers here? This ain't a good place to be, mister. You better keep riding. We, uh... We gotta talk to your husband first, ma'am. Who do you John ways, Liza? Well, there's a couple of strangers standing here, Mr. Peavy. We got nothing for strangers. They want to talk to you. Get them away from the door. I'll come outside and talk to them. Mr. Peavy said to get away from the door. All right, ma'am. He's coming out now. You stay here, Liza, and keep Paul out of the way, too. You may want to see what's going on. Go back to your room, Paul. You carry that rifle like a Blue Ridge Mountain, ma'am, Mr. Dillon? Yeah. My wife says you want to talk to me. What about? Your name's Peavy? Albin Peavy? I'm not Dillon, Peavy. They don't mean nothing to me. I'm a lawman, U.S. Marshal. They don't mean nothing to me, neither.  Cracked me? What for? Because I don't like getting shot at.  I said we tracked you here. What difference does that make? I didn't do no shooting, and you can't prove I did.   Why should I try to kill you? It don't make sense to kill a man you don't even know. I never shot at a man without causing my life, and that's the truth. Anything else you want to tell me? No, except to leave me alone. All right. Come on, Justin. Mr. Dillon, you can't let him get... Come on, I said. He's gonna ride off and let him get by with this, Mr. Dillon. We're gonna ride off, Chester, but we'll be back in the morning. We'll be back every day for a week if we have to. Well, it's empty, Mr. Dillon, and his wagon's gone, too. Maybe Ms. Phoebe's inside. Let's tie our horses here, Chester. Why, sir? She might even give us some coffee. You know, these Phoebe's ain't exactly the most hospitable folks I ever come across. Well, maybe they'll improve when they get used to us. More likely they'll shoot us first. Wait a minute, Chester. Come on. Over there, coming around that hill. Ms. Phoebe's wagon. Who's that driving them mules? That's a woman. Probably Ms. Phoebe. Where do you suppose they've been? I'll shoot them strangers, probably. They'd be better off if they spent their time fixing this place up some. It's going plum to ruin. Phoebe's got other things on his mind, Chester. Yeah, he sure has. He acts like a man riding shotgun, doesn't he? I'm fancy letting his woman do all the work. Whoa! They'll steam. Morning, Phoebe. Ma'am. I thought I told you to leave us alone. You did? Then what are you doing back there? I thought you might be a little more friendly than you were yesterday. I guess I was wrong. I ain't got time to be friendly. No? Marshal, I'll tell you straight out so you won't get any wrong ideas. There's a man in that wagon. What? He's dead. Shot dead. And we're going to bury him now. Who is he? His name don't matter. But I didn't shoot him. You can go look if you want. He's been dead most of the day now. What are you doing with him? I found him laying out there. So as I got the wagon and brought him in, I'm going to bury him. You're going to a lot of trouble, Phoebe. Why? I found a man laying dead on the ground. I ain't going to ride off and leave him there. Where did you find him? Out that way a few miles. What difference it make? None, maybe. Do you want some help? We don't need no help, Marshal. All right, we'll leave you to your work. Let's get our horses tested. We rode off in the opposite direction the Peeleys had come. Made a circle and picked up their wagon tracks about a half a mile from the cabin. It was an easy trail to follow. And an hour later we found the spot where they picked up the body. It proved what I'd suspected all along. So we turned around and rode back toward the Peeley cabin. We were about a mile from it when we saw an old man and a woman ahead of us. Both armed and both riding mules. They've seen this, Mr. Dillon. They're stopping. Good. They don't look none too friendly, neither do they. Nobody does around here. US Marshal from Dodge. Name's Dillon. Looking for somebody? Maybe. What's your name? Cade. Jack Cade. And here's my wife, Ellen. You need us, you're looking for. You live around here, Cade? A few miles from here. Alban Peeley, a friend of yours? Not hardly.  Now, if you're not friends, what are you doing here, Cade? Man can ride where he pleases. Sure, but when a man and his wife start out carrying rifles and are headed for Alban Peeley's place, it might be different. You keep out of this, Marshal. Us Cades don't need no lonely. Who is it, Cade? Your son? What's he know about Ben?  I'll do the talking. Ben, huh? Is that it, Cade?  All right, you're so smart, I'll tell you. A man like Peeley don't deserve to live. He killed Ben and he stole him. Run off with his body. Man can't get lower than that. How do you know he killed him? I found Ben last night, that's how. Last night? I couldn't handle him alone, so I went home after Ellen. Then he got dark and we had to wait there till morning. And he was gone, but then... I knew it was Alban Peeley stole him and he killed him too. He's gonna die for it.  Ellen's as good a shot as I am, Marshal. Look, Cade, if Peeley killed your son, I don't blame you for being mad, but he must have had some reason for killing him. It ain't none of your bother, Marshal. I keep telling you. All right, I'll have to make it, my brother. Don't move, Cade, you're covered.  