What's up everybody this is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution in this video the question is are you addicted and what we're going to be using is a test from the National Council on alcoholism and drug dependence all right now very quickly this test can actually be used for just about anything what I mean by that gambling addiction sex addiction food addiction smartphone addiction social media addiction all these other things all right for the purpose of this video we're going to focus on alcohol and drugs but there will be a link to this test in the description below and if you feel that you might have a problem with something else you can easily take this same test just swap out what it is all right so when it comes to drug addiction alcoholism a lot of myths a lot of misconceptions a lot of people don't know what separates an addict from a non addict now one of the biggest issues is because people like to use the word functioning addict and functioning not functioning doesn't matter check out the link in the description I mean the info card there's a video called rock bottom and check that out to get rid of that idea of functioning so anyways this video might be a little bit longer because I'm gonna hit on some details of this test but as you follow along the only thing you have to do the only thing that you have to do is be 100 honest with yourself you can lie to me you can lie to your friends you can lie to your family you can lie to your boss all you want all you have to do in this video is be honest with yourself so let's get started all right question number one can you get through the week without drinking or using all right there's a lot of people who have a problem stopping but there's this false idea that we can control it so can you go an entire week without drinking or using are you always able to stop when you want to this is a big one this is one of the biggest questions this is where you need to be honest with yourself can you stop when you want to okay addiction involves this this craving that the average person doesn't get once we start we cannot stop what what this means is how many times have you ever gone to the bar and said i'm only going to have one or two but you ended up having five six seven eight however many it is those of you who are using drugs prescription medications more specifically that was one of my drugs of choice can you take them as prescribed or do you need more and right now you might have some justifications coming through your head like oh well i'm in more pain than what the doctor prescribes me leave that out of the equation for right now just answer the question honestly all right can you stop when you want to all right and don't give me that like well i don't want to all right just be honest with yourself all right question number three do you ever feel guilty about your drinking or drug use just so you know this is not something that normal people feel guilty about okay like do you ever feel bad for drinking for using typically you know my experience was was because i was hiding it i was doing it when people weren't looking and this actually plays into some of the following questions like there was guilt associated with my drinking and using one of them being drinking before work drinking during lunch using drugs at work these are things that i felt guilty about all right being high around my son high around my family all these things all right do your family or friends ever complain about your drinking or using all right so get rid of any kind of bias out of your head okay because i also want to make very clear check out some of my other videos about the brain science of addiction um addiction takes control of our survival mechanism okay so when our drinking or using is challenged we get on the defensive real quick all right so ask yourself honestly do your family do your friends ever complain about your drinking or drug use get rid of all the other you know narrative in this situation just yes or no yes or no that's it okay do they ever complain next this ties in with it has your drinking or drug use caused any issues with family or friends similar but different what this means more is do you fight with your family members when you're drunk do you fight with them when you're high okay has it caused issues okay another example might be do has your family members ever given you like an ultimatum like you need to quit drinking you need to quit using drugs if you want to live in my house if your spouse has ever said you need to stop or i'm going to leave have you neglected family or friends because of your drinking or drug use this this is something that you know we do when we have an addiction um for example you're invited to a family gathering or something like that but you're too drunk to go you're too high to go um maybe you have said no to some kind of gathering because you knew that you could not drink there or you could not be high there okay have you ever missed any type of gathering because of your drinking or drug use have you lost a job because of drinking or using this one's big too me personally the first job i ever lost from my drinking like i said the brain automatically hops on the defensive i immediately got thoughts like oh the boss is out to get me these people didn't like me anyways they were out the reality was was that i lost that job for failing a drug test okay so just answer this honestly have you ever lost a job because of drinking or drug use another example is by the way if you don't know me i have lost dozens of jobs back in my active addiction okay and not only did i fail drug tests but there were times when i drank the night before like all night long woke up late for work got there late got fired for it okay these are the things that we're talking about next have you experience withdrawal symptoms when you stop this is a big one too this is about physical dependency when you drink or use an excess and now that i think about it i need to do a video on why withdrawal happens so remind me remind me to make a video on that but when you stop drinking or using do you experience withdrawal my drinking got to a point where right about around lunch time my hand would start shaking like this i was so ignorant to what withdrawal was i didn't know what this meant i vomited a lot okay i was going through alcohol withdrawal my body had become so dependent to alcohol that i needed it throughout the day as soon as the alcohol was metabolizing in my body my body would start freaking out because it didn't know how to operate without it same thing happens with drugs if any of you out there abuse opiates especially prescription drugs whether it's pain medications or benzos like xanax or value those have some brutal withdrawals too benzos you can even have seizures opiate withdrawal is literally the worst aches pains nausea i will do a video on withdrawal symptoms but go google symptoms of withdrawal from whatever substance you may or may not have a problem with and see if you are experiencing any of those symptoms when you are not using because a physical dependence like it trumps most of the questions on here if you have developed any kind of physical dependence to alcohol or drugs you got a problem all right the very last question is have you had any medical problems because of drinking or using okay the first time that i acknowledged my medical issues was the day my son was born it was a very long labor my mom had me go down to the emergency room because my feet were swollen they were swelling up and so were like my calves right and i went down there and when talking to the doctor he asked me a series of questions and one of them was like how much do you drink and i told him the truth like whatever i like to get drunk like i'm a young dude you know whatever and he said this is coming from your drinking you need to stop so all i did was i started lying to all of the other doctors that i ever saw after that so we lie to ourselves about these things okay so you have to ask yourself have you had any medical issues because of your drinking or using fact alcohol is literally like the most dangerous substance when it comes to harming your innards okay opioid overdose is a fit is a really quick death from overdose but alcoholism is very long it is drawn out your body starts shutting down acting in different ways like alcohol is one of the main reasons that i almost died five years ago but it also had to do a little bit with my prescription painkiller addiction and my cocaine addiction and all the other things i was putting in my body all right so like i said the only thing i wanted you to do during these questions was to just be honest with yourself i did skip over a couple of these questions just for the sake of keeping this video nice and short all right so make sure that you check out the link in the description below now question is what do you do like let's say you answered yes to every single question and by the way in order to have a problem with substances you only need to score like a 40 40 percent or 50 percent on this test like if you have like even four or five of the questions that i asked you if those answers are yes like you really need to seek help so if you need help feel free to reach out to me okay leave a comment i also have in the description all of my social media links my email address you can get ahold of me let me know i will provide you with resources all right um this is for anybody who might be in other countries i've been having people from the uk and australia joining up to my channel so please feel free to reach out i will help provide you with resources also if you are in the united states and you do not have health insurance either way make sure you check out the info cards because i do have a video about how you can go to rehab without insurance all right but if you if you think that you have a problem if you think that a friend has a problem hey even if you're just stumbled across this video and you think one of your friends has a problem like please share it with them all right but like i said i am always available a lot of people have been getting ahold of me on instagram so i will make this lovely instagram thing pop up again add me on instagram shoot me a dm if i can be of any help to you make sure you let me know but also if you would like to just learn more about the science of the disease of addiction this month the entire month of december you can get 50 off over at my website the rewired soul dot com on the science of addiction course just use coupon code xmas 50 and you'll get 50 off so if you want to learn more go check it out surprise this is part one okay i'm going to make a second video talking about the spectrum of addiction and how to know what type of help you need depending on how severe your addiction is okay 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If we don't have water, we can live without chocolate and diamonds and Bitcoin and gold. We can live without all of that, the caviar, we don't need any of those things. But the one thing we all need, everyone, everywhere, all the time, is access to water. A couple of days, we dyes individuals as families, as communities, as nation states. And we're seeing it already. We are