So welcome everybody to a deep adaptation Q&A today with Satish Kumar. My name is Jim Bendell and I'll be chatting with Satish for about half an hour before then inviting your questions to him. I'm honored to be joined by Satish whose book Radical Love came out yesterday and he's probably well known to many of you as an elder in environmental activism. And I only actually recently learned that Satish first came to fame for his walk for world peace back in the 60s all the way from India to the capitals of Moscow, Paris, London and Washington DC. Those were the capitals of the nuclear powers at the time and so it was a walk for world peace with a concern about nuclear proliferation and nuclear war. And obviously after traversing all those landscapes Satish realized there's no better place to settle in the world than North Devon, not far from my mum in fact. And that's where, near where he founded the important Schumacher College, which is his world famous in environmental studies. And he also founded Resurgence magazine. And certainly now that Satish is in his 80s, it's a relief that he doesn't have to do that walk again because all the world leaders, leaders of the nuclear powers have become wise and peace loving, and there's no threat whatsoever about nuclear holocaust anymore. But I'm digressing. I know a radical love is just now I haven't read it but I love to the description that it's an exploration of the transformative power of love in all its forms ranging from romantic love to love a family community, love of the planet and all beings so I'm going to really go into hearing about Satish's philosophy and how in the face of so much that we love being lost. And obviously fearing the future loss as well. How one remains open hearted and retains that loving consciousness and applies it in daily life so Satish Kumar welcome. Thank you for joining us. It's my pleasure, Jim, to be in conversation with you. And I have always admired the work of deep adaptation, and therefore having conversation with you is a great pleasure and honor. Thank you. Thank you Satish. Yes. It's super to conclude this series of deep adaptation Q&A with you, because I think for me. Back in 2018, when I shared the deep adaptation paper and there was this unexpected response, which was very emotionally charged people are very affected by it. I don't know what to suggest people do. But I thought, well, we, whatever it is, let's try and meet in a spirit of compassion, kindness, forgiveness. And I talked about it the love and deep adaptation being where we should start from as we try and work out what to do in the difficult years ahead. So yeah, I was very attracted by the fact that that's the topic of your book. So to get it started, obviously there's so much we could talk about. But as it's hot off the press, what is it what do you mean by love and what do you mean by radical love. Yes, I mean there are two kinds of love you can say, what is moderate love, which is you love somebody who is dear and dear to you.  So there are some conditions, but you love your husband wife children, parents, maybe friends. But that's a moderate love. And, and we have that. It's not always enough. Not even moderate love is not much in practice, but still there is. But then radical love is love without any expectations. You drop all expectations in return you don't expect anything. And so it's unconditional and radical love is even loving person who you may not like. So for example, people like Mahatma Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, or people who are fighting against imperialism colonialism racism, sexism, all these other things. And yet they were embodiment of love. I had a great honor and a privilege of meeting Martin Luther King in his 10 years of activism. He was arrested for 29 times. And yet, when I met him, he was loosing with love kind of embodiment of love. So that's like I would call radical love that you can stand for your values for ideals. And you can challenge racism, sexism, imperialism, colonialism, industrialism, modernity, all these things you can challenge.  That I call that total acceptance of reality as it is, and then participating in the process of transformation with bigger picture with magnanimous magnanimous mind, a big kind mind, and you act. So that's I call radical love. That's great to hear the love without expectation. And of course that could apply at the interpersonal level, but also in terms of how we relate to society or how we relate to the natural world. I'm just thinking a love without expectation in, in terms of the natural world that means that you, you love all beings, and you're not expecting that to mean that Mother Earth is stays friendly to homo sapiens. You're not, you're not, you're not thinking I'm doing this because then we fix things. The thing is about Mother Earth and nature and environment is that love is a kind of based on the principle of reciprocity. Now, if you give Mother Earth your love, you get love back. If you harm, hurt, damage injure your Mother Earth, then Mother Earth comes back with climate change or pollution or waste, or, or that, and that will harm you so without reciprocity. So love is without expectations, but at the same time is as a reciprocal. So if you have a love for Mother Earth, you don't damage the earth, you don't pollute the earth, you don't waste anything, you don't create global warming, carbon emission, etc. Then it's a love, but if you are. Yes. So I'm just thinking then so is the ecological crisis a crisis of a lack of love. Exactly. Crisis of ecological crisis environmental crisis climate change global warming. These are because we have looked at nature as if it is a kind of inanimate object. Nature is a kind of resource for our use and our economy and our production, our consumption and our materialism. All those things are we are using nature without loving, just exploiting radical love will be that nature is not inanimate object, but it is a living organism.  So please our neighbors and animals our neighbors, and we have to love them as we love our neighbors. So the reason we have climate change and global warming is because of lack of love. So why do you think that lack of love has become so widespread systematic intense, because we all have the ability to love nature, love all beings, but the systems we live in the way we live doesn't seem to look like we're loving planet Earth. Why is that happened. Yeah, it's a good question. And that can be many opinions and many views about why that happened how that happened when that happened. All these are very big questions and there can be different opinions. In my view, people who preached love, religion, religions, Catholic, Protestant, Hindus, Muslims, whatever the religions are who preached love, they did not practice love, they just talked about it but they became very dogmatic and very ritualistic. And, and, and a kind of you can say dominating without reason without understanding. And so there was a great reaction against religious dogmas, and therefore people like René Descartes and so on, they became very rationalist. And from that pure reason and pure rationalism and the mind and matter separate and nature and human separate. And so how we can be away from this idea of love, which is more religious idea, and, and, and the dualistic Cartesian sort of philosophy became very popular. And, and people felt that they are going to be liberated and free from this dogma of religion. And therefore, all our universities and schools and educational system, they have been pushing this pure intellectual and academic and the reason rationality is the, the controlling factor and heart and consciousness and the soul and the spirit and love, they became kind of sideshow or not at all important. So education and all over the world now the education is conditioning people's mind that only thing what matters a rational intellectual academic and a reason science and modernity and then industrialism and then kind of all these things followed. So that's how it happened. And why we took it over because we thought was a comfortable we can use nature for our comfort this economic growth and living standards and, and more material possessions. So that's a kind of looks very kind of comfortable. And so greed was promoted instead of love. And it's interesting how you describe the, the, yeah, the way that people rebelled against religions because they became so ritualistic and lost the heart the spirituality the love, but then created these, what seemed to be empowering alternatives with rationality the love, but then they became so heartless. So yeah, we can read papers on climate science, which clearly if, if the people who've done the work and written the papers are like you and me then it hurts to be studying what they're studying and exasperating painful grief involved a lot of fear. But we're not allowed to communicate that that's not seen as scientific or scholarly. And I know quite a few climatologists now that's why they've started to communicate in new ways and become activists as well. Yeah, yeah. Another thing is that the people like Joanna Macy, who you interviewed, and, and the people like her, and, and also others. They have said that we must be allowed to feel our grief for planet Earth, and and feel our kind of sorrow and anxiety. But of course they also Joanna Macy in particular have said that we also need to empower ourselves with other emotions of compassion and love, so that we are not all the time stuck in our grief and our anxiety. So equal grief, equal anxiety are natural. And I'm very pained and my heart bleeds and my I sometimes I'm in tears to see what we are doing to our planet Earth, or what we are doing to our humanity, what we are doing to people in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people are becoming refugees for no reason for no purpose just a kind of ego, ego, a collective ego of one nation or the other nation and two egos are crashing against each other. There are so many examples of that kind where we are not able to to live in harmony with our friends and neighbors and nature. And so that anxiety and grief should lead to empowerment, and that empowerment should lead to action, and that action can transform our society. And I've, I've been on a bit of a journey because I growing up as a British guy, and then becoming an academic. I think I was had some of an awkward relationship with my emotions. And, and I thought that certain emotions, fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, all these, all these things were things that were not good to feel in various different ways like sadness will be debilitating or fear men you weren't tough enough or anger men that you weren't civilized enough or you might hurt someone and what I've come to now is, is to, it's okay those emotions when they're there to notice them to not feel bad about them not fear them. I also find it helpful to be able to express them privately sometimes with some people, but then to not decide from them and not to act from them and actually always trying to think well. Why am I hurting or why am I angry and then try and get that broader perspective and always also remind myself that something else is true something else that's good is also true to whatever it is I'm stressing over. And then that's then how I then think about what to do next. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we are humans. And so as humans, we have many, many different kinds of emotions and the fear and anxiety are there and and they are natural. But at the same time, we also have emotions of compassion or kindness of generosity of love of many other emotions we have. But those emotions are also suppressed in our modern world. And we are not expected to express our love and our, our compassion and kindness. We are supposed to be greedy and successful and want something more for ourselves and more name, fame, power prestige and position status money houses cars possessions. We are encouraged to do that, rather than celebrate our emotions of every kind and live in balance and live in harmony with nature that's not encouraged. So this human ego, we have to move from collective ego to ego, which is a more home more relationship. So we have lost the idea of relationship and we have got this idea of separation. I'm separate from nature humanity separate from nature and Europeans are separate from from Africans and Chinese are separate from Americans and Russians are separate from Ukrainians, the idea of separation rules the world. And out of that separation, we are creating trying to create a uniformity. So modernity, industrialism, market economy, all these ideas are to create a uniform world, a whole world should be like Europe and America. Everywhere McDonald everywhere Coca Cola everywhere high rise buildings, this kind of uniformity and a monoculture in position of that and if you don't follow like our way, you are not democratic you are not free if you don't follow our way, then you are not among with us or one of us. So that kind of separation is the dominant philosophy and love is a philosophy of relationship that we are all interconnected we are all interrelated we are one humanity we have one planet Earth we have whole cosmos is our country, whole planet is our home nature our nationality love is our religion that unity of life interconnectedness interdependent. Those are the values of love, whereas values of hatred and separation and division and conflict are becoming dominant. And this is why my book is challenging that separation. So, when I hear you I, I, I'm still scared of the idea that rather than publicly lamenting and worrying about the collapse of modern societies industrial consumer societies. Actually, it's about time like this this drive, what we call progress perhaps rather stupidly what we call modernity perhaps rather stupidly is a drive towards separation and and and and it's. Disconnection and disconnection and therefore there's the possibility of a breaking up of what we consider normal, particularly those of us who live sort of consumer lifestyles is also an invitation into a different way of thinking and being. You mentioned the word progress, you mentioned the word progress. Progress is a linear word. Development is a linear word. Growth is a linear word. Nature is not linear. Nature has no progress. Nature has no development. Nature has no growth. Nature is cyclical.  