Hi, I'm Kit Colbert. I'm running a new team at VMware called Cloud Native Applications. And the focus is really on how do we enable our customers to embrace these next generation applications, you know, as James and Josh were discussing earlier. This is a trend that we're seeing across all our customers. And everyone's thinking about this. It's one of those notions that, you know, Mark Andreessen said a long time ago, right? Software is eating the world. Every company is becoming a software company. And we're seeing this to get in again. I mean, even in this week's issue of the economists, they're talking about how financial institutions are now really worried about tech startups coming and disrupting them, right? So everyone's got to figure out how they can embrace these things and move faster. Let's see. Here we go. So as that's happening, you know, it's kind of these new imperatives for business, right? Given that software is becoming the major way that these companies interact and engage with their users, you know, they, companies don't need to think about how they can create the best experience on those software platforms. This isn't just saying, you know, having a good mobile app or a good web app. It's also doing things like big data, Internet of Things, so on and so forth. So you can get large amounts of data that you can then analyze and give insights back to those customers. It's about engaging them at a deeper level. But it's not just about doing that once, right? We've taught, we've heard this before, how, it's how quickly you can move, right? Ying was just talking about this and, you know, I had certain requirements for how fast and how often they need to be provisioning stuff into production. And so there's, you know, all these technologies out there in the open source world, James and Josh talked about Netflix and all the great stuff they've done and given back. So you actually absolutely have to engage and, you know, leverage those things as much as possible. You want a structured platform, as they said. So the interesting thing from VMware's perspective, you know, we're looking at it from the IT ops data center side, is what we're seeing is that the infrastructure itself is also changing. So traditionally, you know, the focus of IT was all about saving money, right? How can we drive efficiencies and consolidate workloads? This is, you know, something that we really help customers to do, to move all these disparate workloads of many servers, consolidate them down to fewer servers. But as we go to this next generation world, it's not really about efficiency and CAPEX savings, so much as it is about deeper user engagement. It's about reaching those users and actually driving top-line business growth, right? It's how do you actually get more revenue? And so when you think about that, you think about scale, you think about distribution, you think about how quickly you can move. And so it really becomes less about the infrastructure, a lot more about the applications and how you can leverage infrastructure to help those applications scale. So with that in mind, you know, the mission that we have within our team at VMware is really to make developers a first-class user of the data center. And now for many folks in this room, they say, yeah, of course, obviously, that's what we need to do. And yes, it's true. The problem, though, is that today, data centers aren't really optimized for developers. Developers don't want to file a ticket and wait whatever it is, weeks or days or whatever to get that thing done. They want to call an API, have it done in seconds, right? They don't want to be exposed to the complexity of a data center. They want the data center essentially to be fronted by a giant API they can call and get stuff done, right? So all that complexity down the data center should be hidden from them. So that's a lot of what we've been trying to do. I mean, this is the direction of where we've been going in with this whole software-defined data center vision we've had, which is really enabling our customers to get the tooling and the tools to actually build these APIs on top and automate that data center. But we want to do a little bit more. So we're looking at how can we build and really engage with technologies that span the application lifecycle all the way from a developer's laptop to the production stack. We want to empower the ops teams to support these next generation types of applications. We want to move IT to be able to say, yes, we can support that. We want to do that. We want to see how fast we can move here. And finally, we want to do that in an open way, right? Leveraging open source technology, open standards, but also contributing back. Because as we said, this is where a lot of the innovation is happening. It's in the open source world. So specifically, Cloud Foundry, right? Very exciting stuff. I don't need to pitch you guys on how cool Cloud Foundry is. We've incubated Cloud Foundry at VMware for many years, and then when Pivotal was created, we gave a lot of those assets to them, and they've been driving it. Now it's great to see a whole foundation around it in this huge community that's there. And as they were saying, James and Josh were saying earlier, this really is a structured platform for enabling customers to move faster. And that's great. So the question is, what else needs to be done? How can we help Cloud Foundry to accelerate? How can we help our customers embrace Cloud Foundry even more? And so as we start thinking about it, there's, of course, lots of stuff to do. It's still a new space. But probably the biggest issue that we hear and biggest concerns that we hear from customers are around security, right? How do you secure these next generation applications? And when you think about it, there's a lot of challenges. Because we're not talking about apps with just one or two or maybe five instances. A lot of times now, the ability to dynamically scale up this stuff means you're going to have dozens or hundreds or maybe even thousands of instances. And you have a lot of different infrastructure to, you know, changing application to apology. How do you ensure that all these different things can be trusted? Right? How do you ensure they can talk to each other properly? And so in order to do this, you need a few different things. You need sort of this identity infrastructure for these applications. You need good network isolation and dynamic network topology support. And finally, you need a secure and trusted runtime. So I'll kind of walk through what we're doing in each of these different areas. So first kind of a high-level architecture diagram that we'll use to walk through some of this. So what we see here is, of course, you know, Linux hosts, where you're running your containers and container engine living inside Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry itself does scheduling and orchestration. You may have a repository, you may not. And then some network underneath to connect all your different Linux hosts. So the thing that's missing is some sort of identity and access management solution that can really tie all these pieces together. You know, it's like, when you think about Cloud Foundry, how can it trust the host that is running on? When you think about that host, how does the host know that the container is about to execute is actually the container that should be executing? Right? The thing I always talk about is it's kind of funny that most folks' iPhones are more secure than most data centers. Right? I mean, think about it. Do you know exactly what apps are allowed to run on that iPhone? I mean, Apple has that ecosystem controlled top to bottom. Everything's cryptographically signed. You can attest to the code. They don't let anything in the App Store, they don't improve. And if your company has an MDM solution, you can further control what apps are actually going about phone. But in a data center, you don't have any of that, right?  