That is sneaky, ain't ya? Get a rifle, Chester. I'll take yours, Cade. Go ahead. We've got another rifle. A home? And I'll get it, too. You're not going home, Cade. 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What'd you let him get the drop on us for? I didn't see him.  Chester, bring him back here. What are you up to, anyway? I want to explain something to you, PV, and to Jack Cade and his wife, too. Cade?  I gotta get my rifle. They're not armed. We took their rifles. He's right, Mr. PV. They ain't armed.  You move, and I'll bend my gun barrel over your head, PV. Look at that, Marshall. He's burying him. PV's burying my boy. Is that who it is, PV? Is it Ben Cade? Well, tell me. Well, what's the difference now? It's Ben Cade. Why didn't you leave him? Why did you bring him here? There's another grave here, Marshall. You can't see it. I fixed it so nobody can see it. What? Two months ago, Ben Cade shot my son. Before he died, I promised I'd someday bury Ben nearby, and that's what I'm doing. It's your boy's own fault he got shot. If he had been hounding, Ben, it wouldn't have happened. So that's what this feud's all about, huh? It ain't over yet, Marshall.  Now, wait a minute, Cade. PV, I want to ask you something. Well? Is Ben Cade for killing your son? Is that right? That's right. And now he's dead, you're satisfied? That's all I want. You don't matter who killed him.  I'll kill him for it if it takes ten years. Well, you're wasting your time. The feud's over, gentlemen. What? I killed Ben Cade. What are you talking about? He hit me from ambush. He thought I was PV stalking him. So I fired back, and I must have hit him. But he didn't die until he got across that stream where you found his body. We tracked him as far as the bank, and then I got smart and picked up a trail that came out down below. I thought it was Ben's. But of course it was PV's. Yeah, true. PV, you didn't shoot him? I never claimed to did. You can't blame the marshal, Cade. No. He had to defend himself. But I ain't blaming him. I'm sorry it happened, Cade. But now maybe both of you men are ready to agree that there's been enough killing around here. What do you say, PV? 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Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE, covering Oracle Cloud World, brought to you by Oracle. Now your hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live here in Washington D.C. for a special presentation of theCUBE. Here for Oracle Cloud World, hashtag Cloud World. This is theCUBE, Silicon Angles flagship program. When we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise, I'm John Furrier, my co-host Dave Vellante, special guest, CUBE alumni, Sean Price, and your vice president of Oracle Cloud. Welcome back to theCUBE. CUBE alumni? CUBE alumni, that's fantastic, thank you. Last time you were tech athlete, but now you've been on a race. Last time tech athlete, this time CUBE alumni. CUBE alumni, plus now CUBE alumni. Okay, I love it, great to see you. You've been running hard. You guys, we last spoke with Oracle Open World.  Give us the update. Obviously the keynote here, pretty smashing. You're delivering, Oracle's delivering, the meat on the bone. This is the cloud machine, cloud at customer, and bringing it inside out, bringing it to the data center. Real interesting, a different approach. Not follow the leader or follow someone else. What's the update? Give us a quick update. I think the net is, if you look, people thought we were late. I think they thought we were late against an old yardstick to be perfectly candid. If they described our business as a small best of breed or maybe as an infrastructure provider, or maybe as a platform provider, yeah, arguably you'd have pockets of functionality. I think what's becoming crystal clear in the market, both in terms of what Mark and Safra and Larry announced in our Q3 earnings, almost 740 million on a bookings basis growing 70% year over year, is that this strategy is resonating with the market. And what's different about it is that it's pre-contemplated applications connected through platform as a service, operated on infrastructure, and now extending that from the public cloud to the public cloud machine and into on-prem. I mean, really it's becoming apparent. It was interesting too. I asked Mark, heard this when I interviewed him about the new generation of millennials and workers, and he talked about that generational gap and that you guys are feeling, but I kind of want to bring that up in context to people who don't know Oracle. Don't know that there's only been really two major shifts in its history up until now, its third shift, where they had to essentially change and win, and all two times, they're two or no. So now I'm saying, I said to Dave, I predict Oracle will be in the top three easily because this shift is about winning. It's clear that Oracle wants to win and go three and O. What's your take? Do you agree with that? Top three? Okay, come on. Top three? Number one. Number one, man, number one. Come on, you're gonna give it to me. So to win. Yeah, I think that you're absolutely right. There has never been a greater transformation in Oracle's history with more upside and consequence if we don't get it right. And this is a transformation that's occurring across every function of our business. You look at our sales and what we're doing to incentivize performance in the cloud. If you look at our consulting organizations, you look at us culturally.  