So birth, death, coming, going is moves in a cyclical way. Systemic, systemic nature is this circular and a kind of kind of not linear, not progress, not development, not growth. Go, go, go. I mean, America is number one economy in the world. And yet they have not enough growth and progress and development. They want more economic growth. Britain is a fifth or sixth economy in the world. And yet they want more growth. There's no end to it's very linear. So nature is not linear. So what we have to do is to learn from nature. Nature is our teacher. Nature is our mentor. Nature, our spiritual guide. And we learn from nature to live more cyclical. Something is born, something will thrive, something will flourish and then we'll die and then born again. Start again, cyclical approach has to be part of radical love.  You've been communicating this philosophy now for so long. And the news is so bad. Or what, what's the, what is it about you that there seems to be a sense of deep down. It's still all okay. No matter, no matter how much silliness and abuse through this linear, unloving, separative, disconnected hallucination that humanity stuck with, you still have this inner joy. Because at the same time, I have inner joy, but because at the same time as our planet is being kind of messed about and being polluted and almost sort of being destroyed. At the same time, nature is the reliance and it's still, we get rain and we get sunshine, and we get seeds put in the soil and the soil produces food, and the trees produce fruit. Birds are still singing to celebrate nature. And there are many, many humans also creating beauty, art, craft, poetry, music. So there are these positive aspects which gives me joy. So I just don't look only on the negative side. We also look on the positive side to balance the same. But what we need to do in order to to practice radical love, all of us, whether you are a politician, or a business leader, or an economist, or a factory worker or a farmer, all of us need to take the Hippocratic out. Like the doctors take Hippocratic out. We all need to take, and that is out of loyalty to nature, loyalty to environment, loyalty to our planet earth and loyalty to humans. So do no harm. That is the Hippocratic out. Do first do no harm. At the moment we are doing harm to nature, harm to many millions of people are suffering because of exploitation, social injustice.  This is the truth of it. And therefore, we take Hippocratic out and say we'll do no harm. That is the kind of Jane Indian tradition that I was brought up. The fundamental violence is the fundamental principle of nature, and we feed each other, we nourish each other, soil feeds, rain feeds, sun feeds, please feed. We all feed each other, life feeds life. That's a cyclical nature of nature. Unless we understand that and live in that reciprocal, systemic, cyclical way. I don't think this continuous linear economic growth is going to make us any happy. Yes, we've, we've, as you mentioned your book there have you have you shown us it yet to show that it's already out now it exists. Show it, show it here on my, my desk, and it's out. And, and you can order it through. I mean, I edit or I'm a little emeritus now of resurgence magazine, and you can order that book through resurgence.org. We sell directly, but also I mean I don't like Amazon, so I don't encourage people to order on Amazon. But if you have a local bookshop, then you can order through your bookshop have a patience to wait for few days is better than supporting Amazon, Amazon is dreadful. And so, so I would encourage you to either order through researchers or through your local bookshop. And if you do it now it might arrive by Valentine's Day. Yes, yes, absolutely. So as we're talking books, I mean I was very happy you wrote an endorsement and also read the deep adaptation book that I co edited with with Rupert Reid so you're aware of the ethos the taking the anticipation of collapse of modern society seriously and still within that framework wanting to find ways of doing useful positive things in the world. Yes. And so, what, when you read that, and the, the, the framework of asking for questions to, you know, what, what, what do we want to keep what do we want to what should we give up, what can we bring back, what do we have to make peace with I think your deep adaptation is a kind of precautionary principle, even if you don't believe in what is happening in the world, and what you are analyzing and I'm analyzing even if some people don't believe it. So, the remedies you have suggested in your, in your article, which perhaps you can explain, better than I can do for resilience and kind of all those four principles that you have that they are good, whatever the situation. They are good principles. So I admire and support deep adaptation, because of those four principles which you have stated and perhaps you can explain those four principles are so good that if we live by them, that to me is a kind of foundation of radical love. Can you tell those four principles. Yeah, sure. So the, well, really it was a, I, I offered a framework for conversation because I thought the, the, the breaking of societies as we experienced in today is going to be affecting everyone in a different way. So rather than me saying what you should do it was, how do we start to talk about this. And I imagined it as a framework which was post progress was beyond that so none of the questions were about what do we need to invent in order to fix going forward they were deliberately conversations about well, what do we have now that we believe in and value that we wish to keep what's most important. What is it that we should relinquish relinquish more to let go otherwise if we try and hold on to that aspect of our standard the living or identity or worldview will actually make matters worse. The third one was, well, we didn't used to live like this. What is what are the ways of living and producing and consuming of the past that actually we need to bring back to help us through this rather disruptive future where we're facing. Restoration restoration yeah and then reconciliation was to retain the idea that things don't look very good at all going forward in terms of food energy climate biosphere. And so there may be increasing real difficult situations for people and so that is a reminder of our mortality. And therefore so as we recognize our mortality, what do we what or who do we want to make peace with. And then that was, that was because I think, yeah, a lot of people wanted to get busy on deep adaptation in a way where we could somehow park our fears about death. And I wanted to say well no like this is if you're going to work on this then then then loss and death and grief is going to be a companion for the rest of your life more explicitly. So what can that invite us to do will make peace in many different ways with many different people and with those four hours. Yes, those four hours that you have presented. I think are kind of based in wisdom. Those I think they are very important whether climate change or no climate change or whatever those perennial wisdom is the kind of relevant and useful and helpful to everybody, any situation at the moment. Our society is living on kind of principles of waste and pollution and greed, and all those things and then causing climate change and the climate catastrophe, and then resulting in floods and forest fires and all that. So we are living in very difficult circumstances. So those four hours should be made popular and available to everybody so we can practice them. Okay, thank you for saying that that's very, very, very positive feedback and I'm sure also all the people on this call who are part of the deep adaptation forum or the deep adaptation movement more generally can relate to what you're saying because I think what people get from being in these in this network is is a framework for having conversations which help them think what's doing their own lives and also professionally and in their community. We're going to questions now. So, so hello. Hi there. Yes. Yeah, I don't think I've actually spoken to you in the flesh for about 4050 years but my, my, my main question is radical love sounds wonderfully aspirational. And I'm asking how can we make acknowledge the meaningfulness of the current crisis in the bigger picture. So many extinction events have happened before, and life has always come back more diverse afterwards. The cyclical nature of what you talk about includes the acceptance that we may be dying not as a planet, but as a species. And that if that is so and we don't manage to stop it. Life, the planet will be all right, the life will come back as that bush so often reminds us more diverse. Yes, we don't want that time. No, I, I, you are you have a good point I think it's a very good point that the cycle of extinction continues is a kind of part of birth and death. So my personal feeling is that what we are going to see will be the end of this industrial model, mechanistic civilization. But soil and land is not going to stop producing food. Yeah, and the, and the rain is not going to stop bringing water, and the sun is not going to stop creating photosynthesis synthesis and trees are not going to stop producing food and taking our carbon and giving us oxygen. So nature and humans still will live in my view. What will come to an end, which cannot be sustained anyway, is this very kind of mechanistic and heavily dependent on energy. How kind of energy you even renewable energy if you are too much dependent on endless growth and endless energy, how much energy can you get from some and the wind, and if our greed does not stop.  My view is that if the industrial system materialistic mechanistic system come to an end, we will celebrate that we will celebrate that, and we will say a humanity will adapt and adopt a new way of life, life is more simple more elegant, more caring, and more sharing. And of course, there is no utopia, we are not going to be utopia we will always have fear, anger, anxiety, some conflicts, some, some problems in our, our lives and on our planet. Never, I don't believe in kind of that we can have everything perfect. So, but in that situation, nature will still give life, and humanity can learn to live in harmony with nature, that's my hope. And I'm working in that sort of way that let us, let's reexamine our relationship with nature, and live better. And I want to teach within the recent in my perception of modern environmentalism is that that is not such a welcome view anymore. There's an emphasis on technology and entrepreneurship and strong leadership somehow fixing the problems. And there's some dismissal of the kind of views you've expressed as naive. And when you hear those criticisms, or even some people would say those views are privileged, such as, like, it's nice to have those ideas, but in the real world, we need all kinds of technological ideas to keep people fed and watered. We just need to keep people away from nature, which we will rewild and in that sort of again that sense of separation, how do you respond to those criticisms.  I asked them, you have been creating the real world for centuries, or hundreds of years. You've been realist and people like me are idealistic and utopian. But look what you have achieved. What have you there to show us for your realism is Ukraine war as a result of realism is climate change. The result of realism is, is the poverty and exploitation of humanity going on in Africa and many other countries, even in America, the homeless and poor and beggars is that the result, not the result of realism. So realism has failed, totally and utterly failed. So I would say, give idealism a chance, give this kind of utopian idea a chance and see if love can help hatred have been practiced by the realist and realist have failed the humanity. I challenge the real, the so-called real world and realism. And I say, people who have made better impression on the world, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King and and and Simone de Beauvoir, and many other people who have been a bit more idealistic and ecological and so on. They are, they have something, they are two realists. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to be an eco modernist arguing with, with you there. But I wouldn't, wouldn't mind seeing some, some, some, some discuss with you on that. So Susan, if you have anything to add, otherwise we'll move to Kristina. Thank you. Yeah, I just satish have you changed your thinking and your philosophy one eye out since we were building huts with and digging wells with the tribal people in the International School of Nonviolence and they stole from us. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the thing is, they think it's Susan that one is always evolving. And, and I was not thinking in terms of radical love at that time, but still, the influences of those cultural values, and particularly indigenous wisdom, which is a kind of perennial wisdom is still with me. Although I am changing, I'm evolving. I'm not just stuck with any, any particular situation. So it's a both, I still carry some continuation of cultural values, but I'm also evolving and learning new ideas. Thank you. And thank you. So, now we're going to go to Katarina with your question for satish. Hi everyone. Thank you Jim. Thank you satish. Hello from Portugal today. I try to keep it brief satish. Would you say that the crushing the deliberate crushing of the feminine values from from society but also from religion has maybe contributed seriously to loss of love and compassion and connection to nature. And if so, would you agree that by elevating feminine values that that elevating feminine values should be a priority in everyone so that we can be more connected to each other and to nature. Yes, yes, you're absolutely right that we need to embrace feminine values. And in our in India we say that in our men and women in our body, we are embodiment of both receiving and giving and receiving is feminine and and article giving is is supposed to be masculine. For example, I'm speaking to you now. And listening. Now listening, we have two years. So, really, and the ears are feminine and mouth is masculine. I kind of metaphorically speaking. So, we need to listen twice, meaning feminine two part and masculine one part like water is made of H2O human should be F2, F2M two part feminine one part masculine F2M so here more listen more. And that's a two part. So feminine principles of caring sharing loving radical love. Looking after each other. That's a very important two part. And then of course, we do sort of things which are a bit more masculine much kind of sort of outgoing and so on. So it's a balance of the two dance between the masculine feminine is needed. What has happened in our culture in industrial culture is very mechanistic and also very masculine. We have valued masculine principles of controlling organizing etc, much more administration and so on. And we have lost the feminine principles in our culture. And so the balance has been lost. So if you take Chinese principle of Yin Yang, Yin Yang are in balance with each other, and then the black had a white dot in it and white has a black dot in it. And that dance between masculine feminine and a balance together. That is a kind of traditional Chinese idea, same with Indian idea. And but we have lost in this modern industrial mechanistic worldview, we have lost that balance and we have promoted more masculine controlling going out exploring exploiting nature that's all very masculine that has gone too far. So I need, we need to retreat a little bit in our masculine adventures and more caring and more taking relationship and all that needs to be promoted for two parts feminine one part masculine F2M. Thank you. Yeah, thank you Katarina. Yeah, I realized that that although patriarchal monotheisms don't seem to have a place for the divine feminine. As much as say for example Hinduism, obviously, patriarchal culture also exists in within Hindu cultures and so it does seem to be something which is a is a widespread problem. But if you take Hindu culture, all the names of gods and gods and goddesses we have thousands of goddesses. Yes, and all the names of God start with goddess first. So Citaram, Radhakrishnan, they are feminine first. And so the goddess and the kind of Gaia, the earth of Gaia also Sanskrit word Gaia three mantra is a mantra of the goddess Gaia three, three is the goddess and Gaia. So Gaia in Greek Gaia in Sanskrit. So that's a very strong culture in India, but also like in the West everywhere in India too. We have been influenced by this mechanistic and masculine kind of adventure, and we have lost our own culture and and now India is going kind of in a berserk way to industrialization and mechanization and the kind of exploitation of nature in and no less than Europe and America. So I'm not admiring what is happening in India now, but I'm saying that you're going to roots of Indian philosophy, in which I was brought up in Jane and Hindu and Mahatma Gandhi. And so the way the land gift movement, all those things had a very important and a strong place for the feminine. Yeah, thank you. I'm because of where I live I know quite a lot of people who are locally Hindu here in Bali but also a lot of foreign people who've chosen Hinduism, and also some people who've chosen shamanism. And there is a much, so a reverence for the natural world is, is, it's pretty obvious and straightforward for them. And yeah, absolutely. So, thank you. We're going to go to now. A question please from Sukema. I'm sorry if I pronounced your name wrong. Through all this talk I'm trying to remember but my question is, is to do with suicide. To what extent are we human beings on a path towards collective suicide. Perhaps unconsciously we realize that us homo sapiens are really had enough. And, you know, you know, maybe maybe it's time for us to go and allow the rest of all other sentient beings to recover and flourish again. I know that seems like a little bit pessimistic view but it's certainly a view that is around for me, being a sense of the lemming nature of us. As we keep on pushing there won't be much air to breathe soon. There won't be much water to drink. Yeah, it's absolutely it's a it's a point I often hear which is that maybe the time of homo sapiens is up. And then that often leads to a very interesting conversation I'd love to hear your response Satish. Yes, now I'm, I respect your view. And, and there's no one view which is one truth that prevails everywhere. But my personal view is I'm more an optimist. So I'm an activist. And I want to, and I have an active hope. So Joanna Macy has a book called active hope, and Jane Goodall and two great feminine kind of heroes of mine. And, and the genre and Jane Goodall has a book called book of hope. So I am an optimist and I have an active hope, because I say that never too late. When you are at the brink of disaster, when you are at the kind of cliff, cliff edge, still you can return take a step back. So I'm an activist.  And I've been an activist since I was 18 years old, and I'm 85 now, and I want to remain an activist until the last breath of my life. So I don't want to give up. I say yes, we humanity is not bad. There are many, many small fathers who produce good food that many, many craftsmen and women who produce artisan materials. There are many, many indigenous people who live in harmony with nature. It's not just America and Europe and so on, that they are the only world that is another world, which gives me hope. There are indigenous people in Brazil and in, in, in, in our original people in Australia, and we have to honor them. So I am an optimist.   I will try to do my best. And then what happens is not in my control. It's not in my hand. I'm not predicting that humanity is doomed. I'm not predicting the earth is doomed. I'm not in control of the world, but I'm in control of my action and my thinking, and I want to remain active to do whatever I can do in the service of our precious planet earth and the service of humanity. I'm an activist. I'm an optimist. But I honor as a fact your view. I'm not saying that you are wrong. I'm not saying that. But this is my view. Matish, what you're saying reminds me of how we started when you talk about love, a radical love that doesn't have expectations. So you don't need to know that homo sapiens will live for millions of years in order for you to passionately do your best to help all flourishing, that flourishing of all life on earth, including homo sapiens. So there's that. And that relates to your philosophy. I don't know how to pronounce it is apigraha, the non grasping you don't you don't need because you're just living from love so you're not, you're not, you're not needing to know that it will all This is a very beautiful word apigraha, which I think you have pronounced correctly apigraha. I mean snow. Parigraha. Graha means grasping. Parigraha, they strongly grasping very kind of tightly grasping. So a parigraha, the three words made into one word. And this is one of the five cardinal principles of Jane tradition, non violence, truth, non stealing, and a kind of right relationship and not grasping or not being grasped by your material possessions, and your greed, and your ego and desires to have more and more and more. So elegant simple. The other one, another my book is called elegant simplicity. So a parigraha is the principle that have enough, but not more than enough, have what is beautiful, not ugly at the moment our civilization creating a lot of ugliness. So a parigraha promotes beauty, and a parigraha promotes restraint, because if you have a flowing river, river can flow freely only within the two banks. So those two banks are a parigraha, they hold the water together, without limit without restraint without constraint, if you're total freedom, like this material economic growth and modern society the total freedom, no restraint, that disaster, that's a flood. A river without banks becomes a flood and creates problems. So a parigraha is that principle beauty, elegance, simplicity, living within your means and celebrating what you have rather than greedy for what you do not have. And then going for something non-material things such as poetry, music, art, culture, dancing, walking, family, friendship, there are lots of good things which you can have in a parigraha. But what you've described there is a beautiful right way of being and living, which would not have led us to this catastrophic situation, but it's also important to do, no matter what it adds up to in the end, it's just a good in of itself. I just want to come to this issue of, so quite a lot of people in the so-called doomsphere talk about human extinction or even inevitable and near-term human extinction. And for me, that can be said in a way which is inviting open-heartedness and staying loving or it can be said in a way which is about becoming numb and turning our back on suffering and possibility. So some people who think, wow, it looks like humanity might be going extinct, that inspires them to be more loving, more truth-seeking and live in their power. Other people say it as a way of, why should I even bother showing up at a meeting like this? Who cares?  I'm just going to go and have fun in some other more superficial way than this conversation. So in a way, what you are saying is a crisis is also an opportunity.  So you can build those four hours and be more loving, more caring. And as I said, have no expectation. We don't know. We are not the prophets of the world. We don't know for sure. But precaution principle that if we go on this way as we are, it's bound to bring extinction, bound to bring an end to everything that we have. And therefore, let us change our way. And even if we are going to extinct, love each other and have celebration and joy at the same time. So I think that crisis and opportunity is a good thing. I think I can't remember now it keeps going up, but there are at least 14 homonyms or homonyms that didn't evolve into us.  So it seems to be a tendency, the world people's people doesn't it over millennia. So we're going to have our last question from Mary. Again, I hope I pronounced your name right, please unmute and ask your question to Satish. Thanks, Jim. It's Mary. Hi Satish. Yeah, I'm interested in very similar ideas. I'm, I talk about radical self care. And I'm wondering, and when I'm thinking about learning to really take care of ourself in the context of the larger self, because the two are the same thing. And so my question is about the need for us to learn to love ourselves first, because this industrialized system that we live inside is creates and contributes to our mental and physical ill health. And understanding how to recover. You know, we begin with ourself, and that also then teaches us about living in a different way. So that's a very good last question. That is a very good last question. And I think loving yourself is the first step to love the world, because we are the world. Everybody is in us. We are made of each other. And so I see the whole universe in me and myself in the whole universe like William Blake said that you see the universe in a grain of sand. And so William Blake had a kind of same idea that we need to see our, that we are a microcosm of macrocosm. If we love the world, we have to love ourselves. If you don't feed yourself, if you don't take care of yourself, how are you going to love somebody else? So, and if you don't love yourself, who is going to love you?  So, so being a lover, rather than having a lover, that's another Eric Fromm has talked about it differently in being and having. So rather than having a lover, radical love is to being a lover.  Love yourself as you love your neighbor. Love yourself as you love anyone. And there's no enemy. There are no enemies.  Which are causing many, many problems of industrialism, materialism, statism, all these isms. So let all isms become wasms. And love is not ism. Love is a freedom and liberating force. So starting to love yourself is the first step. And you are microcosm of macrocosm. Love yourself. That's absolutely good way to end this session. Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much, Satish. I'm just thinking also that, Mara, you work on this. So if we only have a minute, but if you wanted to add any reflections, I'd like to keep this slide, you know, get some reflections back if you have anything to share. Yeah, it's just an area that I've been thinking about and exploring for a few years and try to write about and that exactly what Satish is saying that we are the microcosm of the macro.  So I think about us as being just as each of those things and the human cells are all, they're all these individual cells make up the whole of a human body. And mind and spirit. So too, we are a cell in the body of the earth. And so we have something to contribute something to offer. And but we have to be well, you know, and the more well we are happier and healthier, then we can do that because we naturally want to. Thank you. Yes, thank you for that. Thank you. And thank you very much, Satish. And Duke. Yeah, I hope I hope this has been great. A great warm up for you and Russell later today. If anyone wants to order your book it's resurgence.org I think it's the best link. Also, if anyone wants to share a video recording of this conversation then I'll put it tomorrow on jen bandel.com. And if you want to continue to have these kinds of conversations and don't already connect with people who want to approach the difficult predicament we're in in this kind of way. I recommend the deep adaptation forum. You can discover more about that through deep adaptation dot info. And if you just want to dip your toe in then you can just go and check out the deep adaptation Facebook group and see the kind of things that people talk about. So, Satish, and everyone, and thank you very much for joining us today. And thank you, Jim and Stuart for organizing and coordinating this wonderful conversation. Thank you. Thank you.


