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It is available in both online and offline modes for just 4500 rupees. Grab this chance to kick start your mains preparation and with this let's start our news article discussion. Displayed here are the list of news articles that we have chosen for today's discussion. See today's discussion is really helpful for both your preliminary as well as your mains preparation. Without wasting much time let's get into the news article discussion. Have a look at this news article. See this news article talks about the Tamil Nadu state government which asked the great touch and eye corporation and other civic agencies to remove the invasive species including Prosopas joliflora and it is to be removed from the banks of rivers and other water bodies. That is why this news article is in the news today and in this news article discussion let us understand some of the important points about this invasive species. Okay so what are invasive species? See invasive species which is also called introduced species is any non-native species that significantly modifies or disrupts the ecosystem it colonizes. Such species may arrive in new areas through natural migration but they are often introduced by the activities of other species. Water hyacinth is a very good example of water invasive species and the one mentioned in the news article the Prosopas joliflora. It is a shrub or small tree which is identified as invasive species in India because it absorbs all the nutrients and damages the growth of other organisms around it. Okay and also note that it has been mentioned that this Prosopas joliflora is not a very good nesting site. Okay so in simple words invasive species can be any plant or animal or pathogen or any other organism that are non-native to an ecosystem and which may cause economic or environmental harm or adversely affect the human health. Okay and here in this image you can see how a species is determined whether it is invasive or not. See monitoring the growth of the invasive species is very much important because it has significant impact on the environment. Okay and now in this discussion let us learn the opposite to this invasive species which is the Keystone species. See a Keystone species is an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem. Yes I am saying this because the ecosystem would be drastically altered or cease to exist without its Keystone species and this Keystone species have low functional redundancy. This means that if the species disappear from the ecosystem no other species would be able to fill its ecological niche and consequently the ecosystem would be forced to change radically allowing new or possible invasive species to populate the habitat. If such a thing happens then ecosystem will be affected significantly am I right? And remember any organism from plants to fungi may be a Keystone species. They are not always the largest or most abundant species in an ecosystem and know that a Keystone species is often but not always a predator. Even herbivores can be a Keystone species. For example in African savannas the elephants are a Keystone species. It controls the tree population which makes the grasses thrive and sustains grazing. Okay and then take another example for this Keystone species which is the sea otter. It feeds on sea urchins that is typically a small spiny and round organism and thus the sea otter controls the sea urchins population. Now my question is what happens if sea urchins population is not controlled? See it would eat up the seaweed which is a major source of food for the ecosystem. Seaweed here refers to the macro algae like sea latures or green algae etc etc. Okay so without sea otter the entire marine ecosystem will be damaged okay and that is why we call it as Keystone species. Thus we can say that the Keystone species or animals or plants or whatever organism that have a huge influence on the food webs and the way these animals or organism influence food webs varies from habitat to habitat. Okay so that's all about this news article. See in this news article we covered about an important environmental topic which is the invasive species and Keystone species and these topics are very much useful for your preliminary examination. Okay and with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now take a look at this front page article. The article says that nearly 3.15 lakh compliance and appeals are pending with 26 information commissions across India. So in this news article discussion let us understand about RTI briefly. See in Indian democracy people are the masters and they have the right to know about the working of the government. So in 1976 in the Raj Narayan versus the state of Uttar Pradesh case the Supreme Court ruled that right to information will be treated as a fundamental right under article 19 of the Indian Constitution. And to provide a missionary for exercising this fundamental right the government enacted the Right to Information Act in the year 2005. Okay so now how does the act work? See this act empowers ordinary citizens to question the government and its working. Remember all constitutional authorities agencies owned and controlled all those organizations which are substantially financed by the government comes under the purview of this act. That means even you and me can file RTI and know about the working of the institutions that comes under the purview of the RTI act. Okay remember the act also mandates public authorities of union government or state government to provide timely response to the citizen's request for information. Such authority should provide information within 30 days but applications requesting information regarding a citizen's life and liberty must be granted or refused within 48 hours itself. Then the act also imposes penalties if the authority is delayed in responding to the citizen in this stipulated time. So does this mean that I can access any information from any institution under the purview of RTI act? No not really. The citizen can only seek information from the government authorities that the government can disclose to the parliament. See some information that can affect the sovereignty and the integrity of India is exempted from the purview of RTI. For example information relating to internal security relations with foreign countries then intellectual property rights cabinet discussions all these know are exempted from the RTI. Because revealing such informations know may affect the sovereignty or integrity of the country. Okay and remember the information seeker is not required to give any reasons for seeking the information. So anyone can ask for information. So that's all about this news article. See in this news article we had an opportunity to discuss about the right to information act and also in this discussion we saw about the working of the act and what all is exempted from the act. Okay so these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Have a look at this news article. See yesterday while union minister of state for science and technology was interacting with the media said that geospatial technology will have a massive social and political impact. So in this news article discussion let us understand some facts about geospatial technology. First of all what is geospatial technology. It is a term used to describe a range of modern tools like the geographic information system that is GIS then remote sensing and global positioning system that is GPS. See these tools capture spatial information about objects, events and phenomena which are indexed to their geographical location on earth. Remember the location data that is the information related to objects or elements present in a geographic space or horizon may be static or dynamic. See for static location data if you ask me an example take the position of a road then for dynamic location data if you ask me an example take a moving vehicle or pedestrian. So you understood the meaning of static location data and dynamic location data am I right. So in short geospatial technology enable us to acquire data that is referenced to the earth. So what is it done for. See this data that is collected is used for analysis, modeling, simulations and visualization. Then it may be used to create intelligent maps to help identify spatial patterns in large volumes of data. While talking about this take a note of this scheme that is the Swamitva scheme the survey of villagers and mapping with improvised technology in village areas. See even the minister mentioned about this scheme while interacting. This is an initiative of the minister of Panjaitiraj and this scheme aims to provide rural people with the right to document their residential properties. What is it done for so that the rural people can use their property for economic purposes. So now our question is how the technology is used here. See under the scheme the land parcels in rural inhabited area will be surveyed using drone technology. So in that case this geospatial technology facilitates decision making based on the importance and priority of SCARS resources. Okay further talking about the relevance of this technology in India. See India has a robust ecosystem in geospatial. So the survey of India the ISRO remote sensing