I am finally reacting to the playlist that Ghost and Pals and Morse has made me And I cannot wait. I have listened to three songs so far and you have watched them in my videos And I am not gonna lie. They are so friggin fire And now I got the next two hours of my life of just listening to the playlist. It's gonna be great It's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be phenomenal. I cannot wait to get into it. Oh Man, I cannot wait for this. This is gonna be so good So what one do we want to start with? Do we want to start with the Japanese or do we want to start with the English? Oh, we're gonna be amazing English because you're biased what I'm most likely gonna do is we're gonna do a few Japanese and Then we'll do a few English and then a few Japanese then a few English. This is gonna be awesome This is gonna be for you. Okay, so let's go. Let me change to reactions There we go again again. Do we want to start from the start? We want to start with Azari This song is so okay. This song has been playing in the car so much So let's do this Oh, dude, this is so good. I love this song so much. I want more Azari music in my life. I need it I need it Imagine this on project project diva or is it project sekai? Oh my god. This is my only azari song and I love it Not on project sekai. I'm gonna cry Oh I love this man Project diva for now is dead. I will revive project diva Oh, dude. Yes. I remember listening to the song.  It's that I should get my bass out.  Loki got a jojo style Not really but like tiny wee bit of a jojo style and I'm here for it Hello I'll be happy to stay here forever.  Yeah, you're not wrong. The art is always amazing Oh Doing a thing in alien, I don't know I forgot about that. I forgot about that. Wait, you believe this is nilford's rapping this part? Whoa All right, why do I think songs finish? I gotta You you love it when producers Sometimes add their own voice when someone mentioned that pinocchio p adds his voice into a lot of his songs When I'm listening to a lot of the pinocchio p songs in my playlist, it's just I hear his voice I'm like, this is so cool.  So what's this one called? Yes, I understand.  We've got to snooze this ad wait We're snoozing this ad because this is a banger. Everyone seems hyped. Okay. You guys are getting me high Wait, let me have some coffee. Let me have some coffee. Let me have some coffee Gotta represent trash taste, you know one day my goal was to be on trash taste, but until then it's time to vibe It just starts like that this hype Dude, I love the ms paint style. It's great Dude yes, oh we're smoking now. I wish this mic would work. There'll be such a vibe Let's go Whoa Vibe Is that oh, I thought there was a rocket launcher Why is she crying the glasses on I can do that Where am I go off get some rest You got this. We are not pausing. We're going straight into this. This sounds awesome.  I mean dinner man of swear freaking awesome. What the Dude the colors game this is like my type of like music video like the colors and This is one of the coolest music videos I've ever seen. Thank you for it Is that bits? Oh, we got a fetus. We got some binding advice action right now Oh my god, I don't want to go to the english playlist bits plus a fetus my favorite combination I don't want to go to the english, but we go into the english, but I don't want to go to the english But we're going to the english, but we're going to the english Monte Carlo There's another one to come oh, dude Bunnies I need to hear that life. I need to hear that life That was awesome. Holy moly. Okay. Well, we've listened to five songs and five bangers Oh my god insane also cat's new song Paranoia dizzy girl is I haven't heard this song from cat It's building up something insane. Oh, dude. Yes. This is insane. I love this Oh my god, apparently I've listened to part of this song. I don't maybe yes No, anyways, we'll listen to this circus p1 Okay, right as rain number one fan. I might take over that phone morse. I will fight you I will become the number one fan after this A nice 8-bit sound. I like it. Oh, okay, wait this music video You can brush my bubble whenever you want The vocalist is poota, which is a voice provider by porta robinson. Oh, who's porta robinson? I feel like I just triggered most of you I maybe I've heard the name and like an older video that I did porta robinson is a famous EDM musician and it's collaborated with Madion and previously broke the vocal. Oh, wow. I haven't heard that Madion in a while. I got some of the music on my Playlist you're leaving to take your cat to the vet. So I hope you at least stick to the english players for Still here to play. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my god. Oh, okay. Wait, okay. We're listening to still here We're listening to still here. I'm on it. Okay. It's nine minutes The following song contains lyrics for themes of a meant south low-fing toxic dialogues of air depression darkened affords horrible things you should never say to yourself if your mental health and recently been compromised with your pleasant summer Is this good to play on on twitch?  I promise it's worth it. Get ready to explode Why is it so quiet? The beginning is quiet So I get ready to turn it down a bit Okay, I read about this song. Okay. Okay. Okay. You convinced me and it's already it's not even that far in I just love the sound so much Oh my god. I think I shat myself This is amazing.  I Am adding this to my playlist now It's not on spotify. I'll have to download the song and put it on Oh It just works everything in this song just works and we're gonna go back to the nice heavenly soft vocals at the start That or it drops another nuke on us and we all shit ourselves All right. Yeah, just do that to us.  Thank you for that. Oh my god This playlist that you have made more so far. I was saying this song. Okay. I I I've come to a conclusion every long Vocaloid song. It's always going to be worth it. Okay.   I don't think we can you think it's planned to be added to a full album. Wait, when did the song come out one year ago? Oh Wait, how do monkey go home that's made a few songs i've listened to right melty land nightmare. Yes Melty land. Oh my god.  I want more songs kind of like melty land nightmare So, I mean if it's by how do monkey go around then Do that what I'm okay. I think I love kafu's Kafu's voice a lot of songs that have kafu. I just vibe with it. That's me. Oh, it's me I'm out. I'm out I swear I saw kafu. Oh my god Kafu was the previous song Oh, that's probably why I'm not embarrassed.  What? What did I miss out this game right? It's baby. Let's go. What did I miss out on? No, I was embarrassed. I was like this I missed out on a no, I need to see my I need to see I need to see I need to see my kiss How did he miss that? I was embarrassed. I was like covering my my face and then when I heard the I was like, oh Dude everything they could have gone wrong in the song for me Went wrong in the song for me.  I was embarrassed.  Well, then let's go to the next song. Why why? Hello. Oh look at this Miku.  There we go Oh I'm a streamer. I know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing guys. I know what I'm doing I I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm clueless Okay, so we're going back to the start Is a streamer top quality What the What the dinosaurs? Oh my god But thanks you thanks for the follow sing like that. Please continue. What is it? What is it called? When there's one voice enough harmonics the harmonies in the song Amazing. Oh Oh that weight of the world right there that hat that hat Good name. I love that Oh, we got four songs taste the rain roast into bitter grudge. Oh, yes. I'm a nation Oh, we just listened to that one 30 to us an album. I thought it was a 32 minute long song Almost gave me a heart attack You got to head out properly take care and if you manage to get to the song end world Normal puffy. I did the art for that when you did the art for assault Normal puffy normal puffy normal puffy normal puffy. Where is it? Okay, I'm blind. I'm blind Where is it? You passed it again. How can I pass it? Oh, it's right here It's right here. Well, most likely actually get up to it Okay, we'll listen to this song And then we'll go back to a few japanese songs and then we'll come back to english So we'll listen to stardust just because it sounds cool. You sure you ain't blind No, but people We don't need english. No, we don't know it's an english song. We don't need Oh my god I love the character the character just looks so amazing What? Oh, I thought the song was over already.   It sounds cool But I wanted to go to the japanese Okay, we'll listen to it. Just come on. Come on Come on.  Yeah, they've already got some bangers. Yeah Yeah Oh my god, I I love I love songs like that. I love I love songs where Yes, we'll do some japanese songs We got neru neru from what I know. This is my experience of neru Most of their songs sound like anime openings Let's do this Anime anime. I told you their music sounds like anime openings I'm not wrong. I'm not wrong Yeah, I know I'm right. Neru is just a weed. They like their anime and don't the The music videos remind you of anime openings like the exact same like aesthetic Frozen play monopoly in the birdcage. Dude, it's a vibe So anime life changing moment, right? That was so anime opening so anime opening. Oh my god, let's go. He escaped the birdcage and he's free Oh, he is free That was a banger. That was a banger It's a banger. Oh, that was so sad the ending Let's get rid of the depression and go to the next song. I mute myself How long have I been muted for after the ending of the last one? What did I do? There's something about whispering fast.  Okay, let's let's confirm the theory that this is going to be an anime opening There's gonna somehow be an aspect of the song that has anime opening vibes and then after this we go back to english No, it's got the anime vibes. It's got the anime vibes for the sound Like mob psycho 100. Oh wait, I've listened to this song before come on mob psycho 100 anime opening vibes See If I remember something Very trippy.  Yeah, I you know, has anyone ever told you that I make good videos This is youtube channel called I'm LJL very similar to the name of this stream and they make great videos So let's go into blade What does this song remind me of? The song reminds me of something very familiar That's a knife. Oh no, it's a blade the constant open. Dude. I was not expecting that I was not Wow, okay bright flashing images and now noises. Okay, let's do this Oh, we're doing we're doing drugs today. Okay, so these are all people that have like overdosed on pills I see the pills bring them to their comfort zone. This is what this video songs about This is part of a series. Oh, that could be a cool thing to do Okay, I like this beat I love this beat like so much of this song Feels soft. You can say his voice is comforting. Yeah Whoa, whoa Whoa, whoa that made my ears like tickle That tickled my ears. I'm not joking. These head for it.  Stop the Mario thing right now. That was so whoa that that song that wow So what's the series called because next stream? I want to do project voltage I want to go through all of the project voltage songs next stream parties are for losers. Okay. How many songs are in it? Yo 12 songs. Oh the wikipedia only or the fandom only says uh, no Fandom page. Okay, so there's 12 songs. That's cool. That's cool. Okay. We need to keep listening until we get up to Normo Pathy, but oh another thing. So I have hinted that when I reach 100,000 subscribers I want to start a story On the channel and I have storyboarded the first thing that happens and it gives me chills and then Hey, no, I'm explaining my law That's that's that's the end of the season. I'm not gonna tell you what happens after that But that's what I got planned. I got the start of this first season and the end of the first season now let's go and Let's go save my cat Yeah, come up good girl Raina come here Set. There you go. Yeah, you're pretending you're such a good girl Yes, I have put my cat out of set. Okay. Let's let's let's listen to this woman wrestling Oh You're sneaking I love it. I love it.  