seeing water wars. We're seeing major cities that can no longer provide fresh water to the population. We've seen, and this has all been exacerbated by climate. It's not going to get any better. And so weather pattern changes, drought, extreme weather, rain, flood, erosion. And then add on top of that a kind of history of corruption and political and financial gain that has been accumulated by a few. And you have essentially a mandatory set of circumstances through which you are going to have to respond and adapt immediately to survive. This is Rob Johnson, President of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. I'm here today with an old friend, Peter Neal. Today's session is just about work that I think is so important to the future of this planet and to the lives of our children. Peter, thank you for joining me. My great pleasure, Rob. Good to see you again in a while. Great to see you. How, I guess I'd like to start, is understanding how this World Ocean Observatory came to be. What did you see? What inspired you? And what have you built? Well, I've been in the maritime preservation business for some time. It was sort of a second career. My first career was as a novelist. I published a bunch of novels in the 70s. But one day I was in Cambridge. It was sleety and rainy, and I ducked into a used bookstore to get out of the weather. Went to the dollar bin, and I found a book called The Ocean Our Future, which was a report by an independent commission on the future of the oceans, the world oceans. It had been gathered together of experts from around the world by Mario Schwarz, who was the former president of Portugal. And I sat down and read through it, and it was if my whole life changed, because it's the most prescient report still. And its final recommendation was that there be an online place of exchange for information and educational services about the ocean. Key, key point, defined as an integrated global social system. So it transcends the conventional focus on species and habitat to connect the ocean to climate, freshwater, food, energy, health, trade, transportation, science, technology, policy, governance, international finance, and cultural traditions, community development. Almost, well, everything in our lives are connected by the ocean, and it has been exaggerated even still or amplified by globalization. The first person who stepped off a beach onto a small boat and pushed out into the unknown ocean, that was the beginning of globalization through exploration and knowledge and all the rest. So I did some due diligence about this idea. I went to see some people at the UN and asked permission. They said, well, we don't know who's going to do it. If you'd like to try, why not? And that was about 16, 17 years ago. And so after I left South Street, I took that with me here in Downey's Main and have built a platform that advocates through communication and connection toward building a community of citizens of the ocean worldwide, which is an informed body sort of created from the bottom up as a exercise in understanding preservation and political will. One of the great problems we have in all these transformational ideas is political will. And so if we're expecting that necessarily to come from the top down, we already know that that's a limited opportunity. The way it does happen, though, is from the bottom up. And if that's going to happen successfully, it needs an educated public. So we have these communication platforms. We have audio features, podcasts, aggregated video channel. We have online exhibits, profiles, educational curriculum. We have a digital magazine. We're developing a virtual aquarium. I'll talk about that maybe later. And all of these things, which are vehicles by which we can focus on solutions and information, responsible science information solutions, the idea of being to become a force in ocean literacy. We are irresponsibly negligent in our understanding of the ocean. And science is hard at work. Data, we are learning enormous amounts every day, more and more and more. There's an old adage that we know more about the surface of Mars than we know about the ocean that represents 70% of our planet. Nonetheless, that's not the entire answer. As in all cases, data is enormously useful. There's never enough. Scientists always want more. And the idea now, though, is we need to turn that data into action. One of the ways we do that is to aggregate the good work of others, celebrate the work of others, bring it all together into one place where people can go and interact. And the website now is almost 3 million people a year. And all of these other things, Facebook following is 950,000. These are all sort of numbers that matter if you're actually going to try to reach people outside of the conventional circles and silos. As in all cases, we limit ourselves, we talk to ourselves, we have conferences where we all come together and say, report of the incremental advance that we've made since the last conference. These frustrate me terribly. But so the World Ocean Observatory can now claim, I think, responsibly, legitimately, that we're reaching millions of people worldwide with this message for ocean preservation and sustainability. I think it's fascinating, just many of the different aspects and dilemmas that you brought up. As you know, in what you might call post-Trump era, the notion of expertise, hierarchy, and representation is in tatters. I don't mean they are wrong. I mean the confidence in those things has been beaten up. So at some level, you have something that is bottom up organic, what you might call, full of the people on the outside.  And I guess there are two questions that come to mind. One is sometimes there's something which economists call the public good. And in a market-based system and whatever, it's not that we don't care about. Nobody's responsible, so it falls between the cracks. The public good is not taken care of. Other times there's what you might call vested interests with fierce opposition to the repairs that are necessary for the public good because it creates private loss. You see a lot of this now with fossil fuel companies or nations that have huge endowments of fossil fuels, like Russia, seemingly resisting the notion of climate change or the repair of our energy production systems. What do you see when it comes to the sea? Are there organized interests trying to thwart the work that you think needs to be done, number one, or is it just a neglect and fall in between the cracks or a little of both? Well, it's a little of both, neglect or a difference or just a kind of an assumption that it's out there. You go to the beach, it seems infinite. You don't really see the tomos, the systems that are inherent in that nature. You take it for granted, you walk down a Walmart corridor and ask somebody where all this stuff come from. They have no idea that it's come from some place else across the sea. They don't understand the interconnection of shipping or, for example, the exchange of data or financial transactions that take place by undersea cables. People just don't understand that this ocean atmosphere, this ocean environment is essential to almost everything that happens to our world now. Climate is one part of it. The effect of emissions from CO2 conditions, the acidification of the ocean, all of these things are invisible. And for the most part, people don't understand them. Asida stands up and says, well, this and that and percentages and parts per whatever. And it's very hard for people to wrap their minds around it until you can try to make it relevant to their lives specifically.  Yes, there's self-interest. There's also a kind of underlying psychological fear of change. It's a natural phenomenon. Nobody really wants to disrupt their lives in some way. Nobody in the end believes that they will give up something essential for someone else. There's a kind of innate human self-absorption and selfishness that's part of the issue. I don't think I can ever solve that problem. The problem is how can you make people understand that that fear is groundless and actually that the thing that they should be afraid of is the status quo. And it's perfect in fossil fuels.  And they've ridden fossil fuels down in the name of dividend and convention. And that has been further subverted by fracking, which was, of course, a terrible destructive extension of trying to get the last drop of oil out of the gas out of the ground that had its own social ramifications. I mean, it disrupted farming. People's lands were polluted. They had to move away. There's an enormous waste problem from fracking. Waste, fracking waste is being hidden, dumped into waterways, abandoned in places where people don't think they can see it. I mean, a horrible short-term attempt by the industry rather than to go full in to alternatives to include wind and solar, geothermal, and all the rest of it. So there's that part of it. The other part of it, though, is the idea of understanding the commons. We've gone through a, you know, quite a long period of time where the idea of shared resources has been subverted by individual gain, unlimited growth, essentially based on consumption, enabled by fossil fuels. That was the paradigm of the 19th and 20th centuries. I think it's a dying paradigm, but the fact is it was there. It had formed many, many people's lives. It's true that many people's lives were improved by that until the point where the positive consequences were overcome by the negative impacts. And so it began then to dilute and for people to understand that there is this thing called the Nature's Trust Doctrine, for example, which says that the natural resources of a nation belong to its people, actually. This is in, I think, Roman law, English common law. I think it's actually mentioned in the Constitution that natural resources are an inalienable right of the people who live in the country. And it is up to government to, it can license that, it can develop that, but it can only do it in the context of sustainability so that the supply is never exhausted for the ensuing generations. And of course, we have done exactly the opposite. We have gotten past peak oil to the point where now we're exhausting it to almost nothing. We're desperately trying to eat out just a little bit more. And we're doing the same thing with water, with fresh water. We're draining the aquifers. We're polluting the water. We're doing all this kind of predictable historical behavior using structures that are like dinosaurs. They really are outmoded, outdated, and they're sinking into the mud. And we, maybe some future generation will discover them and burn them. But the fact is, it's a paradigm that is bankrupt. So we have, there is a kind of returning to the idea of the commons, particularly in terms of shared natural resources. And the biggest single system out there, left, unpolluted, uncorrupted, is the ocean. So I advocate personally and through one of my books, The Once in Future Ocean, subtitled Notes Toward a New Hydraulic Society, which is basically an outcome of a new paradigm which says managed growth, because we're going to have to grow to meet the needs of a growing population. But based on sustainability and enabled by the freshwater ocean continuum, which