Hey, what's happening sad guru? I'm sky Ryan was my brother I want to know about the transformation people go through when they come to your center Because I saw a huge change in him when he came back What is this all about? Is it a fact that in the evolutionary process of Life upon this planet you okay with evolution Okay, because I come from Tennessee, so I'm asking you in the evolutionary process Is it true that we as human beings we are on top of the pile Of all the creatures We are supposed to be the peak Maybe there's something more to be done, but right now we are on the top but is it also true that That whenever human beings utter the word human They're always talking in terms of oh, I'm only human The word human is always related to the limitations of being human Very few people ever have used this word. I'm human Referring to the immensity of being human Always the limitations of being human so Somewhere we miss the fundamental point The point is this Is it true that every other creature on this planet a Worm an insect a bird an animal With a millionth of our brain They're conducting their life process quite well Hello, okay When I say life process We are born. They are born just like that We grow up they grow up We make a living they make a living we may reproduce their reproduce We do all this with enormous fuss They simply do it Yes or no Every simple thing we're doing it enormous fuss. They are simply doing it Different various processes of life and death. They're doing it without fuss. We are doing everything with great fuss Is this a sign of highest level of intelligence? I'm asking We are supposed to be the most intelligent and there is no question that we have the most evolved Neurological process on the planet. Yes We have the most evolved neurological system that we must be able to sense and feel and experience and perceive Understand and express things in the highest possible way But know the creature on the planet is struggling like the human creature right now This is simply because You have been given a super super computer. Do you agree with me that this is the most sophisticated gadget on the planet? Not the iPhone the eye But now the question is have you read the user's manual That's all people have not read the user's manual for the most complex machine on the planet and Somehow blundering through somehow trying to use it Everything is a problem. Tell me one thing that human beings are not suffering If they're poor they suffer their poverty you make them rich they suffer the taxes If they're not educated they suffer that put them to school lot of suffering Not married they suffer that get them married. I didn't say anything.  No, you will suffer that So tell me one thing that we are not suffering now people we philosophies life is suffering No, no life is not suffering Nor is it a joy. It's simply there. It's a phenomena if you ride it It feels fantastic. If you're crushed by it. It feels terrible So are you riding the wave of life or are you being crushed by it? That's all the question is So for this to happen, what is it that human beings are suffering? I'm sorry. What's your name?  Hello What happens within you should it happen not happen the way you want it Can you see me sky? Where am I tell me use one hand and point out where I am.  You know the whole story, right? Where do you see me right now? within yourself Where do you hear me right now? within yourself Where have you seen the whole world?  So if what happens within you is not happening your way Fundamentally, we have not figured what is the nature of our life without understanding Without understanding even the fundamental of our existence. We are trying to live Is it true? I'm asking you once again. Is it true both pain and pleasure originates from within you? There may be a stimulus from outside, but all human experience comes from within you, isn't it? What's coming from within you must happen your way. Otherwise you just an out of control situation So my entire work and the fundamental nature of what's offered is called inner engineering That is we have engineered the world in so many ways This has brought us enormous levels of comfort and convenience Do you agree with me that we are the most comfortable Generation enjoying most incredible conveniences that no generation could ever dream of Yes or no What even royalty did not have a hundred years ago today ordinary citizens are enjoying it, isn't it? What is the chariot that you drive how many horses? Yeah I'm saying even emperors could not do 400 horses. All right So All this is going waste on humanity simply because Their experience of life is not enhanced Because your well-being will never come from outside From outside you can create comfort. You can create convenience, but you cannot create well-being Well-being can only happen from within you because human experience is created from within Doesn't matter. What is the nature of your experience? Whatever it is unpleasant or pleasant Both are being made from within you But if you were in charge of yourself, would you create pleasantness for yourself or unpleasantness for yourself? Highest level of pleasant if there was a choice between misery and blissfulness. What would you choose for yourself? Please you must make a choice. I'm going to bless you right now Misery of blissfulness Yeah, at least for yourself. It's definitely highest level of pleasantness What do you want for your neighbor may be debatable depending upon what they did today? But what you want for yourself is hundred percent clear, isn't it? Why such a simple thing is not happening? simply because this Cerebral activity in the process of evolution. It is new It is a new happening this this big brain when I say new just a few million years But in the evolutionary scale it is new So we have an intelligence for which we don't have a stable enough platform You don't need anybody to torture you, isn't it? Hello, you're on self-help You don't need any outside help you can sit in one place by yourself and make a hell out of it Because your own intelligence has turned against you you can call it by many exotic names You can call it misery. You can call it depression.  I'm asking you Do you have any proof that you are not already in heaven and messing it up? Do you have any proof? No, maybe you're already in heaven and making a mess out of it Because if you have an out-of-control mind no matter where you're taken you will make a mess out of it, isn't it? Just imagine hundred years ago how people lived in this same place and How you're living is there any damn thing to complain about in comparison? Hello Oh, but we are whining like crazy. We are whining like nobody else on the planet So the problem is not of the outside outside situations are there Some situations will go the way we want some will not go. That's how it is Even if you're just two people in the family does everything happen just the way you want it No, that can never happen Outside will never happen a hundred percent the way you want it. We can manage it to some extent But at least what happens within you must happen the way you want it if right now what happened within you was Happening the way you wanted. Would you keep yourself at the highest level of pleasantness or no? That's all that happened to him Even though death confronted it didn't matter because what's happening within you is happening the way you want it No magic just engineering


What's up everybody, Jason here for jatsby'scasebreaks.com. We just sold out a random number block randomizer that helps sell out a macular picker team number six baseball. This features the White Sox, Phillies, Blue Jays, Nationals, and Rockies. So again, you get a piece of all of these teams for a fraction of the price of what you would have paid for all of them. And it's a random number block. So we go by first number on the left side of the serial number dash. So you get a random number from Zeratunar. And there is your examples right there. So if you get a randomized block three, you'll get any card with three being the first number nice of the dash on the left side. So for example, two for three out of two, 99 goes to spot three, 13 out of 99, three out of 25, et cetera, et cetera. Number three block gets that. All redemption cards automatically go to spot zero. Even if you know it's a one-on-one in the checklist, it still goes to spot zero. And if there are any non-numbered cards of any of these teams in the break, it'll be randomized to the group of customers in this randomizer. So here you go. So here's the dice roller. Here's the customer names. Nicholas down to TJ. And again, this one is the Chicago White Sox one. Roll it. Three out of three, six times. One, two, three, four, five, six. Mark. Donner Bryant. One, two, three, four, five, six. All right, so Mark, you have block seven. Shane with eight, Roy with three, TJ spot five. Shane with two, Nicholas with nine. Steve Wright, you have one, any and all one-on-ones, as well as four. Logan, any redemptions will be yours with spot zero. And then Brian Frank with six. So there you go, guys. So I gotta do two more R&B randomizers before we do the break. But stick around, guys, we'll be coming up next.


