Happy Saturday everybody. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreak.com and that is 2021 Break King Baseball premium edition three box random team break number six three cards per box three box per case All cards from a rookie or prospect here at least two graded cards per box Usually we usually it's three, but at least two and obviously no checklist and products like this But definitely a lot of great opportunities to land some excellent cards right there High-risk high reward big thanks to these folks right here taking that high risk and high reward And hopefully you'll be rewarded. Thank you. There's all the teams in there. Let's roll it Let's randomize names and teams three and a one four times one two three and a one fourth of a time We got Ruben down to PJ three and a one four times for the teams one two Three and a one fourth and final time after four. We got the Padres Down to the Royals. What's that? Oh? Still got some time before Dodger's Padres square off. It's been a good good series so far Dodger's trouble a little bit some injuries some cold bats So on and so forth. Why is this not? All right So here we are Ruben with the Padres Chris with the Marlins max He got my Dodgers Charles with the twins the X line with the Metropolitans Kenny G with the Diamondbacks Jimmy with the Red Sox Max with the A's the X line with the Stroh's Adam with the Nats Kyle with the White Sox Mike with the Mariners Max with the Yankees Nice PJ Rangers Michael Cardinals Jason Cubbies Max with the Tigers Darren with the Bluebirds Kenny with the Reds Ian with the Indians Brian with the Braves Charles with the Phillies in the Brew Crew Greg with the Pirates PJ with the Angels Adam with the O's the X Line with the Giants Kyle with the Rays PJ with the Rocks and the Royals Let's get all this on one screen. Let's sort by column B any trades Trade out your own risk and stuff like this We're gonna pause video give people a little bit of time to think about their teams possibly make a trade-off or when we come back We'll have the break itself and see what's inside that case stick around. We'll be right back All right, welcome back folks. Look at this there was a deal and it's a two for one The rare two for one deal So Michael So the X line is out of the Mets and Giants spot gets his Cardinals right here gets the Cardinals right there And now Michael Now has the Mets and Giants right there So we'll put T Next to there for trade to see who draws first blood in that trade if any there might be no blood shed There could be no blood There could be no hits. There could be all the hits. Who knows? This is why it's exciting All right Now trade window close. Let's print and rib And let's see what happens. All right, T wc trade window close Your cousins and demmer who ate Mets fans chimed in I'm assuming hate Michael's been struggling with the with the keys today But if they eat Mets fans that that's terrifying All right Here you go There's the final print out All right there hot off the presses And here is the final case of breaking baseball. It's a box Inside a box Inside a box. Oh, they are Mets fans. Yeah, I didn't know if it was our Mets. Oh, it's a new phone I didn't if they were they are Mets fans or they hate Mets fans Could have gone either way or actually hate Mets fans They've gone all three ways Premium addition right here. Good luck everybody And the new phone is always rough You got to set you got to set your keyboard You make your keyboard taller shorter if it's wider It's all over the place. All right First one out of the gate graded And it's rookie debut PSA 10 gem meant 10 ronald akunya jr. For brian and the braves Good start I'm update series. No, no, no worries. Michael. There's a learning curve to new phones. Next one Is cody bellinger nice from heritage another gem meant 10 now. He's got a fracture like a weird fracture Nothing major but enough to keep them out and now the timetables. Who knows but hopefully he gets well soon max has my dodgers and Last one here is an astro We've got 2014 bow and sterling rookie autographs. George springer So centering corners are a nine five Edges are a 10 surface a nine and his autograph is a 10 and that's the card numbered one out of 50 purple refractor right there and that is That's for the x-line. That's the team. He didn't trade nothing else in here Another three to go Good luck. All right graded. Yes graded Another PSA 10 gem meant 10 2018 tops chrome baseball rafael devers No red sox been playing some solid baseball lately. That's for jimmy connell in the boston red sox another graded card blue jays another gem meant 10 PSA 10 2019 tops of blad guerrero jr. toronto That's for d mac darin mckenzie There you go darin I've got a I've got a big investment in the blue jays today. How are they doing? Are they hanging on? Oh, no, the game is now tied three three No blue jay raised scoring two in the bottom the sixth and they're they're not out of it yet The blad grower jr. With a with a game-winning hit or something like that. All right final one here And it's fernando to tis jr Mint nine from 2019 tops chrome prism Refractor That's awesome two solo shots last night and i'm sure everyone saw this by now, but Uh last night was the same night that his dad Hit two grand slams off of a dodger's pitcher channel park I think remember that korean pitcher that was on the dodgers. I think that was the game His dad hit a grand slam off of him. I think it was early in the game too And then they were just batting around and then they're just like let's not burn out the bullpen They kept him pitching and then bases loaded again fernando to tis senior second grand slam in the same the same inning to tis jr solo shots are in different innings It's a great one for the padres ruben hernandez with the friars All right, and the final three. Good luck. That's right. He was a cardinal That's right fran to see to tis senior was a cardinal the x-line. Remember you see the cardinals guy Yeah, that was a while here. Well after the break. We'll we'll we'll look back on that game Next one is keston hero mint nine from 2019 tops update brew uh brewers. Yeah brew crew Charles with milwaukee a couple more to go another graded card jordan alvarez gem mint nine psa 10 Gem in 10 that is psa 10 2020 you're on alvarez another astro for the x-line rookie jordan alvarez the former dodger prospect And the last one here the third and final one is gonna be psa 10 wan soto 2018 tops chrome baseball wan soda. That's another great one right there Adam cupperman with the gnats. There you go, adam Well, was he on deck for a shot at a third grand slam? Not sam bangs this thing. We'll have to look that up. All right. There you have it ladies and gentlemen another great break in the books Thanks everyone for knocking out all of those great king breaks over the last night last night and tonight We'll look out for some more and uh next time you see it Go and get it on jazby's case breaks.com. Thank you very much. I'm joe. I'll see you next time for the next break. Bye. Bye


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I met you for the first time the first time I came on your show and Right away loved you. We got great great energy great personality. We had a great conversation I'm very curious. We were just saying this off air, but I'm very curious on your how you got into media You're much more experienced than we are and you can hear it when you hear you on your show How did you like how did you first start?  I'm still a mom. I'm still a lawyer I'm still a wife and and I had an opportunity to be a personal assistant to my father at the He's still my father, but he was going to work for and with Martha Stewart And so I he needed an assistant and he needed an assistant because in the early days of the internet I ended up finding out that somebody who was working for him and helping him was stealing from him via Shopping and using credit cards that were not theirs. So yeah I mean I was like a super smooth and back then you really had to have very little training in being a private eye to be One because you could just call a company and be like What was my password that I used and they'd give it to you. It was just like really the Wild West so when I found this out and She couldn't help him anymore somebody had to so I just sort of at the dinner table one day was like I'll go Work with you dad. It was weird and my kids were little and I'd been home with them and had only done Just like a little bit of lawyering legal work for a period of time prior to that So I started to assist my dad and I met Martha's daughter Alexis And this is going back to 2005 and she asked me to do a radio show with her on Sirius XM So that was how I got into broadcast and truly it was on the job training so I did a show with her for Five and a half years and we did some TV shows and then after that I got my own show and then I did some television I co-hosted dr. Drew for a year and Just did a bunch of freelance and that's it and then I've been doing my just Jenny shows since 2012 Now what did she tell you what it was about you that made her want to do that? I mean that's for someone who has no experience in that Yeah, hey, we're gonna thrust you right into serious rate. That's kind of a big deal. So what did she see? Yeah, so she didn't she didn't have experience doing it either and we just had great chemistry when we would talk and We were very different So the premise of the show back then was sort of we would talk about anything like I do on my current show But it was from two different Vantage points. So I was the still a mom and sort of a more traditional lifestyle in a sense And she was single and living in New York City So and she wasn't a mom at the time So we would just talk about everything and it was great. It was a ton of fun Well, and now what when you when you were doing that was it hard to not? Go back to what you had gone to school for to be a lawyer was that an easy transition? Well, I mean once you have legal training you kind of just have that so I have that in my way of thinking So that only served me in whatever I do Because I have it like I know how to think a certain way because I've been trained to do that But being an actual lawyer and having clients is not something I really wanted than anyway So it was all good. What kind of law by the way if you don't want me asking Oh, I was so I would go on like I like the drama part of it I'd do per diem work where I'd go to court on behalf of another lawyer who couldn't show up to like Have the judge hold off on something so I did that I did some mortgage stuff I did some personal injury where I'd talked to clean representatives from insurance companies So that kind of thing now what what skills that you acquired from being a lawyer have now carried over into what you do today Well, they carry over into everything in my life It's a way to argue and to see both sides of of all the issues and find sort of where there may be loopholes or just sort of Like holes in people's arguments. What makes it if like, yeah, that's this is an interesting topic What makes an argument effective because I know people I mean people argue all the time especially now with social media What makes something like is the is obviously the goal is to win the argument by convincing Either the other person or the the judge or jury. Yeah, usually it's the loudest person, right? Yeah Well, I don't I don't know that it's to to convince I think if it's a regular person if you're having a conversation with someone the real trick is to get them To sort of see your point of view, but think they came up with that on their own So it's not it's not necessarily winning. It's all what your objective is or what your goal is in court It's a very different thing. It's using the law and whatever is the merits of the case How they fit into the law the way in which you want it to turn out So that's it's like figuring out a puzzle in a sense But the way to do that the best is to always see both sides see how the side that you're Opposite or opposing What their argument would be for them to win and then find how yours can be stronger for you to win So you always see both sides. Do you win all the arguments with your husband then? I don't really win much in my house. So I have at all so I might my husband is The great he's in the insurance business and he's just the best person.  