Welcome back to the 21 convention. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch as much as I did our next speaker up He's a huge in the paleo diet blogging and as well as nutrition He runs his own website free the animal calm I'd like for you to check it out as soon as you get a chance and without further ado I'd like to welcome Richard Nicolai to the stage Thanks How's everyone doing everybody having a good time this convention is? Any any ideal men out there yet, or is it a process? That's why they do these things, huh? It's a process it never ends right so My like he said my blog is free the animal calm and if I ask you if I ask you How many of yourselves? regard yourselves as an animal human animal Like on the prowl for a pickup or maybe even in the bedroom, you know bonus points if you're Told you're an animal, but do you take it fully? Do you take it fully to heart in all of its facets in everything you do in society in your in other? Relationships in in business the way you interact with people Do you literally or figurative for example do you literally or figuratively? You know confess your sins to some big guy in the sky Do you feel guilty and shame about yourself as a human being by your very nature? Do you for instance? you know ring your hands and agitate and Look forward to stepping into that booth so you can vote your one in three hundred millionth say in your own affairs Are you anxious? Concerned do you argue with other people about who should rule you next?  Can you go more than two or three hours without? Putting something down your face. I Came to give you a perspective on being a human animal in all of those things I just talked about and in my looking at you know kind of I didn't know much about the 21 convention and I you know Did my research on it looked at some of the videos and I see that there's that how it kind of originally started And I actually interviewed Anthony way back. There's a I think video on his website as well as mine and You can see that The way it was formed originally has become different now you have things like money management and you know entrepreneurship and all of these other aspects other than just man-woman relationships and So I'm here to kind of expand that hopefully expand that a little bit more Give you some more things to think about about how you can carry this kind of rational Being the ideal man To other areas of your life other than just what's already been covered. So hopefully hopefully I'll touch on some new ground So I'm here to talk about diet and and generally stated individualism But I want to do it from a framework that unites these topics and Gets into some things like I just like I mentioned in these questions about you know a little bit of religion philosophy social interaction social philosophy Politics government the state So a Good way to look at this is that most of you out there are you know young 20s I see and so this is a good time because you have an opportunity To avoid some of the mistakes that I made and I didn't make them all but I made if I made a few of them and So it's a good time now so that you don't end up You know becoming some if you want it's your choice I mean you can always you know get married have two and a half kids become a Democrat or Republican go vote go To church do all these things if that's the life you want You're welcome to it, but I don't think it's a life fit for an Animal I don't think it's a life fit for a free animal and I'm gonna talk about that So I'd like you to consider That if you are this human animal I talk about What how is how is that constructed in society in your life today? I like to use the phrase Zoo human or human zoo see I don't I don't consider I don't consider the the society in which we live anything like What you might term as a wild human animal and by wild I don't mean You know out there You know using other people to your to your means or using force or anything like that I'm just talking about living naturally So so I think there's a there's this concept of this human zoo and That we're actually more domesticated as animals than we are Free animals so now who am I and why am I here? He said he talked about the blow. I want to give you a little bit of background And and I also noticed you know, I actually considered You know doing a whole different speech all together once I saw all the people in vibrams here This this morning, so I thought I'd talk to you for an hour about just going to the next step and just going barefoot So you're welcome to join me by the way. I do a lot of barefoot. I used to I have vibrams But I I actually do a lot of a lot of barefoot walking I walk it pretty much every day I walk the dogs around the neighborhood barefoot so you know people see me walking around and it's like whoa It's crazy so So principally the reason I'm here is because I used to weigh like about 240 pounds that was 60 pounds ago There are I emailed Anthony about three photos of what I what I looked like in that sorry state about four or five years ago and And So they'll be on a computer if you want to ask Anthony or you can go to my website free the animal calm and on the right side bar There's a picture and it's there's a link to latest Vote and it's a whole series of posts about you know the progress of losing weight along the along the way So you could check that out if you want to so that's my you know claim to to fame I guess you could say so it was sure it was it was that whole thing I you know I got fat of course because of not managing my diet properly But it was really more than that because why would you allow yourself to get that way? You know Sure, it's the food, but that's not the that's not really The fundamental cause that's not what it's work. It's something dysfunctional in the way you think because You don't see fat animals in the wild do you? Do you? How often have you seen a fat animal in the wild unless they're designed to be that way such as such Well, yeah, it's it's it's that's the way it is by nature. You don't see any skinny hippopotamus See there's no they're all the same, right? You have a bear gets fat and then he goes to sleep for five months, you know So, you know if humans hibernate it I suppose it would be appropriate to get into the state that I got in and and many people do and What's really important to consider at your age those of you who are young 20s is that you can most of you Can get away with it now you can get away with eating Garbage and crap and it doesn't start catching up with you You know when I was when I was young 29 eat what I want, you know, Pete's a beer Fast food whatever of course, it's gotten worse because it's so intensely marketed right now. I'll get into that a little bit more but so just a little bit of background on me I had a Religious upbringing from about the age of 10 my parents found the whole fundamental Born-again thing Got put into a small private school You know religious oriented then went off went off to college At a place in Tennessee a religious school Bible school And That was for a year and then that that's at the age of about 19 or I guess Due to some experiences there I started to wise up a little bit and started to so I left there Went into a state school You know studied math and science and and computers and and business and stuff and then when I graduated in 84 I Went off and lived and worked in Japan for five years. I worked there until 80 end of 89 that was quite an experience and then I went from there and lived in France and worked in France for two years and Then I came back to the US in 92 Deciding to be an entrepreneur and and start my own company and over the next year and a half I got a whole nother education about business by by Starting and failing and not one not two, but three businesses and The fourth time it worked and it worked very fast and it worked so fast that you know This really works. That's a 92. I I built that company to as many as 30 employees It's and it's still around. I haven't been involved in the day-to-day operations for a number of years But still going and you know When those when the when the when I could no longer, you know, what when I got older, you know into my Mid 30s, I suppose is about when it's when the when the things started to change in terms of of metabolism or you know, how your body responds to non-optimal food I started to pour on the the pounce, you know and Then it was about Five years ago. I'm fifth. I turned 50 in January. Do I look it? So I I At the age of 45, I said man, I wasn't even weighing myself at that point and So it was I know it was over 240. That's the last number. I remember And I I've taken off about 60 pounds, you know, I'm pretty comfortable where I am I could probably shed a few more but You know, it's not it's not important how Absolutely lean you are what's important is that you look pretty much normal in your in your clothes your clothes fit, right? And I started blogging about it. I I Already blogged I blogged since 2003 on these sorts of Political and social and philosophical issues and so I started doing but I started adding to that the you know blogging about what I was doing in terms of diet and fitness and so on and Just you know because of my style, I guess I went from having you know a couple thousand readers to where you know I get you know a hundred fifth hundred to a hundred fifty thousand visits a month 200 to 300 thousand page views So it's pretty it's it's it's gone. It's gone quite a ways and for the last couple years I've done done the diet and and fitness pretty much exclusively with Occasional forays into into other things, you know personal things and so and some of the social things so It's speaking at the introduction about free the animal we talked about how we live in a zoo how I see Humanity now as a mass of domesticated animals come you ever heard of a CAFO Concentrated animal feeding operation You know where they bring the cattle in after they've been roaming on the grass for most of their life And in the last I don't know a few months or so of their existence They fatten them up.  