application centers and the national informatics centers are all using this geospatial technology. See even all ministries and departments are using this geospatial technology. You can just have a look at this image given here to know where all it is used and how all it is used. For example take the prominent national mission for clean Ganga. They are dealing with extensive spatial data and analysis for the Ganga basin. Then you can take the national of forestation program. It is also using the remote sensing and geographic information system for planning and subsequent project monitoring. Okay likewise in many places this geospatial technology is utilized. Okay so that's all regarding this news article. In this discussion we saw about an important technology which is the geospatial technology and following this note in our discussion we are going to see how this technology is enhancing inclusive growth. So continue watching the video for the next topic which is very much connecting this topic with your mains preparation. Okay with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next topic. Now have a look at this news article. See yesterday our prime minister had addressed the inaugural function of the second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress in Hyderabad. See just now we saw in the before article regarding this geospatial technology right. So this is a continuous article of that also. Okay but in this discussion we will see something else that our prime minister had mentioned in the inaugural function. Okay see he said that in India technology is acting as a tool for inclusion and not exclusion. Then he highlighted that India's steps at building infrastructure was on the backbone of this geospatial technology and he also mentioned that the country's geospatial sector is open for young and bright minds. So this is the overall essence of the news article given here. So in this context let's see about what is inclusive growth. Then the technological advancement in India in the aspect of inclusive growth. Then about the indices used in measuring inclusive growth and finally some of the issues prevalent in achieving inclusive growth. See why am I stressing on this inclusive growth because this keyword is directly present in your syllabus and also note that in 2020 mains regarding financial inclusiveness a question was asked. So this topic is important for your mains as well as prelims. Okay so before getting into the discussion the syllabus relevant to this news article is highlighted here for your reference just go through it. Now let's start with the term inclusive growth. See according to the organization for economic cooperation and development inclusive growth means an economic growth that is distributed fairly across the society and creates opportunities for all. See in broad terms now this inclusive growth means equality of opportunities for all economic participants in the country. As we can say that equality in all aspects that is equality in health education food security and social protection. Then it also includes a method of growth that is environmentally sustainable then aspires for good governance and aids in the creation of a gender conscious society. Okay see some of the key elements of inclusive growth include skill development financial inclusion then technological advancement economic growth and social development. So these are all some of the elements that need to be addressed to achieve inclusive growth. See so far we would have seen many things about the financial inclusiveness or even we saw some of the inclusiveness regarding the climate change mitigation measures. Now let us see about the technological advancement in India in the aspect of inclusive growth. First of all let's have an idea about technological advancement. See technological advancement is the improvement and innovation of the utility of science. Technological advancement occurs when technologies become more precise accurate efficient or more capable and these scientific and technological advancements have made many important changes throughout the history. Remember the smartphones now we are using which is evolving day by day and it is now helping us in many ways such as to do money transactions and hearing songs watching movies browsing through the information etc etc. This is itself a technological advancement right and note that even this technological advancement like mobile phone or smartphone is creating inclusiveness. How? Now let's see the technological advancement in India as mentioned in the news article and how it is creating inclusiveness. First let's talk about the swamvitva scheme which got mentioned in the news article. See swamvitva means survey of villagers and mapping with improvised technology in village areas. Okay this scheme is a reformative step towards establishment of clear ownership of property in rural inhabited areas. How is this done? It's done by mapping of land parcels with the help of drone technology and by providing record of rights to village household owners. So what can you understand from this? So the use of this technology inclusiveness is portrayed okay and interestingly India is not only focusing domestically in the aspect of inclusive growth but also involves the neighbors in the process of inclusiveness. Take for example the South Asia satellite GSat-9 which is formerly known as SARC satellite. It is a communication and meteorology satellite operated by the ISRO for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. See this satellite is serving the needs of some of the SARC member nations such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Here you can take the India's technological advancement in the space sector which helps in facilitating connection and communication in India's neighborhood. See this is also an example for inclusiveness. Then India has given a boost in the manufacturing of drones or unmanned aerial vehicles and opened up the space sector to private entities. So the participation of the private in this is an example for inclusive growth. So we saw how the village inclusiveness is occurring then we saw in the international level how India is promoting inclusive growth then we also saw how the private sector involvement is creating inclusiveness. Now let's see about the indices that are used in measuring inclusive growth. First is the Inclusive Development Index. See it is an assessment of one of three countries economic performance that measures how countries perform on economic progress in addition to GDP okay and this index is prepared and released by the World Economic Forum. See the index has three pillars namely growth and development inclusion then intergenerational equity and sustainability. Then in the recent 2018 assessment Norway tops the chart followed by Iceland and Luxembourg in advanced economies and where is India standing? See India has been ranked 62 out of 74 emerging economies. Here India is ranked below the neighboring countries that is it is below Pakistan Sri Lanka Nepal. Evidently Pakistan has been ranked 47 Sri Lanka is standing in the 40th position then Nepal in the 22nd position. So by knowing this ranking know you would have understood why this inclusive growth is very much important for a country. See only by creating inclusive growth an economy can grow at a huge level okay. Then let me tell you one more index to measure this inclusive growth. Take the Social Progress Index. The index is published by the non-profit organ social progress imperative. See the SPI measures the well-being of a society by observing social and environmental outcomes directly rather than the economic factors. The social and environmental factors include wellness that is including health shelter and sanitation then it also includes equality inclusion sustainability and personal freedom and safety. So regarding this index know in the recent 2021 assessment Norway has topped the index followed by Finland and Denmark. Then what about India? India has been ranked 117 among the 168 countries which is much behind the BRICS nation. So these are all some of the indices that we are using in the measurement of inclusive growth. So far we have seen what is inclusive growth and how the technological advancement is creating inclusive growth. Then we also saw how the inclusive growth is measured using two indices okay. Now let me tell you what is the issue prevalent in achieving this inclusive growth. See in India know the major challenges for inclusive growth include lack of adequate employment opportunities despite India having the largest working population. Then lack of adequate education and skill development and the lack of social and physical infrastructure. All these are also the major challenges for achieving the inclusive growth okay. So we saw the issues right now we have to address the issues. So now let us talk about the possible solutions. See the central government along with the help of the state government it should formulate policies to eradicate poverty which is the foremost problem faced by India in achieving inclusive growth. See as I already said what is the concept of inclusive growth involving everyone in the economic growth or financial growth or you can say in the nation's growth okay. So the government