I love him I live for him, but he's like super duper smart So he will say to me like yeah, mom You're a quote-unquote lawyer and I'm like but dude you're in law Like you can't say quote-unquote cuz I'm actually Just come here for one second so I could just I just said you were the greatest person so come around just from my husband Just walked in oh wait, just come say hi so you can see how cute you are Yeah Would he say that you that he wins all the arguments to or is it what he'd say he wins most of the arguments Though my grandmother used to say that the trick to any That the trick to any successful marriage or relationship is to make him think that he's one gosh So far so good, but yes my son likes to he will he and I argue well together and he's nerdy And we play like grammar games and then my daughter who's 21 She's like the coolest person ever so she like came out of the womb that way And I don't have a cool bone in my body. So basically I'm always low person on the totem pole in my house But it's okay. They love me So okay, so you had when you and I first met we talked a little bit about your Fitness journey your you had a weight loss journey and I loved hearing about it because obviously we're all experts in the field This is what we do as a profession and we work with people to try to kind of get them to the place you are So you're not a personal trainer No, you're a regular person, you know for lack of a better term who went through that process and yeah Kind of figured it out because you've stuck to it now For so long to the point now where you devote some time on your show to talk about health and fitness How did that start? Let's start there like was this was this a struggle for you growing up and what did okay? So what did this look like? awful looked awful it looked terrible A lot of trauma my whole life I I've battled my weight and I think that you'll find with most people who in Adulthood have sort of that weight struggle that it started early on so from the time I was probably eight years old I was like the rounder one in the group I wasn't I wasn't fat, but I was chubby and back in the I guess in like 1978 being a chubby eight-year-old stood out for whatever reason and it terrified my mother So from the jump it was sort of clear that there was something about my body that wasn't Right which started that whole kind of weight defining worth thing Which is the most damaging of all like if there's any message to give any of your Clients which I know that Sal already does your weight doesn't define anything about you other than your freaking weight Like we give it so much power and so much importance And so from that age I was going back before I was checked for diabetes And I wasn't like I go back and I look at the pictures and I was like a kid who maybe had ten extra pounds I wasn't but I was short so my mother was scared and she had her own sort of food and body issues which again super common and Throughout my life. I was like a little bit fat like moderately heavy And I use the word fat because I just don't care like it turning 52 like that was the Vocabulary we used we didn't have sort of heavy and plus size and extra But I just it was always this thing throughout my childhood and my teenage years that my weight would go up my weight Would go down my weight would go up my weight would go down and then after I had children And even when I met my husband I was probably 30 pounds heavier than I am now which was like the most healing thing in the world because he just loved Me he didn't like he thought I was hot and sexy and that whole pedunca dunk thing and I for me that was so strange because I was always so insecure but But not he that was incredibly healing because he really he loved the whole thing which is a lot of men That's a thing they like a woman that has curves and stuff and so But after I had kids my weight I just there were stresses in life and I think hormones and I think my anxiety it just got out of control and then I started to kind of reign it in My own doing a little bit of weight watchers and changing my food habits and then my mother got sick and My mom had pancreatic cancer and she passed away in 2008 She was 65 and I was 38 and when she died. I think there was something in me that kind of clicked or flipped or something I all of a sudden was staring my mortality in in Really in the face because I had never you know like you worry about stuff happening But then when the actual thing happens, it's like a it's a your sucker punched and and it was a wake-up call I think on every level like I all of a sudden was like, oh wait I only have one life and that could end really at any time and if I Don't do the things that I want to do in this life The more why am I here and if I don't make the effort to choose my health over sort of everything else then again, that's not great and I realized that I had to love myself enough to want to to be well and so I I And I'm sure also part of it because though my mother was my best friend and we lived next door to each other and We're forever really really close. I don't know if any of you are Jewish, but a New York Jewish home There's a lot of there's a lot of measurement and we were super attached So I'm sure that part of my weight struggle and sort of her difficulty with my body size Made it harder for me to lose weight while she was alive because it was sort of like to make her happy in that way I'm sure was a complicating on some subconscious level. That was a tough thing. So I I remember going to my of course I had and still do had a lot of doctors and I went to this cardiologist because I was always afraid I was going to drop dead because I was overweight and I was 38 And he said not gonna let you die of heart disease and And then we had this discussion about cancer and fat actual fat What fat how fat can contribute to cancer and cancer diagnosis isn't certainly the digestive cancers So I think at that moment I just sort of knew that Something had to give and it was the first time in my life that I approached weight loss not from a perspective of I'm gonna wear a pair of jeans and a t-shirt or I'm gonna look a certain way It was like I'm just gonna not be clinically obese like if I could just get out of that like clinical obese Categorization, I'm good enough and I'd never thought like that before it was either I'm gonna look like someone on TV or I'm not even trying but changing my mindset starting then Changed everything and I'd go to a nutritionist to be weighed backwards Once a month to make sure that I was losing weight and it was going in the right direction I couldn't look at the scale until I was not Classified as clinically obese and then once I could get to that point then I took ownership and could weigh myself and My god I still don't understand how I was able to lose as much as I was able to lose and I still Don't understand in a way like it still feels like a miracle that it's 11 years later And I still wear the same size jeans But I see that knowing that it's by design like I work really hard at it It's just become very much my life that I just do the things I do in order to keep myself as I am well No secret Yeah, as to why it was successful. It was the the approach that you had the you know I this is something I want to do for my health and you didn't look at the scale By the way, this is a very effective tool. I did I've done this with clients many many times where depending on the individual Sure, I'll say let's take your scale put it in the closet I don't want you to weigh yourself for the next two months And I just want you to focus on your strength and your performance and how you feel and then at the end of two months We can look at things and see where you're at and of course if they do that Like like it's like magic. They oh my god. I can't believe I lost, you know Seven pounds or ten pounds of body fat. I'm like, well, yeah, it makes a huge difference going back to when you were I have children.  This was all her thinking and so of course she sort of gave that to me But it was her own insecurities with her body even though she was skinny. She had her own eating issues and But yeah, she was pretty direct. I mean it certainly felt like My weight determined how much she was gonna be happy with me with whatever was and I had a sister who was still have a sister I love her, but she She was always super skinny as a small child So we had different body types and she's older than me. So I think it was just a different You know, I think and also I think it was a lot. I think it was a lot to handle I had always had a big mouth and So a lot of energy yeah a lot of energy and I'm the youngest of three. I have a big brother, too So yeah, but it was pretty direct. Yes people and also she would offer like my sister was giving cookies And I was like giving a salad. I mean the whole thing was a disaster now, Jenny You've been consistent for the last 11 years now Yeah, when you made that mental switch and then down this path Has everything been the right decision or did you make some mistakes in these 11 years? Have you have you learned new things about exercise and nutrition and what were some of the mistakes that you you made during that time? Well, I think and I know Sal you've talked about it, too You've had different times that you've had to read though. That was Justin or Adam who just asked All right, but you've had different times or you've had to I only know Sal's story I know more than the two of you nothing personal Exactly, but um, yeah, of course, I mean I think every person who does go through a weight loss treatment journey or body Transformation it's just the worst language, but anyone who who does that? Yeah, there's a lot of mistakes So I've had I I think one of the mistakes that I've had is always trying up until the past couple of years Trying to sort of fit into a mold of what is the proper food? Identity or way to eat like I'd watch other people and think that I wasn't doing it Right because I eat the way I eat and I don't count this or I only count that or even exercise was For many many many years for me punishment and so I did it when I first had lost a lot of weight I worked out a ton and I worked out in the way that people told me to work out I had trainers and every time I had trainers nothing personal I would just want to tell them and I can curse on your show. You can yes, please So I would be like I'm paying you but also fuck off Yeah And like what it doesn't even make sense because I hired somebody to weight train me and then I tell them literally to Fuck themselves because the psychology of being told what to do just really didn't work for me And it took a long time For me to trust that to know that I had to I had to find it within me to train and to want to learn and to Want to do the things on my timeline how I need to do it So that was definitely a mistake sort of putting my power into somebody else also just Just an inability to again sort of to quiet the noise around me of people or people I'd see places Telling me what I should or should not