In 2012 a huge movie hit the big screen. It was an event that brought all walks of life out to the theaters to see their favorite superheroes on the big screen. A movie that was universally celebrated and would go on to spawn tons of more films in this universe for over a decade and counting. I'm of course referring to Marvel's The Avengers. Today, however, we're not talking about that. We're talking about the Justice League. Specifically, the Justice League. A movie that should have hit the same bar, nay, exceeded The Avengers. But due to its rushed nature, a director's shake-up, and an insane amount of rewrites and reshoots, this movie ended up being a glorified disaster. Let's roast this hog. The producer on today's video is YouTube supporter Master Sargent. He's a Mithril member, which means he has the opportunity to select a roast for me to do, and I will in fact do it. There's a beautiful list I put together with 70, 80, 100. I don't even know how many at this point. Movies on there for you to peruse. And Master Sargent shows wisely. Let's begin. The film opens with footage of a child's phone. I don't know what kind of phone that is, where the overlay icons disappear after a couple seconds. Usually the record button stays active. That's wild. Wild UI going on here. Man of Steel is perfectly framed up, looking good as always. Henry Cavill is just a specimen of a man.  What is happening with his mouth? I know it only seems like 80 years ago, since this film came out, but Henry Cavill was actually pulling double duty. He was doing reshoots for this, and he was also working on one of the Mission Impossible films and had a thick stash for that. It was in his contract that he couldn't remove it. That's where the animators come in. That's where the VFX department comes in. And I think the final product speaks for itself. He flashes that Kodak smile, and then I remember he actually died in Batman v Superman. So I guess this was supposed to be a touching moment, since he didn't really have any of those in the last movie. He never really was a beacon of hope or freedom or justice or whatever the hell Superman was supposed to be initially. He spent most of those movies smashing through buildings and punching bad guys, and less about like saving cats out of trees. And you know, being that inspirational happy go lucky superhero a lot of us are familiar with. So they had to find a way to kind of rush that in now to say, look, yeah, he actually was well loved by people. They didn't hate him. Now we turn to Gotham City, where we see Batman stocking his prey. He uses the dude from Fight Club as bait so he can attract a bug alien. As one does. After a brief fight on a soundstage, I mean a rooftop, the dark knight nets the creature who explodes on impact, releasing a bulk of gack on the wall. The mutagen now spackled to the wall also contains three box symbols. For some reason. I hope when I die, my blood leaves the image of a middle finger.  Jeremy Irons tells Batflick, it's time to assemble the Avengers, because Batman's useless now in the rest of this film. The dark knight does a couple cool jumps across the rooftop like the floor is lava, and then he inevitably falls to his death, I hope. That's not what happens. Let's keep going. We get a montage of sad stuff accompanied by a Nora Jones-esque version of Everybody Knows. The world has gone to shambles since Superman died. Crime is up.  And the bad guys are getting more aggressive. And here's some of them now, as we transition to a robbery in progress. Without Superman around, there's no one to stop them. Or is there? I guess the dipshits forgot that there's still a strong female lead on the scene. And quite frankly, it's about crime. And how she's gonna stop it. That's right. Wonder Woman's back, baby. In all her short skirt crime fighting glory. Now, a thousand apologies, but I can't be certain who's the one behind the camera on some of this because I know a lot of this is Snyder footage repurposed, some of it's weed and reshoots. But one of these gentlemen has to be praised, has to get credit for the constant objectifying of Gal Gadot. The upskirts in this film are just chef's kiss. Very well done. Look at this. It's basically a teenager peering up through the bleachers during cheerleader tryouts. She does some cool action stuff, uses those bracelets of submission to put these guys in submission. I don't think she uses those even one time in Wonder Woman 84. In fact, in that film, she forgets she even has weapons at all. But I already roasted that. And if you haven't, please subscribe to the channel, Adam Does Movies. There's a new roast. I try to put them out every single week. So it just behooves you to stick around. And then you can check that one out. Anyway, now on the other side of the world, Bruce Wayne is looking for a merman. He puts up $20,000 to the poor person who can point the way to the mysterious man who comes out during King's Tide.  I don't want to be that guy, but this is a pretty poor small village in the middle of nowhere and they're reliant on a mystical person from the water to bring them food once in a while during this King Tide thing, this whole ordeal. Maybe multi-billionaire Bruce Wayne could cut him a check regardless. Just throwing that out there is an option. Also, I looked up King Tide off-camera. It just means the wave is at its highest foundation. It's largest form. It's peak.  These two knuckleheads exchange words. And then he steps into a completely different movie.  The green screen, the lighting is way off. This looks terribly rushed. Aquaman swims away after rejecting Bruce Wayne's pleas for help. Side note, because there's a lot of reshoots, you can noticeably see Ben Affleck's weight shifting throughout this flick. It's quite impressive. We're now with Ezra Miller, who appears to be checking into prison in real life. Seems on brand. But no, he's actually there to visit his fictitious dad. And it's not Ezra Miller, but Barry Allen. That's the character here. The flash. Side note, and it may just be me here, but the dude behind him looks like Bruce Willis. In this one shot. Just this one shot. Got a Bruce Willis vibe. Barry says hi to his dad. The scene is four seconds long. Now at Starlab.  He's super emo, sporting a hoodie like he's ready to step into a rap battle.  Bottom line, Victor, aka Cyborg? Not thrilled about the situation. In fact, he's pretty pissed. And he can fly. He shows off. He's like, look what I can do, dad. Thanks. Meanwhile, old timey janitor that Victor's dad briefly spoke to earlier in the film, he's in the hallway mopping up and oh, here comes an alien bug. We don't know what happens to Moppy. I'm guessing he died though. The scene is four seconds long.  The box starts to stir for a little bit before a giant alien comes out of nowhere, crashes down in a supervillain pose, and he's pretty imposing himself. These ladies know who he is as one of them mumbles his name. Steppenwolf. He calls the box mother, which in 2023 could mean several different things. There's a good chance the teens today might think he wants to bang this thing. Steppenwolf releases the bug army into the Chamber of Secrets. We have a good old fashioned battle. Wonder Woman's mom, hippopotamus, needs to seal the room. She goes by the hammer brothers who smash beams, sealing Steppenwolf and the other women inside the chamber. Good luck getting out of that. Oh, he got out already. I'm not gonna lie, I dig this.  