should also promote sustainable development practices by keeping in mind the future generations and also the government should ensure that the inclusive growth will help in the empowerment of vulnerable and marginalized populations. See only by including everyone in the society you will be able to achieve a holistic growth or what we can say a huge growth okay and thus we can conclude that achieving inclusive growth is equal to achieving nation's growth okay. So that's all about this news article. So in this news article we had covered exclusively about what is inclusiveness and what is inclusive growth and how technological advancement is helping in inclusive growth. Then finally we saw some of the difficulties or challenges in achieving this inclusive growth we also ended up with solutions that will help in addressing the issues. See in addition to this regarding financial inclusiveness we have already covered in several other topics that's why today I made a point to make you understand how technological advancements are creating inclusive growths. See these kinds of questions are directly put in your main questions that is why I took this opportunity to explain you about what is inclusiveness and what is inclusive growth. So with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Now have a look at this news article. See this news article speaks about organ donation. See in Tamil Nadu the organ donations has exceeded the previous year's figures and in the year 2021 the organs were retrieved from 60 deceased donors but this year from January to October 6th itself the state has registered 115 donors. This shows the positive note for the efforts of the government. So this is the overall crux of the news article given here and in this context let's learn about an important act that was enacted to prevent the organ trafficking in the country. Yes I'm talking about the transplantation of human organs and tissues act of 1994. See this act was enacted by the parliament during 1994 and came into force on February 1995. The main purpose of this act is to regulate the removal storage and transplantation of human organs for therapeutic purposes and to prevent commercial dealings in human organs which is nothing but human trafficking. Now talking about the provisions of this act see take section two of the act. It defines brain death as an accepted form of death. The act allows the transplantation of the organs from the living donors as well as cadavers after brain death or cardiac death. Here the living donors are classified as either non-related donor or near-relative for the purpose of donation. Note that the section two clause one defines a term near-relative. It means spouse, son, daughter, father, mother, brother and sister. Okay now take section three of the act. It says that every hospital which is doing a transplant activity that is either retrieval of organ or organ transplantation must have a transplant coordinator in the hospital. Who is this transplant coordinator? See a person appointed by the hospital for coordinating all matters relating to removal or transplantation of human organs or tissues or both and for assisting the authority for removal of human organs is termed as transplant coordinator in this act. Okay also this act tempos the central government to maintain a complete registry of all donors as well as recipients of different types of organs and it didn't just stop with the donors and the recipients even the registration of hospitals that are engaged in the removal storage or transplantation of human organs or tissues or both is a must-do under this act. Okay and know that the scope of the act was further expanded by its amendment in the year 2011. So let me tell you some important provisions that was included after the amendment act. See the tissues donation has also been included along with the organs. Then the near-relative definition has been expanded to include grandchildren then grandparents also and lastly and most importantly the provision of swap donation was included. What is meant by the swap donation? See sometimes in the family there is a potential related donor who is otherwise willing but due to blood group mismatching or due to some other medical reason he or she is not fit to donate organs to that particular recipient in a family. Okay further in another family you take similar situation is existing however in these two families donor of one family may become medically fit for recipient of other family and vice versa will happen. So what we can do these two families and make a pair and make organ transplant possible for these two recipients of different families. This is what we call as swap donation. Okay so this provision of swap donation was included by the amendment that is done in the year 2011. Okay then you have to know what are all the organs that can be donated. See the act says that after natural cardiac death only a few organs or tissues can be donated like for example you can say cornea, bone, skin and blood vessels whereas if you take the brain stem death almost 37 different organs and tissues can be donated including vital organs such as kidney, heart, liver and lungs. See just now we saw brain stem death right yes it is also recognized as a legal death in India under this transplantation of human organs act. Okay now despite a facilitatory law like this organ donation from deceased person continues to be very poor. In India no there is a need to promote deceased organ donation as donation from living persons cannot take care of the organ requirements of the country. You very well know the demand is very high and supply is very low in case of organs. Also there is a risk to the living donor and proper follow-up of the donor is also required. There is also an element of commercial transaction as I already said no organ trafficking is very much prevalent in India and to ban that only this act was established and when we talk about this commercial transaction no it is associated with living organ donation a lot and you know it is a violation of law. So in such a situation of organ shortage which can exploit the poor by indulging in organ trading that is why we say the awareness of donating the organs of a deceased person must be created. So that's all regarding this news article so in this news article we had seen about an important topic for a mains examination as well as your preliminary examination. Because regarding this provisions and all preliminary questions can be asked and why this act is enabled and how it is helping to address the organ trafficking and how it has to be taken forward in the future all those will be asked as your mains question. So to address this question holistically this discussion will be very much helpful. So with these key points in mind now let's move on to the next part of the news article discussion which is the preliminary practice question discussion. See today we have four questions in which three I'll be discussing and one will be a quiz question for you okay. Now let's look into the first question here two statements are given so we are going to go through both these statements. See before knowing the answer for this question you must first of all know about central information commission it was established by the central government in the year 2005 under the RTI act of 2005. It is a high-powered independent body that looks into the compliance made to it and decide the appeals at the central level. So it entertains compliance and appeals pertaining to officers financial institutions then public sector undertakings etc etc which are under the central government and the union territories and its counterpart in the state level is the state information commission okay. Now look into the first statement the chief information commissioner and information commissioner are not eligible for reappointment. See this statement is correct both are not eligible for reappointments okay. Now coming to the second statement on reasonable grounds the central information commission can order inquiry into any matter. So it is talking about the sewer motor power am I right. So this statement is also correct. Yes the commission has sewer motor power and it can order inquiry into any matter if there are reasonable grounds okay. So what is the answer for this question the question is demanding for correct statements so your answer here will be option C both 1 and 2 and to know more about the RTI act I have clearly explained in the discussion itself okay. Now moving on to the second question see this question is regarding the national organ and tissue transplant organization here three statements are given so let me start with the first statement. Yes first statement is correct this organization was established by the transplantation of human organs and tissues amendment act of 2011 and note that regarding this amendment and regarding this act only we had clearly seen in today's discussion okay. Now looking to the second statement it functions under the ministry of home affairs no this statement is incorrect because it is functioning under the ministry of health and family welfare okay. So if you know statement 2 is incorrect you can eliminate all the options and arrive at the right answer which is option C 1 and 3 only but though you