Welcome, everyone, and greetings. Welcome to Progressive Discussions and Red Pill Man Cave. I'm your host, James P. Madonna, and I hope everyone is having a very pleasant late spring. Believe it or not, it's the end of May already. June 1st is right around the corner. Next week. I mean this week, this coming week, and it happens to be, right now, Memorial Day Weekend 2023. So I hope everyone is having a pleasant, pleasurable, and safe Memorial Day Weekend. And just stay out of trouble. Have some great barbecue. Have some really good frosty, ice cold craft beer, or cocktails, or whatever suits your taste. But just make it fun and safe. Um, let's see, I don't, I have topics to read, but there wasn't that many topics because of the Holiday Weekend for some reason, so it's a little quiet. And let's see, let me get right into it here. Um, let me, let me start off with a light subject. Okay, let me bring up the screen share. All right, I should, I should do it. The first subject will be, if you see purple paint on trees, stay away. Now, this is a color coding, very clever color coding system that people visually can determine a lot faster and easier than reading signs. As we travel across the United States, I enjoy learning about local traditions, laws and folklore. If you missed my article about cowboy boots on fence posts, you can read it here. Okay, this is the first in it. Gail Marsh, May 19th, 2023. Iowa grown. My husband and I were married and lived in Iowa for many years. All three of our children are Iowa natives, just like me. If you are familiar with Iowa, you know that most of the land is dedicated to farming. Farmers appreciate the flat treeless terrain. It's easiest to farm, flat is best, and Iowa is certainly flat, at least in the areas where we lived. I was used to the flat treeless plain, then we moved to Missouri. Missouri trees, the first thing I learned about Missouri is that the roads are not laid out in square mile sections. Like Iowa's roads, the second thing I learned, Missouri has a lot of trees and many of these trees sport a distinctive swipe of purple paint on their trunks. What's that? Purple paint. When I first saw the purpley swatch on the tree trunks, I thought my eyes were deceiving me. Who would take the time and energy to reach three to five feet up a tree, just to paint a swath of purple on it? Not only that, but repeat the process on nearby trees as well. Turns out, purple paint on trees is not just the tradition in Missouri, it's the law. The purple paint statute, in 2012, the Missouri State Legislature passed the purple paint statute. It allows Missouri landowners to mark trees or fence posts with purple paint as a warning to would-be trespassers. The paint works much better than a no trespassing or keep out sign. Why? Because signs can be removed or destroyed. They can weather and fall off. Then trespassers that claim the land was not marked. Trespassers can claim the land was not marked. The landowner has no proof of when their sign is gone, so they paint a purple swatch on the trees marking the property lines. It's much more difficult to remove a tree than a sign. Another reason purple paint is used to mark property lines is to protect the owner's trees. Nailing a sign to a tree can damage the outer layer of wood and or introduce disease. Nailing signs year after year can take a disastrous toll on trees. So purple paint it is. Not just Missouri. Okay, the purple paint law for marking property isn't just a Missouri curiosity. The law is also currently active in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. So if you're traveling in those states and see a peculiar swatch of purple paint on the trees, you'll know why. You'll also want to look carefully before boondocking in the woods of Missouri or the aforementioned states. The fine for trespassing in Missouri is up to $500 and or up to six months in jail. Yikes. That is pretty hefty. Pay attention to the purple paint, folks. Do you know any local traditions, laws, or folklore from the places you visited? If so, share them in the comments below. I love learning about them. Okay, very clever. Purple paint. You know what else would be good to using purple paint with another color like perhaps, I don't know, green or red to signify a sacred Native American land. Not bad. All right, that's that's the first article. Moving forward, Chisela's Hall of Shame, number one inductee, Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg. What is this crack? I'm not going to sign in. Screw that. Hold on for a second. They're forcing me to buy a subscription to the Washington Post. Well, then we have three inductees into Chisela's Hall of Shame. EU. Again, they're doing it.  I want to read the article. Well, how come I was able to read the article on my Android? See if I can get rid of it. It has to do with the European Union finding the scumbag of the century, Mark Zuckerberg, over a billion dollars for stealing Facebook members personal information and selling it like he did with Americans that have Facebook account. And apparently they're not allowing me talk about bait and switch. The Washington Post. Yeah, it says democracy dies in darkness. Well, guess what? The Washington Post dies in my readership. Yeah, I don't see any any way to close it out.  All right, Washington Post. Besides Zuckerberg, you are officially in the Chisela's Hall of Shame. Progressive discussions, Chisela's Hall of Shame. But it doesn't surprise me with Zuckerberg. He doesn't care about anyone's rights. He doesn't care about data privacy. He just is a greedy, no good scumbag. And he's he's he's gotten fined $1.3 billion for breaking European Union GDPR privacy rules. Well, that's it. Sorry, I can't read the entire article, but you got the gist of it, folks. Here's the third inductee into the Chisela's Hall of Shame. There's a video, but it won't be picked up by the StreamYard microphone. I am very pissed at that. Very pissed off at that. All right. This is has to do with crooked auto mechanics, scamming auto mechanics, which is one one of the many reasons why I'm happy for electric vehicles so that it can put those pieces of shit out of business. You know, really, I'm very happy about that. Let me bring it up at least. You know, the article. There we go. So what we got? Now, I would love to play the video. But unfortunately, I will I would be the only one to hear it. So I'm going to read the story. It's one of the incompetent glitches of StreamYard. Maybe restream doesn't have that glitch. OK, poor service. I've been a mechanic for this is the the man speaking the mechanic. I've been a mechanic for 50 years. You need to know one of the most common repair scams as it could cost you hundreds of dollars. All right. This is by Jorge Hinojosa. Hinojosa Mena. OK, this was published May 22nd, 2023. An experienced mechanic has revealed one of the most common repair scams and being aware could save you hundreds. Scotty Kilmer with millions of followers on social media. Uploads, videos, warning users about mechanics. We charge drivers for unnecessary repairs. Oh, I really that that would be such great news if the electric vehicle eventually puts them all out of business. Just like Medicare for all will will bury the greedy insurance companies and experienced mechanic has revealed. All right, they're repeat. They're repeating themselves.  All right. OK. There's an engine. The poster claims that mechanics frequently charge for repairing oil leaks even if they don't truly need to be fixed according to TikTok user. Scotty Kilmer official at Scotty Kilmer official mechanics frequently charge for repairing oil leaks even if they don't truly need to be fixed. He said on the video that this is old engine. This is an old this is an old engine. You can see oil in various places. But when you look underneath, there's nothing dripping on the ground. They will tell you mechanics will tell you we're going to have to take the engine apart and replace all these seals. And it's going to cost you. Well, he must be he must be British. It says your nine hundred fifty pounds or euros nine hundred. I'm sorry nine hundred fifty euros. But this tiny amount of oil is not going to damage anything. But if it's leaking on electrical parts like the alternator, you will have to fix the liquid. But this alternator is is bone dry. There's no oil on it. I have seen this scam being done thousands of times over the last ten years. So if your engine isn't leaking oil all over the place, not even touching the ground, leave it alone. The video has gone viral on TikTok with more than one hundred thirteen thousand views on social media and users praised him for his content. One said, thanks, bud, old scam. Another scam is this Greek guy named Johnny in the in the Northeast New Jersey area where my mother was alive. God rest her soul. She had the car