Tony enjoys skateboarding, competitive grappling, Brazilian juzit tube, and spending time with his wife and kids in Dallas, Texas. Awesome, thank you. Alright, we'll start the timer. So this is my first time at Tourcon, and it might be my last if I mess this up, so thank you guys for being here. So we're going to talk about a topic I really love. I was trying to find a picture of me as a child. I had the rat tail as like a full shaved head, and then the long tail. I didn't have a mullet, but we'll get into some other famous mullets in just a moment here. So let's talk about APIs. Let's talk about APIs. Google Trends has been tracking the decline in things like soap and wisdom, kind of depreciated models for APIs. And looking at more increase in things like JSON, arrestful services, and microservices. This all started, if you guys have the phone that's got the name of a fruit, and it's not a blackberry, it all started in 2007 with the invention of the iPhone. People still go back and watch us on YouTube, the hits keep going up. But this really started something really interesting, which is driving API utilization more and more. It's the app economy, the mobile app economy. And because mobile applications need a lightweight protocol, APIs are increasing massively.  The reason is, is because we need a way to have some kind of uniform communication methodology that's lightweight and fast, and it branches out kind of like a mullet to all the different applications in the back end, right? So this is why developers use them. This guy is my hero. So the company I work for sees a whole bunch of web traffic, and as of our last count, 83% of the hits, this is not per volume, but 83% of the hits on the Akamai platform are API calls, which I think is totally insane. But again, if you think about the majority of mobile traffic, that might explain a little bit of that. They're also being used heavily because they are how organizations are delivering and enriching user content and meeting kind of people where they want to be met, which makes them great to attack. They're also a front door and then obviously a back door into your data, which also makes them great to attack. So here are some examples. Somebody thought it would be cool to take control via an API of these Xiaomi pet feeders. Now somebody's cats got really fat. That's not a huge hack, right? But if you look at some other interesting cases, now I will tell you that this was actually not an API call, but this is an IoT device, and they're totally vulnerable. I don't have to go into that. But a Japanese hotel chain had robots kind of watching the beds of people, and these robots were really excited when they got hacked. So a researcher found a way to remotely access these cameras and microphones and record. So I already went over this. I'm going kind of fast. I was originally supposed to do lightning talk, and I made my presentation was super long, and now I'm making this even longer. So there's a lot of different expectations and challenges around APIs, right? So one is that for business innovation, people are using them. Most organizations aren't securing them properly. The ones that I talked to are having huge problems just creating rule sets around API calls and understanding that you have to inspect each call before it hits your web services.  APIs are extremely, extremely vulnerable to overutilization. So we'll go into some of the top threats that we've seen. So denial of service, this is like 2005, everyone's favorite topic. But denial of service attacks are happening a ton to API services in a couple different ways. So one, you can specially craft a request to create hash collisions, which basically makes the processing time on that web server go up extremely high, and the deserializer process is going to be overwhelmed and then fail. Similarly, you can craft a request that has a really deep nested structure, and this again, it's like kind of decrypting something and then there's something else encrypted and you have to decrypt, so it's kind of this multiple payload problem. So this is what a hash collision request looks like. It's basically again trying to overwhelm the deserializer, and this is what happens on the decode time when you look at those adding up over time. Now if you were to have a way to perform a validation of what a request is supposed to look like, you might see these hash collisions coming to an API endpoint that for all intents and purposes should never be seeing something of that format. So if you could block it that way, that would be ideal. This is still things that are in development in some cases.  Do not open that many letters. It's a waste of time. So from a red team perspective, attackers are looking at your typical application security vulnerabilities, the same types of attacks that were against HTML web pages, SQL injection, you know, basically anything remote inclusion, it all works through an API service. And the funny thing is, most security teams, when they see API traffic, they say, oh, that's machine to machine traffic, or that's secured via the API key that we have assigned to our mobile app, and they kind of ignore it, leaving most problems to be identified by the impact they have on the systems that they're communicating with. Input validation, this is, I mean, we could have a whole talk on that. Broken and weak authentication, again, I'll talk about that a little bit with API keys and Java web tokens, and then deserialization process. So this is, this was kind of a snapshot of like the top attacks we saw against APIs. SQL injection, again, I think it turned like 30 years old this past quarter, which is kind of interesting. So it's obviously still a favorite. A really quick example here, this is a customer who's in AWS, and this call is basically looking at a credit card balance sheet. And then we saw an attacker do the good old SQL injection, Tom Fullery, to get access to more than one person's account balance. So Java web tokens, the place that we see these being misused or improperly used is that people think that a Java web token and whatever documentation you make inside of there is secure most of the time, it's just like encoded. So when you do a decode, you see the person's name, you see an account number, and then a base 64 hash of their password, which is probably not. Sometimes you see like username colon password, which is no bueno, so don't do that. The other thing is that the deserializer portion of an API call happens before the application logic kicks in. So if a request is sent, and it's hitting a vulnerable deserializer, and I'll go into a Jakarta example in just a second. The malicious code that runs is happening before that request is passed back to the application. So if you think about from a security perspective, you're like, I'm going to secure the application even more and like send my developers to security training. Some of this happens before that application logic even kicks in. Here's an example of a remote code execution we saw against a vulnerable deserializer. You'll see here this is someone's calling the FTW.sh, you know, for the win, I assume that that is what that means. This problem has become so pervasive that OASP has added insecure deserialization to their OASP top ten, which means that most executives are going to say, can we protect against the OASP top ten? That's like all they ever ask for some reason. But if you're able to provide a positive security model that says this is what a request is supposed to look like, and maybe even a negative security model that says if we see any kind of like, you know, breakouts here calling a different string, a URL via a different string, that might be suspicious. And if you could block that, that would be ideal. There was a Jakarta multipart parser vulnerability in Apache struts that we saw a lot of activity on. And this is another example here of someone using a deserialization process to make a curl request to this sh file. And when we looked at this sh file, we were like, oh, what is this, this K worker process?  We found out that it was a Bitcoin mining script. So basically it ran. And because of vulnerable deserializer, it was, you know, active code on the machine. And this helped golem and his buddies mine Bitcoin for fun. So the other big problem is process and logic flaws. This is one of my favorite logic flaws. I tell my wife that, you know, this is why my shirts keep getting tighter. I'm eating salad, so it couldn't be that. But we saw a particular case. We saw a particular case where we had a customer come to us and they're like, yeah, so someone's ordering a product.  And it's a, it's a, it's not a perishable. It's like a soda or something. And we thought that was weird. And we see that several times per day at a whole bunch of our different stores. And we're starting to, we're trying to figure out, are they validating credit cards? Maybe they're validating a credit card payment. And so they're buying something small that makes total sense. But then we started to look and we saw this thing here. Order number equals 14586. And we're like, okay, let's start tracking these a little bit. And then we saw the next order was order number 14587. And we're like, hmm, this is quite interesting. So effectively what someone was doing, either a competitor or maybe someone trying to, you know, build a better burger. They were hitting each of the branch locations in different markets and they could see how many orders were placed throughout the day and get a total order count of like what store was the most popular. This was not either of these stores. But have you tried the impossible burger at Burger King? It's awesome. Okay. So maybe people are trading stocks finding out that, hey, wow, all of these locations, their orders have dropped significantly because, you know, there's a new burger in town, right? That could be something. So we're trying to help them with that problem. Some of it is, you know, some of them are not just technology problems. Some of them are people problems. That's obviously a big issue. Credential abuse. Raise your hand if your company has seen credential abuse in the past six months. Okay. The rest of you are liars. You all have. Okay. So we took like a four-month sample. 34 million unique credentials were tried against 98 different customers. 67% of the total logins during that time were fraudulent, which I think is pretty scary. The other thing that's scary is if you're in financial services, attackers are targeting authentication methodologies that are built for, like OFX is built for the financial services industry, ultimately. And this is a little graph here of 21 million login attempts in just a few day period. You'll see the time frame there. 