We're here at the ITU's studio in Geneva and I'm joined by Ms. Tatiana Lawrence, Executive Director Regulatory for Iridium. Ms. Lawrence, tell us about the partnership with ITU in the delivery of emergency telecommunications equipment when a disaster strikes. For many years, Iridium has been working with ITU and emergency disaster organizations to provide emergency assistance around the globe when infrastructures compromised or no other means of communications are available. Iridium provides satellite phones to ITUD emergency teams so they can work around the world on the disaster relief effort. Just to mention a few, Iridium equipment has been used during Haiti earthquake, during Nepal, Japan earthquakes, satellite, hurricane Sandy. Just recently, Iridium worked with ITU emergency team to provide satellite phones for disaster relief effort in Ecuador. But that said, Iridium is committed to provide global emergency solution for ITU wherever disaster strikes. What is the vision of Iridium in terms of emergency telecommunications for the future? Iridium's vision for emergency telecommunications for the future is to provide truly global emergency solution from land, sea and air. Since 1992, Iridium had the opportunity to provide global emergency solutions by land. Later, through the work in the ITU, Iridium had the opportunity to provide aeronautical safety service. Just recently, again through the work with the ITU, Iridium was approved to provide satellite ADSB service which will tremendously enhance safety on airplanes. Looking forward, we are watching the progress of International Maritime Organization and WRC-19 and Iridium may become a GMDSS provider which will provide the distress service to the ships any way around the globe, including polar regions. With all that said, Iridium is committed to be a truly global emergency service provider wherever disaster strikes or wherever people are in distress. Thank you very much, Ms Tatjana Lawrence. Thank you.


Hi, guys. Sina is about to tell you about Stateless Ethereum. Hey. So this is Sina. And this will be kind of like a friendly reminder kind of talk. I've been following the Eth1x and Stateless conversation closely. And here I will mention a few, like I will first give an introduction or very lightning intro to Stateless Ethereum and what kind of changes we can probably expect and then how it could influence contract development. Like if you are designing a smart contract, what should you have in mind? Like if you want to have it future proof when Stateless Ethereum hits. So you all know about the storage growth problem. The two main issues for users is that the storage requirements for nodes are quite high and that it takes very long to sync a node. So these are the two goals that the Stateless Ethereum is kind of among other goals is targeting. Reduce storage requirements for at least some of the nodes and hopefully improve sync times, like block process sync times. And the goal is to do it by introducing a new kind of client which is called the Stateless Client. And these clients do not store the whole state. They only store parts of the state that they care about. And they depend on miners who additionally, like, so miners right now they just produce a block and then propagate it to the network. But then they would also produce what we call block witnesses, so Merkle proofs. So they say, okay, here's a block. This is all parts of the state that this list of transaction needs. And these are all the Merkle proofs that prove their validity. And they include these witnesses in the block so that Stateless Clients, when they receive the block and the witness, they can make sure that these parts of the state are valid and they can run the transactions against them. And this is an example of a block witness. And this is not a big block. Like it's one of the smaller blocks. You can see the tree structure. You can see those orange boxes. They are hashes. Here down here are the leaves. And this big thing is a contract code. So when you make a block witness, you need to send all of the accounts that are needed for these transactions, all of the storage items, all of the contract codes. So you can assume that this will introduce a lot of network overhead. And here is like over a list of recent blocks, like from 8 million something to 9 million, how much these block witnesses, like what's their size. And this is an average over 128 blocks each point. So there can be like we have blocks that have block witness of 3 megabytes, but sometimes it's lower. So up there the blue is the total. And then you have all the hashes that are necessary for the Merkle proofs. And then you have like the orange one is the contract code that you have to send. And down here are the actual values. So you can see that the values are not much. It's mainly dominated by contract code and proof hashes. So the key takeaway here is that when we switch to stateless Ethereum, then although some nodes won't need to store much, but the network overhead will increase by quite a lot. And to make some optimization on the network overhead, there are some changes, like some possible changes being considered. One is to change the tree structure of Ethereum. Right now you might know that Ethereum uses a tree structure called Merkle Patricia tree. And it's a hexary tree. So each node has 16 children. But as we saw, like, hexary trees have very large proofs. So theoretically we thought that switching to a binary tree could reduce the proof sizes by quite a lot. And so far, my team from Turbogev team, Alexi Akhnov and the rest, they've done some experiments and have shown that this is true. So we can reduce, like, if you look at this chart here, you can reduce this. So the hashes by three times, which is quite a lot. And after you do that, the contract code will dominate the block witnesses. And so the next step is to do code miracleization. And I will talk about this in more detail at ETHCC, so if you're curious, check it out. The gist of code miracleization is that for one transaction, you don't need the whole contract code. Like, if you want to transact with MakerDAO, you don't need the whole thing. You just need one function, for example. So here we break contract code into chunks, make a tree out of it, and then for every transaction, we only send the parts that are necessary for executing it. And this, as I show in the data, also reduces the block witness size by quite a bit. And the next thing, so up to here, there were optimizations that you don't really care about, like as a contract developer. But the next three things affect you directly. And especially the next one. So because every time you do an S load or a balance or any of the op codes that touch a part of the state, miners would have to include a miracle proof for that. So this means that any state accessing op code introduces now a lot of additional overhead, and it means that the gas prices would have to be increased. The other thing is that as we saw recently, it's very hard to predict what the actual gas cost of an op code should be. And over the course of Ethereum's life, gas cost prices have changed a few times. So something that's being considered, and this has led to breaking some of the contracts, like with EIP 1884, which broke some of the contracts. So the goal here with OnGas is to disable contracts from observing gas in their contracts. So you wouldn't be able to know how much gas has been so far spent in this transaction and how much is left. And the other one that is not directly related to stateless Ethereum, but it's kind of related is chain pruning. This is a separate proposal because, again, full nodes, they have to store all of the blocks, all of the block headers from Genesis, from the first block of Ethereum, which is quite a lot of data. And like clients are now considering to remove it every once in a while. And this makes it difficult for new nodes to sync to the network. And you can expect that stateless clients probably won't keep this data anyway. And this has some consequence that I will tell you later about. So these are the changes that we can roughly expect. I mean, it's all in research phase, it's not at all clear, but it's very probable. Now, I'm going to go deeper into the gas price changes of state accessing upcodes. Right now, you might know that Sload I think costs 700 or 800, but Vitalik estimated that with stateless Ethereum, the price might have to increase to 2,000. And similarly for balance and other upcodes, it will have to increase to 2,400. This is to prevent some blocks that can basically dust the network. Because every time you do an Sload, we have to include a Merkle proof in the block, which introduces a lot of data. So we have to kind of price it in a way that we can target a maximum block size.  We want to limit them to, let's say, 3 megabytes. So we have to price the state accessing upcodes in a way that we can limit it as such. So this is one approach to pricing state accessing upcodes. The other approach is to price it based on the actual proof size that they induce on the network. So let's say I have a contract that only has one storage slot. The proof that would need to be included for this one storage slot is quite small. You just need one leaf. On the other hand, I have a contract that has a million storage slots, which means a tree of depth, a large tree.  So this is an alternative way of pricing, but this would kind of discourage big storage for contracts. Contracts that have a big storage would have to pay more for storage. It's also very hard to estimate because you can estimate for any time an Sload upcode is executed. But on the other hand, at the end of the block, we are kind of aggregating these proofs together, which we get some saving from. So it's hard to estimate at the time of execution how much this Sload will actually add to the block data. So we have these two approaches to storage upcodes. And then we have the contract code. So any time you do a call or an Xcode hash or something, the code for the whole contract that you're calling has to be included in the block, which can be quite a lot. Like if you imagine the limit for contract size is 24 kilobytes right now. So I can create a contract that does thousands of calls. And this would mean that I can... I think in his post, he estimated that you can craft a transaction that induces a block size of 300 megabytes, which is quite a lot, like we don't want that. So one option is to charge gas for every byte of contract code. Like if you're calling a contract that has 100 bytes, you would pay 300 gas for it. If it's a contract that has 24 kilobytes, then you would have to pay 72,000 gas for calling that contract. So depending on the size of the contract that you're calling, you would have to pay more. The other approach is to go down the mercilization route. So as I said before, we divide contracts into chunks, and then you would have to only pay for those parts of the code that were accessed during the transaction. So this would probably be cheaper, but it's also a more complicated approach. As I said, these are things that you shouldn't be assuming when you're writing a smart contract. You shouldn't assume the prices of op codes because these prices can change, and they could therefore possibly break your contracts, make them more expensive. You shouldn't rely at all, like try to not assume any gas prices. The other thing is, for now, you shouldn't assume a tree structure. For example, if you are doing a mercil-proof verification inside a contract, that assumption could break when we change the tree structure. And sometimes some of the dApps use receipts and logs as a way of storing things. This is also something that you cannot rely on, because I wouldn't be surprised if, in a few months, clients start pruning old logs and old receipts so that the user cannot access them. And this is something that I want to encourage. It would be nice to see more experimentation on. So what we've been so far discussing is stateless clients. This is a similar approach, but we call them status contracts. So even before Ethereum itself becomes stateless, you can write status contracts. And they would be like, you have a contract that doesn't store anything but a 32-byte hash. And this hash would be the root of a tree, which you are storing off-chain, not in the contract itself. And every time that a user sends a transaction, you send all of the Merkle proofs necessary, all of the parts of the tree necessary for that transaction with it. So let's say you want to develop a stateless token. You store the root, like you have a tree of accounts. In the leaves of the tree, you have balances of the accounts. You only store the root on-chain in