is the last place we can go to get the kind of energy, food, fresh water, medicines, and spiritual solace that have been taken away from us by bankrupt activity on land. So the idea that one would transfer, transform or transition into this new paradigm, based on this hydraulic concept, is imperative. Frankly, I don't see any alternative because if we don't have water, we can live without chocolate and diamonds and Bitcoin and gold. We can live without all of that, caveat. We don't need any of those things, but the one thing we all need everyone, everywhere, all the time is access to water. A couple of days, we dyes individuals as families, as communities, as nation states. And we're seeing it already. We are seeing water wars. We're seeing major cities that can no longer provide fresh water to the population. We've seen, and this has all been exacerbated by climate. It's not going to get any better. And so weather pattern changes, droughts, extreme weather, rain, flood, erosion. And then add on top of that, a kind of history of corruption and political and financial gain that has been accumulated by a few. And you have essentially a mandatory set of circumstances in which you are going to have to respond and adapt immediately to survive. There's no time. We have lost the, I'm amazed by the lack of urgency. There is no time in terms of, even as we set goals for being fossil fuel free by 2050, 2050, 2030, that's not enough. That's too much time. It's too much time. It's a function of reluctant transition. And then what we do is we're cleaving to short-term solutions. For example, the electric car. I despair, and maybe you can help me on this because to me it's a supply and demand situation. It's a fundamental economic formula that is not being talked about, which is, which is in order to meet the anticipated demand for electric cars and all the other tools that we propose to run off batteries, we need the rare metals to essentially build the batteries to store the power, to store the energy. And there is nowhere enough of those metals available now or in the future on the land to meet the demand. And no one seems to be talking about this. And the only place that you can go where you can expand the geological opportunity is the ocean floor. And mining in deep sea is already underway, people are trying to do it, people are fighting it. And the reason for it is that these rare metals are all located in the areas of like hydrothermal vents and where intense biodiversity remains, which would be destroyed by this process. So all this is, is essentially taking a new technology based on extraction, wrapping it in a new kind of concept, and seeing it as an ultimate solution, which I personally believe it is not. And so we are already seeing theft of old devices and catalytic converters in cars so people can get the little bits of lithium and whatever it is that they can need because there's a market demand for them, that's pathetic. And so in order to get these things, we're going to have to mine, mining is extraction, extraction is destructive, we've been through it all before. So why are we wasting the time on this and not looking and inventing our way out of this, not just sliding ourselves in, using the old tools, wrapping the old behaviors in new clothes, and inventing our way and starting to look at serious alternatives that are out there, that young scientists and others are working on with some success and that's where the investment should be going. Those places are the ones where the smart money ought to be now.  Oh yeah, one thing is simple as that. Let's take a look at the idea, the nature, the definition of capital because that's what it all revolves around, it's capital. And we've always separated capital, capitalism, sort of independently of understanding the true value of natural capital. And natural capital, which are is, the gathering together of all the value of all these resources on earth has been utilized, but we haven't accounted for it correctly. And so I'd like to talk a little bit about that because I'm not an economist. I just look at this stuff from a kind of logical, sort of uninformed point of view, but I do- You mean you're not intoxicated by the mythologies of economics? Is that what you're saying? Wow, no, I'm not.  That's right, that's right. You're drunk the Kool-Aid. Detox, detox, that's right. But so if you're gonna pull off this hydraulic society and all the rest of it, that's fine, but what you really need to understand, and there's a phrase that describes this, which is ecosystem service analysis, where you actually have to understand the examine and monetize all aspects of production, manufacture, but which includes the costs of water, waste, reparation, health effects. All of those numbers are left out of the evaluation today. We never do that. When you walk down a corridor in a supermarket and you don't hear the wasting water, you don't hear the water that was used in the packaging, the harvesting, the delivery. None of that is there, and I've advocated for a labeling, water labeling. Everything on earth is labeled on a package except the fact that the most important thing that was used in its manufacture is not left out. We know about MSG or vitamin C, but we don't know about water. Everything we produce has a water cost and it should be labeled. We should know it. Does it take a million gallons of water to build a Volkswagen? Yes, it does. Yes. And much of that water, by the way, is not priced and is sometimes free. So the manufacturer has essentially used the primary resource at no cost and added all these other things with all their detrimental impact on top and we don't understand the true cost of doing that. So I would advocate first, ecosystem service analysis, you have to understand the problem across the full spectrum of its true cost, and then you have to account for it. And so why isn't their ecosystem accounting and audits? The fact is that when these companies audit their books or when they calculate their balance sheets, there's this huge piece of financial information that's not included. And if it was included at the true value, their profit would be lost. And that then would say to the investor, this is not a good strategy. We're investing in the wrong thing by not truthfully accounting for what is the cost of doing business. And we're going to, water is now an asset class. There are water funds, there are water companies, there are hedge funds looking for water.  You may get a fancier car, but you'll never get the true value of that water loss back again. I'm curious, Oceanographic Institute, so I went to MIT. When I was young, I thought about doing graduate work at Woods Hole or Scripps or any of these places. Are they at the vanguard along with you of this kind of work, or are they somewhat, how would I say, caught in the habit structures of previous generations or challenges? Well, I want to give them more credit than that. Good, that makes me happy. These places are doing the best science. They are out there, Woods Hole is still amazing, Scripps still amazing. One of the problems is that they rely almost entirely on government grants. You also have a different kind of phenomenon where you have something like the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Wendy and Eric and Wendy Schmidt, and these are very wealthy people. They have essentially constructed a state-of-the-art Oceanographic Research Vessel, and they are subsidizing scholars to go out and do amazing work in the deep sea. This is essentially a kind of, it's not for profit, but it's a private charity in a way with this amazing intent. And so it obviates the structure that, for example, in a government grant, if it goes through university, anywhere from 20 to 50 or 60% is taken by the university's overhead.  So the structures do get in the way. There's no question about it inside, this will tell you that they do. In policy, it's also interesting. We use words like adapt, sea level rise is a good example. Adapt, mitigate, you know, well, adapt just says, well, it is what it is, we're gonna have to change our ways. That's one strategy. Mitigate, it basically is a hard response, an engineering response. We're going to do some kind of thing like the Thames River Barrier or the Protecting Barrier Artificial Dykes that are now protecting the coast of the Netherlands. These Venice is thinking about the same thing in order to control flooding. These are engineering solutions, it's classic, this is how we think. And very smart people are trying to deal with that. You could look at the same thing with the plastic in the ocean. Millions of dollars raised to try to go out and engineer a solution to gather it all up in some way which is really ineffective, hasn't really worked. And what we don't do is one of two things. We don't go instead of just trying to fix the problem that we try to go back and fix the cause. So the way to fix plastic in the ocean is to fix the plastic problem. A fossil fuel product, let's remember, it's a fossil fuel product, it can be recycled, but plastic recycling which had its moment now has eroded and because it was all based on the old behaviors, you either ship it to China who won't take it anymore or you don't create scale that's large enough to make it economical viable for industry to recycle that plastic, but if you recycled every bit of plastic on earth today, you'd never have to make another piece of plastic again. So it's that kind of behavior that we're not doing. The other side of that is adapt, mitigate, invent, invent. That's what we do best. This is one of the great aspects or great qualities of the human imagination. We know how to invent things. Scientists are brilliant at inventing things and we ought to be subsidizing them, for example, the way we subsidize fossil fuels. Only within the last 30 days, I believe, has there been an attempt by the US government to stop subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. So we've taken our resources that belong to the people. We've subsidized them. We've given research and develop grants. We've given them tax exemptions. We've done all these things to enable the fossil fuel industry, right? We're exhausting the supply, but what that represents is probably the largest transfer of wealth from the people to the few in human history. Think about it. Coal, oil, gas, all plastic, all of these things are based on a, have been incentivized up until this very moment, long after the oil crisis, long after the smart money left, only because of these vested interests. And you see these companies today, even still in the name of sustainability and conservation environmental and ESG standards and all the rest, look the underneath and see what actually is happening. And, you know, there's a piece that's going to- I did a podcast with a gentleman from Penn State named Michael Mann, whose book, his newest book is called The New Climate War. Yeah. And it's about the information. It's scrambling what you might call the signal to noise ratio to sow the seeds of doubt that we need to change or that there is any urgency in that need to change. Naomi Oreskes, who I've not met, wrote a wonderful book called The Merchants of Doubt showing the analog between how the tobacco