19 million of them were against OFX V1 endpoints and then 2.2 million were against OFX V2 endpoints. Now, what I think is really interesting, 37% of the requests to V1 endpoints were failures versus 0.2% against V2 were failures. So what that means is there might be something wrong with V2 that attackers are exploiting. The other thing we're seeing is something called cypher stunting where attackers are randomizing TLS fingerprints over time. And they do that, one, to avoid detection, two, to confuse any kind of automated rule sets, things that are kicking in. You'll see that there's 95% of the time during this time frame, which I think was the same time frame of that 10 days or so. We're seeing this increase massively, which I think is a big problem. So where is this all coming from? Credential abuse is really a problem because there are other username and password databases that get breached. People are like storing these in the clear, which is obviously an issue. If you go to any kind of forum, you can do a search for combo lists, which is like a huge text file that says username colon password or username comma password. Super fun to see what some people's passwords are. And where this happens in the, I was going to like hashtag credential abuse life cycle, but this is kind of the anatomy of credential abuse. They find stolen credentials, they import them, and they create a botnet that is going to make these requests from a bunch of different IP addresses. And these are full, this is not like a DDoS attack. These are full like layer seven connections where they're looking like a real user. They're copying the header structure of whatever browser type they're pretending to be. And then the next step would be if they get a successful login, they then resell that list for more money. And then the end goal is to do something with that login, right? So Sniper is one of the attack tools. This is, well, I'm doing pretty good on time. This is awesome. Sniper is one of the attack tools. It's an automated tool that really you don't have to know what you're doing to use it. The config files are pointing to login endpoints, and most of the time they're API login endpoints. And basically you load up the file, the config is specific for each customer you're attacking or each account you're attacking, and then you press go and then all of a sudden you get this list spit out that says these have a green check mark, they're successful. You can't get much easier than that. So this is why all of you that were lying about not getting attacked, why you're getting attacked. The other thing that's interesting is you say, well, just block the IPs, man, let's go old school.  I don't even know if they're still around, but single use IP addresses. So IP addresses that are only used once in a 24-hour time frame, that's increasing massively. That's typically because, I'm not going to read through all this, but it's typically because attackers are taking control of vulnerable IoT devices that live within your home IP range. And now they have like a plethora of like thermostats and pet feeders and, you know, toasters and stuff that they use.  And then those same attack tools, they're tunneled through each of these IoT devices. And again, this is not like a network-based DDoS. They're making full HTTPS requests against, so they're taking things like Century MBA, and they're automating those requests to look like they're coming from a bunch of different random home IP addresses. So of the campaign analysis, we saw that API entry points are attacked four times more often. That's because a lot of people are saying, well, you know, it's the mobile app.  The other thing is that because APIs are built for automation, attackers are using automation to their advantage. So one of the examples is AIO bots. So these are all in one bots. And effectively, these are kind of like a mix between account checking and validation tools, inventory sniping and cart checkout tools, payments and validation tools, and then like a full shipping profile and everything. So one of them I thought was interesting is called Cyber AIO. And the tools actually called Cyber Sol. This is hitting like sneaker brands, high end apparel brands, etc. And the way it works, you can buy it for really cheap also. But the way it works is it has a configuration and it says, okay, this is what we're going to do. We're going to put in payment details, delivery details, you know, separate billing configurations so that, you know, if you're doing a batch and one of the payment cards gets declined, you can switch to another payment profile and you can even start to customize who it's going to be shipped to, depending on which card got paid, etc. It's quite, I think it's cool, but never say that in a client meeting. I'm like, this is so awesome how they're doing this. I mean, it'd be awesome if it wasn't happening to you. But when you look at the configs of these and you open them up, they're all like this dropdown for like what size and all this stuff. It's literally hitting the API resource of this client and it's giving you feedback. So like you choose your size, you choose what product, color, etc. So this problem is so pervasive that they've created many different tools. This is just for attacking customers on the Shopify platform.  Like anyone who's already using this to hurt someone already knows about it. So I'm trying to tell people about it because I don't want you to be hurt. I care. But if you look at how these bot tasks are configured, they're all API based. This is from the CyberSoul manual. So for what it get looks like, for what a post looks like, they even have like customer service resources that say, you know, I'll get to that one in a second. They even have, you know, resources that say they've been tuning their rate controls a lot lower. So make sure that you dial that down even more so. This next one is not going to build right. I can already tell. But effectively within Shopify, they have a CAPTCHA queue. So when you get a CAPTCHA response, what happens in this would have been really funny. You know when you get a CAPTCHA response and it says click the, you know, click the boxes that have a street sign. And then there's like the little edge of one that has a little bit of a street sign. And you're like sweating because you don't know if you should click it or not. That's what this was supposed to be. I'm glad you left. So one of the options for Google ReCAPTCHA is to open up YouTube with an account. You log in again, lots of jokes here in the back.  Is that what it was? Or that was, that was something else. But you can basically automate that I'm not a robot push button super easily. So these are, you know, I am really impressed with the time here. These are just a couple of resources. It wouldn't be fair to talk about this without going for a blue team overview. Obviously one of the big issues that are really common is that API endpoints, if you have just say like a picture frame that logs in automatically and it pulls images versus an endpoint that has a login and it's a transactional web page, those are two different use cases and lots of times organizations, they build out things so fast and they've got so much kind of technical debt that those endpoints exist on the same URL effectively. So now it's very hard to separate and say, okay, we're going to do API key management. We're going to do some cores rule sets to make sure that you're not, you know, co-mingling these requests. It's very hard to separate those out. So in any case that you can, try to be sure that you're separating mobile logins from, you know, automated machine to machine logins for, you know, maybe social login capabilities. You want to separate those out from your normal logins. And if you guys want to learn more about API security, Pixie project from OWASP is really cool. And that is it. I am open to any questions if you have any. Yes. Thanks. So I do a lot of API work but I think I do it more granularly, like per client. And the thing I see the most often is like access control problems. I can't count the number of times I've looked at an API and the only access control checks is whether or not the user is logged in so you can access anybody else's resources. Yeah. Do you get to see that pretty often? Yeah, yeah, I do. So, you know, access control is a really big issue. It's funny because these same problems are the same. If you guys have ever worked with like WebGoat or any kind of like intentionally vulnerable websites, it's so common that you can log in as one user and then you're changing the URI and then you get access to another user's profile, et cetera. That's super common. There's a whole slew of things that have to be done to correct those problems. But if you're working in this space, you see how simply these things can be bypassed. The attackers are doing it all day long. And there's little to no intel feedback from the operator side, from the blue team side that it's happening. Unless there's some egregious outcome on a web server or with an account, you wouldn't know what's happening. It's so subtle. So, yes, the problem exists. All right. Thank you, Tony. All right. Thank you, everybody. We're going to be moving the Q&A out to the back patio. That was amazing. I can't believe you turned the lightning talk into a full 25-minute talk. Imagine if I would have had to stay within the... And you can follow me to head out to the back patio or follow Tony.


Hey friends, today I am hanging out at the opening day for Flower and Garden Festival 2021. I'm excited to try all the unique drinks and eat some amazing food, look at some pretty flowers and possibly play with butterflies. So let's go do this. I've got my trusty Flower and Garden 2021 passport to lead the way and I think we're going to head right on over to the butterfly exhibit. It's one of my favorite things of the Flower and Garden and I don't know how they're doing it this year but we're going to find out. Every year I try to make it a tradition to either have a butterfly land on me because I hear it's good luck or actually have a butterfly touch the camera. So that's where we're going to go into the butterfly garden and see if we can get some luck. The Goodness Garden butterfly house. I love walking through here too, you gotta zoop. And let's see if we can get a little butterfly, oh look at that. As soon as I walked in one flew up to me. It didn't take long at all. I got a butterfly under my nose. Hey, oh it's gone. It is so pretty in here, it's just one of those things you have to stop at when you're at the Flower and Garden Festival. Look at all the butterflies that will be hatching soon. I just love being in here. The best way to get a butterfly to land on you is just stand very still because usually if they bump into something they tend to just stick and stand.  So it's a little tip, it might take a little while but if you're dedicated you might get a little luck. I think we're gonna proceed right into Epcot's World Showcase and get to some of the festival kiosk. I definitely need a drink and something to eat and they've got tons of it in there.  So we're gonna get something to eat at the honey bistro, are you excited? Oh my gosh I'm hungry. I think my first stop is gonna be at the honey bistro and we're gonna try the honey peach freeze served with blueberry vodka. That sounds amazing peach and honey and blueberry and then we're also gonna get the sweet corn spoon bread with jalapenos, bacon and house made whipped honey butter. These are some good combinations. So here it is, the honey peach freeze with blueberry vodka and then the honey bread. This looks good because it's got jalapenos, bacon, I just can't wait to dive in. I don't know how the combination of mixing both of these together. It's an interesting combo. It's an interesting combo, isn't it? I wasn't expecting this to actually be like this color because you think honey peach and blueberry but I mean here we go, oh that's good, oh wow that is really good. That is much too good, much too good for children, I love this. This is the first drink of the night or the day, oh it's gonna be a long day. Now I'm gonna cut into the cake, I'm gonna make sure to get a little bit of everything. Need a little bacon, need a little jalapeno, definitely the honey, this is good. Now that the drink is good we're gonna try the cake.  