Go live, use the subscription, gain value. Or the economic model that is predicated on doesn't work. So across every function driven top down, we're shifting. I think we have an advantage too. I mean, we've been historically as a culture driven in many ways through Larry's vision, Mark, Safra, Thomas, and when they call go right, we go right. And so to make that transformation, there's not a lot of... They don't make that call very often. They stay with stuff. They don't say go left, right, they don't say exact. But when they make it, we make it, we go right. So Dave and I talk about this all the time. I want to give you thoughts on this because we look at the data, you know we're data driven. We're looking at how do you benchmark Oracle's progress far, okay? Some in the industry are saying, ah, Oracle's just playing games with the numbers and their product leadership really isn't there. Obviously there's always going to be naysayers. But the proof's always in the pudding, right? So I want to ask you the direct question. We know you do well on Oracle. Oracle on Oracle has great performance advantages. You got engineered systems. You got that game locked up in my opinion. Something that may think differently. I think you're solid there. The proof will be in new customers. So are you winning new Oracle customers? Ones that have never touched Oracle, the cloud natives. What's the deal there? Because that ultimately is the proof of product leadership. I'm happy to tell you that by all means we're winning new customers. And we're winning new customers from new segments. Think about this. ERP in the cloud is the most mission critical app in the world. You would be, that would probably be one of the last things you would think if you were conservative that you would move. In our most recent quarter we announced more than 150 plus net new customers out of 330 who did not have Oracle footprint. And I think it's never had any Oracle. No Oracle, brand new. Here's another one. I love this one. So you think about SMB, mid-size. They would never think of Oracle, the big transformational company on-prem as really the infrastructure. Companies like Stripe, I'm sure you know them. 2009, $25 million valuation. Today, $5 billion. E-commerce engine behind Apple Pay and Alibaba. And Grouchette. Exactly. They chose our cloud ERP in financials and HCM because they saw scalability from an embryonic state to post-public and the complexity was in the currency and the geo and the expansion. So not only is it new customers doing mission critical things in new segments, but they're also adding suites. They're adding, you know, Q2 a year ago. Growth customers. Growth customers. Yeah, beautiful. So we've had guests on theCUBE, Sean, even just a couple of years ago. Guests in the financial services industry say, that's a cloud bad word. We will never go to the cloud. Nobody in the financial services would go to the cloud. You just mentioned ERP. Never take ERP to the cloud. That's changing. Why is it changing? And what's the CXO's perspective on that? Particularly, I guess, the CFO when you're talking ERP. Yeah, it's amazing, you know. This is a market, first off, that's in hyper growth, that's extending its hand to change. And really it's driven off three things. The first is operating efficiency. For years, people bought ERP. They took years to implement. They customized it till it was unrecognizable. Then they pounded on our door for innovation and took more years to consume. And they said, you know what? The operating model shifted underneath. It's too expensive. And so the first real driver for change from the CFO is around operating efficiency and how do I put innovation back into the engine? And so upgrade avoidance, moving that investment to the cloud. But by far the biggest is an operating model change. If you think about the gaming industry, for example, three years ago, they were focused on in their ERP. How do I source raw material? How do I build cartridges? How do I get truck optimization and then sell through retail? Fast forward three short years, it's all direct to consumer digital. 77% of the largest gaming company in Earth and Q1 announced that number. What does that infrastructure and on-prem have to do with that? And you can go down the list by industry, by vertical and by operating model shift to see that change. And you gave an example in your talk about social data. You gave an example of a retailer using Pinterest. I know who that retailer is. You didn't use their name. I won't use their name either. But amazing results that we've seen. A whole DevOps culture of mind shift. So what is that cultural shift that you're seeing in your customer base and within Oracle? I think you'd be crazy not to harness the power of the consumer and the people that actually work and interact with your company and your brand, NetNet. And the company you were describing is a retailer that has effectively blended brick and mortar with mobile and internet retail. But what they've done is they've mined the data to say, you know, if you like something on Pinterest, shouldn't that inform my merchandising? And so they're taking it up a level beyond just infrastructure for compute storage and network or platform or even an app and reimagining that with real client data. I think data is the next frontier too. If you think about it, today I have 70 million subscribers that do 33 billion transactions a day. Shouldn't I have a point of view on what indexes correlate together to give me a KPI on what merchandising optimization looks like or millennial turnover in retail? You're talking about Oracle's visibility. Oracle's visibility, yeah. I mean, it's pretty cool.  