That is to me such a such a metaphor for For how I view much of what goes on in in society nowadays But you know what the cool thing is you don't have to eat unnaturally You don't have to move unnaturally.  You don't have to do all of your Work standing up But if you if you do writing or working on the computer instead of I think you will be amazed At how it increases your productivity and how it makes you think differently Sitting there going like this all day long is just not natural You don't have to have unnatural relationships with women and I know You all know a lot about that probably more than I do actually because at least in terms of what the 21 convention is all about and You don't have to worship mind-created fantasies either You know you can you can but you don't have to You don't have to regard the state and government or politicians with anything but Utter contempt you don't have to you can if you want, but you don't have to so If you if you think of it in terms of being an animal, why would you do anything any of these things? Unnaturally, you know, why would you eat? Unnaturally why would you have a natural relationships relationships that aren't appropriate relationships that you didn't evolve Over eons of time through natural selection and social orders voluntary social orders We are social animals But by social animal when you think of when you think of humans as a social and I you I like to use I like to say that that that Humans evolved to account for the values and actions of about six thirty to sixty other people And when you have a group of thirty to sixty other people Every member of that group has a real potential of Influencing the behavior of every other group. We did not evolve to live in In in in essentially the equivalent of an anthill or a beehive with a queen or a king Ruling us and to whom we sacrifice our lives for I think I got my just a quick second here Sorry, I got my page out of order. So Let's get into the let's get into the diet and the diet part It really comes down to something as simple as a concept of eating real food, you all know it y'all recognize it so you can call it the The paleo diet the primal diet caveman diet, I think Mark Sisson spoke here last Last year if you were here, he went through his whole thing and and what's really good of it about and I Advocate marks mark as a friend of mine. I advocate his approach Not only not only his specific Recommendations, but also he has this thing he calls the 80-20 rule. So, you know, we I'm not an advocate of any sort of religion and Particularly dietary religion. So this is take these things as very as tools you can use It's not something it's not something that you have to be Dogmatic and religious about you can be flexible about it But I tell you what if you get to 80% of what I'm talking about If you do already have a problem with weight management It will make an amazing improvement and it will do it fast If you don't then you never will and why would you want to get there and have to do go through what? I did so Basically, let's cover what not to eat A great start is grain products grains grains weren't really in our diet until the Advent of agriculture and the very simple reason why is that it's an it's not it's not a nutrient dense food and It would have taken way too much labor and effort to gather them until there was some sort of being able to Cultivate these and in lots and farm them, right?  So that's the other thing is, you know sugar and most particularly Drinking calories, you know these sugar drinks It's it's it's an enormous load on your system And it will over time for most people and you just look around now at what's what's going on You know, I was thinking about it the other day. I was it I just joined this club Swim and racket club over in the Los Gatos, California, which is kind of a upscale area, you know and It you know three swimming pools 13 Tennis courts nice workout room and everything and I was over there just a couple days ago Lounge and around getting some vitamin D naturally and I was just looking around. I'm like There is only I can only I could only point to one single Woman who should have been subject to a law against wearing a bikini. Yeah, I do I do I think there's some laws are appropriate Only one and I'm like man This is like this is like I remember it back in the 80s because you just don't see that Hardly anywhere anymore, you know, you go around you look through the malls and you'd like my god What has happened?  That's the don't eat. That's the stay away from what what so let's do the other side of it What do you eat then? Well, I like I always say meat fish fowl Vegetables and fruit meat fish fowl vegetable fruit if you if you if you tolerate dairy a little bit of that's fine, you know nuts Fine I Nuts are pretty calorie dense. I tend to to limit them, you know, I I don't I try not to eat too much cheese or nuts A lot of people blow their progress with that, but you know some of it's fine and guys, I Cannot emphasize this enough Learn how to be a competent good cook and I don't just mean grilling burgers and steaks This will not only impress a woman But you'll be proud of yourself as well if you do it, right? Do some sophisticated stuff and and pride is a virtue by the way in my book in my world so Just really you know if you don't already if you can't already if you go to my blog for example Free the animal comm and look at the category called food porn. You'll see what I mean I there's you know, I'm not the best cook in the world, but I do pretty good. I put a lot of photos up I Don't really go into detailed recipes because I don't cook that way. I just I do stuff You know and it's just over experience over the time because in my household Between my wife and I I'm the cook I always have been just because I've always cooked I was I was on my own for so many years and and I Did a lot of cooking and so I just really encourage you that's so so that we've gone over what don't eat What do eat, but also you got to learn to cook you got to be able to cook and impress yourself Be proud of it.  That's cutting out mostly carbohydrates.  Well, you know Admittedly admittedly most of my weight loss was on a on a low and very low carbohydrate path that way But I don't think it's I don't think it's it's absolutely necessary for everybody It's a it's highly an individual thing I found over time because I have so many readers and different people have Have piped in and many of them You know eat potatoes summing some I eat potatoes yams things like that squashes and Even even one one grain probably if in terms of grains the one grain that's probably the most innocuous is plain old white rice It's just basically glucose and not brown rice because brown right that all the bad stuff is in the brand lectins fitic acid fitic acid Inhibits not only the absorption of minerals in the rice, but anything else that you're eating with minerals So you want to stay away from the brown if you eat some rice, but We're still talking Moderate carb because even if you already eat three cups of rice a cup with breakfast lunch and dinner You're still only at 130 grams of carbohydrate. You know you eat a couple potatoes a day You're still in that hundred to hundred fifty Gram-a-day range, you know, and I think I'm not I'm not I'm not certain, but I think the Average carb consumption in the US is somewhere around 350 400 grams a day which is quite a lot so It's not necessarily low carb It's either low carb or moderate carb pretty much There are there are there are populations like The Katowans for example, which is a population of hunter-yatherers who have very high levels of carbohydrates You know, but they've never eaten a french fry in their life Never eaten a slice of pizza never eaten a burger You know So they eat tubers grains stuff a little bit of a little bit of protein from fish Works for them. They're very lean Have great blood work So it's not it's not black and white on this issue But here in America protect particularly if you're 80 20 and you're you know, you you do You know have your your little treats and junk every now and then, you know You might want to think about keeping the carbohydrate pretty pretty reasonable, you know 50 to 150 and you got to find out what works for you individually, you know If and if you're if you don't if you're young and you don't have Any of these weight issues yet Then you probably if you're eating real food almost all the time you probably have you probably have no issue with it whatsoever Okay, so let's talk about some myths about going hungry I Never skip breakfast heard that one hear it all the time nutritionists right never skip breakfast Which I always makes me ask what so I'm supposed to eat when I'm not hungry I don't know. Maybe you're always hungry at breakfast.   Well, you know last I checked Last I checked animals who are predatory who hunt Don't hunt on full bellies They do they go eat and then say okay time to go hunt It would better eat before we go out and hunt No, they hunt as a response to hunger because they don't eat all the time I have two small dogs and they have four one is one just turned six and the others twelve and and terrier dogs and For the last at least five years they have been on a grain free Diet that's sometimes partially raw food and sometimes a product called Evo That's no grains and very high protein. So it's it's more appropriate to the physiology of a carnivore And as soon as we started feeding them like this We noticed something very interesting. They started eating a lot less and and sometimes, you know, you think okay They get fed in the morning it get fed in the evening.   