So I guess that was a good way to start the day off with a little breakfast, honeycomb and blueberry vodka, very good. Now we're gonna keep moving along and we're gonna stop at northern bloom. This one I've had a lot of people actually say that I should try the maple syrup beer. Well they have the apricot maple syrup, I think I've had it in the past before but also they have an amazing beef tenderloin tips with mushroom bolognese sauce and whipped potatoes. So we might be getting something maple-y and something bolognese-y, is that a thing? Yeah it sounds good. It is opening day for this festival so I've seen an increase in long lines and wait times just because an opening day attraction usually brings in much more crowds but overall it hasn't been really horrible I mean it's not like you can just walk up to a kiosk and be like I'll take this you have to at least wait five ten minutes. Beer flight? Thank you. I thought I was just going for the apricot maple stout but when they have a beer flight you go all in you get all of them so that way you could try them and figure out which one you like so that's what I did I got the beer flight so now we have tons of beers to try and they all look like they're pretty pretty fancy. Here are the different beers that we got we've got the 81 Bay brewing apricot with maple syrup and then the collective arts blackberry fruit beer and then the goose island hazy IPA with mango and cinnamon I'm guessing that the maple syrup actually starts on this side and then it makes its way left to right I believe they said so we're just gonna try them all and also we got the beef tips. Since we both got the maple syrup beer might as well just take it as it is yeah a little sip. Gosh that's really good you get the whole thing. I liked it. I liked it too. I liked it a lot. Wow. I'm gonna dive into these tips though so I want to grab a little carrot a little potato a little bit of the steak. I feel like these are gonna be my favorite thing only because I'm a big meat and potato kind of guy but who knows there might be some other amazing like different snacks on the way so we're gonna try this first. That is very good right yeah the tips are like a perfect kind of like temperature I mean they're cooked pretty much medium yeah but they're tender yeah the mashed potatoes are great but the bolognese is my favorite I love it. Now I'm gonna try the blackberry fruit beer I feel like it's gonna be like more of a cider it already looks like it even though it does say beer though it's a fruit beer not too bad not too bad I mean it's definitely more cider than it is beer but yeah it's kind of refreshing I like it.  This one is mingle and cinnamon oh boy that's a tough I think the maple syrup one is my favorite this is second the fruit beer is third. I'm loving the atmosphere today I know it's a little bit busy like I said but the weather is perfect the flowers just make everything better when you see bright beautiful flowers and happy people the music over here in Canada your mango cinnamon IPA just kind of makes everything perfect and makes you think wow life is great now I think we're gonna move along and go in and get some AC I know the world show place is open and it's one of my favorite spots to just kind of cool down especially during any festival they have three different festival kiosk or stands in here we've got the farmers feast the cider house and then the festival favorites and I'm super excited for the festival favorites because they have the beef brisket burnt ends and smoked pork belly slider but also the three daughters brewing maple bacon stout this is the maple bacon start that I thought I was getting in Canada I like that one but I heard this one is phenomenal oh boy there it is and here is the meeple stout I don't know how many carry this I got one for Jackie I do have a way I think I'm gonna go like this oh wait I need another hand nothing like eating a brisket slider while listening to twinkle twinkle little star that's it folks right there favorite thing in the festival wow that is so good the sausage the brisket this is just the perfect combination right here now Van Morrison moon dance Carol pulling out all the stops we go from twinkle twinkle little star to and now we have the maple stout and this is the one I thought we were getting a Canada so I think this is gonna be really good oh yeah that's good okay the stout is pretty good but I had to go back up and get the key lime tart because I remember liking the pistachio dessert here so I do like key lime pie so I'm pretty sure I'm gonna enjoy this and I couldn't resist even though it looks like there's a stick of gum on the top of it doesn't it look like you say a stick of gum I thought about just forking it but then I picked it up and I'm just gonna take a bite hmm that is really really good I really like it and I think as it comes to desserts this was better than the bread with a cornbread I haven't had any other desserts to compare it to but this is actually up there for me I like it well I can tell you that the duck confit's really good you had the duck confit yeah oh fancy it's really good and I hear there's beats inside there yeah there's a bunch of beats at that bunch of beats it's a beat booth bears beats Battlestar Galactica birthdays oh I like it luckily this festival is going on until July 5th so we're gonna be able to come back and try all the things we haven't tried yet you know what I mean because there was a lot to take in inside the show place itself they have probably another six or seven different types of drinks so I'm happy with just getting my beautiful slider that I loved and now the key lime tart and the maple stout and just bouncing from here and moving on to the next kiosk or the next pavilion and seeing what they got it's so hard to come back out into the Sun after hanging out in the show place for so long it was so nice in there but there's so much more to explore many more boots and tons of food that's another thing you don't want to get full in there because then you're not gonna want to eat anything else or drink I believe our next kiosk is actually gonna be in France and I'm excited because somebody showed me that they actually had like a beignet that kind of was made like a crème brûlée and I think it's gonna be amazing so I'm definitely going for that Alice's water in the flowers it's proper fitting for flowering garden so I know it's ridiculous and flowers can't talk but they can't sing you can learn a lot especially on a golden afternoon like today you did it oh all day oh have a perfectly wonderful day thank you so good to see you you've been waiting all day to say that haven't you wear this shirt just to see Alice I've always had an issue with the France because it always seems like a super long line so right now we're gonna see what it's like but if it is a long line we'll skip it and come back even though I really want to try the beignet it's actually not looking bad at all so we're gonna have to hop to this hop to the line hop to the line I don't know which way to enter the line maybe here I think this is it this is it here is a look at the menu you can see they have the beignet that's the one I was excited for and it comes with cream vanilla and then down here you have to get the rose frozen slushie I mean the frozen slushies are always popular in the France area so this year's flower one you have to get it seems like it's getting hard to find tables as it gets later in the afternoon we couldn't find any tables or even garbage cans ever open so we pop in a squatting Indian style underneath the gazebo in France I like that we got a little spot right over here isn't it very nice in the gazebo yeah Bell actually meet meet and greets here Aurora sometimes too yeah and we got the beignets look at these these are like crème brûlée almost because they blow towards the top of the beignet and then we've got the rose slushies which melts very quickly so you have to drink that post-haste post-haste I should have grabbed the straw but I'm gonna just sip on it that's refreshing so good right oh yeah very refreshing I like this a lot I'm gonna try to eat this like a donut I guess I mean it's kind of like a donut form anyway yeah let's say it's very fancy rose slushies with caramelized beignets underneath the gazebo with princess music in the background cheers the beignet is basically a donut I mean it's very delicious but wow the the number one thing here I think it's a rose slushie like it is every year this is like an iconic thing for flowering garden you gotta get the rose slushie and I'm so happy we did now that we've cooled off and drank our slushie and ate our beignet I think we're gonna move along this is such a nice area to come hang out by the fountain not only does it have Beauty and the Beast topiaries but it also has the Remi topiary so also it's a good place to come get all your flowering garden fixings now we're gonna actually head to another kiosk that I was actually eyeing up from the get-go and we passed it on the way in but they had some amazing beverage offerings and one of them even had like an Italian sausage poutine and I thought that was pretty fancy so I'm gonna backtrack a little bit and head back out to the front of world showcase and explore all the different kiosk there one of the things I was super excited about is right here at the refreshment port a lot of people pass by these not thinking they actually have anything to do with the festival but they have some of the best items at like the refreshment port and then the African outpost so we're gonna see what they have here and I think you're gonna like it oh boy and here they are look at them they're so cute these are the popsicles I think they might melt quickly so we might as well find somewhere and just sit down and enjoy them these actually look very exciting and colorful and I didn't know what the flavors were I just seen the picture of them and I was like I got to get those but they actually their honeydew raspberry mint and coconut lime the picture looks a little bit better than what they are but they're so beautiful you can see right here this is the honeydew that must be the raspberry mint and then the coconut lime and we're just gonna dive in because they are melting Jackie's struggling you're not struggling you're not even waiting they're gone trying to wait but they're good though the best one so creamy and good I'm trying the raspberry now but look it's completely melted oh how is mine still intact I'm going honeydew first hmm honeydew or honeydew that's a honeydew that is a honeydew now I'm gonna grab the this is the pineapple or coconut mint or coconut lime okay I like the coconut one that's good now raspberry mint for the win yeah for me I feel like this is like a pistachio and a rum kind of mixture I don't know but you got to make sure you get a lot on there so I'm gonna go with this one the popsicles were good but I think we're gonna hop in line at the pineapple promodon I'm happy to sell the popsicles here because then it would be the popsicle pineapple promodon and that could be a tongue twister they actually have a flight here and it's a pineapple beer flight they have tons of different drinks here they have a violent lemonade ale they have a half a weed ale they have a mango pineapple guava ale so I think we're gonna get the pineapple beer flight and then I think the half a weed ale on top of that because it probably doesn't come with it not only do they have amazing beers here in spicy hot dogs but they got dole whips too and they got dole whips or rum in them so you can come here and get your dole whip get your pineapple fix and a spicy hot dog fix you've got the dole whip I knew it yep I was wrong actually the pineapple flight does come with the half a weed ale the only thing the pineapple flight does not come with is the violent lemonade ale so I got the flight and the violent lemonade ale I had to because I had to try it so now we got four little sample beers to try and a nice little cozy spot to relax and enjoy them here is the flight and we're your