do it also took me a very long time to realize that the stale is just data And I think that was the mistake kind of putting my Worth in that number and there were times early on where I was decimated the scale would go up three pounds And I'd take to the bed and I'd be like Oh, I'm just this is all over for me and like three pounds isn't 80 pounds But in my head at the time I couldn't like I couldn't understand how it all worked whereas now I laugh I mean I'm gonna be 52 years old the scale is so wacky It could be three pounds up tomorrow and then four pounds down the next day like there's no rhyme or reason tied to sort of what I've eaten exactly at this age because I'm a woman and so I've had to Really change how I think about that too and I have changed that and then the exercise as I was saying Was so much punishment because again like My family we would we would be going on a family vacation Where there would be vacation from school and like my brother and my sister and my dad would be Essentially going to disney and my mom would be taking me to a spa and I was like 10 and so No kid really wants to go to the spa at 10 that like diet plays that they're gonna Put you on mountains to walk up hills like no So it took a long time for me to look at exercise as a gift and a joy to be able to move my body rather than Extreme punishment. I mean walking was just I was like what I have to do that And now I love it so much like I love to exercise which is so weird to even say That's great. Let's speak of your family too. Um Now knowing how it affected you the conversation around weight and everything going up like how what are those conversations like with your kids? Yeah, well, do you all three of you have children? We do. Yeah, isn't it the most terrifying thing? Nothing is nothing. There's little mirrors, right? There's nothing scarier and when you're talking about your mom and her challenges It's like I just think to myself like oh, yeah, like We're we're so we're imperfect and then we're raising other humans Yeah, and it's like man. I you just do the best you can. That's it Yeah, I think the goal is that you will mess them up in different ways your parents messed you up because you're gonna Screw them up. I mean, they're gonna have issues with you. You just want them to be different from the ones that you have Yeah, that's that's a that's a tough thing But it's true And when you realize that and and then and then the other kind of parenting thing that my husband and I both from the start Agree upon is that the things that matter the most with our children is that they're breathing that's first and foremost And that they find the thing that makes them tick And it's going to be different probably from what makes us happy But if they're like decent enough humans and they find what makes them Happy or tick or be okay Then that's that's good enough. The rest of it will fall into place We try to parent with it very little judgment And certainly we do the good cop bad cop stuff like he's the good cop and i'm the the horrible mother Yeah, but you've sort of modeled this for them. Have they been paying attention to your weight loss journey and everything? Oh, yeah. Okay. So the best are so we laugh because when my daughter was three All I prayed all I prayed was that I would not give my children my issues. I just not Want they're worth defined by their weight, especially my daughter I was really like, you know, I was always modest and my body I was ashamed of every bit of my body and uh And but not around my family or my husband or my kids And you know from early on when I was first with my husband We would have sex and I would like try to scamper into the closet to put my clothing back on And and he literally walked over to closet open the door and was like you need to get out of the closet like obviously I love you in your body because this is this is all going on because I love you in your body Like this is absurd and from then on I was like, you know, then I was always naked, which is all weird too but okay Uh, I was young at one point But with my daughter we always had this this kind of I mean even to this day I'll be showering and she's 21 years old and she'll walk into the shower with me Like she we have zero boundaries in this house And so and and that was good because she saw Even though I was overweight and even though I was not super secure It didn't translate to her being insecure like she She loves herself like I I have like I'll be like put that away like I'm like put can you please put some clothing I can't enough Um, she's so cute But she used to look at me and I remember it three years old And when I was oh boy, I was my heaviest was probably 2004 like my son had had a health scare and I just Did not leave my house for six months and I Oh, it was awful, but he was fine.  She's well tall by my son five two so she's like five six and um and she looks a lot like my husband and she's adorable and she just Is comfortable in her skin. So she's not she's not skinny and she's not fat. She's strong and she's beautiful and um Her body isn't her issue It's only her issue as much as it's any other girl's issue like a normal if she gains five pounds She loses five pounds. She doesn't doesn't define her. Yeah. It's just like whatever, you know, it's it's really I so I have two I have three kids right and two two of them are older and I have a daughter now That's 12. Yeah, and I did not real I remember taking my daughter to ballet class And she was I want to say nine This is the first time I realized my daughter was really aware of how she looked Wow, they when they were sitting there supposed to listen to the instructor. I could see her looking in the mirror And kind of fixing her hair and then she was kind of like trying to suck in her tummy and I was Devastated And it's like this is part of growing up you become aware of how you look and how and this happens much earlier for girls I think And I was just I remember thinking like my little girl is now entering into a shitty This is she's learning that there's a shitty part that she has to deal with and it broke my heart was so difficult But this is just it's a it's a part of Things and we have to navigate you have to learn how to navigate it now probably better than ever Especially with you know, social media and and all that stuff really was your how is your relationship with her? Really, I mean my daughter she knows she's my princess. I love her to be fine Yeah, that's one of the most important things in terms of how Women ultimately grow up and choose a partner if they're straight I mean so from what I know and so if you have a strong bond with her and she feels like in your eyes She's the most beautiful and the smartest and the coolest and the greatest and the funniest and all those things She'll be fine. Oh, well, you know what I do genny I Purposely try to set the standard really ridiculous Every year there's this father daughter dance that we go to And I make it such a big deal Like I show up I wear a suit I kneel and I give her a corsage And I take out her chair and I and I'm like sweet Yeah, and I'm like I'm gonna ruin it for the douchebags that try to date her because They're never gonna be able to live up to these standards Yeah That's like my husband and my daughter have watched Grey's Anatomy since the show started that is their thing And they say they have girl time every weekend And before she went to college and it's so cute and they're best friends and it's really been It's she you know, she's lovely relationships and it's all good. So your daughter will be fine. Thank you You know, I wanted to ask you this because it growing up you just you mentioned about the spa as a kid You hated you obviously and you weren't a gym fanatic up until later on Did you have a perception of the gym before you started working out and then did it's change at all as you started to become Yeah more consistent or maybe change your own relationship with exercise like were there preconceived notions that maybe were either off or were they justified Yeah, so uh, yeah for sure. I think that Jim's now today It's a much better world for the most part for someone who just likes to exercise because they like to exercise you can find Your right place to work out but Again back then I mean it was just like like every other aspect of the weight stuff I always felt less than when I would see somebody who was kind of jacked At the gym and look at them and be like that's never going to be me because I didn't I didn't understand really that like that was their job I mean like if you're a female and you're a trainer and this is what you do every day Then of course you're going to be in that kind of shape and you're doing all the things you have to do to get there for me I think the the shift to understand that Exercise is for my mental health and well-being. It's great for my heart to move a lot And and that was something that was important to me. I think that really helped me a lot I don't see exercise as sort of the Antidote to overeating We're a way to fix if I I don't know how a big deal or whatever like it's not going to make you lose weight just doesn't and I also think I for a while I remember someone saying to me like you can I'm going to train you and this is when I was probably 50 60 70 pounds overweight Someone was like, oh You could start to train with me But like you might gain weight at first and I was like I If I have 70 pounds lose like I can't afford to gain any weight like that's not the way to approach this I already hate exercise now.  How about no So again, like finding and really learning by experience like yes The scale can go up sometimes from exercise if I overdo it The scale does go up like there are days that I do so much Cardio and I know that's ridiculous and I know that people are like don't do something But I like it for my head. I love how it makes me feel So I do it for that But if I do that and then I also like lift a few weights or do some high intensity Um interval trainer or whatever the scale will go up two pounds Like I have that full on inflammatory response And then but because I know it I can laugh at it. Like I've learned how my body works So yeah, I mean it's totally changed how I how I see exercise also as I age I I was saying when I was talking to Sal earlier like I want to have mobility And if you don't move your body, you're not going to be able to move to do things like pee Like I need to be able to sit on the toilet and then also get up from the toilet Like I need to be able to do all the reach for things in my kitchen or have balance when I get on a step ladder Like you need to be able to do things and if you don't move you're not going to be able to do things Yeah, jenny one one of the hardest things for people is to uh, because we don't have a weight loss problem Problem in this country and people will lose weight every year. It's they don't keep it off Right and they don't and so have you been able to distill Down to a handful of things or you know values or habits that you're like these are my okay. Tell me what those are for you Yeah, well, so this is the and i'm sure because of your podcast you guys know There's this big movement for people to say don't worry about what you eat and how much you eat and don't worry about your body And it's all okay, right Great, it is all okay But if you're somebody who has lost a lot of weight the only way to keep it off is to be aware of what you're eating pretty much always And to have some element of movement in your life a significant exercise So you got to work out an hour a day You just have to I don't really get days off and again because I changed how I think about exercise I love it. It's a gift. I'm