Welcome to Toffy TV. Marco Silva has been appointed the new manager of Everton Football Club. It's happening Baz. He's in the door. Are you excited? I'm trying to not get too excited about anything this summer. Yeah, whatever. No, I just think, I think everything, I think I'm more excited about the process of it and how we build that all in rather than individual managers, you know what I mean? I don't think we were talking, you know, about the standard of candidate that is around anyway and there's not, there's not that many managers you would comment. If you've got something like Diego Simeone, you'd obviously be excited but what I would say is, before we talk about who I am myself is, I think there's two kind of candidates out there at the moment. Or maybe three. I'd say one of them is basically what we've just let go. An older, more experienced, maybe English manager. The second is maybe one that is slightly unattainable from us. So Simeone, you know, Ancelotti, Toshul has already gone to PSJ. Was he a real candidate? I don't know, maybe a year ago maybe. Emery, I don't know again. He seems like someone, well apparently he doesn't speak very good English, but regardless of that, could we have got him? I don't know, I don't know. And then underneath that is the other option. And now this doesn't matter, this doesn't matter what nationality they are. Right, for a start, the next level is managers who are all around their 40s, maybe to mid 40s, in England, in Portugal, in Germany, wherever. And it's hard to say any of those managers are not a risk. Because all of them seem to have positors and all of them have negatives, all of them. And that's where we are at the moment. And one of the notice days by Munich, they're taking a chance on a young manager. Dortmund look like they're taking a chance on, not on a young manager, he's not a young manager, but someone who has not been with a top club such, someone who's built a smaller club. And I think it's all about getting the structure right and building the structure around club. Even Arsenal, look at Arsenal, look at Arsenal. It's all about now seems to be that football clubs want to protect what they've got and they're not willing to risk everything on tried and untested managers. They're willing to give them the job, but what I mean is they're insulating them. They're putting loads of bubble wrap around them. That's right though, isn't it? When you, look at us, look, just look at us over the last few years, we had, you know, when Farad Mashiiri coming, we've had Roberto Martinez, didn't we? And to be fair to Martinez, he never worked with Mashiiri, there was, he was on the dam, he was on the way, but we had to pay him off, we've had Ronald Coomming coming, we've spent a lot of money in a transfer market, we've had to pay him off, we've got Samala Dyson just to do whatever he did, whatever he did, whatever he did, whatever we finished it, we've had to pay him off. So old Eddie, we've had to spend a lot of money just getting rid of people because it hasn't worked yet. I mean, the kind of thing we've ridd Liverpool for, Liverpool playing about six different managers.  And then we've got the partboard, we've done what we've done, but it was sad. We did get the partboard. So, you can understand football clubs thinking, and you know when you look at it, you know that I've always said, I believe a manager should have say on his play is right, but that's all individualistic, isn't it? It's all down to your manager and everything else, so whoever you get in, but you can keep getting managers in paying them a lot of money, giving them a lot of money to spend, and it's not working. And then the next man comes in and goes, eight of these are for me, and you're like, that eight of course is £200 million. Well, I don't want them. You can't keep doing that, so you have to, you have to build an identity and work, try and work within that structure. Now it might change slightly, but then if you get the right kind of player, they can change slightly, whereas I think evidence problem has been, there's been too much of one way and we've had no direction. We've had a fella recently, David Moyes, we all knew what it was, there was no money, very little money, and that wasn't David Moyes' fault, that was the board's fault, but there was very little money and David Moyes knew what he was doing and everyone worked within that and he bought plays, he went to watch some, so he watched less, got 24 times, he thought he bought some things like that, so very, very, because he had to be right, everyone knew, everyone was on board, but us as fans would be frustrated with Moyes sometime, but we all knew what he was trying to do and other restraints. Martin has come in the first season great, then he didn't have any control over, he knew what he wanted to do, he knew in his mind that we wanted to pass the ball and stuff and didn't have the players to do it, all the money to be able to go and buy better quality to do that role and he just forgot about his defendant, Cumin coming with no identity and loads of players just because he thought he would get good players and then all of a sudden he's come in and be moan the fact that he didn't have the players to do what he wanted, but ironically he bought probably out of amongst the top of players at the moment, so we need someone to come in and go, this is the way we play, this is our structure, this is the way we play and then, like we've said before, if Marco Silva doesn't work out then hopefully Marcel Brands has gone, well there's this fella there, I play, he's very similar but he's better and he can just fit in and work with that. But also though I wouldn't, I'm going to be a little bit more positive than that, I'm going to say it's not about just that though, it's not about having your eye on a through line, you know, when that could run and strike through the club just in case something bad happens, I'm going to, it's not in case something bad happens, you protect the club, because as you move forward now and now and now, but the way you've just described it there is it could be seen as slightly in a negative connotation, the way I'm going to throw the positive light on this and say, well you know what, actually it's about saying to a young coach, listen you are young, you are inexperienced, you haven't done this, this, this and this, so we're going to take some of those responsibilities off you and allow you to do what you do and what we've been you know banging the drum for in the last few months is someone to come in and coach the team, give them an identity, get them on the training page, get them on there every day and having time with them and working with them and not being having to worry about all those other things and letting someone else get on with them, but also the person who does that job, who does the other job which is now Marcel Brands, know exactly how to do that job and there's no, do you know what I mean, there's no worry, this fella, this fella, this fella finished his career and immediately became a director of football, he was for the first few months of his career a director of football, so hopefully that he understands the job, so that is brilliant because if he understands the job of being a director of football that's going to help so much more, I'm not going to say that's going to make it, it's brilliant, it's the best in the world, but if he knows how to be a director of what it takes, that makes it the synergy, a lot easier for me, well he's done the three jobs, he's been a player, he's done the director of football, the reason why I was saying about that, because I know that a lot of people are worried about you just get off when you're wanting stuff, so what I was trying to say was, Everton are trying to protect that scenario, trying to protect us to go forward through Marcel Brands, the idea he'd have given Marco Silva the job, he's 41 and he's a young coach, we need a young coach to grow with, now people will level question marks at him and go, we've done this, we've done that, I have myself, Everton put seven goals past service teams in seven months without being great, but in one of those games it should have been Devon Berry, it went off over two in a lot there and the answer could have been more before we turned around and said, the whole game, you'd have to look at the whole picture, he went in a hole, a hole had 14 players when he went in and he'd been gone, he'd been dead and buried, and he got rid of the best player to bring, to free up, to bring other players in, made him a man in the ass, made him a man, well, but he beat man United with, he beat Liverpool, with those, he went down to Arsenal and ultimately he lost, but he had chances, he would win in that chances, so he gave them a chance, now okay, he went down, but I think he got them to the last day of the season, when at Christmas they had no chances so he's done okay, they were great, we've said this time and time again, they were brilliant until we left the last day, and that was it, I watched them at Chelsea, they were magnificent, they went up to Newcastle, remember them beating Newcastle, 3-0 up there, they destroyed them, should have been about nine, fast flow and exciting football people, we're all over them, we're all over them when we first went for them, I know some, not everyone obviously, but a lot of people are going, oh it's great, it'd be great for them. Go through my tweet, there's a tweet I think from September and it actually says, Marco Silva will be a brilliant ever manager one day, not today but one day, there you go, well there you go, so he wanted, I suppose what we have to remember is that he wanted to come here, we were the club that he basically cost them his Wofford job because he wanted to come to us, because ultimately what happened at Wofford and I get him not listening, I'm not trying to go, this fella's going the greatest in the world, but what happened at Wofford? No, no, but it says what happened at Wofford was he basically wanted to leave, made it well known, made it known to his players, actually if rumors have relieved, started asking players if they wanted to come with them as well, apparently allegedly about that, and some players were just like, when he never got the chance, they were just like, listen, if you don't want to be here, we're not going to play for you and I think maybe a few of them down tools at that point. I think, don't get me wrong, I don't think he conducted himself very well, you know, I think, but I suppose yeah, he never did one or the other, I mean if you're going to do it, just resign, you know, and let the club sort it out. Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah, but if you, there is that, yeah, you know what I mean, but he decided, but maybe he was just, you know, playing it. I don't, it's difficult, I suppose it's difficult isn't it, for the players because if you think the man at it then doesn't believe in what's happening, you don't only have, he might not have been a conscious decision. No, but he might not have.   Well, you're pots and pans. You won it by cheating. Yeah, but the point is though, that was one of the best teams in the land. We sound really old now, I know, even before my time is. That's for my time, but I've watched it. But the point is, what's the YouTube two hour film on? Yeah, you've got 44 days because all the players simply wouldn't play for them and they were the best players in the land, the toughest players in the land and all the rest of it. See, that's the remedy, you know what I'm saying? Well, it is. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It gets thrown around. The players don't do this. If the players don't want to play for someone, they won't play for someone. I'm not saying, what I was going to say was, I don't even think it was almost a conscious decision with them. I just think, if you're believing in someone and then the next minute they go, I actually want to go there and I want to go and I want to take him in him, then you start going, he hasn't asked me to go. If that story is true by the way. But not just that. Not just that, you lose focus slightly in the Premier League and the other thing was, with your Wathford fan point, which I didn't know, the other horrendous injury list just after that, he lost the centre of the team. I think he lost about six players who've been playing and doing well. Then he started. But I would also say like, just, I mean, I'm not saying this is true or not, but if you were to take a play like Troy Dini, right, very honest, open, hard work and players made a lot of the talent, the talent he's been given, you know, you want to manage it to believe in you.   