once again just sit an Indian style right just chilling you know Jackie got the dole whip with rum see it's zoning in the back and she also got a pineapple flight I got the flight too but I also got the violent lemonade and I'm excited because like I said we're just gonna sit here and enjoy them and I think I'm gonna try the violent lemonade first because this is what I've been excited about once again I thought this was a cider but it's not this is a beer but it's not my favorite thing about you trying the violent lemonade is the fact that you keep calling it so I've been saying violent the whole time just said my favorite thing about you trying the violent lemonade is because you're saying violent and it's violet violet violet lemonade but this is the violent lemonade ale well that's strange it is like a bear though yeah because like all these like drinks and like these fruity beers they look like cider but then when you taste them they're not like cider-ish like there's no sourness so it's very refreshing it's very good no bitterness just kind of like you can definitely taste the violent now I'm gonna dive right into the flight I've already had the heffa weed ale I had a little bit of it and I like it a lot I'm gonna try the rest of them real quick but the violent lemonade is violent is probably gonna be my favorite who knows though because there is a mango pineapple IPA in here that I'm probably gonna like so this is the mango pineapple lava we do it together we're gonna do it together I can smell it yeah I can all right you're ready oh my gosh yeah it's really strong let's try it it is so delicious that's my favorite my favorite hey but why are you there while you're there yeah grab grab the other one oh hello hop that was a little bit yeah that was good oh I think the mango yeah the wicked we the mango pineapple guava wow really just how's those beers I did you didn't house them you you didn't house them I house them after a couple of those delicious beers we're gonna move along but I have to appreciate world showcase right now the music look how beautiful those skies are this is a great day this is a great flower and garden festival like the kickoff the flower and garden season like I said this is running till July 5th that's like four months so we're gonna be here plenty of times and we're gonna be able to get all the things we haven't tried and yeah be prepared a lot more flower and garden videos to come other than the Winnie the Pooh topi eras I have to say three colonnaros is probably next as my favorite look at these it's so nice and I love the flowers everything blends perfectly together I want to keep moving to the front of the park as you can hear we're near test track and something that has actually been closed for a while is being repurposed for a festival stand and it kind of makes me happy to see this actually being used because I always admired it oh wow look at that Sun right now this is beautiful oh yes it's good the donut box is now repurposed as the sunshine griddle brunch bites and beverages and take a look at all the amazing things they have here fried cinnamon roll bites fruit loop shake and they even have a joffrey's cold brew cocktail which I'm definitely getting but wow there's a lot of good things happening here and good flower and garden festival isn't complete without running into a bunch of friends look at this we got out of the world of Michael Danny 702 theme park obsession best life and beyond super through so many good people so we're gonna have to take a gig a big group pic we need a big group pic we ran into a bunch of friends so I think we're gonna all go do like a group ride on test track this is what's fun about coming to opening day events is you get to meet so many people and I'll put everyone's YouTube channels in the description below because there were so many great content creators here just enjoying Epcot on a beautiful flower and garden day we're all heading in technically it is down at the moment but they are test running so we might as well just give it a wait because there is no line it's crazy because now it's like a walk on is that your walk-on walk the walk-on walk I like it I'm walking on sunshine we've got three car loads so one's about to take off this one right here and then in here we got my guy who we're ready to go check your seatbelts to see how your vehicle designs perform under challenging weather and service conditions so much fun look at the group of people these are all of our cars right here so good right now we're gonna head to one of my favorite places Epcot to kind of finish off the night and it's a good spot to finish off the night this is it my favorite spot at Epcot isn't it so beautiful in here and we're actually gonna go into Lecava grab a drink and just hang out by the fountain and just enjoy ourselves for the end of the night cheers everybody oh yes cheers cheers cheers so I will eat two of these to encourage you guys to try one and one bite so they do take these and usually you want to pair these up with a certain type of tequila and each tequila actually gets paired with something different there's five different types of tequila so I'm just gonna eat these for the fun and eat it with my blood orange margaritas there's a delicacy it's not really done it's like a smokiness so like sunflower seeds honestly okay 100% sunflower seeds okay it's really not that bad you guys are gonna feel so silly like sunflower seeds right yep very earthy yep just do it it's not bad told you you're gonna do it you do it here the pressures the pressure is on now okay he's going in for seconds no sunflower seeds happening I knew it yeah nothing yep it's very dry and powdery there's like an earthy note yep Jackie we did it you did it many times I've been here at La Cava with everybody else eating these and me like now you did it and with that margarita I think I'm gonna call it a night here I hope you guys enjoyed all of the food and drinks for the flower and garden festival and I hope you enjoyed the video I enjoyed making it we are gonna end the night in a true fashion with some fireworks so we'll see you next time and just like I promised fireworks to end the night as we were walking out you can see the new lighting effect around the entranceway to Epcot this is beautiful they added the flags and the music this is good this is really good look it's actually going right through you see the the line changing it chases it


What time is it there? It's about 10.38 in the evening. That is hilarious. So you trade at night every time? Well, Friday nights I've been doing it. And what's happened is, recently, because of the daytime, daylight savings has changed. And so it's actually a bit more reasonable. So the US market's open 11.30 at night, Australian time, but previously it's 1.30 in the morning. So it's a good time. Wow. All right, so let's talk here. First of all, are you in it? I don't know if you, I know you're on the option letter. Did you do Disney? Look at it. Did you do that one? Oh, no, I missed that one. Oh, God, look at it. Because of the time difference and stuff, like either get in them too late, or exit too early. I'm just very up and down with my trading, that's all. So do you think that the reason is because of the time zone difference? Originally I did. But what I think it is, I think it might be all right now, because it's a bit more in sync, because it was just a bit hard, because it wasn't the time difference.  And I'm never quite sure when I, when I exit, to say for example, a couple of times, like I buy them too late, and I exit and say for example, I might miss the exit. There was a QQQ, which one did I miss? I missed the spy, that's right, because I bought it at 283, and the exit was a thing, it was 285, that's right, but I missed that exit and I went down. And the queues, which one am I just pressing? Well, you know, what are out to fill you at a certain thing? Have you thought about doing that? I mean, can you do that on your platform? I can, I did that once, and I missed the entry, because the stop moved up too high, so I prefer to watch it, and then enter. So I think it'll be all right now, with the time zones, I think I'm just going to get into a groove, where I can actually be in the trading room now. Well, Fridays are a good day. I mean, Fridays typically are a good day, so if that's the day you can really focus on it, that's good, you know? I think so. Yeah. Yeah, but I think the big thing is, for me, is believing in myself. Okay. Because I can see the potential, and I've shown up for a while, so I know lots of people make good money doing it, and I think, well, why can't I do it? And I think it's just the fear, for example, last year, because I have lost a lot of money trying to learn, which is fine. I mean, I don't mind learning, like, you know, because you're learning and stuff, and the different things I've learned to say, for example, I like your videos on YouTube, because they're actually the truth, and say, for example, when I first started trading, and it was a concern, I realised it was nutrition that was really important, and what you've said, you know, you've got to manage your body and stuff, so I learned that, and just the energy level's right, and trying to be calm, so I learnt that, and then I also learnt, say, for example, well, where I was at last year, was just before the, you know, the Trump-China war, and I lost a lot of money around that. I lost probably about $7,000, and then I found you, I think, in October or something. What were you doing? You were doing options. Yeah, I lost about $7,000 because I just didn't know how to trade, basically. Yeah.  I can't seem to, you know, I need to just flip the switch.  So I'm personally still learning, you know, different methods, and I'm aware, at the stage now where I'm aware it's more your minds and your belief systems. Yes, that's where I'm kind of at. So are you, do you not believe that you can do it? Are you do, but you're, like, having 100% convinced yourself? It's like you want to believe it, but you're, like, not 100%. Like, you want to believe that you can, but you're, like, don't totally. Or what? It's like I can see the potential, and I know people can do it. I don't know if I can just do it. I mean, I know I can, because I've made wins before, but then I lose it. So maybe it's like a programming or something, or, you know, you can't make money doing this, or it's, yeah, because it actually is really interesting to be honest. I can see that, and when I do do it, I think it's, yeah, I don't know, maybe I don't believe myself at all.  