You can exact whatever process you want and you're off and running. Right? I mean, how does the data center get locked down the same way that our iPhones are now? Well, this is exactly what we want to do. And so this is the idea behind this thing we're calling Project Lightwave. So Project Lightwave is an identity and access management solution or component that's focused on cloud-native applications, containers, and so forth. So the idea there is that we're not really focused on user identity so much as different component, application component, or infrastructure component identity. Now, how do you tie all those different things together so that the hosts can validate the container, so that different containers can validate each other within that application? So the cool part is that this thing supports a bunch of different protocols. You know, the reality is that these new cloud foundry instances you create are not going to be little islands by themselves, but it's actually going to be interacting with a lot of the existing data center services you have. And so you need to support all those different protocols. It needs to be scalable. This thing is multi-tenant. So just like cloud foundry is multi-tenancy, you need multi-tenancy sort of top to bottom. And as I said, we're open sourcing this hopefully this week or next week. It should be going out very soon under the Apache 2 license. So some pretty cool stuff. We've had a lot of different interests from partners working closely with the cloud foundry folks and folks like Pivotal to really integrate this and combine this with the great cloud foundry technologies. So that's the first piece. How do you kind of secure from an identity and authentication standpoint and do that for the components? Now, the second piece is around the Linux host. How do you ensure that you have trust and security there? And so when you're looking at sort of a VMware deployment, what you really want is how do you combine and integrate that Linux distro as much as possible into the hypervisor to really simplify management and to drive up security? So that's why we announced something called Project Photon. So Project Photon is actually a Linux distro from VMware. The idea here is it's optimized around containers, so it's extraordinarily lightweight. We're also optimizing it for our hypervisors, our hypervisors in general for virtualization. So as you can see here, we support a bunch of different containers out of the box, obviously very tightly integrating it to cloud foundry. The thing we wanted to do though is actually, as you can see further down the slide, actually take that a bit further and actually build a stem cell for cloud foundry leveraging photons. So that's in the works. And the idea there is again, when you talk to enterprises and you talk to IT ops, they really, IT security, they really want standard building blocks they can trust in their data centers. So we've been very successful at this over many years working closely with the IT security folks to get their heads wrapped around our vSphere hypervisor. And we want to extend that with Photon. So they have a secure, trusted runtime for cloud foundry and their other applications. So some really cool stuff we're doing there. And the idea is again, from a usability management perspective, the idea is Photon is kind of built in. When you get vSphere, you get vCloud errors, just there, it works. You have integrated support, one throat to choke, one phone call to make, all these great things. And so as we said, we're also open sourcing this one under the GPL v2 license. And this is out today.  So a lot of good stuff going on there. Okay. So identity access management, the compute runtime, the third piece is the network. And you really want some sort of networking technology that can handle the dynamic network typologies of a cloud native application. You're thinking about, again, dozens or hundreds or thousands of instances of this app all coming and going over time, you want a network technology that can handle that. So we have a network virtualization product called NSX, essentially virtualizes these physical network concepts and allows you to control them through software and via an API. So really cool stuff, right? So if you look at how this stuff works today, basically you're running a container inside of a virtual machine. And so what we do is we have all sorts of support for virtual machine networking. NSX can do something called micro segmentation down to a VM, provides dynamic security, firewall, load balance, etc. for that VM. All the containers inside the VM sort of share that network context. And you may have a NAT or something else you're doing there. And this actually works. It works for many people today, right? But we want to do something a little bit more than that. So we're actually moving forward to do a second level of network virtualization, if you will, actually virtualizing at the container level. So the idea there is you can actually have multiple containers inside a single VM, each of which has its own unique security properties. You can do different firewall settings, different load balancing rules, different routing rules, etc. for each of those containers. So this is really pretty cool. It's something we're looking to extend NSX as well as doing an open source project called OVN, open virtual network, to enable that as well. So a lot of good stuff happening there. Now one question we do get around this notion is, do we still need a hypervisor in this case? Like why can't we just have the containers running on bare metal? So when we talk about security, the really important piece here is multi-tenant security, ensuring that you really have safety between folks you may not trust. And that doesn't have to be different businesses. It may be different organizations within a business. Some of the security folks we talked to at major organizations actually say that their biggest threats in their mind are from their internal employees, not from someone attacking them outside. And probably you're kind of wondering, why are you going to get some new employees? And if that's the biggest problem. But nevertheless, it's true, right? So they're very, very sensitive to this. So that means they want security top to bottom. They want multi-tenancy top to bottom. They want that in the network layer as well. So the problem without using virtual machines, if you can break out of the container, you can get access to the virtual switch or the switch locally on that host there. And then you can go out and kind of go out to the entire network. The beauty of what a hypervisor enables you to do is really protect that. Even if you break out of a container into that local VM, the hypervisor can still protect that VM traffic. It won't have, you know, you can set the, in the VM, you can set your Nick to promiscuous mode. You still won't be able to see any traffic because the hypervisor can protect you from that. So the notion of a VM sort of changes this next generation world, right? It's not about managing VMs anymore. It's about managing applications. But the beauty of virtualization is that it actually offers you a really tried and true and proven security domain. So VMs kind of become software-driven security domains. And so you may say, okay, I have some container, some instances of this app that I trust each other. They can be provisioned within the same security domain, same VM. Others that don't. They need to be separated out. So that's the beauty of what we see kind of better together between virtualization and containers at the network and the compute level. So a bunch of different stuff we're doing, as I said, you know, this goal is to make developers a first-class user of the data center, something that should have been done a long time ago, but it's been very hard for IT to move in that direction. They haven't had the technologies. But now we're seeing those technologies are coming to the forefront. Things like Cloud Foundry are helping to force that discussion. And so what we want to do is help those customers at the infrastructure layer with the compute, with identity and access management, and, of course, with the networking piece. And so you can see some of these different technologies out there, Photon and Lightwave, both open source, both available for you to go kick the tires on and try out. So with that, I want to say that this is just the beginning, right? Don't assume that Photon and Lightwave and NSX by themselves are the solution. There's a lot more work to do. As I said, security is kind of the first piece, but there's a lot more stuff around management, around automation, around governance and so forth, not to mention more infrastructure things we can do. So look for more announcements from us throughout the year and next year. But for the time being, please check us out on GitHub and follow our Twitter. Thank you, guys.


Well that escalated quickly Hello folks So it's been an interesting couple of weeks for me here on this YouTube channel, you know, I I Thought there was a solid chance that my review of Bo Burnham's inside would do well by my own standards But I did not foresee a world where it did well by most people's more than 15% of my current subscribers came in the wake of that review and while I knew I would be reaching 10,000 subscribers sometime this month based on the existing trajectory. I would Never have believed that I just passed 12,000 a few hours ago like gosh damn you I Don't know I'm not gonna harp on this because I did a four and a half hour celebratory live stream And we should just get going but if you are a subscriber new or old Thank you for being here Welcome to the week I review my name is Alec and today.  