Hi, everyone. Happy Sunday. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Looks like, well, it looks like Kepka's gained a shot on John Rom. John Rom is still a little ahead in the Masters around the 17th now, so Kepka's running out of time. Rom would have to kind of implode a little bit. Anyway, it's been a good Masters, kind of a crazy one, but it's been pretty exciting. 2021 Tops Chrome Baseball should also be pretty exciting. Full case, 12 boxes, random team break number one. One spot gets you two. All cards shipped. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Let's double you up. Like Sir Mix a lot. Nice. There we go. And all 30 teams are in. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams. Three and a one, four times each. One, two, three, and a one. Fourth and final time. Boyd, a down to Victor. Three and a one, four times for the teams. One, two, three, and fourth and final time. We've got Boston down to New York. All right, so here's how it shakes out for everybody. Boyd with the Red Sox. Dominic with the Diamondbacks. Chris with the Cubs. Victor with the Orioles. Eddie with the Braves. Tristan with the Reds. David with the Rays. Nationals and Marlins. John with the Phillies. Stephen with the Blue Jays. Tristan with the Padres. Jared with the Brewers. Tristan with the Mariners. Stephen with the Guardians. Eddie with the Rockies. Dominic with the A's. Victor with the White Sox and Twins. Barry with the Tigers. David with the Angels. Victor, you got my Dodgers. Chris with the Cardinals. Boyd with the Rangers. John with the Pirates. Jared with the Giants. Barry with the Astros. Tristan with the Royals. And Victor with the Mets and Yankees. Got both New York teams there, Victor. All right, let's alphabetize by team. And we're going to pause the video. When we come back, we're going to see if there's any trades. Then we'll have the break. Stick around. Be right back. All right, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. TWC trade window closed. So the list you saw remains the same. Here on Sunday, the 9th, 2023, Easter Sunday. Happy Easter for those of you who celebrate and Master Sunday. All right, and there's the case of 2021. Tops Chrome. Hobby Edition. Good luck. Kepka finishing at eight under. He was leading a lot of the way, but eventually, he had some favorable weather conditions during his start times, but and he looks, he looks healthy. He looks good. Playing well. But John Rom playing even better. Here it is. For par and to win the Masters. Got it. Pumping his fist, hands in the air. Good job, John Rom. Phil Mickelson, too. That was a very surprising finish for Phil. This break might take longer than I thought. Good job. Congrats to John Rom. All right, box one of 12. Here we go. Auto popping early here. We got Josh Fleming for the Rays. David with the Rays will be for David. Once again, each box has two autos per box. And all cards will ship some of the main rookies that we're chasing here would be Jazz Chisholm and Kibriana Hayes, the two main guys that we're looking for. We've got Josh Josh Bell, 207 out of 350. Magenta Speckle for Pittsburgh. John Ryder with the Pirates. John Rom slapping hands through the gallery. Making his way to the clubhouse. There's Nick Heath. Royals, autograph for Tristan. And we've got Marcelo Zuna, 299 for the Braves. Also 405 out of 499. Chad's asking, where's my Sunday red? I opted for for a master's green jacket, green is what I'm going with. That's what winners wear. The green jacket. We've got some gold here. We've got Austin Hayes, 48 out of 50. Victor, don't tell Tygao, I'm obviously not Tiger Woods. I've got to carve my own path. I don't know if there's any big golf fans out there or master's fans. I have to say that the master's app is amazing. All sports apps should strive to be like the master's app. It is pretty good. Just in terms of how they cover the event. I mean, the PJ Tour app, at the very least, should look like that. But it doesn't. It runs, runs pretty smoothly. And it's just a delight, a delight to use. Michael, what's going on? Shockley and Mora Calla both flipped in the top 10 for you. That's Michael Jaspy in the chat. Shockley and Mora Calla, Mora Calla didn't have a bad round either. T10 with Xander Shockley and Matt Fitzpatrick, who had a pretty decent master's. How about Sam Bennett, the amateur? The top 20 finish here. Chad, you believe I'm better than Tiger? I don't know. Tiger may need to to lose the use of his other leg and maybe an arm before before I'm better than before I'm better than Tiger. Oh, Brooks Kepka helping Michael make a little money.  All that weather, just screwing up schedules. See, everyone see the trees falling? Oh, just overall, that might be debatable. But I'm in my head, I am. And we've got a Padres auto, it's Jorge Mateo. Rookie auto for the friars.  And we've got a captain's cloth, piece of the jersey, Fernando, that these junior. And that's going to go to Tristan and the Padres. And poor Tristan McKenzie speaking of Tristan's. Maybe opt for a little bit. Here is Edward Olivares, rookie auto gold for the Royals. Tristan and the Royals, 28 out of 50. And we've got a JD Martinez, 30 out of 199. Red Sox edition going to Boyd. And we'll do an autograph recap at the end of this. I think that relic might be one per case, if I remember correctly. Next box. All right. So we got a John Rom, winning the Masters, Phil Mickelson, gaining 18 places today with a six round 65, finishing T2 with Brooks Kefka. Jordan Spieth also had a great round today. Patrick Reed, Jordan Spieth, Patrick Reed finished fourth. So did Russell Henley, Cameron Young. T7 with Victor Hauvin. But how about Saith Tagala? And he's been a... He's been playing some good golf. He might... He's going to win a tournament this year at some point. He might win... He might win one of these major things. Within a few years, I want to say. If not sooner, maybe this year. If it's Patrick, Scottie Scheffler, Alexander, Colin Morkauer, all T10. Charles, what's going on? Lamar, yeah, I was asking you that too. I don't know. Is this... I mean, is the old Delbeck and Jr. use a pitch to Lamar Jackson? Hey, stay. I think one of Lamar Jackson's sort of criticisms has been not enough... But he's not wrong. Not enough sort of receiver weapons to sort of help him out. Maybe with Delbeck and Jr. is that guy. Maybe that does get Lamar Jackson to stay. Work out a deal with the Ravens. Chad Dawson. Peyton Prichard dropped a 30-point triple-double today? Is it time to... Who was he playing? Is it time to dust off Peyton Prichard cards? Or was he playing a team that had nothing to play for? We've got a Kenta Maied at 13 out of 99 Green Wave, Minnesota edition. Going to Victor and the Twins. And we've got a Prismic Power Elohimines at 31 out of 99. That looks cool. That's for Victor and the White Sox. And we've got a Jonah Hyne autograph. Rookie Auto for the A's. Dominic with the A's. There's a Key Bryan Hayes rookie card. And we've got a Louise Robert 23 out of 25. Another one for Victor and the White Sox. Tradiak, what's up? You see, Eminence has sold out. Did I miss the opening? I don't know, Tradiak. Check the schedule. We always drop the schedule in the chat. And we always mark down what we've done, what we're doing, and what we're going to do. And if it's not sold out on our schedule, we either need to go through orders or there's a filler for it. More often than not, there's a filler for it. So also double-check that. Ah, there's a filler for it. Yeah, let's fill up that filler. Let's get that done. Let's get Eminence officially locked in on the schedule. All the full spots are gone. I've canceled as many fillers as I could. Now we're just down to the last filler. Let's make it happen. Eminence basketball fans. Next box. We've got the Green Jagger presentation. We've got Monty Harrison. Rookie autograph for the fish. David with Marlins. We've got a Jake Arietta. 282 out of 350. Speckle for the fillies. That's for John. And we've got Bo Burroughs. Rookie autograph for the tigers. That's going to go to Barry. Last Bob Mojo. And we've got a Mike Musakis. 146 out of 299 for the Reds. Another box. We've got a Purple Otto. That is Tyler Zuber. 151 out of 250. Rookie Otto for the Royals. That's going to go to Tristan, Kansas City.  Photo negative. Taylor Jones. Rookie autograph for the Astros. Barry. Blue Louise Castillo. 128 out of 150. Reds edition. Going to Tristan. All right. Sixth box. We've got a Green Jacket on John Rom. Courtesy of Scotty Shuffler. I thought this was going to be with all that weather they were having. I was like, it's a Monday finish of possibility. Seemed like it was going to be. There was that much rain. But no. Let's get a little NASCAR on. A little dirt track racing here in Bristol. Pretty eclectic when it comes to stuff I like to watch. I'll go from the Masters to a little dirt track racing. Looks like a lot of fun. Well, got someone spinning out here. Kyle Larson in the lead here. All keselowski. A little spin out. It's going to happen. It's a calamity here. There we go. That was a good pack. Next box. Good luck. And we've got a Gold Wave. Will Myers. 