Boom welcome back to the 21 convention 2022 of Orlando, Florida being held a 21 summit 16-year anniversary of the 21 convention and 21 studios Our next speaker is a returning speaker to 21 summit and the 21 convention He's actually one of the most popular speakers We have ever had on our channel alone 21 studios and his videos from our previous speeches They have about 8 million 8 and a half million views now Which is huge one of the biggest speakers we've ever had and he on his own has over I think 300,000 followers on YouTube Tiktok Instagram all over the place. He's the author of free agent lifestyle and devolution His good friend of our event one of the best speakers we ever had please let me welcome back to the stage Coach Greg Adams All right, here we go man, this is gonna be just like a live stream with you tune into me every day I produce about six hours of content Per day on the weekday. I mean I'm on on all right pushing content edits Tiktok Instagram, and I'm a 46 year old man. I mean, I'm in a territory. I'm in a game That's a young person's game, but I've turned into This trying to bring a message to to men to give a little bit of understanding some wisdom Background information a little bit of his story.  It's gonna be some things missing. You're like, what about when coach? But we're gonna talk about dating right dating relationships marriage. This is kind of how everything works, right?  And then we got a counter all of that with this heightened sense of I need to procreate I need to go ahead and smash them guts. You know what? I mean, I need to bust that nut It's just a whole convoluted situation where it should be easy Dating should be easy, right? It's easy. You like me. I like you Let's just make a happy home But how many people in here just a show of hands? No, you don't have to admit anything How many people in here are dating? You can raise your hand here. You're in the dating marketplace We have a couple people here. How many here are married? Oh, I got something for y'all too. So don't worry about that. We got the merry folk in here How many people are celibates your celibate? Okay, nobody and how many people buy a bit Okay, yeah, you all buy a bit. We're just gonna go ahead and tell you that right now All right, if you marry or dating you all buy a bit We gonna clear that up, but let's talk about this I think this is always an interesting Conversation for people who are in a dating marketplace. There's a lot of things people can give you information This is how you could be a better man. This is how you could be a better woman This is what you should accept not accept. This is how you should go about Presenting yourself in the marketplace. There's a lot of things going on. You got coaches I'm not a dating coach But I kind of just look at the the environment and give men the best position for themselves at least give them a reality check A lot of people think I try to correct women. All right, I'm not in the business to correct women, right? That's like herding kittens Right, it's like going to the bottom of the ocean with a mop and trying to just mop it dry All right, that's not what I'm trying to do. All right now listen. I Don't try to change them. I just tell them what they are and I describe them It's not anything that they can try to debate. They might feel negative about it, but I'm not trying to hurt their feelings I spend a lot of time around women When I was a college basketball coach, I coached women's basketball. Okay, I traveled with them Fly I was the only male when I was a head coach at Division 2. I was in charge I was an associate head coach at a Division 1 University So I was next person in charge and I did that for about 15 years Then I also have four sisters. I also had a wife at one particular point and I have a daughter So I spent and a mother obviously spent a lot of time with women now. I'm a Libra. I Like things to be straightforward I'm very logical. I don't like to play games around there. You know, we balance the scales Just just give it to me straight ma'am. Sir. Just give it to me straight I don't have time to figure all of these things out and emotions aren't a big thing for me So I'm gonna just say that right now Because people can use emotions to manipulate Manipulate we're not great at emotions. I'm gonna just let you know that right now as men We don't thrive in that environment because we're not social creatures per se. We are as human beings pretty social But in terms of women, they are very social. They have to run impacts They have to protect themselves. They actually be able to have to pass information back and forth to each other Just so they can stay on the same page or what we call on code So when they manipulate it is not evil although some things can appear evil They are doing it for their survival, right? That's why they're doing it the same thing as we use some sort of rage or we make ourselves bigger We look to appear bigger. This is for survival And if they can't manipulate in a certain instance in dating they don't survive in The game of life is survival of the fittest Okay, pass those genes on Okay, the strong survive and that's what this dating game is about But unfortunately for the people who raised their hand that said they were in the dating game, man Is it tough or is it easy?  All right, they didn't raise their hand. It's a difficult Confusing convoluting. It's a little weird. It gets a little weird. So we're gonna take you to My interpretation my historical presentation on What happened to dating? Normally in my show I have a soundboard I actually have two and I would be playing noises right now as I'm talking and I miss that Because I would be hitting you with the Undertaker Bell right now, but it is what it is. Okay The day that dating died Apologies if there's any errors in spelling here. All right. So if you've enjoyed my show, I've taken you taking you through this chart Which is the shark infested waters of what I call the iceberg theory of dating Okay, and what you'll see over here is pre Right there on the on the far side, which will be on your left Post at the bottom people miss that part.  You also will look at attraction Or I'll have her for a night However, that is but these things are important Chronological age seems to be very important for men and this is jit. This is biologically Okay, although the current world we're gonna talk about this why they killed it is they're trying to change all the rules of nature and They're trying to put it on you because they can change the rules because you're horny and You'll adapt to whatever the rules are that's called brief Oates law women set the rules of Association men follow Okay, and so what they're doing is changes the rule so chronological age was important It isn't now for simps or men who can't control their Biological urges. So now you are over here men. You see you say this is you and This is before you nut You're in the boat and you got a rod Hopefully all you got one attached to you right now.  You're not in your right mind biologically the blood goes from here To you know where So it can function.  You're less logical You don't think you will make mistakes that you wouldn't make when you were in your logical mindset Okay, so that's what's happening here. So that's what you got your rod out here now Obviously, there's danger out here Don't lie to yourself There's a lot of things that can happen to you just by engaging in the female with the female here dating You have societal pressures. Okay, that can be just about anything from me to assault allegations Is your girl attractive? Do you have the right type of girl? Are you gonna marry her? Are you gonna make an honest woman out of her?   You didn't make this work. You violated her She didn't feel good. She didn't feel safe. Nothing's gonna be her fault. It's gonna be your fault. Okay, next thing is the government see Government smartened up around the 1900s and they said we need to get involved in every single one of these Relationships okay, we need to get involved and I'm gonna show you how they got involved early on in The transactional relationships and marriages. Okay, so you have the government. That's obviously gonna get involved to play the intermediary they also can They also can benefit financially from these arrangements. They're gonna get involved STD's obviously you have that to worry about anytime. You don't strap up. You're taking a risk Anytime you mess with somebody who's promiscuous, you're taking a risk Although that's not a problem in our society today. Historically, we've gone over that. Don't worry about all that.  We just let you live with it and It's not her fault. It's your fault. You didn't keep it in your pants Although women carry more STIs than men How do we rationalize that isn't that weird? What about this pregnancy? Obviously if you knock her up It was your fault.  I Don't worry about that Robo. She don't ask. Oh, she didn't ask to put on the condom. Oh, she didn't ask me Okay, I'm a go in the road that red light. All right, you getting your couple of thrust in she feels you Expanding with wise. She knows what's about to happen. She said daddy let her in Go ahead and let it go ahead and go inside. Oh Baby, she whispers right in your ear. You about to get that last couple of thrust in just let it roar daddy You're on birth control, right?  Oh, you are now you want to shoot first and ask questions later See now she gets knocked up. It's Your fault Should have asked for all of that beforehand. You should have known about her reputation, right? Now you got the pay or you can be Excommunicated from that family she can say well now that I have the baby I'm just gonna go ahead and take it you you fight me for it, right? These are a lot of things that we try to work backwards Last one is marriage That's the danger shark So if you do engage in a marriage the government's gonna be involved in it so as the rest of the society in the community everybody's gonna be involved and invested in your marriage and Many people that don't have access to women will use marriage as a way to access the woman Okay, especially early on If he was horny there was a lot of times you just couldn't go get no woman like we can do today We could just get on swipe swipe swipe. All right, let me just go ahead and fulfill that need This is a new time Before there was a lot of things in society will tell you you have to make that girl a honest woman She's not a hoe She ain't no 304 in these streets So you need to do your best in order to get access to her and you will say I'll do whatever this is pre-nut Okay. Now post-nut is What we call full clarity.  It feels good. Now the things that that woman is is Going to now affect you in a major way and a lot of guys underestimate these things But they become important After you've achieved that all of a sudden you're worried about these things all of a sudden these things matter now for the woman's defense side They're gonna say well, you should ask me these things and why did you do this and you should have told me and I don't it's your fault If she's the little cray-cray, right? We deal with a little crazy comes right But is she marital dribble material?   So I always tell men. Nah, man. Nah, don't talk to it. Don't talk about her now.  