know the answer check with the statement 3 also okay. So what is it saying it regulates the organ donation and transplantation activity in India. Yes only for this purpose this organization was established so just by looking at the statement itself you can easily know that statement 2 is incorrect and 1 and 3 only is correct. See I had taken this question so that we can cover the organ transplantation topic in a holistic manner okay. Now moving on to the third question which of the following correctly explain a umbrella species here four definitions are given and the correct definition is an option A. See let me tell you in a brief way about this umbrella species. See it is a large animal or other organism on which many other species depend remember they are very similar to keystone species but umbrella species are usually migratory and need a large habitat. Protecting umbrella species automatically protects a host of other species for example you can take tiger here okay. So option A which says a species whose conservation is expected to confer protection to a large number of naturally co-occurring species is what defined as umbrella species okay. Now what about option B what is it defining a plant or animal that is very sensitive to environmental changes in its ecosystem yes it is nothing but the indicator species example takes almonds they are indicator species for wetland ecosystems then take lichens they are indicator of air pollution especially sulfur dioxide. So what we can understand see these species are a measure of the environmental condition that exist in a given locale okay that is why we say them as indicator species they are indicating what is the environmental condition there or what is the change that is occurring to the environment okay. Now what about option C a plant or animal that plays a unique and crucial role in the way an ecosystem functions it is nothing but a keystone species definition okay regarding this keystone species I had elaborately discussed in the discussion itself. So let me move on to option D organisms that create modify and maintain habitats what is it talking about ecosystem engineers what is meant by ecosystem engineers see these are organisms that are creating or modifying or you can say they are maintaining habitats what does an engineer do they do create a mission then they modify the mission and they also look into the maintenance of the mission so when an organism does this we call them as ecosystem engineers because they are creating the ecosystem they are modifying the ecosystem and maintaining the ecosystem okay for example you can take beavers they create dams in the streams with slow see movement of water just have a look at this image this is how the beavers look okay so that's all for today's prelims practice question and displayed here is a twist question for you see if you had keenly observed the discussion today you can answer easily because it is regarding the swamitva scheme that we saw in our today's discussion here one statement is given ahead so that you could know about the scheme a little more okay displayed here are two main practice question go through the question and try writing answer for this question it will be very much helpful for your mains preparation okay so that's all for today's discussion if you like this video do like share and comment and don't forget to subscribe to the Shankar eyes academy's youtube channel thank you for listening


A fun night, drinking with friends, turned tragic when a terror Aguilar thought it would be cool to take a selfie with a gun. Before the incident happened, Aguilar previously took selfies showing him posing next to cars and sitting cool with bottles of alcohol. But the man's endless search for the most impressive snaps ended when he borrowed a gun of his friend for a selfie. Not aware it was loaded, as he waved around, it accidentally went off, firing a single round to his forehead. Medics were quickly called out, but he died on the way to hospital. He was just 21-year-old. A snake hunter in India, Somnath Matre, known for saving over a hundred venomous snakes in his town, he often posted photos on his Facebook showing him kissing them. The last moment of his life, he was called out to rescue a cobra hiding under the car engine. Eventually he got the snake out, but before he put it to the safe place, he did the usual routine to kiss the serpent for a selfie. As he attempted to kiss the venomous snake on its back, it seemed it was not a lucky day for a snake hunter as it turned around unexpectedly and bit him. He was rushed to the nearest hospital, but he died days later, he was just 18-years-old. His study published in Nature Communications recently estimated 64,100 deaths that are caused by snake bites occur in India. The man in a pink shirt tried to take a group selfie with a huge python that they rescued after it was seen roaming around the school. When the man moved closer to pose for a picture, the snake bit him on the shoulder. The snake was then taken away and the man only suffered minor injuries. This man took a selfie video with three cobras doing a stunt with them. He posed at the tails of the cobras and tried to play with them. However, one among the three reacted aggressively and bit his knee. The shagman tried to pull it away, but it refused to let it go easily. Luckily, he was rushed to hospital and survived. This man taking a selfie with a cobra, not sure if he's aware that the cobra is one of the most poisonous snakes in the world.  At 27th floor of Luxor Tower in Panama, footage shows a woman climbing up the balcony for selfie. Nearby, construction workers fell as she took photographs in fear that she would fall moments before she tragically blanched from the building. According to witnesses, she was still holding a selfie stick as she fell. This is the moment a girl died, taking selfies when she accidentally knocked into a river by an oblivious tourist in India. The shocking footage fell in the coastal state of Udisha in East India and, when witnesses terrifying screams, local fire crews searched for 22 hours before finding her dead. Nirupama was at the popular picnic spot with friends. Then the man, unaware of her presence, steps back and loses his balance, falling into the young woman. A footage shows police doing their best to rescue these two girls, risking their life to take a perfect selfie at the middle of the river in India. Police revealed that a group of six girls ran out for a picnic at Pinch River. The girls happily took selfies with the river, but the other two decided to venture the middle of the river for even more impressive selfies. Although it was raining, the girls kept going farther. Suddenly, the water level rose and found themselves trapped. This 19-year-old man was so obsessed taking the perfect selfie he would skip school and stay up late at night, taking hundreds of photos. He started posting selfies on Facebook when he was 15. His friends would post cruel comments that took a huge toll on his self-esteem. So he started taking more and more, trying to get the approval of his friends. He would wake up early before school, just so he could take dozens of selfies and spend hours looking at them, scrutinizing the features of his face and body. He dropped out of school so he could stay home taking selfies. He would look at photos of his idol, Leonardo DiCaprio, take selfies in different poses trying to look like him, but he felt so ugly. Frustrated to get the perfect selfie, Danny attempted suicide but was luckily rescued by his mother and taken to hospital. He told ITV's Daybreak, perfection is impossible. I just keep taking them and taking them.


Hey guys, this is my presentation. So who am I? I'm also from the Chicagoland area. I saw someone in the last session say that they're from Geneva, Illinois. I think I'm around 40 minutes away in Hinsdale, if that means anything to you guys. I'm also a recent high school graduate. Currently, I'm on a gap year, which is super exciting to internet Red Hat, but next year I'll be a freshman in college. I'm going to Caltech and hopefully studying computer science. And then besides coding and computer science, I kind of was just talking about this, but I enjoy embroidering things. I love playing Minecraft with friends. And unfortunately, I still use TikTok. I know that they definitely steal all my data, but I can't live without it. All right, so how I got involved with Fedora prior to joining Red Hat, I actually didn't have much formal experience with computer science. My school only really had two classes and I don't think anyone was very enthusiastic about them. I remember one of the classes that I took, they're actually thinking of canceling it because not enough people are interested in taking it. So I guess I kind of looked outside of school to sort of, I don't know, further to this interest in Compsi. So my first introduction to Linux was actually volunteering. There's this place in Chicago called Free Geek Chicago. And what we'd do is we would take apart keyboards, computers, random electronics, sort the parts, and then make sure that they weren't dumped somewhere where it could be hazardous. And what they would do is that all the beginner level volunteers like me would just take apart stuff. But some of the older volunteers, older members, they would actually put together laptops and boot Linux onto them. And so that experience, sort of watching them and seeing what they were doing. And I thought that was really cool. Otherwise, learn sort of how to make projects and stuff from YouTube going to hackathons. And I met my current manager at Red Hat at a hackathon which was super cool. She actually, unlike every other recruiter, she actually took a look at my resume and she liked me enough to give me an interview and give me a chance. So this summer, I was a Red Hat summer intern and I worked on a friendly Fedora project which I'll talk about a little more later.  