so i'm in my happy place when i'm in my gym Um, but and I also I pay attention to my food. I just do I mean It doesn't mean that I don't eat cake or eat pizza or eat junk or whatever sometimes of course I do But I always know when i'm doing it. I don't ever Get to just go ham Somewhere because it just doesn't I can't And I know that because if you've been heavy You can always be heavy again unless you are on a consistent basis doing the things that keep you not having now Having said all that it's not a motivation It's really habit and I know you guys look at it as discipline. I really see it as habit I don't think I have presence of mind enough to be disciplined But I do have habits and so like I brush my teeth every day. I get on the scale every day I go on my treadmill every day do my radio show, you know It's like I do the things that I do and that just taking care of myself that falls into it Yeah, it's a habit discipline. I think when some people think discipline. They think like oh, I'm gonna tough through this Well, the discipline is what led to the habit. You had to have discipline to be consistent with that It became a habit and now the habit is what's really important I want to comment on something that you because you have a there's a lot of insight that you've Figured out for yourself that I don't I don't know if you realize how brilliant it is and I'll explain what I mean So you talked about being aware Of what you're eating now, you know 50,000 years ago. This wasn't a problem You had food you ate it and food was hard to come by We now live in a situation where food is so accessible So plentiful so inexpensive. I mean I can have any flavor of anything I want within 10 minutes, especially if you live in a in a city in a city So awareness part is extremely important and it's funny because they do studies on this and they find for example If people eat while watching tv or eat while on their phone They'll eat like 10 to 15 percent more calories and it's literally the lack of awareness That is causing that there's also studies that show that if people put their fork down in between each bite They tend to Eat less all it's doing is it's bringing more awareness to what's happening and to simplify it It's more complex than this It's literally that lack of awareness It means that those satiety signals are going to take longer to hit It means that you are going to potentially go past the point Of satiety, which you know 5 10 percent more calories and you normally would eat well you add that up Throughout the week and that yeah, that's that's that's pounds and pounds and pounds Of you know of body fat every single year So awareness is extremely important when you're eating and most people don't realize that they're They're awareness starts and stops with what sounds good. You know, what do you want for lunch? Uh Mexican, I don't know that doesn't kind of maybe that sounds good. What about Chinese? Yeah, let's do that. So the awareness is really just about that But around nothing else and you know, so what you're saying is and I love talking to people like you because You figured this out through state staying through that process, right? Yeah, what about this? Did you did you have a because you talked about weight on the scale and one of the things that I noticed with clients Probably I'd say more true for women than men They're afraid of the weight gain until they start to have a different relationship with muscle because Muscle is denser than body fat. Sure. So five pounds of muscle takes up about one third less space than body fat And so I used to do this thing Jenny where I had this trainer that worked for me this female trainer She was very fit or whatever And whenever I'd have a potential member come in that wanted to lose weight and I talked to them about Lifting weights and cardio and all stuff and they say, well, I don't want to I don't want to gain any way I don't want to building muscle I'd say I tell you what I'm gonna have one of my trainers come in and if you can guess her body weight within 10 pounds I'll give you a free six month membership and they say, oh, let's do that. She would come in She was tiny. She was like five foot one and they'd be like, oh, she weighs 90 pounds And she'd get on the scale and she was like 130 pounds or something like that And I'd say yeah, she looks like she's tiny because she's muscle and she's lean Yes, and she takes up less space and she's got the curve and this course the faster metabolism that goes along with it Did you start to change your relationship with like muscle and strength? I know a lot of people start weight loss. I just want to get the weight off I don't care. I just want to get smaller and then as they stick to it. It's like, uh, you know I want to feel strong. I don't mind some of this muscle curve. Did that happen to you through the process I think what I learned like my whole life I've always weighed 10 pounds more than I looked because I have one of those dense bodies like I was built that way with strong leg muscles and And you know very narrow on top but really strong and just strong that type of physique So I was never going to weigh The super low numbers that other people who look like me might weigh Right like you put someone who looks like me and she'll probably weigh 10 pounds less than I do So I already have had like an understanding that my weight was never going to be one of those crazy low numbers And and really I became okay with that once I put health as the as the priority So I really go by Bloodwork first because I'm a big believer and you go to your freaking doctor and take your blood and look at your Blood sugar and look at your cholesterol levels and look at all like the inflammation markers And you'll know if your weight isn't an okay spot because At least for me my body is very weight sensitive. Some people's aren't and god bless them But if I am overweight, my numbers are not good And so I'm one of those people that can't be overweight because they talk about health at every size And I do believe there are people that can be really significantly overweight and they're great They don't have any metabolic syndrome. They have none of that But I will like all of heart disease. I can't afford to have for I have to need I have to be alive So first and foremost, I shifted my Priorities in perspective to being about the other metrics as sort of the defining factors in my health And then in terms of the muscle versus fat, well, yeah, I mean I want to be strong So I don't like I know that there's muscle in there And and I I'm never going to build like I'm never going to build like a bodybuilder because I'm I'm not built like that either but I do have the kind of Body that when I weight train I do build some muscle and it doesn't yeah The scale doesn't scare me like it did on in that way not at all because I just know I just know what it is at this point Yeah, that's awesome. You know, you said earlier about um exercising to kind of like, you know, take care of yourself And whereas before you would exercise it's kind of like a punishment Can you go in can you talk about that a lot? We talk about that all the time on the show But I'd love to hear from someone who went through that shift of oh, this is me punishing myself beating myself up to I'm taking care of myself right now. Like what was that like? So, um, I struggle with anxiety Does everybody do you guys have anxiety issues?  It doesn't shock me that someone like you Would would struggle with that a little bit. I think there was a compliment in there. So thank you Also, I complimented myself. Adam doesn't realize Adam's super calm Adam's very mellow. Yeah, I spoke a lot of weeds. Don't worry about a thing ever Just doesn't cross his mind. So yeah, so I I've always had anxiety and uh, and so about I guess right before the pandemic around November early december before december of 2019 I wasn't I hadn't really been exercising regularly or exercising enough and I think I felt it like I think I felt Not as well walking upstairs and my weight was around the same. Maybe I was five pounds heavier I mean really nothing and um and but an exercise was still at this point where it was a it was punishment And was a way to maintain my weight and it was it was drudgery. I was just miserable like I didn't want to deal And I was about to go on a family vacation And with my extended family and uh, and I had kept reading Over and over again that exercise was a great stress reliever and exercise is a great way to improve your mental health and to help when you feel down or depressed and also I was Turning was I in 2019. I was turning 50. I turned 50 in 2020 So I was like 49 and I so my hormones are in every, you know, I am not menopausal yet people But I knew it was coming. It was on the horizon still on the horizon Okay, and so have we lost everyone who watches your podcast yet? I've said menopause So um, we just paused so I kept reading this like how you get relief from feeling awful is to move And I was like, huh So you're saying I would say to what I was reading that if I just moved my body for 30 minutes a day any which way That that will decrease my stress level and make it more a make me more able to deal with whatever's thrown at me Okay, I'm gonna try this and I gave myself zero rules like zero heart rate importance Zero sort of intensity importance didn't matter what I was doing. I was like you were just gonna move your body For a half hour every day and see what happens So I start doing this in december. I do it all through my vacation I went through that vacation and actually had fun I All of a sudden like and when I saw the sudden it really probably took 60 days Like that whole 30 days to create a habit is a lie. I think it probably took 60 But it shifted In january when I was already starting to sort of feel a mental improvement and like moving my body, which was crazy I added the goal of 10,000 steps a day That changed everything because Again, that's my only rule now. Do I do more things? Yes. Do I find a way to like do arm weights twice a week? Yes Do I sometimes work out really hard like on my peloton or whatever it is that I do? Sure The only rule I have is that every single day I get 10,000 steps And since january of 2020 I have not I've missed one day and that was because in here We're going to lose more viewers again and listeners It was the day of like a colonoscopy and endoscopy and I just the day I was like out and whatever You get a pass. Yeah, you get a pass. I got it, but that's it. That's the only day I've missed Yeah, you know, it's funny whenever I whenever I talk to anybody who's been exercising for a long time They they start touting the mental health Benefits of exercise way over the physical. You know what I love about this conversation, jenny It's literally like most of what you're saying Yeah, is what we what we tend to tell people and prescribe like the 10,000 steps The value in that isn't that's 10,000 steps. It's that you spread them throughout the day You're more aware of your activity and your movement And you know, there's many what do they say there's many pass up the mountain But at some point if everybody's this what I love about fitness If you stick to it and you're consistent and you do it for the right reasons You'll learn the right ways to do it. You start to figure that out and like I didn't train you You weren't following mind pump this whole time You weren't listening to what we were talking about But you're talking about a lot of the stuff that we talk about on the show. This is so great I love hearing All of it. I said to you you have a very you guys have a very good philosophy with training I don't think any of you think that somebody should walk into a gym and just go hard Because it doesn't like that wrecks the whole process. You have to like little by little Create that language within your body to be able to do the things For the time and day that you can go hard and then the next day you don't go as hard Like there has to be That sort of flexibility and understanding that it's all good and the 10,000 steps I mean that number you know comes from just a guy who liked the sound of that number. Yep Well, a lot of this a lot of it too and you touched on this earlier briefly and and we come from this point is The psychology of it, right? I mean yeah going in and working harder in the gym for your first day may burn more calories May make you lose weight a little faster But it's a terrible way to start somebody who was doing no exercise whatsoever It just it causes that extreme one way than the other way and we know that from years of experience And so that's why it's such a bad message that a lot that our industry perpetuates I mean, it's yeah very popular that you know the all the fitness influencers are You know touting the beast mode and the all out and the crush it and kill it Like those are all sayings that you hear all the time and yeah, it's one of the biggest problems with I think people being consistent Is there they're given the wrong advice on how they should? Yeah, I figure out those repeatable actions that you can keep up and maintain so it becomes a lifestyle So we got to figure those things out first.   