Physical health obviously we got a lot of overweight women in here. We're gonna talk about that emotional age There's several ways to manage age Or or a measure age chronologically you look on a calendar woman. They born where they at now, okay? Then their physical age there's a lot of people that are a certain age and say well you don't look 56 You don't look 46. You don't look 23, right? That's because we measure age by a calendar It'll be actually try to associate development with that age and not everybody falls in that so that is called physical age Then you got emotional age damn People are do not match their age emotionally women typically stop developing that emotional age When they physically develop They say women start maturing faster than men. How many people have heard that they mature earlier Yeah, but they don't follow that off go ahead and follow that shit on till 30 and 40 and see where we at All right, because what happens is when you start to achieve success You tend to stunt your development. This isn't just for women. This is for men Basketball players football players it happens to them on the men's side They reach great heights at 16 17 18 19 20 21 and then they're still walking around like they're 16 in their 40 Women do the same thing in middle school. They'd be like, hi teacher. I'm doing well. I look at the girls They're so mature Well, it's not maturity. They just scared of looking bad, but we make that maturity They're scared of the one to be just out there breaking the rules We come in for physical education class. I'm about we scored a triple double in PE class We we don't care about behaving well, but the women tend to carry that on they call that maturity Then they start developing after middle school and then the maturity probably stunts so that then she's 40 and Then when it's time to act emotionally She might break down and cry like she's in middle school, right? And I'm so I don't know why I'm crying. I Know why but I'm a misogynist if I tell you This is what it is. Okay, and I'm gonna tell you you haven't emotionally mature Okay, but it's okay There's a variety of things that we pay attention to now you can say number of sex partners These become important after you pipe her down. You realize she been in these streets now You're gonna call her names There's a lot of things that we talk about after the fact that we need to start improving on you need to Ask these people before the fact Why not investigate this? Why don't you do your due diligence now? I know women got smoked from in in a dating marketplace, but they got a right to because you're practicing this Okay, you think these people are all good, but you're not really investigating them. I know it's hard and you see the booty I'm titties jiggling right it's hard. I know But at the same time if we manage our side of the the game we'd actually make the game a little bit more fair So it's not all women's fault. We actually bring a lot of smoke to ourselves. All right Let's go down here if you guys want to check that out. I'll talk about that quite often This is the marriage will it's a little bit blurry But we talk about how men get involved in these marriages and why the divorce rate is actually a lot more than 50% These are people who legally detach They don't talk about the ones that the woman Told me to look over that cliff right there. You see how far that is?  And the car everything I work for It's cheaper to keep her baby. Happy wife. Happy life We could just be roommates As long as you see that's probably additional 25% of people okay So the divorce rate marriage rate divorce rate is way higher than it actually is But people don't mention it so I tell you how you got into that the connection phase she tickles your balls and you liked it She gave you access Hopefully you investigated her most men don't and then you get into the investment phase and you're feeling good You think you're doing the right thing. That's a man. We're gonna talk about that in the day I'm doing the right thing by society by doing this and then you say it's Right of passage as an adult as a male. I need to be here for my family. I need to get the house the car I need to make sure her hair is dead. She got the weave on point I gotta make sure we go on family trip so we can get the fake book fake book pictures Happy fact we got to do all that we got to send the kids to the good school moving to the neighborhood and whatnot. That's the investment phase This is the phase that most women look to achieve in the transactional relationships of marriage Because if you don't invest very few marriages are gonna go past this right and she's got to know you're gonna invest This is the will you're on. This is why she says do you have a good stable job, sir? What do you see yourself in five years, sir? All right, what type of kids how many kids you want to have sir? What neighborhood do you like sir public or private schools? These are all Inquisitions to investment stage as a man. We have to know this is coming up if you fail in this endeavor Well, you're not gonna have a good long marriage.  That's feminism. We'll go over that.  I can't even understand why women do this. I can't stand those women. I'm not like those and Then she becomes that This could be as simple as you like long hair and she chops her hair off or She blows up like the Goodyear blimp Like she was thin and now she's not Do you still love me though? Well, I guess I have no choice Yeah, I love you See, these are the things that's gonna happen now. Do men bait and switch women women come on my channel Ben Bay and we're not talking about me. I Know You want me to always talk about you and then I'm talking about you want me to talk about I'm we're talking about you I don't date men. So I'm talking about why date women. I don't talk about what I know or A lot of things can happen in the bait and switch now in the bait and switch She then says well, the next step is disengagement which is divorce and You either accept me or not Okay, and then you get caught up in the okay, baby, or you say man F all that I'm a man around here I'm gonna stand on my two. Okay. I'm gonna stand on my square. You do what I tell you to do Now you better hope that she says okay Because if she doesn't then you go to the next step, which is disengagement. Okay, so more than 75 percent Experiment with disengagement or they go all the way through okay 50 percent. We know legally They say paper But there's another percentage of men that say I want to say for the kids. I don't want to lose my house It's cheaper to keep her so they stick around and they go through this and they avoid the disengagement and then That's a particular point. This is where men screw up Amongst the other screw-ups. That's the go your own way or the reentry. What is the second? second marriage divorce rate 63% Third marriage is 70% is damn near a guarantee and those are the people who legally divorce the people who say These that there's not including the people who are thinking about it Many people in second marriages.  I'm screwed. All right.  Okay now these second and third marriages blow up quickly Like in two to three years It's already done though, but you re-entered and then you started back here You went through this now some wise men come along and say oh hell no, I learned once that's it Those are the men they call bitter and hurt.  Okay.  Is it a thing? I don't I don't think all men should be non-emotional like that.   So the myth of romance I don't know if you know if you haven't seen my show I talked about the myth of romance romance is a concoction. It's been created somewhat prostitute it by entertainment pushed through Marketing campaigns and companies towards you to have a certain reaction.  These are all things that kind of go together.  Look at these guys and it was comedy This is why you have romantic comedies Rom-coms they come strictly from that age But rom-coms to us.  Is that what happens always supposed to do this and that's supposed to that? Oh my god That's all fantasy In its cells its cells were very well But unfortunately we hold ourselves to these standards in its mythology It never was intended. I know this is a little bit non-emotional. It never was intended to be that way Should we have these feelings? Yes, we should have these feelings But then these things are predicted through advertisement men or admin or what you would probably know as madmen That was a take on admin who advertisers created scenarios Predictably that you would respond to That would make sense and then when we come together we bring the romance together And it should work easily, right? But it doesn't Okay Shivery we hear these things, right? There's no such thing as the shivery Where the guy's just walking around trying to put coats over puddles, right? This is not This is not real now out of respect. I'll pull out a chair. Here you go Okay, out of respect open the door. It would be the polite thing to do But these are things Described as shivers which shivery was not even related to that One bit. I mean that was a very small part. The rest of it is you're gonna have to go chop somebody's head off Okay, and it had nothing to do with a woman.   What's wrong with you? You better No, I just decided that there's another way in life and that's my point of this show Is to not complain about these things I show you there's another way to live this life. Okay, and men lived it way before We got to this point. Okay, we've just been indoctrinated. We've been coached into having these things and guess what?  We got a couple of brothers here.   What are we doing? Now that might not be failure to you but in the grand scheme of things romance wise In marriage it's supposed to last what make it last Forever that's how you judge it. You don't judge it on temporary. Oh, I had her and I don't have her no more I had him but I ain't got him no more. I was married But I ain't married no more Or I just got married and it's going great Right now We don't judge marriage on how long it lasted we judge it did it last forever and that's how we're going to measure it If it didn't last forever it failed So many people go through these endeavors to try to make it work and the frustrating thing is That's how we judge it. We think we're a failure if we're not winning in this game that is somewhat rigged You've been pushed and pushed and prodded you've actually created your entire life around this thing Many men have created their entire image around these things dating coaches and max and please I'm the man because I get these hoes. Okay great Casanova Okay, pick up artists And also A lot of women will say I have invalidated myself as a woman because I don't have a man That's changing though. That's changing. All right. So what we got here. Let's go through the years his history by cga I have a tweet and it said 1910 courting replaced dating And around 2010 2020 uh 2010 2012 Dating prostitution replaced dating Okay, so we're going to get to that the day dating died So we have the victorian agent up until 1910 you would have this thing called courting Quarting dating almost was not a thing. There's no such thing. What what is dating as somebody during these these years and say What is dating again? Dating is a marketing concoction to believe that you're going to look for someone for marriage Which definition wise? That's not true We'll get to the definition of courting here. It says be involved with romantically typically with the intentions of marrying That's what courting is and the courting process happened Very very relatively small in small communities not big large cities, but We started to develop that but the courting age was when you introduced Your or you made your intentions known. It says intentions You are interested in them romantically and you were willing to wait and do whatever you need to do socially to not To not ruin that woman's reputation, right? Okay, so you did courting with family And the family came around. Oh, I see I see brother greg likes sister sherry I think maybe we can put something together.  Hi, brother Hi Hi father future father-in-law And everybody knew what was up.  