I mean, what we're doing across four tiers compared to the rest of the market that's so highly fragmented is remarkable. Data as a service. So you talked earlier about the operating model. The interesting thing about the announcement that you made today with the Oracle Cloud Machine is that it fundamentally brings an identical operating model for on-prem and off-prem. That's unique. I don't think we've ever seen that before. What does that mean to the customer? What's the business impact? I think there's two things. Portability and where you run it so I can move DevTest into the cloud, develop it and run it back behind the firewall seamlessly and because the architecture is the same as important. But the second thing people miss is that we've got an ecosystem of partners. I've got some partners with 50,000 certified Oracle consultants and 21,000 Java developers who are already on-prem. Looking for a way to bridge. People miss this ecosystem multiplier and it's happening. And so I think cost, I think similar skill sets, I think it allows the flexibility around regulatory compliance that may not allow me to go to the public cloud and implies portability across all. It's really the last mile to tie all of it together. You have mentioned Test Dev in your talk. Why would anybody do Test Dev not in the cloud? Yeah, Mark said in his last keynote, we believe by 2020, 100% of all App Dev tests in the cloud will be there. I mean, why would you? It's remarkable. Sean, I want to give you thoughts as we wrap up the segment on what I mentioned earlier about this generational gap. It really is a major shift. Obviously, when you talk about all the time, we love it. This is a historical revolutionary shift in technology business. Some of the biggest technology companies, we believe, won't even be technology companies. They'll be enabled by Oracle. You mentioned Stripe, others. That's the trend of the digital transformation where non-tech companies can be tech companies through their own innovation. But now the new generation of buyers, the millennials or whatever you want to call them, the cloud needs like my daughter, they're on Snapchat doing geo filters, all this stuff. It's a new consumption, how they consume digital assets, how they make buying decisions, how they run their businesses. What's your observation? Can you share your perspective on how you guys maintain the people who are older guys like guys like us and the new generation? What is that generation? And is Oracle generational company and how are they fixing this gap? Oracle's a multi-generational company and the transformation isn't just the domain of a millennial or a older generation. It's a fundamental response to the customer. I mean, think about how we start our buyer's journey. You bought anything that you haven't gone online or into your social network to say, anybody tried this? Think about what rates high and then where do you get the information? I don't call someone in to present it to me, I look online to get my data and then I start my buyer's journey. And so we have to reimagine a new buyer's journey. We have to reimagine what success constitutes in particular around advocacy. Because if you do it right, you get this beautiful flywheel effect where your customers are and affect your advocate who are at the beginning of the buyer's journey. And we're the customers in this progression, this journey. Where are they? Mid-stage, how deep are they? What's the progress? By industry and those that are dependent on consumer are very far along. They're very sophisticated in their marketing cloud, in how they're interpreting and mining the data and how they're interacting with service offerings, independent of channel, how they've moved from verbal to digital communication and how they've changed their processes to support that. Other industries are less further along but quite candidly in a bit of an urgent state because they're not immune. I can't think of an industry or business that's immune. So it's safe to say everyone's digitizing everything. Everyone has to digitize. That's our mojo, we love that. Digitize the cube, we're doing it now. Sean, thanks so much and congratulations. You made a lot of progress. If I'll give you the final word, what should customers and partners expect from Oracle in your department this coming year? I think the two things, we've got an incredible opportunity to sit down and leverage what it is that we know. I would ask our customers to sit down with us, look at the new Oracle. We've got vertical market offerings. We want to show you the 80% use cases, the best practices on how to adopt, how to implement it transparently and let us share with you the progress that we've made. It's been an incredible journey. Sean Price, the cloud leader at Oracle. This is the cube. We'll be right back with more live coverage from DC after this short break.