Thank you. Thank you that It just it just goes from one song straight to the next and and I'm here for it, you know, I'm just here for it Same I got sick of work Okay The voice is so soft. I'm here for it. It's so soft Wow Is this like actually what well the actual producers gone through because this is so sad It's very very sad, but it's a very beautiful song.  There is such. Yeah, you're right. There's such a wide range of songs. Well, that was beautiful But sad beautiful, but sad.   Oh, such a good song. This is a vibe. I pee all the time. We we we go from such a depressing song To vibing to hating someone look.  Oh my good. Join it the perfect time Oh catch. Hello I listen I listen to one of your songs the poor cat.   That was good as well. Okay. Now we're up to the one that moors did the visuals for and Actually, it's the last song because I need to start getting ready for work Oh, man. I mean, yeah Well, this has been an awesome awesome awesome awesome awesome stream what we've gone through We're up to the 14th english song and we're up to the ninth japanese song And all of them slap and we've got so many more to go through So there's gonna be more and more streams of us going through this playlist. It's gonna be yeah, it's gonna be cool Um, there are 64 english songs and there are 54 japanese songs, but we've got to get into this Why does it look like it's angry? Why okay? Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Why does it look so angry? Why does the why why does the chair and table look so angry? You know does anyone did anyone now see that? It's okay. Look look how angry that chair and table looks everyone.   This is awesome. No need to cringe I like they became a demon I I wasn't shocked. It was gonna be a big explosion sound. Wow This is so cool.  What a way to end. What a way like that was a song to end the stream on You're so glad I did the art was amazing and the song was amazing everything about the song like the whole music video was Everything about this was a vibe. It was good. It was like I loved it everything. It was immaculate So are you guys saying that there's another series that I need to get into? Okay, we need to start ending the stream because um, I need to get ready for work Yeah work Yeah, you did just catch the ending But the the whole stream will be uploaded onto my youtube channel later today So stay tuned for that next stream is going to be on project voltage Um and and then the songs that haven't come out for project voltage what I'll do I'll just I'll react to them by my by myself when they come out and then when all of those songs are out Boom my video drops. So we're gonna be doing that. So thank you all for watching. Thank you for following Thank you for subscribing. Thank you for commenting commenting. I am literally you're literally a didgeridoo don't leave I love my didgeridoos All right, you've convinced me. We're staying No, but I need to get money. I need to pay bills See you guys next stream peace


Welcome to Newsdesk on SiliconANGLE TV. For Tuesday, October 16, 2012, I'm Kristen Folletti. Yesterday, an online advertising trade group launched a campaign to fight back against accusations that its tactics invade consumer privacy. Authorities in Europe are targeting Google's privacy policy and calling for changes to be made in how Google manages user data. And the FBI has issued a mobile malware warning. Should your phone be in danger? Here to discuss how your privacy is being managed and to provide his breaking analysis is SiliconANGLE contributing editor John Casaretto. Welcome, John. Good morning. Yesterday, the Direct Marketing Association launched an initiative that will provide at least $1 million to fund lobbying efforts, education, and research for data-driven marketing. So can you tell us what is the goal of the program? Well, yeah, lobbying is kind of the name of the game nowadays, and they've got this mission where they want to get the message out about data-driven marketing and how it creates value to people that are consumers and how it provides for a better internet in their eyes. So what they're looking to do is take to attack and counter regulation and enforcement that really is against what they're seeking. And what they're saying is that innovation to knock down some of that unfavorable media attention and talk about the many ways that those, that tracking and the data-driven marketing has really enhanced the internet for the most part. Many online ads install tracking files on computers. Can you explain what tracking files are and how advertisers use them? Yeah, absolutely. So those files, they're just, they're little files basically that have been around since the beginning of browsing for the most part. And what they do is they monitor how you're using the internet, what you're looking at, and then they're able to tailor advertising that they present to you based on your history, the things that you looked at. Ideally, there's not a lot of identity in there. That's going to be a continuing issue. But for the most part, what you see is this behavior that they use that information to give you the best advertising possible. What position do privacy groups, lawmakers, and regulators take when it comes to tracking? Well, they definitely are mostly looking for restrictions on those things, the concerns about privacy revolve around things that might identify who you are for, to set the record on that, cookies and those types of tracking files that are in browsers and different applications and things like that. It's going to be for the most part anonymous, like it treats people as chunks, kind of a statistical look at groups of people as opposed to individual, John is looking at this, Christian is doing this, it's supposed to be anonymous, but there's always concerns around that. On the other side, what do advertisers argue for when it comes to tracking? Well, they're saying that it's critical to produce more relevant ads, to give them better targets, to provide a better service altogether for those services, those internet ads that support web pages which are basically free. The Federal Trade Commission has pushed for a feature that would allow users to opt out of online tracking, but negotiations over such a feature have stalled. Does a do not track button the answer here? Well, typically modern browsers have got a very fast way of removing cookies that you've picked up or tracking files that you've picked up, but most people aren't. It's not like something that's quick or installed by default. I just don't think that, I'm on the side of advertising, to be honest with you, I mean, it is a business and they do need a way of tracking, and I think that going forward, we're going to require to sustain the ability to see what users' behavior is online. Today, France's Data Protection Authority, known as the CNIL, has published a list of recommendations for Google in the area of user privacy. Google has three to four months to comply with these recommendations, otherwise it could face sanctions. However, as it stands right now, there are no legal obligations for Google to actually change its privacy policy. So do you think Google should make a change here? You know, they may. They'll make some concessions, I believe, I mean, it is a huge market for them. So the sanctions, again, it's not very clear whether they would actually end up having to pay those things, but there is a number of fields here that come into play from privacy to the different, a little bit of the same issue. In fact, Europe has got a number of existing regulations that come into play, and that's the reason behind the big, the uproar at this point. So let's go back to the sanctions for a second. What is Google being scrutinized over? Can you summarize that for us? Yeah. They basically have changed their privacy policy, and some of the changes have basically been written in such a way that users cannot opt out. So that, again, has run afoul of some regional privacy elements that they have in place and policies that they have in different areas and things like that. So they're asking Google to comply, and a lot of those have to do with basically a way of opting out of that policy and actually giving more disclosure within Google when they give the policy out. European authorities have gone almost as far as to say that Google is acting illegally.  No. I think that's a big extreme, a bit of rhetoric there. I mean, obviously, there are a number of bodies that have different regulations and things like that. So it's hard to say what's technically legal and illegal, but there is a written privacy policy. It's just a matter of the stipulations that are in that, and for the most part, more disclosure is what they're after. That's credit card information is included, personal location data, those types of things. Those are the concerns that are basically being put forward. Now the recommendations that have been outlined for Google, many of them outline how Google collects data for the purpose of advertising. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Well, yeah. Again, it's a little bit of that same thing we just talked about. Google does a lot of the same tracking for advertising, and that's their main business. So the data that they're trying to isolate and analyze and use supposedly anonymously basically is for the purposes of better advertising for their advertisers, for their users. And all these things, it's interesting that a policy can kind of dictate how their business really has the best chance of success. The Internet Crime Complaint Center, also known as the IC3, a task force that includes the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, has issued a mobile malware warning late last week. The warning was issued on Friday. Do we know why or is this due to a particular threat outbreak? You know, that was the interesting thing. There was really no immediate threat that really kind of prompted this, so the short answer is no. But that doesn't necessarily eliminate the consistent and persistent environment of threats that are out there, particularly on mobile handsets and malware that affects these things. The introduction of the warning states the IC3 has been made aware of various malware attacking Android operating systems for mobile devices. So what do we know about that type of malware and what kind of damage could it cause to your mobile device? Well, there are a number of, again, there are any number of malware threats out there in the environment. I think two of the most prevalent at this time is like a lose phone. It's like a Trojan horse, and that's the kind of thing that can steal information. And there's Finn Fisher. You know, that's actually not just an Android-specific malware. So a lot of it has to do with information stealing and those kinds of things. So those seem to be the biggest concerns in malware on the mobile devices nowadays. So what are some steps users can take to avoid mobile malware? Well, yeah, and it's a good lesson, even though this is European and that there's the element of the FBI that is involved here as well at the same time. But it's all about user behaviors. It's knowing the features of your device, knowing how to use the encryption when required and it's practical, just like when you use your desktop and you scan things before or you load them onto your computer or you scan a flash drive, that kind of thing. It's a matter of implementing best practices, looking at the applications that you're installing, who's publishing those, setting the passcode on your phone. When you install an application, a lot of times you see that there are applications asking for awareness of the location, your geolocation. There's a lot of phone protection software anytime you root, jailbreak a phone is another issue, open network, software links, a lot of it's just plain common sense. So that could be the root of why this particular threat or this announcement was made. And what that is is, threat levels are consistently going up, may not be an outlying emergency threat if you will, but let's all get to a base level of good best practices with our phones because we're seeing a lot of malware pop up and use your best behavior on these things and for the best usage of the device. Well John thanks so much for your time today, we appreciate you joining us as always. Thank you very much. For in-depth coverage on news of the day and the latest breaking analysis join us daily at news desk on silicon angle TV.