wouldn't start and Johnny told my mother, you need a new alternate. So what he did was he installed a a shiny silvery spray painted used repaired, rebuilt, I'm sorry, rebuilt alternator and charged her for a new alternator. Okay. That was a scam. Now, um, one of those auto places, I think I don't know if it was the pet boys or stone or strow sort of. Okay. This is what happened to me. First, let me take this away. I'll tell you what happened to me. And it's common sense to it's really just common sense, but, you know, a lot of people would be easily scammed, especially, you know, when the ladies bring their car and they're alone. The mechanics have a field day with them. So what happened was the infamous come over here on the mechanic. He waves me in the garage and he says your radiators leaking. You need a new radiator. I says, what do you mean? What's going on? The car is not overheating. He shows me little pools or droplets of antifreeze on top of the radiator. So what I do is I look underneath. I see no antifreeze dripping on the, on the asphalt on the parking lot, under the car. There's no antifreeze dripping down, you know, as gravity would, would do. I says, well, how could, how could it be leaking? If there's nothing dripping on the ground? Oh, look, look, look. Now, the motherfuckers poured. They splashed antifreeze on top of my radiator. So they tried to scam me. So what I did, I got a bottle of that. They call it aluminum dust. That's exactly what it is. Aluminum dust. And what you do is when the car, while the car is, I don't know if you do it when the car is running or if it's not running, but nevertheless, I think you do it when the car is running. You pour it into the radiator and it clogs up any leaks, any possible leaks. And there was no leak. So I'm just telling you that this is one of countless stories. So the, the last inductee, I think, unless something else pops up into the chiseler's hall of shame would be auto mechanics. And I really wish the electric vehicle puts them out of business.  You know how much money I've spent throughout my life on those scumbags? This is interesting. It's a shame, but interesting to say the least. Let me bring this up. The allergy season has been very bad this year. Even my doctor told me, I wonder if it's all the chemtrails that they're putting into the atmosphere with the poisonous.  Okay, here we go. Okay. And infectious pathogen inside California's pot farms or marijuana farms is attacking cannabis plants and growing invisibly for months only to spoil a crop just as a farmer is ready to harvest. Scientists believe that it's in nearly every pot farm. Well, I'm going to call it marijuana. I don't know why they usually would pop over and over again. It's in nearly every marijuana farm in the state and could be causing billions of dollars in damages to the national weed economy. Who would think that there would be a national weed economy? I'm so happy about that. It's really God's miracle plant. You know, not just marijuana, but hemp in general. Top-latent viroid shrivels marijuana plants and reduce how much weight they produce as much as 30%. It also destroys the amount of THC, marijuana's most common active compound that I plant produces greatly reducing the value of affected plants. Okay, hop-latent viroid was first documented in cannabis in a pair of scientific studies published in 2019, including a study that confirmed the viroids presence in samples from a Santa Barbara. Why is it keep moving it around in a Santa Barbara marijuana farm? It's now infected at least 90% of California's cannabis grows according to a 2021 estimate. It's spreading globally and a recent scientific paper declared the pathogen was the biggest concern for cannabis growers worldwide. Excuse me, my pure copper, my beautiful pure copper Moscow mule mug, but one bay area startup has a new tool that they think will stop the pathogen spread in its tracks. Oakland's Purple City Labs released the new hop-latent viroid test earlier this year that can be conducted on site and they're shoving advertisement in front of me so much that they're moving the article obnoxious intrusively greedy sales has become. Okay, the tests are conducted on site and the liver results to marijuana farmers in just a few hours. It's much faster than the current methods for finding hop-latent viroid infections which are predominantly done by farmers mailing samples to labs and waiting days or even weeks to get a result. The company said that this new at farm testing could be pivotal in slowing the spread of this global pathogen as it allows farmers to quickly identify infected plants with time. I should be done a little earlier, Jordy. You know, I have to get through this material, all right, but hang in there. A company said, all right, I already said that, okay, we didn't just identify a great test that is accurate, but it's also easy to use and it doesn't require a high level of expertise, said Luke Horst, Director of Business Development for Purple City Genetics. You can take microbiology to the public and put it in their hands. It's important for people to have this type of testing. See, there's a disease for everything. All right, I hope things work out. For California's marijuana agriculture, you know, I think I'm towards the end because it's a holiday weekend. I really don't have a lot of subjects to cover. This is Jesse Ventura video, but you're not going to be able to hear it because it's a stream yard, but it's about the devastating impact human beings are having on this small planet. It has to do with when the oceans die, man. When the oceans die, when the rainforests die, so on and so forth, we all perish. That's pretty obvious.  I didn't expect me to read anything. I told everybody when I start my show and when I could allow panelists on. This is why I don't work with the general public anymore. Thank God. Now, this is serious because it's going to happen. A general purpose robot is entering the workforce. Well, I knew it was going to happen. The artificial intelligent powered humanoid could be your next co-worker. Yeah. Or it could replace you by a Kirsten Hauser May 19, 2023. Listen to this article. Yeah. If stream yards microphone would pick it up, tech startup sanctuary, artificial intelligent has unveiled a general purpose robot designed to perform any workplace tasks currently handled by people working with humans or without them. The challenge is robots have worked alongside people for decades. Well, not in sophisticated form, but and traditionally they've been incredibly specialized. Yes. And they outperform humans by light years. They don't get tired. They don't get sick. A bot on and then of course the employer or the corporation love the idea that they don't have to deal with people as employees. A bot on a General Motors assembly line, for example, might move pieces of metal from one place to another over and over again. Yes. Repetitive tasks without getting tired and also assembling parts and manufacturing and doing it perfectly. I have to be honest. Robots are fantastic. And I'm not going to lie just because they they replace people on the job. This has meant business owners would need to purchase multiple usually expensive that they're always pitching them on robots if they wanted to automate multiple tasks. No purpose robots ones that can handle a variety of variety of tasks would allow employers to automate whatever is most pressing on a given day. But building a bot that can do a lot is as you as you'd expect a lot harder than building one that does one thing over and over again. They designed Phoenix to be the most sensor rich and physically capable humanoid ever built. Okay. What's new Canada based sanctuary artificial intelligence is one of several companies attempting to overcome the challenge and bring a general purpose robot to market. And on May 16th it unveiled its sixth generation robot and artificial intelligent power humanoid named Phoenix. We designed it out of here. We designed Phoenix to be the most sensor rich and physically capable humanoid ever built and to enable our artificial intelligence platforms rapidly growing intelligence to perform the broadest set of work tasks possible said Geordie Rose. The startups co-founder and CEO and CEO. Well I'll play the video but you're probably not going to hear the sounds thanks to Stream The details Phoenix is five foot seven weighs 155 pounds and is capable of lifting lifting up to 55 pounds. It's human like hands have 20 degrees of freedom and haptic sensors that allow it to perform tasks that require dexterity and precision such as labeling packages or picking fruit. There goes the the immigrant migrant farm workers unbelievable according to sanctuary Phoenix also has human like intelligence thanks to a proprietary artificial intelligence control system called carbon.


