Good evening aspirants, welcome to the Hindu Daily News Analysis brought to you by Shankar Aceh Academy for the date 20th of December 2022. Before starting our discussion, I have an announcement regarding your prelims preparation. This is about the pre-storming batch 4. Yes, pre-storming batch 4 is going to start from tomorrow. Interested aspirants can use this opportunity to register. The registration link and other details of this batch is provided in the description of this video. With this information, now let's get into the today's article discussion. These are the articles taken up for today's discussion. You can go through it. With this, let's start with our first news article for the day. Take a look at this article. It talks about the Mulle Periyar Dam. The news is that water levels in the dam has been increasing and a subsequent flood warning is issued by the Tamil Nadu government. This is what the news article is about. In this context, let us learn about Mulle Periyar Dam and its location. We shall begin the discussion by understanding the geography and location of the dam. See, Mulle Periyar Dam is a composite gravity dam built on the river Periyar which is located in the state of Kerala. See, the dam was constructed between the years 1887 and 1895. Its full reservoir level is 152 feet and it was constructed to provide water through a tunnel to Vaigai basin in Tamil Nadu for irrigation benefits. Yes, even though the dam is located in the state of Kerala, the purpose of the dam is to divert the water from the Periyar river to the southern part of Tamil Nadu to aid the farmers in cultivation of crops. Now, coming to the river on which the dam is constructed. See, the dam was built on Periyar river in the Idiquid district of Kerala. It is the longest river in the state of Kerala and is considered as a lifeline there. If you look at this map, you will see the confluence of the rivers Mulle Periyar and Periyar. This is the exact location where the dam is located. To be precise, it is located on the Cardamon hills of the western guards. See, I already told you that Mulle Periyar Dam is located in the state of Kerala. But the point here to note that is, it is operated and maintained by the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu. This is due to the fact that water from the dam is used by the Tamil Nadu farmers. See, this agreement was made possible during the times of British India. It was signed between Maharaja of Travancore and the Secretary of State for India during the British rule. At the time of construction, British engineers anticipated 50 years as the lifespan of the dam. But see, today the dam has withstood for more than 120 years. If you have been reading newspaper consistently, you would have come to know that there is a constant tussle between Kerala and Tamil Nadu regarding Mulle Periyar issue. This is due to the fact that Kerala is afraid of Periyar Dam breaking due to ageing, water leakage and peeling of construction material. Several petitions were filed and the Supreme Court has advised the full reservoir level of the dam to be maintained at 142 feet to the advantage of Tamil Nadu. Kerala is objecting this and demanding for the reduction of full reservoir level. This is the issue surrounding the Mulle Periyar Dam. This is all with respect to this article discussion. Through this discussion, we learned about Mulle Periyar Dam, its location, the river on which it is built and the recent issue between the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala regarding the dam. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. With these learned points, now let's move on to the next article discussion. See this article here. It says that, per scene fishing is prohibited by several states and union territories. When the issue has been brought up in the court, the center has taken the stand that this action by the states is not justified. So the fisheries department has recommended the lifting of the ban on per scene fishing. See it is based on a report submitted by an expert committee on November 15th. The committee has also suggested the framing of a national management plan on per scene fishing. This is the crux of the news article given here. In this context, let us understand about per scene fishing in Prillam's perspective. First of all, let us see the meaning of the term scene. See a scene is a fishing net which hangs vertically in the water with floats at the top and weights at the bottom. Here note that the ends of the net will be drawn together to encircle the fishes. Look at the images which is provided here. Here you can note that the net is hanging perpendicular to the ocean and they have floats at the top and at the bottom weights are there. The ends are drawn together to catch the fishes. This is only called as scene. Now what is meant by per scene then? Literally a per scene means a large scene which may be drawn into the shape of a bag. Again like the image provided here, if a scene is large and is drawn in the shape of a bag then it is called as per scene. Now look at this image. See the bottom of the net as a wire along the weights and this wire is threaded throughout its length. Note that this wire can be pulled and it tightens the net like a purse trapping the fish inside. Now you know why it is called as per scene fishing.  The main advantage of this method of fishing is that it prevents the fish from swimming down and escaping from the net. It is because like we already saw the bottom will be closed like a purse. Secondly purse scene nets are set near the ocean surface and they do not touch the sea floor. So their impact on the marine environment is literally very small. These are the main advantages of purse scene fishing. Even though this method has numerous advantages there is a major concern associated with this type of fishing. See purse signing is a non-selective fishing method which captures everything the net surrounds including protected species. This will be detrimental to protected marine species also. It is said that sea turtles and other marine animals are affected due to this type of fishing. See once the netting has been set end circled marine mammals and turtles cannot escape. They become entangled in the net which leads them to death. This is the main concern attached with purse scene fishing. This is why some states like Tamil Nadu has banned this practice. With this we have come to the end of this news article discussion. Through this article discussion we learned about purse scene fishing, its advantages and also about its disadvantage. With this let's move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this article. This article talks about the issue of global minimum taxation. The news is that members of the European Union agree to implement a minimum tax rate of 15% on big businesses. It is estimated that this 15% minimum tax rate would boost global tax revenues by at least 150 billion dollars annually. This is the crux of the news article given here. In this context let us discuss what is meant by the term global minimum taxation, the need for it and also about why some countries are opposing this proposal. The syllabus for this discussion is highlighted here. Interested aspirants can go through it. Now coming to the question what is meant by global minimum taxation. See it is a global deal to ensure that the big companies pay a minimum tax rate of 15%. This is done to make it harder for the big businesses to avoid taxation. Global minimum taxation as a concept can be explained using an example. Let us take a company X operating in a developed country with high tax rate. Since the tax rates are high there, the company will try to move to a country where there is lower taxation. This is when tax haven countries comes into picture. Here the term tax haven countries refers to those countries where there is very less corporate tax rates. These countries will attract the company X by use of their low tax rates. The tax rates in these countries are so low that the company X will retain a huge chunk of the profits made. This is where the global minimum taxation comes into effect. After the implementation of this tax regime company X will be made to pay at least 15% of its revenue as tax in the country of its registration. If it is found to be paying less than 15% in the country of its operation. This is all about the term global minimum taxation. Now coming to the need for this type of taxation. See every country needs money to spend for its social sector schemes. If the big businesses in search of retaining the profits move out to less tax rate countries, it will lead to revenue loss for other countries. This is the exact reason why we need global minimum taxation. Global minimum taxation will try to end this practice by imposing a minimum taxation rate of 15%. This is about the need for this type of taxation. Now coming to the opposers of this scheme. See the main opposers of this scheme are tax haven countries. This is due to the fact that this taxation will lead to loss for their X checker. They argue that without tax competition between governments, the world would be taxed a lot more than it is today. They further say that this will have an impact on further investments by the private sector, which will adversely affect the global economic growth. This is all about the opposition for this scheme. With this