the contract. And every time you want to do a transfer from user A to user B, in the transaction, you include the accounts for A and B and the Merkle proofs for A and B. And the contract can verify the proof and then do a transfer. And that's it. And this is kind of... I wrote here future proof because it doesn't use the default mechanism that Ethereum provides for storage. So even if up-code prices are increased, you won't be affected by it by much because you're only storing one item in the contract. And you probably won't be making assumptions about gas and so on. So, I mean, you can think that ZK-Rollup and similar contracts, they are stateless contracts. ZK-Rollup only stores one root, but the only difference to what I'm saying would be that they are doing all of this proof verification and transfer by zero-knowledge proofs. But you don't need the zero-knowledge proof, really. And something that could help with this approach is... I know some people like Guillaume Ballet and John Adler, they are working on pre-compiles for proof verification. And if these pre-compiles come, then you might be able to do this even for cheaper today. So, yeah. In short, storage prices will probably increase. It's not clear how much or how exactly it could be a static increase in gas or it could be based on how large your storage is. You shouldn't make assumptions about gas. You shouldn't rely on logs. And you should check out status contracts. Thank you, and are there any questions? Thank you so much. There was a great summary. Unfortunately, I missed following up on the whole topic more than I probably should have, so I got a ton of questions and maybe they're stupid. Yeah, no, no, sure, great. I have to say that I just wanted to... In the beginning parts, I kind of gave only a short summary of what Stateless Ethereum is all about, because if you're going to ECC, you will probably hear about it a lot. I just wanted to focus on the later part, which is how it affects you. Yeah, yeah. So when you talked about the witness that I need to transmit with every transaction, that basically my transaction becomes the whole witness and the actual thing that I want to do. So in the examples of the pricing, has it been considered that just the size of the witness would be somehow impacting the price? Because that seems like the clearest one to me. If the goal is to keep the block size at a certain limit. Yeah, that's here the second approach, like what I call witness-size sensitive pricing. It's basically to see how large the witness is and charge based on that. But the problem is that you cannot estimate exactly, like when you're executing the transaction, let's say you're running EVM byte codes. Like when you reach an S load, at that point you won't know how many other Merkle proofs would have to be included. Because the thing is like you can estimate the price of one Merkle branch. But at the end of the block, we are merging all of these into one big proof like this one. So you would get quite a lot of saving. We know the exact size only at the end of the block, not during the execution of a transaction. So we can only do a very conservative estimate. That means that the gas cost would be much higher than necessary. That brings me directly to my second question. How do I create that witness? Because if I now want to send a transaction from my wallet, I need to create that witness locally, I guess. This is like with the stateless client approach, you don't need to do that. You just send a transaction, the miner will pick it up, and the miner will include all of, like when the miner wants to make a block out of all these transactions in the pool, it will also add the witness to the block itself. So users won't need to directly include the proofs. They might need to include parts of the witness that's still being discussed. But the majority of the witness will be the responsibility of the miner. So how does that make the miner stateless? No, no, no, the miners will be stateful. I should have made this clear. Miners will be stateful. It's just that you add a new class of clients that are fully executed, so they are different from light clients in that they can fully execute or fully verify the chain. They can start verifying from the genesis and they will receive a block with its full witness, verify it, go to the next block, and so on. But these are a new kind of entity. These are new kind of nodes that don't have high storage requirements, and we expect that, like, we will have miners that are stateful, and then you would have a lot of user, end user nodes that we don't have now, because users are now relying on Inferior, but instead of Inferior, you could run a stateless client which can process blocks fast and doesn't have a high storage requirement. So miners would be stateful. This is great. Thank you for that information.  If I run then this new type of client that doesn't have the full state, then I can't even use that to create a witness for my transaction, right? So I still have to know somebody like Infura who actually has the full information. Yeah, so this is, again, like, I want to stress that, again, these are all in discussion. Like, it's not, I don't want to say that these are all clear at all or something, but so it will be the network structure would have to change, and the stateless clients would store parts of the state that they care about. Like, if I'm an end user, I would hold my own account or all of my accounts in my storage and the contracts that I most likely will interact with. And anytime that I'm missing part of the stick, like, let's say I want to interact with a new contract that I haven't interacted with before, then I ask the network, okay, so this part would be interactive. Like, I ask some of my peers, does anyone have this part of the state? I get it with the proof. I have it now locally. And then, but again, so the end user wouldn't need to include the witness. So they only need this part of the state to be able to know, okay, what is my balance? What is this friend's balance? But they wouldn't really need to make the witness themselves. Apart from their own balance, like, they need to prove their own balance so that the other clients in the network can verify that they can pay gas. Okay, thank you. I hope that wasn't confusing. Very interesting. Thank you. Thank you, Sina, for awesome talk. Thank you.


Okay, let me be upfront about this video. This content is gonna be one gigantic rant, okay? And let me just say where I'm going here. First off, we have to acknowledge that a lot of single men out in the dating realm are absolute cowards. There I said it, they are cowards in their behavior. But sadly, at the same time, women give their power away to men in relationship. And that's what I wanna address because if you're tired of feeling used, or if you're tired with being in dynamics where men are using you, then I wanna address the most, like what I call it the sneaky ways men use women. And guess what? This is a disturbing reality check, okay? Now, when I say men are cowards, what I mean to say is in today's dating marketplace, and I use the term dating marketplace, most men don't really have to address commitment because in many cases, for those of us in midlife, which is after baby making years and before retirement, the desire to start a family with someone isn't in the same context as when you're in your 20s and 30s. So commitment is actually rather confusing for a lot of people because they don't know what it looks like. They don't even know what it means because most likely they've had a failed or unsuccessful relationship before. And because of this, men actually get the one woman post a comment, women are giving wife duties at girlfriend prices, wife duties at girlfriend prices. So this is coming back to now I wanna address for a few minutes where women give their power away and then I'll share with you those 10 sneaky ways men use women. And again, I think a lot of men are acting like cowards. So women give their power away. Let me give you some examples so you know what this looks like. Number one, the relationship is on his terms.  Ladies, I see this habitually with you from time and time again, the relationship is on his terms and you probably don't feel like you have any say. Let me just say this, ladies. If the, okay, you get offended when I say this, my girlfriend gets offended when I say this but I'm gonna say it.  You have every right to have deeper conversations because guess what? Sex is one of the privileges reserved, I believe. Okay, first off, I might sound like a Puritan here.  At least if you're in that camp, you don't have to be in that camp. You can be in the camp of have sex whenever you want and it's free and you can live your life that way. I'm here to, my channel is for those of you that want deep commitment. My channel is for those of you that want partnership. Okay, so coming back to giving your power away, if you have regular sex with a guy, you have every right to establish the rules of engagement, okay? Laying your cards on the table, having deeper conversations, being vulnerable, authentic and transparent with one another, okay? Another way women give your power away is you're afraid to speak your truth with them. Now, your truth is simply your truth. Your truth is how do you really feel about this relationship? How do you feel about your interactions with one another? How do you feel about connecting with one another? I had a client, a former client of mine who reached out because she's dating a guy and she was afraid to ask him a really simple question. Where is this relationship going? So we got on the phone, I crafted a text message for her to send him because these days many of you just prefer text messaging. You don't prefer the old fashioned way, see each other face to face to have a conversation. And what was interesting is how he responded back was a very kind, sensitive way. Now it was because I helped her craft this in a way that would entice him to be more vulnerable, authentic and transparent. Yet many of you are afraid to speak your truth. She was afraid to even speak her truth because she was afraid it might scare the guy away. Ladies, if you're afraid of scaring a guy away, I want you to remember my chapter in my book. My book is called, What the Heck Is Self Love Anyway? A Journey of Personal Development, Self-Help and Spiritual Work, by the way, there's a link below to get a copy of my book. Chapter nine, if it's sincere and from the heart, you can't say the wrong thing to the right person. When you're with the right person, you can say what's in your heart and they won't run away. Now you might vomit, fear, that's a different, that might cause someone to run away, but if you're afraid and someone runs away, they're not the right person for you anyway.  Waiting for him to initiate contact all the time. Why doesn't he text me all the time? Why doesn't he call me? Ladies, you can reach out, guess what? You can send a message when you don't hear from him.   Number five, you stop doing your pre-relationship life and you make your relationship all centered about him.    Maybe it's because here in the United States, we are suckling on the nipple of I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. Folks, it starts by feeling good about yourself and adding someone in your life, not being dependent upon that person for you to feel good about yourself.  Folks, I, listen, I felt fantastic for several women in my life. And when each one didn't work out, I knew there was always somebody, there's a lid to every pot, okay? So just remember, if it doesn't work out with one person, there's a bus coming around the next corner with another person. If, but if you put all your energy and give your power away to him, you can't see the next bus coming around the corner. So my rant today is both about ladies who give their power away and these cowardly men that operate in the way I'm about to describe with you. So I said something a moment ago, sex should be reserved for people who want to explore a deeply committed relationship. And if two people want to explore a deeply committed relationship, then they have every right to speak up.  And yet many of you are giving the goodies of the relationship the sex piece and not getting the real fulfillment from the relationship. So number one, he pretends he wants a relationship, but his actions say otherwise. Ladies, let me just say something to you.  All he has to do is say, I want a relationship and you're hearing, oh, we want the same things. But in your mind, a relationship might look like this. We spend three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in our personal, our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional, intimacy that leads to either moving in together, getting married. And his idea of a relationship is, I'm gonna see you at my beck and call. Do you know what that space in between is called?  