So it's very it's it's a very It's a very variable intermittent Sort of eating and fasting that's in response to hunger and a natural physiology so Do you how many know who know what glycogen is, you know, it's just it's the it's the way that Carbohydrate is stored it gets stored in your muscles. It gets stored in your liver Under conditions of like extreme exercise you have a few hours at most worth of glycogen reserves It doesn't get depleted Entirely, but enough of it gets depleted to where your body naturally goes to fat burning Maybe you've may have heard of hitting the wall, you know for runners or cyclists and and stuff like that And that's that's that point at which your body has to shift from burning Accessing glycogen stores into burning fat. Well So you have a few hours of this left, but how many did you know that the average person has three months? worth of energy from their own fat stores three months if you almost everybody and could just Do nothing but drink water for the next three months and you wouldn't really harm yourself at all You'd lose a little bit of a little bit of lean tissue and incidentally the record So I think was set back in The 60s or 70s under a doctor supervision With only water and supplemental vitamins and minerals Guy who weighed over 400 pounds went a year and two weeks without anything else a Year in two weeks. That's how powerful of an energy source fat is he lost over 200 pounds That's the record, you know so I I started what we call intermittent fasting very shortly after the After I started this whole process and there's there's various ways to do it Mine was a 24 to 30 hour Water only That I did one or once to twice a week normally normally twice sometimes once and Then I would always work out do my workout. I did two workouts a week about a half an hour intensity Stuff, you know, like Doug McGuff talked about last year and Skyler Tanner and Keith Norris talked about today And I would always work out like about, you know anywhere from 20 to 26 hours You know 20 hours in if I was a 24-hour fast, you know 26 hours in if I was a 30-hour fast and then I would eat and So I got in the habit then of I I can't do a workout if if I've eaten Within like at least six or eight hours. It just doesn't feel right, you know again do animals hunt I mean so the workout simulates the kind of Natural sort of movement that you would do out in nature if you had to hunt for your own food You'd be doing that on an empty stomach So you can actually get used to to to doing very intense exercise with heavy weight resistance training which I recommend on a on a without having eaten in 24 I've even done it as much as 30, you know worked out at 36 hour point, you know And it's very very Interesting how you can play with it because you're by that time you're you're well into fat burning So you're having to burn fat to fuel your muscles and everything So when you do some of the bigger moves like leg movements with your big muscles and lift heavy weights You can actually do it in a way that will make that will all of a sudden you'll just feel yourself get really hungry You know and then you back off on the intensity and 30 seconds later the hunger goes away then you go intense again and it brings it back and goes you play with that and then you start to You start to realize how Hunger works with your with your body. It's very enlightening and almost nobody Gets any experience like that because people are feeding their faces all the time, you know three times a day Don't go it's a starvation diet. If you don't do it now that said when you're not fasting You should be eating good.  I I've done that for a while Just went back to the old way. I like it better actually But this was something this is something you would do every day So for example, you eat your first meal at noon Stop eating at eight in the evening. Don't eat again till noon It's very easy to do once you've done it a couple times So you could try either way you like you'd like, you know, and it's Everybody can do it because everybody had to do it. We evolved having periods of time Where we didn't eat. It's just that we're so conditioned to You know really Deplore hunger and think as soon as you get hungry. I gotta eat I gotta eat you don't It's nice to be hungry now There's some now. There's some there's some also some other benefits to fasting You how many people have heard of a cleansing diet? It always it always struck me as odd that you would say, okay What should I eat to cleanse? Well, the ultimate cleansing diet is to not eat because what happens you cleanse at a cellular level You you all of your cells in your body get little Little mid-o chondrial breakdowns of protein So when you go into a fast the first thing your body does is it starts recycling those broken proteins into new proteins? You can Google autophagy a u t o p h a g y a o t a Hope you got that autophagy Google that you see what I mean There's also Google, you know fasting for as a as a therapy for cancer and it happens in two ways cancer cells unlike normal cells Can only feed on glucose.   Fasting intermittent fasting is a good strategy That has nothing to do with the weight loss or weight maintenance It's more like body weight maintenance because we evolved in a state where we didn't have food at our you know Beck and call 7 so by eating all the time and never giving your system a rest You know, you're not really living in a natural way one more thing is your gut bacteria you have ten times as Many bacteria in your digestive tract than cells in your body ten times So by fasting You give your system a chance to rest Yeah, and there's oftentimes good bacteria and bad bacteria things like things that cause diarrhea and stuff like that Or just discomfort, you know heard of irritable bowel syndrome and these sorts of things So fasting is a good strategy to let those that bacterial flora readjust to its natural levels, right? So you don't really I don't think I don't think you really have to worry about the probiotics and the Prebiotics and so on just you know go a day without eating once a week once every couple weeks probably would be enough You know everything will even out okay, so now the Now the exercise portion, which is very quick and short exercise like Skyler Tanner and Keith Norris told you to do it's really good stuff they both been friends of mine for a long time and They're just great. They've got some got some good videos that you can watch on on Keith Norris's website, so check it out all right, so that's the diet and Diet nutrition fasting part of it in terms of your animal nature So now let's move on to the society stuff I Don't know I just I don't know why people are so enamored with government, you know That it never worked You know it's it's The the it reminds me it's I I See this massive people with everybody Clamoring to live at the expense of everyone else. It's kind of like this big weird fantasy that that somehow You know you can be guaranteed or assured a life That's not by producing your own values and trading them with other people, you know Everybody's trying to live at the expense of everybody else it's it's actually a sophisticated form of a Protection racket if you understand how government got going in the first place There was no such thing as government back in the hunter-yather days It could not have happened Until the advent of agriculture for a very simple reason. There was nothing to steal so Envision this You know over time, you know agriculture didn't just happen in ten thousand years ago It's a long process probably five to seven thousand years of you know gradually, you know cultivating grains and and domesticating animals To be used both for for you know dairy as well as for work in in harvesting grains So once you once you now have these plots of land where you're growing grains you have You have Wealth being generated you have you have the grains itself which they which can be stored And you have the capital that's required to you know plant and then harvest it and store it so now there's all of a sudden assets right and So some group of Some band of marauders says hey, I've got an idea You know there's these villages cropping up where they're you know doing all this stuff and they've got all this stuff And they've got food got animals, you know, we can just you know ride from one to the next and You know make our living that way stealing their stuff, you know We've got force, you know, we're trained so they do that But then more and more of these bands of marauders get the same ideas a good idea, right? so then what you have is you know band of marauders comes up to the village to to to to steal What they can only to find out that another band had already just been there a while ago So there's nothing left to steal so What what's the natural ideas like well, huh? What if we just stay here and We'll just steal a little bit over time and protect them from the other bands of marauders That's actually how government got started in the first place thieves And hasn't changed You know I have I have family members. It's funny. I was telling someone on the plane last night It says, you know, it's so hilarious to me that You know you have a guy as president who is who has a r after his name or is it before I don't know and You know this guy this Republican does a B and C well it so happens that my wife's side of the family are all liberal Democrats My side of the family is all conservative Republicans. So when Republican president does a B and C It's it's the worst thing in the world for my wife's side of the family and my side of the family has every possible reason to justify it A few years later you have a guy in office with a D He does the exact same a B and C And it's reversed now It's the worst thing in the world from the perspective of my side of the family And there's all kinds of reasons to justify it for my wife's side of the family. So you know The agitation level that people go through that just waste their lives Thinking about this, you know working.  