we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion we have seen about the term global minimum taxation, the need for this type of taxation and also about why some countries are opposing this type of taxation. With these learn points now let's move on to the next news article. Take a look at this news article and the editorial. See both these articles are about yet another historic decision. But this time it is about conserving the biodiversity. You would have all known about the COP 27 which had been recently concluded in Egypt. Similarly a conference for biodiversity involving world leaders happened from 7th to 19th December. It is called as the United Nations Biodiversity Conference or COP 15. So we will know about what is this conference and also the decisions taken in it. We will also cover where India stands in all this. The syllabus for the discussion is highlighted here. As I said already it is a United Nations Biodiversity Conference. It is based on the Convention on Biological Diversity which is shortly known as CBD. What is this convention? See it is an international treaty that entered into force in the year 1993. It is a legally binding treaty covering biodiversity at all levels namely the ecosystems, species and genetic resources. So it was adopted for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity and related issues. Based on this it has three main objectives. First the conservation of biological diversity. Second the sustainable use of the components of biological diversity. Third is the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits that arise out of the utilization of genetic resources. You should also know that this convention is related to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development which is famously known by the name the Rio Earth Summit. Can you name other conventions that has origins in 1992 Earth Summit? See 196 countries have ratified this convention including India. The governing body of this convention is the Conference of Parties that is COP. Its duty is to advantage the implementation of the convention through its decisions taken at periodic meetings. These meetings are held every two years. One such meeting was only concluded yesterday. It is the 15th meeting of this Conference of Parties hence the name COP15. It was held in two phases. One happened last year in the Qingming of China and the other was the recent one held in Montreal of Canada. Its agenda was halting and reversing nature laws by setting new sets of goals and also the adoption of a global biodiversity framework that addresses key drivers of nature laws. Before seeing what were the actual outcomes of the COP15, let us see the need behind such a convention and conference. Main need is because of the biodiversity laws. There is a dangerous decline in nature as a result of human activity which also includes greenhouse gas emissions and the resulting climate change. You should remember that climate change is one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity laws. The decline in nature was reported by the IBBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. It gave several shocking findings. It found that 1 million plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. So this means that planet earth is experiencing its largest loss of life since the age of dinosaurs. Also, 75% of terrestrial environment has been severely altered to date by human actions and marine environments have been severely altered 66%. According to the report, the loss of wetlands in percentage terms is currently three times faster than forest laws. Like this, many shocking findings have been made by the report. So all these demands immediate action. We should not forget that healthy ecosystems are needed for humans to survive. Our economies are also dependent on it. See, more than half of global GDP which is equal to $41.7 trillion is reliant on healthy ecosystems. Such healthy ecosystems also aid in limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Plus, a constant push on actions is needed through conventions because it is realized that previously agreed targets are not achieved in many areas. For example, take the ICHI Biodiversity targets adopted in 2010. It included targets like halving the natural habitat loss and implementation of plants for sustainable consumption and production. But the global biodiversity outlook, which is the flagship publication of CBD, found that none of these targets have been fully met. All these demanded a new framework and new goals and targets. So, now let us come to the outcomes of COP15. First is the adoption of Global Biodiversity Framework, which is also called Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework or POST 2020 GBF. Note that this is the first global framework on biodiversity adopted since the ICHI targets. The framework sets out an ambitious plan to implement action to bring out a transformation in society's relationship with biodiversity. It is basically aimed at saving the lands, oceans and species from pollution, degradation and climate change. The framework includes four goals and 23 targets for achievement by the year 2030. First target is effective conservation and management of at least 30% of world's lands, inland waters, coastal areas and oceans. Second is either completely restoring or ensuring restoration in progress. This is to be done to at least 30% of degraded terrestrial inland waters and coastal and marine ecosystems. These two targets are called the 30x30 goals that is achieving 30% by 2030. Third is reducing the loss of areas of high biodiversity importance to near zero. This will include ecosystems of high ecological integrity also. Next is achieving 50% reduction in both excess nutrients and the overall risk posed by pesticides and highly hazardous chemicals. Another target is regarding subsidies. It aims to progressively face out or reform subsidies that term biodiversity by at least 500 billion dollars per year. Next is regarding funding. It aims to mobilize at least 200 billion dollars per year in domestic and international biodiversity-related funding from all public and private sources. Next is regarding the international finance flows from developed to developing countries. The rich countries will provide at least 20 billion dollars per year by 2025 and at least 30 billion dollars per year by 2030. This target ensures that countries which are historically responsible for global greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and climate change are definitely paying for remedial measures. So, this commitment is a major achievement. Here, I have given the goals, paused the video and go through it. Apart from this framework, two other outcomes are important. One is regarding resource mobilization. For example, the global environment facility was requested to establish special trust fund called GBF fund. It is to support the implementation of GBF. Second is the digital sequence information on genetic resources. This information has many commercial and non-commercial applications. For example, it is needed in pharmaceutical product development, improved crop breeding, taxonomy and the monitoring of invasive species etc. Okay, now you may think what if like the IT targets these targets are not implemented. For this, the GBF agreement has found a solution. It obligates countries to monitor and report every five years or before that. So, I hope you understand the need and outcomes of COP15. Don't you want to know what India thinks about these outcomes? Overall, Indian government has termed the agreement as positive. It sees these results as realistic and practical. But India still feels uncomfortable with one target. It is regarding the pesticides. The target is to achieve 50% reduction in both excess nutrients and the overall risk posed by pesticides and highly hazardous chemicals. According to India, having numerical global target for pesticide reduction was unnecessary. Rather, it wants the respective countries to decide on this matter. Why India is taking this stand is because India is an agricultural country. So, agriculture is the source of life, livelihoods and culture for hundreds of millions. Many other developing nations have the same situation. Thus, using pesticide is seen as an agricultural support, which India doesn't want to target. Basically, it fears that the target will have drastic efforts on India's agri-sector. Author of this editorial is critical of this stand of India because it is a well-documented fact that pesticides have adverse effects on environment. Plus, India sees itself as the champion of conservation. But even then, India refusing to agree this target seems old-fashioned to the author. The conclusion is, for the greater good, India might consider to do away with pesticides but in the longer run. Currently, rationalizing the use of pesticides is definitely needed. So, let's wait and see what are India's action in this regard. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion, we have seen about the Convention of Biological Diversity and the outcomes of the recently-yielded COP15 to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. And finally, we also saw about India's reaction to the outcomes of the COP15 With these learned points, now let's move on to the next news-article discussion. Take a look at this article. It says that Moscow launched a kamikaze drone attack on Ukraine. And Ukraine said that the drones attacked the key infrastructure located in and around this capital city, Kiev. According to Ukrainian Air Force, its air defenses shot down literally 30 drones. And as per the article, it is the third Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in six days. This is the crux of the news article given here. In this context, let us try to understand about kamikaze drones. So, what are these kamikaze drones? See, the name kamikaze is derived from a tactic attack adopted by Japanese during World War II. During World War II, the pilots of the fighter planes of Japan engaged in a suicide attack mission. In the suicide attack, the pilots of the fighter planes with explosive will intentionally crash into an enemy target. This is done to cause maximum damage. And this type of attack is only termed as kamikaze attack. And you may wonder what's the connection between the World War II Japanese kamikaze tactic to the drones which are attacking the Ukrainian city, Kiev. See, like the Japanese planes, these modern kamikaze drones are also destroyed after striking the target. And this is why these drones are called as kamikaze drones. See, these are small unmanned aircraft packed with explosives. These can be flown directly over a tank or a group of troops. After the drones hit the target, the drone will explode and the tank or the troops will be destroyed. See, these drones are also called as loitering missiles because they hover around the target area for some time before the attack. And it will attack only after the target is located. Now, let us see the significance of these drones. The major significance of these modern drones are that they have the capability of suppressing traditional defenses. This means that these drones will not be detected by traditional defense systems of the enemies. Know that these small lethal drones are difficult to detect on radar. And the other significance is that they are cheaper than their larger counterparts. Thirdly, these drones can be programmed to hit targets without any human intervention. Now, with the information about the significance of the drones, let us see the specifications of the drones. See, these drones are also called as switchblade drones because their blade-like wings spring out on launch. Switchblade has a feature that allows the operator to adjust the blade radius so that it can kill the targeted location or person alone. For example, it can be adjusted to kill the driver of a vehicle but not a passenger. The weapon can be abouted up to two seconds before impact in the event of a mistake or a risk to civilian. This is one another significance of these drones. And according to Arrow Vironment, the manufacture of these drones come in two sizes. The first one is switchblade 300. It generally weighs around 5 pounds and it flies up to 15 minutes at a time. It is designed to be carried in a little backpack. The second one is switchblade 600. It weighs about 10 times more than switchblade 300. It weighs around 50 pounds and it flies up to 40 minutes. And these are used to target much bigger armored vehicles. These are the two types of switchblades. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion, we saw about the term kamikaze and we also seen about the drones used by Moscow to target the key infrastructure around the key city. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. With these key points in mind, now let's move on to the next article discussion. Take a look at this snippet taken from the text and context page of the Hindu. It reports about the funding by Food and Agricultural Organization to Sri Lanka. It has provided nearly 1.4 million dollars to support the vulnerable Sri Lankan households. who are suffering due to the ongoing economic crisis. So in this regard, let us see about FAO. Food and Agricultural Organization leads the international efforts to defeat Angar. It is a specialized agency of the United Nations. See, the United Nations is made up of the UN itself and a series of programs, funds and specialized agencies. They all have their own leadership and budget. In that regard, the specialized agencies are independent international organizations which are funded by both voluntary and assessed contributions. Now coming to the goal of FAO. See, FAO's goal is twofold. One is to achieve food security for all. Second is to make sure that people have regular access to enough high quality food to lead active healthy lives. See, these are the two main goals of Food and Agricultural Organization. Now coming to the members. See, it has 195 members. Totally 194 countries and the European Union. India is also a member of FAO. It also has two associate members namely Faro Islands and Tokalau. Another fact about FAO, which you need to know about, is the flagship publication series of it. It is the state of the world publications. These publications are global reports which provide a comprehensive overview of the most pressing global issues and challenges affecting the world today. The series includes five reports. Now let us look at these five reports one by one. The state of world fisheries and aquaculture is the first report. It is a bilinear report which analyzes the status of global stocks as well as trends in fisheries and aquaculture at a global and regional level. The state of the world's forest, it is the second report. See, it is also a bilinear report which presents data and analysis on the interaction between forest and the people. Next is the state of food security and nutrition in the world. See, it is an annual flagship report jointly prepared by FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, World Food Program and WHO. Next report is the state of food and agriculture. It is one of the FAO's major annual publication. It aims to bring balanced science-based assessments of important issues in the field of food and agriculture. Finally comes the state of agriculture commodity markets report. It presents commodity market issues in agriculture markets. These are all the five major publications brought out by FAO. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion, we have seen about FAO, its goal, also about its members and finally we saw about some of the publications brought out by it. With these learn points, now let's move on to the next news article discussion. Take a look at this article taken from the foreign page of the Hindu. It says that Dutch Prime Minister officially apologised for two-fifty years of the Netherlands' involvement in slavery. He even called it as a crime against humanity. As per the article, the apology is coming one-fifty years after the end of slavery in the European countries overseas colonies. This is about the news article given here. In this context, let us understand about the differences between imperialism and colonialism. First of all, let us see about the term colonialism. See, colonialism is the practice of one country taking full or partial control over another country. Here, the term control means political, social and economic control of a dependent country or territory. See, colonialism occurs when people from one country settle in another country for the purpose of exploiting its people and natural resources present there. Colonial powers typically attempt to impose their own language, culture and the indigenous population of the territories that they colonise. Let's take the case of Australia. Australia before 18th century was populated only by the indigenous people who had been living there for centuries. Suddenly, European colonisers found that there was a large barren continent present in the southern hemisphere which has led to colonising attempts by the Europeans. It resulted in indigenous population getting replaced by the coloniser's population, indigenous culture and their way of living all got wiped out within the next 200 years. Presently, Australia is an English speaking country with predominantly European population living there. With this example, you would have got an idea what is colonialism is all about. The example which I used to elaborate upon the term colonialism is an example of settler colonialism. See, India was also colonised by the British but it was different. It was not settler colonialism but exploitation colonialism. Here, the coloniser will try to exploit the indigenous population for its resources. British colonisation of India and the subsequent phenomenon of drain of wealth explains this exploitation colonialism. This is all about the term colonialism. Now, coming to the term imperialism. See, imperialism is similar to colonialism. It also involves the process of controlling another territory of people by a country which is nowhere related to that territory. Imperialism refers to political or economic control either formally or informally. In simple words, colonialism is said to be the practice and imperialism is said to be the ideology that drives the practice. Now, let us see the major differences between the two. Firstly, as we already saw, colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other regions. It means exploiting the resources of the conquered country for the benefit of the conqueror. On the other hand, imperialism means creating an empire and expanding into the neighbouring regions and expanding its dominance far from its empire. The famous imperial powers of the past decades were Roman imperialism and