Folks, one thing a man has to do is actually describe what a relationship looks like and then does his actions match his words. And yet many of you spend more time on your devices texting each other. You guys are having these incessant text conversations. You know what I wish I could do for all millennials right now? I wish I could take away your cell phones because you guys actually believe texting is a form of communicating. No, texting is about giving directions and telling people what time you're gonna show up. It's not a form, okay, it is a form of communication. And my client used it to initiate a conversation, okay? It's designed to offer information to initiate a conversation. Folks, many of you are having these relationships where you spend more time on the phone. I know some people, I had a woman a few months ago tell me she's in a relationship with a man. I go, how long have you been seeing each other? She goes, six months. I go, when was the first time you met? She goes, I haven't met him. I go, you don't have a relationship. You have a cyber relationship, folks. A relationship, okay, men can't bond with you over the telephone or text message. They might get excitement. They might lean on you. And I'm gonna talk about that in a moment, but they can't really bond on it with you unless you're doing social activities, hobbies, mutual interest. I wish, folks, let me just say something. Right here is a link to a schedule, a discovery call with me. My clients are achieving amazing results. I got a text message from a client the other day. She sent me a picture of her and her boyfriend. They're now fully committed after eight months together. It's because you do a terrible job of determining true compatibility. And you do a terrible job of assessing emotional maturity. That's why I want you to schedule a call with me. By the way, there's a link below to schedule that discovery call with me. Number two, he always makes excuses about spending time with you. Or worse, he makes it your fault because he has a jealousy streak. He makes excuses and then he gaslights you and turns it around why he can't make time for you. That's a great sign he's using you. Number three, this is after you've had sex. After you've had sex, he says, let's take it slow. I need more time to get to know you. Folks, one thing I've noticed about men who are in happy relationships, once they like someone, they were territorial in the senses. They don't want any other man sweeping in and taking that person away.  And guess what he could be doing? He could be using you while he's testing the market with other people. These days, look at monogamy and exclusivity. Many of you are in relationships with people. You think you're monogamous and exclusive, but you never really had the relationship talk. This is why I've initiated my dating vows. You're not familiar with my dating vows. By the way, if you'd like a copy that I'm about to share, schedule a discovery call with me. Schedule a call with me. I'll give you a copy of the dating vows. But the dating vows is an agreement between two people that says the following. I agree to explore the process of getting to know you with the intent to declare something serious within the next three to six months. I agree to be monogamous sexually while we have regular sex together. I agree to actively, to not actively seek to meet and date others while we're in the process of getting knowing each other, including taking down our dating profiles. I agree to speak up if this isn't working for me versus pulling back, ghosting or disappearing. And lastly, I agree to invest regular time in the process of getting to know you. That's the dating vows. Now, 90% of guys won't agree to this, but folks, all you're doing is avoiding the guys who aren't serious about commitment anyway. Okay, another example, he's using you. Good chance he avoids sharing personal things about himself. By the way, isn't the whole purpose of being a relationship is to open your heart to someone? Isn't that the purpose of it? I really invite you to look at what is real intimacy? If you're not familiar with the book, Emotional Intimacy by Robert Masters. By the way, link below to get all the books I recommend. Learn what intimacy is. Many of you guys are so clueless to intimacy. And you know, I know this because I talk to women all day long through my coaching practice. And I realize many of them have no idea what true intimacy, intimacy, vulnerability, authenticity and transparency.  And I'm ranting here and I admitted that from the beginning, I started this, okay? Get back to your cheese, Jonathan. Another example is conversations with you are rather surface. How's your day going? Did you have a good day? I hope you had a good day. What did you do today? I hope you had a good day. That's a joke from Seinfeld, that's a Kramer line. Many of you are having these surface conversations about your day and you're not getting into the real meat of what you're feeling in relationship. You should be, listen, my sweetheart and I, there's a picture of Marie and I. We talk about our feelings within the relationship. I initiate a lot of conversations so we can build the deep roots of trust. Trust is built through the expressing your feelings about a relationship. You, listen, trust isn't just about fidelity. Trust is, does this person have my best interest at heart? Does this person have my feelings?  And I gotta tell you, a lot of you ladies are allowing this and I want you to stop, stop, stop letting men get away with these sneaky ways of using you. Number, the next one, he talks to other women constantly but claims it's all friendly. By the way, with Instagram now, I can't believe how many men have all these thousands of female friends and they're just, you know, they're just people I follow kind of thing. Yeah, right. I'm here to say, look, if you want, if guys are constantly flirting with women through Instagram and they have lots of female friends on Instagram, that's a good chance that he might be using you and if he talks to them constantly, believe me, he'll turn it around. If you even ask about it, he'll make it your fault. He'll gaslight why you're doing that. Okay, next one. He breaks up with you constantly and then tries to get back together. Oh my God, I see this happen. I see this happen, I mean, day in, day out, many of guys will break up with you and then get back together and break up with you and says he'll change or break up with you. Don't allow men to do that. Don't allow men to take your power. Don't allow them to do that to you. I just had this happen recently and I've seen it happen at least a half a dozen times in the last two months with clients that they're with men who ended only to want to get back together the next day. You're dealing with an emotionally constipated child if they're doing that sort of thing. Next, he's selfish in the bedroom. All he cares about is getting his own rocks off. If a guy is selfish in the bedroom, all he cares about is his ejaculation. If he's not actually trying to please you in the bedroom, there's a good chance he's using you. Oh, here's one. He teases you. He teases you. He introduces you to people in his life who are important and yet then his communication afterward is almost non-existent.  Oh, he must really care for me and then yet his communication is almost non-existent. That's a tease. He gives you something to wet your beak, but he's honestly, there's a good chance he's using you. Here's another one. He gets sex, but okay, here's one. This has happened so many times. People, men that don't want to share, they're secretive in their life and they don't want to share you with their friends. And what I mean to say is they're unwilling to post pictures of you on social media. I just, I mean, I had this happen recently, but I've had this seen this happen time and time again.   You have every right to establish that, hey, make it public because that's a demonstration of trust. That demonstrates that this guy actually has feelings for you if he's willing to share it with his public. But let me tell you something. He's got a lot of female friends on his Instagram and social media and he's not willing to post about it. He's being secretive about you and that's not a good, that's a really good sign he's using you. Here's a couple more. Oh, he uses you for money. Yeah, well, that's not too sneaky, but he's in some sort of hardship in his life and you need to be the financial caretaker. I don't know how many women over the years I've witnessed do this, I've witnessed. Listen, if you've established deep trust in your relationship, someone's going through a hard time, but he's invested financially in you, I'm all about taking turns, but if you are basically supporting his lifestyle, he's using you. You might get some minor benefits, but really ask yourself if you, okay, it's okay to do this, but if you don't feel fulfilled and safe in the relationship, don't let a man use you for money.  I'm talking to you like you're, I'm your big brother. I'm talking to you like your father should talk to you and prepared you for the reality check of men out there who will use you. Now, here's one of the most common ways men use women for those of us in midlife. They use you as his therapist, that's right. There are many men out there that love the female energy and they share all of their emotional problems with you because you're willing to listen. There's a difference between a person that might come to you to vent and might seek your guidance to improve, but if a man is just simply dumping his emotional problems, you ladies hear that, like it's music to your ears, you hear, ah, he's being vulnerable with me because he's sharing his emotional problems with me about his ex and his work and he's so emotional in his problems.   That's just my invitation for you to ask yourself this question. And lastly, he avoids commitment conversations.  Do you want to be used? No, put up big no, I don't want to be used anymore and I will not allow this anymore. Write that in the box, in the comments. No, I don't want to be used anymore. I'm not gonna allow men to use me anymore. I am stopping giving my power away to men. Are you with me? If you are, please post a comment below. I'd like to hear it. If you are, hit that like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel. Check out all the links.  Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. Trust commitments. Before sleeping together, you need to understand this. We're meeting total strangers. If he cared about your feelings, he would do what it took to make you feel emotionally safe. Why give wife, what's it? Why give wife benefits at girlfriend prices? Don't do it. If he genuinely cared about your feelings, then allow him to demonstrate it by building the deep roots of trust. Vulnerability, authenticity, conversations about commitment, conversations about what you really want. Seeing if you're on the same page, laying your cards on the table, radical honesty, establish the rules of engagement before you get physically intimate with a guy. Is this sinking in? All right, that's my rant for today. Those who know my format know I'm here to answer your questions. If you have a question for me, write the word question, then post the question there after, or you can purchase a super sticker, super chat, all the monies from the super sticker, super chat, goes to a scholarship fund in the name of my son, Connor Asley, that's him right there. He's my son who passed away almost five years ago. And his honor, I donate to causes like the Hoffman Process and Insight Institute. There's a little dollar sign in the chat box, purchase a super sticker, or you can purchase a super thanks right now if you're watching the reply. And it seems like a lot of women say, yes, I don't want to give my power away. Way to go. All right, I saw some questions here. Let's see. I saw one from Wanda. So bear with me. Here's our first one. Question, if you are diagnosed with a terminal illness, should you tell the person you are dating after a few dates or saying nothing? You know, that's a real tough one. You know, the reality is, is that's material to the relationship, okay? Would you want to think about the other way around? If a man had a terminal interest, would you give your heart to someone? Would you, you know, you have to ask yourself, would this work in reverse for me? Would I want to know sooner rather than later? Here's a good one. What if someone has AIDS? Would