I am not playing up or down my reactions for the camera I am just weirdly and maybe aggressively expressive and it bothers some folks But that is legitimately not an act which isn't to say this whole thing isn't a performance of some sort with the Single exception of that sort of meltdown. I had Over some deleted files where I was just genuinely falling apart on camera Everything on this channel is constructed like I mean I'm reading this whole thing from a teleprompter right and the like I mean at the beginning of that sentence was Written into the script to make it feel as though I'm just talking to you and not reciting lines and If you go back to my oldest videos, they feel less natural and obviously I am much more comfortable with the teleprompter But also the increased casualness masks a lot That said this is how I talk It's not putting on a character to add ums and likes it is a character to do the opposite I write these scripts to match precisely the way I speak so that when I'm here in front of the camera I can be the most coherent version of myself but also still Be myself and folks who know me IRL would attest to that literally over the weekend I saw a friend for the first time in well over a year and met her new boyfriend And she told me that when he asked what I was like she just sent him one of my videos and said that And she came to my first one-man show so she knows a whole lot more about me than you do And you should trust her because she's very smart And with that let's get to the actual questions in a um semi thematic order Salmiak asks What is your academic background and if you could study anything for free? What would it be? I have a degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College and they don't have majors, but I don't feel like explaining that So I say I studied film production and journalism Which is at least as true as saying I majored in physics So why not and perhaps you can see two of those things in the videos that I make As for the third if I could go back and do college again I would take fewer physics courses and at least one philosophy course and Probably a poetry course as well. I feel like my ability to understand works and Condense my thoughts would have been improved by the latter and my ability to fundamentally construct arguments by the former and Regardless of what media criticism means to my life more broadly I would like to be able to make my reviews more intellectually rigorous So if I could study Anything for free it would probably be philosophy even though. I know I would hate it at the time Maybe like a music theory course or music production one or Both maybe just songwriting tbh On that note Johnny Tamaro asks what kind of music do you like? and it's Frankly easier for me to qualify what I don't like because my tastes are pretty wide ranging recently I've been listening to a ton of hyper pop and also what Finn McKenzie calls emo with 808's trap metal is dope as hell Which is why I made a highly political trap metal type song and have been Trying to work on another one for a while now I am digging the pop punk revival and am a big fan of post-hardcore But also top 40s pop and rap and whatever is usually fine by me truth be told I don't really care about lyrics or the meaning behind things I just want stuff that sounds good and obviously good is relative But to me it mostly just means melodic I don't enjoy technical death metal, but melodic death metal is great To Expand it a bit though. Let's look at not a robots question. What is your favorite artistic medium? The short answer in the year of our lord 2021 is almost certainly tick tock because that's where I spend the most active time Technically I watch more youtube, but that's usually on in the background while I do other things The long answer is completely different my favorite art form in practice is cinema with a Butt that I will address in a moment and that shouldn't be a surprise The default subject of a the week I review video is a film and my tastes run the gamut I dig low-key indie dramas and ludicrously expensive action epics. I'm Very jumpy and don't enjoy surprises, but do like spooky things so I have a somewhat conflicted relationship with modern horror, but I'm also willing to forgive a lot if something is incredibly stylish Which is on some level definitely why assassination nation is my favorite movie Really I just want to watch things that aren't boring for the sake of being boring or actively offensive to my sensibilities, which Basically means minimizing and ideally eliminating sexual assault And also, you know not treating mentally ill people like monsters really shouldn't be that hard So that's practice, but in theory my favorite art form is video games Our video games is interactive entertainment. I don't know. I'm going to talk about this in my next video but the oldest online writing attributable to me is a video game review from 2006 Because for a long time I've really just liked talking about video games because video games are so much more Personal in their experiences like everyone will react to a movie differently But they're all seeing the same sequence of events No two people will experience a game in exactly the same way And in many games they will have completely different stories to tell Which makes them fun to talk about and think about in a different way than any other medium Unfortunately, I don't have nearly as much time for video games as I once did and maybe that's because I spend too much time on TikTok, but also it's just become harder to Stay in the right headspace for a long time But I continue to love thinking about video games and reading about them and hearing people talk about them, which introduces yet another question Shantani Das asks What are your favorite film review slash video essay channels and did they directly inspire you to start making videos? And the fact is that I watch a lot more game focused video essays than I do film focused ones and that's a lot Of the critical content I consume in general when it comes to film I don't typically watch or even read other reviews of things that I intend to see because I like to form my own Opinion and by the time I've done that everyone's moved on and I've forgotten to go back Video essays are different of course and I back 25 creators on patreon almost all of whom are video essayists and there are more that I wish I could but like It adds up and at some point it just kind of had to stop Anyways, their names are scrolling now past and that should give you a general sense of what I'm into my favorite video essayist at the moment is Film essayist Patrick H. Willems because he makes the kind of overproduced stuff I wish I could but he's also not a specific inspiration because I only found out he existed in like February and I didn't actually have any particular inspiration to start this channel Or make videos in quite the way that I do I just spent a lot of time on youtube and wanted to be here also and eventually figured out a hyper specific niche that I could fill and Here I am Brazilian youtube personality quase vingativa aka nat asks do you tell people you're a youtuber and if so How do they react? I have thought about this a lot and specifically wondered If my current relationship were to end and I found myself back on dating apps, how would I label myself? Last time around I said I make sad art though I would have never called myself an artist and to that point I have never used youtuber to describe myself and it's Probably kind of obnoxious because I've been doing this for nearly three years now, but I don't Really identify with it because I don't want to I think of youtuber as a job And for as long as this is a side project it feels weird to think of myself in those terms I do consider myself a critic, but that's a lot more abstract All that said I definitely tell people that I make youtube videos and the responses are pretty varied People are usually curious what kinds of videos I make and I tell them but Usually don't say what the channel is called unless they genuinely want to know which Isn't the case most of the time I feel weird about self promotion Thomas Baxter asks what are your five best videos? That's what the twerr at its best playlist is for but let's take a step back and think bigger because there's multiple ways to think about it If I wanted to impress you with my skills as an actor or filmmaker or whatever, which is usually how I interpret this question I would say that my best videos are the most unique ones my Hamilton rapper view I can't see I'm thinking of ending things a moral man even Iceland Like those five are great and maybe they're my answer But they're also not reflective of the channel in general They're a vision into a world where this was my job and I had the time to dedicate to making every video unique and interesting They're also rarely the ones that mean the most to me like I enjoyed making all of those immensely But they are not deeply personal the way that my videos of in and of itself Dear Evan Hansen X promising young woman and the assistant are And then you have the two videos on vaccination and separating art from artists that just Aren't reviews at all in the same vein as my video about the 2020 us presidential election. They're just Me talking with no pretense and Get at the heart of my beliefs and the way I view the world and anyone who wants to know if they're going to vibe with me Could definitely determine it by watching probably any but certainly all of those three My review of inside has a little bit of the creativity in the context of something more meaningful But it also doesn't go nearly as far as I would have taken it if I could dedicate the time I also really liked my video about the art of self-defense, which is personal in a totally different way and assassination nation too My list of Korean movies that you should watch because parasite one best picture means a lot in A different way because I just really love Korean cinema And it's fun to talk about some lesser known gems from that industry alongside the heavy hitters So I don't know it's a pun to a real answer to myself in like