I'm now helping on the infra and relinch team for Fedora and I'll be here, well, I'll be working at Red Hat until the end of April, but hopefully I'll stay contributing to Fedora for a while. So friendly Fedora was my summer project and it was actually a really perfect project for me because it was newcomers, just because I feel like for those without prior Linux experience can be a bit of a learning curve, trying to understand Fedora, how to install it, all the simple things like that. So part of my project was making these videos and I have, so yeah, that was part of the project and then this is kind of my first introduction into Fedora as well. And not only did I get to work on that cool project, but I got a little more involved in the community. I was able to attend Nest and on the right is the screenshot of the intern panel that maybe you see some familiar faces there too, was able to give a quick lightning talk, participate as an apprentice as well as, I just found that the community is so quick to reach out. After I gave my lightning talk, like I see that Justin is here, I think he reached out and he sent me an email saying something like, oh, if you ever need someone to shoot ideas off of or you need a friend in the community, like I'm here, I just thought that was so sweet that everyone was going above and beyond to kind of make new members feel welcome and just sort of build these relationships. And I thought that it's really interesting being a part of this community because a lot of us have things in common, a lot of things in common as well as a lot of things are different. Everyone is from, well, a lot of people are from different parts of the world and of some of the people that I meet are kind of like the first people I've ever met from that part of the world. The other day I was in a call and my mentor said something like, oh, I wanna have a meeting with someone else who's also on the relinch team and we can work on, they can give you some guidance for our project. And I was like, okay. And the person ended up being from the Czech Republic and I was like, you are the first person I've ever met from the Czech Republic. So that was really cool. In the future, I definitely wanna try to get more involved in writing blog posts. And yeah. The challenges I faced, I think that one of the things was just getting acclimated to all the new tech stuff, getting used to chatting with IRC, virgin control with Pazher. Additionally, this was sort of Red Hat's first class of virtual interns. So one thing that I missed was sort of this, the social interaction, the sort of face to face interactions that I could have had with all the other fellow interns. Thankfully Red Hat did a lot of things to make us feel welcomed. We did some trivia nights and things like that, which were fun. As well as this was sort of my first real internship. So I feel like in a classroom, when you're receiving a lesson, let's say afterwards all your friends ask questions, you kind of know, oh, maybe I should ask questions. Or if everyone is confused about one topic, you can get together and sort of discuss it. I just felt like since this is my first real internship, I had no idea really how to behave. I mean, obviously kind of professionally, but am I supposed to say good morning to everyone at G-Chat, am I supposed to speak up a lot in meetings or am I supposed to just sort of watch and participate that way? So a lot of the stuff was, I just sort of figured it out along the way. Thankfully my mentor is super great and I had a lot of questions that I asked him and he was able to answer them, which was great. Another challenge that I face is kind of, I feel like I'm a little bit of a perfectionist and so a lot of the times when I feel like, I can't get something done perfectly, it kind of cripples me in a way where, I won't even start, I won't even attempt it. So this summer it was actually great because I forced myself to be uncomfortable a lot, giving this presentation as little uncomfy for me as a total introvert, but speaking up in meetings, asking questions, I wrote Brave Not Perfect There. I have this book that I'm reading and the author of it was the founder of Girls Who Code and what she thinks, the point in her book is that a lot of the times, a lot of women feel like they have to be perfect or they'll take on extra roles just to get everything done perfectly instead of, or they'll stay doing things that they know they're good or that they can do perfectly instead of being more brave and maybe taking on a new role or a new task or a new project, even if they know that they don't know everything about it, they might mess up, fail a little. So this is a good book I recommend it, but that helped me with that challenge. So that was really short, but I heard on the other talks that Marie was making everyone recite, like, hello, my name is Gabby, sort of mantra, but I had to write it down in case I was gonna mess up. So I don't know if I should I recite this? So I wrote it in Spanish and Chinese, Mandarin. Hold on, looks like I'll be right with you. Yeah, go ahead. Okay, so yeah, actually the first part is in your native language or whatever language you prefer. I see you have two here, so that's really cool. And then the second part, it can be in English, but you could recite it in your language as well, however you wanna do it kind of whatever, hi Miko, whatever your heart is telling you to do, I'm just about to grab just the second part in English in case you wanna do that part. But I do have some questions and I did want to give anyone in the chat a chance to do the questions, but we'll do this part first since we're here. Let me just find that. Okay, and just to clarify, it's English than other language than English. So your language, so the hi, my name is all that. We'll be in your language. And then, hold on one sec, I'm like, I have too many tabs and too many things. Let's see, is it this one? It is, cool, okay. So the first part, like the hi, my name is and all that, that's in your native tongue. And then the second part, we are from different cultures, et cetera, et cetera, that part is in English, so I'm about to grab it. Just the English part.   I was nervous that someone, you were not allowed to repeat languages or something, so I was scared that someone would have Spanish. So I also did it in Mandarin. I'm not fluent in either of them, but. English is also an option. If you speak English, if you feel most comfortable in English and you want to say in English, that's also an option. I want you to be more comfortable than anxious. Okay, sure. Okay. All right, so I'm just gonna mute myself so there's no overlapping sounds. Go ahead and do your. Sure. Okay, I'll just do the Spanish version just cause. Okay, definitely not fluent, but I'll try. Hola, mi nombre es Gabby, soy de Chicago. Soy una mujer y hablo español. We are from different countries. We speak different languages. We are, oh, sorry, sorry. I was trying to read it from my slides and then I realized that you pasted the exact thing and like, okay, okay, sorry guys. Hola, mi nombre es Gabby, soy de Chicago. Soy una mujer y hablo español. We are from different countries. We speak different languages. We are of different cultures, but Fedora unites us with open source. We are Fedora. Yay. That was great. That was really cute.  All right, so I had a couple of questions for you.  