industry deflected attention away from the harm of cigarettes and how that's been adapted to the fossil fuel industry. Do you yourself experience, which you might call vibrance opposition in the world of ideas from the things that you put on the book? Well, it may be that my voice is so tiny. They haven't heard it yet. They haven't heard it yet. But- We'll work on that together. We'll work on that. But I think that the other thing to think about is, so if we're in our inventive mode, and if we do acknowledge that the old way of accounting for things is a way to show on a corporate or an individual investor balance sheet that we're all engaged in a kind of false economy. And if you then look at this new paradigm and you say, OK, if you're going to organize the world around the most valuable resource on earth, which is the ocean freshwater continuum, then you have to start inventing ways to use that appropriately, not to corrupt it, not to pollute it, not to exhaust it. And if you do that, then other things start to happen that are inevitable. There are kinds of these additional transformational outcomes. And so if you take that as the premise, then suddenly the policies and the laws and the enforcement of those laws changes because you want to protect this new approach. You start addressing problematic forms of governance because you start thinking about upstream and downstream effect. We have independent municipalities along a river. Somebody up here can put a chemical plant in and throw their waste in the water. Nobody can stop them. However, it has terrible downstream impact on the community all the way down to the coastal resources where that river has become polluted. So in order to combat that under this new system, you move away from independent municipalities to regionalism and regional management, watershed management. And if you start doing that, you start making changes to the infrastructure based on the commonality of interest and the understanding that these things speak directly to meaningful work and public health and equity and social justice. All of these things that we talk about as problems we need to face in our society today actually could be addressed in a more creative way if we were to invent another way of sort of organizing ourselves into new structures based on new behaviors that is all essentially gathered together in a strategy, the only strategy for the survival of civilization. So if you want to look at how we're going to do that and you look at the ocean, you see that it is a climate regulator. You see that it is a heat pump. It is a massive storage of energy that can be released in many different ways. It is a huge source of biodiversity and food to feed the world. It is where we will find the cures to cancer and all diseases, even diseases we don't even know exist. Because in that biodiversity, we are already essentially building cancer cures on either direct use or synthesis of ocean processes. So if you really want to embrace a solution that could work, that would work, you need to say and you need to understand it urgently that nothing else matters. And that the United States really doesn't even have a national ocean policy. We say we do and the Biden administration has put forth some interesting things and they put some great people into the national ocean and the atmospheric administration. But ocean policy extends beyond NOAA. It expands to land use, environmental protections, legal protections, health issues, social justice, problems of equity and access. Give you a perfect example of that, Flint, Michigan. Close to my home. A short opportunistic political decision made by some politician basically destroys a community and it is still not recovered. So suddenly the water comes back. It's sourced to pollution. There's immediate data that shows that children health is affected. There's a human cry. When they restore it to the pure supply, the only reason they really did it was because there was a GM factory, there in Flint, that suddenly was complaining about corrosion in the parts. That the water they were using in the manufacturer was corroding the parts almost immediately. And so then they had to restore it back to the pure thing based on basically a political decision in response to a corporate interest. Not to the fact that the children of Flint were all or that the property values in that city, heavily minority populated, were destroyed. And they still haven't replaced the letters and pipes. They still haven't addressed the problems with any degree of compensation or regress. I mean, restoration. You're winding me up, man. You're winding me up because I, as you know, I grew up in Detroit and I was there, involved in some consultations around the Detroit bankruptcy as the Flint water crisis became known and understood. Being around the Great Lakes in a water crisis spun my head in terms of the relationship between values and value, like you can hardly imagine. But you can imagine. I know. People need to understand that the ocean begins at the mountaintop, and it descends to the Abyssal plain. So every drop of water that evaporates from the ocean and goes into the water cycle, the one scientific principle that almost everybody learns in grammar school, right? It evaporates it up. It goes up into the clouds, into the weather. It falls down as rain or snow. And then it comes right back down through the watersheds all the way to the ocean and recycles again. It's an absolutely glorious global system. And for example, you can look at the Himalayas and see, which is now called the third pole, which because of evaporation and snowfall and all the rest of it, that services, what is it? Seven Asian countries, millions and millions of people rely on that water that descends down through all the farmlands and the tea plant and all of that into the rivers and then out into the sea. And that refreshment, essentially that descent of water then to be recycled again and again and again is the essence of how we survive. We are water. Our bodies are water.  And it needs to be urgent enough and understood well enough for people to understand that. And one of the tools that the World Ocean Observatory is developing, with by the way the support of the Schmidt Ocean Institute, is a virtual aquarium, which will allow for anyone, any age, anywhere, at any time, at no cost to go into a virtual space that looks just like an aquarium. And they will be able not only to explore the deep sea but the coastal zone, but they will also be able to spawn the nature of ocean work and also cultural and spiritual resources. So there will be galleries within this or modules or exhibits within this virtual aquarium that demonstrates the hydraulic organization and depth of meaning and complexity and beauty of this water world. And to me, that's the most revolutionary thing we can do because there's no price barrier. I mean, I love aquariums. I love what happens in aquariums in one way because it inspires and visitors, particularly children, a sense of wonder and reverence or at least all in the face of nature. But if you follow a family of four after they've paid $120 for a two-day ticket and watch them go through, even the placement of the labels and the language in them is not really conducive because the parent needs to read it to the kid. And the parent doesn't understand it any better than the kid does. And so that the information is awkward. There's an educational program. That's great. There's a touchstone. That's great. It costs $400 million or more to build one. It costs $40 million a year to run one. And all good. I want all of that to do. I want to drive using the virtual aquarium. I want young people and old people alike to essentially then go to those aquariums and learn more and learn about their and about their. And that's true worldwide. This pathway, if you can create the virtual what I'll call Lily Pad to jump on before going to the real aquariums all over the world, that's a fantastic, fantastic package. Julie Packard, who was the founder of Monterey and as for, I don't know, 30 years, made that place magnificent, is one of the people I talked to originally about the Rollers Conservatory. And I went to see her and I said, I'm not this. I'm not that. But what do you think? She said, you should try it. The interesting thing, though, about that particular place, and I said this to them so they've heard probably the person I told it to is long gone. But the point is that when you went into those cannery buildings, where that building where that aquarium is located up in the upper corner or somewhere, there was a small exhibit on the cannery workers. And it was the only social history that was evident in the building. And when I went back the last time, it was gone. And that's part of the problem. The part of the problem is, how do you relate what you're seeing in these places? It's doing museums, too, by the way. How do you relate what you're seeing to these things outside of the conventional way of looking at it? So the fact that the aquarium is located in buildings in which workers and families grew up in California, a kind of seminal industry that was the soul of Monterey, long before the surfers and long before the second homes and long before all the tourists, that was the soul of Monterey. And suddenly that's missing. And that's part of the problem overall. It's the human dimension and relationship that you have to understand that the ocean is an enormous employer, families, trades, distribution systems. All of these things are essentially functions of work that employ people and build family histories through generations. I'm sitting at this moment out on Long Island. And I have to recommend a book which my children have heard me read passages from. And what's called East Hampton Marine Museum has done tours by Peter Mathiasen called Men's Lives. Men's Lives, great. And it's about how what you might call the New York City Resort community displaced the fishermen in order to have recreational beaches. Well, and the potato farmers, by the way, that are now all multi-million dollar building lots. But you're not necessarily going to staunch that history. But you need to remember what it stood for and what an extract from it, not just the value of the land, but the value of the intellectual property, the value of the psychological value, native peoples, indigenous peoples who were the first inhabitants of wilderness had to make that adaptation. And if you really, if you put yourself in close encounters with nature and animals like your daughters are doing, what's happening subliminally is kind of an identification with this system, this force. That is extremely powerful and extremely necessary for our solace. Why do people go to the beaches? Do they just go to hit little things back and forth over nets? No.  