Three hours. I'm gonna go through and make a playlist and put it in one of those cards there Sort of Jacob asks How do you square the need to make things you're happy with or proud of While dealing with depression and anxiety and all of those things that make it impossible to be happy and proud of the things you do I kind of don't The thing about youtube is that it is incredibly low stakes when you are in a position like mine Either particularly successful nor reliant on success like with a few notable exceptions These videos don't do all that well and there have definitely been times where I have posted a video that I knew Wasn't the best it could have been or that my arguments weren't articulated clearly enough But also I knew that it would probably just hit a few hundred people or maybe a few thousand That minimizes the risk of any serious call outs Plus the next video is always in sight I would be paralyzed at the prospect of a the week I review series finale But as long as it keeps going any given entry is Kind of whatever Which is why I have so much more trouble with all of the not youtube stuff that I do I have released two songs so far and that is ridiculous I should have at least a dozen that I think are fine that I did and put out there as a way to improve My songwriting but I have this overwhelming need to make something that I think is meaningful and it's Just not a thing that comes naturally to me So I put all of this time into song that are the best that I can do even if the best that I can do Would have been better with more practice I've also mentioned before that I have given up on multiple short films after shooting had begun and plenty of blood sweat tears Money had been shed because in the same way I feel like I need to hit a certain level of quality and be proud and frankly I need to just lower my standards and let myself work on more things But I don't really know how to do that And it frustrates me Mr. Divine asks a few related questions, but I'm just going to go with the most abstract one Is it worth it to make content and the answer is probably not if you don't need to To clarify what I mean, let's look at Jason Patrick's question What keeps you going when growth is at a standstill? What motivates you? The week I reviews existence was sort of inevitable I have this overwhelming need to inject myself into every conversation and not enough people in my life with whom I can have them I've also spent thousands of dollars on all of this equipment And if it was just like sitting in the corner over there never to be used that would make me very Very unhappy I am motivated primarily by my need to make things but also talk about them and as I implied earlier It's not that hard to make content because it has lower stakes than art I need a creative outlet and this is the one that I chose To be clear I am definitely unhappy about the fact that prior to my inside review my traffic had basically halved but at the same time success was not my motivation and certainly never an expectation even if it was obviously a hope and It's not like my motivations are pure or whatever because the fact that I don't run unskippable ads and rarely put more than one ad And even my long videos isn't because I'm benevolent But because I'm worried that an ad break will make people leave and I want them to watch the video more than I want the money Even though ideally I would actually like both But you need a reason to keep going beyond the money A dollar dollar bills are how you are defining worth Creating content is likely to be a miserable experience for you Marie Taylor asks something similar from the opposite perspective What goes through your head when a project you didn't expect to take off just does So I've had a few times over the years where the traffic on this channel has spiked and it is Interesting because while these spikes usually translate into new subscribers They rarely translate into more numbers for the rest of the channel and historically have an increased views on subsequent videos either like inside was wildly successful It is the third most watched video on this channel. I don't think it'll beat parasite or solo, but I'm legitimately shocked. It has gotten as far as it has and it is still going pretty strong However, despite the massive influx of traffic on the channel and the fact that my subscriber count went up so dramatically The views on my previous videos have not seen a commensurate increase You know, maybe new folks have been waiting for that list of the next five to watch or Maybe they just click subscribe as a courtesy thing and don't Really care all that much and won't watch any future videos hurting me in the algorithm And making it less likely that my next video will pop off I don't know and that's kind of frustrating But in isolation I'm always happy when any given video does well because I think all of my videos are worth watching And so I'm happy when people do that Alisa H asks Do you ever write the script for a video that you don't end up filming slash posting? I've never completely finished a script that I didn't do something with I have started plenty that I never finished because Other things came up and there have been cases where I got a few hundred or even a thousand words in before giving up usually because I just Actually didn't have a real point. I wanted to make or I was unsure how to make it or I Just thought making it may be actively counterproductive For example, my inside review references the make happy review that I started working on and my discussion of separating art from artists Talks about the falling in reverse review that I stopped There was also an austin powers one at one point. I have um I've started posting these incomplete but lengthy drafts on patreon because I have this nasty habit of feeling like I need to do something with everything that I make I'm pretty sure I talk about that in my in and of itself review because that impulse is where my one man shows came from patron and wonderful photographer verner van elfin Asks me for seven words to describe myself, which I absolutely hate but he's paying me. So I don't Really have a choice But I don't know man If I were to just attempt adjectives They would pretty much all be negative because I'm a pretty negative dude Especially when it comes to me personally and my mom told me to stop being so mean to myself on my youtube channel So I probably shouldn't do that But here is a seven word sentence to describe me that actually contains one compliment Exhaustingly self-aware, but fortunately i'm cute Like if I was as unpleasant to look at as some of my commenters clearly want me to believe I am This channel would have way fewer subscribers. I don't feel great about that like cosmically, but it is what it is Also to the other parts of his question My favorite food is probably pad thai But I think my favorite meal was one I had at real coconut in toloom, mexico on december 30th 2019 And I don't have any particular affection for dune, but i'm super into deni vianouv. So I'm hyped for it Julie asks if directors covered each other's films the way musicians cover each other's songs What director would you like to cover? What film and why? To set the ground rules for this We are taking a cover to be more faithful to the original than what we currently think of as a remake But also distinct from the shot for shot remake that we have seen at times It is a different director taking the same script and going off in their own direction with it Basically have people treat shakespeare And I had two gut reactions the first was taken three by garith evans because it has such infamously bad fight scenes But I'd rather see garith evans take on something better written with action. That's just sometimes a bit much Like his take on the borne trilogy it probably wouldn't be better overall than what dog lineman and paul greengrass did but I think it would be fascinating to see The other thought was Baz lerman doing pretty much anything from the black and white sound era Like I know he did the great gatsby and that's sort of the same thing, but What about fucking citizen kane? Can you can you imagine bas lerman directing herman j mankowitz script for citizen kane? I sure can't but glitch gums hyper pop cover of phoebe bridger's kioto is good as hell And it seems like the same energy I'd see it opening night in i max 3d for sure patron and frequent well actually or i am the sword asks What is your least favorite movie?  I love nakashima style memories of motsuko Incredible confessions Incredible, but the world of konoko made me so incredibly Fucking angry, and I just can't I wish I was ending this on a lighter note, but the other questions that I might have used Uh, honestly, I just couldn't come up with decent answers for her Sorry to those folks and I appreciated the questions if you still really want an answer to them I do live stream AMA things every couple of weeks. So you should just Show up and ask Yep We're done Thanks so much for watching. Thank you particularly to my patrons my mom hammering marco katsarakata benjamin schiff anthony coal magnolia dentin elliott fowler greg lucina kojo filbates willow I am the sword tomatown one timmo and the folks who'd rather be read than said if you like this video That's great.