I'm eating it up. I want more of it. Wolfie gets the box and disappears as Hippogriff yells out that they have to light the fires of a magical chimney so that Wonder Woman can see and do something about it because these ladies refuse to leave their island. Thanks for the help, gals. Thankfully it worked because Diana at that very moment was like touching up a statue she looks over and mumbles, Invasion. We're now treated to coffee with the girls. This is definitely a Joss Whedon scene. That's right, we have Martha. Why'd you say that name? Kent and Amy. I'm better than these films. Why am I in them? Adams. I went to the bathroom really quickly during this, came back and it was over. The scene was four seconds long. Cyborg, Moody as ever, is now looking through a digital scrapbook featuring our superheroes. That's nice. That scene was four seconds long. Diana swings by Bruce Wayne's shop and mentions her long lost love Steve. Shocker. It's now her only character trait. That's fun. They're now having a walk and talk about the mother boxes. Exposition dump time. We get a cool little war sequence featuring some cameos from Green Lanterns and a guy from 300. She explains how these three boxes were given to different races. The hot chicks, the mermaids, and the dipshits. The Amazonians seal it in a room with 24 hour protection. The Atlanteans do something similar, deep underwater with patrols all over the place. The humans? They just bury it.  It's awesome. The scene ends with a camera pan over to Victor who is hooded up behind a tree listening in. Just crack a smile once Eminem. You're supposed to be happy shouting boo-yah, not boo-hoo. Barry Allen opens up his man cave only to find Bruce Wayne sitting in his second favorite chair, his words. And in my own personal headcanon, I'd like to think Bruce Wayne was sitting there for five hours or more. Just plain angry birds in the dark waiting for Barry to return home. Alfred gets on the calm pleading him to come back to the mansion, but Bruce is not having it. He's just sitting there like, no, this is gonna be awesome. He's gonna come in, he's gonna be like, whoa, how did Bruce Wayne get in here? What is going on?  No, he's not out of town, Alfred. Don't lie to me. I know he's coming back. Outside of a terrible joke about brunch, this is actually a fine scene. Cyborg slides into Diana's DMs and sets up a nice little meet and greet. This scene only exists to get Gal Gadot in tight leather pants. No notes. I guess technically, she convinces Victor to join the team, fine. But how does this independent, strong, beautiful, intelligent, individual woman get him to join the cause? Well, by crying, of course, about Steve Trevor again. Works every time. She knew Steve for like an extended weekend. I cannot get over how this is her only character trait now. How embarrassing for her. By the way, this scene was four seconds long. Under the sea, Jason Momoa and Amber heard fight Steppenwolf. There's no setup to this. There's no talking at all. The scene just happens instantly. This movie's hilarious. After a 30-second fight, Steppy grabs the box and he's off to the races. Mira makes an ugly CG bubble and they step inside and once again into a completely different film. This looks so bad. They chat for a bit about unrelated matters like what a healthy relationship looks like or how to win a civil suit in court. Steppenwolf looks to have set up shop inside of a decommissioned Russian nuclear plant. There's a family nearby. They don't seem thrilled with the new neighbor. J.K. Simmons is for some reason in this now. He plays Lieutenant Gordon. I love this guy. I can't wait to see what he brings to the table as far as this character's... And this scene's done. It's over. It was four seconds long.  He turned on the bat blob symbol in the sky. Oscar award winner, J.K. Simmons. Two minutes of screen time, maybe?  Were you guys impressed? It's so funny.  He's just different levels of cringe. He looks at everyone who's clearly more powerful than him.  The flash can run faster than the speed of light. Aquaman has super strength. He can communicate with fishes. And Batman's just this rich old dude. So he's constantly like trying to find ways to flex and peacock. Did you see that jump? Did you see the hop down from the ledge? It was like a good... It was like a good eight feet up. Anyway, at least now we get some time with J.K. Simmons character and I can see why they picked him for... And the scene is done again. It's over. It was four seconds long. Our Justice League awkwardly jumps down into the sewer. This is such a terrible shot. Why? This whole film is really nothing more than a collection of silly jumps. Oh, there's Wonder Woman. Almost full cheek out at this point. I'd like to think that off camera, Joss Whedon is whispering into the ear of the onset seamstress to keep removing inches at a time of Wonder Woman's skirt. So that by the time the movie's fully completed, she's daffy ducking it. Full porky pig. Steppenwolf is now trying to find the location of the brilliantly hidden box underground. So he's grilling some of the locals. One of which is Victor's dad. We have another fight scene, and Wonder Woman gets to square off one on one against Steppenwolf. Batman gets to try out his new toy, the Nightcrawler. And you know what? That's actually a sweet jump. I like how he did that. He tucked the knees up. That's pro level. He, of course, ruins this instantly by saying, I didn't bring a sword. What?  Who brought up swords? Why is that the line he uses? And also, can people even hear him? It's not like there's Bluetooth headsets in their ears. I assume this thing is armored, bulletproof, soundproof. He said that for himself. He said that to make himself feel cool. No one else heard it, and that was a terrible. Lame line to say. On top of that, he doesn't actually do anything with the Nightcrawler. He smashes up a couple levels. I think he fires a little bit of the machine guns, maybe takes out two or three of these bug things. And that's it. That's it. Usually when you say a cool line, in this case it wasn't a cool line, but it was an attempt to be one, you do something cool afterwards. You don't say, like, knock, knock, and then start shooting twice, and then get taken out. You're supposed to be like, surprise motherfuckers. Steppenwolf looks over. They blow up half the bridge.  He launches himself out, starts throwing his batarangs, spear hooks a dude in the chest. How do you like me now? Pulls out his trusty shotgun that Batman's known to have. Nothing of that happens. And now for the most pointless scene in the entire film. The fall. The sword tip. It's all absolutely useless. Flash runs around in circles, quick silver-esque style with a lot more lightning. Tips Wonder Woman's sword back to her. She grabs the sword, and as she's falling, turns and cuts one of these para demons I believe they're called, hits the ground, and immediately has to be saved by flash. Otherwise, that thing is gonna crash down on her, whatever the debris is that's falling. Probably Batman's tank I already forgot, and I took notes on it. So what was the point? To kill one para demon? What was it gonna do anyways? Shoot Wonder Woman with its little P-Gun? Oh, ow. I forgot. I'm impervious to bullets and lasers. Stupid. Oh, and then it gets even better. Flash gets taken out, he trips, breaks his ankle presumably, falls down. Uh-oh, what's gonna happen? Nothing! He gets right back up and saves Wonder Woman two seconds later. There was no point to that at all. There's no tension, there's no stakes. Why? Why? But oh, don't worry. After he saves her, he lands on her chest so we get that comical moment that no one in the world laughed at. Amazing. Thanks for the reshoots, Joss Whedon, you hack. Cyborg does what Batman can't. Gets inside the vehicle, the nightcrawler activates its different missiles and functionality and starts busting up shop. He does get off a couple missiles too, but unfortunately, Steppenwolf, lettered in baseball, catches the thing and then just tosses it against the side of the wall which blows open, revealing a bunch of water and Aquaman who was just there. He was just sitting outside.  