42 out of 50 for the Padres. I do remember the text being really small this year. So a little difficult. We've got a Zach Burdy. Rookie Otto for the White Sox. That's going to go to Victor. I've been to some other jazz chisms that I might have missed. But here's one of them. David. All card ships. So if there's any I missed, I'll go to you. Maybe we could find some low number parallels and variations. That would be nice to see. And we've got a Donis Medina. Rookie autograph for John and the Phillies. Got a Kwang Hyun Kim. That's 122 out of 199 for St. Louis. That'll go to Chris and the Cardinals. Halfway through this break. Another 30 minutes or so to go. Good luck. Now we've got some baseball scores in a second. But the playoffs, the NBA playoffs are all, I think they're all locked up, right? Last game of the season. And it's on the East. From 1 through 10, Bucks, Celtics, Sixers, Cavs, Knicks, Nets. And then your four play-in game teams would be Heat, Hawks, Raptors, and Bolts. I think that order might have been pretty much set. I think there might have been some, a little dispute maybe between six and seven somewhere, but Brooklyn ended up getting the sixth spot with 45 wins. Heat got the seventh seed play-in spot, 44 wins. Hawks and Raptors finished exactly 41 to 41, but Atlannas in the eighth seed, they must have had some sort of tiebreaker. And Bulls finished five wins ahead of the Pacers for that tenth spot. In the West, it's been Denver. Denver with 53 wins. Grinsley's two games behind him, then the Kings, Suns, Clippers, Warriors. Those are your one through six. Seven through 10 will be Lakers, Wolves, T-Wolves, Pelicans, and the Thunder. And the Dallas Mavericks really finishing two and eight in their last ten to finish with 38 wins on the season out of the playoff spot. Kind of a disappointing season for them when you have the likes of Luca and then adding Kyrie Irving, no defense on that team, that really hurt them. Thunder, that young, exciting Thunder team in the playoffs with 40 wins. That's without Chet Holmgren. It could be really good next year. But they're in. Pelicans are in at 42-40. T-Wolves also have a 42-40 record, but they're ahead of them on some sort of tiebreaker. Lakers ended up with 43 wins to get that seventh seed. They had a chance maybe to be as high as five, but I think that required the Clippers to lose to the Suns, I want to say, or the Warriors to lose to Portland, both of which did not happen. At least my Lakers are in the playoffs. We'll see if they can make some noise. If healthy, I think they can. In a seven-game series, when do the first play-in games happen? Anyone know? We got an Angel. We got HMI Jones, rookie auto for the Halos. I think he ended up being... This will still go to the Angels, David Duffy, but I think he ended up getting shipped to the Orioles for a bit. And now he's in the Dodgers' organization. I think he had a couple of walk-offs already at this early stage of the season. We've got a Dane Dunning to 399 for the Rangers. It'll be for Boyd. Another Jazz Chisholm and a rookie autograph coming up. It is Jermyn Mercedes, rookie auto for the White Sox. That'll be for Victor. Remember the crazy start to his career? We've got a Michael Conforto, 60 out of 99 Green Wave. Brian Hayes. That mid-80s design. Classic. A lot of finals here. I think the only game is Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN. Padre's up 4-0 on the Braves. Top of the third. Which is not good, because I have Dylan Dodd on my fantasy team. That's making the start for the Braves tonight. Diamondbacks beat my Dodgers 11-6. Michael Grove taking the loss. He's also on my fantasy team. Blue Jays edge at the Angels in overtime. In extra innings 12-11. Giant's beat the Royals 3-1. Rockies beat the National 7-6. Rangers beat the Cubs 8-2. Brewers beat the Cardinals 6-1. Astros over the Twins 5-1. Guardians over the Mariners in extra 7-6. Marlins beat the Met 7-2. Pirates shutting out the White Sox 1-0. Yankees beat the O's 5-3. Aaron Judge with a couple home runs. Reyes beat the A's. Beat them 11-0. Red Sox beat the Tigers 4-1. Reds beat the Phillies 6-4. I guess at this point now we've got to start talking about with the Reyes with a 9-0 record. I think the record is 13 wins to start a season. So now it's time to start talking about that. Happy Easter, Johnny! Any movement on that NBA APOC? I don't know. Johnny, I've been doing this break for the last 40 minutes, so why don't you go to jaspyscasebreaks.com and check the spots left number. And let me know... Let me know if there's been some movement on that. See how many spots are left. Appreciate it. But yeah, that's how you can always check, Johnny. Go to jaspyscasebreaks.com. Just monitor the spots left numbers. Yeah, we were talking about that earlier today. Mike Pirates, short sob, O'Neal Cruz fracturing his ankle in a home plate collision. Not good. Started a little scuffle too. Hashtag not good for the hobby. Saw that news earlier today. That was a bummer. Saw the play as well. Not good. There is Masahiro Tanaka, 23 out of 3, 99 for the Yankees. Victor for the Yankees. Got Nick Casiano, Sokko Wave to 199. And we've got Jonah Heim, rookie autograph for the A's. That'll be for Dominic. And we've got a Bo Burrows, rookie autograph for Detroit. Barry. Tanaka again in that photo negative. Parallel. Next box. Let's see in that Red Sox win. Tristan Costas apparently had a solo shot. Kelly Jansen with his second save. Brandon Lowe had a grand slam. Part of that 11 run barrage by the Reyes. Who are their next matchups? I mean, it's not like the comp... I mean, it's still hard to win 9 in a row because there's always a flute game, especially in the beginning of the season. So this is a pretty hot start. Even though they played 3 against Detroit, 3 in Washington and 3 versus the A's. They're next 4 against some tougher competition. They're going to be playing the Red Sox, so I feel like I've been playing to decent baseball. And then the next 3 after that would be Toronto. So I think if my... Someone may be fact-tracking on this, but I think the record for most wins to start a season, start a baseball season is 13. I forget what team it was, but I think it's 13. They'd have to sweep the Red Sox to get that. In Tampa Bay, though. And then they're at Toronto for the next 3 after that. So they red flagged the Bristol Rims. And we've got a Trevor Rogers rookie autograph for the fish. It's going to go to David. Mike Clevenger for the Padres. That's going to go to Tristan. Another Key Brian Hayes for John and the Pirates. Let's try to find a numbered cards of Key Brian Hayes. Maybe an autograph. 76 out of 399, Miggie, Miguel Cabrera for Barry and the Tigers. We've got Joey Gallo, 24 out of 199. Still Rangers edition here in this 2021 set. Going to Boyd. And we've got a Zach McKinstry rookie autograph. Former Dodger going to Victor. He's with the Cubs now. Ryan Mount Castle Refractor. That's for Victor and the Orgolas. All right, 3 boxes to go. Diego, what's going on? All hail Theron, yeah. He made an appearance in the Ahsoka trailer for You Star Wars fans out there. That series is looking pretty, pretty good. I suppose I was questioning what this season's Amanda and Lorian was doing. I wasn't really sure. Obviously there's some, there's a storyline of uniting all the different clans, Mandalorian clans. But there wasn't really like a, let's see, I don't know, what's the common enemy. Is there a common enemy? I don't know. But it seems like they're looking to dovetail this season probably into the Ahsoka series which drops in August. I think we finally got a release date. Your summer homework, ladies and gentlemen, is to, for Star Wars fans anyways, is to watch the Star Wars Rebel animated series which is on Disney Plus. That should give you a good primer on what you should expect in the Ahsoka series. There's a lot of the characters from the Star Wars Rebel series. I think you're going to see the Ahsoka series. Ah, is that what they're doing? Diego is saying one of the new movies is supposed to tie Mando, Boba Fett, and the Ahsoka series all together. I see. Sort of like an MCU kind of universe kind of thing. Then I could see the Mandalorian current series in a different light if that's the end goal. That probably kind of closes the chapter on the Dave Filoni Star Wars universe which a lot of this stuff from the animated series are looking like they're trying to put a bow on it with live action series. We got Cody Heuer, White Sox for Victor, Rookie Otto. I suppose it is kind of a Mandalorian's family reunion in a way, but not really. I think you have to think of it more, those Mandalorian clans is more like the different houses in Game of Thrones, I guess. I've never seen Game of Thrones, but that will be my assumption. I suppose they could be united under one ruler. There's Ashton Godot waiting for Ashton Godot going to Eddie and the Rockies. That's what I'm thinking too. I think the movie should end at the Mando storyline whenever that may be. Like I was saying, it kind of puts the bow on the Dave Filoni Star Wars universe which is in a lot of the animated series. Especially Clone Wars and Rebels. Those are two to watch. They're pretty cool. They're pretty fun. Very quick episodes. They're 20 minute episodes, I think. A handful of seasons each. It would be nice to see. Any idea when that movie is supposed to be out? Maybe Dave Filoni and Favreau would have to write it. Maybe they'll do a season or two of Ahsoka. This season of Mandalorian. One more season of Mandalorian. And then maybe that'll set up the movie. Dawn of Jedi would be on Christmas 2025. That's a ways away. Raphael Devers, 3 out of 399. And we've got Carlos Hernandez. Tristan with the Royals. And we've got Jordan Weems. 109 out of 499. Refractor Autograph for the A's for Dominic. And Moose Arnaud Assog which is towards some different eras. And then after that, hopefully we can start seeing some new, some fresh Star Wars stuff as well. Because I know they've been talking like high republic stuff. Which technically, I guess I've heard both. I've heard that they're gonna try doing stuff that's you know, that's like a thousand years before the events of the Phantom Menace. Or I've heard talk about a thousand years ahead. I think it's probably easier to get to probably easier and more interesting to do a thousand years before. Just keep mining. Because there's already a lot of established canon and a lot of established, you know, things, stuff about what the force can or cannot do. And just kind of go the other way. There's some really, there's some interesting Star Wars novels. Yeah, Track the Ride of the Sith. This is where, you know, where like the Sith and the Jedi were plentiful and often battling against each other. To see some of that would be pretty cool. Because we've seen individual battles between Jedi and a Sith Lord. We've also seen a lot of Jedi in battle, but that's against battle droids. But think about the visual experience of think about the visual experience of seeing dozens of Jedi lightsaber versus dozens of red lightsabers battling against you. I think that would be pretty exciting. You can really lean into a lot of the the sort of Jedi temple, Sith temple, kind of looking for holocrons, kind of thing. You can really set that up. Eventually lead to the idea of the Rule of Two, which is another another book that explores that situation. Pretty cool. Last box. Final two autographs. There's a lot of fun stuff to mine in the Star Wars universe here. Yeah, I think which cameo was like Zeb. I like seeing Zeb, live action Zeb. Here is a Chadwick Trump rookie autograph for the Giants. That's going to go to Jared. Oh, Christopher Lloyd, yeah, the Doc Brown cameo. And then Jack Black. And Lizzo. Lizzo? And here's Mitch White, rookie auto for the Dodgers. That's for Victor. And that's that. That was 2021 tops, chrome baseball, 12 box, hobby edition, random team number one, where one spot gave you two teams. Here's a quick little autograph recap. Nothing too monstrous here, but a solid break, solid set of autographs, keeping on all these rookies throughout the season. I guess they're not rookies this year, but from the old seasons. There you go gang. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, and I will see you next time for the next break. Bye bye.