Y cwmwys i ni, rydyn ni'n cyd-dweud y cynhyrchol cyd-dweud, ac rydyn ni'n cyllid y cyfrwyng sydd y cyfrwyng. Y cyfrwyng digital yw'r cyfrwyng yn dda, yn y gynhyrch i'r cyfrwyng yn ei ddweud, rydyn ni'n gofyn yw'r cyfrwyng. Cymru cyfrwyng y cyfrwyng yw'r cyfrwyng yma, y cyfrwyng yn y bwysig i'r gifnodau Dysgu'r cyfnodd, y cwmddiannol. Y bwysig yw'r cyfnodd digital yw Bitcoin. A Bitcoin yw'r cyfnodd digital yn dechrau. Yn y gallu y gweithio cyfnodd yn gallu cyfnodd yn y cyfnodd. Ond yw'r cyfnodd yn gallu cyfnodd arall cwmddiannol, Ac mae'n ddweud bod yn gweithio'r propiti sydd yn gweithio'r cyhoeddfa arno. Felly ydych yn gallu gweithio'r cyhoeddfa a chymlu'r cyflawn. Felly mae'r fawr yn gweithio'r cyhoeddfa mewn cyflawn a chymlu'r adres. Ond, cyflawn cyflawn o'r cyflawn yn cynnwys. A gyda'r cyflawn o'r cyhoeddfa arno, Mynd i amser mae'r byddwch yn ysgrifwm erbyn ar gyfer gyda byddwch pleidydd a gwaith gyda'i hefyd i'r parloedd gorffjadi o'r teimlo sydd gwefnodol. Yr hynny, xerocoiwyd yw cywdingen iawn o ffordd yn ymddangos iawn o'r cyfan yn cael cyfynu llain sydd gennym beth sydd y cyfynu llai cyfnwys. Fy rydyn ni'n mynd i amparad yr unrhyw ar y cyfnwys. Mae'r cyfnwys ar y cyfnwys ynnydd gaf ar y cyfnwys, However, there are two senses in which they are not that efficient. The first is that to use a signature of knowledge, you actually have to store quite a lot of data in the ledger. And the second is that the signatures themselves take quite a long time to verify. This puts a lot of extra pressure on the miners. And that's sort of the reason that Zcash chose to use zero knowledge snarks instead, because these are very small and very fast to verify. And they provide exactly the same anonymity guarantees as signatures of knowledge. They approve provides no additional information as to who this vendor is. However, they do not provide the same trust guarantees. And in particular, on this third point here, in a zero knowledge snark, it is often possible to modify the proof in some way such that it will still verify for a different potentially false statement. This doesn't mean that Zcash is insecure. They do go to extra measures in order to prevent these styles of attacks. But if they went straight with signatures of knowledge, they wouldn't have to bother with these. In our paper, we construct the first simulation extractable snark. And we do this by... And in doing this, we also get the first succinct signature of knowledge, because they are quite linked. And to do this, we use square arithmetic programmes, as well as asymmetric bilinear groups. I'm first going to run through some definitions. In our scheme, we need asymmetric bilinear groups, and I'm not going to dwell on this too much, apart from to point out the asymmetric or type three property. We need that there is no efficient isomorphism between the two source groups. And actually, if this property doesn't hold, then our scheme will not be sound, so it's very important. S e snark stands for simulation extractable zero knowledge succinct non-interactive argument of knowledge, which essentially means that if a proof verifies, then the person who computed it knows the witness to the truth of a statement. It is correct in the sense that somebody who does know a valid witness can always convince an honest prouver. And it is sound in the sense that somebody who doesn't know a witness should not be able to convince an honest verifier. And it is also zero knowledge and simulation extractable, which I shall spend some more time on. Zero knowledge is the property that any information that is included in the proof should be something that a person who does not know the witness should be able to calculate anyway. And intuitively, when you hear this, you think that it would break soundness. But in order to be able to compute these simulated proofs, you need to know the trapdoor. So provided that there is some trusted set-up algorithm, nobody should know this trapdoor in practice. We model zero knowledge as a game. The adversary is given a proof pi, and he knows that pi has either been computed by a prouver who knows a valid witness, or it has been computed by a simulator that knows a trapdoor. However, just from looking at the proof, the adversary should not be able to figure out whether it was calculated using the witness or the trapdoor. It can guess, but it shouldn't be able to do any better than guessing. Simulation extractability is a property that cannot use old proofs in order to forge new proofs. And again, we need our trusted set-up algorithm. It generates a common reference string and a trapdoor, sends a common reference string to the adversary, sends a common reference string in the trapdoor to an oracle. And this oracle is going to be a simulation oracle. This is so that the adversary is able to query it on false statements. Actually, the proofs will look exactly the same as if we'd given it the prouver oracle because of zero knowledge. So this time, the adversary is given a common reference string, and it's allowed to query its simulation oracle up to a polynomial number of times on instances of its choice. It receives back valid proofs that we'll verify, and at the end of this process, it will output an instance and a proof. Simulation extractability is a property that if this instance and proof verifies, then either the adversary actually does know a valid witness to this instance, or it has just spat back out one of the instances and proofs provided to it by its oracle. It hasn't modified them in any way. And this directly implies sameness because knowledge sameness is simulation extractability without the oracle, basically. Snarks are also required to be used to sync, and this means that the proofs sizes are small, and the amount of time it takes to verify them is small. Signatures of knowledge should have exactly the same properties as simulation extractable snarks. Only this time, there is a message involved. And we show that by working the message into the instance, you can generate a signature of knowledge from a simulation extractable snark and a hash function. They need to be correct, they need to be zero knowledge, they need to be sound, they need to be simulation extractable. Square arithmetic programmes are going to be the MP language that we're going to be working over. So in our scheme, the proof is trying to show that they know a satisfying assignment of the values of wires in a known arithmetic circuit, and this arithmetic circuit will be an encoding of some MP language. The instance is just going to be some of the wire values that will be revealed, the witness is the remaining values of the wires. Our prever is going to commit to the values of the wires. And from these commitments, they will show that the output wires are consistent with the input wires and that multiplication and addition gates are evaluated correctly. Arithmetic circuits can be described by quadratic arithmetic programmes. These are described by a prime, which is just used to describe a field that the arithmetic circuit is over. L here is the size of the instances as well, but the interesting stuff is the polynomials. We have three sets of degree n-1 polynomials, one set to describe the left input wires, the UIX, one set to describe the right input wires, the VIX, and one to describe the output wires, the WIX. And there is also a degree n-pollinomial T of X. And a satisfying assignment of wires for an arithmetic circuit will always satisfy this equation here. So you have that the sum of the left input polynomials, scaled by the values of the circuits, of the wires, sorry, multiplied by the sum of the right input polynomials, scaled by the values of the wires, is equal to the sum of the output wires, scaled by the values of the wires, modulio this polynomial T of X. In our scheme, we're going to need that the commitment to the left input wires and the right input wires holds the same value, which can be achieved if we are willing to double the size of the circuit. So this time, there is no V of X because the V of X and the U of X polynomials are the same. And rather than a quadratic constraint, we get a squaring constraint onto our construction. Our construction can be seen as a modification of Grott's 2016 scheme. The proof is going to consist of three group elements. One can be seen as a commitment to the left input wires. One can be seen as a commitment to the right input wires. And one can be seen as a commitment to the output wires. Verification consists of checking one pairing equation. And the verifier is going to need to have some group elements due to the alpha, h to the beta, h to the delta 1, h to the delta, where alpha, beta, delta 1 and delta are all secret. There will also be some function in the instance, and this will be a polynomial in some unknown value X. Each of these pairings contributes towards knowledge soundness. And the reason for this is threefold. First, this function, f of phi, which is going to be included in the exponents, cannot be cancelled out by A or by C or by B because of this 1 over delta term that it is multiplied by. And this essentially forces the prover to use their witness, because otherwise they cannot balance that term. Second, the two pairings, e of AB and e of C, h to the delta, ensure that multiplication and addition gates are evaluated correctly. And finally, this term, e of G to the alpha, h to the beta, is used to ensure that the internal wires are consistent with one another. However, Grot's 2016 scheme is not simulation extractable, and in particular there are two generic styles of attack. In both, the adversary will modify the commitment to the right input wires B. It can either do this by exponentiating B by some known value r, and if it does this and it's elbow to also modify the commitment to the left input wires, such that the group elements still satisfy the verification equations. Alternatively, it can multiply B by h to the r delta. Again, r is some known value to the adversary. And this time it is able to adapt the commitment to the output wires, such that the verification is still satisfied. So in our scheme, we essentially are trying to find ways to get around these two styles of attack. The first one, we're going to take advantage of a second verification equation. And by including the second verification equation, we can check that the exponents of A and B are the same. This was not the case in Grot's scheme. However, we are using square arithmetic programs, so the commitments to the left input wires and the commitments to the right input wires are a commitment to the same thing. We also have to bring g to the alpha and h to the beta into the first pairing, and that is to avoid an attack where the adversary would set r equal to minus one. In the second style of attack, we're again going to take advantage of this second verification equation, but we were also extremely careful about what we gave out in the common reference string. And in particular, the common reference string is not allowed to contain the generator g. So another way of seeing that is you choose your generator g to the g dash, let's say, and you would divide it by one over gamma in order to get the secret component. OK, so now let's suppose that our adversary modifies the commitment to the right input wires B by multiplying it by h to the r. Well now, because the exponents of A and B have to be the same, it has to add exactly the same value to the exponent of A. But whether the adversary doesn't actually have this g value here, this means that for the adversary to be able to compute the A that satisfies, the known r value must depend on gamma. But then, with the first pairing, E of A due to the alpha B h to the beta, the C component is going to contain a factor of gamma squared. So provided that the common reference string contains limited information about gamma squared in the exponents, we can show that the adversary will not be able to calculate the required group element C dash such that the verification equations are satisfied. OK, and I now just need to discuss efficiency a little bit. Public parameters and the proven computation is higher than the state of the art. However, other schemes in the literature are not simulation extractable. So this was sort of a cost that we thought that we had to pay, really. However, verification is extremely efficient. There are just two verification equations and the verifier has to multiply things that depend on the instance, but not the witness. Likewise, the proof size is very small. Again, there are just three group elements. And we actually show in the full version of the paper that these two conditions are minimal for simulation extractable snarks. Any pairing-based simulation extractable snark has to have at least two verification equations and at least three group elements. A scheme was implemented in Libsnark by Popov, Keizer and Madars, and I think this came out a couple of days ago, so feel free to have a look at it. I can't take any credit for that. Thank you very much.