Extraneous variable. I don't know. Some people like to differentiate extraneous variables and concomitant variables and confounding variables. I suppose they are, in a sense. They're all interrelated, right? So an extraneous variable is a variable in the experimental setting that you need to control. That you need to make sure that it's static. It doesn't change because if it changes, it becomes a confounding variable, especially if you didn't change it on purpose. If you changed it on purpose, then it's probably an independent variable and you're confused yet. So anyway, extraneous variable, it's just simply the experimental setting that you need to, like, you need to keep control of to prevent the effects of whatever variable that is on your experiment. So for example, if we were doing an experiment in a lab, you might want to control the noise level. Yes, you do. How about the temperature? Yes, you do. How about the lighting effects? Yes, you do. So those are all extraneous variables that you need to control in order to determine if your independent variable had an effect on your dependent variable.


Welcome to the session on the need of SRS document in software development life cycle. At the end of this session students will be able to identify the needs of SRS document. Let us discuss what is the need of SRS documents in software development. SRS that establishes the basis of agreement between the user and the supplier on what the software product will do. It is an agreement between the customer and organization, the organization that is developing a software. So the user needs how to be satisfied but the user may not understand the software. The developers will develop the system but may not know about the problem domain. So SRS document is the medium to bridge the communication gap and specify the user needs in a manner that both can understand. So it is an agreement between the customer and the supplier or the client or the organization. SRS it helps the user to understand his needs. They do not always know their needs. They know the problem, they are find difficult to express the exact requirements or the features of the software or the different functionalities of the software. So they do not always know their needs and must analyze and understand the potentials. So the goal is not just to automate a manual system but also to add a value through it. The software developer role is not just to make an automation of a system but we need to make a quality software. The requirement process that helps to clarify the needs. The SRS document that will help to understand the needs of the user. SRS also provides a reference for validation of a final product. The clear understanding about what is expected or if the software meets the requirement. So it is a validation. Validation means that software should satisfy the SRS needs, means whatever the requirements that are mentioned in a SRS document. So the user needs are satisfied by a software. So SRS document acts like a validation of the requirements. High quality SRS document is essential for high quality software. These errors get manifested in the final software. To satisfy the quality objective, it must begin with high quality SRS document. So the requirement defects are not few. There are some cases are there where 25% of all the defects in one case it is arised at that requirement phase. So out of 25% is the 54% of all the defects are found after the coding and unit testing and that of 45% of these errors are actually originated during the requirement stages. Good SRS reduces the development cost, SRS errors are expensive to fix later. requirement changes can cost a lot up to 40%. Good SRS document can minimize the changes and errors that occurs in the later stages. So substantial savings, the extra effort spent during the requirement saves the multiple times that effort. So let us consider one example. The cost of fixing errors in the requirement phase, design phase, coding phase, acceptance testing phase and operation and maintenance phase are given as 2% per month, 5% per month, 15% per month, 50% and 150% per month as per the phase wise. This is the cost of fixing errors in the each phase. After requirement phase the 65% of the requirement errors are detected in the design, 2% in the coding, 30% in acceptance testing and 3% during the operation. So this is they are given the requirement errors that are detected after the requirement phase. After the requirement phase that comes the design, coding, testing and maintenance phase. So their percentage of errors are given. So in continuation with that input values, if the 50 requirement errors are not removed in the requirement phase, if the 50 requirement errors are not removed in the requirement phase, the total cost is the total cost is. So here there are 65% so 65% so in that if the 50% 50 requirements are not removed in the requirement phase. So what happens here 65 into 50 by 100 so that is 32.5 so 32.5 into 5, 5 means what is the 5 so it is given in the example that in the design phase it is required 5% per month so 32 into 5 into 5. Then next given as a 2% in coding so 2 by 100 into 50 okay 2 into 50 by 100. So we will get 1 so 1 into in the coding phase they are given 15% per month and similarly for similarly for the testing phase 30% so 30 into 50 by 100 so that is 15 into 50 is the person per month. So similarly that we will get 1,152 hours when when if the 50 requirements errors are not removed in the requirement phase if the 50 requirement errors are not removed in the requirement phase then the total cost is 1,152 hours. So it is based upon the the cost of fixing the errors that is given in the example. So if 100% per hours 100% per hours are invested additionally in the requirement phase in the initially only to catch these 50 defects then the development cost could be reduced by 1,152% per hour. So the net net reduction is 1,052% per hours means here we need to find the defects as early as possible so we need to spend more effort in the initial phase only otherwise if there are 50 requirements errors are not removed then the cost will be 1,152 errors because the the the requirement errors the requirement defects that are fixing at the later stages so the cost will be more. Now let us pause the video for a while and just analyze the graph what actually the graph is. So the graph this contains the x axis the different phases of the software development requirement design code testing acceptance operation and as the y axis given the relative cost to fix the errors. So the graph it is increasing with respect to the different phase wise means if we fix the errors at the later stage then the cost of the cost of fixing the defects is increases. Suppose in the requirement phase the cost is very less and suppose if we fix the defects at the later stages at the acceptance test stage then the cost will be more cost will be more. So remove the defects early as the cost of removing defects that increases with the latency. So these are the references I have referred thank you.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. Today we're joined by Gloria Laliba, the presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The Party for Socialism and Liberation is on the ballot in 15 states and you can write in for their candidates in under the 12 states. They have been talking about socialism, the need for a socialist candidate, the need for a completely radical look and radical perspective on politics in the United States for many years now. Thank you so much Gloria for joining us. Thank you Prashat for the invitation. Gloria, we'll go to some of the key news aspects that's the debates, the party program of course and the larger wave of protests that has been happening over the past few months. But first of all, I wanted to ask a slightly different question. You have been a candidate for vice president or president for decades now from the mid-80s onwards to those difficult times of the 90s where everyone was declaring socialism was no longer going to happen to the 2000s where the US had launched so many wars, the later part of the decade when hope and change were being thrown about is solutions to everything. So first to just begin with what has given you the strength, how has it been talking about socialism all these decades? Every four years you've been on the roads continuously, you've been on the streets continuously for the past few months right now, how has it been over the past few decades? Well first I have been a lifelong dedicated communist and I believe very much that it requires a lifelong struggle. But this year is amazing to see first at least a curiosity about what socialism is because most people in the United States have no idea. And more and more an acceptance that it's a legitimate philosophy. And then there's many people who are realizing that capitalism is destroying their lives. So people are very very open. I as you say I have been in many political campaigns supporting others as well and in the 70s 80s people were could be very hostile and think that it was a threat to the American way of life. But today the American way of life is one of the greatest gap between the rich and the poor in the Indian industrial country of the highest record number of deaths. 225,000 people and the figures are rising and there is no national plan. People are left to their own devices. They're left alone. If you are one of tens of millions in the United States, at least 50 million people without any healthcare plan, then if you become ill with COVID, which makes you more likely because you tend to be poorer, black, Latino, indigenous, poor white and you go to the hospital at the last minute. If you are hospitalized for even a week, 10 days a month, you end up with a million dollar bill. And then people feel compelled to pay it. They lose their home. Then you have the problem of the unemployment. 