This is all courting And you court And you put your best foot forward You're always going to put the coat over the puddle. You're always going to open that door Especially with families around you ain't going to do that.  You trying to court them back in this day This is not a thing to do. So what what we have here is courting And this is the part that we miss because dating replace courting Okay, dating replace courting okay Most of the time in courting there wasn't this need to impress financially uh-oh You had to have your best foot forward because the woman was almost considered property at that point. Yes, we've come a long way But we have to put our best foot forward. Hey, what do you do?   Oh, you married her. What did they call that a shotgun wedding? You skeeted in my sister make an honest woman of her See, these are all the things that we used to do not that long ago And that's somewhat ended around the year 20, uh 1910, okay We know that there was some holes back then too, but we ain't gonna mention that You know what I mean? The holes have to stay a little bit underneath You know holes couldn't be out there.  That's just how it went Is that is that what's going on today? That's significantly different. You see these holes out here right now in in the open So now what happened next people was like this courting bullshit, right? Um people can actually see through me or they can read me like a book I don't want my daddy to know I'm out in these streets And I don't want other men to know that I'm piping these girls down. So I'm gonna make this a little private now We're not gonna make this public We're not gonna let the church know that we're seeing each other studying We're going steady and all this bullshit, right?   Is this your wife? No, they say my wife What we call on the police see dating dating was prostitution Any act that was seen as you're transporting or you're meeting a person that is a complete stranger And you're romanticizing them and you're going public with it out in these streets You're not married to her. You're giving her gifts dinners flowers and whatnot. That's called prostitution And there was an act called the man act That actually was put into place in 1910 To inhibit this y'all can't be out here in these streets like this with these women So what we're gonna do is if you put her in a car and you drive her to this county to that county That's prostitution and we can arrest you federally You cross interstate lines federal prostitution ring All right, and what they were trying to do was protect women, right? They don't want women to be exposed to this type of lifestyle. It's going to ruin their reputation It's going to increase the single mother rate. Um, you're going to have these women out here wanting to do this And you know, they peacefully start itching They want to be out here to having some fun, but we can't have that because that would crumble our society So in essence dating then replaced the courting process marketing wise the admin said Well, let's hold the let's uphold the um The restaurant industry Don't you want to take your girl out to somewhere special? That is the pimp Okay, because in order to get into the women They said you got to take me somewhere nice. So the restaurant becomes the pimp. So does the diamond dealer So does everywhere else they become the pimp. They're the middleman into you transacting with that woman So she might not directly benefit financially. You might not put Money in her hand, but you put money in a pimp's hand. You put money in a restaurant hand You put money in the nightclub hand. You put money in the alcohol hand, uh, alcohol Distributor's hand, right? So these are all things that were considered a transactional relationship It was looked down upon until somewhere around See here By the way, the man act says It's a criminal they criminalized the institution or the transportation of any woman Or girl For the purposes of prostitution or debauchery the transportation of any woman or girl for the what? That's called dating right now Or that's at least called tender But in that time that's how we looked at dating it crossed the line, but it we normalized it Okay, so let's go in here and of course we already had like, um Women in there that challenged this idea were called flappers in the 1920 Anybody heard of the term flappers sounds like a weird term right for you young people, but flappers Challenge that they were the younger generation of women that Challenge the ideas of these things right, uh, your great-grandma was probably a flapper She was in these streets.  That's just a secret don't You'd be like, but oh so you must be my step uncle because milk man food delivery man pool man personal trainer Yeah, your grandma was in these streets. It ain't nothing new under the sun right here. All right.  All right All right, anyway Oh oddly enough if you want to anything on the racial line and i'm gonna go over time whoever's talking about i'm going over time Um racially did you guys know during this time? Blacks were the most married group during this time during this time black americans were the most married group during this time now that is uh head boom Because now they're the least married In this time period from that fast.  What?  I mean if you were pookie Or ray ray or chad or tyrone you might be able to get away with this But if she's not really sexually into you and she's bored All right, I'll go out with you cga Where are we going? We're gonna go get a banana split at frosty freeze That's all right I'm not getting access I'm gonna have to figure out something else But this would be a common little fun date and it actually should be what dating is right pick a nick basket And going out somewhere private getting to know each other, but that's not what dating is to is today Is that what dating is today? It is nowhere near that it is straight up prostitution Period it ain't nowhere clear.  I need you need to impress me. What kind of car you got? prostitution We're wrestling you taking me at prostitution Okay, am I gonna get anything how much money you make prostitution? Right, this is all important things, but now we've just put it out on front street and we call it dating Okay, uh 1960s sexual revolution.  You had a lot of people Uh, particularly women didn't want to be stay at home wives anymore They didn't want to be what their mothers were and um, they tended to be a little bit more free-spirited This is just a very glossy overview of history by the way and such um, what they tried to do is Is um extend their time just a little bit and have some fun It was the second iteration of flappers for a free spirit now So this is the next revolution sexually In which promiscuity could be extended out now We not talking about 50 or 100 dudes like today a woman be like so My body count don't matter. She been with 50 to 100 dudes And the 60s it wasn't like that. She was with like five dudes right In your area. She couldn't just get flown in prostitution She couldn't just get flown in she couldn't just go from county to county People didn't have cars that could go drive 100 miles away Right and go to another area where you're unknown into another populated area where you can just mix in It wasn't like that So she could extend it, but did you guys know do you guys know that during this time? The average age of marriage if anybody didn't have marriage was 21 21 So this is a different cock carousel Yeah, she might have had a couple of bodies, but she didn't go to 28 30 32 40 and then push her chips in and say, okay I'm done. I've had my fun now. I'm ready to Settle down I've had my fun now and she 30 32 40 this it is Really different than the past right so you have this going on right now And the reason why you probably had that is you didn't have botox tiddy implants The miracles of modern science where she could just stretch that shit on out. You can freeze her eggs She was like I might have a little bit of fun But I know where to close this down Now you can just go forever Have a baby at 50. Why not? Because you can That's where we are with this and this is kind of why dating has changed. Okay um But not only that there was no chance of her being the CEO or on her own company All right on her own house or none of that shit She was like, I would do all that but i'ma go find me a good honest man So this is the type of stuff that's changed and then thus we get into the a uh, let's go into that 90s and let's get into there the Since i'm running out of time because we have the 70s and the 80s to talk about which was um More or less kind of where things really big change because now we're in major cities big populated areas nightclubs are a thing This is when nightclubs became a thing nightclubs are not that old of an idea they're fairly new In the measurement of time, but the reality is now they can just go out and party snort coke and smoke out the weed and clubs studio 54 and dress skimpy get attention get free drinks and then work up the ladder of status and men And now then it prolongs the settling down Now you're getting to the average age of marriage 25 and it jumped up that fast But now there's still not a lot of botox to the implants are coming in and all that stuff too Okay, but we're living in a more promiscuous Society and the club promoters the drug Sellers and pushers the alcohol industry. They're recognizing this And they're marketing smoke cigarettes. You look cool. Go out nightclub. What do you do on a friday or saturday night? Come chase these hoes. What ladies night? This is ladies night, right?  Okay, but Let's get to the 1990s in the 2000s Um, there's still a sense of scared scarcity among the genders typically You remember your high school days You had your girl in high school and the best access that she had to another man Was either at her school or the rival school, right? Everybody was always good looking at the other school Over there at westlake man. They got better girls Over there at westlake. They got better guys And then that's the best she could do was just cross town when you played at the football game, right? Go see the other football play. Well She had a limited time. She had limited community limited choice Thus she had to cash in at some particular point. There was scarcity on her side There's also scarcity on your side. These are the amount of women Everybody kind of knew their place you could basically say if you were a five you can just get with a four or five and you could Hit that reach. Okay for the women Same thing They all wanted the quarterback They might have let the quarterback skeet in her guts and the bushes had a party drunk But at some particular point she knew she wasn't going to give up the quarterback There was a thing in the 90s for you young people called being sprung Anybody remember You piped a girl down and she got sprung on you Yeah, y'all don't have that no more That's not that big of a thing because there's no longer scarcity on her side And she can have promiscuity. That's all out of the window now. So she's like, hey All right, you don't want to stick around. I gave you my body, but there's another dude over here There's no more scarcity there. There was scarcity if you piped a girl down in the 90s That was your girl Okay, because reputation wise She might think you might talk about it, but she was going to be with you and you got her. Okay And um, she might be on your answer machine Hello, you need to pick up my call. She might be at your door Okay, she come to your door. She calling your phone.   