So I'm curious, if I miss this in your slides, forgive me, but I'm curious, how did you kind of learn about open source and was that in high school that you learned about those things or just I'm curious where you were exposed to it? So you said you saw somebody doing installation. That was what you said, right? Yeah, so at Free Geek Chicago, they would boot Linux Mint onto the laptops that they would build. And I never really participated in that part because you had to be a volunteer there for a couple months before you reached that point. But I watched everyone do it because we were all working at the same time. And it was really neat seeing everyone just sort of, even though I had no idea what was going on, it was kind of cool to watch everyone take these random parts that would have been thrown out somewhere and then build laptops and computers for those who need them in Chicago. But since then, I guess my first real introduction was after my manager assigned me to do stuff for Fedora. And so that's how I got introduced. Right, okay, there's a question in the chat. What were you most surprised to learn through your internship and working with the Fedora community? That's a good question. I think that at both Red Hat and within the Fedora community, I feel like everyone is very receptive and open to ideas. It's not like in a traditional, I feel like traditionally, the boss comes up with an idea and then everyone below them just sort of obeys, does exactly what they say, versus in Fedora, I feel like if I had an idea, I could talk to some people. And if it was a good idea, maybe they'd listen and then we can make this into a real thing. And it's not like you have to be a super senior member of the community in order to create any sort of impact. I think the thing that you're actually kind of referencing, the word is meritocracy. This idea that you can become with work and skill and effort, enthusiasm, whatever it might be. And then you can get credit for that. So in some ways that's meritocracy is like what makes Fedora as awesome as it is. But meritocracy also has its own problematic things. I lost your video. I don't know if anyone else lost that video. I get it. I don't know what happened. It might just be me. There's a chance that it's my connection but I'm not sure. Oh, no. Oh, okay. So apparently just, oh, some people can see you in some. Okay, so it's fine. I wanna see your lovely face, but that's all. Oh, some people can't see. Oh, no. It's a total mix. I think it's fine. What was I about to ask you though? Oh gosh, I got like halfway in the middle of the conversation of the question and then. I'm looking for the link to that. Oh, I can see you again. Oh, you're looking for the link to the video. Sweet. Meritocracy, so right. So I think you're kind of getting to this idea of meritocracy. So meritocracy is really cool and open source, but it also has its negative sides. Like sometimes meritocracy can mean that like jerky people get to be jerky just because they're talented. That can happen. And also like I think we have to think about meritocracy in the terms of people starting places. So even if people are here and they're enthusiastic and of course we want them, we welcome them. We have to realize that not everyone has these opportunities, right? We want you to somehow enable them even more. So meritocracy is one of the best things about Fedora, but also has its cons too. So anyway, just a couple of thoughts about meritocracy as a thing. I think about it a lot as a community manager. How do you measure merits? Yeah, that's a great question. It's really, what do you mean by jerky?  So sometimes people if they have a lot of skills or experience with something can get away with being rude. Yep.  Like a rude person. And then like adding a Y is just like a English slang for like a descriptor. So anyway, rude sometimes if they think that they're hot, shiz, but how do you measure merit? I think it's different in any place, but I think that's one of the major issues with meritocracy. But I think like it's weaved into the culture of open source pretty strongly. So it's definitely an interesting topic to explore. Well, if there's no other questions in the chat, I guess we can close up for today. Thanks for coming and presenting and sharing your story with us. I'm excited to continue to have you in Fedora. And you know, if you ever need any support once again, I'm also here. Oh my gosh, wait, I wanted to ask, who was your friend? Mohan. Yeah, I knew that. I'm looking for him out. He's a really cool guy. Yep, Mohan is an awesome guy. Oh, I'll write the link. Okay, so I couldn't find the video from like a really quick search, but I have my final presentation and the video is embedded in it. So I feel like you can open it if you have a Red Hat email address, but I will... Is there somewhere where I could paste the link once I find the video? Sorry, I am... You can put it into the, just the event chat and it's gonna be open for a couple more hours. So whenever you find it, cool. Sure, yeah, sorry. No worries. And then for everybody else, I think we only have two more sessions left and that is my session at 2 p.m. And then we might just do closing remarks right then depending on how many people are around. I know it's Sunday and everyone wants a weekend, including me. So I will see you guys in a half an hour for my session. And yes, thanks again for telling your story, Gabby. We'll see you soon. Bye.


Great one visual asset news. My name is Rob and today we got up again a lot of things to go over so let's just jump right in The first thing we're going to talk about is there's a leaked document from Celsius looks like it was a meeting a couple of days ago And I got to tell you the things that were said in there were quite surprising and the direction that they're going It could actually work and we'll tell you exactly what I'm talking about Then we'll talk do a little quick update on the Voyager auction like I tell you this is some pretty good news for those Of you have stuck with the Voyager and have some that some things on there And we'll talk about Gary Gensler from the SEC. He has to go. It's just ridiculous as a new Demands that he has for the crypto market and I got to tell you it's kind of unbelievable Then we'll talk about the Ethereum merge party What should be going on for the next day or two as everybody gets all excited about Ethereum and the merge Which I'm a little excited myself and of course the animal do a little Q&A. So first things first Let's talk about this leaked audio and just real quick I know that we're seeing some price action, which is not surprising here in the markets And I know we've taken quite a hit especially with Bitcoin the overall crypto market But not as bad as the traditional market. Just remember this the US stock market wiped out 1.6 trillion dollars yesterday So just keep that in perspective as things are maybe following 10 percent or 20 percent or whatever else it is Which is a bummer, but at least we're not Metta Google Microsoft she's Amazon awful and that's what's going on in the traditional space. Let's talk about this. So this is This was a a leaked audio and it was put up by Tiffany Fong the only Tiffany Fong is she's actually transcribed everything that's in the audio version on her her website and she's got a YouTube channel and She did a pretty great job of doing this now. She said that she was not the one That's that that was there which because she's not a employee I don't know why she would be there But it was sent to her anonymously and it's pretty telling and also we're gonna do this really quick Because there's a lot of things going on and I'm not here to break down every little piece nook and cranny of What Alex Machinsky said and the things that were going on in the sales I'm gonna give you the highlights and go from there if you want to find somebody who really breaks it down Extremely well and gets into the the nitty gritty go check out my friend Aaron Bennett and I linked Aaron's channel and Tiffany's channel actually Tiffany's channel and Aaron's video in the link in the description and you can just check it out But I'm gonna give you the highlights so first things first This is When I first heard about this and I saw something like this is never gonna work and There's some concerning things that were said now I will definitely tell you that the first thing that Alex talks about over this is the macro Economic environment. He's right. It's pretty bad and Then he goes in to talks about Some different various things one of those being custody Verse earn accounts and these were just put in not too long ago as far as the custody verse to earn and what he's saying is It was telling he said I want to give everybody back there that have put crypto into their custody accounts and He said absolutely nothing about the earn accounts. So that's not great But you got to understand in those terms of conditions for the custody verse earn earn accounts in terms of conditions We're primarily saying that hey we own this stuff and that's so that's too bad if we go out of business We own your crypto and that was the truth Unfortunately or fortunately if you were in the custody program that just took off four months before they closed down So there's a little bit of gray area and I think that's why they're saying we want to give you that back Because we have no legal recourse here and that's pretty much where it goes But it is telling they didn't talk about the actual earn portion of that And then he talks about the new new business model again in a second He talks about how five to twenty percent of voyager of Celsius customers will stay With Celsius I think that number is quite high, but I could be wrong and I'll tell you a bit why and they goes into bankruptcy comparisons and said that Celsius is doing great because they're in chapter 11 as opposed to a bunch of other different ones are gonna go in chapter 11 later on and he compares that to Pepsi and Boeing or Delta excuse me for the airline company. There's a big difference there those two went into Different issues. It wasn't like as Aaron Bennett says it's not like Pepsi was poisoning people And Delta was crashing all day long Not the issues were a little bit different Celsius has pretty much taken a lot of Crypto and a lot of savings from a lot of people and there's a big difference in what he's talking about there But that's just that that section. The big thing was this the new Organization so they want to rebrand