60 million people were laid off in the pandemic. A number have gotten their jobs back, but they lost their healthcare and people have accumulated it's up to estimated up to 50% of the people of the country cannot pay the rent. And if you're late several days, you can be evicted. Now, there's a temporary moratorium on evictions, but it's another element to the crisis that is looming. So, especially for youth, youth are saying to us, many, many youth who are joining the party, I asked them, what made you become a socialist? And they say, because capitalism isn't working. And in this context, of course, that is yesterday, that is October 22nd, we saw the second presidential debate. And there were just two candidates, of course, making it seem like the political choice of the country was only between the Republicans and the Democrats. There was, as expected, a lot of personal insults thrown about, even the media focused largely on those kind of issues. According to you, what were the key topics that they did not talk about, which in your campaigns you have seen people most concerned about? The two candidates did not talk about the most urgent need in terms of a solution on the issue of health. Joe Biden is against a national health plan. He says we will improve Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. It has great limitations. There were some benefits to it, but we are talking about the richest country in the world with the greatest productive capacity that could provide free healthcare for everyone, quality healthcare, without the insurance companies, without the pharmaceuticals making billions on our illness. And, of course, Trump just lies. He says he will make a better healthcare. He's never provided a plan. But I think also that they don't talk about how to create employment or to guarantee an income. It's a lot of very vague ideas. But what they do agree on is military spending. What they do agree on, and they don't necessarily say it, but everyone understands that the Senate and the House, Republican and Democrat always vote for an increase in the military budget. A military budget which is more than the $780 official dollars being used because the nuclear weapons industry and the building of nuclear weapons is not included in the Defense Department budget. I don't know if people know that. It's in the Department of Energy. It's more like a trillion dollars. What is the U.S. using a trillion dollars for every year except to build new weapons system, new jet bombers, and sell them worldwide to their so-called allies to carry out war, for example, in Yemen by the Saudi Arabian regime. Exactly. And in this context, I just quickly wanted, before we get into some of the issues, to look at the PSL's program. You have a 10-point agenda which you have listed in terms of some of the most important issues that need to be addressed immediately. So could you maybe take us quickly through some of the key points that you have been talking about in your campaign, in your on the streets while talking to me? Yes. We really highlight the issue of the need to fight racism and the white supremacy structure of the United States, the corporations. There has been a great awakening. This is an advantage to the political movement of the left is that the uprising after George Floyd's murder on May 25 has really awakened the consciousness of many, many people who never thought about the issue of police brutality. Certainly Black, Latino, Indigenous people understand the issue of racism. And for us, that's very primary. We say jail killer cops. It's a simple slogan because since Mike Brown, another youth who was very well known for being murdered in 2014, there have been more than 6,500 murders. And the people in the community feel this. They feel the terror. The other is the issue of cancelling rents and cancelling the mortgages of people who are buying a home. We're all captive to the landlords and to the banks. We also call for the cancellation of rent for small business and small landlords. Why? Because the petty bourgeoisie is also facing ruin. And either they become captive to the ideas of the bourgeoisie, the big bourgeoisie, the capitalist class, or they can align with us to help fight the system. But socialism will benefit everybody. Yesterday it was reported on the U.S. News that 266,000 small restaurants have closed and probably will not reopen. This means that stores or restaurants like McDonald's, Starbucks, they are growing ever greater. Small stores of all kinds of items that people rely on in their neighborhood and employ the working class, they are being ruined. And Amazon is this behemoth that not only makes hundreds of billions of dollars, literally along with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, they're all making hundreds of billions in the pandemic. But Amazon paid no taxes last year. So this indicates that the more powerful they become, the more more powerful economically, the more political power they have to just push away all regulations on even minimal taxation. And not only that, but Amazon, which is the largest employer in the United States and maybe the world. Amazon in the workplace of the factories, the distribution centers, these giants, did you know that you are not allowed to have your telephone at all on the floor? And if they catch you with it, you have to sign a form before your employment agreeing that they can have access to all the information on your phone because they don't want you to organize a union because the capitalists are never satisfied with their profit or their rate of profit. They must always expand the rate of profit.  But the real death for those corporations, ability to exploit and super exploit in the world is socialism. And it means life for the working class. It means life for all people really. Absolutely, right. And one of the key aspects that the program also focuses on is the question of reparations as well. And especially for our audience, international audience, I'd like you to maybe take us through how exactly, what exactly you mean and how exactly you visualize it. Yes, the right wing and the capitalists who oppose reparations for black and indigenous people, they often try to portray it like that white people or people who are not African-American will have to pay and create this attempt to create a division. But we say it's the capitalists that have to pay. It's the government that supported all the policies after the end of slavery that denied any kind of restitution to black people who created the wealth of this country in addition to the saft and genocide of native land. But for black people who all these decades were denied equal opportunity and employment, in fact, Woodrow Wilson, the imperialist who touted self-determination, but really self-determination for the imperialist, when he was president, he was responsible and directed that black workers of which there were many in government offices of Washington, DC, they were fired. Their employment was eliminated. So that was just one tiny aspect, the black code laws that created apartheid in the South. The great, great working class benefits like social security of 1935 or the GI bill that guaranteed education, college education for the working class after World War II, white workers benefited, but black workers did not really benefit for many years. Discrimination and hiring. So we say there's ample, ample reason to have reparations for black people. On the native reservations, there are an estimated maybe 6.5 million indigenous people of 560 separate nations in the United States from the Dine, Navajo to Cherokee to the Lakota. They have had more than 370 treaties that they signed with the United States after U.S. aggression and theft of their land. All those treaties have been violated. And in one state alone, South Dakota, which the U.S. agreed to the great Sioux nation, half the state, in the 1868 Laramie, Fort Laramie Treaty, six years later, gold was discovered and they were reduced to small, small areas of land, which their land is only 5 percent arable, only 5 percent arable in agriculture. While on that same land that has been stolen, the Black Hills are a great source of gold mining and uranium mining for U.S. and Canadian corporations. This is why we say reparations for native people means honoring the treaties, returning that land and providing reparations. There is an enormous need for a major injection in health care for Black and indigenous people, really for the whole population, but especially concentrating because half of the deaths in many states were of Black people in the COVID virus. And also regarding the program, the other key aspect I wanted to talk about was also U.S. foreign policy. And of course, like you said, militarism is something neither the candidates talk about or is not really talked about in Congress or in the Senate as well. And we also have hybrid wars, for instance. We have the Pentagon and the State Department, the CIA, all of them creating this massive web across the world. So how does the PSL see U.S. foreign policy and what are the demands? We are anti-imperialists to the core. Some people say they're anti-imperialists, but then they fall for a U.S. myth about another country that needs U.S. intervention. We've seen nothing progressive about U.S. intervention anywhere in the world. We call for the closing of all U.S. bases abroad more than 800, and many we don't even know about. For example, removing all the troops from South Korea so that the people of Korea who have been divided since 1945 can reunite once again to remove all the troops in the Middle East, which have and end all aid to Israel so that the Palestinian people can have the chance to win their sovereignty and homeland and have the right to return because we respect the right. We defend the right of all the Palestinian people to return home. The ending of all U.S. sanctions. There are 70 countries sanctioned by the United States, especially Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Nicaragua, any country that is striving to keep their independence. The Cuban blockade is horrendous, and especially the blockade of Cuba is more than just banning trade. It's saying that no country in the world can trade with Cuba without risking fines and pressure from the United States. The theft of Venezuela's gold and oil is horrendous, and I have been to Venezuela many times. It is remarkable what the government has done to provide food for people on a regular basis, so cheap, so inexpensive so that nobody goes hungry because of lack of money. The fact that the oil has been used to create more than 3.2 million homes, and yet Cuba's sending of doctors around the world to fight the COVID virus is precisely the reason that the U.S. is attacking the Cuban doctors, pressuring countries from accepting those doctors, because it's an example. If people knew of all these facts about the countries that are socialist, that are striving for socialism, the progressive countries, then they would start to question why can't we have the things that people need in the richest country in the world, rich only in terms of the capitalist wealth. Absolutely, right, and in this context I also wanted to ask a question regarding the classic argument that you definitely must have faced many times in your campaign, in interviews. There's always a question of the lesser evil, and this is especially pronounced of course in this election when you have a candidate like Trump, but it was there last time, it's there every single time people always ask, okay, why vote for a candidate who's not seemingly the more progressive or who's seemingly the more liberal candidate, so to speak. So what is the answer you give to a question like that? Well, not many people are saying that anymore, but I think that it tends to be more a question or a challenge to us people saying, you know, how can you run and risk the chance that Trump will win? They tend to be white middle-class liberal, because they still have a stake, they still feel that there is something that can, there's something to rescue in the Democratic Party. That's not true in the poorer sectors of the working class, lower income working class people. It's amazing to see the response from people, but a friend of mine in New Mexico when we had our rally there, he's a professor and he said it's not the lesser of two evils, they're different evils. He said one, you know, he pointed out that that the Democrats tend to be more for aggression against China, for example, although certainly the Republicans, they're really just two pillars of the Pentagon, the two pillars of the foreign policy establishment, but really when you think about it and look at the Democrats policies and Biden declaring that Russia and Iran, which he claims because of the intelligence agency saying that Iran and Russia are influencing the elections, it's such a bogus idea, but last night Biden said those countries will pay a price, we will not let them and if they do, they will pay a price. It's absolutely ridiculous and I don't think it resonates with people either, but at this point because of what the ruling class, sections of the ruling class consider Trump to be rather unstable, when he said he would pull the US troops out of