She could be the ceo now. That's now possible She can now extend her age which we call her physical age with what implants and Make up and these type of things. So there's no sense of settling down By this point we've gone from an average age early in dating when daily Dating became the thing Average age of marriage is now for is 21 to now by the 90s and 2000s. It's 28 I don't know if you know about biology That's not gonna be good if she wants to start having four or five kids She probably missed the window at best. She might push out one Maybe two Okay, now let's go ahead and go down here Don't We went through this part of The companies and everybody pushing dating so much that everybody thought they were entitled to it And that men all you supposed to do men you do this women you do this there was actually a book called the rules That said we're gonna wait 90 days until these dudes get right Don't give them no peace leave for 90 days. Let them jump through all these hoops and hurdles Uh, do you know many girls waiting 90 days to give you, you know, 90 minutes 90 seconds at this particular point and dung Because I'm going you gave that dude some peace leave in 90 seconds And now I gotta wait 90 days See as men we know that don't make no sense. You're like that don't make no damn sense But because we're desperate. All right, I'll do it Right and that's what weakens the your positioning So here we are With the death of dating because it really wasn't a thing, but we made it a thing We are now in the digital sexual revolution revolution number three. Okay.   I got a blackberry Okay I just got this flip pager.  What's the point of having that? Then they started inventing apps What's an app?  It's not really gonna do anything It's just uh, you can take a picture you can put a filter on it. That's what instagram was But it was only available on the smartphone It wasn't available on the android They only made it available on the iphone So iphone 1 and 2 and iphone 3 and 4 They put millions of iphone's in people's hands because of instagram And facebook and apps that were only available to iphone And there's they pretty much sold five times as many iphone's that they did in one and two three and four sold five ten times more And with that came instagram.   Damn.  You was like, oh How are you doing? You're like yo hoes Now did that make it an even game? Did women at that point because this is just what they this is in a complaint the women at that point were like Oh, man, we have all of these available options of men and with all of this choice it would make relationships easier Have relationships been easier Since they've had more choice It's been the opposite When they had less choice and scarcity All right, let me just go on and get in But now they have more choice and these women still walking around.  It goes down into dms Oh, i'm still a good girl. I'm not like that with you You're gonna have to pay Maybe not me directly because i'm not that type of girl But you have to pay the restaurant industry and buy me bottles of wine and a gray joe vehicle and a gray joe swag and prostitution Okay, people don't look at it as prostitution. I look at it as directly prostitution Now let's like a walk up tour and say hey, baby. I like to get to know you better. Will you give me some time? be patient I'm actually trying to get with you because It would be better if we can get to know each other during this time and I won't date anyone and you won't date anyone If we can take this time to court, how successful would that be today? It's a rarity for that to happen.  Okay, so we're in the digital sexual evolution In which now more choice has led to less successful successful relationships There's more single women in this time with more choice But more single women than than any point in the history of the united states. How does this make sense? This is actually weird for this to happen Now we're getting into some weird stuff. How many how much minutes that I have?  There'll be babies popping out everywhere. Nope Not so much.  It's crazy.  You have dating coaches Like why would we need dating coaches if we got all this access? You see how flipped it is of psychology There wouldn't be no need in in reality. There would be no need. It would make sense Okay, I got all these people should should should work out But no you have something else going on. There's a need for them Because dudes are so distracted go back to the iceberg theory People can't make this work go back to your sheet where I said feel out how successful you are in relationships Look at the bottom of your scoreboard. Oh and It doesn't make sense and then the reason why it doesn't make sense is because this is prostitution period You can try to act like it ain't but it is And we've got to this point because we want to admit that this is pay for play In every stretch of the imagination And you can't turn a hole into a housewife People would have told you that in the 1910s when you were courting But y'all trying to turn holes in the housewives We're in the monetized woman now. So now it's straight up prostitution It ain't no if ands and buts about it See in the dating game in the digital sexual revolution She got on instagram and she banged a couple people and she got ran through more times in the hollow tunnel You got some peace leave everybody got some free sex Everybody got they scared a pregnancy in scd scare and some people got scared straight, right?  I don't already have the biggest and the best. Well, that ain't it Already dated some rich guys that ain't it I need me a good wholesome guy That i'm don't have a lot of sexual attraction too, but he got money Maybe that'll be it and they still trying to figure this bullshit out and they're prostituting themselves not to the point now We have phrases in our society that we will not link to prostitution She got flown In or out I mean by every stretch of the imagination that violates the man act That violates the man act That that would be a federal crime in 1910, but People do it all the time. You're in the airport seeing hoes Well, she getting flown out somebody paid her to appear Football player basketball player whatnot musician.  I'm an entrepreneur and all this She trades forex and she got a podcast She's also a model Which is a prostitute, but that's a little hard for you guys to grasp.  By the way again, I'm not complaining about them.  I always stay with the standards, but I will clap them cheeks. I'm just letting you know We also have Sugar daddies, how common is that phrase to hear sugar daddy?  Oh, maybe I think about think about getting the sugar daddy Times are tough economies. Give me a sugar daddy. All right. These are things that people experiment with and Many colleges have done data and said at least 10 to almost 20 percent of their student body population has sugar daddy apps Now these are your neighbors These are your nieces These are the girls that you work with Oh, she's a real estate agent. She drives when Mercedes Benz. She must be very successful at her job I've never seen her close a deal.   You like what? She prostituted herself and we were afraid to actually address it As that and then she could get offended But it is what it is. We participate as uh on the other side of prostitution.  She mostly don't like you. She's just hungry Okay, so that's trick you are trick Okay, you just put the money down you thought she was interested in you and she wasn't And then you go to your dating coach. What happened? You were john She got the money and she got the easy way. She didn't even have to open her leg. Is this what it is? Okay Be mad about it if you want we also have only fans So it's hard now.  I make 60 000 a year I'll take you out and I'll wait 90 days. How successful you're gonna be in this market. It's gonna be tough You make 60k You're broke to a lot of prostitution oriented women.   Is that a wife potentially? They all kind of play with these things If they don't outright get directly they benefit paid. What do they do? They get the attention from it Look at my bikini And they'll post it on instagram And they'll trade that for likes and attention Which is prostituting themselves in the sense Until they get to the point where they commoditize themselves So it gets a little bit tough where we're in the monetized woman and again People might think this is criticism of women and it simply is not this is where we are It's hard to deny this And it's hard to really accept it because you're participating in it as a john Okay, unless you're somewhere where you have met that girl and you courted her in the sense of We're gonna understand who each other are we're gonna meet each other's family And we're gonna go down the lover's leap every now and then you might get a little stank on my finger We're gonna kiss We're gonna go out. We don't you're not dating another guy. No, no, no, no, no I'm not messing with other girls Which would be called courting everything you're doing is dating aka prostitution Period. Okay. Here we go right here. Parabonding There's there's data that would suggest specifically for women That they lose the ability to the parabond the more times they let dudes push their insides to their esophagus Okay They can't love you no more They've been imprinted And they also know that's available to them. So in the case that they do say well, I'll marry you for the investment They will miss Getting their insides pushed to their esophagus.  This is it We might think that we can go out here and have as many women as we want and she can go I have as many men as she want and you can come together and make it work Is it working now? See you might say i'm lying But it ain't working. That's the truth And people are frustrated, but they're trying to do this. We have things now. Let's go into the future and anthony I'm sorry. I'm going over time I'm good And I'll save time for questions. What's going on in the future. You're like coach. What is this man? All right, I got some good news for y'all. The future is here The barbarians at the gate Okay, what's going on in the future? Have you ever heard of this term ethically non Ethical nominogamy. Have you ever heard of that? I was always ethically nominogamous When I was a young man, nobody ever made a phrase Nobody ever said Let men be ethically nominogamous Even when she knew you had other chicks It was very unethical for you be to smash in her right? Come on, man But now we have ethical nominogamy. Who does that benefit? men or women That's a phrase that benefits women So they can be out In these streets and they can have multiple men serving multiple purposes We were always I mean we had to be unethically nominogamous We wanted multiple women, but nobody would come up with a phrase for that This also benefits the rainbow community. We call it the reading rainbow community Most of these things will have a theme and you'll find you'll follow it The gay community has brought a lot of these things in And women have piggybacked on it Okay, um ethical nominogamy. That's the future That's where we're going. No, they ain't coming back to you All right, we'll be righteous women. Oh, no It ain't going there Okay, um The future single old women a lot of these women gonna be ended up alone And so are you But you gotta change your mindset because you get end up old and alone But you can still be out at the junior college if you got a little bit of money Because new york los angeles san francisco They look at prostitution like this They don't see it It was the last time you heard of a prostitution sting in new york They let them holes do that and why? They pick it up. They piggyback off of the rainbow community gays Because this is how their community works Not only that underage Young boys get exposed to older men in that community. So they start looking the other way They will do the same for men.  