They even want to go when it's not sunny. They want to go when it's wet, when there's a storm. They want to go out and see what is one of the most dynamic, raw, rare environments left on Earth. By the way, free coasts means free access to anybody who wants to go and have that experience. And we can't deny that because we are denying an essential part of ourselves to ourselves and to others. It's very nourishing. People just experience such an uplift. That's what's happening here. This is the fundamental right of life. And that is because we are working to essentially organize ourselves around the most essential natural system. And it's pervasive, again, from the mountaintop to the abyssal plain across all borders, all cultures, all classes. It affects us all the same way. And if we understand that and can work toward that in our way, using our institutions, it doesn't mean that we have to become communists. We can use our systems and do that. But we just have to understand what the goal should be. And if we understand that the goal now is survival, if people can really understand that, one of the outcomes of the pandemic is, with just how about 600,000 people dead, just here, doesn't that tell us something?  And how did we solve the problem? We haven't fully solved it because, one, we have to find the cause. But, two, we invented a response. Now, that's great. That's what we did. We invented a response, and we saved millions of lives by doing that. That's right. And, you know, why would we doubt science when science brought us a solution to a problem that was killing our families day after day? Can we come out of that? Shouldn't we come out of that with a new perspective? Yes. And a new perspective that's... Well, I think there's two things here. I think there's two dimensions. One is the science itself, which we celebrate together. The other is how it's refracted by the commodification of intellectual property rights or distribution systems to squeeze the vulnerable. And that, how do you say, is playing out all over the world right now. It's unfortunate because it takes away from what you might call that bright light that you identified of science's ability to respond to challenge. The fact is that if we haven't figured out now how nature can essentially wipe us out in an instant by virtue of communities washed away by coastal hurricanes, communities, extreme weather patterns, essentially threatening nation states. I mean, Puerto Rico is a perfect example, still completely unrecovered without help from Hurricane. And the same thing is true in Asia. And slowly, it seems that these values are reasserting themselves, hopefully in time, so that they in fact infuse the populist who then will vote the villains out, will vote the old way out, get rid of the old man that's running our country, not literally, but to essentially, there's an old thinking that's still... The old vintage, yeah. We have to just turn it over, put it away, put it in the attic, forget about it, and invent our way forward. And my argument is there's only one path to follow. I don't want to be didactic. I just think there's an impeccable logic that goes with it that goes every place you look for a solution, you find it in this freshwater ocean continuum. You cannot find it on the land anymore, because the land has been exhausted. And we're gonna have to live there. And these systems, whether we... I mean, let's just take it the most simple thing of all is freshwater. Where is the world going to get adequate freshwater? If you look at the Middle East and you look down at Iran and Iraq and Afghanistan, what are those things? What's going on? Is it just tribal warfare? If you look, this is the cradle of civilization, organized around the flow of water, from the mountains in Turkey to the ocean. And if a farmer can't have access to water because of natural or political or religious reasons, whatever it is, what do they do? They fight, they give up, or they become refugees. They try to go find a place where there is water. So refugees crossing the Mediterranean, I think are basically fleeing the consequences of inadequate water. And you can look at the source of Palestine and Israel. What happened? It's this diversion of water from the very outset, the version of water from the Jordan River that essentially was the basis for conflict that still exists in terms of what's happening in the East Bank and the West Bank and all the rest of it in terms of control of wells and access. The way I listened last night to a wonderful, wonderful lecture by a professor at Union Theological Seminary named O'Berry Henryx. And it was called the Kingdom of God and Political Economy. And it was all about Old Testament struggles over natural resources with God or His messengers continuously reminding us that we were responsible for the common good. And he was contrasting that with the kind of ethic that pervades our economic discourse today. Every religion, Rob, has water as a purification piece. If you're going to be redeemed, you're being redeemed by a water accountant. So I actually, my latest book is called Aquaterra, which says that basically one, the first thing is that, this is Earth from space. It's not green, it's blue. It's the blue planet, it's the blue marble. People use it all the time. We're misnamed first, but secondly, it's the one, again, the one thing that informs all our rituals. Every organized or disorganized religion has a water element, baptism, go down by the sea, purification, all of these things, which are there to be our functions of redemption and the affirmation of self are water driven. So why would we destroy it? And it's there for us in terms of let's just take fresh water desalination. I mean, let's face it, we are going to have to desalinate water from the ocean in order to provide adequate drinking water for public health. It's just inevitable. I want to emphasize something that is very, what I would say, magnificent about you and your website. You have a series on World Ocean Radio, of five to six minute little snippets each week. And why I think they're magnificent is they're so informative in five minutes that people get a huge, what you might call, benefit to effort ratio. Well, thank you, the connections are so viable and so obvious. So for example, everyone hears about the Galapagos, is this biodiversity mecca. And the reason it's there is because the ocean currents essentially distributed nutrients in such a way that they aggregated there. And so it was an enormous font and safe place for biodiversity development. Well, guess what? The same systems distribute poison, pollution, and that is affecting the Galapagos today from discharge, from factories, et cetera, or from air quality or whatever it is, in places long, far away, but which through ocean circulation essentially comes and affects a place that one think was invulnerable, but it's not. That's the thrill thing here.  And we need to understand that that vulnerability has a solution, but it has to be equitable and it has to essentially assert, apply tools and assert an outcome that is real, that is workable, and that will essentially save us from our own devices. And I don't want to beat it over the head, but there's only one place to go. And I believe that policy, governance, and all the rest of it should be complete, that there should not be a single act in Congress that isn't somehow cognizant of its implication on the ocean. I don't get what it is, that because I guarantee you, I can find a way that it connects. Somehow, somewhere it connects. Yes, and there's another, there's an analogy I often used in relation to finance. Financial economists for a long time pretended that you could see the future, that you knew where we'd be in 30 years and therefore the prices today just reflected that oracle-like awareness. There's a notion which John Maynard Keynes, a man named Frank Knight, put together or brought to the surface, it's called what people like Donald Roosevelt said, the unknowable unknowns. They call it radical uncertainty. What was interesting was in the debate for many years of de-regulating finance, the what I will call demagog-like oracle of finance could act like he could see the crystal ball of the future or she could see the crystal ball of the future. And it meant, get the regulators out of our hair. All they do is make a mess of things. And it didn't acknowledge what you might call the collective protection we needed. And the collective protection that we needed was from the kind of calamities that we experienced in 2007, eight, and nine, that were very disruptive to the core of trust in our society and governance and expertise. But what I always did was I said, you gotta understand something.  You've gotta continue to function. You gotta work with experienced people. You gotta learn. You gotta manage that uncertainty. You gotta manage your way through that fear. And as I'm listening to you today, I think that analogy applies to people, which you might call doing the ostrich or embracing the challenge that the World Ocean Observatory was designed to meet. How do we bring everyone out on deck in the storm under leadership like yours and other wise people from around the world and navigate so that we're back in a safe harbor? What will it take? How soon will it come? Not soon enough. I think it's going to have to be a kind of, it's not evolution. It has to be revolution. I don't think it's revolution the other way because revolution sort of implies it's still backward. I think it's invention. I think we have to take responsibility for ourselves and apply what we know, because we do know a lot, and put it to work, but put it to work in a way that essentially is based on different values that is justified and upheld by that knowledge, create the structures necessary to make it happen and based on those values, and then act. People say, well, Peter, how can you be optimistic? What can you possibly do? And my argument is pick something. Just pick one thing. It doesn't even have to be an ocean thing. Pick a land thing. Pick whatever it is that you believe in the context of this future thinking matters enough for you to invest your time and energy and wisdom into that one thing. And then I ask the next person, the next person, the next person, and by the time we all get together from the bottom up, right, we will have essentially invented something new, but we have to be informed. We have to understand the system and the whole purpose of the World Ocean Observatory is to build a populist, democratic, freely accessible platform of knowledge and experience that people can use to inform themselves to those actions. And that's the brilliance of the internet in the sense that you can actually do that. I mean, the World Ocean Observatory is two people. We're reaching millions of people. Where our budget is hardly anything. If you look at the return on investment, it's magnificent. There's no greater return on investment in terms of public of connection through something, a simple tool, but that has access worldwide to millions of people. And it can be tens of millions of people and informing them and providing them with the information that contextualizes natural systems, getting people to understand that this can be accounted for using numbers and defining value and justifying investment as good things. That's the outcome I hope for is, and it starts first inside here and then in every act that one takes and how you invest your energies. And understanding that as in all things, there is a limit to in time and space. And we're smart enough to know where we are. We're also smart enough to know what we do, what to do, but are we smart enough to do it in time?