I I read a book Several years back by a guy named Nicholas and Naseem Nicholas Taleb And it's called fooled by randomness. He also wrote another book called the black swan. I recommend fooled by randomness it's he was a he was an options trader and And He he he was he's made a lot of money. He's one of the guys that That made a lot of money back. I think in 87 black Monday. He was right That things were going to collapse and he made tons But it's basically a book about how you know all these little Events that happen and it's part it's particularly true in the political sphere Where people just get all up in arms all the time agitated they think that they know exactly what's going to have You know the sky is falling this sort of thing just because of random events So he proposed he said he proposed that you do an experiment. He said it was it was basically, you know stop Taking in all sources of news no newspapers no news magazines no cable news channels, you know no talk radio all this stuff and See if anything happens, you know If something is important an important news event it'll find its way to you, you know But this whole idea of being you know news junkies every day news junkie slash political junkie It just gets you nowhere. It's unnatural. You're better off spending time in your relationships your education your knowledge You know entrepreneurship if you have an idea for a business venture I don't vote Not in many many many many years. It's pointless One in three hundred million say in your own affairs. What a smoking deal is that and if you vote You have no right to complain Everybody switches that around right? What what that makes no sense and I've been saying this a long time before George Carlin said it if you go to YouTube and Search George Carlin doesn't vote. It's very nice three-minute rant in there about voting.  It only encourages them When people ask me why I don't vote I said because I'd never do that to you you know, why do you what what interest do you have? What interest do you have in going to try and impose your will your sense of values on everybody else What gives you the right to do that? Just because just because you have a bigger mob than the other guy That makes it right shameful, I don't know about you but I see myself as morally superior and Far more competent Than any politician you can name And you should too When someone when they say they say you know that had never worked That had never worked. It means it means that it means that man. I don't have I It won't give me a guarantee It won't give me an assurance. That's really what they mean. It means that if I somehow can't manage to see to my own values that It's gonna happen anyway That's what it means now you want to live that way I guess that's fine, but I prefer I just prefer to take my chances again wild animal Is there any assurances any guarantees, you know, so what? Life is a risk and the and the sooner the sooner you start thinking of yourself as An animal in a risky environment number one you're gonna make better choices You know, if you're not counting on the social safety net so on, you know, so I'm gonna So I posed a question I can't remember whether it was on Facebook or Twitter the other day said, you know If you have the right to make me pay for your health care, how come you don't have the right to make me pick your cotton? You want to be a slave go ahead? and incidentally if you individually or If you can gather a group of people together in Such as like a charitable, you know group of people and you want to offer Guarantees or assurances to other people who might be less fortunate or might have had misfortunes in their lives Tell you something. Nobody is gonna stop you Nobody's gonna stop you the whole aim of practical politics Is to keep the populace alarmed and Hence clamorous to be led first to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary Anyone know who wrote that? H.L. Menken you've ever heard of him? Very a cervic journalist back in the 30s words of wisdom One more thing about the state. It's only the largest mass murderer in history Estimates competent estimates range from 160 million to over 300 million in the 20th century alone Google it death by government by I forget his first name Romel It's the book is actually online. You can read it online. You can see the sources how it's calculated guilt and shame guilt and shame guilt and shame guilt and shame So we've covered the we've covered the political side of it, you know, you're selfish You don't want to help the less fortunate just looking out for yourself You know There's nothing wrong with guilt and shame, you know, I remember when I shop lifted a wallet from a department store when I was six years old and my mom found it in my Pocket when she did the laundry You know, I felt I felt appropriate guilt and shame and It motivates you to action And that action was that the next day she marched me over to the department store Where and where she asked to see the manager and I had to go into the his office Explain what I did and pay for the wallet Appropriate guilt and shame guilt and shame right but When professional politicians use guilt and shame, you know, you're not sacrificing enough Everybody needs to give a little more everybody's gonna have to sacrifice or when You know representatives of a higher cause use it You're guilty by nature. You're very nature Just the way you think is sinful Or your physical urges Guess you know what I'm talking about there when you when you when you make someone feel guilt and shame Inappropriately by which I mean you are you were shaming them and guilting them on their own nature As a human animal that is simply a mechanism for control if you and it happens in relationships, too Doesn't it you know ever been with a woman? Who Found ways to make you feel guilt or shame but in unearned what something you did you didn't do anything wrong It was just the way you were or she expected something from you that you didn't have her That that she didn't have a right to expect from you There you go, it's happened to everybody You know You always you always People use guilt and shame to to motivate you to action and when they motivate you to action They're controlling you and this happens on all levels of inappropriate authority government religion various coercive sort of societies So, you know, I know I'm not I'm not Let me let me make something clear about the whole religion. I am I'm an atheist I have been for 20 years It was really about it was really realizing that I didn't have any fear of a supreme being If I don't have any fear over some supreme being why would I waste my time with it? Makes no sense. It's only if you have fear My eye, you know, I told you about growing up in the fundamentalist thing Thankfully in Year years late, you know, it was my parents that were involved with that my other brothers So thankfully over a period of years.  It's fear, you know What can you do? By the same token, I have no problem. I have no problem with a Kind of a Spiritualism or something if you will to for lack of a better term, you know, it's not my cup of tea But you know, I'm not talking about just some sort of sense of that that there's something special about us And and that we should be charitable and people of good will and so on I don't think you need to believe in anything like that to do that But if that's your if that's your thing, you know, and there's it's also so wrapped up in, you know traditions family traditions and and things like that and and if you're gonna raise kids, you know, if it's, you know If that's what you want to do, but try to stay away from the literalism, you know Like there's some big guy with a white beard in a chair somewhere, you know You know or there's actually 72 virgins, you know all these forms of literalism Just look at it practically doesn't it doesn't work for you. I mean When I quit When I dumped all that stuff and just quit believing it entirely my life improved immensely and immediately it's it's it's kind of just look at it as an exercise in Recognizing reality cold hard reality and When you do that then you start to make proper decisions in business You start to make proper decisions in relationships because you're unwilling to fool yourself You're unwilling to entertain a delusion Yeah, so To wrap things up I I wanted to give Without actually knowing that much about the whole pickup community and and all those things I wanted to give my You know free the animal perspective on men women relationships And this is incidentally one of the things that I actually ended up Totally by accident doing right in my 20s. I My first, you know serious You know sexual relationship was when I was in college there was long term it lasted about a year and a half and In the entire year and a half it was non-exclusive Not by my choice But I learned to accept it she had a a a You know love of her life thing that was he was off at college in another state and He wasn't back very much You know I think once or twice the whole year and a half But when he was she was with him and when he wasn't I was like The physical friend as she called it this was before the concept of friends with benefits came out I guess and It was hard to accept at first, but I grew to accept it and Believe it to be a more natural way of living and I went on to do the same thing over and over and over again until I was 35 I had many many very short-term Relationships, but I had three three other Serious long-term relationships one that spans seven years over three continents You know and she was always with someone else But we had a relationship and you know what? I'm really proud of it that I did it that way because I learned to just Not be not worry about exclusivity at all. It really worked out nicely for me What well with the exception of the crazy bitch in France, but Yeah, she she totaled my 87 Corvette I was at sea was on a ship at sea and she found the keys to my 87 Corvette that I'd shipped over there and Totaled it in accent Provence 3 a.m. In the morning with another guy in it So that didn't make me too happy Then that was I almost I almost got that was the one I almost married So it's I was fortunate that that happened So To to to make a long story short I got married for my very first time When I was 40 years old to a woman who was also getting married for her very first time at 41 We've been together for five years So, you know the way it worked out for me is just by happenstance that I ended up being in lots of a Bunch of relationships that I really cherish but were non-exclusive on either of our parts you know And I did that till I was 35 a bunch of smaller relation such that by the time I was 35 I was ready to settle down my My wife and I have been together now for 15 years ten of them married and It has been exclusive, but I I was ready for it at that point in time I've gotten all that stuff out of my system. So that's my perspective on it. I don't know whether that's your value, but That's my perspective on it. So That's it questions Would you say you consider yourself an anarchist? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, long time Yeah, so then why would you complain about having one in 300 million say Isn't that better than no say at all It's just it's a waste of time. It's it's in my view. It's simply a waste of time Why would I how long it doesn't why how long does it take? Too much of my time and it's not just it's not just going the act of voting. It's participating in the whole process You have to think about it. I don't even think about it. I don't care who's running. I don't care what their policies are It's just I'm way too selfish to to do that and plus I wouldn't do that to you I wouldn't even I wouldn't even try to Force you with one and three hundred millionth of my say to do what you didn't want to do, but I wanted you to do It's it's morally wrong that I think voting is immoral There you have it The question would be heard of maybe pinpoint we're talking about I think your problem that I'm identifying is that your problem with voting Is that you hate voting for anything? That's not optional Well, I actually I actually actually there is one instance where I where where I think voting is appropriate And that's when it's 100% unanimous If it's 100% unanimous, nobody's being forced to do anything, right? But there there is there is no there is I cannot see any moral ethical resolution to the idea that just because You have a bigger Group a bigger mob That you get to force other people to do what you want instead of what they want Curious would you are there any presidential candidates running that you would make an exception to this rule for? With that exception proving a rule. Are there any presidential candidates? I don't know. Well, you know, I mean, certainly there's degrees I mean I I I Was I was interested to follow Ron Paul's Campaign last time and his ability to raise funds, but I knew it would never go anywhere. Anyway, you know I have to say I really agree with a lot of the things you're saying about religion and how I think Fundamentalist rose like fundamentalist Christianity or fundamentalist Islam really have a negative effect on many aspects of human life But I guess both thing I'm wondering is what if say you're interested in a certain religious or spiritual tradition? Because I'm interested in Buddhism and Taoism Do you think those philosophy are entirely bad because they're not so much about trying to convert other? There's there's some exceptions there so they call them in a religion, but it's nearly different because Buddhism Taoism and stuff like that don't believe in some supreme being they don't even even in many cases in many of these Eastern traditions don't even believe in an afterlife, you know and in fact in original Judaism They didn't believe in an afterlife, you know, yeah, you're exactly right The concept of life don't really appear until the New Testament So so yeah that it's it's kind of that's why that's why you know I'm speaking very generally and basically what I'm speaking to is literalism, you know, in other words in other words you are taking your life and and spending it on Literal beliefs in magical things that have no basis in reality Or can be proven and you're you're spending your life's capital on it. You're making decisions Based on things that you know that just aren't true, right? So but it's but in terms of the of the feel-good part in the community the family stuff and everything In some of the more liberal kinds of traditions, you know, I went I recently a good friend of mine died a few months back and I went to her her her and her partner were members of the of the What is it? Unitarian Universalist Church, and so we went to my wife and I went to the to the service and was extremely impressed with basically Basically the way the service went is it was it was ancestor worship This is an interesting concept from from the eye from the standpoint of the paleo and and the way we regard hunter-gatherers and Stuff like that, but it was quite interesting. So it was not at all focused on some literal Being was focused on the ancestors and and actually the the minister of that church Nancy is also a friend of mine She lived in our same complex of lofts and I'd spoken with her many times about it and and she she Perfectly accepted the fact that I was a non-believer So I was talking with her after the service and I said, you know, it was very interesting I pointed out what I just did to you and and and the harpist was there, too And they both smiled and they said, you know what? It's because we just don't know Now that's something that's something I can I can accept, you know, you you go and you have your thing But but but this bit this bit this rock solid, you know rock solid certainty about You know certainty and literalism is is where I think it's a problem now. It's a problem for me I should point out mostly philosophically and If that's not where you are then what I would say is then look at it practically How's it working for you? So you could start there and Then consider and then if you say wow wow, you know, I know I don't think about this at all I don't worry about it, you know, I'm just I'm pretending as though I don't believe acting as though I don't and then you see Improvements in your life then maybe you go the next step, but it's it's you know, it's not mandatory. That's me I'm just giving you my perspective on things With regards to voting. What do you think about the whole notion of lesser of two evils? I Don't evil's evil, you know, thanks for pointing it out. Okay. All right I try to live pretty principallyed Pretty principled a pretty principled life as much as I can So I'm not big on I'm not big on on Utility, you know, I even talked to that in in my in my presentation about people say well, that'll never work And I'm I always my aunt my aunt my aunt my answer to that is work for whom Well, that'll never work work for whom is that it? Okay, thanks everybody fun


These primitive threadbare villagers are preparing to take up a challenge to their freedom which the 20th century has brought to their homeland. Their homeland is Vietnam. More specifically, the rugged central highlands of Vietnam, mountain country. The headlong slopes have been their home for centuries and these have shaped and tempered the people. They are generally small but with a toughness of body and spirit which is common to mountain people the world over. Pound for pound, the mountain tribesmen of Vietnam is one of the most potent fighting men in the world. His most familiar title is one given to him by the French, a term which says it all, though its meaning is simply, Mountain Man. The undeclared war raging today in South Vietnam is not being fought in the streets of cities. From the beginning, the Republic of Vietnam has had little trouble keeping control of the great urban centers, the place names you see here. But the central highlands, the Huan Son Codilera, is a tangle of jungle and steep slopes, ideally suited to the lightly armed, fast-moving gorilla. And it is here that the struggle for Vietnam may be decided. For this central high ground dominates both the rich rice bowl of the Mekong Delta to the south and the narrow, densely populated coastal plain which borders the South China Sea. Thus the military planners of both sides of this twilight war agree. He who gains the highlands will have won the fight for Vietnam. To gain the highlands, this is easier said than done. For nearly a thousand years, the emperors of China dominated Vietnam, except the highlands. Of course, one reason for that exception was the rugged, unforgiving terrain. But another reason is to be found in villages like this, the mountain people. There are many races here, each with its own distinct heritage and way of life. They are individuals, and their pride in the fact is strong. Historians believe these people lived here before the light-skinned Vietnamese came some 2,000 years ago, and most of them still live a stone-age existence at mid-20th century. Their mountain isolation has been nearly complete. To most of them, Vietnamese is a foreign language. The mountain yards have cared little for developments in the world beyond their mountain home. But for more than a decade now, increasing numbers of communist guerrillas have been passing through the mountain villages, rewarding cooperation, terrorizing any who resist. They have made much of the highlands into a secure staging area for their attacks on the lowlands below. And so it is that here on his home ground, the mountain yard has become vitally important to the fight for freedom in Vietnam. Tough, muscular, a skilled hunter and woodsman, he holds the key to the central highlands. If he can be won to the government's cause, there is no training and weapons to resist communist terrorism. The guerrillas' mountain sanctuary will have disappeared. To help win this support and provide training and equipment has been the job of United States military advisors and the Vietnamese Special Forces troops with whom they work. Advisors are chosen for linguistic aptitude and a talent for tact and diplomacy. For their mission is quite literally to