British imperialism. This is all about the first difference. Secondly, in colonialism, people moved to new territory and lived there as permanent settlers. I already gave you an example how Australia was colonised by European settlers. One another example is South Africa. In Australia, the native population was totally wiped out. But in South Africa, there is still a large amount of native population. From this, we can say that in colonialism, the coloniser may have settled in the colonised territory. But imperialism is just exercising power over the conquered region, either through sovereignty or indirect mechanisms of control. In imperialism, the victors don't settle in the conquered territories. Thirdly, know that colonialism dates back to only 15th century. It is when the Europeans started to look outside their country for pursuing trade with other nations. But imperialism has its origin dating back to the Romans. So, imperialism has a longer history than compared to colonialism. Finally, note that examples of colonialism include settlements of places like India, Australia, North America, Algeria, New Zealand and Brazil. Examples of imperialism include Roman, British imperialism and the American domination of Puerto Rico and the Philippines. These are all the differences between colonialism and imperialism. See, these are not stark differences, but there lies a minute difference. When you think over what I discussed till now. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion, we have seen about the terms colonialism, imperialism and some of the minor differences between colonialism and imperialism. With this, let's move on to the next article discussion. Have a look at this text and context article here. It speaks about carbon markets. Why suddenly this is in news? See, recently the parliament has paused the energy conservation amendment bill. See, this bill empowers the central government to establish carbon markets in India. That's why carbon markets made news today. Now, in this context, let's learn about carbon markets in detail. First of all, what are carbon markets? See, carbon markets are a tool which aims to put a price on carbon emissions. The carbon markets also sought to establish emission trading systems. See, emission trading systems is nothing but the system which provides the platform for buying and selling the carbon credits or carbon allowances. Which agreement provides for a carbon market? See, article 6 of the 2015 Paris Agreement provides for the use of carbon markets. As per this article only, the Indian government tries to establish the carbon markets. Now, we will see about them in detail. As we saw earlier, carbon markets sought to establish trading systems where carbon credits or carbon allowances can be brought and sold in the market. Know that a carbon credit is a kind of tradable permit. See, as per the UN standards, carbon credit equals 1 ton of carbon dioxide removed, reduced or sequestered from the atmosphere. See, this is as per UN standards. Now, coming to the types of carbon markets. See, there are broadly two types of carbon markets. They are compliance market and voluntary markets. Now, let's see them one by one. Firstly, let's take voluntary markets. See, in voluntary markets, the emitters such as corporations, private individuals and others will buy carbon credits to offset the emissions made by them. Know that the carbon credits are created by activities such as afforestation, greener energy production etc. Because these activities reduce CO2 from the air. Then, in a voluntary market, a corporation purchases carbon credits from an entity which is engaged in projects that reduce, remove, capture or avoid emissions. Now, why does a corporation purchase carbon credit? See, they purchase the carbon credits to compensate for their unavoidable emissions. For example, in the aviation sector, the airlines may purchase carbon credits to offset the carbon footprint of the flights they operate. Now, talking about compliance markets. See, the compliance markets are set up by policies at the national, regional or international level and they are officially regulated. This means that the compliance markets are regulated by the government. So, the corporations and private individuals must other to the principles which are put forward by the government. This is all about the types. Now, coming to India specific information. See, India already has two certificates related to climate change. They are renewable energy certificates and energy saving certificates. Now, the energy conservation bill 2020 empowers the center to specify a carbon credits trading scheme. These new carbon credit certificates will be of tradable nature. Under the bill, the central government or an authorized agency will be able to issue carbon credit certificates. This is all about carbon credit trading scheme in India. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. Through this discussion, we saw about the term carbon credits and also about India's plan for establishing carbon trading scheme. With these learned points, now let's move on to the next part of our discussion, which is nothing but the prelims practice question discussion. Today, I have taken five different questions for our discussion. Four will be discussed by me and one will be quiz question for you. Now, coming to the first question, let me read out the question for you. Which of the following statements are incorrect about food and agricultural organization? Statement one, it is an human body. See, the statement is correct. We have seen about this in the discussion itself. Now, coming to the second statement. European Union is the only member organization of FAO. See, the statement is also correct. As of now, EU is the only member organization, other are member nations. Now, coming to the third statement. World Food Program is the food agency of FAO. See, the statement is incorrect. World Food Program is the food aid agency of the United Nations system, which was created in the year 1963. It provides food aid to save lives in emergency situations, to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at crucial times in their lives. Here, note that it works sometime with FAO, but not an agency of FAO. Rather, it is an agency of UN. So, statement three is wrong. Since the question asks for the incorrect statement, the correct answer for this question will be option D, three only. Now, coming to the second question. Consider the following statements regarding comic acid drones. First statement, it is also called as loitering missiles because they hover around the target area for some time and attack after the target is locked. See, this is correct. This we saw in the discussion itself. Cami acid drones are also called as loitering missile because they hover around the target area for some time and it will attack only after the target is located. Statement one is correct. Now, coming to the second statement. Cami acid drones got their name from a tactic attack adapted by Germany during the World War II. See, this statement is incorrect. The name Cami acid is derived from a tactic adapted by Japanese during the World War II. So, this statement is wrong. Now, coming to the answer of this question. The correct answer for this question is option A, one only. Now, moving on to the third question. See, it is also a two statement question. We are asked to find out the correct statement. Statement one. Dutch was the first European country to establish control over Policat. See, this statement is incorrect. Portuguese was the first European country to establish control over Policat region. Portuguese controlled this region from the year 1502 but they were overthrown by Dutch when they built a fort in the Policat region in the year 1613. So, statement one is incorrect. Now, coming to the second statement. Dutch won the battle of Bidara and established themselves as a leading commercial company in Bengal. See, this statement is incorrect. See, this battle is also called as battle of Chinsura or battle of Oogli. This battle took place in the year 1759 and it was won by British and not Dutch. See, Dutch lost this battle and ended commercial relations with India and concentrated on Dutch East Indies which is also called as Indonesia. See, both the statements given here are wrong. So, the correct answer for this question is option D, neither one nor two. Now, coming to the last question. See, this is a previous year question. Let me read out the question. Which one of the following best describes the term greenwashing? See, the correct answer for this question is option A. Greenwashing is the process of conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company's product or more environmentally sound. Greenwashing is generally done by multinational companies to make an impression that their products are sustainable in nature. So, the correct answer is option A. Here is the quiz question displayed for you. Interested aspirants can post the right answer in the comment section. With this, we have come to the end of the prelims practice question discussion. The main practice question is displayed here. Interested aspirants can write the answer and post it in the comment section. With this, we have come to the end of this discussion. If you have liked our video, please hit the like button, do comment and share it with your friends. Thank you for listening.