I haven't noticed. How many days are you in the room? And the five days of the week, how many days are you in the room? I'm usually like to get in Fridays, so I'll start off Fridays, but because of the recent, the time difference was just this week, so I might try and get in more often. Okay. Like, yeah. I definitely think if the more days you can get in the room, the better, even if it's just for, you know, the first 15, 20 minutes, you know, because of the time zone, even if it's just for that short time, even if you're not going to train some of the days because it's so late if you're too tired, except for, even if you're only going to trade live Friday, even if you can get in just to listen to what's going on or something for the beginning part of the morning, I think would be good for you just to help with the conviction, even if you're not, you know, don't feel like you rested enough to do it till the end of the week. But as far as the options trades, are you doing any of those during the week, or you're only doing the calls if I make a call on a Friday or what? And I'm doing them options. I do, I do the keys. I like the keys and the spies because I've got a bit more time, like 15 minutes before and after the market. Yes. I'm sorry, 10 minutes after, not before and after. So I like the, and then with my notes. So are you in these calls here? Because this is at 290, basically. Are you in the spy? Spy, I'm not. The Q I was last week, but I lost money on that one. The one that was expired, the one expired today you got out of or the one expired last Friday? You know, the one that spies today, that one I exited yesterday, I had a small loss. And then I bought another one, another Q this morning. And I'm sorry, I bought another Q yesterday. Yesterday I bought a Q, which was the 185. Yeah. Okay. All right. So will you next week? Sorry. Yeah, spies next week. Yeah. So you're in one Q, Q, Q, and you are in one spy or not? Excuse me, no. Sorry, ma'am. It's Qs, yeah. Okay. So you're in one Qs, and you didn't do Disney. Why didn't you do Disney again? I think I just missed the trades, the time difference and stuff. But I think I'm going to try and do, because like when you call the options, you might call three a week, and I might just do one. Because I don't like having too many trades on, I just like having one. That's okay. That's all right. That's all right. I mean, I'm perfectly fine with that, but it is going to be earning season. So I may be calling more, you know, because of earning season. So maybe you want to do two, you know, or something a week because it's earning season. You know, and if I call one in the market, do a market one and do a stock one because of the fact that there is going to be more trades because it's earning season. But if you're going to do one, I would do the market ones because I've been calling some of the good, some of the trades in the market have been pretty good enough. But this Disney is going to be huge here today. So, and this is an earnings. So, but earnings are starting now. Like the banks reported this morning, like JPMorgan is, I haven't rated any of these yet, but I'm just saying, like I would definitely, definitely maybe do a few more in the next, you know, two months, do two a week.  No, I agree. I think it's the fear of just having two and just trying out. I just like one, I think that's pretty safe for me, but seriously, you're right with the earnings seasons. There's just more opportunity. Yeah, there's going to be more opportunity and you want to make money. And if you happen to pick one that doesn't work, then I could call five and four work and the one doesn't or something. So then you don't want to get frustrated. And that's again, not a product of you not having confidence or whatever. It's just the, the, the odds, you know, the odds are the ones that work and the ones that don't work.  I do actually, I just need a bit more practice, but it's more the targets and when to get out. So for example, the Q's, I feared the Q's. So I got out yesterday, but no, they got up one stick. So I would have made a bit of money on that one. So the extra, I think. Yeah. So you got out of it because it was read yesterday? Is that because of the expiration date was today? Yeah, because I got out. It was a little bit red. I think that's $14 down, which isn't a big, it's not. Yeah. That's basically break even. Yeah. And then, and then I know as it, as the week, as the days come closer to expire, the options become a little, well, it depends. The options become a little. Yes. Less of value. Yes. So I noticed that too. So if it goes to one at five, then it's actually, he moves out a bit more than what you would have. So I like to exit early before options expire. I think that's happening. Well, I don't, if you're, if you're something like this, because there was, you know, there was the banks reporting this morning. My expectation was that the market could get a left on the very last day for these ones, but it, you know, either way you could take, I don't know if you're taking one or two. If you take two, you could kill one and hold one is another idea. You know what I mean? Like this. Um, but if you're only doing one, you can't do that. You mean the quantities? Yes. One by two. Yeah. Yeah. That's another, that's another idea. If you're, I mean, just, I mean, on any of the trades, even if it's not right up into the expiration, say you do a trade, like some people I know got out of Disney with profit back this day here that did it. And they're going to kick themselves in the butt this morning. But like if you, you know, sometime you could, if you take two or any quantity at all, that's more than two, you could get out of some when it's up a little. And then you can, you can also then hold some to the, to a bigger number. So that you're saying you're worried about the targets. Well, that's a way to kind of do a happy medium. And then what you could do is you could track it and see what ones do go to the bigger targets. You know, so you could either do one of two things, either take, start taking two, hold one, get out of one, as soon as it's up, hold one, or you can just start getting out of everything when it's up right away, it's not holding anything, and then track what is going to the bigger numbers and then determine maybe if you want to start to hold some of them, not every, not all of them do though. And that's part of where the chart reading again comes into play with it because like Lulu, I don't know if you probably didn't do Lulu then if you're only doing one a week, but Lulu ran up that first day and then didn't act right at all then that second day. And then all of a sudden of surprise, surprise, it did go in to be positive at the very last, at the very last day, which was odd. But I mean, if you look at this one here, like it was clear that this wasn't right in here in the first two days. Like it shouldn't, that's not what I thought it would do, you know? When you call them, I do actually watch them and just monitor them and just say, I should call them that, but that's it. What did you do Costco was another big one. Or did you do that one? No, I didn't do that one. I was a fail and I didn't do that one either. I had something funny. No, I didn't do that one either. Oh my gosh, Diane, you know, I seem to be missing out on the good one. I mean, I should be thankful for getting a profit, but it feels a bit of the same way. Yeah. Yeah. So I've just got to flip that switch. So you reckon just reading the charts a bit more and just becoming a bit more. What, how did you, how did it, because you mentioned you were losing money and then all of a sudden it clicks. Is that cause just perseverance, reading the charts, et cetera? Well, I mean, at the beginning, I didn't understand what I was doing. You know what I mean? So it was a period of not understanding what the, what with the charts were telling me. So that's, you know, once. And then like I said, it was about three years to develop my system. So for me, and the greatest piece of it is the biggest part of it is having understanding what the gaps are telling me in the information and what ones are good and what ones are not good. So for me, that was the biggest, the biggest piece of it that, that obviously when people are starting out, if they don't have a strategy, then they're all over the place. I will say that having a good mental positive attitude, believing yourself, all of that is definitely key, but really you're still won't make money in the market if you don't have a good strategy, even if you, even if you have all the confidence in the world, because obviously, like for example, if you were short, short Disney here, you'd be down a lot of money, no matter what today. You know, so you have to have a, you have to have the strategies, the meat and potatoes, and then the confidence part of it adds on to that to make you stronger and doing it. I've always been a confident person, but at the beginning, I didn't have the strategy. So that's what took a long time to figure out. But I mean, the fact that I was confident did help me persevere through the ups and downs of it, realizing that, wait a minute, this doesn't make any sense. I've got to be able to figure this out kind of thing, and then the wanting it, wanting it, wanting it.  You know, I think that's why I'm saying like, you know, I don't think doing two trains a week is like jumping off a cliff.    So I think you need to get a little bit more into it. And even though it's safer for you to be doing one, and like kind of just thinking it through, I think you need to push yourself a little bit more. Because, you know, you'll feel than stronger by doing that. And again, two trains a week is not, you know, even if you would lose in two trains a week, that's not the end of the world, you know. So I mean, and I'm not saying you're gonna, because I've been making some great calls. So I think you need to push yourself a little bit more, is what I'm saying. Yeah, you're right. And I mean, your strategy works. I can see it works. The thing is, it's gonna be more committed, and just have a routine, I think. Just a routine as in, oh well, we'll do four, three trains a week. I mean, your goal was very reasonable. I forget what you told me your goal was last year. It was so reasonable. I was like, you wanted to make a thousand dollars a month or something. I don't know. It was really reasonable what your goal was. To start off with, yeah. Yeah. So I mean, you should be making that right now with the calls I've been doing. But you're not doing all the trades. Well, I'm not doing all the trades. And I'm very up and down at the moment, like it's up and then it's red. It's green and then red and green and red and up and down. So like you, like what did you have at risk in the queues? Like what was your price in this? You said you killed it and lost 14 bucks. What did you pay for that one? Yeah, I'll just look at one night. So, how's it for cats here? Queues was a paid 93% and I bought it at 183.69. That was Thursday. That was Thursday last week. That's right. Yeah, yeah. So it's about a week ago. Okay.  No, I bought one. Yeah. Okay. So what would have been the worst thing in the world if you had held this, the worst thing in the world would have happened is you would have lost $93. True. True. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, worst thing in the world. Now, obviously, if you'd held this to today, this would have been positive, but you'll be up in the other one that you took. That's fine. But I'm just saying like, kind of maybe think of it like that. Like, this is what I'm saying. Like push yourself a little bit. Like, I think you're, you're, you're almost like, you're almost like shy about it now because of the losses that you took before you found me and over the years. And so, like we're talking about 2018, that still sticks in your mind, that $7,000. So you're almost like so shy now, like now you're learning what to do, but you're like so shy, you're like dumbstruck because of all the things that happened in the past now that, now that you're doing something that's good and I'm calling good trades, you're like trade after trade, it's working, you're missing them, you're not doing them because you're kind of like, you're kind of like, a little bit scared about, because of the things that happened like, umpteen years ago or like, 2018, February 2018, which was, you know, over a year ago. So you need, that was a different place, it was a different time, now it's a different year, and you took my class, and I'm calling good trades, and everything is different, it's not even remotely the same. So you need to kind of look at it like that. So you're saying, well, I feel like hesitant because of these things that happened, but none of those things even matter anymore. Does that make sense? Yeah, it makes sense, you even got burnt, so I'm just a bit, um, fearful about that I think. But just because it got burnt in the past, doesn't mean you're going to get burnt. Now you got burnt before you did my class. You got burnt before you started getting my trades. You don't want to let this whole year go by where you're in the room and on the letter of me calling these trades, and then all of a sudden it's the end of 2019, and you're like, ah crap, I should have done more of the trades. You know what I'm saying? What I'm worried about because, you know, I'm just not really committed yet. You know, I may have to stone. But you don't have to 100% commit yourself five days or we can quit your job right now. Doing, doing a, taking five more steps forward or two more steps forward. Like I said, doing two more trades or whatever, that's not throwing, you know, that's not jumping off a cliff. That's, that's still just moving a little bit forward where you should still feel in a safe zone. And trust me, it's not going to take that long. If you had done Disney, maybe this is all you would have needed. I mean, I don't, I don't even know what this is going to open up today or be worth at this point. But if you had done Disney, it was the 120 strikes. It's $4 through the strike and it's got two more weeks left. So God knows what this will be worth. So if you had done this trade and made two grand, just risking a little bit of money, I don't, again, I don't know if that's what it's going to be worth, but I'm just saying that you might only need something like that to help your confidence really get a boost. But you're not allowing that for yourself because you're, you're being too shy about taking the trades. Yeah, my plan was an options trade and if they traded, it could get a bit more experience and confidence in both. Okay. That was what I would like to do. So, is there a balance for the system and then I wanted to do your other course, which was the options one, pending time zones and all that business. So yeah, that was my plan. Yeah.  You think you're doing bad because you feel like you're not making a progress, but you're really just, I just think you're overthinking doing a lot of the trades. And I think you're definitely, definitely, definitely thinking too much about things that happened in the past. The past is not now. Now is now. The future is not the past either and the future isn't even now, but the future is going to look exactly like now where you're not where you want to be if you don't stop thinking about the past. I feel like immensely in a better place because I'm more, I'm not, you know, when I put on trades in the past, it was more fearful, but now that fee is not there, it's just a bit more confidence on actually doing the trade. It's more when I get out and I'm not sure of how long to keep them. So I kind of, you're right, I kind of kept the queues until today, but then, you know, I just thought, no, I'm going to lose money. $14 a lot, but at the $9.3, I guess. Well, that's true. And you took another one. You took another one. So the market rallies today, the market rallies. So what are you going to do with this one? So you took another one here. And though I didn't call a queue straight yesterday, you took it. What are you going to do with this one? If this runs up today to $187, $188 or whatever, you could be up $100 bucks or whatever. Are you going to get out of it? Or what are you going to do with this? If it goes up to $187, I'll close the trade and be happy with the profit to take that. Because you know what, I discovered you're right about being the trades a short time, get the money and out. Because what I found is when I stand too long, you know, it's there's too much of, there's too much of a, I guess, a gap, too much of a space to allow for it to go down. And then you can't recover. And then I hold on to it too long. Yeah, so I've observed that as well. If I like to be the trades one or two days, three days, if I've got profit, I'm happy. Just to build up that confidence and I guess the balance. Yeah, I mean, if you are risking $100 bucks on average, you should be trying to make $100. But if you can make $50, like in the first half an hour or even in the options trades, you could trade them like day trades and get out and just do the next one. And maybe you can, if your thing is really you're concerned about being in like five at one time, then maybe you could do one, get out and do the next one and then get out and do the next one and hold it. Like you could be more, what I'm saying is maybe you need to try to be a little bit more active. Even, I'm not saying do everything in the planet. I'm just saying be a little bit more active because one, it's earning season. Two, I'm calling good trades. And three, you need to almost test yourself. This is like a test period for you. Are you really, are you really having confidence problems or it's that you're just not booking the money, but it's impossible to book the money if you don't take the trades. So I mean, it's kind of like, do you know what I mean? Like maybe your confidence isn't that bad, but you're not doing the trades.  Is it really, is it really that your confidence?  Yeah. Because you're right, actually. It's more the being more involved in practice, I guess, and being more involved. And yeah, you're allowed to do something about that. Maybe just, what do you do? You have visions of what you want to achieve. Is that, you set yourself intentions up with it? I would do that for yourself even on a very small scale, like even between now and May 31st. Say, okay, then between now and the Memorial Day holiday or whatever it is, you know, just between now and the busy season, Wards-earning season, I want to make this much money and just have it out there and visualize it and be specific about it. You could say, I want to make this much money between now and then. I'm going to do, you know, two positive trades a week or just pick something and visualize and be specific. Sometimes it's hard for people to take on too many things in their mind if they're not used to doing manifestation or visualization. Just have something in your mind but make it concrete. Don't just say, well, I want to get better. That's not specific enough. You could say, well, I want to make $2,000 between now and May 31st trading, doing options and day trades. And I want to, you know, gain and build up my confidence or if that's going to build your confidence, I don't know. I don't know what it's going to take to build your confidence but I know that losing $14 and making $100 is probably not enough because you need to become more involved in doing it. And then the number one thing also which is not manifesting anything but it's just being aware of it in your mind when you start to go through the mental anguish of the things that happened in the past. When those things come up, you've got to just nip it in the butt and stop thinking like that right away and just say, oh, I don't know why. I just thought about that. That was crazy because when you keep thinking about those things even if you're not aware of it, subconsciously it is affecting your ability to be able to be everything that you can be right now because those things keep coming up. You can call it fear. You can call it hesitation. You can call it whatever. The money that you lost, the $7,000, the money you lost in the past is gone. It's just gone and you're never going to make it back from the market or you're never going to move forward and make more than you lost if you don't start to become just living right now in this moment and doing the trades because trade after trade like Alta, Costco, Disney, all these trades go and go and go and go and go and you're not going to do them and you're not going to have the money and you're going to see that it works but you've got to feel it and the only way to feel it is to really is to do it.


Annie Liebervitz is one of the most famous portrait photographers in the world. Can you imagine the wealth of knowledge and experience and tips about portrait photography that she has to offer? And today I'd like to share with you those tips and tricks. How's it? Welcome back to the photographic eye where my passion is to help you develop your love for photography. The first thing that always springs to mind when I think about Annie Liebervitz is her talking about love, how you need to fall in love with the subject, the person whom you're photographing. I think this is such an important aspect. There's so many people overlook and that is if you don't love what you're photographing then your images are going to suffer. It's your job as a photographer to create a feeling of intimacy especially when you are photographing people. And there's no better example of this than the images of John Lennon and Yoko Ono that Annie Liebervitz photographed almost in fact the day that he was assassinated. When you look at these photographs you can see at play how comfortable John and Yoko feel. Now granted John had met Annie Liebervitz a number of times before but you as a portrait photographer need to create this feeling of intimacy and you can do this by talking to people, by really listening to them, being interested in them. Don't just be the type of photographer who turns up and just kind of shoots without talking at all. We've all seen them or it's an uncomfortable process and you don't want the people who you're photographing to be uncomfortable. If you are not good at small talk asking about the weather, asking about the trip on the way over, you know did you have a good write or how was it? Did you find the place okay? That sort of thing create a connection with the people. Bridge the gap between photographer and subject.  Talking about ideas or preconceived ideas I was quite surprised to hear Annie Liebervitz talk about the idea that the portrait itself should be driven by the subject and not the concept because obviously these days you know Annie is she's well known for having these some would say quite overblown larger than life conceptual sessions but when you think about it it makes sense let the portrait be driven by the subject rather than the concept and that means that if you go into a photo session you know with a pre-arranged idea that this is what I'm going to do and then and that's the end of it if you run into a problem where the subject is not quite gelling with what it is that you have in your mind or you're regurgitating an old concept to put it on to to this new person then you're kind of putting the you know the cart before the horse to rather have a broad outline for a session in terms of maybe the lighting or the environment or something like that and see the directions that the subject guides you in what signals do you get from them and they could be extremely subtle that you kind of pick up and go oh this might be something very very interesting there is a photographer who does this called Andy Gotts whom I will link to at the end of the video who has a very different approach to Andy Lieberwitz but he lets the subject guide the session and if you're interested then yeah go check it out at the end of the video. Andy Lieberwitz was a photojournalist before she was a portrait photographer and one of the tips that she gives a portrait photography is looking at the the images that you see day to day you know all those kind of the more photojournalistic type of photographs and think about them think about why was this aperture used why you know what was the particular viewpoint what was the photographer trying to say why did they craft the image in this way and not another way and the more that you do this the more that you start opening up your thought processes to a way of interpreting