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I'd like to welcome everybody to the Austrian Scholars Conference 2012. My name is Mark Thornton, and I'll be chairing the opening session, which is a session where the authors of new books that are of interest in Austrian economics get a chance to tell you about their work and where you get a chance to ask them questions about their work and their new books. This actually began as an impromptu authors forum. People would show up early for the Austrian Scholars Conference and basically get in the way of the staff who were trying to get ready for the conference. So one year we just pushed everybody into a classroom and had people get up and talk about their new books or their forthcoming works. Before we begin, I'd like to just make a request that if you are working on a book or a colleague of yours is working on a book that's going to be forthcoming over the next year, that you alert us to that fact so that we can get you on the program for either the next year or in future years. Okay so our first presentation is going to be a book by Peter Klein and Nikolai Faust. The title of their book is Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment, A New Approach to the Firm. Good morning all. My name is Nikolai Faust. I'm one of the two authors of this book. You know the other one, Peter Klein. So a few words about myself. I'm a professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Europe's largest business school and I'm heading the Department of Strategic Management. I'm known Peter Klein for 15 plus years and we have rather similar, rather converging research interests. We share an interest in the economics of organizational, the economic theory of the firm if you like and of course we also share a deep interest in Austrian economics, not the least the theory of entrepreneurship and as you all know one of the strong selling points as it were in the Austrian Renaissance in the beginning of the 1970s was that the Austrians much in contrast to mainstream economists had a clearly articulated theory of entrepreneurship. Now that competitive advantage may have ceased somewhat over the years because we have witnessed an economics and also in other social science fields like sociology and anthropology really a renaissance on increasing interest at least for thinking about entrepreneurship. So in management we have a thinking on strategic entrepreneurship, economics is mainstream economics is intensely preoccupied with understanding new firm formation and so on. And again Peter and I we have shared for many years an interest in entrepreneurship and the economics of the firm and it pleases us that we have witnessed this search of interest in the economics of entrepreneurship and in the management of entrepreneurship and there's been a parallel development of course in the economics of the firm with a lot of exciting developments all building on Ronekosis Seminole 1937 paper The Nature of the Firm. And of course we welcome all these developments but we also think that these two literatures may have most important insights from the other and our book is essentially written to address these gaps and it's written for say it's a light book it's non-technical no mathematical notation whatsoever no game theory it can be written by ordinary human beings we think particularly of course if these are scholars with some interest in the economics of the firm and in entrepreneurship but you really don't need to be an entrepreneurship or a theory of the firm scholar to be able to benefit from the book is this when I should wave this with the order form is our copy circulating so what we do in order to bridge these two fields of entrepreneurship and the theory of the firm is to return to an idea that was really first what launched by Kantillon in the 18th century very much present in the thinking of Frank Knight certainly present in the thinking of Ludwig von Mises namely the idea of entrepreneurship as judgment the judgment is of the cognitive faculty that you apply in situations where there is no clear decision rule I'll do that I'll do the trick for you and of course entrepreneurial decisions are examples of such decision there's a need to make decisions over the use of scarce heterogeneous resources including heterogeneous capital assets and deploy them for the purpose of servicing future consumer preferences under conditions of uncertainty and for a profit and quite a substantial part of the book at least at least two chapters are preoccupied with detailing the differences between the Knight Mises you of judgment and contrasting it with the cursinary and discovery you because we think there are fundamental differences here and particularly we criticize I guess the management literature that has taken its cue from Kirsten's notion of entrepreneurship as alertness and discovery and we argue that Knight in and Misesian judgment is a much better foundation for thinking about entrepreneurship and also for linking the economics of organization and the theory of entrepreneurship very briefly the story we tried to tell is that judgment is non-tradable so in order to exploit his judgment the entrepreneur needs to set up a firm that gives us a basic take on why firms exist why firms emerge why firms arise in the market economy and we extend this kind of reasoning to classical issues in the theory of the firm like the boundaries of the firm and the internal organization of the firm and I think we really have something new to bring to the table in terms of new insights for economic organization I think the division of labor is that Peter would walk you very briefly through the concepts so Nikolai is the idea man and I handle practicalities like telling you how to buy the book actually we I only received the first hard copies they were sent to my office on Tuesday the publishers website publishers Cambridge University Press according to their website the book is now available for purchase in the United Kingdom the US version of the site indicates in April 30th publication date I don't know what that means you can pre-order on Amazon either the on the US site and you can order on the UK Amazon site I understand that we there will be copies available in the Mises Institute bookstore and from you will be able to order from the Mises store online at some point when the books are available if you just can't wait until then you'll find on the book table downstairs excuse me some order forms where you can place your order directly with the publisher and receive a discount the paperback edition can be yours for only $29.59 which is pretty good for an academic text there also is a hardback available for those of you who would prefer to spend $79.20 for the same thing with a little more durable cover let me just say a word or two about the contents of the book so I can get this if I can get this all to fit I'm sorry I can't I can't get it all on one page just to give you a sense of sort of the structure of the book and maybe a better idea of the intended audience for the book as Nikolai mentioned this is a scholarly book it's aimed at researchers and teachers and lay readers who may have an academic interest or a scholarly interest in the theory of entrepreneurship in Austrian economics in the economic theory of the firm as Nikolai mentioned it does not presuppose any specialized knowledge in the areas of entrepreneurship or economic organization the introductory chapters for example the second and third chapters provide fairly wide ranging reviews of the contemporary entrepreneurship literature in management and in economics and then an overview of how various scholars within the Austrian tradition have approached the entrepreneur placing particular emphasis on figures like Mises and Kersner of course and then contrasting or using that as a way of positioning our own approach which builds on Mises of course but also as Nikolai mentioned on Frank Knight the third chapter for example is a bit of a critique of the contemporary management literature which has very strongly adopted the so-called opportunity discovery perspective which is based on Kersner's notion of entrepreneurship as alertness to exogenously given profit opportunities a perspective which we think offers potentially much insight into processes of market clearing but we argue it's in other ways is misleading in terms of understanding what entrepreneurship is and what entrepreneurship does we describe this idea of judgment which comes from Frank Knight in somewhat greater detail whoops sorry so the fourth chapter is all about how Knight approaches judgment and how we from using various insights from other approaches within economics cognition theory and so forth try to unpack the concept of judgment a little bit more we have a chapter on Austrian capital theory that's the chapter was chapter five criticizes contemporary economics and some parts of management theory for adopting an inappropriately undifferentiated notion of capital so building on classic works in the Austrian tradition we explain the importance of capital heterogeneity for understanding what the entrepreneur does we frequently quote a line from Ludwig Lachman whose 1956 