Is he that? Which he might not have done anything different. But that's, listen, that's the, that's what happened to him. But listen, he wanted to come to us. Farad Nishiri quite clearly wanted him, offered big money for him, wanted to take him. It did not happen for whatever reason, but that's never gone away. And we've said a few times during the season, well, if you've got a manager, you've tried to pay 15 million quid for sat on the sidelines waiting for you. Why would you go somewhere else? What I would say is on this as well is, if this has always been the plan, right? And he's been in on the plan and Marcel Brands has been on the plan, then I'm absolutely all over this, all over it. Because if that's been the plan since maybe not since day one, but maybe, you know, the boat, you know, they've gone away and everything's settled down because Sam Maladise was there. And then you've got to a point maybe, I don't know, February or March, and they've gone, right, what are we going to do? Brands, maybe Brands has said something or other. If that's been the case and they've already spoke and already, I'm not saying plans have been put in place, but this guy's been watching us. Brands has been watching us, they've been talking. I'm not saying any of these things would have happened and it would be very own evidence if they had happened, but these things do happen and they've happened at other clubs. But Brands has all said he's been in constant sort of evidence? No, no, no, but I'm just some of this fella, right? But I'm just, listen, it might or might not have happened, but if it has happened that way, then I'm all over this because then that way there's a head start, there's a plan, you know, he will know coming in day one who his play is at, he's been fitting the system, who works with the system, what system they want to play. Brands already, if Brands knows that, bang, bang, bang, what he's already got. I've got this player, I've got that player, that that player. If that's the way it's gone, then I'm all over it. He's had 10, apparently 10, four or five jobs now, so he was waiting for us, wasn't he? That's the way it is and therefore he's kind of watched everything, the type of manager. If you listened to Ryan Mason was talking about him, he just said, he's unbelievable, like he's a man manager, he's just everything's like, you know exactly what you're doing, Curtis Davis said he'd walk them through, walk them every day with, and he said in the end, he started thinking, where would Marko put me in this situation during the game? You know, we never once said what would Jack Elker do in this situation. That's what he's got. That's a great, great place. For that kind of attention to detail, I remember the Waffa players coming out when we were facelink with them going, we want them to stay, we want them, we love them, we want them to stay. So if he's a good coach, you want to go with my manager? Every player in this country that has worked with him seems to be all over him. Everything goes down to the manager's detail and that wins your punch. I've seen some comparison because the comparison is, he's another madness, he's another madness, teams don't know how to defend. I don't think he's as good and cow as Marko is, he's a pressing sort of, you know, presses from the front where, don't forget, Marko is his team, he used to just let, yeah, just keep going, just keep going, keep going, oh, we're at the edge of the box. Exactly, that's why Barry was so good because he used to sit on the edge of the box and try and stop things. He wants high pressing, you know, kind of football. And, you know, as I say, Marko's teams were just wide open, he's don't seem to, he's, I'm not, that's what gets thrown on him anyway, all the players are saying that. I've said it, I've said, is he a bit like Roberto, is he a bit gung-ho and defensively and stuff? And you're after luck and go, he plays open football, he does, he can't deny that, but what, we've just had a manager that wouldn't attack, so what do we want? Well, open, I mean, to open football, is it open football? What, a Liverpool? Oh, yeah, a Liverpool open, a Man City open. It's just that you have to make sure you do the other things better than then teams and Liverpool and Man City do that and sort them. Speys are a little bit more defensive than the other two or better at defending than the other two and weird it like that. But they know how to, they attack, they're open, you know what I mean, that's the way it is, and then it's about putting better players in at the back, if you put better players in at the back to shoot, who knows what he can do with it. What I would say about him is you went into a hole, they had 14 players, they weren't very good players without being too disrespectful, they got promoted and had no money, Steve Bruce left on about two days before the scene or whatever and Mike feeling suckered over and they had the first game, I think he had 11 players and they beat Leicester to him, unbelievably the champions, but he scrapped away through, he come in with not very good players and give them a chance by organising them and coaching. Wafford, he went in, he was slightly better players, he bought in a few, made them better. Everton squads miles better than both of them, yet we know there's players that need to go off the board. But it doesn't matter if it's miles better, it's got to be, they've got to be the right players. No, but if you're working with better football, no, but we've fallen into this trap before, but good players don't necessarily mean, don't necessarily fit into a system, they've got to fit into the system. Of course they don't, but the systems, the displays in our team that will fit into the system, who are better than he's had before. That's fine, but we're still going to need, the team's still going to be need to be rebuilt. But you can still, you can have, you can get worse players than but you already got, that will fit the system. But I think someone like Tom Davis will really benefit from him, I think Dominic Alder-Lewan, players like that because I think he's that, according to the players you've worked with him, now I'm doing my show, but according to the players you've worked with him, he's into my new details as you said before, where to go, where to, and I think Davis needs that almost, I think he needs someone to go. What I would say is that, that, if you're a good coach, if you're a good coach, you can take a player that other people might think is, doesn't fit a system and creates something different in them. So he's been a coach since 2010, as I said before, I think it was Estriol in Portugal, he went in there, he was the director of football and then he took over as the manager, got the team promoted, got manager the season, I think he lost three in 24 games, went into the top division season after, I think he finished fifth, went into the Europa League, then he went to Sport and Lisbon, he won them a cup and then he was sacked for not wearing the club suit and if anyone's read up on the Sport and Lisbon owner, you will see that he's not necessarily a reasonable man in a lot of ways, so he's sacked yet for not wearing a club suit and as you do, went to Olympiacos, won the super league in his first game, won them the league, beat Arsenal in the Champions League, I think he went on, I think he won 17 games in a row, I think it was a record in Europe, then he quit that summer for personal reasons, then he went into Hull in the following January, unlucky to not keep them up, then he went to obviously went to Wafford and it was funny because when he went into Wafford, it was about a month into the season and as I said, we were looking great under Ronald Cooman and people were starting to look at him and going have we missed a bout on some money here because I was thinking that myself a few people like, because I remember I was thinking and I know what the people were thinking, these look really good, like with Charleston on the left and he would bought a couple of other players from nowhere, we're buying on like shiny things and he was buying people under the radar and you're looking, these look really, really good, have we missed a bout and then the world started to collide, so as I say, I think it's about, hopefully it's about getting a system in place, that's the most important thing, listen, everyone will be behind them, everyone will give them a chance because that's what we'll do, we'll give them a chance, I just think that we've got to be all of us, all of us, I've got to be a little bit more patient and hope that we're going in the right direction because that's all you can hope for to go in the right direction and that's everyone at the club that's what the club has been, that's what the changes in the last week or so have been have been made to do so that everything's different and as we said last week, I think the big thing that all the people in the media and everything are missing about aladdyses, it's not, it wasn't just aladdyses who got sacked, whilst cut sacked the board got restructured, the whole club is looking to do things slightly different and laying the lessons and let's hope this fella's laying the lessons, you know, and comes in and comes in, because I think we had a discussion all this earlier on three or four months ago when we were talking about silver, I think, and we said just because you get sacked in a job doesn't mean you're bad at the job, you've just got to laying for a job, every manager out there or most of the manager out there will have been sacked at one place or another, it's about realising what you did wrong or did you do something wrong? Ultimately it'll be the players, that's the thing, he can coach all he wants but we need better players as well and I think fans, I think everyone will get behind them and I think it's the case and when we see the type of football we play, that'll be the proof in the pudding, if we play good attack on football, win games, people will be on board with it then and there'll be a lot of bumps in the road as we try to change the way we play and we try to do things and this was the thing with Cumin, we've seen that performance against Spades the first day and we were like this is going to be boss, we're going to play exciting attack and it never really got repeated but I think he does have a philosophy that he sticks to and like you said he's had a lot of time to watch us, hopefully he's had his pad out evaluating players and stuff for a few months, probably for six months and he can come in and get to work straight away with Marcel Brans and start training the club around a little bit and by that I mean I don't necessarily mean we can crack the soft for next season and just mean have an identity, have a good way of playing, make us competitive, make us able to go away to Spades and give them a good go. And also this ultimately the most important thing is make fans happy and make them proud and do you know people laugh at it but do you know all that clock going down to the cup and doing all the you know 2-2 Esbron which they love and all that but it's about getting no, it's about getting no moment where you go, do you know what we're all together in this you know so later on down the road you're doing that after a big game which you've just won, do you know what I mean that's the whole point it's like that's what it's saying, it's saying we're prepared to dig in for these little games so that when we get down the road we're doing it in the big game. But also when the team's struggling everyone's with it still, they're still behind them, you're still going well he's fully into us, you know he's integrated and he's part of it so we're backing even though the team's struggling because every team will struggle at some stage are we right behind them, Cumin left himself wide open to that, that it was no engagement, there was nothing, all of these people didn't like him so there was no engagement, Martin has got it but wasn't able ultimately but he got a lot longer because he did get it. I just am looking forward to like you know November time and it's a little bit cold in the air and he's got like a boss coat on and everyone's happy and everyone's like cool, it's cool, winning a few games and that's all it's about, it's all about going to match and having enjoying going on a match, wanting to watch your team and getting behind them from the first whistle so let's hope that happens. Let us know your thoughts, he's in the door Michael Silver, are you happy with the appointment, if you're not happy let us know why and who you would have wanted, you know be realistic, we've had a few shouts of likes a con team people like that and I just, I just logistically I just don't think people like that are going to come to us. But everything in the frame at the moment now. So we've got to get it, well no let's not get ourselves in the frame, let's get this, let's get this, let's get the top. Let us know your thoughts, if you haven't already subscribed please do click the bell for a later you know when the videos are coming out and if you want more videos join us over on page and get over there, we'll see you later.