What's going on everyone? I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com With a box of mosaic choice baseball random team break number 11 the last filler we got to do to unlock that flawless Baseball break that's coming up in the next video. Let's do the break first Big thanks everyone here. Let's do the break first and then we'll use a different dice roll to see who's gonna win Those flawless random team spots for the break one out of four five times or names and teams one two three Four and five One and a four five times for the teams one two three Four and five All right. Here's the first half of the list right here And there's the second half of the list right over there Hey, I have a good one. Thanks. And Let's just print and rip Rex breaking news from two weeks ago Travis Kelsey hosting the Saturdays SNL Actually forgot about that to be honest with you That he was doing SNL Feel like you could feel like you'd do a good job Right or no You think you think Patrick Mahomes makes a makes a cameo. All right. Oh, there's two autographs. I forgot There's nice. Oh nice one though. Jaren Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf. This is gonna go to Dilo Daniel and the Red Sox There's will crow Joe Ross, there's Josh Lowe And Ryan Vellad. All right And behind Stephen Kwan is Is an autograph of Jake Brents For the Royals that's gonna be for Russell. All right, and There you go. Now. Let's see who's gonna win spots in that flawless break right there Let's slip back over here Let's gather all the names once again second and final dice roll It will be the top six after Seven one and a six seven times one two three four five six and Seventh and final time right now from seven on down Sad times Daniel sad times, but I know you got a lot of spots Hopefully you're still up there in the top six somewhere seven through 30. Thanks for trying appreciate it We did load up another fresh case another random team break plus the same fill of the mosaic choice boxes So if you want to try again make it happen. All right top six happy times for you. There you go, Daniel You're in Steve Herrick's in Daniel's in again and again Ed P Daniel There was no need to worry Daniel Lewis. You're good. All right, so thanks everybody I'll see you in the next video for the break itself to ask piece case breaks.com


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late in sports cards. We've been two boxes of 23 bum and chrome baseball hobby for Timothy W. It's good luck here Timothy. Good luck. You know what the worst part about this is we're stuck with him now. We're stuck with Chris because of the F1 race. So he ain't going anywhere. Ready for it. Yeah. Let's go, Chris. Probably set an alarm. Got took a little nap after work. Now he's not going anywhere. Chris, what we got winning tonight? I don't think Max is going to win again. Are you welcome, Hunts? No problem, buddy. Alvarez, Guanipa first, and Maia first. Yeah, there you go. He is wired right now, bro. Ivan Melendez, Justin Crawford. It's a true blue, O'Neal Cruz to 150. Vicaro, Josue de Paula, Samuel Munoz. Gold shimmer, Luis Torres to 50. Nice one there. Excitancy, Max win. Geltam Harris. Joey Estes to 299 on the white speckle auto. Congrats on that there, Timothy. Plaws and one Benjamin. That's an atomic of one Soto on the iconic to 150. Jackson Merrill. That's a YouTuber of all time. Damn. It's quite the compliment. That's Francisco Lindor to 499. Lantigua and Hendry Chavilly. Hey, thanks for the sub there, Jim. Jim was in a couple of breaks, I think. That's the same, Jim. Base autos, Joey Ortiz. Nice one there. Sam doesn't need to be cast up. Eggs, Chris. There you go, Orioles. Reeve Ross and Christopher Toran. Watch us all day. Thanks, hunts. Throw in our touchstone. There's Vinny Pasquantino to 499. Roman Anthony. Magenta, Francisco Alvarez to 299. Rookie for the Mets. Foraz and Jackson Holiday. Lantigua, Chavilly. Chilly, Chavilly. What, Chilly? Reeve Ross and Toran.  Those things gone, finally? Yeah, it's 299. It's Kevin Perrata. Hey, have a good one, Jason. Thank you, buddy. Guanipa first, Maya first. Have a good night, Jason. I don't think I've heard you laugh as hard as when I got forced the second time. That was the funny thing. Gerardo Quintero first base auto. Like, there's no way you can see it again. There's no way. The funniest was when Chris was like... Yeah, I know. Well, Oregon went nuts, dude. Talking to Chris.  Chey goes, which one's the cherry? And Chris points, let's see who goes that one. Just eats it. Rainer Arias first. Thanks, hunts. Oh, Chilly. That was the worst one. Oh, that was great, dude. I got everybody that day. That was fun. Green, Tanner Bibby to 99. For as these things goes, it's Cinnamon again. Shimmer is Jet Williams. Fallen and Celestyn and D'Angelo Sarmiento. No one else thought it was that funny. Oh, it's hilarious, dude. I don't care. It was freaking awesome. Brian Rincone first base auto for the Phillies. Sebastian Wolcott and Gennaro Miller. I'll do it for your break there. Tim, thank you as always for the sport, buddy. Get those right out to my man.


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It is Father's Day. In celebration of Father's Day, what can we do as parents, whether it's dad, mom, or to support, obviously, growing children that are healthy? And I know for a lot of us, we're starting out as parents, we're thinking about children, and we want to be the best parents. Maybe we've learned some things from our parents that we don't want to do. How can we show up and be better parents? The number one thing that parents can do is learn how to handle personal criticism without becoming defensive. I started teaching couples communication courses around the country because I found that when the boy crisis was oftentimes a phenomenon of divorce, divorce was a phenomenon of the mother and father not being able to handle criticism without becoming defensive. Therefore, it made it unsafe for their partner to be able to share their real feelings and concerns. Both sexes, mom and dad, felt like they were walking on eggshells. That would either lead to a divorce, or it would lead to a legal divorce, or it would lead to a psychological divorce, or it would lead to a minimum security prison marriage, which is very sad for everybody. I started teaching that, but it's important. I teach it to adults. It's very important for parents to have that because most of the time children mimic the style of communication that their parents do. That's pretty common sense. But it's also important for us to be teaching that to our first, second, and third grade children, both boys and girls. So the bully is that they're picking on a kid when they see what the feelings and the real full personality of the child that they're picking on and how that made them feel. They stop bullying to a much greater degree. When the bully is listened to as well, he or she doesn't feel as insecure, and therefore bullies less. The bully and the bullied have in common, both of them have low self-esteem. They have a lot of characteristics in common. As they listen to each other in first, second, and third grade, where this has been done in Denmark, they find that there's a significant reduction in bullying in school and also other dysfunctional behavior. There's an increase in emotional intelligence that you were talking about before, AJ, as being so crucial not only to getting along with children, but eventually in male-female relationships or in same-sex relationships, emotional intelligence is probably the most important single skill you can get. The fact that we're teaching, I have learned far more from teaching the couples communication courses than I ever learned, even though I was good enough at math to be teaching math in the eighth grade, but I haven't learned nearly as much from math as I have from couples communication skills and communication skills.


Sain is overrated when you need a breakthrough. When you and your life and we corporately need a breakthrough, need a game change and need to move to the next level, Sain is overrated. That's why you should all have some crazy people in your life. In fact, you should all have at least one crazy friend.  Thank you for bringing crazy to my life. Whatever they are in the world, wake them up with that text. You are my crazy friend.