Israel is at war and it's very difficult to assess what is truly a violation of property rights during a state of war. I believe that this war was a war initiated by the Palestinians. I think this is a war that can only end if the Palestinians want to end it. They will only want to end it if their philosophy changes significantly or if they are vanquished, crushed by the Israelis and therefore they know they have lost. The problem is not property rights, the problem is the war.


Hi, my name is Wei Guazen. My name is Jianjun Chen. My name is Jianjun Newkirk. We are all from Yokomori Lab, Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, and today we are going to talk about our work on FSHD. Facial scapular humor muscular dystrophy. For short, FSHD is the third most common inherited muscular dystrophy in the US. The main symptom of FSHD is the progressive atrophy of facial, shoulder, and upper arm muscles. The majority of FSHD is linked to the deletion of the repeat sequence, D4Z4. D4Z4 locates in the subterrometric region of chromosome 4 long arm. Normally, each D4Z4 allele contains 11 to 150 repeats, while for 95% FSHD patients, 1 D4Z4 allele has less than 10 repeats. This is named FSHD1. In a small percentage of F-patients, the D4Z4 repeat number is still normal, but they show similar symptoms. This is so-called FSHD2. Recently, it was found that more than 80% of the FSHD2 patients have mutations in SMCHD1 gene. Previously, our lab showed that D4Z4 contains trimethylation of lysine 9 residue of histone H3, a marker for repressive heterochromatin. Why in both FSHD1 and FSHD2 D4Z4, this modification is significantly decreased, indicating the disruption of D4Z4 heterochromatin in FSHD. With the abolishment of histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation, the binding of two protein factors, HP1-gamma and cohesin on D4Z4 is also impaired in FSHD. Although the loss of histone H3 lysine 9 trimethylation heterochromatin appears to signify that FSHD is functional significance was unclear. Each D4Z4 repeat harbors a DOX4 open reading frame which encodes for a transcriptional activator protein. DOX4 is upregulated in FSHD muscle cells and overexpression of DOX4 caused muscle differentiation defects. Therefore, DOX4 is considered to play a critical role in allowing FSHD pathogenesis. In order to investigate whether the chromatin state affects DOX4 expression, we use two different methods to perturb the heterochromatin at D4Z4 in human and motorized myoblasts. One is by chemical inhibition of H3K9 trimethylation using ketosing. The other is SHRNA depletion of the methyl transferase, SUVAR39H1. Both methods resulted in decreased H3K9 trimethylation at D4Z4 and also caused an upregulation of DOX4 gene expression. These results indicate that H3K9 trimethylation contributes to repression of DOX4 transcription. Previous studies showed that SMCHD1 binds at the D4Z4 repeat and depletion of SMCHD1 resulted in upregulation of DOX4. Therefore, we tested whether H3K9 trimethylation affects SMCHD1 binding at D4Z4. Again, by both chemical inhibition and SHRNA depletion, we found that decreased H3K9 trimethylation indeed resulted in less SMCHD1 binding at D4Z4. These results suggest that the loss of H3K9 trimethylation at D4Z4 contributes to the loss of SMCHD1 and turns leads to abnormal DOX4 expression in FSHD. Through a sequencing of 280 PCR clones, we found that the PCR products from 4Q and 10Q D4Z4 showed only a two nucleotide difference from one another with no other heterogeneity. In contrast, the D4Z4 homologs and seven other chromosomes were highly heterogeneous with interruptions in the DOX4 open reading frame in 90% of clones. Our results indicate that the D4Z4 repeats on chromosome 4Q and 10Q are unusually well conserved in comparison to other D4Z4 homologs. Using chip assay and QPCR primaries specific to 4Q, 10Q, D4Z4 and other homologs, we found that the loss of histone H3K9 trimethylation and HP1 gamma cohesin binding in FSHD patients is only restricted to 4Q, 10Q, D4Z4 but not on other D4Z4 homologs. This result further indicates the role of 4Q, 10Q, D4Z4 in FSHD pathogenesis. Our study showed for the first time that the D4Z4 heterochromatin plays a role in regulating DOX4 expression. We also showed the genetic and epigenetic distinction between the 4Q, 10Q, D4Z4 and the non-4Q, 10Q homologs which highlights the special role of the 4Q, 10Q, D4Z4 heterochromatin.


Now, you want to remove the inside tenderloins, which are very small pieces of meat, but the most tender muscle on the deer. This is a pretty big prize.   Go down the sides of the spine to free it. Cut straight across the muscle and then go up against the spine. Now it should be loose. It's not very big, but it is delicious. Some people will even strip down both sides with their fingers to loosen the sides and then they'll cut the ends loose. They just kind of pop out.