So this video is going to talk about the algebra of functions, so we have a sum and difference to talk about first. So we're going to have two functions and they have overlapping domains and we're going to call them p and q. So that means that if I add the two functions I can rewrite it as f plus g of x, just one function and or if I have a subtraction of these two I can write it as f minus g of x and that means that all the elements of p and q that they have in common, all the elements that they have in common, that would be our domain. Let's try it out. So we have f of x is equal to 2x squared minus 18 and g of x is negative 3x minus 7 and we want to find the domain. Well f of x has a domain of all reels, double back r is all reels. And g of x has a domain of all reels. This is a quadratic, goes left and right forever, this is the line, goes left and right forever. So the domain of h of x then, they have everything in common, so the domain of h of x is also all reels. So given these two functions that we had, find h of 5. We can say that then h of 5 remember was f of x plus g of x. So we take 2 times 5 squared minus 18 and that's the f of x plus the g of x which is minus 3 times 5 for x minus 7. This gives us 25 times 2 or 50 minus 18. I can drop the parentheses because I'm adding. Negative 3 times 5 is negative 15 and then minus 7 and if we look at that we have, this is 50 and then all of these negatives give me minus 40 and we find out that it is 10. Now it says find a new rule for h.  Really, I'm just going to combine light terms here. So 2x squared is the only x squared term and then my x term is over here in the g function and that's minus 3x because I'm adding and then negative 18 and a negative 7 is going to give us a minus 25. So this would be h of x. Now it says find h of 5 using the new function. So h of 5 is going to be equal to, instead of having to plug it into each one I can just say 2 times 5 squared minus 3 times 5 minus 25. This is 50 minus 15 minus 25 and I am going to have the same thing of 10. Two new functions. Determine the function of h of f of x plus g of x. If I think of this as f of x then it's x squared. So that means that it's going to go this way to negative infinity and it's also going to go this way to positive infinity. If I take this as g of x, well I see that this and what's underneath the radical has to be greater than or equal to 0. So that tells me that x has to be greater than or equal to 3 for g of x. So 1, 2, 3, so it starts here but it's greater than or equal to and it goes this way to infinity. And I want to know what these two things have in common. Where they overlap and they overlap over here. So h of x, the domain is from 3 to infinity. Same two functions, we want to find a new rule. Well remember that it was again asking us to add these two functions. And so we have 2x squared being added to the square root of x minus 3. When none of those are like terms, so I just have h of x is equal to 2x squared plus the square root of x minus 3. And then it says find h of 4 using the new function. So h of 4 is going to be equal to 2 times 4 squared plus the square root of 4 minus 3. And h of 4 is going to be 4 squared of 16 times 2 is going to be 32 plus the square root of 4 minus 3 which is 1. So it's really 32 plus 1 or 33. And we never did do a subtraction. Let's take this first two functions that we had. We started out with f of x was equal to 2x squared minus 18. This is not on your sheet. I neglected to put a subtraction in there, so I want to show you one. So I want h of x to be equal to f of x minus g of x. In fact, I don't always have to start with f of x. I could have said g of x minus f of x. It really doesn't matter which one comes first. We just want to take one function plus or minus the other function. Well, f of x is 2x squared minus 18. And minus g of x is negative 3x minus 7. And so we distribute the negative. So we have 2x squared minus 18. But then it's plus 3x and plus 7. So h of x, when we simplify, will be 2x squared plus the 3x. And then negative 18 plus 7 is going to be minus 11. So now we're going to talk about products and quotients. So we have these two functions. And again, their domains are overlapping. And this little sign right here means intersecting. Remember when we were looking at the number lines? This is really true for the addition and subtraction as well. I just didn't write this set notation for you. But we talked about when we had those two that were on the number lines, we had to take what they have in common, where they intersect, where they have the same values. It's not the combination of the two. It's just what they have in common. When we have a multiplication, we can just say it's the intersection. When we have division, we say it's all elements of p and q as long as g of x is not equal to 0. That all elements that p and q have in common, except for when g is equal to 0. So let's try it out. We have these two functions. Determine the domain of f times g of x. So the domain of f of x is equal to all reals. And the domain of g of x has got to be this x minus 7 has to be greater than or equal to 0. So x has to be greater than or equal to 7. So we would say that it's going to be from 7 to infinity. This is all real. So it goes to infinity for sure. But it also goes to negative infinity. So the 7 to infinity is what they have in common. So we could say x is an element of 7 to infinity. That's probably the better way to write it, the way that our book likes to write things. So now let's find the rule for h. Remember, we're multiplying. So negative 3x minus 5 is going to be multiplied by the square root of x minus 7. It's really just distributive. Negative 3x, that's an equal sign, times the square root of x minus 7. Because that's just a monomial over there. Minus, because it's a negative, 5 times the square root of x minus 7. So evaluate h of 8 and h of 11. h of 8, we would come in here and say negative 3 times 8 times the square root of 8 minus 7 minus 5 times the square root of 8 minus 7. Negative 3 times 8 is going to give us negative 24 times the square root of 1. So that's really just negative 24. And then minus 5 times the square root of 1, which again is just minus 5. And we are going to get negative 29. And I'll do h of 11 over here so I have enough space. And I'll probably have to write it below it. We have negative 3 times our x, which is 11, times the square root of x, which is 11 minus 7, minus 5 times that square root of 11 minus 7. So this is negative 33. And 11 minus 7 is 4 minus 5 square root 4. So it's really negative 33 times 2 minus 5 times 2. Negative 33 times 2 would be negative 66 minus 10. So we have negative 76. We have one more set of functions because now we want to do the division. And we have to determine the domain again. Well, different functions here. So f of x has an x as an element of, and it's a cubic, goes left and right forever. It doesn't have any place where it stops. So we have r reels. And g of x, x is an element of, again, it's going to be r reels. Except we have to remember that g is being divided down here. So we have to also say that x cannot be equal to 1. Because down here, we're going to have being divided by x minus 1. So x minus 1 cannot equal 0. So x cannot equal 1. That's how we got there. So we would say that our domain is going to go everywhere except for here. So h of x, x is an element of negative infinity up to the 1, but not including it. Because that would cause us to have a 0 in the denominator. Union, we want to be on the other side of 1 of 2 infinity. So there is the domain of our new function. Consider both domains. And then you also have to consider what would make the denominator 0. So now find the function for h in simplified form. So h of x, remember, was f of x, x cubed minus 1, divided by g of x, which is x minus 1. And notice it says simplified form.  You might not remember that. But we don't factor a whole lot of cubes. So I'll show you what the factorization would be. Well, our a here is equal to x, and our b here is equal to 1. So we would say that this is x minus 1 times x squared plus 1 times x, or just x, plus 1 squared, or just 1, all over x minus 1. And I'm going to put it in parentheses, because I'm going to try to simplify this thing if I can. So it is just going to be x minus 1 as a quantity. And I can reduce these two and say that it is x squared plus x plus 1 as long as, don't forget, we did have a denominator down here, though. So we have to say as long as x is not equal to, and that comes because of this denominator here. All right, so let's try one more. We have this problem here where we have to divide again. But now we have a little bit more involved function. So p of x, x is an element of all reals. But remember for q of x, 3 minus x has to be greater than or equal to 0. So if I take the x to the other side, I'd have x is less than or equal to 3. So for q of x, I'm going to say x is an element of negative infinity to 3. Now that is all true. So how do I find out what r of x is? Or where do they overlap? This goes everywhere. This only goes from negative infinity up to 3. It's going to be the smaller of the two, really, since this one is infinite. So we have negative infinity up to 3. They overlap only in this interval. As long as we remember that if it is 3, we're going to have a problem. Because when you have the square root of 3 minus 3, that'll be the square root of 0, which is 0. So it's not a bracket here. It's a parentheses. So don't forget that. This is a bracket when we think about the domain for q, just q by itself. But when we put it in the denominator, it can't be that 3. So find the rule. And it was p over q. So 1 minus x, this is r of x, 1 minus x over the square root of 3 minus x. So use this new rule to evaluate r of 6 and r of negative 6. So let's start here with r of 6. And that'll be 1 minus x, which is 6, over the square root of 3 minus x, which is 6. And this, if we look at it, 6 is not in the domain of r of x. And you can see right here that it's going to cause problems, because this is going to give us the square root of negative 3, which isn't real. So let's try r of negative 6. Is that in our domain? It is a value that is 3 or smaller. So 6 was too big, but negative 6 works. So we should be able to find an answer here. So that's 1 minus a negative 6 or plus 6 over the square root of 3 minus a negative 6 or plus 6. So 7 on the top and the square root of 9. Or really, it is 7 over 3.