something in a unique fashion this is I think a hallmark of any great photographer is the ability to photograph something that everybody you know has access to but in a unique way so when you are looking at images think about the process ask yourself why why why why why those approaches were chosen by that photographer. In addition to being a photojournalist Andy's first love actually was to be an art teacher I believe or at least she studied art and was very into painters and all that sort of stuff and this comes through in the way that you see her light the way that the light in her photographs feels and certainly laterally the compositions of her photographs you know these portraits that look like paintings and a lot of that comes down to the fact that even though they are lit with strobes and you know and all sorts of other lighting gear they look natural they have a quality to them in terms of the lighting that feels like it's supposed to be there like there's such a such a wonderful thing but it needs sometimes a very gentle hand if you are going to create these photographs that have this kind of feel to them there's this liquid light where it's just kind of it's just sculpting and shaping in the right way. Now obviously you don't have access or maybe you do who knows to all the kind of gear that that Annie has in regards to the lighting which obviously goes to odds with what you're saying earlier about you know having a minimalist set of you know kit which is photography is full of contradictions I'm afraid to say so let's just just roll with it but she has all you know the light that looks lovely it looks great now obviously yeah we don't have this so what can you do when you can photograph in natural light I think the biggest tip if you are going to you know be a portrait photographer you want to improve your portrait photography is to learn to use natural light first of all you know it's it's great to use strobes but don't jump into the studio before you've got a handle of what's what surrounds you outside that is free to use and that you can use at any time of the day it will pay so many dividends to improving your photography you should also never be afraid to go back to look at your work doesn't matter if it was last week or 10 15 20 30 years ago go back look at it see how you have evolved see how you have changed see if there are mistakes that you can you know pick up on that you go oh well that's something that I wasn't aware that I do maybe I should change that up if you never look back at your work you can't a measure that improvement but also you don't become aware of the way that you are getting into certain habits that may not be apparent to you but are sabotaging your photographs because well they're just things that you are blind to but other people subconsciously pick up on because Annie Leibovitz went to art school she has a visual literacy a visual memory bank if you will that goes beyond far beyond just the scope of photography and I would encourage you to follow that path as well to to look outside of the narrow confines we can sometimes put upon ourselves as photographers now I am a portrait photographer am I only going to look at portrait photographers or I'm a landscape photographer and I'm only going to look at landscapes you know you know the sort of thing go beyond those limits when you put a label on yourself I am a portrait photographer then you're limiting yourself and we don't want you to limit yourself we want you to embrace far and wide everything the interest you remember we talked about you know falling in love with your subject if you love something photograph it right if you love a certain style if you love a really Lichtenstein painting or you like Jackson Pollock or you love you know Beethoven try and weave that into your photographs somehow see what happens when you stop drawing from the same pool of inspiration that everybody else is earlier I talked about Andy God's I know you're going to find it interesting I'll link to it over here go give it a click and see what you think thank you ever so much for watching and I'll see you again soon


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Hydra round three Which doctor done musketeer done time for privateer? Let's do it. I'm not grounded. I Am not grounded. I refuse to believe I'm grounded right Here we go. Mr. Hydra himself This is a fun fight. Yep. I agree with you here time to take it down Righty-ho. Let's just go for normal people Um So we should be good here defeat ebon Which is this head here basically when you defeat a head more pop up So yeah, that's how it works and they do ebon also like hides away a bit So, um, yeah, it's kind of just do someone something. Let's summon something because we can Here we go a shackled soul Nice work Heart of ice. Oh, yeah, he also summons those things. It's just slightly frustrating Slightly frustrating. They do immobilize you. I Don't even know where I put that bomb. He's right here. Good job. What is this? Interesting interesting Don't know what that is. I think they have actually changed this since I last did it from memory Just because they did try to fix it. So this isn't the original hydro fight just because it was broken Even though I never encountered that problem ever So, yeah, we'll see what happens here We'll see what happens No, since you left it means I can go against it because I can just forget it ever happened Haha, and no one can prove otherwise because the person who is grounding me theoretically is gone So there's nothing to prove that I am grounded or wasn't grounded Miga have hello Good job shackled soul. Keep up the good work. It's doing great work there Absolutely fantastic work Righty-ho, let's do that. Let's go for some of that We're just gonna go like We'll do that you can do that Do we summon Molly bone with some of Molly bone as well. This is actually kind of a difficult fight Always is a difficult fight. So we'll just summon some people just to make it a bit easier Yeah, then it goes away for a bit It'll be back soon It'll be back soon Don't you worry about that Basically until then the more you defeat these heads the more that pop up So I'm not like really a good idea to defeat them that did so much. Holy moly Holy moly yikes Bonnie needs a heal Might put an absorb on Bonnie real quick defeat cobalt and a fist. Okay Okay, these two let some quickly just do that you can heal yourself You can do that You can do that gonna take a bit of damage, but that's fine Righty-ho, let's do this Okay, half health Better damage just a tad bit of damage bit of damage there as well Not good. Not good. Not good. Not good. Yikes dodge is good Okay, Bonnie is like nearly dead. I need to actually hide Bonnie real quick there. Oh, it's storm cloud thing That's not too bad. I'm okay That is fine Let's do a Heal on you real fast you can move over there Real far over there. I don't really want to do an epic strike, but you can do that You can go up there and do that done Hmm attack kaboom. Okay. There's a nice sweet vengeance strike Which means he won't be causing any trouble for a while He will still he's not stunned unfortunately.   It's so annoying so obnoxious. I Might be screwed here. I might need a call an extra help No, no, no No, no, no, no You might have to go to the crown shop and get some help get some help What is this this is agility? No, thank you No, thank you We're gonna do that on you You're just gonna chill back here for a bit You can do that you can heal up And might just get some help in the crown shop real quick for a henchman Who would be best probably a swash is always good Yeah, we're gonna get a swashbuckler. I don't usually use henchman, but in pirate. I've used them more often. They're not What do we got sesson shroud Her blades that's cool Done we'll do that Don't like this whole lightning reflexes thing not a fan of it at all Not a fan. Hi Rose. Welcome back Okay, vengeance strike Okay, one's down, which is good. Okay, there's the dodge coming in the OP dodge, right That's fine There's a scarlet. There's another scarlet. I don't know you tell me how that's fear Right there over there they can live over there for a bit. We need to feed these two though So what we are gonna do is we're gonna do that You can just chill over there for a bit at Chrissy DiBloon.   Good damn it. Okay, Gracie's nearly dead Which is not good No, this is a this is an annoying fight. I like it, but it's annoying. It's a lot harder on a privateer Lot harder on a privateer dinner musketeer and worse, which doctor Right, what are we gonna do? Let's go for that. Actually, there's a VA VA you real fast. Um, I Don't want to do that. We're gonna do that. I Mean since you're nearly dead, I'm gonna do that. I want you to do that Do you have like her blade or something? Should have discarded the agility thing, but that's fine. We do that next time We do need to find some form of healing thing, right? Let's just get these epics out of the way since Since Gracie's literally gonna die any moment now.  No so annoying this fight These guys have literally way too many epics.  That's good You have just been just quietly watch this fine Tis fine. You're allowed to do that now bladestorm, of course Yikes, okay. Thank you. Can you stop dodging seriously, please? That'd be great Okay, here we come with Scarlet. Scarlet's just come and out in force today, apparently Right, let's let you do the honors here. I am going to quickly Team heal real fast You can do that if you want and you can do you can actually go back there. We're gonna discard that done Hopefully Epic heal is good. Okay, that was an epic hit. Gee He he's This is not good though Luckily these guys get less and less health and damage as it goes along as more of them are spawned So that's always good Unfortunately, we're completely surrounded now It'd be interesting to see how this guy does Don't turn turn turn Okey-dokey, it's not too bad. That's fine That's fine. At least we defeated cobalt and and there's even again noise No, it's even is back. Don't worry. Evan is back and ready for duty.   