We then cut to a shot of Arthur Curry making fun of Bruce Wayne for dressing up as a bat because of course he does, Batman's a complete joke in this. He's a clown show. Now thankfully, we get to spend some more time with this Russian family who's absolutely critical to this film. The girl pulls open the cupboard, grabs some bug spray and that's it. That's the entirety of this clip. It was four seconds long. In the Batcave, the team is finally together and there is still an hour left of this film. I hate myself.  He then comes with the dim-witted idea of resurrecting Superman. His best friend.  They had such a personal bond, such a bromance in BVS for all of seven to 10 seconds. In an attempt to make the audience care even a little about this film, Victor and Barry head out to the grave to dig up Superman's old bones. I sure hope it works. The scene was four seconds long. They prepare for resurrection inside a Kryptonian ship. Cyborg does a bunch of Cyborg stuff to make this thing work but he still needs Flash to set a spark and he has to do this right as the box touches the fluid. I hope this works. The stakes couldn't be lower.  What is this run? No one in the world runs like this. Kaboom! The ship ejaculates a freshly birthed Kryptonian. He lands appropriately next to a broken statue of himself. Broken statue. Broken franchise. He turns to face the team who's all there minus Batman because Batman forgot the bike at home. Diana, sensing danger, does her very best to stop a fight from breaking out and in order to really inspire and convince Superman not to do anything drastic, she yells out in a low tone Cal-L now. I'm honestly surprised it didn't work. With the amount of passion she put into that, the raw energy on display. The performance there could have moved mountains. Hell, it moved me. Cox on the table. I actually like this scene quite a bit. It's fun. It's silly. I like how Flash is doing his run in slow-mo and Cal-L does the eye turn.  I love this scene.   And then he just throws him and we don't even hear him hit the grout. He's just off camera.  And the reason he threw him and I think the reason Batman took so long is because he got on the horn with Amy Adams and convinced her to come calm her man down. Lois Lane comes up and she's like, hey, son's getting real low, big guy. The final nail in the Dark Knight's coffin is this beautiful top-down bird's-eye view shot of him keeled over on the ground like he's in a family guy's skit. Just sitting there, ugh. Oh my God, it's so bad. It's so bad it's good. And just to put a cherry on the top, Bruce forgot to secure the mother box. He just left it behind. He left it behind. Steppenwolf takes it. They just see the portal of him leaving.  I forgot to secure the box. Oh, this is embarrassing. Gets back on his tricycle. Tried to get out of dodge. Needless to say, the team's a bit bummed. Their plan didn't work out in the slightest. They are however determined to win the war with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Whatever it takes, they'll even hire on Joss Whedon, the guy that did the Avengers films. Diana, now we're in a shawl for whatever reason, I guess they needed to have her in another wardrobe. Whedon's like, ah, quickly, what can we do? We gotta sell another toy. Here, throw this shawl on. She does some chiropractic work on Bruce and brace herself. This is gonna be pretty crazy to hear, but she brings up Steve again. Chalky! At the Kent Farm, Lois and Clark are standing in the cornfield. Because that's what normal people do. They don't stand in the front yard. They don't stand in the driveway. They don't go into the house. They take the time to walk a ways into the cornfield with the bugs and the pesticides and all that. This is a normal thing people do. It's relatable. I know when I go to Grand Pappy's house for a picnic, the whole family gathers in the center of the cornfield. We put out the picnic tables and, you know, there's stocks kind of hanging over on the food, but it really feels like home out there. He explains how being back from the dead is itchy and they hug. It's powerful stuff.  Martha comes back just in time for a good old-fashioned corn hug.  Now, to some, this may not be relatable and it may come off a bit... corny. But to me, it works. Apologize for the pun. It's time for one last ride.  Embrace yourself. The rest of this film is presented in ugly-ass retrovision. The color grading is atrocious. It's actually way worse than I recall. I don't know what happened. Batman's in the Batmobile and he's leading the Parademons away from the rest of the crew that can hopefully actually get something accomplished. He knows he's useless, so at least he became bait for the good of the cause. Batman gets on the horn with Alfred and says, they're coming. They're all coming. Maybe just a once-over on the script would have been fine. The bad guys from Killzone 2 start attacking the Batmobile. Thankfully, all the other members aren't near as useless as he is and they come to his aid. So the diversion was kind of kind of pointless, I guess. This ride ain't over yet, my man. It's pandemonium. A lot of fighting going on. A lot of reds and oranges happening. While Cyborg is trying to insert himself into the mother boxes. I heard how it sounded. While this is taking place that super important critical family is trying to escape Ivan Ooze's purple CG blob tentacles. Batman's blaster is out of juice. So he's out of ideas. Thankfully, Superman shows up to save the day. Rendering everyone else in this film absolutely useless. So Batman's not alone. Which is nice. Superman hears civilians in danger, though, so he leaves right away. He's like, boom, I'm here. Hey, Steppenwolf. Wait, I gotta go. And Batman's like, yeah. There goes my best friend. We're best friends. He catches up to the fastest man alive, the Flash, who I guess was running at half speed, up until that point. He had a massive head start on Superman.  After saving pretty much everyone, the man of steel goes back and starts fighting Steppenwolf again. Bailing out the rest of the team members. If the team members weren't around, Superman wouldn't have to do all this juggling of saving people. It'd be way easier if they just died. He, and I guess Cyborg helps, separate the mother boxes. It explodes. And Batman's worried that Superman didn't make it out. He's like, oh, my friend, Clark, Clark. Oh, he's okay. Thank, oh, thank, thank Martha. Oh my God, thank Martha. The celebration, however, is short-lived as Steppenwolf is back, baby. But the parademons smell with the rocks cooking and they take off after their master because he's living in fear now and they feast out that. That's like the one decent callback that Joss Whedon set up in that reshoot at the beginning on the fake rooftop. That's like the one callback that's okay.  