Oh, we don't care no more They don't care So a lot of these women will end up they don't see the trap. They'll end up single and old. What else is the future? Have you ever heard this term polyamory? again This is something that the rainbow community has Brought forth in our society and women have piggybacked on it This sign says I love my girlfriend's boyfriend This sign says sharing is caring monogamy is not for everyone and this is the truth But when we was out there trying to get all these hoes, they didn't change the rules for us They choose to change the rules for them and now You'll play the game because brief old law says women create the uh scenario and men follow And so you will have a man married to a woman.  What? So that's in my in my marriage to a prostitute. What what are we doing? She's a sugar mama. What what what is it? Like what what do you define that? Well, there's nothing wrong with it There's nothing wrong with it.  She's a christian and she right.  This is the future And you'll accept it because we have Not only that you will have a situation where You'll have a situation where You know your girlfriend got a sugar daddy Trust me. I've been playing this game They'll be like, yes, I'm in an open partnership. This is my partner But he knows I have to pay my college tuition He sits online and he streams on twitch And I go get my bag blown out And I bring the money home to us bruh This is where we're going Before we even listen for us to go all the way back We're gonna have to be throwing sticks and stones At each other We're gonna have to nuke everybody And go back to sticks and stones and hunting and gathering Because we're pushing these agendas forward and I don't know if you know many places. They're pushing it hard And a lot of women are watching this Now a woman might not say I can't have she might be one of these women that claims I can't have multiple men that I'm sleeping with simultaneously But she can also have the work husband She can also have a great relationship with her hairdresser She can have a male personal trainer a husband She can have a sugar daddy on the side And multiple variations of relationships that you have to be secure in He's just my personal trainer He ain't like that And this is my homie that I went to school with Don't worry about him This is also my boss He pays me To be absent from you In the hopes that he will continue to pay me Don't worry about him either. We work late nights together This is my hairdresser This is my girlfriend's boyfriend She can have a full out girlfriend Well, I'm not she's not piping me down. She just she's just a licking low lover. You understand See, this is where we act and this is what's going to be the future.  I see couples all the time. Yeah, I just saw a woman I just was on a podcast yesterday. She was a married woman been married for 20 years She had a only fans and I met her son who was a teenager and her husband.  Oh man the metaverse Shit, I don't even got to leave my room put my goggles on and jag on off I can have me a whole damn girlfriend virtually And she could be right there Got my goggles on She think right When they have this metaverse, I mean, we're already living in metaverse if you have anybody that's under the age of 15 They've been born in the metaverse. You just think this is something new They've been doing this. Okay. They also will have pornography. They will have only they will have only fans on it They're gonna have girlfriends and you you're gonna be doing it and it's going to be transactional You might even have a wife in the metaverse You can sell homes in the metaverse. Why not have a wife in the metaverse? Okay, so this is where we're going on all of this, but I say live the free agent lifestyle, right? That's what I promote And if you ever forget my name remember that that's something that I came up with And that's basically kind of a protest as to where the direction is going and looking out for myself Because everybody's looking out for themselves at this particular point Why should I put myself and my finances and everything else and risk it for the chance that this 35 year old woman who's been piped down for the last 20 years Is gonna love me When I say 20 years 20 years she's been practicing it you Ain't got no body to touch your leg till you were 24 and 25 and you had to do a whole bunch to get that, didn't you Yeah, to jump through a whole bunch of hoops and hurdles Well, she's been already practicing this already. She has a leg up on the game if you will All right, this is where you find me coach. Greg Adams here on youtube right here That's the flagship channel I only post edited stuff there, but my free agent lifestyle channel I stream on there every week day You can also find me on the free agent lifestyle podcast Which is basically a replay of my live streams available on soundcloud apple google spotify anchor I wait for spotify to drop that bag on me And I will be a polygamist fool If they drop the bag on me if they drop that same bag they dropped on what's this dude's name with the joe rogan I'm gonna act a fool out here. I'm gonna let y'all know Y'all ain't gonna know that but like coach coach acting up out there. All right, uh These are my books free agent lifestyle. I wrote a book, but I don't know how to read very well But uh free agent lifestyle is my book That's the main one right there if you want to understand the philosophy of male empowerment essentially peace quiet and freedom What all men want? That's what you want You want a woman? And you wanted to bring you peace quiet and freedom.   Because she knew she couldn't bring that to me. She knew she was going to bring full on chaos into my life because that's what they do So she was like peace quiet and freedom.  Well now I can do that Okay, uh anyway de-evolution is my other book right there and then there's my website Thank you very much, man. Let me know if you have any questions Any questions out here any questions? Don't be shy Yeah, go ahead I went over time They appreciate the sharing there cga um, have you heard this um this latest news about the democratic party Where the women are saying if the men won't vote the way they want the men to vote They're not giving up any for JJ. Yes, I have man.  You're success. You're accepting a subservient position in your community That's what you're accepting and you're accepting it based on lust So it was a dating app that pushed these things forward But it's nothing new Joe Biden has done that with his associations with cardi B And all of that stuff of all the men you can assault all the people in the community You can associate with you going to Charlemagne of God and cardi B I mean the low hanging fruit the bottom of the barrel The basically the bottom feeders and that's who you're pandering to that gives you a sense as a man Or what your value is and you have to change that up the only way you change that up Is you actually take the power back and you have to control your lust to do that so, um Historically to like continue on with the next generation families have been Very like at the center of society and we as you as you talked about I mean Marriage divorce and in that whole marriage wheel there. Yeah. Um, it's it's really, um, difficult to do in in this country Do you think America has like a future? As far because I mean eventually like we're all going to be a bunch of old people and have no This isn't gonna be no like young people. Yeah, um, or do you or do you maybe think that like other countries? I mean might be better off. I know Poland has like Um, lgbt free zones where they don't allow that they try not to allow that culture in those areas, right? Yeah, that's that was a the lbt t thing I don't have any problems with people how you participate in the bedroom because I sure wouldn't want to be judged on my debauchess nature However, it was a slippery slope. They invited you in oh, they just love each other Let's get married and then they you see where it went with that being said With that being said women tend to lean on that side And then it influences how we do in terms of family. You're gonna hear a little bit of doom and gloom Without family, there's no community without community. There's no tribes without all of those. There's no organization There's just chaos. Okay, and if we don't go back to family community tribe and whatnot How do you have a country? All right, there's levels to this, right?  That's your tribe You guys all make a community the communities make cities cities are parts of states states of parts of nations Yo, we don't we can't even get the damn family together, bro We can't even keep the immediate family together and then you know what I find odd Is that when we look for solutions? We work backwards. We start with the state. We start with the nation They have the answer Then we start with the state they have the answer and the cities need to do this And the community needs the next and then you go back and then do we doing it backwards? I mean listen, I do have a little bit of a god complex But we're doing it backwards We need to start first with our associations then with family our immediate family keep those intact Black community is always the microcosm of the greater world. Whatever they're doing We're going to be doing so if they got transgenders Doing backflops and dancing in front of kids at their preschool and broken homes. Remember, I said in the 50s They had the most stable households if the black community is doing it it's going to get to the rest of the community because Black people are very influential All right for a small group of people we influence almost everything in this nation and around the world And whatever we're doing is going to be seen as trendy. So if the black women are Being jezebel's if the black men women are being sapphires the other women are going to be like, oh that looked cool too. I want that So when you see the black community get together Then you know, we're headed in the right direction As long as they going backwards The world and the rest of the nation going that way too. I know black folks hate to hear that But it is what it is Okay, uh, hope hope you have time for one more. I do. Yeah So I was gonna also follow up with the family issue Uh for guys who I know not every guy cares about children wants to have kids Uh, do you have kids? I do have two kids. Okay For those of us who care Do you see any hope? Do you see any tactical stuff we can do? Yeah, men men really have to take the the Society by the like the bull by the horns Men need to lead And women will ask men you need to lead And they'll rebel the entire damn time and like look how much energy you want me to put in this All right My word is bond. Listen I got no time for this. All right. So but anyway It's a little bit difficult men need to really grab the bull by the horns We need to stop with the lustful behavior. Which is difficult. I get it We also need to actually have standards in our society Which we've been encouraged to have less of Remember average age of a woman was 21 That that that married 21 Now it's like 30 Now when I get up in here and be like Yeah, she passed her prime You know who gets mad Men Men will fight me When I'm trying to create a standard for y'all, I'm like, bro Don't y'all want these y'all pieces tender?   I like her like that. I like them sloppy and soggy That's where it is. I think men need to keep the standard. We we were the standard bearers with the protectors I love the idea that I can support a woman I'm gonna pay for the dates. I'm gonna pull out chairs. I'm gonna do this, but you know what? I'm also gonna do.    Thanks. Yep. Thank you brothers. Thank you, man