I'm trying to think of like a lawyer Like a law show like tv show. Yeah, you're probably watching like that's not how it works Listen, I well, no, I mean, yeah Actually, I some of the procedurals I happen to really like but yes, they're all that none of that's it's television But the biggest loser I actually like I found it when I was heavy God I was like, can I just go on this show if they didn't if they didn't make people wear the jog bras And the the bike shorts I think I would have put myself in the running to be on the show But I just couldn't have doubt less that there was just no And I now you know years later bob harper's a friend of mine. I really like him a lot He's changed his whole philosophy. Yeah about um exercise and wellness and yeah There's some nice people that come out that came out of of that show Listen great people nice people. It really does glamorize the wrong.  Had you gone on that show and done that Well, I think the intent of that show originally was actually really good and pure I really do but what happens and I'm sure you know better than any of us You know, we have to dramatize it well ratings right and you start to go. Oh, wow when we had somebody do this We got more views. So let's let's start to encourage. So what ends up happening something very Good and pure and with good intentions starts and then it kind of Molds into this monster is getting involved. You know what I learned a lot They learned a lot about metabolism and why people gain back weight and what is the real truth about exercising You know, it's It is so complicated. You you know this right that that body stuff is complicated It is but we make it so much more complicated. You know what it reminds me of uh, remember the original season of the real world I just watched the best ever. Are you kidding me? I just watched the reunion and they got along for the most part on the show and everybody I know Heather B. I work with Heather B. No way. Okay. Yeah They eventually the producers figured out man if we put people together who want to go at each other's throats We're gonna get more ratings and it turned into a shit show, but the original one was really beautiful. Yes. Yeah. Yes. It's so great Okay, so one one last question Jenny because I I love again your story is so great and you're a great person to communicate this Do you if there's if there's somebody listening right now? Yeah, they're overweight. They're something they've struggled with since they were a kid And they have those body image issues which most of us most of us have even even especially Many people in the fitness space What's the one piece of advice you could give them that you think will help That they have to keep trying if it's what they want to do So first and foremost anybody with a weight struggle has to determine if they want to lose weight I just have to determine boy has to determine if they want them to in fact lose weight It's up to them. They don't have to listen to anybody around them They have to make that decision and if in fact they do want to change their bodies Or their body They have to then find their specific way which isn't going to look like anybody else's For some people going on weight watchers or doing atkins or doing the zone or the Mediterranean diet or freaking up tavia I don't even know what like whatever it is. It's going to work for you Is different from what works for somebody else. It we're not all physically the same I would also say always check in with a medical provider because maybe there is we used to joke back in the 80s and 90s about metabolic issues But some people have them and there are now medical doctors who are trained in the disease of obesity to really help these people And so you can seek out support There's a whole field of medicine in addition to do there's no magic never going to be magic But there are ways to get it done. You don't have to live in a body that makes you feel Not well, that's just what I believe but it never ends It's not a process that like you're gonna lose weight and then yay. I'm done. There is no done So like your philosophy has to change about it Which I think is the other shift that happened for me just this understanding that it's lifelong That if you have if you struggle with your weight, it's lifelong and that's okay We all have some struggles But there's no there's no end point So but you have to ultimately like you've said before love the process of it because We get one life So find a way to like enjoy what you're doing in it Beautifully put it's a it's a journey with no destination. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you. Yeah, you're you're wonderful I really appreciate you. Thank you so much for coming on. It was great meeting you Jenny I'm gonna mention one more thing though. I want your if any of your listeners and viewers are over 40 They have to go to bunny eyes.com, which is my glasses I invented glasses that can you can tilt the front of frame like that Oh, that's cool. So you can watch tv and read your phone at the same time But you could also like drop the temple.  Oh, wow. You're watching Yeah, when you're I'm reading or watching tv on your side and then while you could drop both temples and then when you're getting your hair done Well, since you went opera glasses once you went since you went that way I do want to ask I heard you got into the blue blocking space. Is that correct? Of course. Yeah Yeah, we make blue blockers. So tell me did you did you have a personal what led you that way? This is something by the way as a as a Teenage kid. I remember when they were popular back when my the the commercials of the driving at night It was kind of a joke, right? We made fun of anybody that were here I am now in my 40s now and I wear them every single day And so you don't need readers yet. You don't need like I don't want. Yeah, I'm lucky and you're over 40 Yeah, I know I'm lucky. He just doesn't read. Yeah That's right. Remember. He's the one that doesn't worry That's why you know pictures don't read don't read anything. Don't watch tv. You won't have any anxiety Yeah, we started making blue light blockers because there was a need for it because people want them So that was why we added them to our our line. Very cool. Yeah, they're cool Yeah, we we talk about blue light blocking glasses all the time and their values So and we use them all all the time. Yeah, they make a big difference Again, thank you so much, Jenny. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you You


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This video is part of a series chart. Check out the link in the playlist or link in the description for the full playlist And I recommend watching previous videos and this one's building on a little bit We're doing something similar what we did last week. That's what we did very simple crop to split the screen Didn't have very much Options now today we're gonna be looking at split the screen three ways rather than just in half And we're gonna be using Alphas and composites so that we can get some feathering effects and have a little more adjustment to it You can still you do the crop effect basically the same way here that we did last week But I want to show you this so you can see that feathering effect in case you need it in which a lot of cases you actually do I've already trimmed up my clips again Camera tripod you don't want to move it consisting lighting make sure your actors know where they're standing And they don't cross over the lines where you're going to be cropping the scene So I'll just click somewhere in the middle here. I've already lined up my clips So you don't have to waste time doing that but here's one shot of me Here is Here's another shot of me and here's another shot of me and we just have them all layered over top But now we want to be able to view them all at the same time So what I'm gonna do is I am going to add composites to each to the between the layers So I'm gonna click on the corner here. It adds a dissolve effect I'm gonna drag the dissolve effect all the way out and then up here I'm gonna choose it and change it to a composite rather than dissolve You'll notice that my drop-down menus are black and hard to read That's just a theme on my computer and Caden lives the only one that's showing it like that And I just haven't changed it. It probably won't look like that's huge. I don't know why okay and gonna Excuse me add another Dissolve effect by clicking the corner there making sure you have the dissolve effect selected and then changing that to a composite so what the composite does is basically allows you to resize layers and Be able to see what's behind them, but we're not gonna be using the composite settings here We're gonna be using alpha settings that the composite will use so now I'm gonna click my top video here so top video selected and up here type in alpha and There's a few options. We're gonna look at two of them today just to see You know the difference between the two we're gonna be using Gradients and shapes so first we're gonna look over gradients So I'm gonna make sure add that to this video clip and right where you can see that we're kind of can see the two But there's a fade over both of them. So what I want to do is Basically line it up so that the the gradients right between them and then adjust its position and its width It's very feathered now, which isn't very good for what we're doing. But right now. It's kind of angled So let's do the tilt and the tilts number you're gonna have to play around with it But I have found okay, so 500. I believe is just straight up and down if I do 250. I'm sorry that 500 is Horizontal cut and we want a vertical cut. So I'm gonna go to 50 But that's actually the reverse of what we want if I go to One set arts. I'm messing up today 750 and hit enter This is what we want for this particular cut But depending on what which way the videos are layered if I had one on top of the other You might go the other way, but just so you know if you want to cut it So that it's split vertically You're gonna probably set this to either 250 or 750 depending on the way your layers are layered and what order they're layered Right now. I'm gonna take where it says transition