And I have to say, this is a bizarre shot of Wonder Woman. Look how happy she is to see this guy get absolutely wrecked, eaten alive. It's the only way she can achieve climax now. These creatures pull him into the Bifrost and back to Asgard. The Justice League winds down, has a nice heroic pose and looks on at the world they saved. Surrounded by CG. And yes, you can stop holding your breath. The Russian family has been saved.  We wind down with Barry's dad being proud of him. Lois writing some lame story. And for some reason, she's narrating the movie now. She didn't open with the narration. Why is she closing it out? She's barely been in this film. Bruce gives Diana a tour of a room that will never be used again in future films.  No one runs like this. And Wonder Woman looks hot. Oh my god, there's Gordon again. This scene lasted four seconds. And we finally end with Superman flying away from this movie. And this franchise. And I have to say, I love how this movie starts with the world in shambles mourning the loss of their savior, their hero, Superman. But we don't get to see them celebrate his return. Why kill him off if you're not even going to do the payoff bringing him back and letting people rejoice and be happy again and see things better.  Just miserable. Well, there you have it. The Justice League. A messy cartoonish waste of time and talent. It's a watchable hot mess that there's no reason to ever watch. These actors and characters are likeable. There's a couple bright spots in the flick. I think all of them are from Zack Snyder. But this should have been an easy W for the franchise. Bringing these awesome characters together characters that were way more popular before the MCU took over. Like Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash. These guys were all way above Iron Man. But then they just got freaking steamrolled. They got embarrassed. It's sad. It's just, it's a shame. Thank you, Master Sgt. Once again for the pick. Have you seen this film? Did you, did you suffer through the two hour flick? Let me know in the comments below. If you're new here, again, I would ask you to subscribe. I would appreciate it. I post movie content each and every week. A lot of it, it's good stuff. 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Don't believe corporate America's labor shortage. This is an unofficial general strike. For the first time in years, workers have enough bargaining leverage to demand better working conditions and higher wages and are refusing to work until they get them. Here's where that leverage comes from. After a year and a half of pandemic, consumers have pent up demand for all sorts of goods and services. But employers are finding it hard to fill positions to meet that demand. The most recent jobs report showed the number of job openings at a record high. The share of people working or looking for work has dropped to a near record low 61.6%. In August, 4.3 million Americans quit their jobs, the highest quit rate since 2000. Now Republicans have been claiming for months that people aren't getting back to work because of federal unemployment benefits. And the government is using your taxpayer dollars, as I said, to incentivize laziness. Rubbish. The number of people working or looking for work dropped in September after the extra benefits ran out on Labor Day. The reluctance of people to work doesn't have anything to do with unemployment benefits.  Some have retired early. Others have found ways to make ends meet other than a job they hate. Many just don't want to return to backbreaking or mind-numbing low-wage jobs. In the wake of so much hardship, illness, and death, people's priorities have shifted. Now the media and most economists measure the economy's success by the number of jobs it creates while ignoring the quality of those jobs. Just look at the media coverage of the September jobs report. The New York Times emphasized weak jobs growth. For CNN, it was, quote, another disappointment. But when I was Secretary of Labor, I met with working people all over the country who complained that their jobs paid too little and had few benefits or were unsafe or required unwieldy hours. Many said their employers treated them badly. With a pandemic, it's even worse. That's why in addition to all the people who aren't returning to work, we're also seeing dozens of organized strikes around the country. 10,000 John Deere workers, 1,400 Kellogg workers, over a thousand Alabama coal miners, and thousands of others. Now to mention the unauthorized strikes and walkouts since the pandemic began, like the mostly black sanitation workers in Pittsburgh or the Amazon workers in Staten Island. In order to lure workers back, employers are now raising wages and offering other benefits and incentives. Average earnings rose 19 cents an hour in September and are up more than a dollar an hour over the last year. But clearly that's not enough to get workers back. Corporate America is trying to frame this as a labor shortage.  Unless these shortages are rectified, this unofficial general strike will continue.


The election of the left-wing slate to Labour's NEC has created mass hysteria about mandatory reselection. But what does mandatory reselection actually mean? It means that every five years Labour members would get to select their candidate for the next election. It's not that revolutionary, but it is a good idea. Here's why. At the moment, new Labour candidates are selected by local members. But once someone becomes an MP, it's incredibly difficult to replace them. That means if they're in a safe seat, they effectively have a job for life. That's never good for democracy. MPs would be more accountable if they knew mandatory reselection was in place. People like Hilary Ben and Angela Riegel would have been much less likely to attempt to coup against the party's elected leader. And John Woodcock certainly wouldn't have got away with this. I will not countenance ever voting to make Jeremy Corbyn, Britain's Prime Minister. And don't listen to anyone who tells you mandatory reselection will favor members over constituents. 2017 showed that Labour members have a much better idea of the public mood than elites in Westminster. Give them power on a local level and MPs will be more, not less, accountable to the voters they need. If Labour is to govern effectively, it needs to be represented by the best and brightest talents in Britain. Many of those will be in Labour's new, vastly expanded membership. Our current system locks in MPs from a period when Labour was a smaller, less vibrant party. Increased democracy would let new talent shine through. As it stands, to spark a contest in a constituency, members need to win what's called a trigger ballot. The current system demands a long drawn out and purely negative campaign. With mandatory reselection, you could fight a positive campaign for a community champion to be your next MP. Some MPs and journalists have said reselection could split the party. This is mistaken. First, it's unlikely that many would get deselected. The incumbency advantage of local networks and name recognitions mean most MPs should win in a fair fight. Finally, if the few that get deselected threaten to stand as independents, Labour shouldn't be too worried. Simon Danchuk tried it last year. He got 1.8% of the vote.