So good morning. Thank you for attending a Sunday morning talk. So today, we're going to talk about Android Packers. How do they work? We're going to analyze a few of them. And I'm going to show a method we developed, a tool that can handle most. It's a generic way to handle most of the Packers in the market. So who are we? So I'm Avi. I'm currently a founder at MyDRO. But I was formerly a mobile R&D team leader at Checkpoint for a few years. And this is where I did this research. And before that, I was a security research at the LACUL Mobile Security. And unfortunately, Slava, my co-presenter, could not attend today, but except being a very talented researcher and a good friend, he also did a lot of the heavy lifting around this research. We miss you, Slava. So let's go to business. So boxing apps. OK. So malware offers use various boxing or packing techniques to prevent static code analysis and reverse engineering. Malware offer invested a lot of time in developing this cool malware. And it doesn't want the security guys to understand what's happening, detecting it, using their automatic tools, or with manual reverse engineering. This is the same as in the PC world where most of the Packers and most of the Malware today are packed. So how can one protect his code? So they can use a proprietary technique or a third party software that can protect the app's code. So what does this software should do? So this includes code protection, anti-debugging, anti-tampering, dumping, all of the methods that will prevent the security guys, the static code analysis engines, the reverse engineering from understanding what's happening inside the app, the malware. And what was our motive to this research? So in the PC world, it's for years now that Malwares are packed by different Packers. And also, we see this trend rising in the Android world. And this is a snapshot of an analysis done in the checkpoint systems from May. And we saw there that almost 25% of the packed apps were detected by us as Malwares. And we asked ourselves, can we maybe improve the detection? Is this really the amount of malicious apps from all of the packed apps? Or maybe we are missing something because we're not going and doing static code analysis or full static code analysis for this app, these apps, because they are packed. So this was our motive in order to understand how packing works and to find a generic way to unpack them. So what techniques exist to protect an app's code? So let's talk about the main three. We have obfuscators, Packers, and Protectors. So what is obfuscation? So obfuscation is adding redundant code to the main apps code that doesn't affect the functionality of the app and changing the function names and the variable names. And this is done in order to prevent a reverse engineer to understand what's happening inside the app. And today in the Android world, there's a default obfuscator tool called ProGuard, which comes with Android Studio and used by most of the Android developers. But I have to say it's not the best obfuscator in the market. And for not a really experienced reverse engineer, it shouldn't be any problem to understand what's happening inside the app. And another method which we are going to concentrate here today in our talk is Packers. And what does packing do? So let's say I have an APK, an Android app, and it contains a DEX file. What's a DEX file? It's the small byte code that happens to the code after it's being compiled. And this is what Android executes. So I have the original code. And what the packing process do is it takes this original code and encrypts it, packs it in some manner. And the way it opens it, it adds a packer loader, which will be now the entry points for the execution of the app. And once the app is executed, the packer loader will take the bundled original encrypted DEX file and load it to the memory, unpack it, and load it to the memory so it can be used by the app. And there's also protectors that works in a bit of a different way. They take the original DEX file, but they don't only encrypt it, but they also modify it. While they are doing that, they want to add another layer of protection. Let's say one of the protectors that we saw in the wild adds an encryption in a class level, meaning if only when a class is initiated, lovely. The only when a class is initiated, it will be decrypted. And what's surprising here is that we didn't see a lot of use of protectors in the wild. And what we thought is because it might affect the logic of the malware, malware offers don't use it as much as packers. So we decided to concentrate in our research on packers. So in order to understand more on how packers work, we need to go back a bit to basics and understand some things about Android. So let's talk a bit about art, the Android Runtime VM. This is a schematic of how things look in Android 6, which is good enough for us in order to understand this world. So what happens, how does Android Runtime VM works? So the Android Runtime VM can work in two modes. One, interpreting the Smalley bytecode. And the second is working with a compiled bytecode ahead of time compilation. That was something that was introduced in Android 4.4. And what happens is when you install an app, it goes through a process of compilation. And then the VM will work on a compiled ELF code. And while this was done, this allows to gain a lot of improvements in RAM, battery performance, and startup runtime of the application. But it's important to remember that the VM can work in both ways, interpreting a Smalley code or with a compiled native. So what happens when you load a DEX file, when you start an app? So you trigger the zygote process, which is an empty process that contains preloaded classes. And it's not in order to short the startup time of the app. And what happens, the zygote process forks itself into an empty app process and loads the app code, the ODE file. But what happens if the ODE file is missing? So what will happen is that it will trigger DEX to ODE. That's the process that compiles the DEX file into an ODE file. And we'll use the ODE file in order to execute the app. So I talked a bit about ODE files and let's try to explain what is it. So ODE file is basically an ELF file with some added sections. One of them is ODE data, which contains the original DEX file. And one of them is the ODE exec, which contains the compiled version of the DEX file. And both of these sections are used by Android, the artVM when executing an app. One is for creation of different headers and the one for interpreting the app. But it's important again to note that you don't have to have the native file, all of the ODE exec in order to execute an app. You can backfall to the smaller version and interpret the code. So now that we understand a bit more about Android, let's try to think about ways to unpack an app. So the first one can be finding the algorithm. We can try to analyze the different packers, try to analyze how do they pack an app, which algorithm they use and do the back steps in order to decrypt the app. The problem with this is that this doesn't scale. You need to understand each packer how it works. And even if a packer only do a minor modification to the packing algorithm, your script will break and you need to start your research again. So this is not the way we want it to go. Another method could be extracting DEX file from the compiled ODE. As I said, we have the DEX file inside the ODE. But what we saw in different packers that you don't have to have the DEX file inside the ODE, you need only part of it. So some of the packers delete the DEX file from the ODE so you can just take it and use the DEX file. Another method might be dumping the DEX from the memory. But again, this does not always work because the DEX file might be missing and the packer will use the ODE file. So we wind up thinking about using a custom Android ROM, which this is something we already do in Checkpoint. We have a dynamic analysis engine. And maybe introducing a few modifications to the custom Android ROM that will allow us to dump, to place a few hooks in an interesting places. And this will allow us to dump the DEX file and pass it to our static code analysis engine. So before continuing on, I want to talk about a few notable works that was done in this area. One of them was Android Hacker Protection Level Zero. It was presented here in DEF CON a few years ago and it's a very good talk that talks about the different packers and protectors in