width, which is your feathering I'm gonna put that all the way down to zero And that's gonna give us a straight line It's gonna make me easier to see where I am splitting the screen now I can adjust the position and I can drag this bar like this I can also use my mouse wheel on the position bar here to get it very Exact and precise so right there for this looks good But you can still see the line because it's not feathered So now I'm gonna just start pushing the width up the transition width Until I think it looks good to where I don't see it because it's feathered But you don't want any feathering on either of your your actors shots So that's the top two layers mix now select the second layer and add in that same alpha gradient We're gonna do the same thing. I'm gonna tilt it 750 I'm gonna put transition width down to zero so I can see the line clearly. I'm going to adjust its position So it's between my two Actors or actor whatever it is and then I'm gonna adjust the width up just to feather it a little bit And that is it now. I have the three shots together and again more layers you have more Layering effects you have the slower is gonna go you may want to use proxy clips I'm gonna scrub through this though just to see make sure I don't have any of my actors You know crossing those lines and I might need to adjust them like If this guy was to stick out his hand I think I just stuck out my hand like right there if I stuck it out too far it might get feathered It may even be feathered, but I'm moving so fast. It's blurred anyway, so you won't really notice it So that's one way of doing it just using the gradient which is like a basically a straight line that you can angle different ways What I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna leave my composites, but I'm gonna remove those alpha effects and Now I'm gonna go back to my top video here I'm gonna do alpha shape and it's gonna be similar But instead of a straight line we have different shapes and you can see here We have rectangle ellipse and again the theme on my computers just doesn't look right, but Rectangle eclipse triangle and diamond. We're just gonna use a rectangle here, and I said eclipse. I meant ellipse Which is you know like a football? so Now I have a rectangle you can see that rectangle right there So what I want to do is I want to adjust the position of this So it's over this actor here, and then I can take my Y here and move that up so it meets the full screen height and Then I can take the X width and make it out like that and again if I want to I can take the transition with net gives us straight lines, it's a little easier to see and I can line it up between the two actors and so Now let's see move this wrong one. I'll move the X There we go right there And again if you can put the lines on something like a doorway line it makes it less noticeable But now that I have that there I can feather it out a little bit till I don't notice it and now I have those two actors So basically the same thing as before except for instead of a straight line cut in the screen We're working with different shapes in this case a rectangle and main reason I'm showing you this is One I actually like it better this you know the tilting on the other one was kind of weird where with this if I Don't need to tilt it. I can just adjust the X and Y to where I need and And so let's see position this here on him scale the Y up Now put my transition width down and I'm going to make the X scale up a little bit And then I'll feather it out and we have the same basically the same effect before but again Using different shapes. This can be useful if you don't want to split completely up and down Or horizontally or vertically, maybe you just need to to do one little section of the screen You can do it with a rectangle or an ellipse or what other shapes were there a triangle or diamond I don't see though using those too much For this particular type of effect But there's that's it now I can again scrub through this Looks good to me. I will Render that out and put it at the end of this video Again, that's just one more way and there's lots of ways to split the screen like this But I just thought I'd show you this the other way, you know using the crop It's very simple draw a line and you're done, but you don't have that feathering effect Which can definitely Smooth things out a little bit. So I'm going to render this out. I might even adjust my feathering right here a little bit Because you can still see it it's not very noticeable because again because of the doorway But I think that would be this top one here. Let's see Yeah, feather it out a little bit more And again make sure my actuals don't Cross over doesn't look like they do. Oh wait, let's see my hand in that shot, right? Where was that? No, I'm good So I'm gonna put this rendered at the end of this tutorial. I hope you enjoy this tutorial Be sure to check out my website films by chris.com. That's chris the K There should be a link in the description there You can search through all my videos from both my channels If you liked this video if you like my videos in general think about becoming a supporter over at patreon.com Ford slash metal x 1000 little as a dollar a month is very helpful link to that in the description If you can't help that way think about liking sharing subscribing and commenting as always I hope that you have a great day


My name is Eric Tang, and I am here with the Live Peer Project. At first, I want to thank Victor and the organizers here to invite us here to tell you a little bit about video streaming. The past four days have been really awesome for me, like just being among my peers and all trying to make decentralized web happen. And it's like the best thing ever. So, today I'd like to share a little bit about why decentralization is so important for video live streaming. And also, I want to share a little bit about a roadmap where how we can work together to make this whole system work. Because live streaming is, you know, a combination of many different things. And Live Peer is a part of that, and Swarm is a part of that, and among other systems. So, before I dive in, I would like to give a live demo. And I know this is against the rules of presentations in general, but I will do that. So, what I'm doing here is I am live streaming a video from my phone to the test network that we've set up about a month ago. And I am consuming that video from my gateway. It's not very clear, but you can see this is video live streaming working in a decentralized peer-to-peer network. So, thank you. I just broke my presentation, but it's okay. So, with peer-to-peer decentralized video streaming, there's a bunch of use cases that we can enable that was not possible before. I think unsensorable journalism is super important as we have seen happening right now in the world.  So, a decentralized video streaming solution can be very, very important in solving this problem. Another interesting thing that I'm personally very excited about is a pay-as-you-go education or expert network. So, this could be things like a tutoring service or telemedicine or telepsychiatry where finally the service providers can have the tools they need to connect and transact directly with the people who need the service and get off the centralized networks today that are charging 30 to 80% of that transaction fee. Another really interesting use case here is an auto-scaling social video service. And this works because in video live streaming, we're pretty notoriously known for the peaks and valleys of the resources needed to provide the service. Popular streams come up and you require a lot of bandwidth and computation to serve that, and then it goes away and then you don't need that service anymore. So, the underlining economics in the blockchain can really create this automatically, dynamically changing network and throughput to solve this problem and save a lot of costs. And finally, this decentralized video live streaming network enables stack developers to build completely decentralized applications that have a video component where we haven't been able to do before. So, I'm really looking forward to seeing all kinds of interesting use cases that people can think of with a decentralized solution for video streaming. So, before we can get into how decentralized video streaming works, I thought I would take a quick look at how video streaming works today on the Internet. What we see here is a broadcaster could be for my phone, could be a webcam, or it could be a high quality camera from a news reporter sending an RTMP video into a cloud hosted media server. Now, this media server does a few things that are important. One is that it will store the video for a future playback. Another is that it can optionally interact with a DRM system to encrypt the video so you can preserve the privacy of the video. And another really important thing is that the media server will transcode the video into many different bit rates and video formats so that these video formats can be delivered to the CDN and they can be delivered to the end devices that you're watching the video on, whether it's a mobile phone, a tablet, a computer, a high definition TV, or even IoT devices, any device that can connect to the Internet. So, here what we have is a workflow called adaptive bit rate streaming. And this is basically what makes the video streaming experience work on the Internet. And what this really means is the end player is able to pick the right version of the video to play based on its own network condition. So, what we're seeing here is we were starting off with a cell connection at around 200k connection speed and the best video for that is a 240p video. And as we switch to a 4G connection, the player is able to switch to a 360p video with no interruption in the playback experience. And this is crucial for streaming on the Internet because the download speed on the Internet can vary throughout time because unforeseen things can happen on the Internet. So, here are all the bit rates and formats that we have to worry about when we are streaming videos. As we can see, there's quite a bit of them. And this just means for every stream that gets streamed onto the Internet, we have to transcode it into all these different formats in order to serve all the devices that are out there. On top of that, other than the bit rates, we also have to think about video codecs. The most popular video codec today is H.264, but there's a new codec coming out called HEVC. We're not going to go over the details of the difference, but the high level difference is that HEVC is able to pack a much crisper picture with the same amount of data. And so here, what we see in your left, in my left, your right, is a HEVC video served in the same amount of bits as a H.264, and as we see, HEVC is much better. And it just happens that H.264 and HEVC are proprietary codecs, which means when you're using them, you have to pay a licensing fee to the patent holders. So on the counterpart, there is an open source codec called VP9. Companies like Google are funding the development of this, and the next generation of that codec is called AV1. So all of this complexity that I described makes video transcoding and delivery very complex and very costly. To put some number on that, a traditional SaaS transcoding service typically costs about $3 per stream per hour. If you want to build your own stack to do this, you will have to license expensive proprietary technology in order to do that because there is no good open source media server out there. And on the delivery side, it costs about $0.12 per gig on a regular CDN. This might not seem like a lot, but a regular average Twitch user uses