What's up and welcome to One Take. My name is Gil and today we're talking about Quentin Tarantino's latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I'm going to start off with some high-level spoiler-free thoughts and then I'll give you a warning before I dive a little deeper into spoilers. So if you haven't seen the movie yet, at that point you can tune out, watch the movie and then come back and see the rest of this review. So right off the bat I'll say I absolutely love this movie and that's not a surprise considering I've been a fan of every movie that Tarantino has done and that includes his half of Grindhouse, Death Proof. So I loved Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and one thing that was a little different about this movie than Tarantino's previous films for me is that going into Once Upon a Time in Hollywood I had very little idea what to expect. I watched the trailers, I read the synopsis so I knew the basics. You've got Leonardo DiCaprio playing Rick Dalton, a famous TV star who's kind of feeling a little washed up. You've got Rick Dalton hanging out with his stunt double Cliff Booth played by Brad Pitt and then you've got Sharon Tate played by Margot Robbie and somehow in the backdrop playing some kind of role in this movie you have the Manson family. But my question going in was what's the actual plot of this movie? What's the narrative arc that these characters go through? The funny thing is that when I sat down to watch this movie a pretty decent amount into the running time I was still asking myself those same questions and I realized that this movie is sort of in the vein of a dazed and confused, a super bad or even a pulp fiction where it's less about a particular narrative or plot and more about a sort of day in the life or days in the lives of a few interesting characters. So that being the case these characters being interesting and on a visceral level enjoyable to watch is very important and I'm happy to say that they are. Quentin Tarantino has once again done a great job of creating compelling characters where even when there isn't a super tight and super clear narrative it's just enjoyable to spend time in the world with these characters. Now having said that there are definitely moments of tension, there are definitely character progressions and there are certainly awesome hilarious and unpredictable payoffs throughout this movie that justify the nearly three hour running time. I think the movie is about two hours and 40 minutes. I should also say that this is one of Quentin Tarantino's funniest movies to date. He's had I think a pretty clear through line of comedy in all of his movies but this one more than any other Tarantino film to me prioritizes comedy over tension and violence and some of the other things that were used to in a Tarantino film. Now I'd say all those things that you're used to seeing from Quentin Tarantino are on display here but he's just sort of tweaked the dials a bit so comedy, character, come before plot, tension, conflict, violence and things like that. Now I will say there were a couple of moments like I said it is a nearly three hour running time and that can be challenging to sit through when there isn't a clear overarching plot. Now there was a moment or two where I started to get bored but every time that happened it very quickly became clear what the point of that scene is either it's progressing the character in some way it's leading to some interesting payoff or it's giving us some genuinely funny hilarious moment and the build-up was necessary for that. I'd also say all the performances in this film were great especially the three leads right Margot Robbie, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt but one part of Leonardo DiCaprio's performance that I'm still sort of questioning and this is on display in the trailer a bit right we know that his character is self-conscious feeling like he's sort of fallen from fame he's sort of washed up and with that Leonardo DiCaprio is trying to sell that by showing some nervousness and anxiety at times that felt a little over the top to me where he had where his character has a sort of a stutter while he speaks because he's so nervous but sometimes I couldn't quite tell what he was going for you know I found myself asking is Rick Dalton Leonardo DiCaprio's character supposed to be drunk in this scene or is he just nervous I'm not ready to say that it's a flaw in his performance it was just something I questioned didn't totally work for me in the moment and part of the reason I want to re-watch this movie to sort of see if that clicks a little bit better for me the second go-round I'd also say although you know eight or nine times out of ten everything that was set up in this movie paid off really well there were some things that didn't quite pay off for me and again I'm not ready to say they didn't work but it's something I want to re-watch and see if I can better understand why they're in the film but I'll talk a little bit more about that in spoilers so to recap before I get into spoilers this is a two hour and 40 minute film and it doesn't have a very clear narrative that's not to say things don't pay off but you will find yourself wondering where is this all going so you've really got to love the characters but if you love the characters and if you're in for the ride this is a fun movie with some great payoffs if you're a Tarantino fan I can't see you not enjoying this if you're not a Tarantino fan it might be a slog for you so you can kind of use that to decide whether or not you want to see this movie so I think that's everything I have to say before diving into spoilers so here's your five second warning if you haven't seen the movie yet turn this off and go see it five four three two one time for spoilers so I think this movie can be divvied up into kind of three parallel storylines you've got Margot Robbie playing Sharon Tate going about her day bouncing from place to place dancing a lot watching her own movie on screen that's kind of one story you've got Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton his fall from fame his struggle to play a villainous role and really give it his all and sell it then you've got Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth again just kind of that's Rick Dalton's stuntman sort of going about his day and countering some interesting characters and I would say that off the bat Cliff Booth's storyline Brad Pitt's storyline is my favorite of the three and that is probably the storyline which is most Tarantino-esque it almost feels like Cliff is living in his own movie you know he's interacting with Rick Dalton's storyline here and there but then he goes off on his own and he's the only character that really encounters true life or death situations he's the only character that's encountering true violence and that might be why I found his storyline most enjoyable so for that reason I'm gonna kind of save his for last and talk about Sharon Tate and Rick Dalton first so first talking about Sharon Tate I would say