Figure out how to balance paying the bills along with pursuing your creative endeavor is one of the hardest parts of life. The fact is the reason most creators don't get their creative work done is the things they need to do to pay the bills, drain them, and then they have no creative energy left for their creative endeavor. But oftentimes this stems from not scheduling your creative life properly. In this video I'm gonna talk about some lessons I've learned for scheduling my creative life and have helped me so I get my creative work done regularly. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon and this is Muse Formation. The hardest balance in my life is that I have businesses that need me to do work and then I have creative endeavors that need my brain to not be drained or else they don't get done. One of the boundaries I can't get around is that despite my ability to work a 16 hour day recording bands with little resistance, trying to do two hours of writing after a 10 hour day of recording doesn't give me results I'm ever happy with. This realization led me to develop a schedule where I work at my recording studio for as long as possible so I can take days off to write. Since my productivity is uninspired, if I've expended my energy recording for long hours, I had to find a way to make this work so I make progress on writing while still getting paid. So I have to do these long 16 hour days one day and then I work on my writing the next day and then I do some more recording after I'm done writing since I don't need as much creativity for things like mastering. You may have experienced a similar case with your day job and if so you need to figure out ways to engineer your life to balance with paying your bills. Many artists do their creative work by waking up early before work. Others chill out for an hour or two after work and then begin to create. Figuring out a pattern instead of hoping for the best is the way most people find to be creative more often. Personally, it takes me a long time to wake up in the morning. I'm not a morning person. So my best time to work happens from hour four to 14 of being awake each day. This means I do chores, email, and other boring work early in the morning so I can create up my ideal work hours of the day. Analyze when you work best and try to engineer your life around it. Yes, it can be weird to friends that I'm never free on Monday because I try to do that 16 hour day every Monday. So I have Tuesday afternoons to always be creative. The other thing I do is guard my creative time since it's super important to me and also what I need to do to keep things happening in my life. There's a great saying from entrepreneur Ramit Sethi. Show me someone's calendar and I will show you their priorities. One of the most effective ways to get your creative project moving is to make your creative project a higher priority. Merlin Mann talks about that if your creative outlet is the most important priority in your life, your calendar should reflect that. He says, just as when you wouldn't leave your best friend bleeding if they got hit in the face with a hockey puck, your creative life bleeds when you don't prioritize it. If you say your music is the most important thing in the world and you spend five more hours each week playing baseball or video games than you do on your music, that's not factually true. While it may be true in your aspirations, this means you need to change your time delegation. I actually try to track my time roughly and look back and see if it reflects my priorities. I don't get crazy and use software. I just look back at the end of each week when I'm about to go out on Friday night and think about what I did and if it was an inline with what I should be doing each week by looking at how many hours I spent on each thing. It's essential to view your time as a pie chart where there's only a finite amount to give and every time you give more priorities, something else, something else gets time taken away from it. When one commitment takes up more time, another commitment gets less. This means you may need to tweak your calendar to show that your music is indeed what's most important. I try to schedule my entire week on Monday and make sure I've scheduled time that reflects what I need to do. I may have to cut back on social or creative time if my to-do list is behind or I need to do something like taxes. Whereas if I'm behind on my creative projects, I will allocate more time to them during the week and maybe not go out and see friends as much. Oftentimes, creative time only happens if you book it. This is why so many people choose to work with a collaborator. If you don't work with a collaborator, force yourself to get work done with deadlines and commitments like booking a mastering engineer on a certain date for your song or performance where you'll have to play the song. Many artists talk about guarding their idea time and while they book time to execute their ideas like recording sessions or band practices, far too often they don't guard the time it takes to get inspired and create new ideas. It's said that you don't find the time to create. You make the time to create. Without making sure this time isn't interrupted, it will always get eaten up by other circumstances.  Cause really oftentimes the person I need to guard my creative time from the most is myself. I hope this was helpful. Let me know in the comments if there's anything that you didn't see and hear that may be helpful. I'd love to hear from you. 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Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host Rich here on behalf of RichTV Live with our very special guest. It is the CEO of Numinous Wellness, Payton NightQuest. How you doing today, Payton? I'm doing well. Thanks. Thanks for having me. Thank you for joining us. Very excited to have you on the show. Our community is very excited about Numinous Wellness. Many of us are heavily invested in the company and we love what you guys are doing. Numinous Wellness is a mental health and wellness company creating an ecosystem of solutions centered around safe, evidence-based, accessible psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. Can you tell us a bit more about what you do? Yeah, so really the company is split up into two verticals really. Our Numinous Bioscience Division, which is our Health Canada license lab and production facility that has some very extensive licensing, which we can get into later, but really focusing more on the drug itself and all that sort of circulates around that. And then our Numinous Health Division is our clinical network. We have multiple locations across the country in Canada and looking to expand that also south of the border and internationally. And then Numinous R&D is really our division that sort of is the jet fuel that feeds both of those divisions where we do all of our protocol development, clinic SOP development as well as research on these different therapies and medications. Great. And what fueled the company's decision to focus on mental illness? Yeah, really personally led. I had suffered with some severe chronic health issues as well as sort of a conjunction with mental health things that I was struggling with as well and actually got led to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy to try and save my own life a number of years ago and did so. And at the time there was really no corporate interest in the psychedelic therapy space, but a ton of amazing research being done by a lot of leading academic research institutions, which led me to look into this more and more and recognize that there was just a huge gap that was needed in terms of infrastructure to be able to actually house all of this amazing research that was being done and build the infrastructure needed to be able to support that and provide access for people who need it. What differentiates Numinous Wellness from other companies in the space? I see there's an explosion of new companies. What makes you guys unique? Yeah, I think we encourage a lot of the obviously the growth that's happened in the space is encouraging and very much needed. For us, we believe we're in a leadership position, whether it's our amount of expertise that we have in the space, both of our business lines have been operating, we have a clinic network that's been operating now for over 10 years. The lab that we do have has been operating for over 10 years as well, so a huge amount of experience in the space. The Health Canada licensing that I mentioned is really, we believe industry leading in terms of the amount of enablement that Health Canada has allowed us to be able to do in the space and then really getting back to that evidence-based approach that we've taken and that includes partnerships with leading research institutions like MAPS, for example, who I'm sure a lot of people who are watching this probably know of, just huge enablement through that partnership to be able to be an industry leader in that particular realm of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for post-traumatic stress disorder. Now the government of Canada is beginning to change its view on psychedelics, which you touched on. Can you talk a little bit about that and