Bill Gates was on Fox News Sunday this last weekend. He was there to promote his new book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. If this interview is anything like the book, Mr. Gates has a deep flaw in his solutions and ideas about the future. It's not his fault. Most people are working under the same assumption. We can just electrify everything and continue business as usual. This is wrong, however. I've seen no evidence that we can generate enough clean electricity to simply switch from fossil fuels to renewables. And I'm completely in favor of using solar, wind, geothermal and other green energy production, but we just can't generate our way out of this crisis. Two years ago, I wrote an essay in response to the Green New Deal called The Low-Tech New Deal. In it, I do the math about solar generation and found that we have to cover the state of New York in solar panels to give us enough power to fuel our energy hungry lives. This is just an illustration, as other energy sources would obviously come into play. But the real problem is an energy generation, but instead it's our energy use. And I encourage you to read that Low-Tech New Deal for more information on that. But today we're going to talk about Bill Gates and his interview on Fox News Sunday. So let's break this down into a few different parts. First, they talk about Texas's power crisis. This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America. If the Biden administration is going to try to eradicate fossil fuels in the United States, every state is going to constantly have challenges like what America has seen take place in Texas right now. And government Abbott's ludicrous claim that green energy sources were at fault for the Texas power outage has been thoroughly debunked, and we don't need to get into that here. The problem in this discussion, though, is that everybody involved is simply accepting the idea of long-distance energy generation and transmission as the only way to power a state or community. There is a reliability issue that will have to design the system, including more transmission. You know, Texas over time will want to connect up so that when it does get shorted just, it's able to draw on other parts of the country. Yes, of course. If in our current state of affairs, Texas has been connected with the eastern or western power grids of the U.S. this problem might have been avoided not only because of the available external energy coming into Texas, but also because it would have regulated these companies to be more resilient and fair to their customers. Imagine, however, if long-distance transmission was a secondary backup power source instead of the primary. And this is personal for me. I have family in Texas who are without power and are still boiling their water. So what if instead of having energy plants far away and long-distance transmission lines as the primary source of energy in our grid, we had instead community micro grids tied to independent small and medium-scale production sites. These micro grids could be tied together so that if one community's wind turbine went down, the neighbors might be able to provide the needed energy. In this scenario, the large production plants would only provide backup power. A single U.S. wind turbine, a completely average one of 1.6 megawatts, can produce enough power for 460 homes on a monthly basis according to the USGS. If our little village of Cooksville, where we live, had a wind turbine on the outskirts, we could power all 30 or so homes here plus provide plenty of power for the surrounding countryside. Or we could have 10 acres of solar panels in poorly producing agricultural fields near the village and get the same amount of energy. Now, this is much more energy than what we'd need, which means that when our wind and solar are producing extra, we can transmit that to other communities where it's cloudy or calm. Power companies don't want this idea to take hold because they can make money by controlling the large production plants and the long transmission power lines as a dominant monopoly. If Texas had micro grids, this might have been a different story. Now, of course, one perceived problem with this micro grid and community generation approach is energy storage. But again, decentralization offers a solution. For example, in our home, we have a 10 kilowatt battery and 500 gallon hot water storage unit. If every house in our village had this, we could store 300 kilowatt hours and millions of BTUs for water and space heating. Frankly speaking, turning energy into stored heat in a water tank is much more efficient than saving energy as electrons. But if you consider this as a way to store energy, this distributed system coupled with super efficient wood stove fired by sustainably harvested firewood would provide enough heat and power even here in Wisconsin. Next they get into whether or not climate change exists and whether or not climate change is at fault here and we're not going to go through whether or not climate change is real. It is. But it's worth clarifying the point that Bill Gates tries to make. Well, the change in the wind pattern is allowing those cold fronts to come down from Canada more often. There's a pattern of wind that as you, as it