train friends and influence people. On first contact with the village, their only audience may be children and old people. With able-bodied men nowhere to be seen, they must begin where they can. Give candy to the children, speak politely to the elders, show by actions that they are not here to hurt anyone. And show by actions that they are here to help. The mountain yard is just as concerned for the welfare of his children as any other parent and just as appreciative when someone demonstrates an active, genuine interest in being of help. Actions speak louder than words. The communist guerrillas have been coming through here with threats or, at the best, promises. By contrast, here are men ready and able to be of help now. The young and able-bodied men of the village receive the word and they return. They want to learn how to resist the terrorism under which their villages have lived and there is much to learn. From how to wear shoes to the use of 20th century weapons, the training itself presents problems. American and Vietnamese instructors work together but often a third man is necessary to get the message across. A Vietnamese who speaks English gets the lesson from the American advisor. He passes it on in Vietnamese to a villager who speaks both Vietnamese and the mountain dialect. Finally, the native interpreter relays the message to the trainees. It's a complicated business but it works. The mountain yard is a match for weapons. From boyhood, these tribesmen have stalked game with a powerful crossbow. The step from aiming a crossbow to firing a modern weapon is not so great as it might seem. When it comes to the ways and means of bringing grief to an enemy, the mountain man learns fast. Within a few weeks after seeing their first rifle, the mountain men are perfectly at home and professionally skillful as they negotiate a rugged and realistic infiltration course. Since most guerrilla attacks come in darkness, they learn the tactics of resisting a night assault. Red China's Mao Tse Tung has said, the guerrilla is a fish and the sea in which he swims is the people. If the people be unfriendly, the guerrilla cannot survive. These mountain men have decided to be unfriendly. They know why and they know now how. If enough of their fellow mountain yards can be reached and taught, the result can be vitally important. To some of the mountain men, an understanding has come of what the war of subversion raging in their country is all about. They have decided that it is wrong. They have decided to do something about it. They round the earth to help them do something about it. They are ready to move on to other villages among the mountains. They will leave behind them a trained group of friends, where before there was only fear or indifference. Friends who may in time have a profound effect on the future of Vietnam. The Mountain Yards


Good afternoon everyone and welcome welcome to stocks was show play of the day. This is five Five was a beautiful bear scat today and took it before it even broke nice nice train today Completely out of this although this did go down to 3554 looks like yeah I'm not saying this is done for the day, but time of the day is Close to lunch and I just don't like to train in the afternoon No, it's right in an afternoon on Friday unless you're in something. It's just falling like a brick Turn a short or a rally just to make any sense to train in a Friday So nice nice bearish gap I did do an open house today So I had quite a lot of people in the room today saw me do it I did not tape the room today, but this was a nice bearish gap. You can take a look here at the bigger chart And I took this very early on perfect entry in here perfect perfect Perfect everything. Let's go over it I know it's patient. Yeah. Oh, it's so patient So stock open rallied The only thing this had to do today was to not get over 38 which it didn't didn't get close to it And I know world would have held 30 some 50. It went up to 37 67 Anyways, okay, so here we have it And I shorted this in this bar boom Came down fell rallied up another set up in here dropped I'm in this short and all along the while here people are attempting to buy this You can see people coming in to buy it here here here here here all along in here people are trying to buy the low Why are traders trying to buy this today when it was a short because it is a short I had the right directional bias I had to wait a while though for this to really get going although I was up in this the whole time Up or flat in here waiting, but this is a long time for me to wait for a trade to break because usually the goes so fast We're spoiled here Even though broken here it pushed back you have to know what to do people bought this that were traders today But it was a short why because it was an institutional short today And so but I know that traders were trying to buy us today. They're trying to buy us into the prior support But it was a good bearish gap So the thing to do is to short it okay And I rated the gap today per my 26 point rating system And that is how I know to do a stock like this to short it today and not to buy it and if you don't know How to rate a gap like me which the only way you know is if you did my class if you did never did my class You wouldn't have known that five was a short today You probably got stopped out of this going long it if you even did anything with five today And now of course is coming up on everyone scanner in the world And this might actually get some short play in this afternoon and drop down to 35 But it's because the market's dropping a little bit today But I think that really the ticket is always to get the best entry and always get in the morning And I don't like to trade in the afternoon You can wait all day long and get stuff on scanners if you do that you're getting like you're missing 80% of the move What's the point? I like to get this immediately if it triggers and rates well for the 26 point rating system Which is it and I said this is the top watch today and it worked it worked the best and I did it So it's one of these days where skill Triumped over everything else it usually does you must know how to trade to dig position You have to know how to do things Trading is easy if you know how to train trading is challenging if you don't it is easy to learn what to do If you find someone on the planet like me to teach you What my 26 point rating system does is train your eyes a student if you come to me and learn from me How to read a chart like this correctly because the point rating system trains your eye I'm training your eye to learn whether or not Five should have been bought today or shorted and five should have been shorted today and was shorted and is a short But there were traders out there today. They were buying five and they lost in it And so what are you going to do? It wasn't a buy But you have to learn to be able to read institutional positioning How do you know the gap rating system which teaches you what institutions are doing the chart and also teaches you How to take it the right directional bias and it trains your eye And this is something that this is why it's so valuable This is why for me to charge three thousand dollars for the class is like It's like so cheap because the training that you gain and learn from me training your eye to learn how to do this Will last forever or should You i'm training your eye to know how to train the thing Anything anything in a gap long or short So five was a beautiful short today stood with it stuck with it had to be patient Never did anything wrong great bearish gap today broke late, but held on to it Beautiful gap preempted the break right right on target. I just nailed the sucker today Someone said again today on a bearish queen. I'm really gonna have to buy a crown. It'll be a funny email Maybe I should do that today And you just have a wonderful day everyone have a great weekend The golden gap course is this weekend if you want to sign up today's the deadline five o'clock eastern time That's it Email me at melissathesoxswitch.com if you want to sign up and learn actually how to do what I do Learn how to trade the gaps. I'm offering january february in the room for free That's a great deal for anyone that's doing the class this weekend That's a smashing deal because you can take trades like today and other trades i've done this week APL the five and make the money back for the class just following my trades So, you know, it's like a no-brainer for people that have been following me I have no idea what people are waiting for they're probably waiting for the day where I just don't do it anymore Which is not going to be something that'll ever announce by the buy So, you know, my career is shaking off things are going great. The business is booming My training has never been better and 2015 is going to be the year that you want a day trade With anyone with me If you're interested in more information email me i'm elissa at the stockswitch.com. Thanks everybody. Have a great weekend