the wild. And they also released a few sets of scripts that dumps, that work on some of the packers and dumps the DEX file. Another very interesting talk is from the guys that released the DEX Hunter tool, which is a modified version of the Android Dolby Core R2DM and it really reconstructs a new DEX file from the memory. And while this is a very interesting project, it was not what we aimed for. We wanted to get the original DEX file before the packing process was began, in order to have the same hash as the original file. So we want to go in a different path. So what was our approach? We wanted to find a solution that would require minimal changes to the Android source code so it will be portable. And we work on most of the packers. So how did we do it? How did we address the problem? So we took the most popular packers that we witnessed in our systems and we reversed them. We additionally analyzed the way Android loads a DEX file in order to understand freely how it works. And the result was a patch of a few lines of the Android runtime that will allow us to dump the files and analyze it in our static code analysis. So what were the analyzed packers that we looked on? So the most popular packers encountered were Baidu, Bankel, Tencent, Ali, and Fee 60, Jiago. And Baidu is the same huge Baidu Chinese company that you know, they also have a packing service. It's a web service, you send an APK and you get the packed version of it. And it was very surprising to see that they offer this kind of service. So in this talk I'm going to talk about Baidu and Bankel. And what's interesting about them that they work in a bit in a different method, but covering both of them allowed us to find a solution that works on almost all of the packers we encountered. So let's try to think about the abstract way which in a packer should work. So as I said, you have the packer loader. It will load the bundled packed DEX. So it will load the DEX, this will trigger libart, the RTVM to work, and opening the DEX file, map it to the memory, and then you have the DEX in the memory. But something is missing here. Where does the unpacking process takes place? So what we thought is that most of the unpacking process will be inside a native lib function and file. And why? Because reversing all the native file will be harder for reverse engineers. So it's a good idea to put your unpacking logic in an obfuscated and protected manner. And for that you need to not do it in the Java bytecode packer loader, but in a separate native file. And what does this native file do? It needs to interject itself somewhere so it could decrypt and unpack the packed file. So he will do it with hooking. It might hook libart libc, and now that when libart will open the file, the unpacking process will take place. And in the end, libart will get the original DEX file that it can execute. So cool, now that we thought about an hypothesis of how a packer should work, we want to verify if it's really what we see in the field. So let's look on the first packer, Banco. So in order to identify Banco, it's very easy. It has various classes which shows in every packed app by Banco and different files. One of them is the native packer, which is used to unpack an app. And the packed version of the DEX file, which is Banco classes. And this is a snippet of the Java loader implementation. And we can see that Banco loads a native lib file and calls fujini, which is a bridge between Java and calling native functions to functions from this native file. And then it loads the DEX file, which will trigger libart.so. So we wanted to understand what's happening inside the native file. So we tried to open it with IDA and it crashed. And this is one step afterwards. And after we fixed it, and I'll explain in a second how we did it, but what we noticed here that we didn't see any mapping between the native functions and the functions names in the Java interface, meaning something is missing here. Where does this mapping happens? So what we needed to do is understand the mapping. So I'll take a step backwards and I said that IDA crashed. Why did IDA crash? We know that this file is in use, so it should work. But when we dumped the file headers using the file headers, we saw that some of the segments were missing. We didn't see the text segment. So what we noticed is it is defined in the dynamics section and we had to manually reconstruct the different sections in the file from the info we got from the dynamic section. And then we could analyze it in IDA. But that wasn't enough because even when we opened the file in IDA, the entry point was not valid. It didn't point to anything interesting. So something else is happening here. So what happens here is that there's a call to an init function from the dynamic section. And what does this init function do? So what it does is the native file contains a compressed section of the code and the init function decompresses this code and overrides the text section. And now the entry point, the original entry point of the ELF is valid. And what we saw is that one of the functions inside the native file is JNI load. And JNI load provides the mapping between the functions in the native file to the JNI, to the Java. So now we could understand what does the function do. Okay. So now let's see how Banco works. So the first function extracts a file from the assets. And the second one, which is the interesting one, forks three different processes. The first one is just the apps process. The second one is an anti-debugging process which does different tricks in order to prevent us from understanding what's happening. And the third one is only executes when the ODE file does not exist. And as we know, this mostly is the first time when the dynamic dex is loaded. But it doesn't execute dex to ODE in a regular way, but it uses an LD preload in order to hook some of the functions in dex to ODE and create a special kind of version of an ODE file. This ODE file will be later used by R2VM when executing the file. Windows. Okay. So what does the hooking in Banco do? So on the left, so it hooks eight different functions and we have here an example of one of the function hooks and the way it hooks them. So we can see on the left an open add function without any hooking. And on the right, we can see the hooked version and we can see that the first bytes were overwritten and what it does, it changes the PC register in order to change the flow of execution to the unpacking process of that. So let's do a recap of Banco and how it works. So it creates a pack or loader as a Java activity to load the native library. The native library is protected with different anti-research techniques that we had to bypass and what it does, it hooks LibC for the unpacking process. And what it does is when LibArt encounters the ODE file, it will unpack it and provide an unpacked version to the LibArt VM. So we understand how Banco works. Let's look on Biden. So again, for classification, this is pretty straightforward. We can see that we have the stop application and the stop provider, which are the classes used by Biden. And again, a native Lib and the packed original Dex. And again, the same. We couldn't see the mapping between the native functions used in the loader to the functions in the native Lib. And you can see that again, Biden used the index section in order to decompress some of the code because again, we couldn't see it in either. And only after the compression, we could understand what's happening inside the file. And again, it is using the JNIL load function to provide the mapping and do some other interesting stuff. And these are the things it does. So it has an anti debugging technique that I will elaborate. And registration of the native methods, meaning the mapping between the JNI and the native functions, and it extracts the packed Dex from the asset and create an empty Dex file, not a known file, but a Dex file, and provide the hooking. So what are the anti debugging techniques used in Biden? So we have office station, log disabling, it checks that GDP isn't executed and JWP isn't executed and a few other more anti debugging techniques. And we can see that the hooking in LeapArt by Biden is a bit different. It hooks the Android log print function in order to prevent any logging. So if you try to debug it, you can't.  