that her character was a lot of fun to watch Margot Robbie made Sharon Tate somebody that's easy to fall in love with the only question I have is it didn't feel like her character had much of an arc actually I would say that really the only character that that to me felt like he had true progression and evolution as a character was Rick Dalton I thought that Cliff Booth Brad Pitt's character and Sharon Tate kind of encountered certain situations but as characters didn't really evolve by talking about Sharon Tate specifically it really felt like there wasn't much payoff to her story besides the fact that her storyline kind of served Cliff and Rick's story right she was somebody that they saved ultimately at the end of the movie so what was the purpose of Sharon Tate's storyline to me I think it's twofold one it's sort of a red herring because we know going into this movie that the Manson family in real life murdered Sharon Tate so the whole time we're watching her where enjoying her character we're falling in love with her character but we're worried that at some point she's going to be a victim that's one element of her story the other element is because we come to care for her character and we've been watching her character for you know two plus hours ultimately when Cliff Booth is able to triumph over the members of the Manson family that were sent to kill Sharon that victorious moment feels ever so slightly better for us as an audience because we know that this character Sharon Tate who we've been watching this whole time is saved so I think her storyline ultimately served as a red herring something to make us worry and just makes the victory at the end of this film a little bit sweeter then we have Rick Dalton's story Leonardo DiCaprio's story and I would say that his storyline at first feels like it's being played for laughs so for example you have the scene where he's forgetting his lines that scene was pretty funny even funnier is when he's back in his trailer giving himself a hard time yelling at himself in the mirror threatening to blow his own brains out you know he shouts into the mirror I'm literally gonna shoot your brains out I'm not kidding if you cannot get your lines right tomorrow what the hell is wrong with you that whole scene was pretty hilarious but there were true moments of emotion too when Rick has an encounter with 10 year old actress played by Julia Butters and by the way shout out to that actress she did a great job but in the scene where Rick is interacting with her and she's asking Rick about the book he's reading Rick starts to tell her about the character in that book and he starts to choke up when he tells her that this character is starting to feel useless because he's been injured and can't perform his cowboy duties as well as he used to when Rick got choked up I'm man enough to admit I also got a little bit choked up I really felt for his character on the flip side when he nails the scene as the villain in this movie when he when he uh when Julia Butters that actress tells Rick that he just did the best acting she's ever seen that moment of triumph I felt that right along with Leonardo DiCaprio's character so his character had lows and highs that I truly felt as part of the audience and like I said before I think his character is the only one that truly had a character arc where he had his fall from fame and he sort of rediscovered a love for acting and rediscovered the craft and the skill of acting you know he's he was drinking too much sort of falling apart and we kind of saw him pull it together the only thing I wish is that we got to live with that victory a little bit more than we did but right after he nails that scene we kind of go into that montage where we skip ahead six months you know we see him acting in Italy and then eventually coming back to the US so I like that storyline I enjoyed that storyline but the one I really enjoyed it like I said earlier and the storyline which I thought was the most Tarantino-esque of the three Brad Pitt's character of Cliff Booth so a few things I want to say that I really enjoyed here number one when his storyline is just sort of ramping up we see his interactions with the hippie girl where she is on the side of the road asking for a lift but he's going the other way that non-verbal communication the two or three scenes where they're communicating totally non-verbally was just was just fun to watch finding the creative ways that Tarantino found to have them communicate you know at first it's just a smile a wave a wink and then it starts to be more hand gestures at one point she's upset that Cliff is going the opposite way won't be able to give her a lift and she does that exaggerated you know frown and tear that was just a lot of fun to watch and then we have the fight between Brad Pitt and Bruce Lee which I believe was an imagined fight I interpreted that whole sequence to be Cliff imagining what would happen if he were able to get on set and join Rick for his latest role but that whole scene where Cliff is fighting Bruce Lee was just hilarious two moments I'll shout out are after Bruce is able to best Cliff in their first round and not cliff to the ground when Bruce goes to attack him again and goes in for another kind of jump kick and Cliff sort of nonchalantly just grabs him and throws him against a car hilarious also hilarious is Bruce Lee is continuously making those sort of kung fu noises you know and then at a certain point Brad Pitt kind of does the same thing but a little bit more half hearted right he sort of goes oh sort of out of the side of his mouth that whole scene was hilarious and then we get to the scene where Cliff is visiting a spawn ranch where the Manson family has sort of taken over there's a lot of tension in that scene because a from history we know that the Manson family are murderers so we don't know if Brad Pitt is going to make it out of that scene unscathed and even if you didn't go in knowing that history that whole family is acting super weird following Cliff Brad Pitt's character around so you start to feel a little bit unsafe for him a little bit worried for him but the best part is that Cliff handles everything totally nonchalantly great example of this is when he wants to go into the house where he knows that George lives that's the owner of the ranch and Cliff is obviously worried it doesn't really seem like George would just allow a bunch of hippies to come live on his ranch so Cliff wants to go talk to him and everyone keeps telling him you can't talk to George now this is nap time you can't bother him so as an audience we're starting to wonder is George kidnapped is he dead what the hell is going on here but over and over again all these characters are telling Cliff you can't go in there and eventually he just turns to them and says you know what I think I'm gonna go in anyway and hey maybe he'll be awake you never know and the way he just insists on going into the house even when Dakota Fanning's character squeaky tells him you can't come in now and Cliff says I'm going to tell