Oh, good day. May 40 here. So does Glenn Larry host YouTube's edgiest show? I mean, I just watched a show with the Amy Wax and Amy Wax said positive things about Jared Taylor. Talks about how she reads American Renaissance, how she disagrees with Charles Murray.  She makes the common sensical point that that if identity politics is good for some groups, then it's got to be good for all groups.  So Glenn Larry consistently hosts YouTube's edgiest show. I mean, he had Charles Murray on talking about his new book Facing Reality about disproportionate rates of crime committed by various racial groups and talked about cognitive differences between various racial groups. All right, this was all on the Glenn Larry show. So if you don't know Glenn Larry, he's a centrist black intellectual who shows, you know, some sympathy for right-wing perspectives and he throws his show open to a lot of right-wing thinkers who've been exiled from polite conservatism, such as Amy Wax and Glenn, Amy Wax and Charles Murray. So Amy Wax said she strongly disagreed with Charles Murray that the white identity politics, you know, is just the worst thing ever.  But didn't make a particularly strong case for why. So Glenn Larry says we should try to do away with all identity politics. But I think the way we're just wired is that we were wired to identify with our group, like we're most interested in people who are similar to ourselves. So good on Glenn Larry though for hosting, you know, Charles Krauthammer for, I mean, Charles Murray and Amy Wax. So Amy Wax got into trouble for this latest interview because she talked about restricting Asian immigration. She was skeptical that the spirit of liberty now beat in their breasts. And I think that was a particularly strong argument. So Amy Wax does not make the case for significant biological differences between the races, but what she sees as self-evident is there are big, you know, cultural differences. So she tried to make a case against essentially non-white immigration. So she argued that, you know, the United States is a civilization from the West and that when it comes to immigration, we should choose people who are most compatible, our majority population, which in practice would mean more white immigrants, fewer Asian and African and Latino immigrants. So she notices that conservators are very scared of talking about race. They don't want to be called racist. But Amy Wax goes about as far as you can go and still be in the national conservatism, your arm has only conference spectrum. But quite the interesting discussion between Glenn Larry and Amy Wax, I think it came out December 20th. And you're looking out Bondi Beach there directly straight ahead. It's about five kilometers probably from here. So one downside with the Amy Wax Glenn Larry discussion is that they would keep interrupting each other. So there should be very wasp about it, just allow one person to speak at a time, allow that one person to make their point and then allow the next person to take up. G'day Robert, how are you mate? So you're looking at eastern suburbs of Sydney, you're looking at Bondi and out beyond Bondi is Watson's Bay where I was yesterday and out beyond that is Manley. So guess what? I walked past Adam Gilchrist like on this trail, all right? About half an hour ago I walked past Adam Gilchrist, the former Australian wicker keeper and just terrific batsman. When he would when he would score runs, it'd be at a very high rate of knots. He was like very exciting to watch. Adam Gilchrist, man. He could belt out the runs. I just watched him on KO Sports, that's the sports live sports streaming app here in Australia about a million subscribers and they did a documentary on Monkey Gate. So Andrew Simons was a pop-black pop-black player on the Australian national cricket team.  So Andrew Simons could, you know, pass for Southern European. He could almost pass for Italian. So he played for the Australian national cricket team for about 20 or 30 tests. Then in a test against India about 15 years ago there was this Indian batsman who would call him a monkey and Andrew Simons took really strong, and yeah, Andrew Simons took really strong exception to that and and then made an official complaint. It made an official complaint about Monkey Gate and then went through the appeals process and anyway, things didn't go Andrew Simons way. What does being black have to do with it? Well, it's because he was being called a monkey. So he was arguing that he was the object of racial vilification. And so initially the Indian batsman got a three-match suspension, but then it got overturned and like Andrew Simons already American Luke is fading away. So Andrew Simons was like very quick to take offense. So when an Indian player simply like patted Brett Lee, the fast bowler, like Andrew Simons like went and took, you know, took offense and like got in the guy's face and it was a very tense match like the umpires had made some dubious decisions that went against India. And anyway, the point of Monkey Gate is that after bringing this allegation Andrew Simons life you know kind of collapsed into alcoholism. Your face looks thinner or more weathered like that crocodile Dundee guy. Yeah, so his life collapsed and yeah, a lot of sun exposure. So I got a medical checkup while I was here. I got my Australian Medicare card and I got a couple of spots to watch for potential skin cancer. So I've been getting a ton of sun, like a ton of exercise. So I walked about 12k yesterday out to Watson's Bay. So anyway, I think this is like fairly common. Andrew Simons brings this racial vilification complaint and then because the complaint doesn't go his way he collapses into alcoholism. He was already a heavy drinker, but he then collapses into, you know, alcoholism that ends his professional cricket career. You know, his life just falls apart and I've seen this again and again. Better watch on the beach to see what's coming. Yeah, I saw it on the beach. I saw both versions, the 1950s version and the Australian remake. So I see that. I'm not sure I've seen the quiet earth.    Sing the Waltzing Matilda. Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing Matilda with you.  Anyone else have complaints about Australian cellular production? But yeah, a lot of people bring, you know, a hot button controversial complaint like Andrew Simons did or my female attorney friend, right?   Hot button controversy and then people just fall apart. So So it's all tempting to breathe to, oh, did Georgie girl? Yeah, Georgie girl. She's like 80 years old, mate. I'm not even sure she's still alive. So no, I'm not gonna, I'm gonna be dating the singer of Georgie girl.  Walking is my mental health practice. In winter, I walk less. I notice I'm more depressed and anxious. Well, you can walk year-round here. But I tell you one thing in in Sydney, the weather forecast, the worst I've ever seen. So today it was supposed to be mostly sunny, but it was like raining for much of the last hour. So the Seekers, yeah, the Seekers folk group, mate, I don't date women over 40. So when they say it's raining, often it'll be sunny all day, potentially still 20. And when they say it'll be sunny, you know, often it turns out raining. The most unpredictable weather here that I've ever seen. So Amy Wax, oh, yeah, so I I I saw an interesting article by Ezra Klein. You don't date women over 30. I actually saw an interesting article by Ezra Klein. I'm not going to deny it. And it was in the New York Times and he talked about the difference between politics for power and politics for emotional catharsis. So I don't normally get much benefit from Ezra Klein, but here you go in the New York Times today. So this is how how he starts out, talks about a new book, which I just downloaded. So there's 20-20 book, Politics is for Power, Eton Hirsch, a political scientist at Tufts, sketched a day in the life of many political observers in sharp, if cruel terms. Yeah, light rain is called. So I don't mind the rain. It's just I can't believe the weather forecast is so inaccurate here. This political scientist says I refresh my Twitter feed to keep up on the latest political crisis and toggle over to Facebook to read clickbait news stories. Yeah, everyone's, not everyone, a lot of people are fit here and almost no fatties. So this is political scientist Eton Hirsch. He says this is his daily routine. I refresh my Twitter feed to keep up on the latest political crisis and toggle over to Facebook to read clickbait news stories, then over to YouTube to see a montage of juicy clips from the latest congressional hearing. I then complain to my family about all the things that I don't like that I've seen. So to Eton Hirsch, that's not politics. It's what he calls political hobbyism. So is that what we're engaged in guys? We engage in political hobbyism rather than the pursuit, the bloodthirsty pursuit of power. Yes, my family would object if I married a kangaroo. So would my rabbi. So political hobbyism, right? Is that what we're doing here? It's it's it's a national pastime. So a third of Americans say they spend two hours or more each day on politics. How much time do you spend each day on politics? Well, these people four out of five say that not one minute of that time is spent on any kind of real political work. It's all TV news and podcasts and radio shows and social media and cheering and booing and complaining to friends and family. What if the kangaroo were of the Hebraic faith? So real political work is the intentional strategic accumulation of power in service of a defined end. It is action in service of change, not information in search of outrage. All right. So when you come here to this show, right, this show is about service of change, action in service of change. Not so many snakes in Sydney, but more outside of Sydney in regional Australia, right? Are you about action in service of change? Or are you seeking information in service of outrage? So outrage and fuel and fury, they're only useful as a fuel for getting something done. And outrage and fury, you know, should not be the ends. So as a client says, yeah, very few street, no street gangs in eastern suburb Sydney, maybe western Sydney, but overall Sydney is like the fourth safest city in the world. So Steve Bannon has made it his mission to recruit people who don't believe in democracy to serve as municipal poll workers. So this is interesting, right? On the right, we always think that people on the right are, you know, not paying attention to where the power lies. And that they're getting, you know, our computer by the left. And as a client says, I'll say this for the right, they pay attention to where the power lies in the American system. Is that true? Does the right pay attention where the power lies in the American system and ways the left sometimes doesn't? Steve Bannon calls this the precinct strategy and it's working. Suddenly people who have never before showed interest in party politics started calling the local GOP. I never get outrage.  