about $6.5 gigs. And YouTube uses a little less, but not that much. And this comes out to be a little less than $1 per user per month. And if you have millions of users, you can potentially be paying millions of dollars per month just to the CDNs to relay your video. And so when we think about using decentralized solutions to solve these problems, what we really want is on top of all the nice things that decentralization provides like censorship resistance, we want to have a cheaper and better solution than a centralized service. And this is pretty special because in the blockchain world currently we have pretty expensive services. But what we're trying to do here is to make the service cheaper and better. So what that really means is we want to change this picture, which I showed earlier, into this picture. So we want to teach Web3 how to do the video transcoding, how to do the encryption, how to do the storage, how to do the video delivery, so that when DAP developers are creating DAPs, you don't have to worry about all that stuff. And all that stuff is hidden away from you, so you only have to worry about the incoming video and get the video into your DAP, and that's it. So this sounds like a pretty daunting task because there's a lot of moving parts, but luckily a lot of these components are being used today. So for the storage layer, we have projects like Swarm, IPFI Storage, all doing decentralized storage for slightly different use cases. For video delivery, we have projects like BlockCDN and Filecoin, and within the Swarm project we have this watch spec that addresses specifically for video delivery. For content protection and privacy, we have decentralized key management systems that are coming out. And on the application layer, we're starting to see a lot of interesting app tokens and DAPs that are trying to address the problem for incentivizing the content creators and connecting them directly to their viewers. So these are projects like the props project from YouNow, the stream token project, and the parity DAP. So this is all great, but creating protocols are hard because you have to create your software and then you have to create your decentralized protocol so that it can work in a decentralized way. And on top of that, if you want to create a protocol that scales well, that's even harder. And if you want a protocol that scales well and is cheaper when it's scaled, that's even harder. So today I want to use LivePure and video transcoding as an example to show you some of the lessons that we have learned in the past year about some of the principles. So on the high level, when I think about the blockchain, I think the most powerful thing there is that we can create completely new economics and realign incentives. And this is very apparent for video transcoding and in the LivePure network. So in the traditional service economy, what we have is a broadcaster sending a video in and the broadcaster has to pay for the cost of the service plus the margin that the platform is charging. But in the decentralized world, the protocol itself can create incentives by releasing the crypto token on a predictable schedule to the nodes that are providing the services to these networks so that when the broadcaster is sending the same video into the decentralized network, it has to pay for the cost of the service minus the incentive that the blockchain is already providing to these service providers. Now this might be subtle, but it's a pretty important difference because it kicks off this virtuous cycle where cheaper broadcasting would drive more demand onto the network, which over time increases the token value and the increase of the token value as we can see, as we already seen in the Bitcoin and Ethereum mining world, brings in competition for the service providers and that creates better hardware, better software, and even cheaper bandwidth. And all of that increased capacity and increased capability of the network goes back into creating even cheaper broadcasting services. And this is how you kick off this flywheel that makes the service cheaper and cheaper and makes the network scale more and more. Now this all sounds good in theory, right? But when it comes to practice, we have to make sure the protocol incentivizes reliable service and it creates a secure protocol in both from a cryptographic standpoint and a crypto economic standpoint. So for the case of life peer, what we do for reliability is we use a delegated proof of stake service protocol where the transporters, when they become active and join the network, they advertise their rates and stats and their fee shares so that when the token holders see that information, they can choose which transporter to delegate towards. And in the delegation process, the token holders are essentially protecting themselves against the predictable inflation that's happening in the protocol. And for every round that happens in a protocol, the top end transporters become active and they get work in proportion to the stake that they get from the token holders. Now this is important because number one, it creates an open market where you have open competition and downward price pressure for the transcoding service. And two, it creates some stake for the transporters so that we can create accountability and economic disincentives for the transporters who are trying to gain the system. So let me walk through how the life peer protocol works to do this. When the broadcaster first wants to broadcast a video, it creates a job on chain with the smart contract. And the smart contract uses that pricing information to find a transporter who's willing to do the work. And when that happens, the broadcaster can start sending the video to the transporter. When the broadcaster is sending the video, it signs every single video packet so that the transporter knows exactly and can verify who the broadcaster is. When the transporter is doing the work, for every video segment, it's creating a transcoding claim using the transcoder result hash and the signature from the broadcaster. And it's keeping these claims around and when the job is finished, it creates a Merkle route based on all these claims and it writes that Merkle route back on chain. When that happens, the life peer protocol in the smart contract reveals a challenge segment which the transporter has to provide the Merkle proof for. Now this is important because the transporter does not know what the challenge segment is before the stream is over so that the transporter is forced to do work for every single segment and it can't cheat. Now, but this is not enough, right? It just ensures that the transporter is doing the work for every segment. It doesn't ensure the work is done correctly. So to do that, we have to use an off-chain computation oracle like TruVid or Oracleize. And what this does is the transporter can write the broadcasted segment for the challenge segment onto Swarmo IPFS and the computation oracle will use that information to do the actual transcoding so that after it does the computation, it'll write the result hash back on chain. So now on chain, the protocol has the Merkle proof from the transporter and it also has the result hash from the computation oracle and it'll compare the two results and make sure they're correct. And if they're different, it means the transcoater has done something wrong and the transcoater will be slashed. Now this is how we're able to create a secure or decentralized transcoding market. So now I'm going to demo how that works. So what I'm doing is I'm connecting to the testnet and I am starting to stream from my camera into the testnet and the testnet will go through the transcoding election process and start transcoding the video. And what we will see in a little bit is the transcoding results. And I said this is really important because we need to have different versions of the same video. So the big version might be from my laptop, the really small version might be from my phone and the middle version maybe is for a tablet or something. Now the transcoding is only one piece in this whole live streaming workflow. Another really important piece is delivering the actual content. So to do that we created a prototype based on the Swarm node and we showed this off at the Swarm Summit early this year. And the way we did this was first we extended the buzz protocol in Swarm so that each Swarm node can relay videos to each other. We also created a stream DB so that each stream can be searched for and found in the peer-to-peer network. And on top of that we created a streamer interface so that we can embed the live peer media server into the Swarm node and make each Swarm node also a media server so that each Swarm node can take in ingest video and conserve an outgoing video. And since then we've been working on scalability solutions to make sure not only can we relay videos around but when thousands of people are watching the same video, this video can be delivered reliably and these people can all have really good viewing experiences. So let's look at why video delivery is hard in a decentralized world. So what we have here is a very naive way to relay a video. A broadcaster is sending video into the network maybe to a few people or to a few nodes or just one node and this node is relaying the video downstream to the nodes that are trying to watch this stream. And now this is already much better than the centralized solution because now the broadcaster does not have to provide all the bandwidth for everyone who wants to watch the video. It only has to relay to a few nodes and these nodes will spread the consumption of the bandwidth around. But it has a weakness, right? Slow upstream bandwidth will cause the downstream viewers to have really bad experience and this is undesirable. What we really want is a highly connected graph where every node can stream little bits and pieces from every other node so instead of one video being relayed down a tree, we have this video being swarmed around in this highly connected graph. So this is why we've been working on this protocol called PVSPP which stands for peer-to-peer streaming peer protocol. I didn't name this. It's been an RFC spec that's been in the works for a few years and it has some really great properties, right? Number one, it creates an overlaid network on the base peer-to-peer network for every specific video so that only the people who care about the video will join these swarms. It has very small data chunks. The recommended chunk is 1024 bytes which means we can break the video segments down into very small segments and relay them around and have much more flexibility. It uses a single miracle route to represent the entire stream so that when you're relaying the video around, the data can be validated and it will have integrity. You can pack multiple messages into one packet. Now you can have many connections to many peers and download the stream from many peers at the same time and let me just walk through the really simple version of how this works. So node A wants to join the swarm and start viewing the stream. So it asks either a centralized tracker or DHT about the swarm connection information. It gets them. It sends handshakes to all these nodes that it wants to connect to. Nodes can either send a handshake back and a have request to tell node A which video chunk that it actually has or it can send a choke request back to tell A I don't have a bandwidth or I don't want to serve the video. After that, now A knows who to request what video chunk from and it's going to do the request and it's going to get the video back with integrity check and this integrity check is basically just the miracle proof because we already have the miracle