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The Ministry of Health recently held a health fair at the Viewford Wellness Centre aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle practices. Nutritionist Fadia Campbell spoke on the purpose of undertaking this health promotion activity. So today we're really encouraging the clients to adopt healthy lifestyle practices by reducing the sodium, the salt intake, from processed foods, from packaged foods, from packaged seasonings. We also have an exhibition right at the back of the room where we are promoting locally grown foods, particularly the seasonings that can be used instead of the processed and packaged ones. Campbell also reiterated the importance of educating people on changing dietary habits to improve on their health. Another motivating factor that had us to plan this activity today is to delay the complications of chronic kidney disease, particularly for persons with diabetes and high blood pressure. We really, really want to delay that process. The cost is exorbitant and some patients, they cannot afford to pay for dialysis sessions. So that is why this was a motivating factor, in addition to of course we fostering and promoting healthy lifestyle practices. Participants of the healthy, Anthony Bellas said he was very pleased to be part of this activity and hopes other citizens can be given the opportunity to learn about healthy lifestyles. So it's fortunate for me to have been at that particular session. I'm very impressed, I'm also very impressed with the display of the fruits and vegetables and the way they were displayed. That's kind of very, very impressive. I think the Ministry of Health should have this session on a continual basis and they might have to consider taking them to the various districts throughout the island. The health fair provided the residents with information on kidney health, medication for kidney disease, life on dialysis and dietary advice and nutrition. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, I am Fynnell Neptune.


What's going on guys goji man recently posted a video why only a vegan diet can heal the gut and literally everything He said in this video was incorrect. So I figured I had to kind of make this Hashtag ask goji man. What's the best diet for healing the gut? All these ex vegans are making me think that I should try a high meat diet to fix my health issues What are your thoughts on this? So one thing I need to say here is people in the raw primal community might be thinking high meat is rotten meat but in this context he actually means just a diet that's high in meat and him saying that without Differentiating this indicates to me that he's not too familiar with the carnivore diet in general Great question. Let's get to it roll the titles Welcome back. It's good to see you all again if you haven't met before then hi I'm goji man. I'm currently finishing a masters in nutrition and qualifying as a nutritionist And next year I'll be studying for a PhD in nutritional science. I do plant-based nutrition videos every other day You know, I could literally say that if I took a nutrition class in my community college to answer your health questions under the hashtag ask goji man So if you have a question for me, then hashtag ask goji man in the comments below or Alternatively, you can send your video questions through to contact at goji man nutrition comm now I think it's fairly obvious to most that your health is massively Dictated by your gut health and your gut health is massively dictated by what you eat and expose your body to in terms of chemicals and toxins I mean, I would agree with that if you're talking about people that actually actively search nutrition and stuff I think most people in the world might agree that where you eat is important for your health But not really the average person would not understand gut health importance I don't think they would and it will also be of no surprise to many of you that your gut bacteria predominantly operate and run on fiber from the Did he copy my hair like his hair? I know his hair has looked similar to mine in the past few videos, but It's getting closer and closer to my hair So your gut bacteria ferment non-digestible substrates or what's called soluble fiber or resistant starch And convert this into short chain fatty acids the main three being acetate, propionate and butyrate So butyrate is the main energy source for colonocytes which are cells in your colon And it's also a substance that prevents gut dysbiosis And gut dysbiosis simply means too much bad bacteria and not enough good bacteria And I'll explain the importance of this later in the video Now the two other main short chain fatty acids produced by the fiber that you eat are propionate That is moved to the liver to help with things like regulating satiety And also acetate which is a fuel source for other essential bacteria in the gut And it also plays an essential role in lipogenesis which essentially means the formation of fat Now you can obviously get both good and bad bacteria in the gut And you can think of good bacteria as anti-inflammatory and dysbiosis or bad bacteria as inflammatory in the gut So if you want great health then obviously you need to start with no inflammation in the gut So it can heal and operate optimally So we know that the gut bacteria feed on fiber Which is really important for creating those short chain fatty acids for regulating hunger for boosting your immunity And also in the creation of your neurotransmitters and all of that other good stuff So he pretty much summarized that these short chain fatty acids that are Fermented by gut bacteria because of fiber are the reason we're healthy, but the best source of those fatty acids is actually meat So I don't understand why he's using that argument. That's kind of contradictory to his point Okay. Okay. I really don't I can't find out how much butyrate is in butter So I can't actually find out how much butyrate is in butter versus plant foods, but The whole reason he's contradicting himself here is because The best source of butyrate and these other short chain fatty acids is meat and animal foods And he's saying that those are the main important thing in gut health. So I should kind of stop this video here But one thing I should also mention is gorillas can turn These fats and they can ferment One thing I should also mention is that gorillas So I can't find out how much butyrate is actually in butter versus how much your gut ferments from x amount of food But what I can't say is the short chain fatty acids and especially butyrate, which he's saying there's It's very important for gut health in general. The best source of these is animal foods Meat and fat. So he's kind of contradicting himself here And not only that even though the humans can turn Fiber into short chain fatty acids through gut fermentation. They can't turn MCT as well as the longer chain fatty acids From fiber They can't make that gorillas can and a lot of other ruminant animals can but humans don't have that ability So I think that's something worth mentioning here that although we can get Optimal amounts of short chain fatty acids or maybe not optimal But although we can get short chain fatty acids from fiber We can't get the other ones from fiber and that's very evident in every other animal that subsists on a plant-based diet Now as I've said repeatedly on this channel If you have a lot of bad bacteria, SIBO, candida or other gut problems Then the foods that you're eating won't be broken down properly And the bad bacteria will burrow into your gut lining creating holes and allow undigested food particles and toxins into your bloodstream And the resultant information in the gut will be compounded by compounds such as oxalate Solicylates and histamines etc that will cause all manner of issues and health problems And remember that these gut issues are a result of antibiotic use poor diet, pesticides and even stress So it's not that the food is necessarily a problem It's that your body doesn't have the right tools to break down everything correctly now very soon on this channel I will take people in with these gut and health problems do the testing on them and then reverse their issues So that you can all see this process because when you rebalance your gut flora in the right way When you feed the gut by giving it the nutrients that it needs All of these are the health issues