book capital and its structure contains a number of insights on entrepreneurial processes that have not been widely adopted even within the Austrian school Lachman says he says we're living in a world of unexpected change hence capital combinations tell me if I get this right we'll be continually forming and reforming in this activity we find the real function of the entrepreneur so we characterize the real function of the entrepreneur following Lachman is the continual combination and recombination of heterogeneous capital resources under conditions of genuine uncertainty night in uncertainty if you like or what Mises calls case probability instead of class probability and we also develop a number of implications excuse me for the economic theory of the firm in the sixth seventh and eight chapters and in the conclusion we discussed some implications not only for academic work but also for public policy some critique of contemporary economic policy on the grounds that it fails to take into account things like heterogeneity of resources tacit knowledge of course entrepreneurial judgment and so forth would be happy to take any any questions I think we have market if it's okay if anyone has a question or a comment excuse me what something I meant to mention before in terms of audience some people have asked would this be suitable for a textbook for textbook use in the classroom I certainly think it would I mean again it it's aim the intended audience is would be you know students with some prior exposure to a little bit of basic economics so maybe not a freshman level undergraduate course but an intermediate or advanced undergraduate course we think the book in entrepreneurship in Austrian economics in the theory of the firm and strategic management we think it would be very suitable for those uses and even more so for graduate level courses masters or doctoral courses in any of these areas and we think the book you know it offers an original contribution but also quite a lot of review and synthesis of prior contributions so we think it could be very effective as a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate classes yes someone in the back had a question yes yes yes I don't want to get too much into the substance of the arguments but we do address that point in the book and for now I'll simply say that we we distinguish between sort of think of a very broad general notion of entrepreneurship and Mises talks about this that he says entrepreneurship is deals with acting man under conditions of uncertainty which of course includes all human action right but there's also a narrower more specific notion of entrepreneurship focusing on individuals who are acting in the market in the commercial realm attempting to earn money profits and avoid money losses and typically when we talk about entrepreneurial activity in a capitalist economy we have in mind that narrower more specific kind of business entrepreneurship notion so many of the concepts do generalize you know to all aspects of human behavior yes I would say Schumpeter plays a smaller role in our argument than night or Mises but yes we do talk about Schumpeterian creative destruction we see Schumpeter in this context as while providing tremendous insight standing a little bit outside the mangarian tradition and really coming from more of a Valerian perspective but we certainly recognize the significance of his insights and we do discuss them in the book I mean if I suppose I should look at the flip to the index right now and see how many times people like Schumpeter mention but I won't do that in case in case what I'm saying is off the mark I mean right one interpretation of Kirchner is that what you know Kirchner's interest is not entrepreneurship per se but equilibration right how to we get from conditions of disequilibrium to equilibrium how to markets clear and Kirchner invokes the entrepreneur in a very kind of indirect almost you know a sort of instrumental way entrepreneurship is that which takes markets from disequilibrium to equilibrium because if they're in equilibrium there must be profit opportunities we think they tend to be exploited that's why markets clear I mean one can criticize that argument even on its own terms and we do offer a little a little bit of criticism about how the way we think that argument is situated in a particular understanding of the market that could be challenged even from within the Austrian perspective but holding that aside we also criticize the modern entrepreneurship literature first thing that look you know that perspective may have maybe significantly limited in the extent to which it offers insight into entrepreneurship itself and we for to justify this claim we we rely on none other than Israel M. Kirchner who has written two management scholars something along the lines of roughly paraphrasing you guys didn't understand me at all you don't know what you're talking about my work is really not all that relevant for you he didn't say it in exactly those words but in a interesting published article in 2009 he criticized entrepreneurship scholars for misunderstanding what his project was all about namely about explaining equal equilibration not explaining entrepreneurship but we do have some discussion of that in the text it maybe just one more so we have time for everybody else okay well Professor Foss and I would be happy to answer questions or talk to you about the book at any time during the rest of the conference thank you


aerospace systems a changing paradigm and how you can help. First, let me quickly introduce you to our presenters from TALIS. We have Yannick Leray, Head of Pre-Sales and International Development for Cybersecurity Consulting and Operations. We also have Lawrence Rowell, who is the Director of Product Cybersecurity for our Connected Cabin and Inflight Entertainment Systems. And finally, we have Natalie Fate, who's Chief Information and Product Security Officer for our Global Avionics Systems. The focus of today's session is to show how industry design attack learn and improve critical aerospace systems to cybersecurity avionics, passenger systems, and air traffic management systems. First, we will speak to the changing requirements and what digital transformation has done for cybersecurity. Then we will explain our paradigm shift with respect to the design of our systems. And finally, we will talk about how we integrate good faith hacking and create a chain of trust. So let's start with Yannick to talk about digital transformation and cybersecurity. Yannick, over to you. Thank you, Adam. We wish we would be there physically. However, due to COVID-19, we're in this virtual presentation. Hopefully we'll be there all together next year for the next DEFCON. So now let's talk about digital transformation and cybersecurity. Today, aviation sector is leading to digital transformation. This playground represents an international and complex ecosystem with a wide threat surface exposure for attackers. As you can see in this slide, there are many targets to be protected. And some of them we can talk about the air traffic control and air navigation systems. We can talk about the connected aircraft, the airport, the airline maintenance control center, as well as the UAVs and droves. This target is associated with multiple risks and has country's exposure. And therefore, we need to be coherent and with a global approach to better understand and reduce the risk. As I said previously, aeronautics environment is leading to digital transformation with an open and connected world. Digital transformation leads to data driven organization and therefore cyber security. Knowing that for aeronautics, safety is the first priority. We must secure stakeholders trust as well as safety critical aeronautics system putting the passenger as our first priority. No digital transformation without trust, no trust without cybersecurity. This connected the environment raises two charts for aerospace ecosystem. First, safety and security state requiring to keep up accuracy in a safety environment, setting up cyber security conditions across all system life cycle. And second, business continuity, needing to value cybersecurity to help prevent business operational disruptions. Now, let's talk about the hackers in these environments. We're going to talk about ethical good faith hackers. And at this, we aim to provide the best possible practices. And we want to make sure our solutions and services as well as our customers infrastructures are cyber secure. And would therefore we perform, for example, risk analysis and pentest using our own hacker, hackers, sorry. And for sure, we're talking about ethical hackers and ethical talus hackers. These hackers can actually internet. For example, from one of our air national navigation service provider customer, we've been able through some services that we provided to them through a contract. We've been able to penetrate their power generation systems. And this was enabling us to go into their, their server, which, which turn on and off the whole air traffic center. All this through our own facilities in France going in their own air traffic control, where it was not for sure in France. And other