you want to know about it on the first date or after having sex? Where do you want to know? I invite you to answer that question for yourself. I think there's a Keanu Reeves movie with Charlize Theron, where I can't remember if she has a terminal illness or he has a terminal illness and they only have two months to spend together. You know, each person's feelings on this is different, but ask yourself the question, when would you want to know if it were the other way around? I hope that answers your question, Wanda, thank you so much for asking. By the way, Tweet News says, is this live or is Memorex? No, this is a live video. So, Sharifa says, question, what if a man agrees to dating vows just to clear that hurdle, but has no intention of keeping those relationship vows? Here's the thing. Yeah, a man could use you and agree to the vows, but I will tell you, most men, not all, but most men have a subconscious moral compass, okay? They might not have a, they really do have a subconscious moral compass. And I would say to you, if a man is no intention, he might get it for the short run. And here's the chance you take, having sex with, this is why, listen, Jay Shetty says it takes about 40 hours of face-to-face time just to kind of get to know someone. I say it takes about a hundred hours of face-to-face time just to build the first layer of trust. And it takes about 200 hours of face-to-face time to build a good friendship with someone. Maybe before sex, you wait to build that deeper connection with a person. And if he's lasted that long, I highly doubt he's doing it just to get laid. But if he does, you know, that's the risk we take, okay? Sharifa, thank you so much for that question. I really appreciate it. Tweet says, I'm not letting a man touch me before marriage, okay? Let's see. Akua says, I don't wanna be used anymore, way to go. Gloria says, I'm done giving my power away. Omni in the air says, it's sinking in. I'm so happy to hear this. All right. LG says question. How do I break off from a man who is enjoying your warm, how do I break it off from a man who's enjoying your warm energy but has no interest in commit? It seems like it takes a while to figure this out. Well, how do you break it off with a guy? You say, I'm done. I want to end this relationship, okay? You just simply say, I'm done. I wanna end this relationship. You say, I don't want to do this relationship. You just break up with them. You send a text message if you have to and end the relationship. And if he's being inconsiderate to you, you block him. That's not, ladies, that's not a hard thing to do. You know what I mean? I know you guys are, listen, I know you're suckling on the nipple of I need you to love me so I can feel good about myself. That tells me you've given your power away. You should love yourself so much that you have the self-respect to say, this guy isn't meeting my needs. He's not meeting the agreements. He's not living up. His actions don't live up to whatever words he said. You should walk away. And if you don't, that's because he has your power. You know, there was a saying in the movie, ghosts of girlfriends past where Michael Douglas plays a player and he says, the person who cares the least has the most power. Look at, I know it might seem like a loving thing to do, to care about someone. But the first person you should care about is yourself. Would you give your daughter? What advice would you give your daughter if she's being used by a guy? Would you say, please keep letting him use you, please let him lose you, please let him, is that what you would do for your daughter? Will you have a little girl inside of you that is screaming to say, please take care of me? You're the adult, please take care of me. And that means don't giving your power away to another human being.  All right, Miranda says, question. What if you were in a bad place when you tried to date a guy, broke up with him and then want to try again because your life is better, but he doesn't trust you? Great question. Well, then I think it's about building trust. Now, by the way, where are these two books? There's another book I'm looking, waiting, trying to get.  And by the way, Couple's Communication Guide, two really good books. Look at, this is only double spaced 49 pages. It's a great start, Miranda. This is how you learn to build trust. Read these books and they'll get you on your way. All right, great question. Thank you so much. Let's see, Omnire products. Question, entered into a no contact. He texted twice but didn't respond to me. I told him to no longer contact me and I told him my feelings why. Did I handle that correctly? If it's sincere and from the heart, again, my book, chapter nine, where's chapter nine? Here it is. If it's sincere and from the heart, you can't say the wrong thing. If it was sincere and from your heart, you couldn't have said the wrong thing, okay? So yes, you did the right thing. Paloma says, question. So are these little using tactics only a man thing or just a human nature of any person? That's a good question. I think women have a higher propensity to want commitment and men have a higher propensity to wanna get laid. So men will say what they need to say to get laid, more so than women. Again, there are women users out there. They're entitled women. There are gold digger women. There are women who will use men but traditionally speaking, men are rather dysfunctional after they've gotten to midlife.   It's just a matter of degrees, but there's people that have significant childhood wounds and traumas. Well, let me reframe that. We all have childhood wounds and many of us have adult traumas that makes most of us rather emotionally constipated or rather dysfunctional to be in relationship. That's the reality. Whether we like it or not. And if you want to improve your odds, if you want to put yourself in a space like my client that emailed me with a picture of her boyfriend recently, then you have to learn the rules of engagement. You have to learn radical honesty. You have to learn how to present yourself in such a way that you can be seen, heard and understood by those quality men. And by the way, 80% of the guys are dysfunctional. Only 20% of the male population, the world according to Jonathan are actually emotional grownups who want to be in a healthy, happy relationship. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. So thanks for that question. Question, how does a woman know when she is ready to date after a breakup? When she doesn't give her power away to a guy. When you can operate from a place of I call it passionate and detached. Passionate means being open to the possibilities and detached from the outcome. When you can get to that place, you're ready to date. Oh, and you've healed from your previous relationship. Question, we've not had any intimate contact yet but he doesn't want to leave me alone. What should I do? Have a conversation. What are we doing here? What's the purpose? Folks, again, you guys are so afraid to ask real serious questions. Listen, the minute two people like each other and want to kiss, you get to establish, and by the way, if you want to have sex, you get to establish the rules of engagement. What is the purpose of this?  Folks, if someone, listen, we need to be adopting a different philosophy. We need to, listen, I think right off the bat and this is purely, this is just rhetorical. I'm just being tongue-in-cheek when I'm about to say this. We should stop dating and we should, the minute two people want to have sex, they should move in together for 30 days to see how they actually get along with each other. Do you know, you really don't know a person until you live with them? So you might as well get it out of the way rather than this long drawn out process we call dating which is really just a long drawn out version of friends with benefits but you don't really know that's what it is because truthfully, okay, I want you to think about this for every person that goes on a first date tonight. Let's say there's a million people that go on a first date tonight in United States, okay? Probably less than one-tenth of one-tenth of 1% will actually ever get married from that number. I'm just being tongue-in-cheek here for a moment. And of that, okay, let's just, let me change the odds, okay? Of the million people go on first date, they'll actually marry that person is one-tenth of one-tenth percent, okay? Of the actual people of that group that will actually move in together, it's one-tenth, wait, let me do this again. It's one-tenth of one-tenth of one percent, okay? And the other one is one-tenth of one percent and of the actual turn into a relationship is less than, no, it's the other way around. Yeah, it's probably one percent will actually turn into some sort of dating and I'm making up this number. The point is we should try to sooner get to know this person because the current process of dating ain't working, okay. I'm just a rant again, I'm ranting tonight. Someone says you're so on target, thank you so much. Thank you, you're a boss, thank you. Melanie says so true. WM says thank you, you're like my dad teaching me to pick men wisely, you've saved me. I'm happy to hear that. Oh, let's keep going. Jennifer says dating is a mess, exactly. Relationships are dead, they can be. Men, a lot of men just wanna get laid. Kasha says, question. I was dating a man, he broke it off with me because I have kids, we haven't had sex. He just wants to be friends but wants to see and talk to me most days and buys me gifts and things I need. Do you remember when I said the sneaky way men use you? He treats you like his therapist. He just wants to be friends, he just wants a female, some female person to talk to. Folks, you don't need to collect friends. I just wanna think about it. If you met the love of your life tomorrow, is this person gonna be in your life? It took me, I've got a dear female friend. It took us a decade to build that friendship and we're very tight with one another, okay. Now, we invested in each other regularly to build that friendship. Now, she's met my sweetheart Marie. Actually, we went out to drinks with her the other night. She's a dear friend of mine. We never dated, we never had sex, we never kissed. She's a dear friend. It took years to develop that friendship. While you're developing this friendship with this guy, what about the person that's gonna be your true life partner? Is this person going to be a long lasting friend or an acquaintance, okay? Just my two cents on that one. All right, let's see. Well, it looks like we don't have any other questions. You know what? I just yelled at you guys for the last 36 minutes. Did this have any value for you? Are you going to make a difference in your life?  Are you gonna stop giving your power away? Because a lot of men are cowards and they're clueless and they're emotionally constipated. It's not your job to re-educate them. It's your job to sift through the muck and find the diamonds in the rough out there. And they do exist. Great guys do exist. My clients are meeting great guys all the time. I get calls from, it's amazing. The minute they make an investment in the program, I get calls, Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy. Jonathan, I met a great guy and they know the difference because they've done the work to learn how to weed out men by vetting, by screening, by filtering. And actually, through this other process we do in my coaching, which is really designed to create your funnel as wide as possible, but really do a good job of filtering out the wrong people to actually let in the right person in your life. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know. All right, I'm so glad to hear from Gloria. This is super valuable. I'm so happy to hear that you had value from this. I'm glad to hear this is making a difference in your life. By the way, if it is, please purchase a super sticker, super chat before we wrap up tonight. If you really like to donate to the Connor Asley Scholarship Fund. Yeah, I'm gonna wrap up this video as I always do. First off, giving myself a big, gigantic, Jonathan Barrett of self love. I'm gonna reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm gonna ask you to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear or a pillow. There's a teddy bear. Give it or them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. And let's face it, we could all use more love in our lives. I wanna thank Mimi and Melissa and LG and Gloria and Jamison and Jennifer and Desert and Belgium and Chandler and Rhonda and Anna and Kausha and Jamison. And let's see, Paloma and I can't even get all these names. LG, thank you so much. Wishing you a fab evening. Bye now.