Syria, the Democrats howled and the foreign policy establishment prefers Biden at this point. It will enable imperialism to continue on their forward march against other countries. You know it's important to remind ourselves what President Barack Obama did, that he promised in his first election campaign that all options were on the table in defending Israel, that he said that in his words, Hugo Chavez would no longer be able to continue with his checkbook diplomacy, meaning solidarity of Venezuela's resources with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean and even the United States in exchange for this cooperation, economic cooperation and what happened? In his first six months, President Mel Celaya Avonduras, who was joining the Alba Latin American Progressive Alliance, who had promised a non-binding referendum on the question of a new constitution, he was overthrown under the Obama administration and it helped lead to the dismantling, the unraveling of the progressive governments in Latin America. Fortunately, the mass party of Evo Morales won a decided victory in Bolivia. In other words, the US aims at crushing progress in the world cannot be, they cannot be victorious entirely. They can cause great misery and death. They can cause all kinds of problems for the world, but the people of the US are tired of war. They're tired of seeing no improvement in their lives, a worsening of their lives than this claim that the US must defend democracy abroad. Of course, the role of our party and the role of the progressive people in the US is to give clarity to these myths and lies of the imperialists. We must give clarity that fighting for democracy, the US fighting for democracy is really crushing people's dreams abroad and that they are our brothers and sisters. This you will not hear from the Democrats or the Republicans. Absolutely. And Rorya, finally one last question. Like you said, especially since May when the protests broke out, there's been this upsurge of popular anger, popular mobilization, but also like you said, a hope of building, of trying to and want to build something new, something different. And these sentiments which have always been there, of course, have been much more accentuated. The youth, of course, in the forefront of many of this, but also people of all ages, of all races, all working together. So maybe could you finally, what would you, where do you see hope, especially in the coming months? The mainstream media is of course again talking about elections in a very narrow perspective. It's all about say the Electoral College, the numbers, games, that's really all this discussion is about. But maybe on a slightly longer perspective, where do you see hope? You know, it's very tragic what is happening in the United States. And there is great fear among the vast majority of people of the U.S. Fear of if they're employed the possibility they will not have their job again. Many industries already, the airlines are going to lay off thousands. There is fear of what the future holds, the fear of losing your housing. And in that people are opening their eyes. You know, it's amazing that Bernie Sanders could reach tens of thousands of people on a day's notice in his rallies. No other candidate could do that. None of the Democrats certainly. And then they conspired to shut him down before the Super Tuesday's primary of March 3rd. In other words, at that point when Biden could not even finish third in the primaries, they were willing to coalesce together to dismiss Sanders in favor of Biden and give a better opportunity for Trump to win over Biden. They would rather have that than raise the expectations of the people. And yet with this situation we are facing, we do have optimism because the Black Lives Matter struggle was the largest number of demonstrations and the biggest movement ever in the United States, even described by the New York Times. And I said last night here in, we were in Alabama last night, Birmingham, Alabama, which is the south of the U.S. I said that many more millions of people of all the nationalities of the U.S., of all the working class sectors, and even, you know, the middle class, that they see this movement, they also see themselves in this movement because they see it challenging more than the necessary need to fight racism, but also that they know it means something is happening in the United States. The way the civil rights movement, Black people in the south in the 60s, also engendered the Indigenous struggle of the American Indian movement and other groups of the Latino, the Chicano movement, the Puerto Rican movement, the women's, the lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer community of the working class, there was so much movement at that time because people were inspired by the Black struggle. And this time I think the movement will be deeper and larger and more successful. We must bring the ideas of socialism to fight for socialism. We have an idea that we are talking about. It's not an idea, it's a reality. The actuality of revolution, the actuality of socialism in the United States. We are part of the worldwide working class in which nothing that people consume, clothing, transport, food, housing, healthcare, nothing is produced except by millions of workers, hundreds of thousands of workers together in social, coordinated, collective labor. The problem and the contradiction as you know is the private ownership. And once you describe it to people that no owner can build a home, it's the workers. They understand. We can do away with all of that. Capitalism and save the planet as well. The environmental destruction. Killing millions already by the growing heat. We know about the heat in India. We're familiar with the fires in California, the hurricanes, the typhoons. This is the urgency of socialism. And, you know, I cannot imagine us not having had an election campaign struggle this year to bring those ideas to the working class. We're very happy about our campaign. I can say one thing. Our members across the country worked so hard to get us on the ballot in 15 states, which is quite remarkable in the middle of the pandemic. Thank you so much, Gloria, for speaking to us again. And we'll be in touch with you in the following weeks as well. Thank you. Thank you, Prashant. Thank you very much. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch.


What's up everybody? I'm EvilRabbit. We are here on the Torch of Beta for today to do something that I haven't done yet and I'm surprised I haven't done it yet actually but we are going to be taking our Rotary E30 up to Hakone and try to get the Rad Dan sponsorship and or just try and drift the entire thing which would in turn would give us a Rad Dan. It is very difficult to do. I've seen a couple people do it but I have not been able to yet. I haven't actually really tried because I haven't had a very good car so we are going to be taking our Rotary E30 if you noticed. It's got a little bit of a livery on it now. We decided to put some decals and some paint on the car to make it look a little bit nicer and a little bit more of my car. We are rocking a bit of a wider stance in the front of that car and the rear mostly in the front we're rocking a wider stance. So we are going to send this to Hakone. We got a lot of things there but we are going to ignore those and we're going to go straight to Hakone full course. In our E30 we are I believe 890 horsepower import level with Nexen Nefra tires. If I said that wrong I'm sorry.  I haven't delivered them yet or instance by them. It should put this up higher and into a pro status. So hopefully this car is good enough to do this. We are about to find out but I know there's probably a lot of people on here that have been like oh I've done this already you know you're way behind or you know I'm you know I've already had that you know what are you doing but you know I haven't really tried because I haven't had much of a really high car that I knew was high enough power wise and then I always set the wall like that. So we are now in this E30 spinning out which has a decent amount of power and a decent amount of lock now. So I'm going to try and establish this. I do wish I should try this one time without recording because my frame range is probably way higher when I'm not recording but I want to try and do this and bring this to you guys because you know it's nice to see probably me fail and you guys are like oh I'm such a drifter than him when it comes to this but you know what everybody is good at something and you know what I'm still getting the settings on this car right and Hakone is a very very tough car to tough track to crack so I know there was a guy that ran the entire Hakone track uphill in one quick in one drift and he was doing a lot of high-speed entries and stuff like that and it was it was amazing it was a piece of work to see that so that is kind of why I wanted to try and get this because I also want to get the raddan sponsorship even though I already have a Supra I still would like to get that raddan sponsorship so we are going to try our best to do this it probably would be better on tilt steering because of the twitchiness of the tap steering but I use tilt steering sometimes but mostly when I'm recording I use tap easier to record with tap steering so we're not doing too good right now we are having a bit of issues making our way up the hill so hopefully the way down will be a lot better so if you guys have actually completed this and you guys have the raddan sponsorship let me know it on comment section down below where did you guys do it what tips do you guys have for me to try and get this done because I'd like to get it and I know some of the some of the tips probably gonna be more power or better drifting stay off the walls but if you guys have some constructive criticism on something on the way I can help myself do this a little bit better let me know down in the comment section down below because I know a lot of people probably already have this because I've seen a lot of people the raddan stickers and you know I'm not trying to get the Supra because I already have the Supra but I'm just trying to get the sponsorship tree filled so we are doing pretty bad right now we're gonna break that really hard so don't smack into the wall because I knew that sharp turn was coming and we'll take it back this way so I'm kind of learning the track more I think it's probably more so I have to just sit here and do this a lot more to know every you know turn that's gonna come up and be able to you set my car up to link everything but I feel this car does have the speed now to be able to throw these high-speed turns separate there it kind of died out on me but I don't think it has on all the power or the right setup right now to do all the high-speed drifts but I mean there was one of them I just need a little bit more speed probably and you probably need to change up the grip factor to be able to hold the drift longer on these long sweepers because I feel like this is the biggest section on where everybody gets it and I have to keep s-ing this and when I s it I tend to get a little bit too close to the walls or I lose too much speed and then there goes my entire run but see right now I'm like oh we're doing good but then I right there straight up couldn't get the switch back fast enough probably should have clutch kicked it to get my RPMs up but we are gonna try and rip this downhill cuz apparently this car does have enough power to rip this tunnel see right there I should transition sooner but I wasn't able to