what that means for the company? Yeah, I think you really saw a huge shift in Canada in the summer of last year with a lot of the Section 56 exemptions that started to be enabled with people using psilocybin for end-of-life anxiety. That ball has really just continued to roll. We've been doing some work with Health Canada around the special access drug program, which is a program in Canada that enables Canadians to be able to access drugs or therapies before they finish going through the clinical trial process. Psychedelics previously had been exempt from being able to be included in the special access drug program, and our team actually provided a briefing note to Health Canada in about November of last year stating the request to have psychedelics be able to be applied for the special access drug program. On the backs of that briefing note, Health Canada actually announced in December of last year their intentions to change the special access drug program to include MDMA and psilocybin. So Health Canada has really taken a leadership position around changing drug policy rules to be able to include psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Now there's also been a first-ever psychedelics ETF and it just launched in the last little while and Numinous has been included in the lineup. I think it's one of the bigger holdings. What does this mean for the company and the psychedelic space? Yeah, I think it just continues to validate the psychedelic space. We're very grateful to be able to be involved and to be, as you mentioned, one of the heavier weighted companies in the ETF. It's validating for shareholders. We were one of the first public companies in the psychedelic space and I think still the only public company on the TSX in the psychedelic space as well. The more comfort that shareholders can have, the more exposure that shareholders can have to be able to, as you mentioned, I see it feels like a new company a day that's going public in the space and I think to be able to create discernment for shareholders, which companies are really there to create value versus companies that might be there because this industry is getting a lot of attention and there is a lot of capital being thrown at the space. I think obviously learning a little bit from some of the lessons in the cannabis space, I think investors want to make sure that they're being very educated in terms of what is actually happening and what is moving the needle in the psychedelic space as it is so new still. But also for people looking for this therapy, I think the thing not to be forgotten about is these are therapies that are needed now more than ever. Mental health continues to be a growing issue in our society today, if not probably one of the leading issues in society today and I think the more ores that are paddling all in the same direction here, especially in the early going are extremely important. I think there's been a huge shift growing up. You didn't hear about mental, I'm 43 growing up. I didn't hear about mental illness. Now it's all I hear about. So this is not a want. This is a need and it's a problem that is a growing problem like you said. Now you guys have also launched clinics in Vancouver and Montreal. Can you explain what's going on there? Yeah, so our Vancouver clinic is a clinic that we acquired a couple of years ago when we were still private. It was a clinic that had been operating for five years and really, sort of an integrative mental health clinic. So doing a lot of, as we just mentioned, mental health focus therapies and treatments for people. Ketamine obviously is something that's been getting a lot of attention lately. So we do plan on initiating where the clinic is currently under renovations to be able to hold the MDMA and psilocybin work that we intend on doing this summer. And as well, starting to initiate some of the ketamine work for depression and mood disorder. And then in Montreal, we acquired a group called Mindspace, which is really a Canada leading organization around mental health and mindfulness practices. And they have built a really robust training platform, as well as a ketamine assisted psychotherapy program as well. And as I mentioned, they come with over 10 years of experience building that brand and have multiple locations in Montreal. As well as, you know, with what's gone on with COVID, they've built an extremely strong virtual services platform as well. Very good. Very good. Now you mentioned a little bit about maps. So you've also just recently signed a collaboration agreement with maps. Can you tell us a little bit more about that deal? Yeah, I think the thing to share there more than anything is, that's really, it's not a one page or news release kind of collaboration. That was a collaboration that had taken the better part of a couple years to really develop the amount of paperwork that's on the back end of that collaboration is extremely robust. You know, for us, we see the biggest bottleneck around psychedelic assisted psychotherapy is the trained practitioners to be able to actually carry out the treatment for people. You know, it's great to go and open 100 clinics, but if you don't have the people that can actually do the work, you're just tacking on a lot of burn rate and wasting a lot of resources. So maps really is the reason why psychedelics are where they are today in North America, the amount of work that they've been doing since 1986 with MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder, really paved the way for a lot of other psychedelic research. And they've now got MDMA in FDA phase three clinical trials and MDMA for post-traumatic stress disorder probably will be the first psychedelic to complete the FDA clinical trial process and be legal for people to access that therapy. So our partnership with them is extremely robust all the way through to the training of practitioners. We've recently trained a number of our staff to be trained by maps to be able to provide MDMA assisted psychotherapy. They've agreed to share their protocol with us. So we will be initiating an open label single arm clinical trial for MDMA for PTSD out of our Vancouver location this summer. So, you know, as I mentioned, very robust and it's actually maps. It's the first industry partnership that maps has has ever done. So we're very grateful to be able to to be in that category. That's great. Is there anything else investors should watch out for for new menace in the coming months? Any catalysts? You know, can't can't tip my hat too much, but we made a lot of representations last year. This year is really about growth for us. We've already built an extremely strong platform and infrastructure. So it's really about execution for us. And, you know, we've recently bolstered the balance sheet and filled the till with with quite a lot of capital as well. So very well resourced, very strong plan in place. And so I think over the next couple of months, you're going to see quite a lot of exciting growth in the company. And we're really looking forward to sharing it with everybody. That's great. Payton, we're going to have this shown to our community, which is in over 100 countries worldwide. Lots of investors are going to want to contact you potential partners. We've had other psychedelic companies on here that might want to do an LOI or a joint venture. Who knows? What's the best way for someone who's interested in contacting the company to reach you guys? Yeah, best thing to do is go on our website, newmenace.ca. We've got a few different portals, depending on what you're looking to engage with, whether that's partnership investment. So I encourage everybody to go through there. And we have a newsletter that we put out monthly that is a great way for people to keep up to date with what we're doing. So really suggest people subscribed to the newsletter. We don't hammer people's inboxes and we make sure that it's relevant and topical for people. So really encourage people to subscribe to that as well. Great. Well, thank you for joining us today. Payton, very excited about watching your company evolve and grow. I think you guys are doing great work. Like I said, this is not a want. In my opinion, this is a need. This is a direction that the whole world is going. And newmenace wellness happens to be one of the leaders. So you guys are doing great work. Now, anyone that's watching, remember Rich TV Live is strictly for education, entertainment purposes. Always consult a financial advisor before you invest in any companies that we discuss or talk about here in Rich TV Live.  And you can say from Rich TV Live and they're going to say it's a really good pick. And I agree. I think the company has enormous upside. Like you said, well-capitalized and still very responsible with your share structure. If you guys liked the video, please smash the like button. Comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe. Hit the bell for notifications. So anytime we have any breaking news, you get access to it first. Thank you for joining us today. The CEO of newmenace wellness, Payton NightQuest. Thank you for joining us today, Payton. Thanks for having me. Really appreciate the support. Always a pleasure. Thank you guys for watching and have yourselves a nice day.