You are at configuration management for humans There's a reason I didn't call this configuration 101 or basics of configuration and that is because What all started with a story of a client of ours very recently We inherited a large College project from a major land grant University. It was the College of Science and Engineering with 28 sub-colleges and departments all running on a Drupal 8 Install and we inherited this project They had been working on internally and quickly realized that they needed more resources So they brought our team on and my very first question to them was how are you using? configuration management and The answer was I were not we're doing single file uploads every once in a while like if I need to add a view So I sort of sighed but then I thought back you know six months before that our company Which I'll tell you a little bit about in a minute was also not using configuration management well over a year after Drupal 8 Launched and it dawned on me that there are many people that are not using it Don't understand it and that it's still this very complex system And so my hope is that this session will explain it In a very human way that makes sense Where I'm not going to cover a lot of advanced commands or topics if you want those I see Mike Potter there You can time travel back to yesterday and see his advanced configuration management session or watch it on video But he I believe covered Some of the more advanced commands. This is sort of an overview session that hopefully you will leave here with a Fundamental fundamental understanding of what configuration management is and why you want to use it So with that said let's get going My name is Tim broker. I'm not very active on social media, but you can find me on Drupal.org at slash broker Also, that's my Twitter. I don't tweak very often, but that's me I have been building websites professionally since 1994 and I did account. I think I've built Large-scale systems and over 17 distinct content management systems over those years In 2007 when Drupal 5 was released. I switched to Drupal and I've been using Drupal Pretty much exclusively ever since them. I Am currently the co-founder and technical director of a company called electric citizen We are a full-service Drupal agency in Minneapolis We have a strong focus on the public sector so most of our clients are large institutions colleges government agencies cultural institutions, etc And quick shout out we play a big role in organizing the Twin Cities Drupal camp, which is June 7th through the 10th this year It's a great camp with great people great parties and great food. So Worth the trip if you're in the area Okay, so with that said I want to give a quick sort of overview of where this session is gonna go I want to start with some sort of background and context on who I am or who I was in 2015, which is when Drupal 8 was released I want to tell you a little bit more about our journey into configuration management and understanding it then a quick config 101 where I sort of Give a quick overview of the basic fundamentals of how this is working Then we're gonna do a demo where we take a site from absolute zero to full configuration Which is great, but as we will see there are Handful of problems that come along with that and we're gonna look at some of those and some of the solutions Then we'll do a sort of a recap of the best practices that we hopefully have learned over the course of this session And then finally a look into the future and what might be happening as Drupal continues to evolve and grow Okay, so me again, I'm a long-term developer Drupal developer since 2007. This is 2015 the year that Drupal 8 was released We have a large client base at this point of Drupal 7 sites complex sites We have multiple team members frequently changing and updating those sites and We are heavily using features to manage all of this. How many people here know and have used features Just about everybody. Okay, great That was our as with all of you that was our way of getting things done In 2015, I know what configuration is. I know it's a difficult problem And then it's complicated and I'm a huge believer in Drupal 8. I've been following along With the configuration management initiative. I'm very very excited in 2015 for Drupal 8 to arrive You maybe you're like me. You were maybe you were an experienced Drupal 7 developer Or you could have been more of a casual hobbyist a WordPress developer, maybe you are new to CMS's completely in 2015 and you heard about this thing called Drupal 8 and you're You're there to check it out or you're just some random human being who who wants to use Drupal Drupal itself he we could potentially consider Drupal the antagonist in this story in 2015 Drupal 7 is a king It's been around for five years a very long time for a system to build up a Ecosystem of best practices and ways of doing things And then in November of 2015 Drupal 8 is released And as everyone here probably knows it's vastly different than any previous version of Drupal That we have seen and I'll talk about this a little bit more But I could I would argue that the configuration management system was arguably its most anticipated feature for me It was the one big thing. I was sort of waiting for and hoping for and that sort of sets the stage for us here. I Am going to show you my first experience just a Short version of it of what happened the day I first installed the the first release of Drupal 8 and encountered configuration management So configuration that seems like a good place to start but right away this looks like old Drupal I've got configuration all my stuff here. I don't see anything new yet Scrolling scrolling and finally configuration synchronization not configuration management, but it clearly says important export Okay, this must be what I'm looking for Okay, I click in there's nothing to import. Okay, that looks good. So let's check out some of these other options This is literally the first time with me exploring the system. I'm sure some of you have been through this yourself Okay, sync directory. I don't know what this is yet at this point configuration archive a tar ball Now this has me puzzled because we've long since moved past downloading tar balls So now we're going to go check it out a little bit more single items pasting a yaml file It's structure. Okay. I don't know really what this is Configuration there's all these options. Okay, I certainly don't have anything to paste here So I'm not quite sure what's going on. So let's check out the export option Okay export and download a full configuration of this site as a G zip tar file Again, this surely can't be what I'm looking for and what I've been waiting for it for so long So let's check out the last option here Single item export. Okay YAML structure again content type See what this is. Okay. We've got an article and Here is my first real exposure to YAML. I have no idea what this is Why it's there or what's going on at this point? Depending on who you are you're either a little bit Overwhelmed right now or underwhelmed. I was a little bit underwhelmed thinking surely there must be More to this system So what does an intrepid developer do but we're gonna go read the docs right? We've explored the UI We want to check out what the actual official documents tell us so I first encountered these documents in 2015 you can see here. These are our 2018 versions. I Went through all the reversions to see how they've changed they have changed some but this largely represents the documentation that was there when Drupal 8 launched and that is still there today and This is going to be a little overwhelming But I'm going to go through this quickly to show you what I read and if you haven't used configuration Before you're going to be confused by some of the things you see here, but we will work through that So this is the main page on Drupal.org The system is designed to make it easy to take live configuration test changes locally and export them to files Perfect. That sounds exactly like what we want So this is the the overview Now here's my first sighing of confusion in this document configuration can be exported and imported Either in its entirety or a single piece of configuration using drush and or drush console config commands or The configuration management. So this is my first sighing that this could be a little bit more complex and confusing that I was Then I was hoping for Scroll down. Okay. Either a single object can be imported using a copy paste workflow Copy paste that does not sound right to me and again or the full site and again This is today right now on Drupal.org or the full site can be dumped as YAML files to attire.gz file Okay. Well, it doesn't seem right to me, but we'll keep going and keep reading It's strongly read and this is the last page of this this main document It's strongly recommended to do a database dump. It could save your life. So now at this point I know we are in for some for some real trouble. So let's keep going Workflow using the UI again tar files. Okay, this can't be right. I quickly came through the rest of this I see the next one Workflow using drush this page assumes you are familiar with drush. I am this sounds like what I'm looking for here This is surely going to be Where the good stuff comes Install Drupal 8 will call the site live perfect make a copy. We'll call it development perfect Then I read down and this is still there today on the site a link to the issue queue and something that says until this issue Was fixed you will need a full copy of the site Turns out not to be really relevant, but it has me nervous that right in the docks. We have a link to the issue queue Okay, so we'll change our site name. That's good. So I'm gonna keep reading down Okay, da-da-da this exports the configuration to your sync directory I still do not know what this is. No one's told me what my sync directory is it wasn't in the docks I didn't see it in the UI When I do this it will be deleted the contents of this folder will be deleted whoo the sun's nervous I'm back to that database dump to save my life And finally you may want to change the location of your sync folder. Okay, maybe this is something So I'm sort of overwhelmed at this point, but I'm gonna go into this next article Changing the location of my sync folder Okay, by default Drupal places it in sites default using a hashtag thus Sites default files config hash All right. Let's go find this folder It's not there. So I'm immediately thinking Something has gone horribly around with my install because I don't have my config sync hash file Let's keep going as I read more I realize that I have to actually create this directory Make make a change in my settings file and that's it Yes, we're done and I actually did this and it was honestly my first taste of victory with configuration management where I felt like I have I did something I have a sync folder. All right, perfect Now here's where I get into real trouble and for people who have been following along with Drupal seven and eight The whole idea of configuration management was to store Configuration in files and version control so that you can manage them and move them and deploy them So this is now marked as incomplete. It wasn't when I first came to the Drupal.org dex But I'm thinking at this point. This must be of what I want because Files that's what configuration management is all about getting configuration out of the database and into your files So I read on for it to work. I need to modify settings and services YAML files. Okay You should do this before installing Drupal as it's complex to revert back to database configuration management once you've done this Okay, I really messed up at this point. I did not do this scroll down add the following code From this comment a comment 104 to so I'm now adding comment code to my non-existent install from a comment Open the services YAML file another comment add add this YAML from this comment to your services dot