Hello, and welcome to the Versus series. This is where I write a tale based on some sort of contest between two different SCPs. This week, I decided to keep going with SCP-343, but I paired them up with someone you might not expect. SCP-173. Now on the surface, this might seem like a silly contest. Who wins, an all-powerful, all-knowing god thing or one peanut boy? But I think, if we examine it from a different perspective, we might be able to find an interesting story. I decided to look at this as a story where SCP-343 is trying to redeem, or maybe even save, SCP-173. And here's what I came up with. There was a flash of light. An SCP-173 was sitting at a table. He had hands, real hands, with long fingers, perfect for playing the piano. Across the table, in natural light, was a redhead wearing a button-up shirt that he was pretty sure was his. She smiled and looked away when he caught her eyes. The sun was just now rising, but he could tell already that her face was about as perfect as you could expect it to be. That perfect face was framed in auburn hair that was perfectly coiffed and had no right to look as good as it did this early in the morning. He looked down. A bowl of brown cinnamon-squared cereal in milk sat in front of him. Then Spoon was already in his hand. Another few seconds, and he forgot whatever it was that had come before. He remembered who he was. He had an hour before work. He had to finish his breakfast, see his new friend out, and then get ready. Carver? The woman across the table said with a slight southern accent. Yeah?  My mom used to buy this for us when we were kids. Carver chuckled. I guess I'm full of surprises. Fair.  They were only just now visible in the increasing morning light. I figured you pretty vanilla when you bought me that drink. I'm glad I was wrong. I didn't hurt you, did I? The woman shrugged and smiled widely. Not any more than I wanted you to. You know I never did get your number. She leveled her emerald eyes at him. It's on your nightstand. Carver looked over at her exposed shoulder where his shirt was hanging off her. He followed the bone structure to her clavicle and then up to her neck. Such a slender delicate neck. The marks his fingers had left the night before were becoming more visible as the sun rose. She stood up with her empty bowl and spun around to take it to the sink. And he watched her bounce as she went and he was pretty sure he was going to be late for work. His boss was a squat fellow with a blood pressure problem and he was pointing a single finger at Carver while he spoke in a raised voice about punctuality or whatever. Carver wasn't really listening. Sure he was late but he could see the man's blood pressure rising as a pulsing quickened on the left side of the man's neck. He wasn't entirely sure he could get his fingers wrapped all the way around that fat neck but he would love to try. But the man seemed to notice that Carver was distracted and so he leaned closer just within arms reach. Do you understand what crunch time means? The fat man literally spat out at him. Yes. Then you understand how important it is to our clients that you keep your appointments.  Your clients were waiting in the lobby this morning and those new clients are more important than you getting another half hour of sleep. Carver shrugged and stood up. The fat man moved around the desk.  I have appointments now too. If they're important enough for you to yell at me over I probably shouldn't miss them.  Carver closed the door to his office and leaned against the door. He flexed his fingers. He shook his head as they flash back to grayish brown concrete with bits of rebar steel sticking out the ends. He blinked and they were still concrete. He blinked again. Still. Another blink. Flesh and bone. He finally breathed.  It didn't matter. He pressed a button on his phone and an older woman's cheery voice filled the room. Yes. Hold my calls and appointments for 20 minutes. Yes, sir. The phone clicked. Carver started his morning workout with 100 crunches. He pulled up to the window and the perfect redhead from this morning handed him his order. One gordita crunch wrap. One bean burrito with extra red sauce and a medium Sprite. He cocked his head to the side. Becca?  She said before covering her mouth and looking around. What are you doing here? Getting lunch. I come here all the time. It's right next to where I work. How long have you been working here? I just started. Well, now I have another reason to come here. Becca smiled and touched her hair slightly. So, you want to go out again tonight? I'd like that. I'll pick you up at 7. You know where I live? Oh, not yet, but you're going to text me your address. Her smile was broken when the sound of a horn honked directly behind Carver's car. She handed him his straw. Sorry. Gotta move the line. I'll text you after work. Looking forward to it. A half moon peeked out from behind the clouds only occasionally as the soft crunch of sticks and leaves beneath his feet broke the silence of the night. He carried a shovel in one hand and a redheaded woman was slung over his other shoulder.  She thumped hard and then rolled onto her back from the force. Her blood shot and glassy green eyes stared up at the sky as Carver started to dig the hole. The bruising around her neck was catastrophic and a slight trickle of blood from her mouth ran into her hair which was still mostly perfect except for where the blood had began to gather and matted together somehow through all of it. She still looked like the perfect figure he'd seen in the morning. Getting below the frost line in Southern California was a lot easier than in the other places in the country he'd had to dig and frankly there was a never-ending supply of aspiring actresses that went to make it big and were never heard from again. Good looks and money was all he really needed to make sure that he got what he wanted out of them in the end. No one else was supposed to be out here but for the first time he took a little too long to dig his hole. It had always been a matter of time before someone saw him and an anonymous call to the police led them right to where Becca was buried and surveillance footage from the Taco Bell worked out the rest. The dozen bodies that were buried in the woods beside her sealed his fate and then a flash of light and he was back in the room with SCP-343 wait not he it. SCP-173 was confused again but it really couldn't articulate why because it couldn't speak at all it was just a statue after all. SCP-343 frowned every time. It's like some sort of universal constant. SCP-343 didn't blink. He just stared at SCP-173.  I tried to set you free. I tried to make you normal. I've tried everything.  He snapped his fingers and SCP-173 was back in a darkened room. The containment breach alarms were still going on but the door was shut. For some reason he still couldn't move and then he realized in the corner was a man in an orange jumpsuit hiding. It was a tall handsome man with long fingers perfect for playing the piano but it was dark and the man didn't know what he was looking at. He blinked and they always do eventually and his neck made a satisfying crunch. And that's that. I'm gonna full and let you guys decide the next battle. In the comments below I'll have a pinned comment. It'll be the top of the comments. Reply to that with two SCPs or characters from the SCP verse and define a type of battle. If you want to have a death battle you need to say that. If you want to have them have a discussion or an argument of some kind say that. It doesn't matter what kind of battle you're talking about. The reply to my pinned comment with the highest number of likes will be the one I go with and if you win you'll also get a shout out in that episode so good luck. And if you liked the video I'm sure you've already hit the subscribe button and then dinged the notification bell right? You wouldn't want to miss out on my next upload would you? But if you want to support this kind of content even further head on over to patreon.com forward slash decimarian and pledge. There'll be a link in the description in the pinned comment and at the end of the video where you can actually click on the screen for it and if you do that you can join my newest patron VioletWeb and all the other patrons on the screen right now by pledging five dollars or more. Now any amount helps out and I appreciate each and every one of you. 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There's panic in the Kremlin. Putin's team doesn't know what to do with the situation. Russian President Vladimir Putin's quick reaction to the raid by volunteers of the freedom of Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion on the territory of Russia's Belgorod and Kursk regions indicates panic in the Kremlin. Putin has already had time to comment on the breakthrough of fighters of the freedom to Russia Legion, the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Siberian Battalion in Belgorod and Kursk regions. He called the raid by the volunteers an attempt to disrupt elections in Russia and Ukraine's desire to get Trump cards for the exchange of territory in possible negotiations. The statement of the Russian President was explained by the volunteer of the freedom to Russia Legion, Alexei Baranovsky, on the air of Channel 24. According to him, the attitude of the Russians to the raid of volunteers depends on their position on the war in Ukraine. The fact that Putin has already made a statement, although even a day has not yet passed from the beginning of the campaign, is a sign that there is panic in the Kremlin. They did not expect the vote to go this way at all, Baranovsky explained. According to him, the Kremlin elite doesn't know what to do with this situation and is starting to fuss. They are even coming up with terrorist attacks on behalf of Alexei Navalny who died in a colony on February the 16th. Putin's regime is bloody so you can expect any kind of crime from him. The main thing is that Russian volunteers are ready to fight it. We call on all Russians to join our fight, Baranovsky said. Earlier a video appeared online in which people calling themselves Navalny's militant squads announced terrorist attacks in Russia during Putin's re-election. The FSB's pattern is clearly visible here. It's no secret that Putin came to power by blowing up houses in Moscow.  He emphasized that a false flag operation is a classic of the Soviet and Russian security services just as they acted in Soviet times against rebels in Western Ukraine and the Baltic States. Respectively the same plots Putin's regime uses inside Russian politics. For the third day in a row in the border regions with Ukraine Russian volunteer troops continue their raids. Battles in the course can persist and it is expected that there will be shelling of Russian occupiers military targets in these regions so the call for local residents to evacuate urgently remains relevant.A.S. of this morning there were reports of battles in the area of the village of Spodarishin in the Belgorod region. The pro-Kremlin telegram channel MASH wrote that the so-called subversive reconnaissance group which the resource refers to as Ukrainian approached from the side of the Ukrainian village of Popivka and there the battle began. The Russian army allegedly deployed aviation to repel the attack. So-called Russian correspondents claim that heavy equipment is being used to attack Spodarishin.In addition, battles for Tyatkino and the Kursk region continue for the third day. Furthermore, a volunteer of the freedom of Russia Legion, Alexei Baranovsky, made an interesting proposal which, in his opinion, could be put forward to the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He said that the volunteers are ready to withdraw from Tyatkino with the Kremlin dictator withdraws the occupiers from the Ukrainian Melotopol.They are leaving Melotopol and we are returning Tyatkino to them.In my opinion, this would be quite a good deal, Baranovsky said according to him, the situation in the border regions with Russia is developing very dynamically. Fighting on the outskirts of Tyatkino continues. Thus, there are battles both in the Kursk region and in the Belgorod region.Our special liberation operation has been ongoing for the third day, Baranovsky added, since early morning, Belgorod and surrounding settlements in the region have been under shelling. Footage of a burning car allegedly hit by shelling was posted online. The Russian volunteer corps, in turn, declares that a military serviceman of the Russian army, Dmitry Oksayevich Golishkin was killed in the car that was shelled after yesterday's warning, representatives of the Russian volunteer corps urged residents of the Belgorod and Kursk regions to evacuate again this morning, as strikes on military targets of the occupiers are being prepared. Your leadership has taken no measures for your protection or evacuation, while shelling of peaceful cities and villages of Ukraine is ongoing. We are forced to open fire in response on military targets in border regions. Evacuate immediately, the statement said.