Seeing a player severing, we've got the LMP2 car.  Hello, welcome back guys, new video. I told you I was going to talk to you about my gaming room. It was a bit of a fight with my wife, I'm gonna be honest because that is, just come in guys, come with me. So that initially is a dressing room, right? That was, I mean, I use it as a dressing room for my race suits. That was the first one I raced in 2000. Some of you may not have been born. I don't fit in it anymore. I try to get in, I can't. And then I've got one race suit per season of racing. So junior categories, then obviously I went with Renault. Renault driver developments, that must be 2006, seven, eight. Oh, you know what? That one is not the wrong place. That is end of 2007. I was in GP2 with Bahwa in 2009 and that's when I got the phone call to go to Formula One and replacing Nelson Pickett. So 2009 we've got two race suits, but for the good reason because I made it for Formula One. Look at that. I also had a trophy. That's the race of champion 2012. I was quarter-final, a bit Michael Schumacher. Semi-final, a bit Sebastian Vettel. Final, a bit Tom Christensen. Oh man, I didn't even clean it from the champagne. There we go, Romain Grosjean. Sebastian Rogier was 2011. And then Lucas do the name Schumacher Vettel, Schumacher Vettel, Schumacher Vettel. Amazing names. And that's one of the trophies that I love keeping home. Well, then after Formula One in 2009, I went back to GP2. So that's 2011. As you can see, we changed color. We go with Lotus. That's what I made it back to Formula One in 2011. That's actually the race suit. I only wore for two prepractice, three podiums in 2012, six podiums in 2013. That's a replica trophy for my first podium in Bahrain in 2012 offered by the Bahrain Grand Prix. I need to clean it a little bit, but it's a good souvenir. New change of color. The American team has 2016. I joined the team. I actually raced ice racing with that one. So that was added for the ice racing that I won in Alpe d'Huez. And there must be two from 2020, because 2021, I was my first season in Indica with Dirk on racing. Absolutely loved it. And after that, we had 2022. My first Indy 500 race suit with a pride livery that we wore at the 500, but I kept that one. My first Indy 500 was pretty special. Really happy to have that one home. Another trophy I kept here. It's the Monaco Grand Prix. I never won it in Formula One, but I kind of won the Monaco Grand Prix in GP2, so there it is. I kept that trophy. Through my career, I've been lucky to travel around the world as Mexico, Gignac, and he gave me his jersey. Oh, that was an auction. Japanese football team, rugby, Toulon, French rugby, the games against Argentina in 2012. So I've kept some really cool souvenir through my career. Now welcome on the other side of the room, where I've got my flight simulator. Some of you may know, some of you may not. I'm learning how to fly planes. I wanted to practice, so I've bought that joystick just to practice flying. I even have got the pedals here that you can do the brakes and the rudder for everyone that flies. It moves that direction and even that direction. So you get a really good feel of flying. I use Sarons, so I get the full big screen for flying. Luckily with the eSports team, we've got Predator as a partner, so I've got a really good Orion 5000 with GE Force RTX 3080 in, so I can run pretty much all the game full on. And now we go to the big one. And I tell you one thing, traveling that from Switzerland to the US was not easy. It is very heavy. And why is it heavy? Because it's strong. We've got a very, very powerful motor here for the force feedback. So you've got a lot of force feedback going into the rig and the rig needs to be strong. Same thing with the pedals. They're full metal pedals. And the brake, if you really want to brake hard, you have to jump on the brakes. Front along clutch are much easier, but the brakes are so stiff that the platform must be very, very strong. Same thing, I've got a dedicated Orion 5000 just for the simulator here. I only use it for that. I also have my first Porsche. There you go. I'm actually doing the Lamborghini right now and I've got a Ferrari in the cupboard here. And if we come around, that's why it gets tricky. So here I've got my simulator. As I mentioned, we've got VRS motor feedback, VRS pedals, it's a SimLab chassis. So it's a real racing car chassis seat that I have here. And I've got a steering wheel that looks like Formula One. I've got the lights for the shift. I've got the pit limiter. I've got the flash. I've got the headlights. Here we've got the windscreen wiper. I can change my fuel consumption. I can change the menu. I can change my brake balance here. I can change my engine map here. At the back, I've got clutch paddle. Downshift on this side here. And then on the other side, we've got the upshift paddle. And the same thing, another clutch. I can actually change my clutch bite point right here. More menus here. I've got a radio. Got a headset here with the microphone so I can talk to my teammates when we do endurance racing. I've got a stream deck. So for whenever I stream, I get easy access to all I want to have. Gloves. Why do you have gloves? Because steering wheel is pretty heavy. I like to put a lot of force feedback so don't to have blister. But I guess I've seen enough talking and now we should just go and have a lap together. Here we are in the sim. I'm actually gonna put my gloves right now.  We're gonna go to Sebring, which is a secret only three hours drive from where I live. Single player Sebring. I've got the LMP2 car.  The red light, we need to wait for the pit to open. Let's go. Let's go. Well, that's it for this video, guys. No, I'm gonna kick you out and keep playing. Bye-bye.


Okay. Hello everyone. My name is Wiyu Kan Wiyu and I'll be translating from, yes. Hello everyone. My name is Jiayuan from Taiwan, Taitung. And today I'm going to talk to you about our Taiwan Wikipedia and about the articles of Anthno Plains and Traditional Naming System. Okay. So today I'm going to talk to you about the main three parts. And first one we'll talk about my tribe named after a plant. And the second one I'm going to talk about the old tribe and the name of the land. And the third part I'll talk about the current Wikipedia articles of plants. Okay. First I would like to ask you guys here, do you know this plant or have you ever seen this plant before? So this plant we call in our language called Kanadunadung. And in English name show here. And you can Google it later. And it's one of the most important plant for us to use to celebrate to God or to do some praise when we use this plant. Okay. And now I'm going to talk about there are two tribes. One is called Dabukad and the other one called Kanadun. And there is the legend told by the elders from the tribe, from the local. So the name is from the story, the mythology. So we have this name. So about the history of this plant, it's called Kanadunadung. And this plant is called Kanadunadung. It's the name of this tribe, Dabukad. It's in the old time we have the story. One day there is a group of people and led by the traditional leader and to the land and they saw the plant and grow in there. So they named the tribe, the name, the local place, this name, Dabukad. So it's because that I heard a lot of stories about like this. So I found that like it's very interesting in Paiwan language itself. It has a lot of related to plants to the land, not only the language. So I found that it's a very interesting story. So I found that it's very interesting in Paiwan language itself. So I found that it's a very interesting story. And actually before that is the old tribe, the name called Vashikarshika. Actually before, there is the old tribe, the name called Vashika Sikao, and in 1930 Taiwan at that time was taken over by the Japanese government. So the Japanese government, under the rule of the Japanese government, the people of the tribe was forced to move, and later the leader said yes, okay, then we move, and then it's the history of the tribe. Vashika Sikao, as you can see in the tribe, we have a lot of plants like this, as the pictures see here. So here is another name of the tribe called Daraja, and it's in the old time, the elders say, when people get sick in the tribe, so we have this name to help to, we hope to get away the sick, not, can help people be healthy, not sick. So here is another name of the tribe called Daraja, and it's in the old time, the people of the tribe were forced to move, and they were forced to move, and they were forced to move, and so here as we can see the picture, there are also many names in Taiwan, it's very interesting. So first we can see, it means we have many rocks or stones, so the place we name the place is called, and also we have the name called, means mountain, when the place we see many mountains, we call it, and also we have some place, for example, we place to get water, and we call it, and there is water that we can get the water, and we can drink, and also there is a name called, means the rice of the sun, so at the, we can see the rice of the sun. So because of all this, I think the Taiwan language is very interesting, so I start to write and record the story between the Taiwan language and the plant. So since 2021, I started to participate in writing Taiwan Wikipedia and join the group of Taiwan user group, and later I try to write more about the Taiwan tradition and Taiwan plant, and also not only I write, also I go back to ask the elders the meaning or the use of the language. So when I start to write Taiwan Wikipedia, I also read a lot of books as a reference, and many books in the old time they record the history of Taiwan. And also as we know, Taiwan is not only a community, we have many communities, many tribes, so the Taiwan language itself can be diverse in different places, in different tribes, so there is a lot we need to learn, and there is a lot of more tribes we need to visit, and we need to respect each other, even we have different expression in different Taiwan tribes. And so we really hope to record more Taiwan people and to join us to together write Taiwan Wikipedia, and then when we really take part in the project, we can see the diversity of our own language, and we can show how the language itself keeps the local stories. And now I'm still on the path learning and writing about my own community, my own tribe, and I did find in the Taiwan language we say Ligidian, I don't really know how to express it, but it's the, we say subtlety of the Taiwan language, so I would also like to encourage you all to listen to the story and write the story, thank you. So there is the vocabulary, we can see for now I write many, I have written many plants on Taiwan Wikipedia, so all of this. Okay, thank you. And finally, he wants to sing from Taiwan, Taiwan song for all of you, and it's about, the lyrics about, it's very happy that we can get all together here, so.  Masaru. Thank you.