How are you guys doing today? All right. Welcome to work at Miami. All right. I'm going to go ahead and get started because it's only 15 Minutes here. And i got a lot to talk about. So hopefully i can give you guys a nice overhead of about some Automation. Basically it's called work-press automation, but pretty Much is automating your workflow. So if you are a developer, any new developers like first Year, is your first year developing anything? All right. This will probably help you more than anything else. If you ever actually came to meet up, i had another talk Very similar to this, but it was more of a user level. I will have links to that sometime later today and you Can look at that because that's very helpful as well. But this talk is more of a developer base. All right. Why should you automate your work-press development or Your workflow? Probably because you should. If you don't do that now, you probably should stop doing Whatever you're doing and get that together. Because it's good to get your life together. So it's good to get your work-press development together.  This doesn't. Let me go. Stay still now. Most of the biggest reason why is as a developer, there's a Lot of grunt tasks and things you don't want to do. With work-press automation, it helps you avoid a lot of that.  You can raise your hand. Lazy developers. Yes. Yes. I am king of lazy development. I have assistance and I make them do all the work. I take all the credit. So. Yeah. Yeah. But I even make them automate the work. Because it keeps things consistent. It doesn't matter what level of development. You need to keep things consistent. You might have multiple projects. They might be slightly different and vary from some time. But your core of your project should always be consistent. It helps you get there to the point faster. Helps your team get there to the point faster. If you keep things consistent. So work-press automation can actually help you keep things Consistent. Especially when you want to make sure your code is standard With whatever technology you're using. And, of course, time is money. So if you're doing things differently or the long way, You're spending a lot of time. You have clients. You're dealing with clients. You're charging them a higher hourly bill compared to someone Who's fully automated their system. Which, you know, they know, hey, this work can take me four hours Compared to someone that can take them six hours. So you're losing out on deals. Because someone who saved two hours on work can actually Jump on some of the better clients out there. So you're losing money.  So the best way of doing things is to automate it. So time is money. And make sure you get things done. And, of course, you have more times for other things. I like to play video games when I can. I also have wife and kids, and they force me to do things Like go to movies and watch kid movies and Disney movies. That I basically get on my phone until someone tells me to get off My phone. That's how I deal. So, you know, it's good for work. If you really care about that, work-life balance is one of The biggest things that actually helps out. And because ever since I made sure I can automate almost Everything I do, I have plenty of time to do other things.  Just to... So when should you start doing this? Pretty much my thought process of this is If you're thinking about doing theme, if you're a theme developer You should automate the way you develop themes. I used to be a big time just creating themes. I'm big on design. And it will take me forever. And I got to a point that I need to do this a lot quicker. So, automation in themes is a big deal. Also the same thing goes for plugins, but especially when You have to deal with WordPress installations.  I'm sorry, installing new WordPress sites, or for some reason Even working with themes and your client wants a whole website And you're selling the website package, you need this Information to work out well. I know if you're using WordPress multi-site, that seems like An easy way, but you can actually automate the way you do Multi-sites. I'll share a link a little later about that. Where? In your local development. If you're a developer and you're not using local development You probably should start doing that. That's a good idea. Local development is the way to go. Because you can break things and not worry about it. Also, in your remote development, so you're pushing things From your machine over to a developer server. There's ways to automate that process and automate things In your remote development. And then, of course, production. I don't really do much automation in my production site. Well, there's a different type of automation I do there. I won't get into that today, actually. So how would you do this? So for me locally, I use tools like Docker and Vagrant. Truth be told, I've been using Vagrant up to about a month And a half ago. So it's over to Docker. It's actually saving more time. Docker is more industry standard now, more than before. So it would be good for you to take some time to learn Docker, to lose some local development. You've got to get comfortable with command line, which is a Good idea. But it's just something you just have to pick up and learn. Also, GitHub, I use GitLab. This is how my work does. We use a lot of GitLab. Git, your local Git, GitHub, that also helps out with Development. This is my favorite tool of automation of them all. I remember showing you a few weeks ago. WPCLI. This tool alone does a lot of amazing things. There's even a process with Alesis, which actually even Help you automate the automation. And you can do a lot with it. I'm not going to go over this because there's a speaker Coming in today. And he's going to go over that all with you. And you guys should stick around for that talk. There's tons of tasks, runners. Pretty much this is where the grunt works lie. To avoid some of the grunt work, you might want to use a Tool like gulp or grunt. They pretty much work the same. I know I've been hearing stories of developers using both. Don't know exactly how they do that. And it seems quite annoying. But they make it work. So pretty much how these two tools work is that they'll Minify your css and your javascript and a lot of other Tasks, mundane tasks that you don't want to do. I know this because I'm very lazy. And when my student assistants say they're going to Minify this, I'm like, how come you didn't do this Earlier in the process before you pushed this to Production? So these are certain tools that you want to make sure, Certain tasks that you want to make sure to be done Well before you actually have to manually do it. I'm going to give you a few resources. Pretty much the first one is the Google it. There's a great, great resource guide right there. The key words you probably want to look for is Workflow and Automation. So make sure you Google it. And you get to google.com. In the keyword search, you type in workflow or Automation or web development automation. You can probably do a few things and you'll find Tons and tons of places. But I want to make sure there's some Icon lazy links. Yeah. And it's well worth it. I recommend any of these articles, especially this Last one from elegant themes. If you're a WordPress developer, a theme developer, They have a great article, that ultimate guide. And it will actually help you a long way. No worries. I will pulse something. It will be on WordPress. You can find these slides. It will hand it out some way somehow. But it helps. And I also have the laser links. The two tools I believe you should really look into. The WP, CLI, and the Docker. Just to go over one of the processes I deal with. I generally get an e-mail saying that some Research project is happening. And they tell me, like, hey, we need x, y, and z. And this type of login interface. I have a GitLab repo that does certain things. And I pretty much tell my assistant, like, hey, We need to pull project 305, clone it, and name it Research waterway. And all they're doing is doing a Git pull. Oh, actually, first, they have a Docker install. They create a new container. And then they do our container environment. It's set always the same, which is pretty much engine x With php and some other stuff installed. They pull from our GitLab repo. They do, it's not a form, but they put in a few things. And next you know, voila, we have a theme and default Plugins and everything ready to go. And that's pretty much how it does. It takes them no longer than 10 minutes if our wi-fi is slow. That makes you know you pretty much have a full onsite. And the rest of it is, of course, development work, which is More front-end work, which is are we going to use React, Or are we just going to use WordPress basic themes and Some other things depending on the project. But what you need to do before getting Automation is plan ahead. If you know you do these type of projects, have something Ready, have something in your GitHub. GitLab is pretty much the same, just open source version of GitHub.  And whoa, well, it's supposed to be done. The next two speakers are going to be talking about Some other tools, but I know one of them Will be talking about WPC Li, which is well worth The time to sit down and go over it. I am Jean Felice May. I'm a senior developer here at The school of computer information science for Florida international university. I can be found on twitter. My website will show you nothing because I'm too lazy To do anything in there. And I'm glad I have a website open. So I got that far. You can pretty much find me around. And if you guys have any questions, I have no answers For you, but you can Google it. Alright. Guys enjoy the rest of the work camp, and stick around.