you right now I'm coming in and this and he points to the screen door not going to stop me so I fell in love with his character in this scene the way he's able to just confidently handle whatever bizarre situation he finds himself in is just awesome and then of course in that scene when he's finally ready to leave and he finds a knife sticking out of his tire he turns and he sees a hippie laughing at him so he knows that that's the hippie who stabbed his tire and he just turns to him and says you're fixing this and when he refuses he beats the crap out of him and it's just that is one of those moments I mentioned earlier of extreme tension is he going to get out of here safe and not only does he get out of there safe but on the way out he beats the crap out of one of these weirdos who is creating this unsafe situation to begin with so extreme tension and then awesome hilarious satisfying payoff I should also say here I was reading some articles that PETA was complaining about this movie saying it's going to create an irrational fear of pit bulls because Cliff Booth's pit bull in this movie has some pretty violent moments but I'll say this movie did not make me afraid of pit bulls but it did rekindle a hatred of hippies I left this movie really hating hippies so if PETA is looking out for pit bulls hopefully somebody is looking out for the poor hippies out there and then we've got to talk about the incredible ending so the whole movie we're counting down mentally to when these storylines are going to collide we know the Manson family is out there we know they're going to become murderers we know they're going to go after Sharon Tate and we're just waiting for that collision to happen at a certain point this becomes very explicit when the narrator Kurt Russell cuts in and starts telling us 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 10 p.m. literally telling us what time it is so we're progressing throughout the day the clock is ticking at a certain point those goddamn hippies are going to show up to kill Sharon Tate and then just before they do we have one of in my opinion the best depictions of drug use that I've seen because I feel like a lot of movies have a tendency a lot of all rated comedies especially will have a scene where characters do acid or some other hallucinogenic drug and it's just an over the top scene of them oh look at my fingers wow what's going on and maybe there'll be some weird special effects but here it's super subtle Brad Pitt smokes a acid dipped cigarette and just as he handles everything else in a very nonchalant way he handles being high out of his mind also in a totally calm manner he basically just moves his fingers and goes whoa and and then just says aloud the train has left the station so great depiction of drug use I found that hilarious and then so the tension that's been building up throughout the movie where we're waiting for the Manson family to show up boom they show up they bust into the house and hold the gun to Brad Pitt we're confident in Cliff Booth's ability to handle a situation like this but now he's high out of his mind so there's a genuine concern for his character so it's very uncomfortable to and then Brad Pitt clicks sends his dog after Tex who's been holding the gun to his face and we see those hippies get torn apart by the dog beat up by Cliff and hilariously one of them torched by Rick Dalton who apparently kept his flamethrower prop from the World War II movie that we know he was in established earlier in the movie so that whole scene was hilarious and incredible release of tension where we're worried about these characters and was just a great climax to this film a couple of things to point out about this scene one this is one of the few happy endings we've gotten in a Tarantino film it's very rare for all of the main characters to survive a Tarantino movie so this total happy ending where both Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth survive and not only do they survive but Rick Dalton it meets Roman Polanski which he wanted to happen the whole movie because that's a potential major opportunity to sort of rekindle his his career this happy ending it feels like it couldn't have happened in an earlier Tarantino film because we've now watched eight movies from Quentin Tarantino where it's very common for main characters to die so because we've been trained to fall in love with characters only to watch them get killed we can watch this scene where the hippies show up at Rick Dalton's house where they hold a gun to Cliff Booth we can watch that scene and have genuine concern for these two main characters because it's been established by Tarantino in previous films that nobody is safe so at least for me watching that scene I was so sure Brad Pitt's character was going to be killed and Tarantino knew that because at a certain point Cliff Booth Brad Pitt's character falls to the ground and we don't see him again for a few minutes the next time we see him he's lying there the camera's on his face the camera pans over to his fingers and we see his finger twitching and we breathe a sigh of relief that he is still alive so that's just part of how Quentin Tarantino was able to play with tension in this scene and I'll also say not only is there tension because we're genuinely concerned for the characters because it's been established in previous Tarantino films that they might die but on top of that the Manson family was real the characters we saw in this movie were real and in reality they killed Sharon Tate and in this movie they need to get through Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth to get to Sharon Tate so there are several reasons to have genuine concern for these characters so Tarantino masterfully plays with all that to create tension play with that tension and ultimately give us just incredible reliefs and an awesome happy joyous ending so overall clearly I love this movie I love the way we just had a great time hanging out with these characters you're waiting for everything to collide and when it does it is glorious and gloriously violent a couple of other random thoughts that I had watching this movie number one I think Quentin Tarantino's fascination with feet is at this point it's sort of become a running joke there's a moment in this movie where when Cliff Booth finally picks up the hitchhiking hippie girl the moment she got in the car I thought to myself all right I guess I should be prepared to see her feet because seconds later she takes her shoes off shoves her feet against the front window of the car directly in front of the camera and it feels like at this point Quentin Tarantino is just doing that because we expect him to do it and it's sort of just a running joke the other thing I'll point out is the whole final sequence of Rick Dalton Cliff Booth beating the hell out of these hippies sort of feels like Quentin Tarantino's response to his critics because when those hippies are in the car sort of plotting what they're about to do part of why they decide to attack Rick Dalton is one of the hippies