tools that we have are specific simulation environments. As you can see in this slide, we have the red team versus the team with our simulation environments, we're able to implement the infrastructure of our customer. They're operational infrastructure, where the red team is our own hackers, which mission is to of course attack and vulnerability of the system. And the blue team is our car. Our customers in this environment are there to be trained and see if they are cyber secured. Also, their system is cyber secure. More and more, we need ethical hackers able to master specific sector expertise. This sector expertise is very specific. We're not talking about only ISIT. We're talking about operational technologies. More and more, we're, we're facing attackers who are, who are aiming at this type of equipment and trying to, to be more and more specific to where they're attacking. And I know the floor to Lawrence will develop more on what we do in terms of avionics. Lawrence? Thanks, Janik. Okay. So when we're talking about this changing paradigm, it's really important to understand the current and historical state of affairs. In other words, how has security been managed to this point and why? And then we're also going to talk about what is changing to drive the new paradigm. So at TALIS, the high level approach to cybersecurity is defined by nine cybersecurity rules. One of the rules is really important to this audience in this conversation because it speaks directly to penetration testing. Oftentimes, we use a gray box approach with third-party pen testers and we give them a limited amount of information so they have some understanding about the system components and overall architecture and they can test all the threat vectors. This is, this is good and it's a great start considering where we are today, but it also serves as a very good example of a security practice that does not really reach its full potential. The model I just described is performed by a limited number of people for a limited amount of time. We also, they also only have a limited amount of information and it's done in a closed environment that is not really remotely accessible due to policy and other technical limitations today. This approach does not really leverage the full power of the good faith hacking community and ultimately it results in what can only be called as a limited snapshot into a product's security posture and we must admit the culture of aerospace and aviation has really kind of contributed to this approach that we have today. Vulnerability management in aerospace and aviation is pretty difficult. Updating the product in most cases is not easy and this is even true for the non-safety critical part of the aircraft. It usually takes a lot of time, a lot of money and usually a lot of lost revenue to update the system, the aircraft systems. Historically this has kind of contributed to a closed type of thinking along the lines of hey if we don't look hard enough we'll never find anything and therefore we must not have a problem. The good news is that this mentality we're seeing a change with this. In a recent Atlantic Council survey 84% of aviation professionals that were polled indicated that cybersecurity researchers are good for aviation. Now is the time for the industry to improve and we can do better. But first it's important to understand the factors that are driving this shift in thinking before we try to answer the question of how we do better. Let's use the cabin of today's commercial aircraft as an example. It makes sense to look here first for a couple of reasons. This portion of the aircraft is not deemed safety critical therefore it lends itself to the fastest changes and is going through a rapid evolution in terms of the technologies and systems deployed to satisfy the airline customer. This means this area of aviation will embrace the good faith hacking community the fastest and with relative ease and it will likely influence other areas of aviation. So everyone knows the majority of commercial aircraft are connected to the internet. His wi-fi is viewed as critical for today's passenger. There are also several other changes that are that are bringing the comforts of the living room into the cabin in today's passenger. So if we take a look at the in-flight entertainment system it's a really good example. It's becoming much more complex in several ways. There's an increasing selection of movies and other entertainment content that has not been released to the public. This requires protection and ongoing security testing. There's a large influx of third-party applications and games and these are games that are not from the apple app store or google play and have been validated by apple and google. These require ongoing security testing as well. E-commerce and shopping options are constantly expanding along with more convenient ways to pay for your goods and services. And this includes the introduction of technologies like near field communication. The amount of personal information is increasing with airlines providing a much more personalized service with more convenient payment systems. And this also includes the introduction of advertising that is targeted to specific passengers with their demographic information. In order to support all of this the number of interfaces that on the aircraft that are accessible by the passenger from their seat is increasing. This includes things like USB, Bluetooth, touch screen, near field communication and Wi-Fi. Now consider this is only part of the overall equation. All of these solutions I just described to support e-commerce, entertainment and personalization are supported by constantly expanding ground infrastructure. In this ground infrastructure it has similar cybersecurity risks. It's exposed to the same regulatory requirements like PCI and GDPR. But there's a big difference. These environments look and feel much more like a traditional IT environment. So one positive aspect of this is that IT-oriented DevOps teams have already started to embrace practices like crowdsourced pen testing. So in the case of aviation and aerospace this will be a force that will drive the overall industry towards engaging the good faith hacking community. So before I finish there's one last thing I'd like to mention about how we are seeing COVID the COVID pandemic impact this paradigm shift. Third-party pen testers who were previously required to be on premise to pen test certain products and solutions cannot travel and be on site to do this. Yet the pen testing still must be conducted. So we are seeing companies quickly adapting, changing their policies and methods to do remote pen testing whenever possible. Obviously this is going to be a challenge when it comes to systems and products with physical interfaces. But we still see a rapid evolution coming in this area. So COVID is actually knocking down some of the previous barriers when it comes to embracing the good faith hacking community. To summarize these changes have increased the number of assets that need protection while also increasing the number of threat vectors. At the same time we see the aviation community's attitude and view on embracing the good faith hacker is changing. This means now is the time to do this. It's time to embrace the good faith hacking community and look at changing the traditional approach to cyber security. Now I'll hand it over to Natalie to talk about how we can do this in collaboration with the good faith hacking community. Thank you Lorent. You're right. We need to see more on how to integrate those hacking activities in our engineering and operations. So I will use the NIST framework which is what we are following to explain our constraints about that. So when we discuss with Lorent on when in this cycle it will be easiest to integrate good faith hackers. During the identify and protect phase it's more where we do risk assessments, not it's a theoretical part, not that easy. But definitely during the design phase it's important and more naturally into the in-service phase. So those two phases during design phase and in-service phase seems natural to me. Today it's obviously during in-service and that we have already interactions with hackers. I will tell a little story about a CV that has been published on the Thales cabin product and we all know that there is room for improvements in this area to render this interaction more fruitful and this dialogue more fruitful between industry and hackers. We will discuss that afterwards. Now I would like definitely to focus on during design phase. Why? Simply because for us it's where it is the easiest to patch and to remediate. And this is also the good place where we can confront the theory of the attack path that we imagine with the real practice with hackers and have the good coverage about it. And the most we spend time on cyber robustness, the most we are saving also money to be honest in the operational phase and in the in-service phase. So now when we think about how we can manage this during design phase, it's not easy. Today I have no example of our Airborne system being virtualized and put in a cloud and accessible through a web portal for you to do pen tests. As