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2019 film us so this year I am gonna do spoilers on this though usually for the really new ones I'm I don't do spoilers But I feel like when you really want to talk about this film you have to get in the spoilers because there's a lot to unpack And that's the other thing like I'm kind of like I work through some things before I started Shooting this myself because I literally just finished watching the movie like 15 20 minutes ago So I sat there and thought some things through so I'm gonna have some ideas about themes Kind of like hidden themes within this film and you know might be right might not be right The only way you can really tell is if you hear from the actual filmmaker the writer and director who is Jordan Peele So unless he's done an interview, which I don't know. I haven't looked for it or anything Telling exactly what this film is about exactly what it's supposed to mean thematically and everything What I'm giving is they're just guesses and that's the other thing is this is a type of film where When you see it it kind of begs for you to go to the internet and kind of looked for crowd sourced answers to kind of Get you thinking and be like what does that match up? Does that make sense with this? You know kind of draw your own conclusions after that But I did none of that because I don't like to go into movies or come away from movies immediately and know That stuff especially if I'm gonna do a review on it I want to put all my initial thoughts untainted into the video and then after this video.  I saw that film I thought it was funny and fun. So it kind of marks like Keanu was was the end of Jordan Peele doing Only comedy stuff and then get out was the beginning of him hitting horror Obviously get out did really well. So then us happened and that did really well, too I wanted to see it in the theater us, but I just didn't make it that happens a lot for me But I guess it didn't need my help because the budget was 20 million dollars and it ended up making 255.1 million dollars at the box office. So gigantic success I have a feeling that studios are gonna be pushing Jordan Peele to continue with making horror films cuz Ching Ching, you know So I did want to say Lupita Nyong'o Is the main actress in this film You would probably know her from Black Panther 12 years a slave the Force Awakens and the last Jedi So prior to this movie she had a lot of pedigree in film. She you know Quite successful already and then the other person you would probably know is Winston Duke who played the husband Gabe was his name in it and her name was Addy in it Winston Duke You probably know him from Black Panther Infinity War and Endgame. So He you know, obviously didn't have as much diversity in film roles as As a Lupita, but he's known like if you've seen the the Marvel movies, you know who this guy is You'll at least be like he looks so familiar. So, yeah And they both did a good job to be honest overall with the acting I thought the acting in this overall was quite good and it's hard because Everyone was obviously playing like two roles You know, you're playing the the the real-life normal person and then you're playing the copy or the doppelganger However, you want to refer to it? I Think doppelgangers are more fun terms. Let me use that one. I might throw a copy in there every now and then so so I remember the trailer for this film and I remember Watching it with my wife Rebecca and she was like After the film I remember or after the trailer I remember being like that trailer looks really good and then she was like that looks terrifying so Kind of shows you our different Perspectives on things and she actually did watch the film with me I don't think she was as scared as she thought she would be with the film But she also she also was kind of like what is going on? This is crazy.  There's gonna be straight horror. So there's no confusion about the genre of this. It is horror. So I Think that's obviously been achieved with this So now I'm gonna go through my thoughts that I jotted down as I was watching the film The intro text to this is actually very ominous It's it's kind of like the idea that you have no idea What's lurking right underneath you at any given time because that's the text that kind of said that you know There are all these unused and abandoned subways and tunnels underneath the United States So it kind of starts you with this feeling of like mystery Suspicion because you're like first. How is that gonna come into play in second? Yeah, that's kind of creepy, you know and like I said like you don't know what's lurking beneath Makes you think of the movie chud, but you know So the sign there was a sign that came up Jeremiah 11 11 That that homeless guy was was holding up very early in the film. You see it again So I don't have any biblical background really. I was raised with no religion whatsoever So the majority of any sort of biblical references in this and I believe there are other ones because I recognize Abraham is used and Gabriel is used and I know those are biblical references But you know, I don't really have that that background So I'm sure some of that stuff just right over my head, but I was able to look up what Jeremiah 11 11 is and that was kind of Basically a reference to say the evil is coming and no matter what you do Even if you're asking for for reprieve from it, there's nothing you can do because evil is coming so that's kind of serving as There there's like this trope in horror films where there's always the harbinger, you know The person who's trying to warn people out there.  Everyone's gonna die it's been in tons of movies and it was made fun of extensively in the film the cabin in the woods, which I love and Yeah, it's a thing the harbinger. So this guy holding this sign. He is kind of the equivalent of the harbinger for this film There's a comment on Technology that's made in this actually are a few comments on like advances in technology and the impact on kids Because as soon as the the family gets to their like beach house The kids like there's no Wi-Fi and then the dad says Gabe I forget exactly what he said But he said something about like no, you're gonna have to interact with the real world basically So it's kind of showing this this split this dichotomy of you know Kids live in kind of like this fantasy world because it's all about the internet and connectivity versus, you know Ignoring the real life where they're where their parents mainly exist the The son's name is Jason, which I think is probably a reference to Jason Voorhees might be wrong on that But you know just a theory he has a wolf man mask, which obviously is a callback to universal monsters the wolf man Lawn chainie jr. I believe so I know that I read a I read an interview when get out came out in rumorg magazine a bunch of years ago and I remember Jordan Peele talking about how he was big into the universal monster movies so my theory on the wolf man mask the use of it is kind of like You know coming straight from Jordan Peele's heart of like I love the wolf man So I'm gonna have this reference in there. It says cuz you know awesome universal monsters. Let's have that So I think it's cool They did a good job of conveying the anxiety that addy was having when she actually first goes back to the beach after all The crazy stuff happened with her when she was a kid And it the way they set it up. It kind of made it feel like is she Is she kind of mentally ill like it like what's she dealing with is she is she having a lot of anxiety?  They did a really good job of kind of setting that up and shooting it that way and Overall, I think they did a good job of shooting it early on to make you question Her sanity like what's really going on like is she okay? Is what's gonna happen or what is going on in real life or is she just overreacting is she just like Kind of you know off a rocker There's a really cool 300 360 degree shot in this that I really really liked When the doppelganger's first break into the beach house and it's it's showing them coming in and it does like a 360 to Kind of show them all like coming in different entrances to the house. I thought that was good I did note that the movie I felt like actually gets kind of boring when it first starts out with the home invasion I just feel like there's not a whole lot of new stuff going on with that It's just kind of boring Until you get to the point where The second family who were the friends like they have doppelgangers show up and they get killed That's where I think it really the interest level goes up and it becomes way more interesting because It grows the scale of what's going on It makes you feel like it's a more massive issue and that kind of peaks interest a little bit more because when it's just this One family dealing with it. It's it's like an isolated thing and you kind of feel like they can actually either You know kill those doppelgangers or get away from them problem solved But when you then see that there's another family that also has doppelgangers, then you start questioning How bad is this actually? How deep does this go? How far is it is a worldwide in which case you can escape it and now you're trapped and now that it just Ups the stakes a lot more and that's when the real interest level really really kicked in with the film And then I was like, okay. Here we go. It just kind of like ups the terror level with it There's a really great home alone reference in this where the dad gave was just basically like oh, you know Maybe we could stay here and we can like defend ourselves like home alone And they're all like we're not going to defend ourselves with like micro machines I thought that was really funny. And then the kids were basically like what's home alone? I thought and they were like, oh, and the other thing is water micro machines. What's home alone?  I don't remember but the one that was a vision quest one and it was called Merlin's quest When she starts going underground in there. It really gave me a feeling like the cabin in the woods when Well, I'm not gonna go too far into it because if people haven't seen that and I will do a review of the cabin in the woods So just know that I don't know when but it'll happen So it just gave me a feeling like cabin in the woods and you'll know why if you've seen it Also when she finally gets underground and she sees you know the facility under there that also made me feel that way I was like I was very much like the cabin in the woods. So I don't know if there was any Inspiration taken from that film or not, but it kind of felt that way to me I really like the reveal at the end of this where you find out that Addie was a copy the whole time And I think and and looking back and I think I would catch a lot more if I watched it a second time And maybe third time but just looking back on the film remembering what I do about it since I just watched it There are some hints to kind of let you know that that was the case that when she was a kid There was a switch there and the doppelganger became her in real life And she became you know took the doppelgangers place underground and the two things that I really see That kind of make that references one the fact that when her doppelganger shows up initially all the doppelgangers cannot talk they can just kind of like yell and Hers can talk though and she's the only one who can talk So that's a that's kind of a little hint and then the other hint is early on when they're on the beach with their friends There she's having a hard time interacting with the other woman and she kind of referenced You know the woman says something about and she's like oh, I'm sorry I find it kind of hard to talk sometimes And that's kind of a reference to her being the copy because the copies couldn't talk But obviously she learned to talk because she was forced into the real world. Well, no She wasn't forced she went out into the real world and then she was raised as a child So she learned to talk then I thought that was interesting the directing and cinematography on this looked really good I think Jordan Pio is very gifted as a director and I hope he just continues I think his writing is good too. He does a really good job with it You know, I don't think this film is unbelievably phenomenal I don't think get out was unbelievably phenomenal, but they're quite good both of them I quite like both of them and I like the fact that he's not a horror filmmaker who puts everything Out there in your face like he writes with underlying themes and and there