points out that hey Rick is a TV star and all these Hollywood TV stars and movie stars they're the ones who told us that violence is okay by constantly putting it on display on TV and in movies so we should teach them a lesson for for desensitizing us to violence so in a way in that moment it sort of felt like those hippies were the mouthpiece for all the critics that have come out against Tarantino for his violence and I guess Tarantino's response to them is violently destroying them so I just I just thought that was funny is sort of an uh just an added meta element to that whole sequence like I've said and like I'll say again I was a huge fan of this movie I thought it was funny I thought it was entertaining I love these characters I would love to see more of these characters though I doubt we ever will except for maybe in deleted scenes I especially loved in this movie the way that like I said before there's this tension where you know at some point these storylines are going to collide and when they do it's awesome it was one of the first happy endings that we've gotten from Tarantino I mean he's always had happy endings but but they're always tainted with some other dark side so inglorious bastards we kill Hitler but several of the main characters died along with him so we get these happy endings but this is the first one that that to me was pure our main characters all survived Rick Dalton got what he wanted history is once again rewritten Sharon Tate a character we grow to love throughout this movie gets to live and it's just an awesome time nearly three hours long and I was and through all the entire time and just had a great time at the theater so I sincerely hope that Tarantino is going to make more than 10 films he's consistently said he's going to retire after 10 so we're going to get at least one more it might be a Star Trek movie it might be something else whatever it is obviously I'll be in the theater to watch it and I think that's all I have to say about once upon a time in Hollywood so thank you for watching and if you enjoyed this video make sure to subscribe to this channel and hit the little bell icon so you get notifications whenever we release more videos like this one


Shoe Star Goddess, I'm back. It is very close to Christmas time. I just thought I'd pop in and come to you guys and say Hey, what's up? I have a little video for you This is not my good camera yet. I'm using a makeshift camera But I have to come to you guys today to tell you That sometimes It's time to let go Okay, you might have been working on a relationship for years and years and it hasn't gotten you anywhere. It's you know Has not benefited you in any way it has not benefited you or your kids or your life or your feelings or Your spirit hasn't done anything for you, but bring you pain Okay, just because you've been with someone for years and put a lot of effort into something does not mean that's where you're supposed to stay it means Either a you don't understand that this is not working or be You are clinically insane because when you repeat something over and over and get the same results And it's you know, and you don't change that's the definition of insanity So if you've been with someone for a long time And they keep doing the same thing over and over and you expect something different But never get anything different, but you stay, you know, that's up to you But you cannot change people they have to change themselves first of all You cannot change people and people will not change for you unless they love you enough To improve themselves if you don't make a man or a woman want to improve They don't love you. Okay, if you don't make a man want to do better. He doesn't love you enough You're settling he is settling.  Okay He doesn't truly love you enough to change the way that he Does for you or lack of You know lacks of you, you know a lot of men have their hand out Men will not change. They settled for you. You have taken Everything that they have shown you and kept it and said, okay, this is my man and you've made excuses for them And now that's what you have you have a man that doesn't do anything for you and who won't change for you because they never Ever intended on changing for you in the first place because they settled for you. Okay Ah Same with women man. If you have a woman and she Basically settled for you.  So if you're ex if you're expecting, you know major changes out of someone Either a you have to change yourself first So that you are the person that they truly want or become the person that they truly thought you could be Live up to your potential or past your potential.  Okay, so ladies if you're changing if you're getting better If you're making more money if you're looking better taking better care of yourself and they are not You have to understand, you know Sometimes you gotta let people go out of your life because they can't grow with you and when someone can't grow with you It's frustrating and you get stuck. You're not going to grow as fast or as Abundant as you could either alone Or with someone better.  Okay? It could be lower or higher or the same level But basically people grow apart and you just have to accept that, you know holidays Are coming up new years is coming up. It's the end of the year people have grown people have changed It's time to either move on move forward Or get it right, you know what I'm saying? If you can't get it right move on You know, there's no sense in staying in something that no one can grow in and everyone's frustrated And you're at a standstill in life This is where a lot of people start having issues when their relationship Starts having issues every other area in their life starts going down work because you can't think about anything else Oh my my relationship sucks and I can't concentrate on my work of all of a, you know, then you're you know, you're stressed out You worry about other things, you know, a lot of things start going downhill when you're not happy so it's best to end things start over and You know Find someone you could grow with or who wants to become Or who already is I always say don't fall in love with potential, you know falling love with something That's tangible that already is a lot of men will get mad at me and say well Why don't you want to build and I'm not a man? I'm not supposed to build That's your job. I'm supposed to nurture and make the home. You're supposed to build. Okay, if I was a man I will be building. I'm not a man. Okay. If I was I wouldn't need you Okay, except to make a child Think about it. You know, you can't Be in a woman's life if they don't really need you Otherwise, you're just a child or another burden to them. Okay, it's vice versa for men Men need to feel needed men need to feel useful men need to feel like women honor them and Look up to them and praise them and think of them as you know, they're their hero or whatever Okay, no one wants a roommate or a son.  