I say people who've never before showed any interest in party politics started calling the local GOP headquarters crowding into county conventions eager to enlist as precinct officers pro-publica reports. They show up in states Trump won and in states Trump lost in deep red rural areas in swing of voting suburbs and in popular cities. So I didn't realize this. So is this energy transferring from Trump or is this independent of Trump? The difference between those organizing at the local level to shape democracy and those raging ineffectually about democratic backsliding, myself included, remind me of the old line about war. Yes, I am able to vote in Australia. Emitters talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. So right now, Trumpists are talking logistics. Yeah, Ezra Klein is calling out the riot for catching on to what the left has been doing for years. We do not have one federal election. We have 50 state elections and then thousands of county elections and each of those ladder up to give us results. So Congress can write some rules and boundaries for our elections that are administered. State legislatures can make decisions on who can vote and not vote. But counties and towns are making decisions about how much money they're spending, what technology they're using, and the rules around which candidates can participate. Yes, it's 104 Monday afternoon here. And it looks like Dallas Cowboys are going to be matching up against the San Francisco 49ers. It's a very overcast day. Like it's hard to think that there'd be that much, you know, radiation. Look at that, very, very overcast. I am wearing sunscreen and I'm wearing my Aussie hat. Right. So, yeah, Glenn Lowry. I think he's got like the edgiest show on YouTube. Okay, look at that beautiful sky. Yeah, it's like an Aussie keeper. Very fair dinkum shoes, mate. Skeetchers. Very comfortable. Very fair dinkum. How much weight have you lost since arriving in Australia? At one point I was down like seven pounds, but I think I'm pretty much back to where I was. So I'm about 165 to 168 pounds. Okay, very disturbing story here from the New York Review of Books. I hope this does not get out. So an expert on Franz Vanden, who was a black political activist. Adam Schatz is a white guy writing about him. And he writes in the New York Review of Books that he was essentially the victim of Mars polar bear hunters. Because my attackers came out of nowhere on a familiar street and didn't even take my wallet. But they robbed me of something, a New Yorker's self-assurance. Whoa, whoa. Thank you so much for the super chat. Very exciting. And it says there's something morbidly instructive about being beaten up by people who are obviously relishing your humiliation. This is in the New York Review of Books that's on top of Steve Saylor's blog. To read about the pleasure people have taken in cruelty is not the same as experiencing it firsthand. So it just was published January 7th. Before I set upon assorted and robbed at roughly 9.15 p.m., half block from my girlfriend's building in Chelsea, I had been having a rather good day. I just outlined the last chapters of my book on Franz Vanden, Radical West Indian Author of the Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. So let's have a look at the Mighty Park. There are tons of lefty prosecutors in moderate towns because the left realized turnout is crazy low and some funding and turnout effort is effective, exactly. So maybe the right is learning from the left on how to do politics. So this white guy wrote a couple of books on this radical West Indian activist. And he was feeling a surge of adrenaline after writing his book. So he put on his headphones to listen to a podcast conversation with his friend Randall Kennedy about his new book on race and civil rights, Say It Loud. Randy's voice was the last thing I heard as I turned right on West 17th Street and 9th Avenue, where my attackers were lying in wait. There were three young men, barely old enough to be called that, 16 or 17, and almost immediately I was on the pavement. I don't know if I was jumped or if I was thrown to the ground. What I remember is the thud, the sound of my body meeting the concrete. Well, not a lot of this in Sydney. As soon as I fell, they began taking turns kicking and punching me in my stomach, my upper thigh, the right side of my waist. They didn't say anything. What I do remember is their laughter. They were chuckling amongst themselves as I absorbed the blows. Their voices sounded youthful and immature and they moved like gangling teenagers. But they knew something that had never occurred to me, that my prone, defenseless body could be the source of considerable entertainment. Then I got a disavow. He names the race of his assailants. And then the article cuts off because of the New York Review of Books. Yeah, Tinsborg on Twitter talks humiliation robberies in Sweden. They have a word for it. Yeah, a lot of humiliation crime going on in Sweden as well as New York City and other places. Society encouraging masked men to roam the streets.  Sounds like it's seen from a clockwork orange, yeah. Like it would never occur to me that beating someone up could just be great entertainment. But apparently it is. And these people vote for Alvin Bragg. I think you say they never learn. I think they will. I think they will. Even people on the left get tired of massive amounts of crime. Science Museum boards up display on early human migration because it is non-inclusive. Man, how did the woke take over all the museums? Oh, did you guys know that NPR is having a white supremacy crisis? So all these black players at NPR have quit. So Crystal Marie Fleming says the problem at NPR is white supremacy. So if you are saying this explicitly is telling indeed. Yes, very telling indeed. So Audie Cornish, host of All Things Considered, is leaving NPR. She wrote on Twitter she's joining many of you in the great resignation. So did you guys realize that NPR was all about white supremacy? Then the interesting academic study here. Half of blacks say they prefer to be robbed or burglarized and to have unprovoked contact with cops. So they'd rather be robbed by their own kind than have to deal with the police. So Steve Saylor writes about the lost age of Los Angeles triumphalism. Yeah, we kind of evolved that much since the 16th century. People back then loved public executions and humiliations as well as animal torture and their beating. So at URM the 1985 TV series, Hart Nelson, starred Joe Pesci, plus three NFL football players, Deb Buckus, Bubba Smith. So Los Angeles was really fashionable from about 1984 to 1990. And 1984 Olympics turned out to be great embodiment of mourning in America.  Steve Saylor after the fall of the Soviet Union, which ushered in Los Angeles's 1990s time of troubles of riot, earthquake and OJ Simpson. And do big football players still get cast in TV shows? That was a big thing in the 1970s and 1980s. Oh, so there's a new documentary, expedition content. And it's about the making of famous old 1963 anthropology documentary Dead Birds about tribal warfare in New Guinea. And this new documentary has almost no images because you wouldn't want to stereotype the headhunters looking like headhunters. So expedition content, which leave no images about tribal warfare. I mean, who cares about New Guinea headhunters, right? Really boring. So Michael Rockefeller, the son of the sitting New York governor, almost certainly got eaten by these headhunters in New Guinea. And New York Times has not mentioned this in their review. Why would anyone be interested in learning that young Mr. Rockefeller was devoured by cannibals?  Regular woman's swimmer's left in the dust. So now in women's sports, various ex-men are now winning. It's Adam Schatz of the Hebré persuasion. I'm not sure it sounds like it. Shootings in Sweden are up 1268% since Angela Merkel's mistake back in 2015. Who would have thought that shootings in Sweden would go up 1268 points? Elliot Blatt, you don't care about outgroups? Bro. I'm not sure you're allowed to say that. Base cannibals. I remember LA in the 2000s. Skid Row was terrifying, but Venice Beach was pacified. Semi-pacified. There are lots of people in New York who won't put out with polar bear hunting. Russians, Hispanics, Dominicans, Muslims. And then they're going to keep putting out with Alvin Bragg, the left-wing DA, right? Scrolling through the chat. I never get outraged.  Yeah, not many street gangs here. One of the safest cities in the world. Twitter is pure entertainment for 99.9% of users. Joe Klein is smart, but a hack is a good bellwether of the one clap. Yeah, he's occasionally interesting. Defend the Constitution. It defends you. Walking is my mental health practice. Turn your back on your roots, mate. I want to see you with a chum bucket. Ford ain't coming back to LA. I need to watch the quiet earth. I don't remember seeing that. Okay, I must walk on.


Kainli, Dadi Mato, Nombo Djintu Diz, Tafadali Ma name is Martin Evangie, aka Dadi Mato Performing Artist, Media Personality and Content Creator So, IT That's part of my journey as a content creator For those who are watching for the first time, if you don't know Let me just remind you guys, if you've lost your account, Instagram Imehenda na wa China, Roboti Imehenda, Kainli look for Mato And after they recover within Sayo reisi hivo, it depends You know, just throwing it out There are things that people need to have already done Or already know For it to be quite successful So, what e-mails is eno ni muimu sana Ochen ikutu mi e-mails, eno za kitambu zaya hua Tambu kumbuki pasodia, iso e-mails Atu isi sa idiana If you have no access to your e-mail You might not get your account back All right, Mato, you're here to remember the late Charles Oda Maybe, I know you're very close to Charles Maybe you've worked together in projects We were in the same in the film industry Maybe you can highlight to us, maybe to the viewers That maybe you experienced the first time meeting Charles Who's Charles in the past one? So, I knew Charles even before I met him, of course I first watched him on TV Makuta no junction, he was much younger I saw him later in life during He was a BGV in one of the Safarekom Christmas Cantatas was like, oh, the guy can sing as well Oh, okay, nice, interesting Then I saw him later on better days Like, oh, very nice Then I got to work with him As part of a musical show that's traveled Europe for three months And that's where probably I got to interact with him More and get to know him more I think that was the last time we Engaged as far as work is concerned Then I saw him later after he'd come back From New York, I watched him perform on stage I watched him perform in Subira Fantastic, amazing performance And I've watched him on Salem, I've watched him on crime injustice And also, what's this other one? Second family It's interesting that somebody said That his final act, his third act Was a very short one, but it was an intense one Charlie came back from New York And he was just doing jobs That I'm like, where have these jobs been? But you see, the thing that I got to Experience with him Charlie is the kind of person We joke about this Charlie is the kind of person things Did not happen to They happened for I watched him perform on stage And he was like, where have these jobs been? He was like, ah, yes The right person for the job is here He was an amazing performer An amazing artist We, of course, had our moments That some were pleasurable Some were not But one thing I had the most And we had the most for each other Was total respect and admiration For each other's craft And that is the one thing that I take home as I remember Charlie Is there something you learn acting lesson From Charlie? He's here I usually say that I'm a process guy Until I met Charles Oda Charles Oda, he's a process guy Trust the process He will be in the process So intensely How to feel Thank you so much, daddy Bless you for your fans this year Kwa sasata neneza fikiri ya Arasi jui Kwa kwa neneza kalenda? Kalenda nenezababa Tuna panga tumanga Kwa sasata neneza fikiri ya Arasi jui The job must be done The job must be done So I don't know Let's just say The work will still continue And more will be seen Amen to that Thank you Alright cheers Thank you very much


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