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Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1991 film basket case 3 the progeny obviously by Frank Hennelotter and if you didn't know all of the Reviews for well the two reviews for the first basket case and the second basket case are currently on my channel already I even created a playlist Just for Frank Hennelotter film so you can check out all the reviews of his stuff that I've done so The second basket case came eight years after the first one and then this one was just one year after the second one so quick quick turnaround and I think that kind of adds to more of a continuity of look to it Obviously a continuity of the one of my what I'm calling the children or other people in the film are calling it freaks Which by the way, it's very funny because in the review for the second basket case and for this one very random This is just what I happen to wear today this shirt. We are the mutant uprising Which I didn't plan that out But you know what this really plays into especially basket case 3 Because there really is a as people say mutant uprising in the end of the film as they start taking over the airwaves But we'll talk about that more later Anyway written and directed by Frank Hennelotter Of course who's done brain damage Franken Hooker bad biology and then documentaries Herschel Gordon Lewis the godfather of gore Chasing Banksy and Boyle Angels the diet the trial of Mike Diana Obviously for the third film in a row of these Kevin Van Hinton Rick as Dwayne Bradley is in it. Love him in this film. Love him. Love him in this film And I do feel like His his acting is a certain way I wouldn't say he's a good actor, but you do see change from the first movie to the third movie with him He does become way more comfortable with the material way more comfortable with the character it does seem like he settles in more as the films go on and He does become a better actor as time goes on. So, you know, you'd probably assume that with you know getting more Practice at that role and it does show and I mean honestly His acting is my fate is probably my favorite part of all the films to be honest in the first one because it's so laughably bad, but then in the second and third ones because It feels familiar like I've already fallen in love with it from the first one So that when he comes back in the second one and the third one even though he's gotten to be more a better actor He still has that certain Kevin Van Hinton rake style And I mean Frank Hennan-Lotter style too because of the way the characters written and the acting that he asks for for the films Even though this is the final basket case film apparently Hennan-Lotter has said that he could see doing a fourth one If that ever happened, I'm sure I would check it out But I don't think I'd be like super excited because honestly with this and you'll see with my final rating on this It's my least favorite of the three It is you know like with a lot of films that have multiples to them are a lot of franchises that have multiples to them It's diminishing returns as it goes down because one of my biggest things with this film in particular It doesn't really feel like the story progresses Obviously in the first basket case there's plenty of story because everything's brand new to us So we get everything second film. There's more story There's more development between not only the psychic abilities between Dwayne and Belial, but their Relationship and a lot of other stuff, you know, there's plenty of new things happening in that one So with this one it feels kind of stagnant to a degree I know there's stuff that happens and the big change obviously being Belial having babies and then his you know baby mama dying it's There is stuff happening, but it doesn't feel like the overall story for basket case is really moving anywhere except for maybe the Reconciling that goes on between Belial and Dwayne, but even then that is so slow and it's so like off and on like Oh, will they reconcile won't they it just doesn't feel like they're doing much for the overall story So that's one of the big things that kind of like made me like and not as interested But that said there's still things I enjoyed with the film obviously When I was when I first started watching I was like really you're gonna start with the sex scene from the second one That's such a like I said, it's such a weird thing to see. It's a little bit creepy.  It's all of those things and I think Ken and lotters Really good at capturing that mixture. It's not all creepy all scary all disgusting or it or all funny He just he's good at getting that together and that's actually seen in a lot of the Practical effects the the costuming for the children You know granny Ruth's children So a lot of them they're they're kind of funny looking a little cartoonish But they're also kind of scary kind of creepy kind of gross, you know all those things and so I like the fusion of that aesthetic Like I said with the last review for basket case 2 I hate the fact that they pull so much from the first film into this film as well now now you've had the Backstory scene of the separation surgery in the first film the second film and the third film they put him in all of it There's absolutely no reason for that another thing that there's absolutely no reason for was what they did in the second one which was playing a Decent portion of the very end of the first film to start the second film You don't need that if people saw basket case one They remember what happened going into the two and if they saw two they remember what happened going in the three So I just don't understand that choice. It's such a weird choice, and I don't like it That kind of takes me out of the film in the beginning. Obviously there's stuff to re-engage me, but initially I don't like that So at this point Dwayne is basically a prisoner in something that kind of seems like his own personal hell Especially based off the events of the end of the second film because he's trying to get away at that point He's had it. He needs to get away from Belial and everyone like Belial But and then that's when he freaks out and sews them back to him But then you know, obviously he's in a straight jacket and he's basically being held prisoner there He spends a good amount of the time during the film trying to get away Finally until realizing, you know, this is kind of where he needs to be he needs to reconcile with Belial and You know things basically get patched up, but initially it is kind of interesting that like he stuck again Like it's this continual. He's stuck thing. I Think I would have liked if maybe he got away a little bit and then they you know Kind of he found his way back on his own But then I guess you don't get as much of the children Which I feel like is a major focus of the second and third film is we have more money We have these great practical effects. Let's try and put him in as many scenes as possible Just look at these Children these freaks these mutants whatever you want to end up calling them just look at So like I get it but to some degree like maybe a little more focus on story Just saying Because that's the thing with the first basket case is it had a good mix of stuff Um As expected more children are introduced So I did like that more of granny Ruth's children I did like that And I I like the fact that they end up going on this trip because they're leaving home and you're like Oh, what what can they get up to? So, you know that kind of creates a level of excitement for seeing where we're going with it Uh What's with the song the personality song on the bus and then playing it at the end of the film during the credits? I didn't get that like it seems too over the top. It seems too too weird um, I could Definitely do without it But the bus trip thing is is a good idea Um, they were in the last one and I kind of forgot to talk about it a little bit But all the the little noises that they have for each individual one of granny Ruth's children Are so good like the the noise designs a sound design for it with all of these individuals is great Um, it gives a a certain personality and a certain voice to each one of them and they're different And I really like that about it. It's a good attention to detail Um I was very intrigued to find out how little how would end up fitting into this film Although then once little how was really in the film.  Oh, it's triplets. Oh, it's quite and making rhymes about it Like that scene is a way too long and b all the rhyming is so over the top and so annoying and not funny and The actor who was handling the character of little how Was not even like bad fun. He was just bad bad and bad annoying and I don't know if that has if that's The way he was written and hen and lotter wanted him or if that's the way the actor did it or a combination of the both But I hated little how on this and in the end little how doesn't even really matter You know, like except for building the suit. I guess that's the main reason little how is really there Is to build that that you know mech suit for belial, which is cool. It is cool um, but you know Other than that, I hated little how and like his deformities like they don't even look good Just the fact that he's like big doesn't mean it's cool Like he just he just doesn't look good, especially not in comparison to all of, you know, granny ruse children I'm just saying Uh, the water breaking scene real quick was pretty funny. That's less of water breaking and more of a water main breaking I know it's kind of Kind of corny, but I thought it was a little bit funny when it occurred to me um And just like in basket case two Dwayne ends up throwing himself at the first normal-looking female that he sees Here he is making yet another mistake With yet another woman throwing himself at opal the sheriff's daughter Just like he was throwing himself at susan It seems like because he's not used to you know, living a normal life and interacting with people He just is doomed to always throw himself at the first normal-looking female.  What did I get into and like like terrified and disinterested at the same time and it's kind of like I mean, I get it because you know, I don't want to have anything to do with kids too Let alone 12 of them But I thought it was kind of funny that he's just like Like it looks like his own personal help basically So maybe he was starting to figure out what dwayne was feeling Nothing that the cops did their whole plan about getting the million dollars for getting dwayne Well, just getting belial basically None of that plan really made sense. They made a lot of dumb choices and did dumb things And I feel like that whole aspect of like the cops trying to you know, kidnap belial or kill belial either way I felt like that whole plot aspect was very half-baked and and not really worked out all that well Should have taken some more time with it because they could have come up with it in a much better way Just didn't like it Opal as a dominatrix was very out of left field, but I loved how Dwayne ended up reacting to it like his whole like And like backing up made for a very good funny funny scene.  I don't know. It's weird.  