explained by Lawrence, we are performing our own pen tests directly in our labs. So you need to imagine fully representative labs. For example, cabin you have an instance of the economy class, first class, business class and it's big holes running on BIOS and they are running 24 hours a day and 356 days a year. So you can imagine how it's not easy to organize a pen test sequence in such labs which are used to improve our product and ensure customer new functionalities. So to be clear, there is also due to the fact we are on special technology. If you want to get good face hackers working with us, for example, through a bug bounty program, then there is an investment to be done on hackers sites because you need to enter into specific technology dedicated for aviation. For example, we don't have Ethernet, we have AFDX which is RM664. This is an Ethernet oriented for safety and there are lots of examples of that on protocols and operating systems and this is driven by safety related requirements. So when we discussed about a bug bounty company on how to organize better interactions with good face hackers, they mentioned to us they have already this kind of program for ICT suppliers or for example, automotive system providers. But with the change in paradigm, as mentioned by Lawrence, I think that we are now moving to virtualized simulation benches and labs or connected simulation benches of labs and this helps. This is a kind of cyber dream and I think it's promising. For ground system and ground infrastructure, we just need to follow what is a good practice in other sectors, since they are more IT related and we can easily move to classical bug bounty programs. So to summarize on how we can work together during the design phase, I think there are two tracks we can work on. The first one is dedicated bug bounty programs where you come to our big holes and labs and the second would be more to develop and it is more on our shoulder cyber twins which are helping for doing those pendants and perhaps being more agile doing it more often and with a better coverage and not one or two persons during some days of it. So okay, I hope it's clear. Now we'll go for the second phase which is the in-service phase to explore what we can do. So here this is another story and you see the title we call that managing continuous security. It's not for you, it's for our customer, for them to understand that security is a long road where you need to update regularly due to the fact that new attacks are coming and in the in-service phase the NIST framework is beginning by the detect. This detection comes to us either through our customer services which is seeing an incident reported by a customer or this might be an event found on internet so you know we have a threat intelligence team and services like that that help us in grabbing kind of videos that may be published by hackers but also more in standard way silly that could be published on our products. So to explain what are the issues today I will give you an example I think it's the best. It was a story that happened to us I think last year and in fact it was a CV published with a high score of eight which is high 360 and the CVSS is between the one of 10 and so it was on in-flight entertainment systems. So first of all I would like to recall that in-flight entertainment system are non-critical system if we consider safety so this rating is a bit high and when our incident response team our P-SERT MVC gate about that they learned that in fact it was vulnerability exploited on a sub-party chat application and in fact the impact was just you at your seat hacking the chat application crashing and not propagating to any other seats just stand alone on the seat so it was a bit surprising to us that Mitre even Mitre has ranked this vulnerability at the level of eight but finally we get in touch with the hacker we had a discussion and we say that this CVS score was far too high and so when you see such a situation and we generalize it's often the case like that what is the drawback what are the drawbacks in such a way of managing vulnerability disclosure so today there is no direct notification to our incident response team product incident response team so as a consequence they might be very long time more than two weeks before we get in touch really with the good-faced hacker and understand and also as this is illustrated here our sector is not a real really and understand today you have seen the high rating by Mitre so we need to to have this kind of education and hopefully there are major airlines and so they are kind enough since they are doing their own risk assessment to tune the level of patching but if it wouldn't have been the case in this in this story we had imagine you need to know the exact configuration product configuration which aircraft replays the exploits on the exploit story on our big labs find the source code develop the patch then again test in the big labs and it's not finished you need to go to a real aircraft to obtain what is called a field supplier acceptance test which is provided by the airline for them to deploy the patch by ensuring it has no secondary effects on the system and believe me the best we did for this type of operation was something like three weeks and even today there are some patches that we delivered something like more than one year that are not yet deployed by by some airlines because it's a long process to deploy on all fleets a patch and knowing that some aircraft are under maintenance and things like that so what i would like to have in the future in a in a better disclosure program would be the following first establishing direct exchange with the good face hacker i think it's really important for us to understand and for the hacker to understand also better then establishing clear remediation time and steps before going to publication because depending on on what is what has been found and what it is impacting you understand that we don't have the same constraints then in IT world so we need more time in some cases so now if it's better that's where you would say okay if i have a vulnerability to this closer what are what are my possibility today and how can i interact with us with with you so this is why we have set up first for the whole ecosystem sharing information capacities when i say the whole ecosystem i mean airport airlines aircraft manufacturers suppliers um we have very few maintenance very tall but it's it's becoming it has been set up some the first one uh more than four years ago so now um what are the one you can use i would advise aviation isaac aviation isaac it's an information it's an aviation information sharing community and they are providing sports they have incident response capacity to facilitate the interactions between the hacker community and the industry also so it's a it's a good point for for you if you need now a second one particularly in europe is exa it's european center for cyber security in aviation so they don't have an incident response capacity but last year for defcon for aerospace delayed they were okay so they set up a portal for you to enter the different subject you would like to discuss and not telling the details but as i don't know i have something to say about uh an airport for something to say about system airborne system and and then they are putting you through um the good stakeholders that are referenced at exa which is uh which is important also so i hope it helps and uh it will be easier for you now so to recap on tell us side we are definitely considering that with the changing paradigm we need to set up plans to embed good phase hackers in our design and operation phase and to do this with a win-win situation for both sides to tell you to be honest without this covid crisis we have scheduled with with lorenz to come to defcon what was scheduled is to bring to you a mini lab representative of an in-flight entertainment system one of our latest generation so that you can have a end zone exercise on it and also you can learn and try so now we have done this webinar this webinar is there to explain what we do what are our constraints and challenges and uh you have heard yannick telling how the aircraft is uh is and this the part of the whole ecosystem and there is no domain aircraft consider but all the rest of the ecosystems lorenz has explained how is the changing paradigm or the paradigm is changing particularly uh post covid with the need of our pen tests to to be done in a distant way and i've turned my views on how we are seeing the integration of good phase hackers in our design and how to improve the vulnerability disclosure for for for you for us and for our industry so i'm sure that good phase hacker can be part of the chain of trust in aviation and we need to keep in mind that we are talking about safety critical system so now i will tell you that if we want to get in touch with us um we have a dedicated address you can you can see it on the screen so it's absurd i mean it's product security and seasons response so it's really dedicated to to what we are delivering i hope it helps again so thank you for your attention and now i let you the floor for the questions