are there are metaphors and they're you know hidden meanings and I love that type of horror scriptwriter because I Want to find more in these films. I don't want you to just feed, you know spoon feed me I'm not saying that there's necessarily anything wrong with that because I know there are a lot of horror fans Who that's the type of horror they choose to consume? I just personally like the idea of you know, having to do a little bit of work after the fact having extra Thought-provoking things after the film that make me further think and have discussions with people about it So, you know, it's just my personal preference. So I like that about Jordan Pio Already talked about this gotta be tough to play two roles at the same time in this film One thing that I that I picked up on notice that early on in the film. The daughter is actually wearing a white rabbit t-shirt Obviously, we had the scene where you're kind of seeing all those white rabbits cage And I'll kind of talk about a little bit of what I think that might have to do with a little bit later but The daughter I think her name was Zora I want to say she was she had a t-shirt on early on that had a white rabbit on it And then also when the doppelgangers first break into their beach house, there's a white rabbit toy like little stuffed animal toy that Addy cuts the head off of so I thought those were interesting the film isn't I already talked about this the film being intentionally shot to be like Is she having a mental break or what's going on here? This is kind of like genre wise It's like a or subgenre wise. It's a twist on the home invasion film initially, but then it just goes a lot deeper than that So just an observation on that one I assume the scissors in this are actually used to be a symbol of cutting the cord between the real-life person and the copy or doppelganger as they call it the Untethering it's kind of like separating them so they can you know Actually It wouldn't be separating them would be killing them because that's actually what it ends up being because they want to take them over basically take their life What's the deal with Jason being able to control his doppelganger when he puts his mask on was one of my Was one of my questions that I put down But then I answered my own question and I think it's because he's more self-aware So he can control the public him versus a private him So this kind of goes to one of my theories on the overall theme of the film, which is the struggle of being Who you actually are at the heart of you and having a soul basically Versus being at that copy that doppelganger that shell of what society teaches you to be and what society wants you to be and the reason I say that is because When the doppelgangers when you see the environment the doppelgangers were brought up in it's very sterile There's not really much of anything there it's obvious that they are kind of mindless there's even a reference made at some point talking about them being not having a soul and so for that reason It makes me think that The people in the real life have souls The doppelgangers are supposed to be representations of not having souls now. What is in their environment? They have a classroom Which I think is a reference to you are taught things when you come up in school And obviously Education is public. So it's a societal thing. So they teach you society tells you this is what you're supposed to do This is how you're supposed to think this is who you're supposed to be and so that is showing up In the doppelganger area basically saying that you're being taught to not be yourself When you're when you're growing up and that's why it's a classroom there And then also the rabbits in the cages kind of showing that at that point when you're in this classroom Because the cages are in the classroom.  You're you're being forced to do this You don't really have a choice at this point You're not making a decision to go to school or not to go to school to learn these things or not learn these things These things are drilled into you against your own will basically and then as you get older It's up to you to figure out who am I actually going to be when you have the struggle of Who's gonna win is it gonna be the soulless doppelganger myself or is it gonna be the inspired creative me who can dance? because that's referenced in this and I just kind of view the film as potentially being on the level of the fight between Who you really are and who society wants you to be and if you go a little bit further and you want to tie that in to You know say some of the themes that also tie in with get out Particularly being harder for people who are African-American where it's a white Driven society that kind of says you know when you're in public we would prefer that you act a certain way and then when you're in private you can be your normal self and You know that's just one of my thoughts on it So so I think going back to the whole thing with Jason and controlling his the other his doppelganger I think he's able to do that at that one point because it's saying that he's self-aware He becomes aware of what's actually going on there and that there are two hymns There's the true hymn and there's the doppelganger hymn and he is so in touch that he knows how to control The doppelganger soulless version of himself. He he has basically become one Mentally and he knows who he actually is so he can control those two things everyone else They're fighting themselves like they're literally fighting themselves. Is it who's gonna win? Is it gonna be the the inspired creative themselves who who are natural? Or is it gonna be the societally constructed soulless versions of themselves that that's what society wants basically So that's one of my ideas on it I also see a lot of tie-in with with trauma and and childhood and having broken homes basically because When you're going into the carnival portion in the beginning where adi gets lost as a child You see that there are problems in the relationship of her parents and they both seem kind of detached Like neither of them really want to deal with her too much, especially the father who's drunk during this and it's showing a lot of Family problems at that point. So I also feel like there's a theme of Potentially a split in personality because of trauma childhood trauma that that is where you kind of have a child Who's being brought up in a happy home and they can just be themselves versus a child who's brought up in a messed up Environment where you know, they're not getting exactly what they need They're not getting the love and affection and attention that they need and therefore they become a different version of themselves this kind of I Don't want to say Sanitized version of self like a stripped-down version of themselves because they've been through some terrible things So it's a whole trauma changing a person and you kind of see that when she she goes in does that vision quest thing and She comes back and she's a different person like she truly is a different person we find out at the very end and The parents go and they go to you know see a psychiatrist or psychologist or something and they're basically like Oh, we just want her to be the way she she used to be well Obviously, there's a split right there and that was a traumatic experience for her getting lost in that mirror maze And it wasn't just because the mirror maze it was because she was left alone Like she was neglected by her parents and that's the actual trauma of it is the neglect from her parents So it's just another another theory that I had. Let me look through and see if I have any more Could also be a commentarity I already got that one Yeah, what back to the whole thing about like the true you versus the societal you The idea of are you going to fight to be yourself or are you not gonna fight to be yourself? Are you just gonna go with it or not?  I think that's probably the best way to put it there, but Whoo, okay, that was a lot to go through a lot to think about but that's one of the things I really like about the film Is it really made me think so? Thank you Jordan Peele for doing that Keep on going man, like he'll ever see this. I'm talking like he'll actually watch this He'll never see this but on the off chance that he does like what you're doing keep going So put some comments down there people. I want to hear your theories and there might be a ton of theories What do you think I'm getting right? What do you think I'm getting wrong? What have I not thought about that you have a theory on I don't know But let's talk that out. So I'm gonna give my star rating now So out of five stars with half stars in play. I think I'm gonna go a four I was between like a three and a half and a four But I think because of how much this has made me think and how rich I think the themes kind of are and these Small little hints that play throughout the film that kind of begs for a second watch That makes me want to bump it to that for so I'm gonna give it a four stars. I did enjoy it In comparison to get out. I might have enjoyed it about as much as get out Yeah close maybe a little bit more just because I think it's a little richer on the themes They're kind of buried a little bit more I love these kind of like enigma movies where you kind of got a like twist the Rubik's Cube to decode it You know, so I don't know I like that but anyway Thanks everyone for checking this out do me a quick favor hit that subscribe if you like any videos I do that is the best way to repay me Just you know, you're not giving me any money. So give me that subscribe It literally takes a second is totally painless, but thank you for checking this out Put those comments down there hit that like button if you want But thanks for watching and until next time keep it brutal


In this video, we'll be looking through the lens of complex adaptive systems theory in order to try and interpret the macro dynamics within an economic system. We'll firstly introduce you to the idea of a complex adaptive system before going on to build up a model to their dynamics, the model of what is called a fitness landscape, a three-dimensional state space for representing the whole system's macro topology. We'll talk about how this topology changes depending on the complexity of the environment and some of the strategies that agents use within these different environments. From the perspective of complexity economics, a macro economy is what we call a complex adaptive system. That is to say that it is composed of many interconnected autonomous parts that are capable of adaptation. Other examples of complex adaptive systems include flocks of birds, ant colonies, the human immune system, the internet's routing system, cities and all forms of social organization from financial markets to political regimes. Complex adaptive systems are highly dynamic. They are typically high energy systems. They import a lot of energy in order to maintain a dynamic state far from equilibrium. In physics, this is what is called a dissipative system. They import energy and dissipate it in order to maintain this dynamic non-equilibrium state. A flock of birds would be a good example of this. Because the components have a high degree of autonomy and are capable of adaptation, this means that control is primarily distributed out to the local level. The overall state of the system is a product of the interactions between agents. Nothing is really written in stone. Agents are just acting and reacting to each other's behavior like businesses competing in a market or traders buying and selling within a financial network. Out of all these actions and reactions, we get the overall state of the system. We can model these interactions in game theoretical terms. An agent is involved in interactions of both competition and cooperation with other agents, typically within its local vicinity but also possibly globally throughout the system. Thus, an agent is involved in both zero-sum games of competition and some positive-sum games of cooperation, and may be involved in both at the same time what is called co-opetition. For example, some companies share and collaborate in research and development projects but compete in the market. Within this environment, agents are trying to improve their fitness function or payoff according to some metric. We might call this a fitness function, a single parameter that determines how efficient that agent is at intercepting and transforming the resources available within that system. For example, this might be how much work does a company