Once again, we've seen it before from belial and it's amazing in this film Uncle dwayne didn't really seem to care when opal got shot and then she fell on the one baby belial He literally saw it happen and was like, oh, oops Or like that something to the to the to the degree of like, oh, that's not good You know, so it was just kind of funny. He was just like, I don't care Now because of the psychic link between dwayne and belial that had been established quite a few times with the films I don't understand why dwayne didn't know that belial was shot when they were getting out of out of the police station That didn't make any sense. The fact that it's like a shock to him that he got shot We've seen before where when something happens to one of them or something Extreme is going on emotionally or physically like they they know like they can feel it So I feel like that was a slip up with the script a little bit overlooked They've shown they had shown so much in the movies that when the Belial mech is used to go after the the first two cops You feel really cheated and kind of upset that you don't you only see the arm of it But then finally they give you the payoff when there's the big showdown with the sheriff And then I was just like this is awesome. I'm very happy with the way this looks Seeing belial like moving that mech suit was super super cool And it reminded me of teenage mutant ninja turtles crang how he had his little suit and he was in the Similar design, you know what I'm saying people um I like that beaver lee bonner shows up in this again That's one of the big things to note about frank henna lotter films Is it beaver lee bonner always shows up in the film even in you know small roles in this one She was the cashier at the fast food restaurant when the family when the uh Granny ruth and her family show up and they just start, you know, terrorizing everyone and eating all their food, which You know, why was she ordering food then if they were just eating everyone else's food? It's kind of you know a thing Uh, so the babies end up being in inherently feral and wanting to eat people Like belial, I guess just because belial's the only parent alive That's kind of a weird thing to me just because I thought they'd be more of a neutral Creature or person or whatever you want to call them I thought they'd be more neutral and more like able to be molded as they grew up Because it seems that the mother was actually very docile and not at all like belial um Except for the moment where you know the police bust in and she starts to You know act like she's gonna attack them, but you know, that's that's self-defense. So that's a different situation So I just thought it was a little bit weird that the babies would just naturally attack especially because they're so young I don't know. It was a little weird, but you know, it plays well for the finish of the film And now grainy ruth at the very end of the film when the whole family busts into What is a veiled attempt at showing a herald or Rivera show They become she's basically turned her family into a terrorist organization Like that's literally what she's doing is like busting in and terrorizing people. They did it at the restaurant as well So it's gone from in the second film being this family of just like creating a loving environment and caring and everything And over time has just changed into now. We're a terrorist group and we're coming to your town and we're taking you down So I was just like, okay So really in the end other than the baby beliles like I was saying this film doesn't really move the overall story a whole lot It's just kind of an expansion on the second film It's it's just basically like the next hour and a half of what is basket case too So it's not really another chapter. It's just A continuation of the second one really so I'm sure some people love that about it There are things I did like about that because you know, you saw more of the children and you saw You saw the same ones that were in the second one more, which is always fun And you get you know the violence that you're looking for the mech suit You know, there's a lot of good stuff in this but there's stuff that I didn't like about it obviously so Rating this two ways The first way with five stars possible with half stars in play as as a film film I'm going to give it a two star rating Because there's some achievements in there But as a so bad it's good film. I'm going to have to go ahead and give it a I'm between a three and three and a half because it's almost on par with the second one Um, I'll give you know, I'll give it a three and a half I think it I think it's pretty comparable to the second one as far as a so bad. It's good film If I gave quarter stars, I'd drop it just a quarter to the 3.25 But I think it makes sense to put it 3.5 with the second one So those are my feelings on basket case three the progeny Do what you want to do make your comments down here your thoughts on it. Let's get nerdy about it And you know, maybe one day there will be a fourth basket case in which case What would you want to see for that fourth basket case? The baby beliles grown up and how they deal with that Maybe belial and duane being dual parents to all these 11 now 11 baby beliles I don't know Anyway, do me a quick favor hit that subscribe button If you like this video or any video that I've ever done that's your best way to repay me and it Literally takes you a second. So it's very painless and it does mean a lot to me personally So I would really appreciate that also hit the subscribe button because that way you know anytime I'm putting up a new review or unboxing or doing a live stream. 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Today, we're talking volume six chapter eight. We have the exclusive clip of next week's episode and some writer called Miles Luna And we'll be answering community questions that you have submitted using hashtag Ruby roo This is me and this Yeah, get ready for a whole lot of Chad. Oh great That's the name of this episode. Oh God Even worse Well, no safe angles. There's not if this is your first episode of ruby rewind then this is gonna be a weird one In case you are new to the show. I'm so sorry And what we do here is we talk about the latest episode of ruby. We share our thoughts our Speculations we have a bunch of fun and we encourage you guys to do that with us by using the hashtag Ruby root Questions comments things like that and you can also participate if you're watching live as a first member We have a handy little tool called the megaphone pole. You can add to your roosterteeth.com forward slash play We'll have a question for you a little bit later on and you can answer it answer it in real time So that'll be fun And if I can keep calling for that the lower third brought blocks this region as many lower Thurs as possible. Yes as many lower thirds as we can get because I'm really worried if I cross my legs It can there it is So if you would like to play thank you broadcast. Thank you. I've never done anything more important This is I'm getting flashbacks to the tights episode the leggings episode of last season. Well, let's talk about Ruby Yeah, no get into it that phrasing right then. Let's get into it. Let's not So we had I mean this episode was a lot of it was more conversational Than than the previous episode. We've been we've had to deal with a lot of action We've gotten a lot of action recently and they've all been really good. We were talking about that before we went live We're just like which has been our favorite fight so far and like there's like three We met a super new fun nemesis today I Don't like her. I'm so disappointed you guys were not fans at all.  It's super Yeah, but they just shut you down for the point of note. There's just for the sake of it And it just I hate it. I hate it. She's a She's the second letter in the alphabet and a cap Oh Wow, okay, I liked I really enjoyed the rivalry.  Oh that that got all of us So good and the delivery was spot-on. It was a great line in the liver. She's like, you know, maybe she's dead They come across as rivals, but I kind of feel that they're be more like sisterly towards More towards the end of the the volume I mean, it's gonna be a little bit more like, you know, I hate you, but I kind of respect you You are pretty good at calling things except for this week because you're like, it's gotta be winter It's winter and we all thought that I know it was not winter I wanted like a beautiful elegant general and I got like this chibified final fantasy character and I'm like Chibified I love that I'm stealing that forever Yes, I hope that her offense does come. Oh me too by the end of this volume I'm that she she uh, well though in a fun way.  You know what I mean?  That'd be great I really want to see winter again me too. I want to see what she's been up to I want to see ironwood again. Mm-hmm. Had such a crush on him. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's like Hi, I'm Jackie. How are you? We also had our answer that's been that we've been wondering since the we saw the the intro of who why John gets so mad and pushes us against a wall John had a real bit of a tantrum moment Jackie called it. Yeah she and Absolutely like and and I was like John so sweet and I was like surely he'll Separate because it's like we talked about this and the fact that like whenever somebody gets mad at Ospin They take it out on poor Oscar. I know and so but John just let him have it He doesn't bring up fair points though that they actually don't know if it's Ospin or Oscar Right, so I I think we agree that it's still Oscar, but there's no way to shake out yeah Physically shaking Like how much of that merch has already happened. Mm-hmm. Like I think John know that he did a bad.  He could have said sorry. Well, he didn't. Miles, he could have said sorry He didn't have time.  I felt like it would have come around to like Sorry, but I'm already going by that point. Yeah, I'm sure we can have words with Miles when he's on about that whole situation But yeah, no, just like what get out on the kid and everyone was like I need a moment They're like me too and everybody just kind of went off and brooded How could you be how could anyone in that room be surprised that he left? Hmm?  Did you have any idea like yeah, and he's he's what 13 14 years old So whatever But he's like this young kid. Yeah is physically getting hurt because of all this so yeah adamantly there's a man in Yeah, and uh Oh man speaking of people getting hurt We don't know what's up with crow crowing off drinking again, and he's not answering Jackie's favorite person crow.  Yeah, what do you want to happen? I? Want him to own up to like who he is. He's gonna go to fantasy re like Okay, we need to ask Miles that question is The remnants Cuz he hasn't done anything I'm kind of upset that he was introduced as this this character who Is basically a leader of sorts or who could actually like do something about the situation that they're in and now He has just been completely useless. Mm-hmm, and he's okay with it I think that's what bothers me the most is that he's okay with it He's just like I think there's not a lot of hope in the team right now Yeah, I think something's gonna have to happen to bring these guys back together after like the whole Apathy to debacle. Yeah, the unwinding of the prophecy and knowing that like we need some positive We need we need we need this to turn this ship around I feel like we got a little bit of that was starting to learn about these eyes, right? Over eyes Ruby had a great line, too. It's like teach me how to laser things We were starting to get a little bit more information though Like she started out by saying all the things that I don't know about silver eyes, and I was like come on But yeah, you can apparently you know most of things we've seen vaporize them turn them to stone Or whatever and And then there was that really big little hint drop when she was like well I used it on cinder Oh, yeah, and then she was like maybe there was something you didn't see Well, I feel like that was miles of curry be like maybe there was something no one saw But that's the reason why her arm is now stone Because she was already like part grim by at that point But then when the silver eyes happened it turned her into a stone arm. No, she's been using spooky I'm I can't remember I don't remember she had it at that point or not To go look it up. Yeah, she probably already had I wanted to revisit that Cool. Well, hey, we're about to get on the community questions But first we got a question for you guys On our megaphone pole and that is who thought that the Argus general was going to be winter Head to roosterteeth.com slash play and let us know Definitely me I was wrong Yeah, yep, yep, yep, I feel you I feel you community. I feel you Here we go Antonio Theresa on ask so when I finally got around to watching this week's ruby roux I saw the G rex and I remember that I drew one too, but I didn't post it So here it is now along with growing occupants Edward I want to high-five that 12 feet tall show me the archivist Show him to me. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Eddie made that his profile pic on Twitter yet. If not, we should make this little glasses I love it. I was seeing more robes, but I like this modern interpretation I was thinking more ropes like it was more of like a little bit of fat through the toes That kind of like a little lantern so the ropes can flutter as he's sliding along his ladder Got it. Bravo. Good job. Yes. Great job. If Salem knows beating her is impossible Then why does she target the silver-eyed warriors? It's because she knows they can zap the grim out of her I love that you answered What do you think about it's this Why does she talk at the silver-eyed warriors? Is it because we don't know that she knows beating her is impossible and being Her room isn't impossible. They just said she can't be killed I'm yeah, I'm hung up on the facts still of how Jen answered the question for Ospin She said that he can't kill her That's true. So I kind and genies like historically are kind of like playful with their wording Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so I think there is a way to kill her But Ospin maybe because he's still in love with her can't I I don't know. I'm I I'm in your camp. I think that maybe she cannot be killed, but she could be beat. Yeah Hmm or changed Converted who knows who's you want to grab the next one? Yeah So with the training beginning for Ruby, do you think Argus is going to be attacked? And if so, how do you think the fight will turn out? I hope the whole city gets decimated Because we love it so much. I just want to like have all that look just He wants a red wedding so be careful man, I mean it just seems to be like I Feel like all the Ruby girls have that bad luck semblance because like everywhere they go. It's like now.  Which just happens? Yeah, and then every time she has these news time. Oh send in rent you and just amplify everything Amplify the bad luck. Yes Real cool Swaggly puff wants to know if Ruby can imprison the Withered in stone Grimm attracted to it probably still alive Then could she do the same thing to Salem put her in stone? Maybe so I'm saying at least her Spooky parts Imprison her in stone. I'm into that theory Silver eyes being gift from life and affect everything death created both grim and magic Do you think Ruby can petrify Salem since she is both grim and magic? Yeah, I love that You got two of those back there. Like the community is like turn her to stone She wouldn't be dead right just be stuck there Until they don't wake her up But the gods wouldn't come back though, right Don't we want like no, we want the end game. No, we have come home Well, we have to mean humanity has to be in a better state and then we get all the relics together And we're like sub-gods jaw-juss Put that lady in stone so like if you want to kill her great, but like she's taken care of She's not comfortable. I can handle with this much like me Yeah, of course in this outfit that Ruby's desire to make sure everyone is doing all right before her own feelings I'm starting to take a toll. Yeah, how long before the pressure is too much for her by Lord Jarek? I'm waiting for her to snap on her to really snap I can't wait either on her or on one of them like at some point There's only so many other people's feelings you can carry girl Mm-hmm, and then like I think I decided it's part of growing up of learning that like you cannot take on other people's problems for them Mm-hmm, but I do hope that we see that come around in her behavior Me too, but yeah, I really think that breaking point is coming. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's gonna be crow. I Hope Jackie really wants crow to get his butt. I just I want that confrontation to happen And that's the problem with like empathetic and altruistic people. They just take too much. Mm-hmm of everyone else's Uh, TR Mason, yeah, I know right? We're learning some life lessons. In a recent blog post Carrie mentioned that the next week was your holiday break and that the volume will end on January 26 with chapter 13 Is this info correct? Yes, if it wasn't Carrie would not have posted about it. Yes, the info is correct We'll actually be off for two weeks. Mm-hmm, and then we'll be back But there will be one episode of ruby in those two weeks So what holidays? Everyone's got things to do and people to see and all that fun stuff And it takes a lot of people to do this show because we got our whole broadcast team and all that And it's nice for them to get time to spend them with their families Oh Holiday PSA. Yep. Let's go ahead and check in on that megaphone pole just so we can get a lower third to cover me I want to hear from the 25% Who did you think it was gonna be? If you didn't think it was gonna be winter like who? Tweet tweet tweet. We all know it was gonna be winter. Let us know. It's a 75% are telling the truth and 25% are lying That's what's happening like maybe it could have been just like I'm with himself just like what's up? I'm just hanging out at this base. Just checking in but no, we were all wrong. Yep. Yeah, so All right, cool. Well, hey, if you're wondering why I'm dressed like this It's to remind you that you can head to store.roosterteeth.com and pick up a whole bunch of great merchandise There's still time before the holidays get some last-minute gifts for others or for yourself You know you want to go do a workout? Maybe you get to bust out some Nora gear and do that You know And a lot of things that are worn appropriately and fit. Hey, Chad. Thanks for taking this bullet for me with the Nora walkout Okay I'd never have to wear this again That was a lot Hi, Chad. Good to see you. Good to see all of you. Why are we always in such I don't know Thank you for having me. Oh, thanks for being on well in case people don't know who you are I should tell everybody who you are and what you do. Oh, yeah My name is Miles Luna. I'm the head writer for the animation department I'm a co-writer on Ruby and you voice. Oh, yeah, I do voice John arc. Yes So I've all the episodes for you to come on I'm really glad that you're here because it's like now we can yell at miles for John being This is very exciting episode for me because I don't know like miles is my boyfriend. What and we don't Not allowed to talk about Ruby really outside of work, but we get to do it now in this professional context How professional it was so clearly So professional miles, you know what I mean It was so much Chad that I just saw Anyway, great. Well, thanks for being on And I know we got a bunch of questions for you. So we're just gonna get right to him. Oh boy You want to ask the first? All right miles you ready? All right. Let's go I'll ever be so if Ruby eyes can only kill grim and then can Ruby kill Salem since she is a grim God, it's like y'all don't know what spoiler questions are Well, I'll say this Salem's not just a grim. She's also part immortal human So that kind of makes things a little complicated. I would say Mm-hmm. There's your half answer. Yeah What gulch griff wants to know what was the idea for the design of Argus and the at lesion military base Argus was really exciting because we wanted to talk about and show like what would happen if the two styles of Mistral and Atlas or at the time mantle kind of came together and we kind of refer to it as San Francisco is this really pretty like City near the water, but it's also like in this kind of cool cold climate And so Carrie worked very closely with like Patrick and the rest of the art team to concept a bunch of things And I'm super stoked with like how Argus looks also just because like, you know as we continue to improve our technology and stuff with with every season of the show like It's pretty exciting to be able to show and have the time to have like oh, yeah, there's some construction workers like Volume one absolutely not those Absolutely, we do not have time to do that And I know Argus Argus to me is like a really neat city I think I would like to live in Argus if I if I lived in remnant Dude, and like I've really been feeling at this volume like and it's weird because like you know you enjoy the show But you don't understand how much little things like that really do go to making you feel like you're in this world Or you know making it more immersive and like I've just been constantly like every episode like they'll show some like even Just the garden like the garden is a great example That conversation would have happened in the house in volume like one or two But just going to the garden with all these butterflies and taking the time to make it look like even something for that small scene Like looks so beautiful. It's just really done really good thing. So shout out to our animation department. Heck. Yeah, SGI Ask what is it like writing slash posing an angry version of Jean which we don't get to see very often I find it well It's very cathartic playing any sort of angry character in the booth is always really really nice for the soul But no, I mean, it's it's it's interesting It's also hard whenever like you were having to write for a character. That's clearly like going through a difficult time or as maybe Not quite themselves or something like that But Jean's a character that has a lot of Emotional turmoil going on. There's a lot of things weighing on that poor kid's head And we saw what can happen in the most recent episode if some of those things go unaddressed and and Kids kind of paranoid and scared and angry and a lot of stuff. Yeah But fun to voice Incredibly fun like getting getting to do Jean mouthing off at cinder was like that was one of the few Jean bits that I kind of took lead on writing in five and it was so nice Letting him say that it immediately got turned in this face cinder like one upped him harder than you can imagine But it was a nice few seconds that he had to get that up Jackie you want to get this one? Yeah, what do you think Maria's weapons would be called? My guess would be yellows muertos, but that would be obvious. Oh if you want obvious I can tell you what they're actually called. Oh Maria's weapons are called life and death And we can talk if I don't know if we want to be like we can talk more about the Maria fight But they both offered death so Only if you think just like with silver eyes they can they are death for certain things But in a way they are protecting the life of of those that you're fighting for that is true. So she fights with life and death And that fight was awesome we were talking about this a little bit before too Love the inclusion of the gravity dust and you wrote that one, didn't you? So well, I mean Carrie and I touch all the scripts together But I a lot of times in order to try and get through episodes We will take leads on certain scenes and then we'll meet up together read