We're equal. We're building together. Well Partners and you know an architectural firm You know, they're building together. They both get the same pay One doesn't have to watch children or pick up children. They both have to do the same exact things if your wife Is your partner and she's doing all the the homework children, you know Grocery cooking and stuff like that and you're just going to work. That's uneven. Okay And no woman is gonna look up to any man who also wants her to work on top of that Okay, so you're not building together. You're building or you should already have something built then bring your wife into the situation Okay, or you're your woman or whatever. Okay, if you don't have anything built the woman has nothing to Improve, you know what I'm saying and if she already has a house or something built the only thing she needs you for is emotional Support and you know sex and to make a child But after she has all those things and she no longer needs that then what you know the thing Then then you become her other child. So this is why it's important for men to always have more and to already have something You know a lot of men will say what would you bring to the table? The woman is the table darling. Okay Without this men would not have a need to work other than room board shelter and You know prostitutes Okay, that's that's all they would need to work for. Okay, and men get tired of that after a certain age Okay, when they start to go bald Look ugly. No one else wants them except the prostitute. They have to pay either way They're still gonna have to come out of their pocket for a woman. You know what I'm saying The thing is men You know They have to stay within Their reach of a woman like you can't expect some beautiful flawless woman if your bank account is a flawless Okay, or if you're not flawless. Okay, even a beautiful woman Won't be with a beautiful flawless man if he's broke. Okay This is not gonna happen.   They're not gonna take her in public They're not gonna do anything that like that with her. Why because men are visual creatures. Okay, it's very superficial We are on earth The earth is a superficial material existence, okay, if you're trying to go deeper than that That's fine, but in reality when you're ashamed to take your one out or when you're ashamed to Tell all your mom what your man got you for Christmas because it was from the Dollar Tree Then there's a problem. Then you want him to change.  All men want a beautiful woman who is going to Be there for them love them honor them Respect them and all women want comfort a man who they can look up to who can provide and protect for them Stop lying to yourselves. You don't want an equal partner because if men had an equal partner They won't feel like me if women had an equal partner, they won't feel like a wife or one They would feel like a mother. Okay So y'all have to start with this BS. It's not ever ever ever ever going to work out to the to the point where It's a wonderful relationship. Okay, if If both of you guys are working towards a y'all are both paying bills, that's fine But one has to make way more than the other You know one has to be the the the breadwinner one has to be like the dominant Financial Supporter, you know what I mean? Because that's how women and children feel safe if a man can't secure the home the woman doesn't feel safe You know, she doesn't feel protected. She can't sleep at night. She's worrying about how bills are gonna be paid You know, she doesn't want to sleep with you if she has to worry about it's the rent getting paid How can that turn a woman on? You know, oh, it's the rent getting paid. Oh, yeah, let's have sex. No, okay women like comfort Okay, and if you can't provide comfort if you're talking about building up this kingdom Kings don't need a queen to build up. They already have a kingdom. Okay, and Queens are not supposed to work if that's gonna be your next, you know comment anything. No, you already have to have it if a woman is You know respected enough To be able to assure your throne. That's fine But like I said, a queen does not need a king And a king does not need a queen because they already have Their kingdoms or kingdoms.  You just want to travel and live life be free great You know what? More power to you. There are so many people that wish they could have done that. Okay So if that is your dream don't feel pressured to get married and have kids Go do you have fun? Okay But if you guys are writing to people and inboxing people and Uh, you know trying to get dates and stuff like that and are mad and frustrated and taking it out on the opposite sex It's only because you are aiming either too high or too low and you don't and you're being False about what you really want. Okay being false about what you really want You know, there's millions of women out there who are good women as men would describe them But they don't look the part. Okay. There's many rich men out there You know that will take care of a woman in a second But many women They're they're they're you know, they're not thinking about that. They're thinking about oh true love and I don't feel Butterfly, you know what if you feel butterflies for a man, that's the wrong man He's supposed to feel butterflies for you. Okay, otherwise you'll always be chasing him And your relationship will be off balanced. Okay If you guys feel the same weight about each other think about this one could fall out of love one could grow bored And then who is going to feel this way about, you know, the other person It's always best for the woman to get a man who is head over heels Obsessed almost That is going to be the successful marriage that you want that the man is going to basically do whatever you want If you're a man if you have a woman that's totally obsessed with you We'll do whatever that's going to be your good relationship, but Remember women grow and women change with childbirth.    Okay Get that type of man because once they get this vision of you and you're in their mind and how Great you are that is the vision they will always see of you. That's how they will always think of you. Okay So don't let these uh these guys tell you in the comments.   Okay Just putting it out there. There's a lot of women You know, they're confused. They're you know, love is not going to pay the bills at the end of the day You know financial abundances responsibility is being a good provider is you know Love comes with that if if someone took care of you think about it.  They take care of you. They provide for you They make sure you are safe They care it for you. They loved you They gave you attention. That is what creates love.  No love is taking care Of that other person and showing them how important they are actions. Okay. Love is not something you feel Like butterflies.  That's not love. That's a word. Okay y'all I'm gonna repeat that just because someone says I love you. I still love you. I love you Still does not show love. You know what I'm saying? It's not showing you anything Okay, it's a word if you can't be shown love Then that is not love. Okay. I'm out. I'll see y'all probably after the holidays Don't forget to subscribe if you're new and I will see y'all