because my thumb is actually starting to hurt on this accelerator pedal so we're gonna kick this around and we're gonna try and run it downhill real quick so like I said you guys have the red dan sponsorship don't thank you guys have the red dan sponsorship let me know you guys got any tips for me on what you guys did to get it I would greatly appreciate that so we're gonna send this downhill now and then in zero gear we're neutral and we're going to try and get this section on the downhill with as many points as we can we have the momentum of the downhill and the power and the grip to right there I did not enter that correctly and then we pop the bumper and now we're stuck on the wall so definitely struggling on trying to get this sponsorship I probably should just grind this out and figure it out and be able to get it but I could probably do a little bit better if I was not recording with my frame rate but when I record my frame rate drops by a lot so but I wanted to try and record this to see if I could get it and if I could get it while I'm recording a video for you guys would be even better is the worst time for your nose to start itching and we tagged that wall so we're gonna get your nose there so like I said if you guys have any tips tricks any car setups that you think I could easily get the sponsorship with let me know down in the comment section down below I greatly appreciate your feedback that was nice I wish we could have transitioned that but the bump screwed me up so we are gonna try and run this oh wow that uh that uh that bump kind of a totally messed with my car there so this is probably I think one of the hardest sponsorships to get some people may disagree with me and say that it was super easy for them to get it they got it in one try I may call BS on that because unless you know the track you know every single aspect of this track I do not think you could get this sponsorship in one try maybe one try on the track but you're drifting the track for a good like two hours but I'd like to know like what you guys the fastest you guys got got the sponsorship with let me know down there don't you know don't flood your stories no no giant fish stories on you know all I got it on my first try and my first run uphill because if you did great but I have really really would love to see that and I'm very curious on you know how long it took some of you guys to get this because I've only really tried it a few times and as you can see the tries are very very hard right now but like I said if I did this off recording my frame rate would be so much higher I'm pretty sure I can drop my quality and get a better frame rate to help with the drifting and stuff like that but this game is just amazing on high quality and I do not ever want to drop it off of it so that is why we are on the highest quality possible in this game we're going to throw this I know this section of the course very well because it's the tunnel edge section that I run all the time and I know we can link all this you know we can hold an angle you're a little bit offline there but we are okay in this we can keep transitioning and keep off the wall and I did not touch my button I went above my button so I feel like I need to get a game controller to help me out with this but I have not done that yet I will be getting probably a wireless game controller or game pad for the iPhone if possible I would like to get some sort of buttons to make this a little bit easier to play and a lot more interesting to play so I feel like it would be a lot more fun and probably easier to control if I had some sort of game pad for my clutch and stuff because I'm just making a fool of myself right now so this is probably one of the hardest sponsorships I found so I'm trying to definitely trying my hardest to get it maybe I'll have to buy a pro car maybe I'll just have to upgrade this car more so it has more power and this has the ability to do it we are already downhill so like I said let me know down the comment section down below what you guys did to get this sponsorship if you did get it if you didn't get it are you still working on it how long it take you got any tips for me to make sure I can try and get this easier probably need more power on my car and I'm gonna restart my car there so as you guys know you guys can follow me on Facebook, Twitch, Twitter and Instagram all that we found in the description box below hope you guys enjoyed this and like I said all feedback would be greatly appreciated because I'm definitely trying to fill that sponsorship tree because I still haven't done it yet so until next time guys thank you guys for watching I'm EvilRabbit I'm out


And I think that we're at that point of like a crisis moment as humanity is like having the mirror turned on itself. So like we've built all these amazing technologies and the industrial revolution and civilization and all these things that we think are the ascent, you know? But then when we start to get closer and closer to the peak of that, we look around and we're like, oh my gosh, we're interconnected with all things and we need to have respect for our environment. You know, we need to stop like we need to have appropriate technologies that work with the whole. So that's part of what I feel like my work in this world is, is to work on my own self, my own consciousness in order to get to the point where I can offer this gift of awareness and seeing that we're all interconnected. Boom! What's up everyone? Welcome to Simulation. I'm your host, Alan Sockin. We are at Conscious Attacking's Awaken Future Summit. We are now going to be talking to Ian Michael Abair. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Really appreciate it. It's good to see you again. Good to see you again too. Yeah, it's been a while. Yeah. It's been a while. There's been a lot of leveling up in the meanwhile, I'm so excited to talk. Ian Michael, let's start with who you are and what you represent. Sounds good. Well, I typically identify as being a human being, which is a really, you know, interesting concept and experience. And I grew up in the middle of Alaska in this lifetime. And so deep in my veins and in my psyche are wild places. And I've always been an explorer of the wilderness, whether it's the wilderness that is the natural world or the wilderness that's inside of us. And that wilderness has the whole possible spectrum of experiences, beauty, challenges, and that's really who I am. I'm an explorer of all of that. And I'm a creator. I grew up the son of a carpenter, used to build custom homes that were, you know, appropriate to Northern climates and energy efficient and ecologically designed and all of that. And as I got into my teenage years, I had the dawning realization that not all of humanity has the same experience as me and that there was a lot of suffering in the world, you know. And including in my own family and living in the North is not an easy thing. But I realized that a lot of people throughout the world are really disconnected from themselves and from the natural world. So my early intentions for this life were to move to the jungle in Central America and try to live inside of an eco community. Didn't quite end up working out that way. Human life has had a different circuitous path to that, but I really have always had this desire to live on the land, live in community and just live a good healing life, like a very simple good healing life. And that has manifest as different ways that I've served humanity through retreat centers or getting a masters in counseling psychology and serving many different diverse populations and serving Esalen Institute, the birthplace of the human potential movement and just continuing to track and listen to who are the people that I want to be aligned with, what are the organizations that really call to me. And so I would say that's kind of in summary what I'm up to. All the way from having the wild roots in Alaska, all the way to the identification as a human being, and then just the weirdness of that experience, the beauty of that experience and then all the way through figuring out how to, you feel like there's some sort of a strange disconnection of humans from source, teach us more about this. Yeah, for sure. I think that it first starts with a disconnection from ourselves and a disconnection from others and a disconnection from the natural world and our essential nature as life, as part of this ongoing process of DNA and adaptation and evolution is something that our ego forgets that we're part of a process. We identify with these moments in time, how we fit into society, how we fit into our environment, and so we build up this whole concept of who we are. And in reality, that is gone in a moment. And so I was just describing this experience earlier at the conference. We were doing an exercise to talk about a moment of awe. So there was this woman, Cassandra Vaitan, I've worked with her at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. She was sharing how the founder of Institute of Noetic Sciences, Edgar Mitchell, was the sixth man to walk on the moon. And when he was coming back from walking on the moon, he was looking outside the capsule and he saw the sun and the earth and realized that it's all one unity. He had a moment of satori. And so... Satori. Yeah. Teaches about that quite a bit. It was basically a term that is used to describe a moment of recognizing the unity of all things. So he was looking down at the earth and he said, oh my gosh, all human experiences contained on this ball, as far as we know, and that all life is contained on this ball as far as we know. And there's no divisions of countries or species or any of it. It's all actually one unity of consciousness. That was what he experienced. So, after she gave this prompt, I was sharing with a colleague, Guy Martijn Scherp. He's got a retreat center called Synthesis. They do psychedelic work in the Netherlands. And he's a partner on this project that I'll get into more about holos. And so we were paired up and I was describing to him a moment of awe. And when I was 19 years old, I climbed the tallest mountain in North America, Denali, in the middle of Alaska. It's actually the tallest mountain, terrestrial mountain in the world, from base to summit. It goes from 2,000 feet to 20,000 feet. So we climbed over the course of 22 days to the summit of this mountain from the lake to the top of the mountain. And about 18 days through, it was the dawn of my 20th birthday. We were hiking up a ridge. It was, I was out about 17,000 feet, so pretty tall up on this mountain. And I was looking out towards the northern horizon. And the sun hit the horizon and then came back up. And there was this moment of profound stillness. And in stillness, we have an opportunity to see things from a new vantage point, possibly a more clear vantage point. And I could feel myself, my sense of attention and awareness, merge into the whole earth, merge into the sun. And I could feel the way that the earth was tilted towards the sun in the summer and tilted away from the sun in the winter. And the way that each day is a spinning of that cycle. So I got to experience through my mind and through my awareness, like merging into our solar system. And the reason I share this is I think that it's analogous to the ascent of any man and ego, where we think that or any woman and ego. Where we think we're like, or even civilization. We think we're like climbing the mountain. We're like getting to the peak of some experience. And then when we start getting closer to that peak, we realize that actually we are consciousness and all things are conscious. So part of my experience and my belief is that all things including mountains are actually conscious. All life is conscious. The universe is aware. It's a self-aware universe. And I can't remember what the prompt was that initiated that story with you. But I think it's an important analogy for just the folly of our experience as human beings and what we're doing. It's like we try to build all these things and then we end up coming to the realization. And I think that we're at that point of a crisis moment as humanity is having the mirror turned on itself. So we've built all these amazing technologies and the industrial revolution and civilization and all these things that we think are the ascent. But then when we start to get closer and closer to the peak of that, we look around and we're like, my gosh, we're interconnected with all things. And we need to have respect for our environment. We need to stop like, we need to have appropriate technologies that work with the whole. So that's part of what I feel like my work in this world is, is to work on my own self, my own consciousness in order to get to the point where I can offer this gift of awareness and seeing that we're all interconnected. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it's a good one. Okay, yeah, the prompt being that we disconnect from the source and you give us this really profound illustration of how we have these moments of deep connection. Edgar Mitchell? Yeah, Edgar Mitchell. Yeah, from Nordic Sciences. Wow, yeah, what a profound one and then also yours on Denali. These types of experiences, there's no going back to the old mental maps. Exactly. It's the upgrades and they're gorgeous upgrades and that hopefully we can provide more experiences like that to humans. And when humans are born in metropolises that don't have the cosmic, the views of the cosmos or that barely have breathing space in parks and natures and stuff, it's just like, feels very disconnecting at times. And when we're so embedded in the economic machine and so distant from spiritual practices, it's yeah. So we have a lot of the physical 3D world to build in ways that get us there faster to this reconnection back to the unity. Okay, so then walk us through, so you gave us that example of the disconnection from source. Now you're connecting to your own divinity, your own this level of consciousness that you are striving to kind of upgrade yourself to be able to then bring forth better tools and awareness shifts for other people, right? Yeah, absolutely. And then what has been kind of those milestones for you in terms of where you're like, aha, aha, aha. And then what are the things that you've been building? Yeah, absolutely, thanks for asking. I think those aha moments have kind of come through a lot of different modalities. So it could have been as simple as being seven years old and running down a trail through a birch forest and feeling a sense of elation and awe and beauty and wonder and kind of dissolving into the forest in a sense. And then there's been all these different moments that have helped weave a tapestry and understanding of how the consciousness within me can recognize the consciousness beyond itself as actually one in the same. And so psychedelics certainly were a big part of that journey in my teenage years. And then I reached a point where they served their purpose for that time. And so the majority or all of my 20s were more in service to family, meditation, gardening, building homes. Like very like more earth based things, but the internal contemplative practice continued mostly through meditation. And so I had a teacher in India still do. And I had many experiences with them that were very psychedelic experiences. We're fully transcendent of the world of form. And so I recognize that there's a lot of pathways to getting to the same destination, it's like all weaving back to source as you were saying. And so most recently I spent a number of years at Esalen. And that kind of reopened me to the world of the human potential movements, psychedelics, the teachings of all of the luminaries of the 60s and 70s. And as I finished my time up and my service up at Esalen, I started to look at, okay, I experienced a template of how we can live. And how we can learn and how we can grow together there. And how can I bring that into the world? How can I bring what I learned from childhood about right way of living? And what I learned from Esalen and Sheena Hot Springs? How can I bring that into the world? So that has led me to this concept of holos. And it's a bit of a tip of a hat to Stan Groff. So Stan Groff had lived at Esalen at one point and was considered one of the co-founders of transpersonal psychology. And he developed a technique called holotropic breathwork, which was basically a means to transcendence, healing. And he developed a whole map of the inner landscape of what people would experience through holotropic breathwork. And I think for him it was partially a means to going into these transpersonal states that was legal. It was like a point when the LSD research that he had been doing very legally in the Czech Republic wasn't allowed in the US. And he developed this idea of the holotropic paradigm. And that was basically like returning to wholeness. It was like means for moving to wholeness. So holos represents wholeness. And that's a journey that each of us takes individually and that we're taking as a society and that we're realizing our wholeness with the ecological realities of this globe. Okay, okay, so it makes more sense. So then the experiences that can kind of lead us to the feelings of wholeness can be like you said, as simple as being walking down the path and seeing becoming one with the forest, dissolving into it. And then taking us all the way up to the work at Esalen and being around the thoughts of the luminaries of the past that have built up some of the updates that we've had with our awareness shifts. You then find that holos, wholeness. And what exactly is holos building? Yeah, so holos is building experiences and then ultimately centers that honor the power of plant medicines. So specifically psilocybin, San Pedro, and ayahuasca. And those being kind of a band of plants that have been helping humanity, especially the indigenous people of North and South America for thousands of years. And we believe that those are generally accessible to the public. And that they're also getting a lot of attention for being powerful healing modalities for things like depression, anxiety, PTSD, working with end of life issues. So we're basically, we're using these allies, these plant allies as a means to helping people return to what actually is. Which is that we are already whole. And that our relationship with the earth is what is needing really some work as a species. And so we believe in working with these allies through experiences and through centers to show people a new template for how to be and how to live. Thinking about the thousands of years of use of psilocybin and San Pedro and ayahuasca and what it's actually been able to do for millions of people and now being in the mainstream culture. Is there a way now to get through the taboo and to get to the utmost signal with these centers that are being built? You listed some synthesis. Also you've just done a lot of work with transformational retreat, center design and development. So you're extremely familiar with these processes. So is the idea then physical locations that people then come to those locations and then go through multi-day long processes? Exactly. Nutritional as well as body movement as well as medicine. Exactly. Teach us about what it looks like. Yeah, sounds good. So one thing that we're recognizing in the field of psychedelic medicine is that there's a lot of need for more preparation and for integration. So it's not just about the psychedelic experiences. And so the intention is that the experiences will be held within a bigger context of a multi-day, probably at least a week experience where people do have a holistic approach to healing where there's good food and you learn about personal practices and develop your own personal practices for taking whatever gifts you receive from the plants into your day-to-day life through meditation and embodiment practices, whatever those things may be. It's very much like if we're to take this word holos and really work with it in our own selves and lives, it has a lot to teach. Like just the concept of wholeness. It's like you're talking about the more mainstream adoption. I think that if we look towards the future, at the same time, we need to look towards the past, and that's how it grounds it. So in the past, these traditions were really held with a lot of reverence in indigenous cultures within the context of community. And so that's a big piece of what those traditions have to offer the future. It's like that is a beautiful template and there's specific ways to honor these medicines that if we look back at the past of what really worked, we can probably build a template for the future that is also going to work and be more accessible. And the template that you're talking about here of the past, how does the template of the past interplay with modernity, with the information technology agents of yet? Yeah, it's an ongoing conversation. It's like this moment is an integration of the past and the future. And so this moment, it's like how do these plants and states of consciousness relate to this present moment and what humans are doing? And what I found is that there's an intelligence in the plants themselves that is interacting with the present moment and really looking at it as an actual entity, like, hey, what are you humans up to? And we have something to teach you and maybe you have something to teach us.  There's an intelligence coming through humans too and through our capacity to build technology and AI and other AR, VR. Like there's something in all of that that is actually evolutionarily useful, otherwise it wouldn't be occurring. So like instead of having a dogmatism around like, here's nature, here's man, here's technology, I have a real curiosity about how are all of those things part of a conversation that's happening and how can they learn from each other? Whoa, OK, so then there is something that's embedded deeper in the consciousness of the cosmos that is at play between technology plants and humans and are that interplay to actually double click into it and dissect it and figure it out rather than maybe just in many ways sometimes it feels like the distractions away from what's actually important to unpack about it. Now, how do we get deeper into what plants are telling? So by doing things like Holos and going out, so we need to send the AI, ethicists and programmers to Holos to is that kind of a way to do the feedback loop with technology and play medicine? Yeah, that's definitely one possible way. And I think a lot of like, I think a lot of the artists, musicians, creatives are also really weaving the lessons of plant medicine and psychedelics into their creations and so that's another way that that dialogue is happening. But yeah, I have sat in medicine circles with people that are, you know, pretty far on the AI side, like working in AI. And the best, you know, the best case scenario that I can see is that we embed into some of these artificial intelligences also ancient intelligence. You know, there's another kind of AI. There's ancient intelligence and there's artificial intelligence.  