what's up you guys how are we welcome back to another episode it's day number three of my 20 pound attempted weight cut in six days just like Jorge Mazvedal I'm a huge fan of Jorge you know especially after I found out about his history with Kimbo Slice and the backyard boxing backyard fights because Kimbo Slice was basically my entry into the world of America of sorry not American football into the world of fighting you know as a fan I used to be I was that kid at home when YouTube came out that typed in Kimbo Slice in 2006 that was the first those were the first videos that I started watching so I had no idea about Jorge Mazvedal back then I probably saw a video of him to be fair back then and so it's really funny that things come full circle I'm a huge UFC fan now I love professional fighting as a fan and you know Jorge Mazvedal has got to be one of my favorites as soon as I heard about the story of him cutting 20 pounds in in six days I was intrigued I've cut weight loads of times I haven't cut you know a huge amount of like water weight specifically for a scale but I feel like I'm gonna have to with this transformation but I have cut weight before and so body transformations and weight loss transformations eat and weight gain transformations really interest me and so that's why I'm doing this because it interests me and usually in my personal life if anything interests me I go in 100% and I bring my YouTube channel along for the ride so guys thank you so much for being here it is day number three it's actually late in the day it's 543 p.m. on November the 6th and this morning I woke up after probably eating a little bit too much last night I woke up kind of disappointed but it's all good I went for a walk at about 10 a.m. and then that was for about half an hour and then I picked up the pace and I went for a jog for about 45 minutes so the total session was about an hour and 15 minutes I got a good sweat up I've eaten bugger all today to be honest that's that was my strategy today I thought you know my weight session I'm gonna wait till the end of the day I'm going to do a session of cardio and I'm not going to eat much around that so I'm gonna try and you know focus on continuing to deplete my body and also maybe even get a bit of fat loss going so that's the plan today I will get away in but it's not gonna be until I get to the gym and I don't know when that's gonna be I said to myself I was gonna train legs to be honest my legs are feeling pretty fucking fatigued pretty tired I have been hammering the cardio the last few days after not doing any for the for the previous two weeks or three or two weeks so yeah my body is sort of feeling it you know what I mean but that's the reason why we're doing this is because I did a bodybuilding show I was waiting at weighing 88 kilograms and I decided to binge eat for 11 days post post show with no exercise no cardio no weights and so here I am and you've you've seen you've seen the transformation I'm feeling much lighter I'm feeling better I'm feeling I'm not feeling you know back to what I was so I definitely put on some fat I did put on some fat it's not all water so you know I'm just doing my best as far as trying to get back to that condition but for this transformation for this particular video series I want to get to a certain weight on the scales and that weight is 72 no not 72 sorry 87.2 either 87.2 87 point not shit let me see I'm gonna get this in my head because closer I get the more excited I'm gonna be so I've got to be I've got to be 87.2 kgs or 192.3 pounds by November the 10th at 8 a.m. so we've got three and a half more days I'm feeling confident I woke up this morning honestly kind of kicking myself because I did eat too much last night and I was like what are you doing Jacob do you want to fucking do this or not is this video series actually gonna make it to YouTube or not but I think it will I'm feeling good right now I don't know if you can tell I've smashed back a big coffee I reckon I'm gonna go to the gym shortly so I will see you there to check in once again most likely I'll see you in the bathrooms to show you guys what my physique's looking like and weigh in and that will be day number three done so we did chest yesterday today we're gonna do back because my legs are feeling tired tomorrow I'm gonna do legs and that will really deplete my body and yeah we'll see what the weight's doing so I'll see you there thanks for watching


Clean what's going on Saint Graven here with another video and in this video We got another episode of NFL questions from subscribers and The question for tonight or for today or for this video actually Came from my guy little Eric shout out to my guy man. He always put up some of the funniest snacks He is a cowboy fan and he asked me in graven Who is the better quarterback out of the two? between Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott now this is a tricky question because Looking at both of their bodies of work This season it is definitely. Oh, there goes my guy little Eric right there. Shout out to him, man But looking at both of their bodies of work this season. Oh Before we get into that, excuse me. Let me let me Let me introduce myself because I'm being rude that me. I mean Graven vids This is my YouTube channel in Graven vids and I'm a Ravens fan and even though I'm a Ravens fan We talk about every single NFL team on this YouTube channel So if you're Ravens fan, if you're Cowboys fan, if you're Eagles fan, make sure you subscribe Turn your notifications on leave a like on the video if you haven't already And let's get into this question And if you want to be a part of NFL questions from subscribers You could just hit me up on Twitter Instagram Snapchat either one of the three and Send me your question. But anyway, I'll make sure y'all leave a like on the video Definitely leave a like on the video now with football It is a team sport It's a team sport one player doesn't make the game. Well, unless you're Michael Vick and see what he did with the Falcons Um One player doesn't make the game anymore Shout out to Vic So it takes a lot of different things in order for a team to succeed Right now if you look at both of these quarterbacks, you got Carson Wentz What are the Eagles seven and one 81 whatever their record is then you got the Cowboys They're five and four So if you automatically look at the records, you're gonna be like, oh That press guy. I mean Carson Wentz easy if you look at the records But and you see this this the light hitting my face. That's because I had to pull up some numbers, man I had to pull up the numbers right now. So if you look at the stats this year from the quarterbacks We got Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott Carson got Alshon Jeffery got Nelson Aguilore who has came a long way in a year He got Tory Smith who's in and out who does he got on his team? He got some other guys. He got the Titan, Zach Hertz And that press got got there's Bryant got Cole Beasley Got Terrence Williams got what's the name Bryce Butler? so There the receivers that they have I'll put their receivers pretty equal I will put their receivers pretty equal I don't feel like one of the I don't feel like the Cowboys or the Eagles have so much better receivers than the other team I feel like they're they're pretty much the same my Collins. Okay, that's another one for Eagles appreciate that JB But then when I look at the numbers if you're a quarterback You gotta you gotta put up some numbers for your team You gotta put your players and your receivers your tight ends You gotta put your players in position to make plays and score points shout out to the footsteps out here in the background Where they go? Oh, okay, somebody climbed on my foot. There he goes There he goes There you go. What's Okay Red blue or green Carter. You know what blue or green? Because you see one is Eagles and one is Cowboys. I was gonna let Carter decide But anyway, he decided he was gonna leave now Looking at the numbers shout out to Carter to That press got 16 touchdowns only four picks. That's it only four picks Carson Wentz 23 touchdowns Five picks so based on this year. You got to go Carson Wentz. You got to go Carson Wentz You have to But with his team with that press guy, okay, somebody just mentioned let me make sure I see what it was Okay, Alex Alexander. He said that is a good quarterback But he's had arguably arguably the best offensive line in the top running back the past couple years. Imagine Carson with that Yes, he has had that and last year. What was it 20 intercept? I mean 20 touchdowns and only four interceptions last year. I believe something along those lines But that press guy is showing something that Carson Wentz That he's showing something a little better than Carson Wentz and that's consistency so far so far Because they were both rookies last year. They both started last year That press guy did his thing. He was a lot more consistent. Well, I mean not a lot more He's showing consistency from year to year now Wentz Wentz has took a big leap this year took a huge leap this year and he's doing great He is doing great. He is doing phenomenal Love watching him play a lot of fun.  