T F N N headline news update Good afternoon everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien comedy live from T F and N headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida 2 p.m. Eastern time on Monday two hours left to go in the trading day And we had quite a market to start off the week to the downside S&Ps right now negative 74 points trading at 2812. We get the Dow off 629 trading at 25,000 313 Nasdaq off 249 points trading at 76 67 Gold right now up $13 trading at 1300 on the dot you get oil negative 70 cents $60 97 pennies notes and bonds higher price lower yield 10-year note up 15 ticks 124 15 30-year bond up 27 ticks 149 16 dollar index basically flat 97 110 let's start it off. We'll jump over to the futures markets. We'll start it off with the Dow So in the last hour, we've got a little bit of a pop. I came on the market for the 1 p.m. Update We were down there at about 25,000 to 25 in the Dow We made a low just below that level 25 about 217 and the Dow up about a hundred points within the last hour 25,000 321 S&P is much the same bounce doesn't look that dramatic in the context of where we've gone today But in the span of the low you were down there at 2802. You're now at 28 14 That's a solid 12 S&P points not a huge deal when you're down 75 S&P points for the day But we'll see where the day goes with two hours left Nasdaq 100 73 59 lows within the last hour about 73 22 Crude oil a little bit of a seesaw in both directions You had some Saudi action with some of their tankers possibly being attacked that put a little fear in the market spiked above 63 but as economy woes trade woes on the economy started to surface today You had oil trading from above 63 currently under 61 trading at 60 94 Goal contract catching a bid $1,300 and eight pennies and your US dollar a little bit of volatility in both directions currently trading 112 30 One of the stories not really getting lost out there because it's getting a lot of attention as well as We jump Teva the generic pharmaceuticals quite an investigation 44 states suing them for price fixing But what I was gonna say is Uber talk about an escalation to the downside goes public at 45 Barely gets a print at 45. We're trading at 36 86 quite a number not the market Do you want to be IP owing at your stock when the indices are down about 3% Stay tuned folks Dave white coming up with a power trading hour live from two to three Tom O'Brien live from three till five Stay tuned. Have a great Monday


Whatever I do, please do not try this anywhere. That's instant piercing, rather. I actually come from a family background of magicians. My dad is Professor MC Soekar. So as I was growing, I was a part of his tricks.  He used to cut my mom into three pieces and I would fit in the middle over there. And then when I was about eight, I happened to get this opportunity to go ahead and watch my dad perform live from there. I didn't want to do the exact same thing that he was doing. He had this loud makeup, about 20 assistants, jazzy clothes, big turban, and he would go on and all the mistake. I was like, I don't want to do that, but I want to be a magician. So let's see how do we work that out. So curious little kid walking up to dad, always tailing him behind him. Like, dad, what's magic all about? Tell me, what do you actually want? Like, the concise version. Came down to a paragraph, one sentence, and then at last one word, psychology. Pingo, that is all what I need, though I didn't know what psychology meant at that time. So I figured out, okay, there is this interesting word. I was taught how to use the dictionary, figured out psychology, okay, getting in the mind how a human being thinks and blah, blah, blah. Like, cool, this is what I got to do. Started off, spent about 13 to 15 years of my life doing everything else other than magic. Nobody ever thought during that time that I would ever get into magic. I was into computers, electronics, waterproofing, call center, medical transcription, motivational speaking, mimicry. I don't know, crazy amount of things that I did did really well, quit, moved on to the other one. People said that you're actually mad. So the fact that after that, I decided, okay, it's high time. I think I need to get back into my field. So I walked up to my dad. We have the School of Magic in Bangalore, which is one of the oldest ones. And I walked up to him and I told him, dad, can you please teach me the art of magic? My dad was like, no, you didn't hear me. Can you please teach me the art of magic?  No. Dad, you know what? I'm really smart. Give me 30 days. 30 days.  My dad said, you know what? Seriously, you're taking too much time. Come back after a month. We'll talk then. Started practicing out, went crazy, 18, 20 hours, sometimes two, three days together. Practice, practice, practice, practice. And then came to a level where at the end of one month, I had over 100 tricks. Luckily. Walked up to my dad, told dad, hey dad, you want to see something interesting? I was like, okay. Can I have a volunteer, please? Come on stage. Thank you, Ram. I'm just kidding. That's not cute though. That's fine. Ram. Dad. Okay. So what do you see here? Beads? Perfect. Let me pull my sleeves back. Usually people say that a magician has something always up their sleeves. In my case, my hands. Pull this. Let me get rid of this quickly. All right. It's solid? Yes. Again, don't try it. Perfect. A little bit. I hate this part. You want to come here, Ram? Just in case. So you can get a good look. Ram, can I borrow your finger? Let us know if you feel something under the skin. You can move your head. Only if you feel something, okay? Okay. Thank you. Oh, stop pushing. Okay. Okay. Check my hands. One second. I think nails in between the fingers, no? No. Can I have a zoom in, please? On to my face. Give me a finger quickly. Can you feel anything? Slowly. You're like trying to poke into my... Not a bit. Yeah? Yeah. You can? Yeah. Not your head? Yeah. He can. All right. Close in. Zoom in, please. Watch this. Come close around. Is that the solid bead? You can take that back as a souvenir. Thank you so much, Ram. I appreciate that. Yeah. And I started doing crazy things like this.  I'm like, no, but I'm being creative.  I'm like, cool. At the end of it, I performed over 100 tricks. My dad watched patiently. And then towards the end of it, I said, now, I've kept my word up. Please teach me the art of magic. And my dad said, no. I'm like, seriously? So for this no thing, he told me, you know what, Ugesh? At this moment, you don't need to learn from me anymore.  You have gone ahead and learned it the hardest way. And it was just your willpower, your determination and the fact that you believed that there was a possibility. You are now a master. Come back to me only for guidance and nothing else. Wow, couldn't this be done any easier way? I guess not. My dad had to do this. But that was the lesson of my life that I learned, that it's not always necessary that you have to be dependent on someone. You always need to have a teacher. It's not about just knowing the trick of the trade, but knowing the psychology behind it. And this applies to any field for that matter. You understand the psychology? You have it there for you. That's all. So before I go, you want to see something really crazy? Can I borrow a credit card, please? Thank you. Vishal, Vishal happens to be like family, so he's another paid assistant. That's it. All right, watch this. He just started. Well, let's try it one last time. Let's see what else can we do with Vishal's card. I'm not giving this back to you, Vishal. Thank you so much, Vishal. There's your card. All right, this talk was purely dedicated to my dad. He's perfectly fine. No worries. Just before you start thinking that there's a sad story, by God's grace, he's absolutely fine. This is purely dedicated to him. Thank you, dad.