from Celsius to Kelvin sure whatever And what they want to do is they want to get away from their model They don't want to do any earn which let's be honest I think that got away from And they want to just be like another exchange essentially they want to do swaps They want to do what's the other thing? Swaps trading they want to do multi-sig wallets a new technology called NPC tech where you control your crypto But they have part of it or something like that and then also they they want to continue to do loans And when I was listening to it a couple things crossed my mind first of all who would go for that? And another thing is is that this is also what's a Peter teal talks about a lot You don't want to be in an industry with a ton of competition because that just makes for an uphill battle. So what separates Celsius from an FTX From a coin base from a cool coin from a binance from a whatever Exchange that are out there and there's a plethora of those what separates it really what separated was the community And when you lose that trust for people to stick around I think people will stick around because that's just how people are I Do think that? It's gonna be an uphill battle for them. So this leads me to my last point and I will just say this Why I think this could actually work. I was talking my wife about this and I said who the hell would would go for that. She goes you don't understand. She goes Rob people have The worst memories of all time They're like goldfish and me and you will remember these things right since we're we're here and around but as time marches on They'll hear echoes of what Celsius used to be which is not called Celsius now It's called Kelvin and maybe Alex might might not even be that figurehead. Maybe somebody else and Once that happens and they go we have this other model people will just forget mark my words people just forget We won't forget but the new people that are coming in Especially in 2024 2025 2026 they're gonna come in they're gonna find something and one of those could actually be that why I think that this is actually good is Not because I trust Celsius.  What I think is good about this is that what they did talk about is with this new business that that starts up And I'm not here to say that it's gonna be awesome And they're not gonna do the same mistakes they did before hopefully they learn from but who knows The revenue that they generate from these swaps from these trades from all these things that are going on They'll be able to and this is in their plan to pay back People like you and me who are just sitting around does that does that mean it's gonna happen automatically? No, it's gonna take some time. My question is for you is this what would you rather do?  Okay, I want my full because one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin if I'm unless I'm incorrect here If you could stick around for and go okay You want to do that and then there's also an opportunity for a Bitcoin mining company.  The big question is how they how they all structure that so I know this when you hear me say I think it could work and You know, it could actually do good things the only thing you do good is pay us back And that's what I'm all about moving forward. I need to make this crystal clear Anything that has to do with Celsius or Kevin Kelvin or anything else. There is no way I'll be talking about that moving forward There is a breach of trust. I don't know exactly what went on people think it wasn't a some people think it wasn't a big deal But there was I believe gross mismanagement going on and we'll talk about that in a second, but I I Don't know what's gonna happen in the future, but I can tell you like this There's a lot of people like my friend.  I Don't care what happens if they get if he gets paid back and a lot of people get paid back I'm happy Let me just think about that in the comment section and then I just want to finish up with a couple of things Which is this there was one part that really ticked me off on what was said here Which was Alex has the same song and dance which he believes everybody or a lot of people are incompetent and they can't control their public keys and he states a figure where 20% of Of all Bitcoin holders have lost their private keys Sure, I can see that over time because over time people to know exactly what they have in 2011 2012 1314 15 I don't think people realize how big Bitcoin would be I think as time moves on and you've got one Bitcoin in your wallet You will probably Really want to protect that seed phrase that mnemonic phrase so you don't lose anything but he still says a 20% and They need us and we have this different technology that we can use the NPC and the multi-sig wallets because people they don't know how to do it Essentially saying you're too stupid. That's really what it comes down to and Before I might have agreed with them. I might have said yeah people got too much going on But I think in the future We're all smart enough to figure it out and the positives outweigh the negatives Just learn a simple thing and that's why I created Dan teaches crypto comm It's 100% free so everybody can learn exactly how to do it step by step easy peasy lemon squeezy And make things just like that and also as far as multi-sig need to then a ledger if you really want to A little bit of a process I'll probably just do a video about that and we'll go from there and then to finish up also with this one My man Simon Dixon had a had a good pull out and now some people say well Simon's got an artillery motive probably because he's an investor if I would like his money back just like the rest of us and He put out a poll and said look and this makes sense to me How many would like the Celsius UCC? To force Celsius now or to create a poll feature and file a motion that polls completed by all Celsius network users in their app To vote on recovery issues like having machine ski as their future leader and other recovery matters brilliant If that goes through I will talk about that all the time because that's the only way that we're going to figure out Exactly who wants what and what the best option is it's a democracy the power of rule prevails and we'll see how it goes I think it's a great idea Something that's a bad idea. I've got to explain that to me in the comment section and we'll go from there and then lastly I'm not gonna pass too much judgment and condemn anybody. Let's see where the chapter 11 rolls out Celsus hearing is live legal counsel going over the examiner motion reducing the scope so that Celsius network doesn't run out of money They said machine ski to provide information on his withdrawals from the platform before the freeze Oh, this is getting good I would love to see exactly what happened with the Celsius token and everything's going on with a short squeeze And we'll be talking to those guys soon So I will just leave it up in the air and let the chips fall where they may anyhow Let me let you think about that in the comment section No, let's move on to a quick voyager update Yeah, the auction's still going on. So I think this is good news voyager official committee of unsecured creditors they said because The auction was supposed to be done yesterday but We know all of you want an update on the auction. We're sorry. We haven't been able to provide one All we can say right now that the auction is still ongoing In its second day and remains highly competitive. I got to like that. I like those wordings So maybe we can get out of this as well. So voyager and Celsius Maybe there's a little light down at the end of the tunnel and then lastly, let's just finish up this with a friend of the show Gary Gensler, uh We did an article a couple days ago maybe a week ago about how Gary was pretty much seeding power to the cftc But in this one, it's a little bit different he reiterates that most cryptos are securities before us banking committee and I This isn't really a a shift in his stance But it is interesting what he wants. So I think it might be a type of Gary Gensler reiterated his belief that most crypto assets are securities in his testimony before the us senate banking committee on september 15th I think that's the september thing. It's the day It's the 14th, right? Am I wrong? Okay Meanwhile, he noted that the commission would have to be flexible in applying the current law requirements. That's kind of good news Gensler all said that crypto intermediaries like centralized exchanges and defi would have to register with the sec To facilitate these securities transactions. Here's my question Can you shut down a dex? I mean in in reality.  