over each other's first drafts Collaborate give notes suggestions. We go back revise and at that point it gets everybody's just touching everything. That sounded But no that was a fight that was a fight that I got to take lead on And was one of my favorite things I got to write this volume and Yeah, it's I don't know if we're supposed to keep going on this or if we're supposed to be doing that Like I could talk forever about the Maria fight. No, I know Sometimes miles and be like I just wrote this really cool thing. I can't tell you about it And I'm like Okay, every time I walk through animation. I'm just like All right, right Evelyn Bito says who was your favorite character to write for this volume and least favorite man I've really been enjoying getting to write for Ruby and Maria like those two have been having a lot of fun this season Then normally my answer that question is I love writing for crow because crows kind of a jerk and kind of just tells it How it is and it's sort of snarky and sarcastic and that's fun but crow Is it's painful to write for him this season He's your least favorite for this he's currently my least favorite to write for because it hurts because I love crow We can check what I was making so many so many bad choices this volume And it's it's hard. It's hard to watch a character do the wrong thing when you love them a lot Yeah, you definitely have an alliance on that side of the table. Yeah, I was being a real butthead And I'm glad I'm glad to hear that you're super frustrated with him It's fun a lot of people asked us what the theme for the season was and our responses We can't tell you but we hope you'll know it when you see it And yeah, I think you're about to see it realistic situations that are happening This volume too real so you want to get this one. Yes, so rosebox 207 asks what Jean goes through with the sister What John goes through with his sister based on you and your own siblings by any chance if you do have any I answered that now Please thank you Both Kerry and I have siblings and so that was a big inspiration But that was you know, I took the lead on the Maria scene, but Kerry took the lead on the Ark family stuff and all the Argus stuff and Reading that was so much fun. And you know, like when we would go through and act out that scene as we were like writing it together We'd get to that part and they just be doing like The animators did a million times better than hand slaps was like all the super fast intricate pushes and pinches and smacks and now It's it's it's super it's super fun seeing another arc Love saffron. She's great. And so this just reminded me because like every time we have a voice actor on the show They talk about how much fun it is to have you guys as directors because you guys like really get into the characters And like I just that was the moment right there. You're even talking about it And we were just in the boot slapping each other There's some times when like because yeah, well, I'll read against a lot of times Kerry and I will take turns reading against the actor in the booth and There'll be times where like we recorded the last line, but then I'll keep going and it's like, oh, sorry We reached the end of your portion Narratively satisfying but we are on a timetable and I do need to leave Jack you want to get this one? It's a Paragraph here we go. How much does fan opinion influence the writing you guys have done an excellent job of taking criticism and prove This volume is writing, but does it ever affect important plot points such as relationships who lives longer, etc? Definitely considered for sure but very rarely will we You know, we always want to stay true to the story that we want to tell I think if you spend all of your time chasing an audience you will never ever ever catch it Yeah, a lot of the shows that we write are founded upon the idea of make the kind of things that you want to watch And so that's what we set out to do But absolutely we can there are times where we're like oh man like people really responded this way to that character We never thought of that character that way. Oh, maybe we can try like playing that up or something like that I mean we had no idea people were going to become obsessed with Sienna And so yeah, dude Let's see if we can try and get Sienna into the Adam trailer this season because people really really liked there like little things like that But that's the grand scheme of things usually we try and we try and stick to stick to our guns Man, you just took me back that was such a fun moment wherever it was like Sienna is the best character ever like I love her design She's so cool I think that's actually an interesting example of like We finally going back to talk about Argus and making it feel fleshed out We finally had a point where we can afford to make even one-off characters feel cool And like they belong in that world and I think that was one of the first times we really got to do that Yeah, because even before that it's like I don't know like and it hurt the captain from Volume four was like you kind of cool But like not amazing cool and just kind of looks like a regular boat captain We're like, you know the the high leader of the white fang like she needs to look baller as hell And our team did too good a job Speaking of characters who you know meet their ends. How does it feel to have all the knowledge and power of the show at your fingertips? Are you ever tempted to tell anyone spoilers? Sometimes yeah, but Honestly, I guess what this is how it is No one will believe you just Bill Murray it and walk away It's uh It's really scary most of the time mainly like we just wanted to make a show with our friends that we thought some people would like and then It's like hey y'all made the thing it's like this is the most important thing and it's gotta Everybody's jobs are counting on this so don't screw it up and it's like cool cool cool. Yeah, yeah tight sweet chill a Gigantic Ruby billboard in Akihabara like it's just like oh wow It's exciting when you make something that means something to someone but then when you're told that it means everything to someone That's really really scary And like it's you know It's not something that I think should be taken lightly and it's it's hard because sometimes you do things on accident like Avengers I thought was really interesting. I think Avengers infinity. What was a great film? Yeah, but it also they kind of did a boo boo and they can they kind of put Abuse next to oh, but no Thanos loves his daughter even though he's totally abusive and that sounds like a really bad message And it's like whoa absolutely that 100% was not the intent, but like that's a really bad boo boo I'm constantly constantly constantly terrified of like accidentally not thinking about something and then that's in the show And it's like how could you represent that that way? And it's like I didn't think about it. I'm sorry Watch out for anyone stamping their fingers in Ruby Looks Ellie only the final question here. Yes, what are people who have silver eyes called does it have an official name or something related to Hunter slash weepers. It's an excellent question. No, we have nothing Warriors, but if you were to make up a name for them right now, what would it be sparkly Dazzlers? The sparkly Dazzler There were in the dark and light up the night like a disco ball you fan art, please So they're like a warrior team slash like roller-dobby team mainly roller derby. Yeah, I'm being completely honest wonderful Coming on in the veils sparkly Dazzlers Na-na-na-na-na-na Everyone's vaporized. Oh perfect Strikes fear into the hearts of all grim. Did I hear we have some fan art is that what you're calling? No, I'm asking for a fan art. Oh, I want this to have you. Yeah Loving that fan on well Miles yes, sometimes we like to put our guests through a final game that we call the ruby rewind lightning round. Oh dear All right, you have a certain amount of time will be up on this clock they changed on me So I never know but we're gonna ask you a whole bunch of questions. I'm gonna guess that it's 60 You can probably go a lot for you. Okay. That's 90 seconds today So we're gonna ask you a bunch answer to the best of your ability as quick as you can first one goes for me And let's do it It's not quick what would happen if John used a semblance and Amp Crow semblance Hindenburg Oh Will the giant grim far isn't it beacon heaven ever be dealt with? Oh, totally Yeah, we'll get there at some point Geez do the maiden powers give manes other powers that elemental and manipulation like enhanced strength durability and speed or not I know from sooner than the main power didn't enhance her dust slash dirt manipulation semblance.  They can do all magic. We just like using elemental stuff because it looks really baller and cool Got it. Is the full semester the first semester in the beacon school. Yeah, I don't remember right now How well do you handle criticism? I don't know you tell me you look terrible. Thank you What's your favorite thing about me at your smile? Slash clock thing better it would be interesting if that's an Potato weapon. Oh, yeah, she has an impenetrable Defensive or a shield for 60 seconds. That's our semblance. I love that fight my lot of cuss. I did it. I'm sorry Your favorite color is yellow Oh Man if Blake stayed with the white bang You know that I would say probably No, I can't because that's a spoiler question you gotta watch son when I am Ruby I'm just a co-writer lady You know we hold auditions from time to time He didn't win Who could be the keeper of that power? It's so awkward sitting in between you both That worked out so much better that was very fun. Great job. Thanks. All right I don't know if you heard the sad sound. Oh, you did you yelled at it But that was a good one. It's lightning round. I had fun Well, thank you for putting up with that And thank you guys so much for tuning in We're gonna give you as a sneak peek at the next episode here in just a second But just a reminder use that hashtag ruby Roo said your questions comments fan art Anything you want to that's what it's there for then maybe we'll talk about it on the show Remember we're off for two weeks and then we'll be back and we will miss you promise Let's take a look at the next week's episode. The city is enormous. He could have gone anywhere. This is all my fault Overreacted. I still don't really understand what happened. Was it about the mission? It's kind of hard to talk about I know I know top secret Did he do something wrong? No he didn't We just got some new information and It's going to be a lot harder than we thought I mean if it was easy then it wouldn't be important, right? I think we're all just a bit unsure of what to do next There's a lot of good you can do here. I know your mission is important But it's not like you're the only ones who can do it. It's not the only mission that needs doing It's Not that simple. I should go pick a badger in from daycare. I'll let Tara know what's happened and we'll meet you later Good luck on That happy note. Well way to go John.  Oh, he just put a poster over it Typical Well, man, thanks so much for being on the episode. Yeah, thank you for having me. Yeah That was our golf club. Good job Yeah, pretty much. No, it's cool. You can hang out. We're gonna Very still and we'll edit you out Well, we'll see what happens, but just remember that we're off for the next two weeks We'll be taking a break, but there will be one episode of Ruby within those two weeks And then we'll go back. We'll talk about that and most current episode. It'll be fun I hope you guys all have great holidays whatever you celebrate and we'll miss you terribly. We'll be back soon See you then