driven by the gut will subside Now on this point if you have guts and digestive issues and other health issues And you want me to do testing on you and help you reverse your health issues Then drop me an email at contact at gojimannutrition.com These consults will start early next year when I have finished my masters And all of these tests will be funded by my patreon account Which I will link in the description below and just to state again The patreon account has been set up so I can take five people a month test their gut health, etc And then help them reverse their health issues. I will receive no money whatsoever from this account So if you want to support this channel and these people in getting their health back then click on the link below Now as per the title of this video, let me explain why the vegan diet is the only diet capable of fixing the underlying gut issues And what happens in the gut when you try and fix these issues by going high meat or meat only in your diet So let's start with the meat issue So if you have gut issues like vegetable please and many of those ex vegans If you do go carnivore or high meats with only minimal fiber This is what will happen at first you will probably get a massive reduction in your symptoms You will initially feel great and then after a period of time your gut flora will start being dominated by species like bilophilia So bilophilia has only been studied in rats and rodents So that's not really relevant in the context of this discussion and Honestly, there's not too much information out there on bilophilia So for him to make a statement saying that bilophilia is the main negative reason Of a carnivore diet. It has no merit to it Which is highly inflammatory and as a result other species and strains like laxopacillus won't be prevalent enough in the guts To properly regulate things like histamine So then after a period of time your body will then start reacting to the meat as your body won't be breaking it down correctly And then you are really in trouble because you will have no safe foods to eat And you will react to everything that you eat So now you are in a situation where you have lots of inflammatory bacteria in your gut You are eating high amounts of meat and fat And then the bacteria you do have in your gut are taking nutrients from the meat, dairy and eggs such as choline and Carnotene and converting this into inflammatory compounds such as ammonia and trimethylamine oxide or tmao So you can't say that tmao is Inflammatory because there's a red herring where Fish is the highest food in tmao, but when fish is consumed these inflammatory problems are not seen So tmao is out and in regards to what did he say? The ammonia. Ammonia is produced by just fermentation of amino acids Ammonia is a product of any digestion whether you're a vegan or a carnivore and even if it's higher in carnivores It's it's a process that's regulated by the liver and the kidneys your body is meant to produce urea and excrete it And if you want to avoid cancer heart disease and all of those other nasties then ammonia and tmao Are not things that you want in your body and any great amount Now if you've gone high meat or carnivore because of health and digestive issues on a vegan diet And you don't believe what i am saying take a lipochelin 2 test and measure the amount of inflammation in your gut So people like vegetable police get a massive reduction in their symptoms And then the gut flora changes to the inflammatory species Then the inflammation really starts skyrocketing and then you start struggling with histamines, etc So the whole problem I have here is that he's basing these very blanket statements off of insignificant findings And not only that he's incorrect on a lot of things he's saying that Histamines are an issue and the only reason he's probably saying histamines are an issue is because I probably told him about them inadvertently through my video on histamines a couple of videos ago and histamine intolerance has to do A lot with gut health in general and some people are very sensitive to histamines and more often than not histamines come up on Non carnivore diets more so than carnivore diets So as with vegetable police you will start getting skin issues and like some other well known carnivore diases You will start developing histamine type issues So check out my histamine video if you guys haven't because that's a very interesting topic and a very complex topic that he's kind of just lumping into a 30 second summary One thing I do find funny that was he keeps saying the word high meat diet Ironically In the context of the primal diet the rotten meat is called high meat And using that would actually probably heal the gut for a lot of people a lot of people on the royal primal diet Talk about the health benefits of eating rotten meat And he's like saying it every like few few minutes Then the issues will simply get worse and worse over time Now the only way you can heal the gut properly is to get rid of the bad bacteria heal the gut Feed the gut the right nutrients so fiber So they can produce those essential short chain of fatty acids So the inflammation comes down and your immune system starts firing properly Or you could eat butter which has probably multiple amounts of those short chain fatty acids wouldn't that reduce inflammation more I promise you all that these carnivore diases etc Who had gut and health issues on a vegan diet? Well, this was simply caused by bad bacteria and SIBO etc And all of these people have gone from diet to diet to diet it's getting worse and worse and worse And then they find the carnivore diet that almost immediately halts their symptoms So then they run to social media screaming that the vegan diet ruined their health and the carnivore diet is the savior But I promise you this give it six months and watch how many of those ex-veganers and carnivore diases start running into worse health problems And the reason for this is that they never fix the underlying gut issues They are simply managing their symptoms temporary with diet. So that's the end of today's video I hope you all enjoyed as always if you have a question for me then hashtag us go to matt in the All right, so How do you guys like my makeup today, huh?  It's good um So it takes so six years is a short period of time on a carnivore diet for me to get various histamine And I've had histamine problems in the past too. I just didn't realize them but histamine intolerance is in a fairly small percentage of the population in general and it's not something we really see a lot On a carnivore diet and that's also has to do with just how old our meat is now and how we're not a lot in especially in america Our meat is very very very aged and old in comparison to some other places So I guess overall to sum this up You know, he contradicted himself saying that these short chain fatty acids are so good for you yet The best source of them is animal foods. He's talking about tmao and ammonia when those are Well tmao is a red herring and ammonia doesn't matter in the context of Human metabolic function like it's a result of any digest in regardless of whether you're a carnivore or not He just you know contradicting himself and then he Brought up histamines, but I don't think he really understands histamines or histamine intolerance And how that's actually an issue related to your gut not producing enough of an enzyme it's not actually to do with the histamines and the food or you know, it's It doesn't matter whether or not you're a carnivore or a vegan if you have a histamine intolerance You can't consume his high histamine foods or high histamine stimulating food. So hopefully this was pretty clear for you guys I just thought this was glaringly misleading as a video