gets warmer, that breaks down. The reason we're getting these extreme cold events in winter, while one might expect more mild conditions due to global warming, is simple. First, conditions on average are more mild. That is the warming and global warming. On average, our monthly temperatures are warmer. But we do get more extreme weather, but it's a short-term event. But that's what sticks in our mind is that extreme short-term cold weather event, not the warmer temperatures overall. So this is kind of a problem of human psychology and it makes it hard for us to understand climate change on a really intuitive level. So here we're getting more arctic air escaping because of warming temperatures. And I'll explain this with an analogy maybe you've experienced. Have you ever been swimming in a lake and you dive down below the top four or so feet of water and you feel that really cold underlying water? Well, you feel a line of demarcation between the warm surface water and the cold deeper water as a thermocline. This is the boundary between two adjacent but different bodies of water. And the reason the temperatures are so drastically different is because they don't mix. Other densities are different. And so this also happens in our atmosphere. The very cold masses of the polar regions were segregated from the warmer southern air because of the difference in density. They couldn't mix. They would hit, but they wouldn't mix. Now, as the arctic warms faster on a relative basis than the sub-polar regions, the temperatures are less different and then they start mixing. And occasionally the barrier between them breaks down and cold air streams into the southern areas. And we get these polar vortexes. So thanks to climate change and the warming arctic, the cold air that is there escapes and gives us colder snaps in the winter even if the average temperature in the winter is higher. So it's not easy to grasp this intuitively. Actually, it's counterintuitive, but it's so often misunderstood. I wanted to spend just one second talking about why. Another thing they talk about is if we change to a green, carbon-neutral economy, won't people lose their jobs? But the reality is that hundreds of thousands of people will lose their jobs, that the coal miners in West Virginia. And the short answer is yes, they will. And I'm tired of politicians and other prominent people trying to soft-pedal this issue. Here's Bill Gates, for example. Things that those workers do will be important. In fact, we're going to have to almost triple the size of the electric grid and build all that transmission. Frankly, I'm surprised because when this happened at another point in history, the capital-driven part of society that is business owners, the government, and other interests were too happy to put people out of work. And now here I'm talking about the Industrial Revolution, where many farmers, weavers, and other cottage industries went under because factories and fossil fuel-driven machines came online. The wealthy and the powerful were glad that people were out of these old jobs because they could work for less money in the factories. One of the first blog posts I wrote as part of the Low Technology Institute was in defense of Luddites, who you probably know about them when anyone talks about somebody who's technophobic. They're called a Luddite, right? Well, the Luddites raged against the changing economy during the Industrial Revolution, not the technology itself, but it was how the technology was changing their society. That was the problem. If we all agree that at some point in the future, fossil fuels shouldn't be part of our way of life, then why are we trying to subsidize jobs of yesterday? The answer is, like so many other problems, money, power, and politics. Now, as our economy must change on a fundamental basis, many of our jobs also have to change. And I argue that many of us would benefit from working 20 to 30 hours per week in our jobs and then spending 10 to 20 hours per week is the other production that we otherwise must outsource to others and pay for, just simply because we don't have the time to do them for ourselves. Some job sectors will be completely eliminated, while others will need more people. Becoming an electrician today, especially one that knows how to work with DC and solar panels, is a safe bet for future job security, but we don't hear about that nearly as much as the coal miner who is now out of a job. And this is not to mention that most coal job losses are due to the fact that large surface mines out west need less manpower to drive these huge machines than the previous underground mines. Production is up, but the job numbers are down, according to Brookings. So it's not the Green Power Revolution that would cause the loss of these fossil fuel jobs. They can decline because of market forces. If it's cheaper to automate, then these companies aren't going to keep people on the job just to keep them on the job. Bill Gates is putting forward a goal of zero missions by 2050. And he's saying that this is the soonest we could possibly get there, as opposed to 2030, like in the Green New Deal. There's no magic date that it's all great until then, and it's terrible once you cross the threshold. It's pretty linear as far as we know. 2050 happens to be the soonest realistic