Hello and welcome to this webinar from Converas. Today we will speak about deception detection technologies available on the market. Lying is, in a pure physiological sense, an unnatural act. For that reason, there are many technologies available. There have been many attempts to detect deception. We're going to talk about, in this webinar, an overview of lying, some other deception detection methods, traditional methods, up-and-coming methods, and then perhaps the impact of corruption and deception on our companies, organizations, and economies. Doctors Kirchner and Raskin and Hacker postulated that you could detect deception in someone by observing their eyes because lying requires more cognitive effort and an increase in cognitive load is manifested in eye behaviors. Why do we lie and how do we lie? Sometimes we lie to protect others. Sometimes we lie to protect ourselves, to enhance a story, to prevent embarrassment, to benefit someone or, excuse me, we lie to hurt others. There are those who are self-serving liars. There are those who are pathological, who are sometimes very persuasive. The dissociative liar has a departure from reality. And then the compulsive liar, the one who is habitual or chronic. Regardless of the type of liar or the purpose for lying, lying does increase cognitive load and certain deception detection technologies will detect that. There are physiological changes that occur when people lie. If you're familiar with polygraph, you know that there are physiological changes, such as heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, and even skin conductance. If you're familiar with eye detect, you know that there are changes in pupil dilation, eye fixation, cognitive load. If you're a user of CVSA, you know that voice fluctuation tends to be affected by lying. In all of these detection deception technologies, response rate is also affected. So, in essence, all of these things are measurements of emotional arousal. There are certain types of detection deception tests today, those for pre-employment. Typically in the United States, those are used for law enforcement or other federal or state positions. There are periodic examinations, which are done on current employees. And then the event specific, which are common to crime investigations, where there's a specific issue, one issue, and an issue that you want to discuss and discover. We're going to talk about right now seven different deception detection methods, ranging from intuition, interrogation, or observation, personality, or integrity test, polygraph, voice stress, brain scanning, and even ocular motor, which is eye detect. Today's technologies either predict the future to determine if you're going to do something in the future, or to identify the past. Those that identify the past intend to be objective to just get the facts about something that already has occurred. Intuition is a method commonly used by many organizations where you rely on interviewing candidates for positions to determine if they're lying.  That's about as effective as flipping a coin. Now there might be one possible exception, which is if you know someone really, really well, you might have the ability to determine if they're lying. But in most cases, that's not the case, most organizational cases. Things, behaviors such as gaze aversion or touching your body or your face or covering your eyes or mouth while speaking really haven't found to be a reliable indicator of deception. And despite popular belief, there really are no nonverbal deception cues, especially in those who are expecting you to observe them for those cues. So you're back to the accuracy rate of 54%. There are personality tests out there, integrity tests. Personality tests really just try to determine if you are fit to work with a company or with a certain team or with others. Really is there a behavioral fit? Dr. Raskin did a review of this metadata analysis which was conducted in 2012 where they looked at over 100 different studies that looked at the validity and accuracy of integrity tests. So there's been a metadata study of integrity tests. Over 104 I just mentioned. From test publishers, those who have a vested interest in selling their test, and from non publishers. And in those tests, they try to determine if those tests could be used to determine job performance, training performance, whether or not you'll have counterproductive behavior such as substance abuse or theft and even employee turnover. From Dr. Raskin's review of this metadata analysis, really the accuracy rate of integrity tests are not very good. These are the validity estimates for job performance, training performance, counterproductive work behavior where you self-report, where employee records indicate what you've done and in terms of turnover. So integrity tests attempt to predict certain behaviors. Some from substance abuse to theft withdrawal. And they're moderately accurate. And really if employee records are kept, those are probably a better indicator of these counterproductive behaviors. They attempt to predict job performance, training performance, and turnover. But in this metadata study, their performance or accuracy was very poor in that regard. So in reality, integrity tests don't have a very high rate of accuracy for predicting the future. So they have a low predictive value. Self-reporting or attitudes are easily faked.   So these integrity tests really don't directly assess many disqualifying factors. And they're extremely difficult to validate for topics that could be assessed better by other measures or methods. Polygraph is another method which is used commonly today for detecting deception. Many of you know about polygraph. Many of you are polygraph examiners. Polygraph has been around and been used in the US since the 1930s. It's a measure of cognitive load, but more of a measurement of emotional arousal. You know that polygraph measures respiration, pulse, blood pressure, skin conductance. And according to the APA, the American Polygraph Association, when they conducted and published their metadata analysis in 2012, for event-specific questioning across a broad variety of topics, formats, sorry, formats, techniques, and examiners, polygraph can have a very high level of accuracy for event-specific questioning. When you talk about more general tests for pre-employment with multiple issues or periodic tests with multiple issues, the range in accuracy was a bit lower than specific event. Sometimes we've heard stories of the interpersonal interaction between the examiner and the examiner affecting the outcome because of how the examiner treated the examiner or how effective the examiner is in his or her skills or abilities at interpreting data. So there is a level of subjectivity is the point here. And someone who has a liar who's concerned about being believed often will come across as helpful and truthful in an interview simply to impress the interviewer. These are people who are perhaps accustomed to lying and they've practiced. And so sometimes it's difficult to even be able to detect a lie in this person like that, especially if they're trying to control their physiological reactions. And at times an innocent person who is under stress, feeling anxiety will manifest some of these typical lying behaviors simply because of those feelings being stressed. They might fidget, their speech might be slurred, they might not look at you directly, and this is really only related to their discomfort with the situation, not about their behavior. Voice stress analysis is a technology available on the market for a number of years. The basis for the method is that when you lie and you're speaking, your voice box will either tighten or loosen, which will change the sound of your voice. They're looking for small involuntary frequency modulations in the voice when under stress, basically. From the studies that we've seen from Hollyanne and Harnesberger in 2008, the true positive rates for voice stress range from 50 to 65 percent, and the false positive rate was just as high and often higher. In essence, the CVSA system operates according to Hollyanne and Harnesberger, operates at about a chance level. Other sources that drew the same conclusion, simply not just Hollyanne and Harnesberger, but there have been