Artificial sweeteners are similar enough to sugar molecules to trigger the sweetness receptors on your palate and are usually too different for sugar to be broken down into calories. But what dictates what is bad for us? The glycemic index is fairly irrelevant as most foods are consumed with others. So the impact on insulin is what we should be looking at. Raising insulin isn't necessarily a bad thing as consuming any food in general will raise insulin. Whether it is carbohydrate, protein, or fat, the problem is the overall amount of insulin and how much it is spiking throughout the day. If you are consuming something that is just pure sugar, something that is just pure starch at various increments throughout the day, that is where we do have issues. What you don't want to do is increase this insulin with artificial sweetener without providing your body with the glucose it is expecting. The primary negative things to be aware of in the context of artificial sweeteners are any cancer or disease promoting activity, the disruption of the gut microbiome, and the over consumption of hyper-palatable foods. The three predominant artificial sweeteners we see are aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose, which are sold as equal, sweet and low, and splendor. I'm sure you guys go into any coffee shop, any restaurant, and you see those three in the sugar container. Each of these has shown various effects on insulin and blood glucose in studies, most of them not exhibiting too much of an effect. Again, that is not the main focus here. Aspartame is broken down into metabolites, but it is claimed that these metabolites are not in large enough amounts to be considered harmful. Many studies have however shown brain damage, resulting in anything from seizures to migraines. Saccharin was actually banned in 1981 because it produced bladder tumors and rats. There are many negative effects that have been observed, including headaches, breathing issues, diarrhea. Interestingly, saccharin was discovered by a chemist that was working on coal tar. One of the extracts had a sweet taste to it. What's worse, industrial lubricant seed oils or coal tar sweeteners. Most of these sweeteners have actually been discovered in a similar way. Sucralose is derived from sugar, not absorbed or recognized by the body, potentially breaks down into carcinogenic compounds at high temperatures. It has also been shown to shrink the thymus gland, resulting in poor immune response and enlarged liver and kidneys. A sulfane potassium is commonly added to drinks and gums to decrease the bitter taste of aspartame and has shown adverse effects in rat studies. It's worth noting that many of these artificial sweeteners were banned, including cyclimate, and some were never even approved for use in the United States, such as Neohespartin. But even when this information is put in the general media, the public doesn't seem to care. Studies aren't that convincing. What we can say without a doubt from a mechanistic standpoint is that artificial sweeteners will disrupt the gut microbiome. This dysbiosis can result in glucose intolerance, blood sugar issues, bacteria in the gut not being able to function as it had before. This is because certain artificial sweeteners are recognized as toxins to this gut bacteria and other artificial sweeteners are utilized more by certain gut bacteria creating this imbalance. Including sugar alcohols like xylitol, erythritol, sorbitol, malatol, a bunch of other ones are used in many food products, one popular sweetener such as Trevia. These do spike insulin more unlike the previous sweeteners and again are not absorbed by the body, especially considering these are FODMAPS poorly absorbed in the small intestine. Some common symptoms you might see are like gas, bloating, and diarrhea. Monk fruit sweetener is also very popular, something a lot of you guys suggest I use instead of honey. It's from an antioxidant in the monk fruit known as mongrosides. These are separated from the fresh pressed monk fruit juice, so as with most of these other substitutes, not a natural process. Monk fruit sweetener does raise blood sugar levels and has been speculated to increase insulin secretion which might be a concern without adequate glucose in the meal. Stevia, which is extracted from the leaves of a plant, is sweet with virtually no calories, does not increase blood sugar levels, and is the only sweetener that some people aren't able to find anything negative about. The issue is it doesn't taste that great, so it's usually combined with other sweeteners in its products. Pure Stevia is not typically used. Stevia is metabolized by the liver, so it's hard to gauge the level of stress that is being put on the body. There are many studies that link diet drinks to negative health consequences, but these may just be a result of the corresponding poor lifestyle. That being said, these drinks can be very addictive, specifically because of the artificial sweeteners, eliciting a high dopamine response. And your concern might not directly be the artificial sweetener itself, but other aspects of that diet drink. What other chemicals are in it, what type of water was used, certainly a lack of research on mechanisms in the body is apparent. And how most of these products are on the market for a very short period of time is something else we should be concerned about, which is why I am unable to recommend the use of many of these chemicals, what they really are. The concern we mentioned earlier, increasing insulin without providing the body with glucose results in you actually craving carbohydrates. You are also likely consuming hyper-palatable baked goods instead of high quality nutrient-dense whole foods. The reason we are looking to sweeten our food is to increase its palatability, make it taste better. But the reason we consume plant food in the first place is for caloric energy. That's why using artificial sweeteners doesn't make sense to me. Caloric restriction is something very new to humans because to survive in nature, our main goal is to consume calories. Our job and purpose is to procure enough nutrition from nature to reproduce. Now, with our modern access to food, things have changed. But is regular sugar worse than artificial sweeteners? Now, there is a difference between raw honey and other sugars like agave or maple syrup. It doesn't spike insulin as much and has beneficial aspects pertaining to the local environment it was grown in. That being said, sugar is still sugar, but I do use honey myself over other artificial sweeteners as well as any sweetener in general. I find that you don't need to use a lot of honey and sugar is demonized to some degree. If you are consuming foods in their natural context, meats, fruits, vegetables, grains, all prepared in natural ways, it's essentially impossible to become unhealthy. It's worth noting that honey would likely have not been available in many parts of the world, especially at all times of the year. But certain berries and carbohydrates may have been available for sweetening purposes. It's arguable that even with high quality natural food, making a cheesecake is something that is unrealistically palatable and shouldn't be done on a consistent basis. But above all, regardless of the sweetener, you have to consider the quality of the other ingredients going into the cheesecake, which I think is far more important. If you're drinking coffee, are you drinking the highest quality you have access to? If you're making a keto recipe, are you using high quality raw local dairy or store bought pasteurized crap? Those things are far more important than whether you use sugar or artificial sweeteners. Keep in mind, though, even honey can cause bacterial imbalance, so you want to be mindful about how much sugar you are consuming and the overall context of that meal. For the average American, this is just one of the many negatives of a standard American diet. And there are unfortunately many things far more negative such as high sugar, high carbohydrate intake, vegetable seed oils, agrochemicals that need to be addressed first. Before I would bother with fear mongering about artificial sweeteners, although they certainly make things worse and in certain people in particular, they might be the biggest cause to their health issues. Thank you guys for joining me today. If you could please, please, please share the video. You know, there really isn't an objective in depth source on a topic like this that I have access to. If you could also like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon. If you guys do want to support me further, you can check out Frankie's Free Range Meat. We have brains on sale this week, courtesy of Halloween. You can also check out Frankie's Naturals for minimal ingredients, minimal process, hygiene, and cosmetic products. If you guys do want to reach out to me for one-on-one consultations, you can shoot me an email frankatofano at gmail.com. Thanks again for joining me, guys, and enjoy the rest of your day. What about the insulin response? Well, it doesn't appear that it causes an insulin response on its own, but it does appear to improve insulin sensitivity in the pancreas. Now, this could be a problem because if you're on a drug like an GLT2 inhibitor and you produce more insulin in response to this without providing glucose at the same time, you could potentially end up with something like diabetic ketoacidosis as a result of the drug. And that's one of the reasons that we suggest that people stop these drugs when they're going on a ketogenic diet. But overall, this particular drug is quite dangerous, and I've had a couple of patients unrelated to this who have gotten infections and ended up in intensive care. So we need to be very careful. It's an area that we don't know a lot about and we're still learning.