I know like China has uh, of course the great firewall and they can do a lot of things with that but I mean, can you shut down the dex? Can they do that? I don't think they can let me know in the comments section Just find it very interesting how they worded that and then uh, according to gensler The registration would allow the regulator to delineate their function and possibly Disaggregate their functions into separate legal entities to mitigate conflicts of interest and enhance investor protections Look, I'm all for that investor protections and we know there's a lot of rug pulls going on We know we also know exactly how risky this Sector is and the reason why we got into it was a lot of things as far as decentralization Again, I think there should be a little regulation. I think there should be clarity as to what things are Actually considered like what is a currency? What is a security? What is a commodity kind of go from there? But for this to to break it all down, of course People were right. They said once you give an entry take a mile But if we have to go through this process, I'd rather be a part of the voice It is sitting back going you shouldn't do that. I'd rather be a part of it So Oh, yeah The sec noted that these entities might one day have to register with the commodity future trading commission because they also facilitate trainings of non-security tokens So imagine like an exchange going. Oh, you have to register with the sec and the cftc because there's a gray area I think they should just cut their losses and just say let's just Let's just create a crypto and digital asset firm and and they oversee everything. Why are they doing this?   Oh, I didn't know they're involved with library That's a bummer ripple xrp library and coinbase over violations of the securities action So that's what's going on with good old gary and then lastly Just to finish up after this in about 45 minutes or so I'll be with crypto slates who did a pretty good job with the with these articles on about different other ones And we're gonna go over for a merge Ethereum merge party. I don't think it's gonna happen when I'm there, but they're gonna be doing this live stream Uh until it actually happens and apparently we're hours away. So That's your news for today You can find all the links in the description Especially this little merge party and talk all about that stuff. Yay And then we go from there, but that concludes today's news If you got to take off, thanks for sticking around. I do appreciate it Like today's video give it a thumbs up like all that stuff you can subscribe But it's not like youtube's gonna actually notify you Appropriately, but if you do that be great. I appreciate it and lastly If you want to stick around for a little q&a I will answer all your questions the best of my abilities and we'll go from there But that concludes the news. So thanks for stopping by. I do appreciate it Let's jump into a little q&a


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good morning from Davenport just rolled out of bed got like nine or ten hours of sleep i was right this is a overnight friendly place i'm at these two rad people here we got Hamza and i'm sorry what was your name nice to meet you um there we go hamza is uh signing the guest book like i said today we're gonna head down to the uh davenport pier which is just point two miles away we're just done literally like two blocks down the way um gonna cross these train tracks which have not been in use can tell because they're all rusty and uh the old pier is over here somewhere whoa i want that picture so bad dude we're swinging i mean yeah the way down's pretty sketchy well there's gotta be oh no we can't swing look there's so too much water right now i'm really couldn't swing it damn i think we could swing it we just have to hop on the swing so i don't know how to get down but i know the way down i just watched them do it but it's is it right here it doesn't look too bad it's a death trap well let's do it but for this is not for uh beginners you know this is like intermediates it up oh you're a little stuck buddy my bag's a little uh looks like a very colorful storm drain as you can see uh and that is where we began just right up there so here's what the beach reveal looks like equally as cool as uh as it looked like from above so this is like the main event this is where a lot of people come down take pictures and stuff let's go get a little first thoughts from cody i'm going on it you are you bring your shorts oh yeah nice cody puts a buff into buffington for sure um we just made it down to the uh to the sand a minute ago and uh waited for some photographers to uh to give us some space but can you guess what he is about to do watch out water water water water dude that was a close call but now your party shirt is all wet dude he almost lost his phone here comes a huge wave we got josh hopping on the swing i told i told him it would be all right to to hop on right now looking at the water all right you see those big bumps out there those are going to be huge well those are going to splash you so all right i got some dude they're coming oh i would get i would get unless you want to get soaked that would get off there you go you would have been soaked on that one next to uh the old pier is an old storm drain and uh we're just gonna peek inside and see what's going on in here looks like this is a place where people come drink some beers do some graffiti chill out norcal style echo yeah it's a little wet in there you can see guys that this concrete stops right here and then it just keeps going it's like an old like yeah it's like an old like mining tunnel or something whoa i know josh what if there's spiders what are you gonna do if there's spiders you already know what's gonna happen what's gonna happen these guys are living life right here they're coming down prepared they're already tossed down there uh firewood you can't see it the firewood and the charcoal exploded they got some other bag but they they even offered us hand hamburgers and hot dogs so uh she looks a little nervous you got this video before um where i was doing some work on the bus to the upper and lower ball joints tater was a man to help me so if you guys remember i gave him all the beef jerky elk jerky oh yeah wild boar jerky and then honey i snagged a couple honeys this morning from from a honey who sold it to me artichoke and cilantro so uh just wanted a small token of appreciation for all the hard work that uh you did on the bus so yeah i'm happy to do it it was fun got to teach you something gotta work on something that's gonna travel over the country and my name's somewhere on there it's i think you're gonna have to sign it again i think it's fading out check this out this is like the most legit thing here is the menu i got uh this one i think and then i don't remember where the other one is but i basically i got eggplant and i got cauliflower is that the best samosa you've ever had it's the first one i ever had it's the best thing ever dude wow i didn't know these things exist he's drinking the samosa sauce oh wealthy this is lunch the cauliflower and we got an eggplant this stuff is amazing it's like four dollars and uh 50 cents each like yours dude i don't know what it is but it's really good some sort of curry though do you guys know about the solar eclipse happening in august this is 100 coverage all the way there and you guys should definitely have some solar glasses i just bought some from this very kind woman elizabeth i got myself two pair just in case i got a visitor so if anybody wants to watch the eclipse with me comment in the uh in the video let me know we were just told that there is a special morse code event at the end of the tree tunnel um it's an old radio uh building so let's go inside and check out this old morse code equipment still standing still working morse code ship to shore station awesome in the world or california or united states just about in the world there's maybe one other that we hear in korea if you watched the videos from before vidcon i came here i came i conquered however i was a little bit disappointed because it wasn't foggy um and i don't know about you guys but it just looks like so much more like moody with the fog you just the tree is so dramatic and when you add the fog to it it it just looks like something completely different we're just doing a crazy amount of instagram pictures over here we got uh sniper josh over there in the bushes doesn't it and look at how quiet it is it's like all echoey and stuff we got kody over here doing some bts um which you will see if you follow our instagrams and stuff i swear this tree is like the main the main event the main attraction here it's just it's so dramatic looking it's just it's a lot of fun to take pictures with we are headed down to the lighthouse um it is like the equivalent oh i thought there was somebody down there but that's uh the light we're heading down uh 30 the equivalent of 30 stories down a lighthouse and uh yeah it's uh really cold down here oh man look at the deer oh that's an incredible incredible frame right there incredible picture um so we made it most of the way down i would say three quarters of the way down so um hopefully nobody comes and kicks us out of here but it's a pretty epic photo op so i'm super glad we came down here hard to see from this angle but uh that is a steep hill uh and then this is a sheer cliff side here it's a little distorted because of this lens it's super wide angle but this is a lighthouse after hours this would be a location for like a horror film or something oh wow so it doesn't the light doesn't come out of uh the light doesn't come out of the lighthouse anymore it comes out of this little uh little light on top of the house i guess that would make it a lighthouse but you guys know what i'm saying interesting i would i would have thought it comes out of here it used to yeah this is the old one