a couple of others from the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health, the National Research Council, etc. Let's talk for a moment about brain scanning, the electroencephalogram. As you can see from the photos, the electroencephalogram requires that electrodes be attached all over the head, that specific equipment be used, that a trained technician be monitoring the person. And it's been found that electroencephalogram measures familiar stimuli, unfamiliar stimuli, and probes on topics of truthfulness. So by measuring familiar stimuli, it creates a positive baseline, like when you see a friend. Unfamiliar stimuli can create a negative baseline when you see a stranger. So brain scanning is looking for these types of changes in brain function. Research has shown that the electroencephalogram can be as effective as 87 percent. The problem is it's very invasive, takes a long time, requires specialized equipment, and a specialized examiner. So it's too costly and very invasive to really be something used at mass production. Also talking about brain scanning or other types of scanning, the MRI, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Device or Equipment, measures real-time, or creates a real-time 3D model of the body. So the MRI method is to create a whole brain map, to looking for pattern vectors trying to predict the cognitive state of the brain while a discussion is being had or an interview is conducted. This requires a radiologist, it requires a multi-million dollar piece of equipment, it can be highly accurate, but it's costly. It might be best, according to the data that we've seen, best for a pool of subjects, not for individuals or a specific case. There really isn't standardization, however, and it is a bit invasive. It is fairly accurate, according to the National Academy of Sciences, but again, costly, requires a radiologist, requires specialized training, may or may not be a good deception technology for mass production today. Then we get into the ocular motor deception detection test, which is what I detect is. Kirchner and Raskin sought for a method of deception, a new method for detecting deception. You know that Kirchner and Raskin developed the computerized polygraph in the early 90s, but they were looking for another way to monitor and check and determine deception based on other physiological things, and in this case, they found by their research and through observation that the eye exhibits involuntary changes when lying because of an increase in cognitive load. In the case of eye detect, an examinee's eyes are scanned, subtle changes are detected in movement, fixation, dilation, blink rate, the infrared camera or the infrared eye tracker shown at the bottom of the screen in the picture here, takes 60 measurements per second of the eye, and there are measurable increases in cognitive load when a person is lying, and that's basically the premise behind eye detect. These results were published in 2012 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied. According to the study that they did that they published and wrote about, this is basically a graph, a line graph of pupil diameter response, basically changes in pupil dilation. On the left you see a graph of guilty subjects, on the right you see a graph of innocent subjects. The red line indicates the change in pupil dilation over time after asking a guilty person, again the line graph on the left, asking a guilty person about their behavior, knowing in a lab study, knowing which people or subjects are guilty, knowing which subjects are innocent. The pupil dilation was increased or higher in guilty subjects asked about the crime they committed. On the right you see that the red line is basically about the same amplitude and shape as the yellow line. The yellow line indicates pupil dilation when asking a subject about crimes that they did not commit. Again in a lab study you know which persons have committed the crime and which haven't. So you can measure, you do have absolute truth in these types of studies. So in essence pupil dilation increases when a person is lying. Some of the challenges with eye detect you must be able to read. It is a standardized test so if you want to customize tests it requires some modification. We do design tests based on cultural and local use of vocabulary based on topics as well and there are a few relevant issues. There are in a typical eye detect test you can have maybe three or four relevant issues. Now it is highly accurate but you have a broader base of questions to be asked. The ocular motor deception test ODT or eye detect as it's commercially called began to be developed in 2002 and has been under development for the last 14 years. There is ongoing development ongoing enhancement. In this case in the case of eye detect various eye characteristics are measured. The camera measures at 60 measurements per second. Responses are recorded, averaged, an algorithm is used to correlate and score the changes in our response and compared to true and false responses to the questions asked and it is has been published to be 85% accurate. It's not intrusive because there are no sensors attached to the subject. The test duration is about 30 to 35 minutes. Tests are scored within about 5 to 10 minutes. This chart was created by Dr. David Raskin. It is an attempt to compare eye detect polygraph, voice stress, brain scanning, behavioral observation, integrity test and linguistic analysis which we didn't talk about today. The green squares indicate a positive characteristic. Yellow indicates kind of a neutral characteristic, red is a negative characteristic and gray means we're not sure. On the left you see some of the characteristics ranging from accuracy, the potential range of application, the cost of the test, the duration of the test, if you can control the settings, how much training is required, if you can automate the test, if the decisions or scoring of the test can be automated, if the test is objective, how much does it cost overall, if you attach sensors, if there are any counter measures that can be applied and if language can be flexible in administering the test. As you can see from this, it's a subjective measurement of course because these are not numbers that we're looking at. We're looking at opinions from Dr. Raskin, but eye detect as you can see has more green squares or rectangles than any other method here based on these characteristics. Why do we need deception detection technologies? Because crime and corruption are rampant in the world. Even the United States finance industry could spend about 10 billion annually to combat money laundering, that's according to City Corp. Employees tend to steal from the employers, 50 billion dollars in the US is stolen by employees. The figure I like here on this chart is that 75% of all employees have stolen at least once from their employer. That's a very stark fact. Who steals the most? Men typically do, and those who have college degrees or high school degrees tend to steal more. The greatest obstacle to economic and social development is corruption and fraud. Corruption costs about 5% of global GDP or gross domestic product. In Russia corruption consumes about 44% of GDP, which is a horrible statistic. What is eye detect? As I mentioned in 2012, a formal peer reviewed study indicate that the technology works, that you can measure deception based on changes in cognitive load, which are manifested in eye behavior. The subject sits in front of a screen answering true and false questions while their eyes are being scanned and measurements are being taken. The data along with the true and false responses are uploaded to the cloud after being encrypted on a hard drive and then uploaded to the cloud, and proprietary algorithms in that web server will take all of those measurements, which are about 90,000 measurements in a 30 minute period along with the true and false responses and a score is produced. This webinar today was intended to give you a basic overview of a variety of different deception detection technologies on the market. This is intended to help you become more of an expert in a variety of deception detection methods so that you can talk more openly and freely about


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