I love the world tournament mode in Dragon Ball Z games, if they let you actually ring each other out. Unfortunately, I would say most games don't allow this and in fact just block off the walls in the ground. And even if they do let you touch the walls in the ground like in Super Dragon Ball Z, it just doesn't do anything. This got me thinking though, what's stopping us from making our own fan made rules in Super Dragon Ball Z that state if we touch the ground or any of the walls, we lose that round. Well today, me and my friend Ryan Satterle are going to find out just how big of a change this has on the gameplay as we've decided to run a first to five set where these rules are in place. If you like when I play obscure or fan made Dragon Ball Z games, definitely make sure to leave a like and subscribe as I'm trying to get to a million subscribers. Alright, here we are. Again, normally if you touch the grass or anything else, you would just be rung out, but we're just going to have to make some house rules that say we're just going to honorarily like, uh, cancel it out.  Maybe we should have played like a round or two before because I forgot to play this game completely. I definitely forgot how to play two, but I still r- No! Oh, I see I didn't. Alright, well game one goes to you. Bro, alright, so I need practice, hold on. One to two. We are back and I'm not going out the same way. Let's go! Let's go! With juggles! Oh, no shot. Look at this movement too. Okay, you kind of got movement tech. I'm about to do it like you did in the fight against, uh, Majina. Yeah! Does this work out? Does this work out? I don't- we can't count that one. Surely, surely, surely. You agree? Yeah, it's not broken. It's not breaking. What is that? I forgot about that. Cross up! Cross up! What? Oh, you flew. That's not cheating. That's part of Dragon Ball Z. Yeah, you ready for that? You ready for some grass? I- Just try to run. Oh, I forgot about Goku's DP. DP! No! No! No, no, no, no! No, no, no, no! Fly, damn!  Goku! Alright, get your win, bro.  I bet you won't- You should rematch me though. Bad. Look at my nose. Why would you to build like a snowboard kids character and here put up the snowboard kids character? You know, I'm thinking of hi for my power levels literally so much higher than nice block. Oh Side step okay, okay, but what are you gonna do? What's yeah? What's your big thing? Bro that is blinding day. Oh, I Cannot block in this video. Yeah, how do I surrender? I kicked you cuz I'm pissed. How do you how do you fly? How do you fly? Nice, yeah, I wouldn't have fall if I knew how to fly.   I am not you and you are you are the I'm flying No, I'm literally flying bro.  All right the match this. I'm trunks. I am red red jacket on as well No, it's blue again. You already know what I got a handicap. Get me back on the world tournament I have a gun this time. Let's see what you can do. All right So far.  We created the much we'll call it. Oh, we did.   No, I like that. Oh Dear god, please. Let me start flying Dear god man Dear god, it's an onslaught. All right so far. It's six up. He's huge bro Look at the carousel. It's all in the gun, bro. Now rematch me sure right now with these characters Yeah, I got I got to get one win. I got to get one way my my my mental is slipping Tumbles. Okay. It's like it's I'm just I'm just never enough. I'm just never enough Yes What I just hit why and why you have to recreate the way you killed me though. I don't know. I did kind of make a cannon Side step Freeza, I'm not going out of the tournament. Oh, you're out of the tournament.  You're scaring. I got your name.  All I gotta do is just kick you. I mean my health is getting a little low here.    Oh, just watch down. No, no, no, I'm too close to the edge Oh, I'm just clicking Y and B or Y and X. Sorry top two buttons.  Thanks to Mike. You're right. I apologize Maybe we don't run this one back Freeze after round three. What's wrong? Okay, okay Why did that still grow after you through it? That is not how key works.  Okay, so far you're Yes, this game was not meant for ringouts, but I am here that is the only way I'm winning in this game I'm trash Launcher on popular opinion bring back ringouts. They needed and then you think I eat you for sure Oh, that should not be unpopular people people that think it's not cool People was like gas up playing ringouts. It's so boring. I'm like, bro I can just tell you got running out once many times and just They are bad. I was surprised. I posted that we got videos like people love this.  All right. Oh, yeah, no, no match. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Let me back. Let me back Okay, let's do I'm coming back to this. Oh All right, all right. Well, hold on why it matches the energy like that though. Oh, I did say it I just thought that's what I thought that's what you meant. I was gonna say like Goku or something But like I noticed when I have to do the Mechion when I picked in the Mechion I just I just I thought maybe you know, it's father son. This is like the seventh time you got cancelled in your videos, bro This is father son matchup.  What's crazy is I can't put okay. I'll say I can't put it I'm not posed up like that. See I definitely know how zone grenade That's what you forgot is I know how zone green I have stretchy arms what you got Damn stretchy arms kind of OP on this game. Oh, why I've stretch arms.  There we go. No, that's that's fair.   Oh, that's how you grab. Okay. Got it. Come here.  Tombo's Oh Why why it looked like he was hiding from the rev you saw that come here Get your licks it come here. Tombo's From learning. Oh, I found my stretchy arm. Why you got so much health. Oh, that perfect hurts Really, I know I got perfect to hold on watch this Stretchy arms stretchy arms Stretchy arms. Okay No Oh Why are you fighting back? Sorry. Sorry. I'm sorry. I get angry. I get angry. I get angry. I got angry Not a better question. This is what that's the way that was around already Bro, you don't have to insult me.  Uh Yes, actually, this is kind of free and I'll go live. Okay.  I have to close and I'm picking this person What do you get? Oh Do close up do close do close. I'm closing my eyes and I'm picking a disperse right here It is not a scene to fight for what is right, bro I'm just gonna let you know right now either you win or you get embarrassed. There is no just normal losing Oh, I am built god damn. I am wide. What's it like not getting more than two wins in this video? Better questions.  Oh, I'm here. I'm him I'm here Come on. Come on Hey, knock me out too. Yeah, I'm dropping haymakers too. No, don't don't be afraid rocks Don't be afraid. Come on. Oh dear.  I thought that was broken. I thought that was broken Launcher. No, no, no That was flash Oh subs. Yo subs Get out. No, no, I better stop flying. I can't Let's go go die No, okay. Yes. All right. No, you got me I forgot how snap 16 is in his game. I know he is fun in this game 16 actually is probably gonna be my Oh, break his back Break his back 16. Oh, you are so lucky that miss rush down. Okay side step into a rush down I'm just doing combos over here.  I'll give it up. Oh, no, is that it? Oh, you forgot about the golden rule I'm mad that his open was just in yelling. What was I gonna do? I don't know bro just got pissed bro just yelled at insult He just he's slightly more green Damn looks like I might come back after all you want to change characters and what you're trying to do Yeah, I thought so I thought so and I only got one good grab off though It's all it takes You know what you either protect the earth or become the fertilizer that feeds it I feel like I got to match your energy with 18 Although you played her last time.   All right. I was looking away. What's your opening move here? Okay? What about this? We just did the same don't do this don't do this bro. Don't ring me out Don't ring. Oh, I tell dad.  No movement tech at all your hands the raw raw hands. I'm up here bro You disrespect.  Oh turn him around Ah, you took the grind. Yeah. Yeah, you took the grind. Come here. Why are you uppercutter like that?  Yeah, but now it's four four We should we should what you try to do. Let's wrap it up. I asked it with the random Oh You know what give me one real beatdown two. We're just playing for realsies now. You sure. Yeah Yeah, there's a real beatdown and then it doesn't count. This is just bonus credit. This bonus for fun He's angry. Yeah, if you watch the video all the way now, you get to see a real fight I forgot that is a annoying loud aura with go for the Vegeta here. Yeah, but he's strong though It makes up for it. I step side to side back to back. Okay. You can see you kind of got defense in this game Jump it damn.  Of course. Why would I show you my true potential in the warm-up Come on. I mean, I'm blocking is a better question because I can't roll is dead. I am I am gone Look at that.  Come here.  Not what you didn't know is super come at me. Ah, you live that And it's getting a little it's getting a little toasty on name it right You should probably block that. No, because then I you would grab me. I know you I'd get perfected. I'm not getting perfected. First of all, let's go. Super jump.  I think you kill me. I think you kicked me on the way up, bro That what is Vegeta doing? He's back to the world term. It says five four, but that's not real I mean, it might be real in a second, but it's gonna be real in a second. All right.   Oh, yes Hi, okay. Oh, oh, what? I gotta Oh, I got two bars. I got two bars.  I'm not done what you can't Got a little side step reaction Smart upon this defensive. Yeah, a little bit.  What are we going? Oh, yeah, how much was it?  I Forgot yes, just give us stamina like why can't I dash? Okay, we can't get it from now All right, all right, but but what you didn't realize is the pause wait pause Yeah, you better knock me out. No, no the hopes of the people of the earth That was my celebration Damn and this video I got embarrassed but not before you like and subscribe to both me and rhyme style on YouTube. Thank you. Goodbye


Today, Mike vlogs about vlogging. It's much more than a way for the conceited to talk about themselves. Vlogging's a great way to chronicle all the things you've accomplished. Think of it as a tech savvy and not lame diary that you keep unlocked for the world to see. What is up everyone? My name is Estie Mike and today we're going to talk about vlogging. Specifically for those of you who are wanting to start up vlogging and haven't quite got the knack of it yet. Whether you want to be inspirational or flat out entertaining or you just want to share stuff that you want to remember, vlogging can be a lot of fun if you do it right. We all know what you need equipment wise, a camera, but some people don't seem to grasp how to actually vlog. The number one issue I see with vloggers is vlogging angles. I see people vlog all the time like this, or like this, or even this. However, when you're vlogging you're actually talking to a person and when you're talking to a person you're not going to talk to them like this, or like this, or even this. Instead, if you care about the person you're going to talk to them straight on, you're going to make eye contact and actually make them feel like you care. For instance, like this. Not only that, but it's a little bit more flattering to talk to the camera straight on. Do I look pretty? Believe it or not, there's actually a lot of psychology with YouTube. If your viewer feels like you care about them, chances are they're going to care about you and what you have to say, but if they feel disassociated to you, they're not going to want to listen to what you have to say and chances are they're not going to watch your videos. So this is why eye contact is so important. So make sure you care about the people viewing your videos. Make sure they know you care and show them your face. Not your double chins. Do I look pretty? The second biggest issue with vlogging is feeling uncomfortable vlogging in public. This is hands down the biggest question I get asked is how do I feel comfortable vlogging in public? The fact of the matter is if you're in public, chances are you're never going to see someone you know, so why should you care about what they think? If you're not going to see them again, then it doesn't matter what they think. And if you do know them, they already know you're crazy and talk to a camera, so it doesn't matter what they think anyways. Lastly, you can use vlogging in public as promotion for your channel. If someone does stuff, you can ask what you're doing, you can simply tell them, tell them what you do, show them your channel link and maybe even give them the business card if you have them and you might have a new viewer. A good example of this is the other day two girls passed me while they were vlogging and they made eye contact with me and as they saw me looking at them, they put the camera down here and hit it and kept on talking and acted like they were just continuing their conversation. Once they passed me, they brought the camera back up and continued talking. Once they saw I was out of frame and the funniest thing about this was I was wearing my YouTube shirt, so they saw that I actually was a YouTuber, at least watch YouTube, so I understood what they were doing and they couldn't even vlog in front of me. So they lost a potential viewer and someone to network with. But anyways guys, that's it for today's video. I hope these tips are helpful if you are looking at starting up a vlogging channel. And if you do have any vlogging specific questions, feel free to ask and I can try to answer in the next video. Anyways guys, that's it. If you want to see more of my tips and tricks, you can click the playlist in the sidebar or if you want to visit my personal channel, you can check me out in the link in the description below. But anyways guys, that's it and we'll see you next week. See ya! Click here or visit the link in the video description.