get and how good is it at turning it into net revenue or how competitive is a country within the global economy or a trader's strategy within a market. The risk-return ratio on a portfolio, all of these could be defined according to a single metric and compared across the different elements in the system. This single metric we would call the fitness function. Likewise, we might model the system according to a second set of parameters as to what function an agent within the system performs. For example, we might model economies according to industrial sectors where companies that perform similar functions are grouped into the same industry. Now that we have this set of parameters, we can use them to create a three-dimensional model, a kind of state space, that is to say a single point in this three-dimensional space will represent a state to one of the agents. The two axes that define the horizontal plane will capture the agent's function. Agents that are in proximity on this plane will then perform similar functions. This might be businesses in a similar industry or countries with similar economic profiles or financial institutions that operate in similar markets. The agent's elevation within the space will then be defined by its fitness function. The higher they are up on the vertical axis, the more efficient they are and thus the higher their payoff. This model is called an adaptive landscape, also known as a fitness landscape. So we now have a full landscape. We also have agents on this landscape. They're able to adapt and they're trying to move up to higher elevations with higher payoffs. On the most basic level, agents face a dichotomy in their choices. They can either exploit their current position or they can invest resources in order to try and find some more optimal payoff. That is to say a higher elevation. For example, a person can stay within their current job with all of its security or salary or invest their time and resources in finding a new one that might be better or a business can stay exploiting its core competencies, giving out higher dividends to shareholders or invest in moving into new markets. Of course, agents may do the two in parallel, but if we want to come up with a single value, we can simply subtract the resources used for consumption versus those used for investment to get a gross positive or negative value. The strategies and choices that agents make will be dependent upon the type of landscape that they're acting on. Different economic environments will represent fundamentally different topologies and thus will require different strategies. The topology to the landscape will be defined by the type of system we're dealing with, starting with a very simple linear system and going to a very complex dynamic system. In an isolated linear system, without interactions and interdependencies between the components, the topology will be very simple, a single dominant peak in the center of the topology, representing the fact that there is one single optimal equilibrium. An example of this might be a hierarchical organization, but there's one clear optimal position within the entire organization. A monopolistic market might also be an example. There is one clear well-defined optimal position within the landscape. As long as we're dealing with a closed system and there is no interdependencies, it means that the landscape is not going to change. Given the example of a hierarchical organization, an agent can then adopt a very simple rule. Stay trying to get promoted upwards until you get to the top and then stay there. Now let's turn up the complexity a bit by allowing for many agents with many interactions and interdependencies between them. When we have many different interdependencies, an agent's payoff will be dependent upon the interactions between a number of different variables. Take the example of a competitive market. How well a given organization performs in the market will be dependent upon many other actors. Because there are many interacting parts, there will be many different optimal solutions, giving our topology a rugged form with many different peaks. With any one of these many peaks representing a particular combination of all the organizations in the market. Some will be better than others, but there will always be many different local peaks representing all the different combinations we might have. If we go a step further and allow the agents in the market to adapt, then as the agents adapt and change their state, this will change the payoffs for other agents, with the net result being that the whole landscape will start to move up and down. This is a lot more representative of a real world complex adaptive system like a competitive market, where a business faces a number of different competitors who are also altering their behavior and strategies over time. Lastly, if we want to try and capture the true complexity of a market, we would have to recognize that this whole macro system does not exist in isolation. It is of course embedded within a particular social, environmental and technological context, all of which are providing the system with a set of input values that define the overall landscape. When one of these input values changes, for example when a new technology comes along, or there is a change within the political regulatory environment, then the whole landscape will change. This can of course be minor changes that are happening on a continuous basis, or a major abrupt transformation. It might be a major transformation in the political environment such as that experienced by the Russian economy with the fall of the communist regime, or the current major technological disruption brought about by the rise of the internet. During such a time of disruption, it is no longer so much the interactions between the agents that define the topology, but now these input values to the system as the agents become subject to the process of evolution that is acting on all the agents in the system as the whole environment changes. The strategy that agents adopt will depend fundamentally on the environment they are acting within. As mentioned, within a very simple environment that is closed, static and without interdependencies, the agents only need a very simple rule telling them to stay going upwards. As an example we might think about the former communist economy of Russia, where the government would tell a company to simply produce as much of a product as possible with as few resources as possible. Within such a context you don't have to worry about competitors or the landscape changing, and thus there is no need for adaptation. All that is needed is a very simple optimization algorithm that will have a single equilibrium. If the environment involves many interacting parts, such as a company trying to optimize the stock and transportation routes within its supply chain, this problem is not simple. It requires significant investment of intelligence and computation. The agent needs to stay trying different solutions, that is to say exploring the landscape going up and down on different local peaks, but gradually over time reducing the amount of resources spent exploring. This is a very simplified explanation of what is called a simulated and needing algorithm. Within this environment, because everything is held static, an agent can afford to make this long-term investment of resources, trying to find one of the optimal solutions, as it will then be able to exploit this for some time in the future due to the static nature of the problem. Within topologies that are moving up and down, due to different agents acting, reacting and adapting to each other's behavior, agents have to stay continuously balancing exploration and exploitation. That is to say, unlike our previous example, where after some time the agent settled into a stable state. Within these more complex environments, agents have to stay adapting indefinitely. If they stop, they will slowly fall behind as others exploit the opportunity. Likewise, the landscape will never really settle down, because as soon as it does approach stasis, this will create an opportunity for some agent to act and then again some other agent to react as the whole topology becomes reanimated. Lastly, when the change is systemic and coming from outside the system, with little that the agents can do to affect this environment, then the agents are no longer competing with each other, but this is now a form of evolution. The whole environment is changing and performing selection on the agents. They have to be able to adapt to that changing environment and this requires a whole different level of adaptation. It is no longer about responding to immediate changes, but the agents may need to change their whole functionality in order to maintain their fitness. For example, the advent of the internet has brought systemic change to the publishing industry. Newspapers are now less competing with each other and more competing to maintain relevance within this new environment. In order to do this, they need to be able to reinvent themselves on a whole new platform under a whole new set of rules as the whole environment has changed. This doesn't just test their capacity to adapt within a normal market environment, because that will not be suffice to reinvent the whole organization. Instead, this evolution in the industry tests their degree of diversity. It is only out of maintaining some pool of diversity that an organization is best suited to developing new strategies in response to systemic change within the whole environment. From this, we should note that the transition from an agent or organization within a simple environment to a complex environment should map onto this parameter of exploring or exploiting. In simple environments, agents are primarily exploiting through optimization. In complex environments, their spending more time investing and survival is always some interplay between both. Exploring and exploiting are very different activities that require very different types of regulation and management. As the venture capitalist and writer Paul Cohen puts it, quote, the exploit business focuses on cost and profit, spurs efficiency improvements and incremental innovation is strong at operations, has a formal structure, controls for marginal improvement and productivity, values efficiency, quality and customers and leads in a top down manner. By contrast, the explore unit focuses on innovation and growth, spurs new products and breakthrough innovations is strong at entrepreneurship, has a loose adaptive structure, controls for milestones and growth, values risk taking, speed and experimentation and leads in a visionary and involved manner. From this, it should be clear that how we try to regulate an economic system will change fundamentally depending on the complexity of the system and the environment we're dealing with. Within very simple contexts, we can use a simple top down regulatory system with a basic linear optimization algorithm. But as the environment becomes more complex, these top down regulatory systems may not be the best solution as components need autonomy to stay adapting locally and we increasingly need to maintain and develop diversity in order to ensure sustainability. In such a context, more distributed forms of regulation are better suited. A core challenge for a large organization like a macro economy or corporation will be in how to integrate these very different paradigms in regulation and be able to switch between them. In this module, we've been talking about complex adaptive systems as a framework for modeling economic organizations. We've tried to show how complex adaptive systems could be mapped into this more formal model of a state space that is used in mathematics to describe dynamical systems. We looked at the different types of topologies to these adaptive landscapes, going from simple linear systems with a single equilibrium and a single optimal peak. To more complex environments involving many interacting variables, creating a rugged topology. When we added adaptation to this, we got a landscape that was moving around in response to local interactions. We talked about how when we allow for the system to be open, we can get systemic transformations as the whole topology changes due to new input values from its environment. Finally, we talked about different optimal strategies given these different environments, going from simple optimization algorithms to more complex strategies requiring continuous adaptation and maintenance of diversity.