We hit a milestone today on the channel. A milestone that has been several years in the making, as a matter of fact. And I'm actually very excited about this. Every day, every hour, every minute that went by for the last two or three days, I'm sitting there hitting refresh on YouTube, waiting for the numbers to climb. And I can thankfully say with the utmost confidence that the channel has hit and surpassed 70,000 subscribers. Let me just give myself a quick, quick congratulatory, just take it from all angles. That's what she said.  The channel was essentially dead a year and a half, two years back. Basically, it was one step away from being shot in the head and thrown in the dirt. By me, I was gonna start over. I was like, this is the end game. There's no coming back from this. I lost subscribers every single time I uploaded videos. And the reason for that was simple. I wasn't consistent. So if I could just pull up my, I guess I don't have a chair nearby where I can give you a little bit of a sermon or a lecture of sorts or a TED Talk, are those still a thing? Let me tell you how to ruin a channel and then how to bring it back from the brink. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes to be reborn anew. The first thing you wanna do to really ruin a channel is have a solid ass idea, have it do very well and then completely abandon it. For me, that was movie feuds. There are movie feuds episodes on this channel and people have no idea what it is because I've cultivated a whole bunch of new subs over the years and that's great. Movie feuds I've done a couple of times over the last couple of years, but not much because it's all but dead as well. YouTube doesn't like movie feuds. They don't push them out. They don't know how to get them in the algorithm. It's a whole mess. And I think people maybe are just sick of the versus shtick. But 10 or 11 years ago, when I came out with it on the platform, it was fresh and original and no one else was doing it in the movie space at least. So Spider-Man versus the amazing Spider-Man, Frozen versus Tangled, Ninja Turtles versus the Michael Bay produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These videos all have at least half a million if not multiple millions of views. Nothing I put out today can come even close to touching those levels of views again. And that's okay. I've made my peace with that. It's a different world. There's so much content now hitting those numbers on even the biggest of YouTube channels is nay impossible. But it was disheartening for a long time to see those numbers start to fall. And the reason they did is because I took my eye off the prize.   But for 99% of the people out there, that's very bad practice. If I had stuck with movie feuds and just taken that all the way to glory, this channel would have blown up, especially if I would have kept building it and modifying it and keeping up with the times as far as the video quality, the audio quality goes. It would have been great. And I pushed them out once or twice a week. But what I did instead is I foolishly thought I was creative and needed to share that creativity with the world. So I started coming out with non-related movie content like Adam Rantz or Car Side Reviews or Movie Boss or The Cringe or Nerds and Players or all these skits and different personas. And what happened was I confused the branding. I confused the audience I had and I really confused new people coming in. And doing that year after year at the time seemed like an okay idea. Okay, I'm pulling in people that like this, but then I upload something completely different and they hate that. So I turned them away. I put people in and then I push them out. It's not a good system.  It still is last priority, but thankfully my life is at a place where I can comfortably manage everything. That could change tomorrow. We just have to roll with the dice. Roll with what we're given, right? But it was at a point where I was only putting out one or two videos a week. I'm sorry. One or two videos a month. And when I would put them out, I would see 10 to 20 subs just go away instantly. And I had to sit back and think from a viewer standpoint, which this is ridiculous, that it's taken me nine, 10 years to understand what people have grasped from day one, that people sub for one type of content. Full stop. You might be lucky and have a couple of things that people like. There will always be the core that watches everything. They get it. They like it all. But again, it's a huge swath of people just want that one thing. I do that. I sub to some channels. I don't watch a lot of YouTube, but when I sub to something, it's for one piece of content, one show type. Like, oh, I love this show. Not so big on all these other ones, but when he puts about this thing, I'll watch it. And so yeah, I alienated everyone. I pushed a lot of people away. That's what you don't do on a YouTube channel. So if you wanna start one, take it from me. Don't do the things that I've been doing this whole time. Now let's back up just a year or so back. I promise I'm almost done with this. I was at around 50-some-thousand subscribers when the channel was basically dead on arrival every time I uploaded. I was losing subs.  Movie Feuds takes too long, it's gone. The cringe, people love it, but they don't understand it a lot of times, it's gone. Movie Boss takes too long, it's gone. The things that I loved, I had to let go. Doesn't mean they can't come back later. If I ever hit a huge amount of people and I can experiment and there's funding and whatnot. But for the time being, I had to say, what can I do in a quick and efficient manner that keeps the things about me intact that gives people a reason to come back to this channel and watch? And for me, it was the comedy, it was the honesty, and it was just the consistency. And that was it.  And so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do movie, content, almost daily if possible, at least four to five times a week.  Whether YouTube likes it or not, they're gonna be seeing my mug wherever I can be. Oh, there's a new Jeremy John's review. Look who's underneath, it's old Adam Bear. He's back, baby. He's reviewing the same movie. And all it takes is a couple of people to click. The next thing you know, those subs are coming up again. And they know that the next video I put out is gonna be about movies.  So that's how I have managed to go from the 55, 56,000 a year ago to now 70,000. We have a 15 to 20,000 increase in just two years. For me, that is fantastic. That is massive. It's a big achievement. My goal is 100,000 by the end of the year. Do I think I'll hit it? I'm gonna lie to myself and say, yeah, I'm gonna convince myself that yes, I can. And I'll get there because of you guys. 11 years, and I got to 70,000. And now I know I can get to 100,000.  And I can say it was worth it. It was worth it, damn it. So yeah, just some advice for you, how to build up and how to stay motivated and keep going. There were several other YouTube channels a couple years back. I won't name them, but I love the guys. One of them stopped altogether. He couldn't do it anymore. He wasn't making money like he used to be. Was a full-time job for a very long time, but it just wasn't there anymore. The money wasn't there. Another one, they actually had more subs than I did. They hit 100,000 subs, but their views were less than mine. A big thing that happened on YouTube years back was they started flagging a lot of stuff. And if you had vulgar dialogue, if you're swearing a lot, or if there was any shock and awe in your videos, it was either demonetized or it was not showing up regularly in the feeds. You're almost blacklisted in a kind of, to a degree. And so a lot of people either bailed or they started over brand new. Another channel said, we're starting over, our channel is dead.  You're going to go from 100,000 subs to zero? You're gonna retain maybe 10% of those. And maybe that's the 10% they wanted because they thought that that would be more true and honest to themselves. And of course, yes, I have 70,000. I don't have 70,000 people watching these videos. I'm lucky if I average four to 7,000 on a good week each video. So no, I'm not getting 70,000 views. But it's just the fact that over the course of time, at one point, these were real subs. These were real people that I hit at some point and connected with. And it's just a good feeling to know that there's still opportunity to grow on this platform. And we're seeing it. We're seeing it in real time. I wanna thank you guys. I wanna thank all the Patreon supporters, YouTube join supporters, people that have been active in chats and at the live streams that have been doing. It's been a lot of fun. It's been a little bit stressful. I don't like doing live streams.  And I don't be an edit like, I'm gonna say something inappropriate. I mean edit because I make mistakes. And I like to fix the mistakes. That's all. I just wanted to say thank you very much. 70,000 subs. We're gonna go to 100,000 this year. We're gonna get there somehow. Whatever I have, whatever it takes.