We'll do our best to scroll through your code and so could you talk about what is this? Why are you here today? What are you showing us? It's actually called the MSF Guidance App. It's basically a digitisation of the essential guidelines and drug policies of MSF. In addition to the Ebola Guidelines as well, which we released in late 2014. It's complementary to other applications of MSF. So the difference is you've been going for some longer time now. I think it's two years now since it's built. So you've got some experience now and you've got some feedback and we've begun to publish on the outcomes of this kind of experience. Can you talk about that? So what's been the take up? It's been downloaded by about people in 150 countries. It's used by about up to 150 people per day. Most popular countries are South Africa, Eritrea, South Sudan I think. So this is places that we're really key on focusing on, places with hard to access and places where MSF is present working. And we get a view of the number of screens that they use as well. Because we've got analytics across the top. So we know what sort of pages they're looking at. If they're looking at particular drugs or particular diseases then we can fold that into an epidemiological framework. So similar to the concept of the Google flu trend, we can say if lots of people are consulting the cholera page in a particular country or particular area, then question mark is it worth knocking on the door to see whether there's something going on there. This kind of thing is what you're alluding to. Can you show us the app here? Sure. I understand because this is one of the first ones to come online. So essentially what it does is it just presents the book and we can tap through. So we have the sections up top and then you can draw down through the areas. So for example Eritrea, you have the whole information there. And so Dr Jay, I have some thoughts about, you know, medics that are used in the past to working with books. And now we're looking at tablets. Is this the way things are going? Your thoughts? So I just one question for Damien. So this information is obviously from the official guidelines that MSF produces. So I think most medics that work for MSF are used to the green book and the white book. That's the green book and the white book. Which has been transferred onto a tablet and electronically. I've already seen this in the field and probably one of the people that's downloaded it. I was really impressed with it. I think most of the medics found it really useful to have the app in their pocket when they're going around and doing their work and being able to consult the green book without having to physically be holding a big green book. I think most medical people are becoming more used to using electronic devices to get access to information. Fantastic. Damien, do you know if it's being used by non-MSF organisations or non-MSF staff? It's a bit hard to tell from the stats. We only get sort of machine codes or country codes. We can't actually... Let's just go past. This is part of a more wider project, the eHealth concept. Who are you? I'm a fixed eHealth program manager at OCB. So this is one of the things that you work on? Yeah, we're working on all the digital electronic tools we can bring to the field to help them in the health care and daily work. Can I throw you the question of connectivity? Because this is available online and offline, so that's a huge advantage of this. But some of the tools we've seen need connectivity. What are we doing to improve connectivity at field level? Logistic department is now working on all V-side connections and all the networking of the remote fields we are working on. So can we imagine a future in which the fields will be better connected? Is this tomorrow or is it several years down the line? Yeah, yeah, oh, merely tomorrow, yeah. Tomorrow? No, no, actually, yeah, yeah, technology is quite already. We now just are planning to deploy it. Fantastic. So for those of you, you'll see the keynote speech of Dr. Killing Client, he mentioned connectivity as a really key forward. And so this is coming. This is going to enable people to be able to download Damien applications like this. And have we managed to shake the MSF community into accepting the world of apps more through this application? I think this kick-started it two years ago. I joined last year, it's the same with FIX, and the publicity of eHealth is growing within at least the Brussels, the Belgium. Fantastic. And so we'll see what happens next, and we hope more apps are coming along and more connectivity and more sharing of knowledge. Fantastic. Okay, thanks very much.


We were interested in looking at the effect of the global financial crisis on the latest trends in global inequality. Our research looks at the recent trends in relative and absolute inequality. Relative global inequality has gone down, in particular because of the rise in China and India, but the absolute inequality has gone up by a very large margin. Take two people in Vietnam in 1986. One person had an income of $1 a day, the other person had $10 a day. With the kind of growth that Vietnam has seen, the person with $1 and after 30 years would have $8. If we take the person who had $10 a day and after 30 years would have $80, so if you're focused on absolute differences, inequality has gone up. If you're focused on relative inequality, inequality between these two people has remained the same. This trend is not uniform. We see that certain regions like North America, Europe, South Asia and South Saharan Africa experience an increase in relative and absolute inequality. This difference between relative and absolute should not detract attention from the fact that the present level of inequality is far beyond what any economic argument can justify, and that's why we at Wider are concerned about inequality research. That's why we try to bring facts to the table such as policies can be formulated and implemented with a view to reducing the existing inequality. One has to be very careful in putting forward a one-size-fits-all approach. It's clear that in developed countries such as the US, it's incredibly important to focus on what happens to capital gains because they play a big role in the rising inequality that we're seeing in the US. That may be much less important in other countries where the driver for the inequality is not gains in capital wealth, but could be, for example, increases in the wage dispersion between those who have a job and those who don't. So you need to focus your policy to the particular circumstances of the country and the underlying drivers of inequality in that country. If you don't do that, then you're going to get your policy focus wrong. Inequality is and should remain a key policy focus in world development. By the standards that we normally use, there are still hundreds of millions of people who are extremely poor, who live under conditions that are absolutely unacceptable for a world community that has agreed to the Sustainable Development Goals.