hash, miracle route that represents the entire stream. So now A is optionally it can send an act back and now when a new node joins the swarm and talks to A, A can start relaying the information that it just got to these new nodes. And when the choking node wants to start relaying streams again, maybe it got some more bandwidth, it just sends start sending have message again and it sends an unchoke message so that A can start requesting for data. So that was the generic video streaming workflow. To make it live, we need to do a few modifications. One is we just make the broadcaster push half-packets into the swarm so that as the new sequence become available, the broadcaster just tells the swarm that it has these packets and the swarm will figure out how to relay it around. And also during a handshake, you can establish a discard window so that you don't have to keep all the video around through the whole live stream. And now instead of having one miracle route, we would have a live injector which just means we have a transient miracle route. And to ensure the video that we relay around is still correct and has integrity, we use the Monroe hash which is just a fancy word for saying it's a miracle route for the new chunks instead of for the entire video. So that's basically how the video relaying protocol works to get around some of the constraints from a tree structure. But what we really want to do here is to incentivize the video delivery. And I think the swarm team published this paper called Swaps Were in Swindle many years ago and they recently generalized it to create a good framework around this. And this is a very much open research area and we're very excited to continue to do work in this area. So to kind of summarize what we talked about, the goal here is to teach Web 3 to do all the video streaming stuff that the traditional Web is able to do. So that means adding transcoding features through the live-year network using swarm or IPFS to do the storage for both the protocol verification process and for storing the actual video for a later playback. And also we talked about a few different CDN approaches to deliver the video. And now since the CDN area is very much an open question, an open research area, we have a fallback mechanism to always go back to a centralized CDN so that we can have smooth playback experience right away. The project has been in the works for a little over a year. We published a white paper early during the year and since then we've been working on the test net. The test net just went live a little less than a month ago and the demos that I just showed is running on the test net right now. And our next goal is to launch on the main net and in production either a queue for this year or early next year. So this is very exciting because live streaming in a decentralized context is happening. It's imminent and there are a couple of things that we can do for everyone to get involved. The easiest thing is to run a node and join the test net so that you can see how live streaming works in a decentralized world. Another thing you can do is to build a video-based app like some of the ideas that we talked about or any ideas that you have that we haven't thought about. And another thing is if you are interested in P2P video delivery and you want to help us make this a reality, come reach out to us. LiveFear works as an open source project and we work with people all over the globe and frankly that's one of the best things about working in this space. You're able to work with all kinds of talented people from all kinds of backgrounds. So we are reachable through our Gitter channel. We are on Twitter, we're on GitHub or you can just send me a message. I'm happy to help you with anything that you need. So that is it. I am Eric and we are LiveFear and I think we have two minutes for any questions. Transcoded packets. After like for every single packet is there kind of a... Sounds like there would be some overhead related to having to sign every single one of those. Is that an issue? Yeah, so sending the packets would have to happen anyways in a decentralized world, right? In a peer-to-peer network where you don't control the peers, you are forced to do that. The CPU overhead is not that much. Of course it's better to not sign it and say the CPU cycle, but the security that you get is good because you can scale the network and overall get a cheaper solution. You mentioned that there are many different encoding decoding texts, some of which are proprietary. Do you suppose that might be an issue for like distribution on Swarm or something? Yeah, that's an interesting question. I think the proprietary codex... This is very much on the application developer to answer this question, right?  Or you can just use VB9 and it's open-source. You mentioned that the PPSP protocol has packets of like 124 bytes, packets of 1,024 bytes. Have you done any benchmarking on overhead calls and the whole system in terms of where do you foresee the main overheads to come from and how does that compare to a centralized system? Yeah, that's a good question. There hasn't been a lot of products built around this. And as I said, this is a very much an open research area. But what I can tell you is that PPSPP overcomes the problem of slow bandwidth upstream, and that's enough of a benefit for the peer-to-peer use case. Cool. I'm going to be outside, so come and find me. Thank you.


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And of course it would be about the Fae, as if I didn't have enough to worry about. Howdy, how's it going? My name's Davy Chappie, and sometimes it feels like this relationship isn't entirely healthy, because today we're gonna be going over the new UA that covers four different lineages from my least favorite place, the Fae Wild. As always, keep in mind that the majority of this is just my opinion, so if you don't share my sentiments about fairies and the fornication thereof, feel free to play your games however you want. But with that out of the way, let's begin. So the first lineage on the list is something that I cannot talk about by order of derules, or else my wish to become a famous YouTuber will go away.  As you may have expected, the fairies' unique creature type is Fae, but what's surprising is that it's the only lineage in this UA to actually be Fae and not humanoid, and also the only one to be classified as a small creature, since the other lineages are either medium or can choose to be medium or small. Considering the Fae are all about taking form based on their own whims, and that this is seemingly an open-ended lineage, I'm surprised that they can't choose as well. They also have no resistance to charms? What world are we in? Anyway, I'm getting off topic. The actual abilities include Druidcraft, Fairyfire, and the power to slip through passages as narrow as one inch wide so that they'll never be captured, and an unrestricted flying speed that'll either be nerfed into the ground, or signal that Wizards is finally coming out of its shell in regards to the racial ban list, now if it can only get over large creatures. Next up, the Hobgoblin of the Fae Wild is almost completely unlike the Hobgoblin of the Getting Stabbed by My Party, because where the normal Hobgoblin is a medium humanoid with dark vision and the power to hit enemies better if there are people watching, the Fae Wild Hobgoblin gets all that plus advantage against being charmed and a huge buff to their help action that would make the mastermind blush. The F-Hob, as we'll call it, can use their help action as a bonus action an amount of times equal to their proficiency bonus, but in addition to the normal effects, you can choose to give both you and your helper buddy temporary HP, a faster movement speed, or the power to throw disadvantage on the next person either of you hit. Now, it should be noted that these additional options are available to you, regardless of whether you help as a bonus action or a regular action, and they aren't restricted by your proficiency bonus. That only restricts how many times you can use your bonus action, which means that this is either perfect for players who just want to be support helpers forever, or mastermind players who can already pick up help as a bonus action and from 30 feet away. The other abilities are nice, but the F-Hob is definitely for players who want to play off of their party. And speaking of playing off the rest of their party, the Owlfolk definitely does not do that, but I need a segue. What the Owlfolk does do is harness the power of being a motherfucking bird via flight, dark vision, proficiency and stealth rolls, and the power to ritualistically unravel the secrets of magic staring through the veil so that they may feast on the knowledge of the Arcane. In layman's terms, they can cast Detect Magic, but only as a ritual, which sort of blows the wind out of the Owlfolk's perspective-shick when you have to be like, I can see with my special eyes, but only if you give me 10 minutes to put on my magic-seeing contacts. Other than that, they can make a dex save if they're about to crash, to flap their wings and readjust, and weirdly enough, you actually get to choose if you want your Owlbird to be a small or medium-sized creature. So if you want to play the evil allegory villain from any book that uses mice as a literary device, this is the lineage for you. And the second of the furry incursion and the final lineage of the day is a race that's bad at racing, and also makes the internet feel weird feelings when it plays basketball. Like their animalistic cousins, the rabbit folk are always alert for danger, and when it's Wabbit season, they manage to stay one step ahead of any helmer fuds in the Feywild. And like the Owls, their size can either be small or medium, and their exemplary reflexes are represented by a proficiency in both perception and initiative. They can add a de-forwarded ex-saves, and just to really drive home the rabbit theme, they can, once per turn, hop a distance of 1d12 feet for free, which is a skill that, yeah, is original, but as soon as the DM has to start calculating movement that isn't divisible by your normal five-foot squares, you're going to be seeing a lot more medium-sized lucky rabbit's feet. Also, side note, one of its abilities is called Hair Trigger, spelled H-A-R-E, and I'd really like to know the location of Wizards HQ for nonviolent reasons. Overall, I know it's my shtick to hate on the Fey for unspecified reasons, but I'm actually a little disappointed that we didn't delve further into the weirdness of the wild folk. Like, we got an unspecified fairy, a hobgoblin that wandered onto set, and two animal races, none of which, besides ironically the hobgoblin, really exude a feeling that they belong in the Feywild. Like, the Feywild is the world that exists just beyond the darkness of your own highlands, where dreams and nightmares are reality and lies and truth are the same thing.  Regardless, there's nothing wrong with this UA inherently, and like I say, a lot of this is just my opinion, so my personal idea of what the Feywild should be shouldn't necessarily be indicative of what someone else wants it to be about. It still looks fun, and I'm sure that people will enjoy being able to play a rabbit so that they can escape danger just by a hair. Buuuut that'll about do it! I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to leave a like, comment, subscribe, ring the bell, check out all my social media in the description below, and maybe support me on Patreon so that I can keep those therapist checks coming for all the conversations that I have about the fairies. But yeah, Davi out.


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