date for the world to change all of these source of missions, which are actually quite broader than most people are aware, because it's got things like steel and cement, not just cars and electricity. Mr. Gates is right in that it's going to be hard, and he does point out correctly that it isn't just transportation and energy production that causes greenhouse gas emissions. He's essentially saying that if we want to keep living as we are right now, it will take almost 30 years to transition our economy to zero emissions. He might be right on that timeline, but his premise is flawed. We can't keep living this way. Waiting 30 years for zero emissions is a death sentence for many species, ecosystems, and human communities, not to mention individuals. If that's the price we have to pay to keep driving, flying, and living in overheated, poorly insulated homes as we are right now, that cost is too high. The hard fact is that unless our way of life fundamentally changes, we can't make the carbon emission changes we want, and that is an unpopular opinion, and I don't hear anyone making that point because it is just so unpopular. We have to accept the fact that the next generation's lives will be fundamentally different than the previous generations. We can choose that to be a proactive shift in our society and our economy away from fossil fuels and emitting gases right now, or we can let the world continue to heat up as we try to maintain a grasp on the business as usual model as Mr. Gates is pushing. Now, Mr. Gates says that he is the imperfect messenger on this issue, and nobody's perfect. We're not perfect, nobody is. But it does make it somewhat problematic the way he frames it, so let's listen. That's absolutely right. I am offsetting my carbon emissions by buying clean aviation fuel and funding carbon capture and funding low-cost housing projects to use electricity instead of natural gas, and so I have been able to eliminate it, and it was amazing to me how expensive that was. That cost of being green, the green premium, we've got to drive that down. So Mr. Gates is freely admitting that he is an imperfect messenger on the green economy because he lives in a large house, or houses. He flies frequently and has other high emission tendencies. He counters this by stating that, well, I pay for it by buying carbon offsets, and it's surprisingly expensive, and I understand his argument that if he pays for the carbon he emits, its ill effects are counterbalanced. I get that mindset, but that's only true from a very narrow point of view, and it's not sustainable or an answer for the large-scale problem that we're facing. As most of us are not able to afford this method, and even if we could, we couldn't pay enough carbon offsets to counteract all of our emissions. If Mr. Gates wants to be a leader, he should model the behavior he wants to see. Mr. Gates goes on to address critics from the environmental movement who think more drastic cuts are needed. He calls net zero emissions by 2030 unrealistic because that approach doesn't reckon with the enormity of the changes necessary. But again, he's arguing for continuing our current way of life without drastic changes to our day-to-day lives, which is either shortsighted or disingenuous. As we'll see here, the only changes he mentions in our daily lives in this interview are climate-driven mass migrations and dealing with increasing natural disasters. How will our daily lives be different? Well, the migration that we saw out of Syria for their civil war, which was somewhat weather-dependent, we're going to have 10 times as much migration because the equatorial areas will become unlivable. You won't be able to farm or go outside during the summer. The wildfires, even the farming productivity in the south of the U.S., the droughts will reduce productivity very dramatically. I'll give Mr. Gates the benefit of the doubt because I have not read his book, but unless he has real concrete steps that individual households and communities must take to fundamentally change their way of life to one that is more resilient, self-sufficient, and completely different from today's energy-intensive way of life, he has misdiagnosed the problem facing us as one of not enough green energy available when the real problem is we're addicted to using too much energy. I'd be glad to speak to Mr. Gates or anybody about this. Please leave your reactions and comments below, but keep in mind that facts, figures, and concrete proposals will win the day. Just sticking your head in the sand and denying the future crisis is not a response, saying, I don't want that to be my future. I'm sorry, there are facts on the ground that just say we have to do something. And so, you know, send me your concrete proposals on how we can keep living the way we do. So my name is Scott Johnson, and I'm from the Low Technology Institute, a 501c3 research organization in order to find ways to houth, clothe, and feed ourselves in a future without fossil fuels. If we had money, we'd put it where our mouth is. So if you'd like to support us, please visit our website, lowtechinstitute.org, and see how you can help us. You'll find all kinds of practical, down-to-earth solutions for you, your family, and your community to build resilience into your everyday lives. Thanks for watching.