YAML file So I'm in real trouble now. I I'm really in for it. I don't know what we're gonna do There's one last article. This was also there in 2015 and it's still there today It's now deprecated, but it was not when I got there. So I'm thinking, okay, maybe this is gonna be the final Piece that ties this all together for me. So I have a Drupal 8 site and want to put it on my server. Yes Up to Drupal 7 this was a rather straightforward process In Drupal 8 CMI gets into the mix and has to be taken care of Okay Keep reading and now here we are talking about tire files again exporting my database from my local server Importing my database exporting an importing database. This does not sound right, but voila We have now gone through every single configuration Management doc on Drupal.org and we're done as far as I'm concerned. That's that's configuration management Oh So at this point I have no real indication if especially if I'm not me if I'm a new new to Drupal or new to CMS's I have no real idea of what Configuration even is I don't know why I'm supposed to use it how I'm supposed to use it or management and You know, I've done all I can I've gone through the UI I've read every doc there is and I've actually done some blog research This so and I want to preface that I had no way intend to criticize the documentation team and the the work That's out there and all the bloggers But the fact is this is a very difficult topic to talk about and write about because it's using concepts that are new It's using concepts that are somewhat difficult to understand and even the words used to describe them This is the last active comment on a very long thread in the issue queue arguing over calling it active configuration versus stage configuration Active currently in operation knew it will be it will be imported people are still arguing about this and This is a quote from a still seminal blog post by Matthew Tift who was very heavily involved in building configuration management When you Google Drupal 8 configuration, this is still I think the fifth Article that comes up. It was published just in November 2015 when Drupal 8 was released But yet it still is a very high in the Google rankings and one of his points was there is no recommended workflow Some small sites will not ever use it For the sites that will use it. There is one key question The truth is there are many many questions, but it's true that today even today in 2018 there is still no recommended workflow Okay, so now we're gonna get into What happened to me and our company electric citizen at this point? How are we gonna figure this out? So, you know, I wish I could say that I was determined and really ready to charge to this But the truth is there was so much new in Drupal 8 that we were I said, you know what? We're gonna we're gonna worry about this later. It's optional clearly. I went through the the config UI There was nothing wrong. There were no errors. There's no messages telling me what to do Let's learn some other things, you know, we have to learn composer and symphony and object-oriented programming and we have features that work and As Mike Potter who is sitting right there again a maintainer of the features module Was actively not just Mike everyone was actively pushing features and Making sure that features were gonna work with Drupal 8 and in conjunction with configuration management And everyone else was doing the same thing including most of the early and I think current Drupal 8 distros for example lightning I believe still comes packaged with a bunch of features and a lot of people were still using features because that simply is what we knew so we charge forward and Rebuilt our first Drupal 8 site with features the same way we did in Drupal 7 and quickly ran into No small amount of problems especially when we Got further along and tried to combine our features with configuration. Suddenly. We had this real mess on our hands and we sort of Stopped even thinking about trying to use configuration and we literally sort of carried on this way for over a year until one particular day July 26th 2017 I'm browsing Drupal Planet and I see this headline stop using features Hmm. That's that caught my eye and if you look down at the bottom there by Mike Potter software architect Mike has devoted a large portion of his career over the past X number of years Promoting and working on and developing features Including in Drupal 8 when I saw that name and that headline I had my heart started racing a little bit was like what what do you mean stop using features? So I continued reading Drupal 8 sites still using features for configuration deployment need to switch to the simpler core workflow Oh Okay, so I'm feeling we're probably doing something wrong here. Let's keep reading point seven where he says the list goes on Points one through six were detailed explanations of every single problem We had been fighting for months and months and months with features and configuration The list goes on and it did go on so why why were we using and why is it still being used as I? Reference before up until a few months before this it was the default workflow Aquia BLT was using features and then here was the one that really resonated with me my old D7 workflow using features Still seems to mostly work. I'm used to it and just deal with the new problems And I don't have the resources to update my build tools and processes. That was us. That was our company on this day So on that day it was a Wednesday. I looked this up. I went home This was a late in the afternoon when I found this article and I stayed up that entire night devoted to Learning what configuration was all about and and try and find a way to solve our pain and the problems we had been dealing with and by the following Monday When I came into the office. I had my first site using complete configuration management I ripped out all of our features and very quickly I brought that to our developers and And that has been our life ever since I have not touched a feature since that day we've Confession our corporate website electric citizen comm still is running features because of the cobblers children Situation and that was the first droop a late site. We did but other than that. We are now Fully devoted to using configuration management. So we are now going to and some of this might be basic for some of you but I I've in preparation for this and through You know just over the past few years.   You're configuring your site name The first thing you do is configure it and then in the Drupal world You can figure things like your content types and your related fields You configure your block layouts Your menus you can figure if you want a main menu and maybe a secondary and a tertiary menu Your taxonomies all of this configuration your views how they all work configuration Some people don't realize this one, but when you are enabling a module you are configuring Drupal to say this module is enabled and Then basically everything you see on this page, which looks again a lot like Drupal 7 did is your configuration If you install a module that might say, you know configure stage file proxy. That's all configuration It's distinct from your content I think most people get this but a lot don't and I say usually because there are some gray areas like web forms But configuration is not your blog posts. It's not your menu items. It's your menu structure It's not your taxonomy terms. It's your vocabulary where those terms are stored It's distinct from your theme kind of or usually It has nothing to do with your CSS files or your JavaScript There are a few places in Drupal in the appearance where you do configure some things and I'll show a quick example of that later And it's stored in your database historically just about every CMS in the world You install a database you configure it and that's where it lives Okay, so now we have a real brief overview of what configuration is why why do we want to manage it? So this is actually sort of an ancient problem in the software world that has been around for a long time outside of the CMS world And the idea is how do we come up with repeatable dependable processes for making frequent and complex changes to an existing system So why do we want to manage it? So technically because of that you don't most websites today? I would I would venture to say 90% run pretty close to this model. You have a developer making changes, maybe not right live and I'll show you a Little bit more on that later, but generally the idea is you change something on your live site Your users are seeing that one-to-one relationship. That's how most CMS's work without things like features etc But the truth is that the real world is quite a bit more complicated that than that You have a team typically Maybe not but often you do especially as websites get more complex You have a client That could be your boss. It could be someone that's paying you to build your website You have the client typically has content editors people who are actively also doing things on that site and your users of course and So with those added complexities Over time the expectations around a website start to grow your team wants to be able to make changes easily The client wants to approve changes and see them somewhere else before they affect their live site. They don't want things to break They don't want downtime. They don't want to have a content freeze or a code freeze And then over time the expectations start to grow as things get more complex and With that typically comes more complications You start adding more modules more More complex theming you're adding things changing things new features fixes and That also tends to grow over time and this problem of how are we going to manage it becomes harder to answer So how do we do it? historically This is the model with that most people start with you know the idea is okay. We're not going to do stuff Right on our live server. Let's set up a Local development environment a dev server and a test server the client up there on the right interacts with that test server When they approve it it goes to live That's great. That's sort of the de facto standard these days with aquia pantheon platform.sh the idea is You can set up these servers where you can do different things, but it does not solve our problem. How do we? Deploy how do we get our code from our local site to the dev server to the test server and back to live without breaking anything so this this you know tiered architecture doesn't really solve the issue It sort of is the first step that helps us get there though So, you know historically the typical approaches have been content freezes you tell your client, you know what? We have this complex thing to do So your team needs to stop working on the website for one week Our team is going to work on it and then we're going to re-upload your database and then everything will be great Back to my earlier slide that expectation these days does not usually go over so well Code freezes same thing or features, which is what a lot of you probably did and what we did And a lot of people in the Drupal 7 world would write You know using C tools exports or custom modules would find a way around this You know a much more a higher level of technology and strategies than then something like a content freeze So that worked, but in fact it was you know still quite painful features As you probably know could be very difficult to work with sometimes They were error prone to create because you had to go through a checkbox of about 400 individual items to to get there Not everything could be feature eyes. There was a module called strong arm etc So and literally it felt like half our team's life sometimes was was devoted to working with