So at this point, I feel that you guys already know my main mission is to try and find the best and cheapest way to do things. This video is going to follow that theme too, except it's going to be a little bit more health oriented because I personally have a problem that I assume most desktop users actually have.  Wait, what?  Now on average, I probably spent about four to five hours sitting in front of the computer, but ever since I started taking the YouTube channel more seriously, it's been more like seven or eight hours. I started going to the gym every day because I thought I was just in a lot of pain because my f*** was just being super inactive, but after two weeks of going every single day, I am still in the same amount of pain. So I think the issue has something to do with me sitting at this desk all the time. Now, I can't stop because I still have to edit work videos as well as the YouTube videos, so I decided to try and change something. I noticed the other day that I can't actually fit my legs underneath this desk. I know that sounds stupid, like how could I not notice that, but I just never really paid attention to it, which explains why I sit in 54 different positions every time I'm at my computer. Now, I tried to get my chair to go lower, but like all other gaming chairs I've had, the top part of the seat cushion doesn't go low enough below 29 inches. For those of you that don't know, the average height of a desk is 29 inches. So you know those desk tables that lift up and down? I caved and I finally got one from one of the ads that I keep seeing in my internet browser from FlexiSpot, the boxes back there. So this is what we're going to do. I'm going to put this thing together and test it for two weeks and see if the pain goes away. Besides, this is what my desk looks like right now, so it's probably time to change it up. You guys are getting the ultra wide angle because this thing is too big. Right off the bat, this thing is super heavy. I am a small Asian boy and FlexiSpot is a Chinese company. How are you making products that are so heavy that even when your own people can barely move it around? I'm just kidding. My strength stats aren't exactly maxed out. So this is a two-piece kit. This is the actual desktop and then these, oh my, okay, this is heavier, these are the legs. So I assume how this is going to work is you take the legs, you put them together, and then you just mount the desk on top. So I'm going to go ahead and unbox these things and see how difficult this setup process actually is. All right, so for those of you guys that are actually looking to buy this specific desk from FlexiSpot, the instructions actually say that you should put the table part on the floor and slide the legs on top before you screw them in. But something I noticed is that it's actually not that easy to line up the holes for the legs through to the tabletop that easily. So as I was trying to do that when the tabletop was on the floor, I was actually scratching the hell out of the underside of the table. And I didn't want that. I wanted it to look, you know, as smooth as possible. So by flipping it this way, yeah, my arms are getting like 10 times more tired trying to screw this thing in. But I'm definitely not scratching it as much. And it was a lot easier to line up the screw holes. Could I flip this thing over and, you know, start screwing now that it's all lined up? Yeah, probably. But flipping a table up and down, you know, especially at this size is not easy. I would recommend if you have one, a power tool, a drill, because the holes that go into the table are only threaded very minimally. And you're actually going to create a bigger thread while you're going through to the tabletop. It's definitely a lot more work on my wrist and forearm. I don't mind doing this. It's actually kind of relaxing. But physically, it's definitely a little bit more of a strain. So if you do have a power drill, you could probably bust through this and like, I don't know, like a minute or two. Clearly, this is my karma for making front of the verge because I've been using nothing but an allen wrench for the last hour and a half. And my thumb is basically bleeding. As far as the instructions go, the assembly on this was not easy. Physically, I do not recommend doing this by yourself. You will scratch the underside of the table. If you do, there is just no avoiding that. You cannot lift this up perfectly by yourself because it is too wide. But I mean, I am a kind of a little guy. But yeah, we have everything screwed on. I have my control panel over here. Let's plug it in. Let's see if it works. I feel so little. Okay. So it maxes out at 49.2 inches. Can I play limbo with this? Okay. Well, this is very interesting. I already like this a lot. Now I'm very interested to see how much weight this thing can actually hold. I'm going to go ahead and start taking apart my actual desk. And we'll load this thing up and we'll put it to the test. So yeah, when I'm not using camera angles to hide everything, this is how beautiful it all looks. So I figure let's take the opportunity of using this desk to make it look a little bit better. So I think this desk is amazing. Obviously I love my new setup. I can finally fit my computer on my table, which was a really big plus for me because obviously I put a lot of time making this thing look nice. And the fact that I had to sit on the ground where I couldn't see it was a little bit of a letdown. And if you're wondering where these two new monitors came from, if you watch any of my other videos, I actually traded the Amazon return ASUS ROG monitor for these two 240 Hertz ASUS ROG gaming monitors and a 1070 ASUS Strix came with those. Good trade. I know, right? Anyways, as cool as everything looks here, the main point of this video is really to check the health benefits. Like I'm not exaggerating when I say how bad my back has been hurting from sitting and editing for as long as I have been. It's to the point where I think I should be making a video about it. So for the next 14 days, I'm going to be sitting, standing, adjusting to however I feel comfortable at this desk. That's how I was doing it with my other one. And I will let you guys know if it does anything for the pain, which I'm really hoping it does. It's actually been 16 days. I almost forgot I was doing this video. So I actually have a lot of thoughts on this desk that should be talked about first. I touched on this earlier in the video, but putting this thing together is not that easy. It took me about an hour and 45 minutes. And without a power drill, my thumb was actually in a lot of pain. Another thing to note is that for those of you who are really big on your cable management, this desk might be a little bit of an issue for you. Because if you're going to be rising it and lowering it to get comfortable, you're going to have cables that will run with a little bit of slack. I completely forgot about it. So the first time I rose the table after everything was set up, my speaker took a nosedive into the floor. Another thing to note is that the motor for this table is actually really impressive. After I loaded everything on to the tabletop, I was waiting to see how much the engine would actually struggle to lift everything up and down. And it still operates at the same exact speed as if nothing was on there. So very responsive and I liked that quite a bit. But finally, moving on to the important part, how does my back feel? If I'm being completely honest, it still hurts, but not as bad as before I started using it. What I've been doing for the last two weeks is lower the table to just above my knees when I feel like sitting. And when I get too sore and I want to stand up, I raise it back up and start working there. And then when I get too tired standing, I sit back down. You would think that back and forth is somewhat annoying, but it is actually so much more preferable than the constant shifting into positions and never getting comfortable that I was doing before. So right now this thing goes for $380. That's a lot of money, right? I mean, financially, I would almost never recommend spending that much money, especially on a desk of all things. But here's the thing, I can actually tell that this table is helping my back. Not a ton, but it is definitely making working down here for as long as I do a lot easier. So spending that much money, which is essentially investing into your own health, kind of seems like a no-brainer to me. If any of you guys spent a lot of time at your computer, I would strongly encourage you to consider buying one. Anyways, thank you guys so much for watching. I hope you found this video a little bit more informative than entertaining this time around. And as always, have a great day.