It's nasty and their cornerbacks ain't too shabby either But the Eagles I feel like I said, they're more of a complete team now. Oh, Joe appreciate that. Thank you. Now Somebody did mention that earlier too. I forgot who it was. Let me see if I can go back and look at the Look at look to see who commented that One second because I like to give people credit when they bring out a really great point one second, y'all one second Cuz somebody mentioned it about the draft picks one second one second I'm looking for it. I'm gonna find that comment. I'm oh man. I can't see it now. I guess it would only let me scroll back so far But anyway You know what let me try one more one more time Mmm, somebody mentioned draft value before I I Can't I can't see the comment. But anyway, um, somebody mentioned That Not really quick. Let me bring up what Joe wrote. Joe says still y'all got to admit that it is pretty crazy To be comparing a fourth rounder to a second overall picking in only their second year Yes, somebody else mentioned earlier the fact that we're talking about a Second overall pick versus the fourth rounder with the draft value is crazy Because Cowboys got somebody who has been playing some great football and they got him in the fourth round They got him in the fourth round fourth round and Dak Prescott He's just been playing up to expect that they didn't expect anything from Dak Prescott They didn't expect him to do as good as he did that year and things just fell into line to where unfortunately Tony Romo got hurt then Dak Prescott had to just step right in and it worked out for him Now, um, he was a fourth round pick Him being a fourth round pick. He don't got any pressure It ain't any pressure on it being a fourth round pick All they expect him to do come in play. Don't turn the ball over score if you can do your thing. There's no pressure But he came in and he by far Exceeded expectations by far Now Carson Wentz you being drafted number two overall the expectations are sky-high They're sky-high Sorry, my son is trying to flip over the couch right now. We watch too much WWE together But with Carson Wentz his expectations are sky-high and right now Right now this year. He's meeting those expectations They definitely improved the team from last year to this year. They're a whole lot better whole lot better So he's exceeding expectation. I mean, he's meeting expectations because the expect what was expected of him was very high so That He's been great for the Cowboys You couldn't have asked for a better seat. You couldn't have asked for a better transition What teams do you know? That lost the guy that's been starting for them forever And the first quarterback that starts the next quarterback that starts in line for them Has played as good as that press guy. It's been such a smooth easy transition What teams do you know that get to go through that? Nobody? Like what the Eagles they their guy was Donovan McNair Who was the guy after that? Nick foals What did they had tied that man one time? I mean, I don't even remember half their guys at the Eagles head but This is the first guy they got since McNair and it's been years since McNair So that's saying a lot So Cowboys boy, they they they got gifted in a great situation Yeah, Eagles had Michael Vic, you know Michael Vic wasn't that dude though They had Vic they had Vince Young so I mean and Vic did this thing one year, but you knew Vic wasn't gonna be that dude He wasn't gonna be that dude But he did this thing I mean, I remember when he came back when he came to the Eagles he was fat at first and then He said he was fatty was sloppy early on but then he lost the weight and he got back in football shape So stuff started looking a lot better But with the Cowboys they had Tony Romo who was a beast And then they go from Tony Romo to Dak Prescott who had still been killing. Oh, Kevin Cobb another one. Yeah, thank you So, okay nine has had it with Montana the young see that's throwback.  So right now. Like I said, I gotta go with Carson Wentz But I can't say that he's running away in the race that he's so much better than Dak Prescott He's putting up better numbers Well, he's putting up higher numbers because both of these quarterbacks are doing something that you want your quarterback to do They are both they score and touchdowns and they are not turning they not turning the ball over And that's what you always want your quarterback to do She's where your auntie go and looking at wedding dresses because they're gonna be in your tears wedding See, look at that. He asked me a question and I'm answering and then he changed the subject that quick shout out to Carter but I Can't say that Carson Wentz is just running away with it because They're both doing the same that they're both doing what you want your quarterback to do and that's score On offense and not turn the ball over that much So that's that's what you want them to do. But like I said right now I'm going with Carson Wentz. I'm going with this guy right here Right now, but we'll see what the future holds. It's only year two That's and that's the best thing about these two quarterbacks They're only in their second year. They're in their second year So these dudes are gonna break records These dudes are gonna get their wins These dudes are going to they're gonna be not they're already this nice in their sophomore year It's only the second year So they might only get better man They might only get better now. How about them cowboys is it's not it's not a best young quarterback conversation This is just a question from my boy Eric for question from subscribers and he asked who's better between deck and Wentz So I Like both of them and I like how both of them And it sounds cliche and kind of corny and whatever but both of them make plays with their arms and make plays with their legs But with Carson Wentz and maybe this is because I've seen a lot more Carson Wentz games this year But that dude is not afraid to put his body on the line for his team He is not afraid to take off and he'll take some hits For his team But either way Both of these QBs make plays with their arms and legs both of them are nice man. Both of them are nice I enjoy watching both of them. So shout out to all the Eagles and Cowboys fans. Yes, y'all have a big game coming up And that's gonna be a lot of fun to watch. Are we gonna watch that game Carter? I just told you where she went and then when I answered you you changed the subject Mommy go mommy went to go look at wedding dresses for your dears wedding And see I answer his question and he just walks away Dall in a flat go. Oh, that's a that's a tough question right there You a penguin do your penguin dance Anyway Carter's a penguin shout out to Carter the penguin Carter show them Superman punch Watch this, let me see if he does it Carter. Come here But anyway should be a good game This Sunday, I don't think that Whoever wins this game I don't think it's gonna make oh if that wins or when twins and whoever wins is the better quarterback I don't think like that But um It'll be an it'll be nice to see those two and they're not even necessarily going head-to-head Cuz quarterbacks can't really go head-to-head because you're going against the defenses, but It'll be nice to see them their teams playing each other So oh Sean Lee is gonna be out. Oh, that's not good That's not good at all That's not good at all. Yeah, we will see cloud exactly. We'll see how their careers end up Exactly, they got a lot of career ahead of them both of them. So anyway, appreciate y'all Thank you for coming through. He said yeah, we losing 42 Appreciate y'all coming through again if you want to be part of NFL questions from subscribers You hit me up on Twitter Instagram and snapchat And if you want you can follow on all those as well You can see look you got to see how greedy Carter is if you go to my snapchat right now Engraving vids just like the YouTube channel if you go to my snapchat right now You will see a video a snap of Carter how he eats chips He eats like 50,000 chips at one time But anyway, appreciate y'all for coming through make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't already Turn your notifications on if you haven't already and make sure you leave a like if on a video if you haven't already Appreciate y'all watching. Thank you. Shout out to fly evil fly and shout out to uh, I don't know Cow, what's what's cowboys? What's that thing? What's there of that thing? I don't know what it is. I Know it ain't cowboys go cowboys go that can't be it Somebody tell me that the Dallas Cowboys theme real quick because I don't I don't know what it is I know fly eagles fly, but I don't know cowboys Cowboys nation that can't be it Can't be cowboys nation Somebody he said go cowgirl But anyway Appreciate y'all. I'm gone. I'll see you in the next episode of NFL questions from subscribers And like I said if you do have a question that you want me to ask on the stream or answer on the stream Then you can ask me on oh, how about them cowboys is that one? That could be one Thank you Eliza. You can ask me on snapchat Twitter Instagram and send me a DM on either one of the three Appreciate y'all. I am gone. Bye


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