features and figuring out why they Were overridden and figuring out how to get them reverted. It was Very painful. So how do we fix it? So I Don't know how many people were in Drupal con Chicago in 2011 But Dries gave his state of Drupal address Drupal 7 was still quite new and everyone was excited about it But almost his entire State of Drupal address was about how painful certain aspects of Drupal still were despite how great Drupal 7 was and the number one Point that he brought up was this idea of configuration and features and how difficult that is and Right at that conference and shortly after he declared the configuration management initiative as the first Sort of step forward with Drupal 8 and I he Appointed Greg Dunlap. Otherwise known as Hay rocker as the lead of that initiative and one year later at Drupal con Denver, I think 2012 the first iteration of this had been committed to core and we were on our way So today so Drupal 8 2.5 years old As everyone who's worked with Drupal 8 knows it's still sort of evolving in front of our eyes every six months. There's big changes People are still confused. I'll go back to my earlier story about our client who Was not using configuration management despite this very complex system and they just didn't know how or why to use it They were new to Drupal and and they were afraid of it. So let's figure out how it works Now I've seen several charts and and documents trying to explain the basics. This is my attempt Apologize if it doesn't work, but we're gonna quickly run through this so We're back to our first model where we have a website and Drupal When you configure it that is called your active configuration that lives in your database Everything that your user see is coming right from that active configuration in your database That's how most things work before configuration on day zero You're not using configuration management until you need to take this step You export your active configuration to code you are now Technically using configuration management. It's your first step You have a one-to-one state between what's in your active config and what you've exported they match perfectly Now typically the next step is your team or you takes that exported code and imports it to a local Server or local development environment and now your entire team is in a one-to-one state with your active configuration Then this is what we're all here for you actually get to go do your work You build content types you add fields and views or maybe it's a small bug fix or a change that's that's sort of the Key point of all of this is what why we're here is trying to get work done right so your team does your work They then take that code and export it again. It now does not match Your active configuration on your live site it matches the work that your team has done Now you then import it again to Typically a staging server or a dev server where your client can then review your new work No one has touched your active config yet. Your users are still seeing exactly what is in your database Your client is looking at this and getting ready to approve it and Finally you we know it's okay. This looks great. You then import it into your production database Those changes that were made over in the work stage have now been imported and they are now your active config Your users are seeing those changes. It's in the database. It's your active configuration This cycle then repeats over and over and over again throughout the lifecycle of a project where Okay, now it's tomorrow and someone else wants to make a change. All right Let's export the active config import it make our changes Export it import it for review and then finally import it back That's the basics so I Get that that could be confusing for some and it's it is it's a hard concept to talk about sometimes But let's sort of walk through a a demo now of how it actually works in Drupal 8 0 to full configuration so for the purposes of this I'm starting with a a Fresh Drupal install out of the box in Theory you could have an active Drupal 8 website that has been being worked on for the past year But no one was using configuration management the same principles I'm about to show Apply to both but for the purposes of the demo we'll start with a basic site so step one install Drupal I Don't I won't talk much about this, but typically you'll want to use composer Get for version control and drosh I consider those sort of the cost of entry these days for for Working with a Drupal 8 site Then your next step is to install a local copy a Cloud copy and I say cloud I don't mean necessarily cloud it could be any hosting infrastructure or you could do this in reverse That's those two arrows. It doesn't matter which one starts first The idea though is you get two sites in a one-to-one state that are identical so Here I have my local site running Lando, which is a great local development environment if you haven't used it and Then on pantheon, I have an exact clone of this site They're identical Perfect next step define your config folder. So this was that document that I referenced earlier where I felt my first taste of victory Still the very first thing you should do It is optional, but highly recommended not to use in my opinion the default hashtag version I like to have more control over that and in particular I like to keep it out of my project route You know technically doesn't matter but the idea is you want control over where your configuration is going to live So in your settings file, you'll actually have an entry like this This is in that document on Drupal.org if you're ready to take this step where you're defining Okay, where is my configuration going to live? Then we're going to export it. Okay, that was a step one in our in our earlier chart So until you export You can set up your config folder. You can have your two sites You are still not using configuration management if you go into your configuration synchronization Synchronization screen it will tell you there's nothing to do. So this is really when it comes into effect. So we're gonna do this so I'm gonna do two examples here The first is a tire ball which I'm not gonna follow through on because I think this is the wrong way But you can do it this way. The idea is you export your configuration save it to a tire ball Download that file and unzip it into that folder that we just defined But I think there's a better way and that is with drush So drush C ex is a shortcut for drush config export It takes a little bit of it's a little bit of an intensive process here because it's comparing Our active configure actually right now. It's just exporting it. So okay success We've exported to our config sync folder that we defined. So let's look at that and now I Think by default there's somewhere over 725 yaml files that have been created and dumped into this config directory So, you know, I'm scrolling through them Nope, my screen is cut off there. But what I'm doing right now is Opening up one of these files to see it because I have never seen one before And there it is there. Oh, we have some screw. This is gonna potentially cause a few issues moving forward, but Up above there is my name configuration management for for humans. This is my yaml file great Okay, so we've configured our our exported our configuration. It's all there now. We're at that work step. We're okay. Let's get to Well, I guess I have a slide here. Oh, I wanted I forgot about this this slide but in your database Is an exact it's called the config table. There's a one-to-one Correlation between every entry in this table and those 725 files stored as a blob file. So I'm gonna download it Just to see what this one looks like Sorry I'm editing it but there is the version in the database and there is my title configuration management for humans Which matches again exactly in a one-to-one state with the configuration that I have exported So now we get to the work part the site building part This is again where the fun stuff happens. So I'm gonna actually just quickly make a few changes. I'm on my local site here configuration Say my client has said okay, this isn't actually for humans. Let's make this configuration management for robots We have a new target demographic We're gonna automate everything. This is no longer for humans Okay, we're gonna save our can save this this piece of configuration in this case our site name and our slogan Okay success great And while we're doing that. Let's really spice up this site a little bit and Change our theme. They think it's boring.  Really, okay great talk to me later about how and why Okay success Let's go check it out. Perfect. We've now got this great fire firehouse red We're all about robots perfect So we now have those changes and we need to export them again. Normally in Drupal 7 this is where we'd start creating features But no we're gonna export Okay Now again, I could use the UI and download a tar ball But in this case that you can't see it, but I'm typing drush cex right now and shortly. It's gonna tell us success I hope This is the sort of intensive process where it's comparing what's in the database and what's in your file system So there they are. Okay, there's our new Bartik settings System site, okay. Yes Success, okay, we have exported our configuration into that cold code folder that we looked at earlier Our next job is to deploy it.  Okay Again, I apologize. You can't see my commands, but I ran a get status here. I can see that I've got some changed files got some new files and So what I'm gonna do now is do a get add and make sure that I pick up any new files that were created So that will happen anytime you are Making a new field or a new view you're gonna have a new and you export you're gonna have a new file that somehow needs to get into your repository So I'm now I added it. I'm now doing a commit message Making some sweet configuration changes And once that's done, I'm gonna do a get push and again this could be tire balls You could be Unzipping them and then manually uploading them to a server in this case though. We're doing a get push Deploying these back to Pantheon perfect. They are now there export Deploy So let's go check our changes They've been pushed to Pantheon Okay, that's about local site just to review robots read. Let's go to our Pantheon site. Hmm. They're not there yet Let's refresh Still not there Okay, let's see here. Let's go check out the config UI and see what's going on clear cash. Maybe this will help Still not there. We forgot something import our changes. We can't just deploy them You now have to do the next step which which is to actually go into your system and import So we're gonna go do that in this case. I am gonna use the UI This could also be done using the Drush config import command, but for visuals I think it's nice to see this so in our config UI we can look at the differences between what we have here And now here's where things get confusing Active. Okay, that's humans Robots that's staged a very confusing term Back to our configuration page Import all organizing. Okay, it imported successfully now Back to our site perfect. We've just pushed changes from our local deployed them to Pantheon imported them and we are good to go so At its most basic level, this is just absolute magic for anyone that's worked with features or Tried to do this using other methods. My example was very simple But that same principle could be used for adding, you know countless views fields content types all the configuration We talked about anymore. You don't have to think about it. You export it. You import it You're not working with feature madness and reverts In my description of this session. I said 30 percent time savings I think it could be even more in some regards