Do you see any correlation between hieroglyphics and emojis, gifts, memes? Hieroglyphics is one of the oldest written languages in the world. It means divine words, literal words of the gods. Emojis and images can have all these different layers of meaning within one single simple package. I could draw an image of an eye, an image of a heart, the letter U and the number 2, and that means I heart U too. And so Egyptians did something similar to that. They would draw a picture of a bee and a picture of a leaf and that would be the word belief. Emojis can also be incredibly complex. If I text you an image of a goat that doesn't necessarily literally mean a goat, it could mean someone who's really great at doing something, right? What we see here is a return back to something that ancient Egyptians were doing for thousands of years, using images and using pictograms to create really robust, profound meanings. Get the ultimate experience on Xbox One.


Dr. Sumerian stopped as he reached the Applebee's bar. His mind raced. The restaurant door was eight and a half meters away. It would take him maybe three, four seconds to cross the distance at a dead sprint if the floor was clear. The floor was not clear. A mass of people stood between him and the nearest exit. Some clad in costumes, some like Sumerian straight from working their lab coats. After last year's mix-up, the rule came down. No SCP cosplay, but right there, across the room, was a sexy plague doctor. Well, he hoped it was a sexy plague doctor anyway. Dr.  Pretty research from the 20th floor dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz sat alone at the bar. He glanced over nervously. She smiled back. Yeah, this was gonna be just like last Halloween. A disaster. He could feel it. The pulsing sound of music began to hammer into his head. A headache was all this basically amounted to, but if he was gonna have a headache tomorrow, he might as well have it for a good reason. Hey, you got the bartender's attention. Can I get a seven and seven? She nodded and began pouring his drink. He turned back around and caught Dorothy eyeing him from the side. What's in that? Dorothy had said with a slight squint. A seven-up and whiskey. She blinked, smirked and nodded. Nice. Oh, it does the job. The bartender set the drink down in front of him and he took a long drag from the straw. He was trying his best to look cool while doing so, but given the straw, failing. So you're the ethics guy? I am. You work on the 20th, right? She put her right hand down. Yes, I'm Megan. Hey, shook her hand and finally sat down at the bar. Jeremiah, my friends and you can call me Jerry. We're not friends. She pouted a little. We'll see. He immediately undercut the line by drinking from the straw again. He got to know her a little bit better as the night progressed. She was a biologist with an expertise in pinnipids. She hadn't said, but he figured that put her on the 3213 team, which was nice. He dated people to the site before who had issues due to the seriousness of their jobs. It was nice to have a conversation with someone who didn't have that much baggage. She just needed to make sure that the seals didn't kill Carl and she could go home with a clean conscience. He told a joke. She laughed. She fired back. He laughed. It was fun, different, almost relaxing. The pulsing music and the dancing people seemed to fall away for an hour or two. The two of them didn't notice as most of the partiers left and the party wound down, and she was still nursing her first drink.  And Samirian stood up. It was a little wobbly, too drunk to drive, but not much worse. I'll call an Uber. Y'all ride her. You need one, too. Megan looked disappointed, but shook her head. I barely touched mine. I can actually get you home if you want. You're off site, right? He told her where his apartment was as they walked out in the dimly lit parking lot. It was about 1 a.m. There were still monsters milling about. And as they got to her car, she pulled out her keys to unlock the door. A man in a zombie mask walked far too close and pulled something from the back was pants. Samirian pulled a Colt 1911 out of his shoulder holster and Megan pulled a Walther PPK out of a thigh holster under a blue dress. All three stood in silence. The zombie's pistol was still aimed at the ground. He hadn't even lifted it before theirs were pointed at his face. He dropped it and ran. The two of them stood there for another few seconds before putting their own weapons away. They laughed and got into the car, leaving the zombies gun on the pavement. They both already had one after all. Megan cocked her head to the side. Your place are mine. Mine is fine. If you liked it, please hit the subscribe button and the notification bell next to that to make sure that you get updated as soon as I upload new videos. If you'd like even more exact updates, you can follow me on Twitter at D. Samirian. And if you'd like to support this kind of content, please go to Patreon and support me at Patreon.com forward slash D. Samirian. Thanks for watching.


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