I love me some rappel borders. So annoying So annoying. Oh well, we should still be able to do a decent amount of damage. I would say Luckily, we've also only lost Gracie as well, which is good so far Um, aha, there's Evan. He's coming closer to us, which is even better even better that a lot Right, okay scarlet scarlet. Okay, we need to fit a scarlet which is good sweet. Let's um Do that You can um pu pu that you can shoot that You can go How much does that do? That I Guess done. Oh pirate over there. That's interesting. Didn't realize that would be a thing Very interesting. I didn't know it's a boat situation Holy moly It's gone again. Good job swashbuckler thing though Doing great work. I gotta love this swashbuckler henchman. This swashbuckler henchman is so good I haven't actually tried the others but this swashbuckler henchman so good So good This fight looks awful. It's not awful. It's just a painful experience sometimes I Didn't have to summon a henchman, but this is literally one of the only fights that I actually do Generally summon a henchman on if I need to So I'm not too worried about it. I mean we've only lost Gracie so far touch wood Okay, we've defeated cobalt. I think we just need to feed a scarlet and an amethyst then I Do need to heal myself again as well soon Soon soon soon What is our pet doing attack mega hit nice? It's not awful. I just wanted I know it's not that either. It's just it's not awful. It's not a it's not a nice fight It's a fun fight, but it's not awful Scarlet Cobalt. Oh, do we just have to defeat amethyst Is that literally all we have to defeat an amethyst? No, we need to do scarlet and an amethyst. Okay Okay, let's do that That's a cobalt That's a scarlet We can do that. Sure We'll do that done. Don't need will done Superheal noise Nice work. Cool. There's a scarlet down. Oh my god. Just stop The epics are crazy though. Like actually crazy Nice work swashbuckler henchmen you're doing well This swashbuckler henchmen is actually so good so good Okey-dokey, well even will be back real fast and then swashbuckly Can absolutely wreck super. No, thank you Okay, I didn't do too much which is good Okey-dokey dodge dodge noise Repel borders Yikes ski doodles Flanking dodge good job mega hit not good Play store mega hit no stop, please Blades don't stop dodge There's just so many now that it's just like literally just dodge dodge dodge dodge Literally all it is. Okay. Now who do we have scarlet? Scarlet Do we used to have to defeat one to feed an amethyst, okay? Well, that'll be easy Is there another thing? I really like the intercept attack. We don't need that Sweet that'll be good. That'll be good assassins miss that that'll be fine There's a heel a nice heel Come moops Things ending Bonnie and away into the corner was probably a good idea Just because they're all focusing on me and the swashbuckler thing so It's actually so much better that Now you just need to go through all of them doing their things Bladestorm, of course onto me. I dodged though, which is good We've got so many scarlets geez Yeah, I'm streaming for another until we finish this fight basically and then I'm stopping so yeah because How long do we have left we have? Yeah, we'll finish this quest and then we'll stop and I have to start this when we do Next stream on pirate we have to come back to where we are But yeah, hi tacos welcome Vulcan Vulcan Vulcan righty-ho Right cobalt cobalt Amethyst amethyst Yeah, bomb there he is there is the big boy himself.  We can probably just absolutely absolutely obliterate him now.  We did it Hydra has been completed get out of my face cobalt not cool Well, there we go GG We did it Hydra has been slain Click the chain boom Amazing there we go.  Have a good day. Have a good evening night thing. I don't know I can't believe we did it without too much of a hash. So really We couldn't have done it without the without the The henchman thing, but I mean I'm not too worried about that not too worried about that Oh We get we get Argos as a companion here. We got to turn up the dialogue never heard this one Do do turn turn turn turn level 64 Whoa My duty done There we go, we got horcules. I kind of want to just keep going until we get Argos I really want to keep going until we get Argos. So that's what we're gonna do That's what we're gonna do. We also got the dehydrator badge, which is really cool. I love that badge Right, we're gonna if it queue up Vinge Vinge three And then we'll give you relent relent and We'll give you strong And strong and strong and strong And accurate and accurate And we'll give them health tough and tough and it's more tough Actually, no, we need to go rough as well go for rough And another accurate apparently there we go boom 66 mighty hero. We're gonna drop him behind Gracie He'll be used for a bit. We're gonna go to Argos. We're gonna get Argos and then we're gonna finish off


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Mr. Bundy on 9-1. I know you got people for lunch, but he stopped by here on his way out, and I wondered if you had any feeling as to how we could cut or should follow up or whether it's all settled. He talked to me as if he'd simply accepted the decision. He did to me and was very fine, very warm, and he said that he had understood before he came over here. This is what it might be. I said, well, now, if nobody knows you, you can come into Jack Bundy. And Mike Bundy, neither one of them, I'm sure knew what I was going to say or had anything to do with it. Well, he and I, he told me he thought this was it last night, and that's what he's talking about. Well, I said, first, I'll give you it longer after lunch, but I'll give you this rundown. I said, I want you to know that I've been concerned about a matter that's of interest to you and to me. I've given a lot of thought since the convention at Goldwater's nomination. I put myself in your place, assumed you were in my place, and figured out how would I want this handled if our positions were reversed. I've concluded you should hear it from me direct, first. I've reached the decision. It would be an advisable for you to be a candidate for the number two spot this year. My reasons for it are as follows. A lot of Goldwater's nomination. I think that the battleground is going to be the border states, the states of Oklahoma and Maryland and Kentucky and the Midwestern states. I have talked to all the leaders in every state, either through myself or one of my intimate staff members. I've got their views. I feel like this is not the time for you, if you have ambitions to lead the country, to go after this spot. President Kennedy always wondered how I could endure it, he said. It must be very frustrating, and I told him, well, I want to do more or less retire from the Senate. I certainly did. I felt like all I could do was good for my country and good for my party and good for my state. I thought Democrat was much more preferable than Nixon, and that's why I did it. And I said, I don't think that you'd be very happy there, although I'm not in charge of your happiness presiding over situations in the Senate. You couldn't do a damn thing about it. Now, I want you to be happy and do what you want to do. Our objective is the same, carrying out President Kennedy's program. I'm going to pass 25 of his 35 major bills the first year. Next year, I'm going to pass the other 10 if I'm here and extend them. I've got his people carrying on, just like if he was here. I only have three people, George Reedy and Bill Margers and Jack Valenti and Walter Jenkins, four of them. The other department's, Bundy, runs his shop, even more so than they did when Kennedy's here. Oh, Brian does the same. Feldman does the same. Duncan does the same. And we'll continue that way. I want you to direct the campaign. I want you to do anything else that you'd like to do and appoint regional men working out your relationship with them carrying on where you are or going to any foreign spot that you would like to or taking any place in the government that's available. I don't mean I'd throw a cabinet offshore out, but I would try to work it out. I won't get along better with your staff. I need your help. I think you're brilliant. I think you're dedicated. I think that you're good for the country. I think you'd be good for me. We need it. And he said, well, I want to help any way I can the rest of the campaign. I don't know what to do after that. I guess I could do it from where I am because I don't guess any precedence. I haven't thought the Attorney General ought to be in politics. They'd say that I'm supposed to be having a racial matters not here running the campaign. But how are we going to announce this? I said, anyway, you want to. He said, well, I'd like to think that over. And I said, all right, you can say that you're not interested in doing this, or you can say that I thought because of the circumstances that developed, the areas of the country where the battleground is going to be, that I ought to give some attention there. He said, if you decide who it's going to be. And I said, no, I've decided several that I don't think could fit in. And I haven't decided the ultimate, the one. I don't think that ought to be done until we get the convention. I think it ought to be done kind of like President Kennedy did. I said, that'd be very desirable. If you could say it's 430 that afternoon. But he did. I don't want to have any more problems than already got. And I wish you'd be thinking about Ken O'Donnell and Larry O'Brien and Jim Rowe. These folks, what you can put them to doing, you can call in John Connolly. He said, would you thought of succeeding me? I said, I don't have anybody. But he said, well, I'd like you to give consideration to catch them back. I said, I'd be glad to do that. He said, got up, walked to the door and got the door turned around and said, well, I could have been a hell of a lot of help. If you'd asked my opinion, I would have told you that I could have been a hell of a lot of help to you. And meaning if you'd gone to take it, I assume. I looked that way and I said, well, you are going to be a hell of a lot of help to me. And the way I've outlined it. And then I had stayed the moment and he smiled. I smiled and I said, hell of a lot of help to yourself. Meaning that I would not, I told him, I said, I'm not making any commitment. I don't want any deals. I don't want any trades. But I have no envy and no jealousness. And I want to make you look good as you can. And I think you can be much better understood and be much more, get a broad experience. And I think this will be good for you in getting that. And I think a lot of people that don't understand it all now will be strong for you. Yeah, a short time down the road. You know, really how to interpret it. I don't know whether he felt good or bad. Matching it to what happened when he came in here for a few minutes before and he came in here for a few minutes afterwards. I would estimate this is quite hopeful, really quite hopeful. I think you must have handled it just great, eh? Because I wasn't so sure. I was cheered up when he came in. There wasn't time for me to call you and I didn't want to really, much more than I was this morning when I talked to you. But I think you must have just carried on from a running start. I don't think, he said he, I did advise him beforehand whatever his reaction to say, nothing in haste. And he doesn't want, he's worried about being the chairman. He thinks it's a good way of running the campaign. It's a good way of making enemies and that doesn't entice him. I said that, I think, I didn't think that was true in a long poll that the measure was going to be who had done most to help win. But I don't myself think that his doing that is crucial from your point of view as long as he pitches in. In fact, I see some disadvantages to it. Yeah, there are. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. The main thing I want to do is kind of what you indicated the other day that whatever ticket he wanted to write, he could write. To carry on for his brother. And if he wants to carry on for his brother, that's my job. And I didn't say so, but I have no intention of going into it. I'm just worried he wants to be in the New York next administration, Mr. President. I think the opposite to McNamara was simply that when you're hoping for one thing you don't talk about something else. I don't blame the land. What do you say to McNamara? Well, when Bob told us a week or so ago that he had said he wasn't interested in any job after November, except this one. I don't think that's true. Well, I hope not because I think that I think he wants to be president and I think the best way for him to be president is to be a little better understood. That's right. I don't say this as a fact, but I believe that of the 50 states there were three of them that indicated that some of their dollars would like to be for him. I would say there are 30 that indicated that they couldn't go along at all. He's got enemies he doesn't need to have. No, and doesn't know about. And I've got them, too. But he's the one that's been decided in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and maybe one more that... Is it something from New York or not? No, no. The New York people that we think he has some, but none of them we talk to, they all say they do anything they want. But these others say they do what they want.