I was just using this analogy yesterday or earlier today of like, OK, so let's just say that science tells us the universe of form is 13 to 14 billion years old. Mushrooms are like 2.5 billion years old. There's rock formations that human beings can see that are around a billion years old. So if you just were to like look at it from the standpoint of infinity, you could kind of look at 13 billion years as not that long. You could look down at it and say, OK, here's 13 billion years. There's a lot of intelligence in the physics of everything that was created during that time. There's a lot of intelligence in the 2.5 billion years that mushrooms and fungus have been around. There's a lot of intelligence in the rocks.  So I would hope that like we can have enough reverence for the universe to recognize that there's a weaving and there's an intelligence that we have to learn from and what created us and what the plants have to teach, what the fungus have to teach. Yeah, that's a real big history perspective on what's happening. We love big history and to view it, I love how you added, sometimes we look at just 13.8 billion and then we go, oh, that's everything. But then you went infinity. And when there's infinity and you look at 13.8 billion, then that looks small, right? And that's a great way to add down the big history scale. So then, yeah, you look at the, I didn't even know that. So fungus in general is 2.5 billion years old. Damn, damn. Wow, yeah, for some reason, is that older than trees? It's older than, yeah? Yeah. Wow, that's some old stuff. Yeah, and so, you know, there was a person in our session earlier that was talking about a really strong psilocybin journey that they went on. And they came to the point of actually having an interaction with the psilocybin and the spirit of the fungus or the consciousness of the fungi apart from himself. And so just to have that idea or that awareness that like human beings, like you and I are having a conversation, well, what would it be like for you to have a conversation with an entity that has been around for 2.5 billion years and has been like spreading its mycelium and watching this whole thing happen? I had a conversation like that with the Grand Canyon two years ago. So I was kayaking down the Grand Canyon, recognizing that these rocks that I was looking at were almost a billion years old. So I started like having this conversation with them. What have you seen?   And so it's good to put things in perspective and the mind has the capacity to hold all of those potentialities or stories. I mean, ultimately, they're kind of stories. Yeah, so the hefty dose of humility that is administered through thinking like this and also, yeah, yeah, yeah. And on also the that there's so much to get into conversation with something as ancient. Ancient intelligence, AI, embedding ancient intelligence into artificial intelligence, embedding AI and AI, I love it, I love it, yeah, that's excellent, that's excellent. And even the idea of something being artificial, you know, it's like, what does that definition actually mean? You know, like to another species. People have been saying it's not a good, yeah, it's probably not the right term. Term will evolve out of that term. Will evolve out of that term. I wonder what, yeah, super intelligence has been another common one, but super intelligence meaning non-narrow intelligence. So that's a general intelligence that's even able to self replicate itself and do additive manufacturing and all other kinds of crazy things. But I do much prefer something like a super intelligence. I'm glad that you mentioned that, you know, artificial, yeah, yeah, yeah.  And, you know, the mind can look at all the different aspects of reality and create culture. And then for me, I end up coming back to like, I'm in a body, you know, here I am, consciousness in a body, consciousness pervading a body. And what does my body want? You know, my body wants some really basic things, like to be comforted and to have good, healthy food and water and air. And so that's a big piece of the Holos narrative, but also of just like the human experience. What does it mean to be a whole human? You know, and so I think we've come, we've gotten kind of separated from that as a species. And it doesn't mean that we can't embed holistic ways of living into cities. But for me personally, it's really about a deep dialogue with the natural world. So, yeah. So Holos centers will be embedded in nature, just to remind people of that interdependence and like perfect harmony that we can live with in nature. On a scale of what's been passed down to us by our ancestors up until our little 25 or 50 year blips of time, let's say, compared to what maybe has been passed down through fungus or through other, yeah. I mean, yeah, what carries more intelligence in its vehicle, us or those systems? And so it's always an interesting thing to contemplate. Holos is coming in a very timely manner. Are we able to at all approximate when there will be a center available and where? Next year, we'll start. We'll start prototyping experiences at the beginning of 2020. And in North, Central, South America? Yeah, we're doing the research right now on all the legal jurisdictions. And so initially, it'll be experiences. And then the center itself will likely be in Costa Rica first. And then we're waiting for the North America and Canadian policies to catch up with ancient culture. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's quick thought on this. What are your thoughts about the reason why the ancient intelligences of plant medicines were banned was due to their catalyzing of feelings of unity, which would sacrifice the economic, yeah. Absolutely, I mean, there's like so many trails to go down there. One, I think it's the suppression of the feminine and like the hypermasculine culture that has basically said like the natural world is there for us to dominate. And when there's plants talking to you or talking to a culture, an indigenous culture saying, hey, you're part of everything. It's not a really popular way of seeing or being when you're in a system that needs to dominate. So I think that's like the primary unconscious thing that's happening. And then there's the next layer which is here are like religions or practices that the indigenous people were doing. And if we can take away their culture and their practices and make that wrong, then we have the upper hand. And so there is the Religious Freedoms Act. So there's things like the Native American church that can work with Payode or San Pedro or there's the UDV or there's practices where you can work with ayahuasca in the US within the Religious Freedoms Act. So that's like one safeguard that these plants have. But for a long time I think that was a big piece of the suppression is that it's about culture and suppression of the feminine. And then beyond that, it's like if there's substances that are legal, that we can tax and we can get people hooked on, then that's a really great formula or if there's substances that we can make illegal and we can get people hooked on them and then send them to jail because we're trying to take a certain population and keep them out of the power structure. Those are really good means to controlling a society. So you've got alcohol, highly addictive, tobacco, highly addictive and taxable. And so that's a really good reason why a government might want to keep that. Those two industries really strong. And then you've got things like heroin or cocaine. And as a government you might want to keep those strong so that you can choose populations that you want to keep out of society and send them to jail. Whereas, so I mean I'm giving you kind of a broad. I love it, keep going. And then you've got psychedelics which are actually like a liberation of the psyche and aren't addictive in the same ways. And so like those are the ones that you want to put into schedule one, say that they have no healing value and there you have it. Because it breaks down the system of your control. Well, yeah, so whatever is yet in aim to control has had a grip on propagating the economic machineries of the structures that currently exist and suppressing the healing properties, the unity properties of things like psychedelics and so much more. It's always fascinating to me thinking of what a simulation would look like if we grew up in a matriarchy. And just seeing and feeling what would be some of the great characteristics. What would be some of the ones that aren't so great? And how would we take the great ones? How could we implement them into what we currently have now? Just all different types of things like that. It's such a deep curiosity of mine and I end up bringing it back to myself and working on really coming to terms with the masculine and feminine within me and having them in some form of harmony and unity. That's kind of like a first step and then maybe I'll have something to say and contribute to the larger conversation. Yes, yes, yes. Two quick questions, E. Michael, two quick questions. Are we in a simulation? I don't have an answer to that, yeah.  In the sense that everything that we're experiencing is filtered through a very, very small bandwidth of reality. And so in the sense of a simulation being just a small band of what we can experience that's actually, to some extent, manipulated by our senses and by our memories and by what we're expecting to see. Then we're a simulation that we're creating. We're in a simulation that we're creating, to a large extent, with the way that our mind is wired. Yeah, I've been having some really fascinating thought processes and conversations, though, around what is happening with AR, VR, and more immersive experiences that are created by technology and by man that even simulate natural experiences in nature. And how that has therapeutic benefits, actually, for relaxation and all these things. And at the same time, we're moving pretty far into the movie, The Matrix, where you're just hooking yourself up and living in a simulation. So I don't necessarily have all the answers to that. But I have glimmers of the ultimate reality and truth. So I don't take too much of this. I take it all at face value, yeah. And then the last question is what is the most beautiful thing in the world? Well, the first thing that came to mind was my kids. And I think that there's a way that we see as parents our own innocence within our kids and our own beauty and creativity. And so I think the most beautiful thing in the world is probably creativity and innocence. It's like going back to that seed moment that the universe started expanding and things moved into greater complexity. It's like whatever that moment of conception was that the sperm and egg come together or in other species when that moment of creation happens. I think that that's the most beautiful thing. And you can see it in a child's eyes with the twinkle and excitement. It's like it's that same moment of creation that is in a flower that is blossoming. Yeah, I would say that's the most beautiful thing. I love it. This has been such a wonderful conversation. Yeah. Thanks again. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Yeah, brother. This was a pleasure. Thank you. What's the link for Holos? Holos.global. Holos.global, everyone. Check out the link in the bio to that. Also check out the rest of Ian Michaels links in the bio. And also support the organizations, the entrepreneurs, the artists around the world that you believe in. Conscious Hackings links are below. Support them. 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