And it hooks the exec v function. And when Dex2Oats is executed by Android, it prevents the compilation of the Dex file, meaning the OAT exec section, it won't be empty, but Android won't use it to execute the logic of the app. It will fall back to the smiling code. And it hooks the function open, meaning when Android tries to look for the one.jar file, instead it will decrypt the packed Dex file and supply it to LeapArt VM. So again, let's see what Biden does. So it creates a stub in the Java activity. It, the native lib is protected with different anti research techniques and it hooks LeapArt for handling opening of the Dex file. Well, this looks a bit familiar, but this is a different packer, or almost a different packer. So what can we understand from here? That most of the unpacking process might be generic with a few minor changes. We can see that the trigger for decryption by the different packers is when libc opens the file. And in Bankel, it's when it's opening a class as an old file. And in Baidu, it's when it's opening the Dex file. And if it will hook, place hooks in the first places in the LeapArt VM process when it tries to open an old file and a Dex file and dump the files, we should have the decrypted version, the unpacked version of the Dex file. So that's exactly what we did. We understood the way an app is loaded by the art VM and whereas the first places we can place a hook in the VM and the code in the floor of loading, so we can dump the files. So one function in the old loading process and one in the Dex loading process. And as you can see, it's only a few lines of code. One is free and one's a few more. And this allows us to dump the decrypted version of packed files, packed Dex files. So let's see a demo. Okay, I'll try to, cool. So this is a demo of a tool we created that will generic unpack most of the packers. And what you see now in the background, we open now an app which is packed and you can see by Bankel and you can see the Dex file, the packed Dex file which you can't really understand what's happening here because it's packed. Now we will execute our app and it's our tool which is a forked version of the AOS Prom of Android. And I'll try to fast forward this and unfortunately I can't, so we'll have to wait. So what's happening here is the Android emulator is loading and once it's loaded, we will load the app and our hooks, our two different hooks will dump two versions of this Dex file. One should be valid and one should be not. It depends how the packer works. Some of the packers hooks in both places, some of them hooks only one of the loading and one of the loading flows. But this enables us to unpack the apps. So, well this will take a few more seconds, sorry. Okay, so how are you guys today? What I can mention is that the hooking used by the packers are not persistent. They place the hooks during the loading process and then they remove it. So it's a good, it was, we had to really understand when the hooks are placed so we could dump the Dex file in the right time because trying to connect later on with GDB and dump the memory or execute or just dump it in afterwards after the app is already executed won't always work. So it was crucial for us to understand the Dex loading process. And, well Android is so slow. Oh man. Okay, you'll have to believe me it works but you don't need to believe me. You can download the tool for yourself from our repository. And it's not a compiled version of Android but a patch that you can apply and the script that wraps the unpacking process and you can go over them, execute them and see that it works and enjoy it. So sorry, so we understood how the packing process works by different packers and we only introduced a few minor changes to their RVM and this enabled us to work on like 90% of the packers we encounter in those systems. And what was very interesting, we could, this change allowed us to to send an unpacked version of the Dex files to our style code analysis systems and we got a 50% increase in detection of maliciousness of packed apps from this feature, which was very good for us. Thank you, thank you, we're far too kind. And that's it, if you have any questions, feel free to ask.


We had a video where we did a tour of a few places, I think four different places. We did not end up getting any of them. We got this place instead. I don't want to say I'm 10 times more happy with this place. This place is insane because we're settling down here for at least six months, maybe a year. Who knows? So we wanted to find the perfect place and I could tell you we definitely found the perfect place.  We got super lucky. We got very lucky. I don't know how we got here. I feel like I don't deserve this. I know, I know. This is way beyond anything I've ever lived at before. All right, here we got our motor bikes. This, look, it's a security corner. Oh, okay, let's get into that. The place comes with staff. Six staff members. There's a night security, day security made, which will also cook and do any errands we ask. Gardener, pool guy, like, it's all included in the rent.  At the end of the video we'll talk about that. So it's five bedrooms, five bathrooms. We're only two people, but we do plan to have more people move in. In a, in a comment a few months ago, someone asked, have we ever thought about making a mastermind house? And we said, yes, we had, but this kind of came about organically. That's what this can become is a mastermind house to me, but it totally can be because it's so massive. So yeah, let's get started. All right, this is the grand entrance, grand entry. Oh, damn. So I'm a little pissed. There's supposed to be a waterfall going here. It makes a big difference, but there's no waterfall. So we'll have to do with this. Oh, this is nice. All right, let's keep walking. Look at this. That nice Balinese, it must be chilly inside. So this is the main entryway. This is where we like, once you open the doors, you'll see, you'll see everything. I'm just going to open it. It's always really cool when you open the door. Uh-huh. All right, ready? Ready? Yes. Boom. So this is the main living area. Lots going on. Pool table, TV, stereo, couches, what is this? Han in the freaking living room. It's a little bit dirty. We talked about this. We're going to get some, we're getting two turtles. Well, we're talking about at least. And I'm naming mine Sheldon, and mine's going to be Frank. Yeah, so Sheldon and Frank then. Also want to get fish. So we actually just moved in yesterday. So the place is actually still a little bit dirty. I think a lot, yeah. Yeah, a little dirty. Yeah. We're still getting settled. I haven't even unpacked at all. We also, we played pool last night. I need to, I need to break once. Okay. Real quick. Oh, you play some music too. Cool video effects. Yeah, cool video effects here.  A 10 like that didn't happen. No, you gotta, you gotta reset. There you go. All right. Yeah, we haven't liked so much yet. This place sleeps 20 people. Yeah, it sleeps 20 people. So it could totally hold an insane party. Yeah. We just want to work, honestly. But we'll see if it comes about. Maybe that'll happen. I don't know. All right. Which way do you want to go? Which way do you want to go? Let's go to the bedrooms first. Oh, these bedrooms? All right. So there's five bedrooms. There's one on each side right here. These are like the shitty bedrooms. These are pretty clean. They're the shitty bedrooms. Yeah. Oh, slides. I always make that mistake. Yeah. It does lead to the bathroom. You have to walk down this path. Okay, this is kind of cool. It's here, which of course it's locked. Why is every door locked? It's always locked. Every door is a gate also. Here. Hello. Can you take a shit? Let's get to you back this way. Yeah. Ow, ow. So the other bedroom. So this will be bedroom number five. As in the worst one. As in the worst one. This one's up. Here comes bedroom number four. The fourth best one, or the second worst one, is a very typical Balinese style bathroom is super outdoorsy. And a lot of these are. So this one's not, this is not the most outdoorsy one, but it's like a 50-50.   Of course with these outdoor style bathrooms and houses, there come a lot of negatives. Yesterday, first day, there's so many things. Animals.  It's like a zoo. Basically the Balinese forest. Yeah, it's like a zoo. So massive insects, beetles this big, massive spiders. Haven't seen them yet. Here. Yeah. I know we will. Yeah. There was a lizard on the wall this big. It was actually that big. Yeah. Fuck, is there a ladder? Everyone's comment is that it's not a ladder. You is. It's a towel rack. Yeah. Like, now we know that. It didn't make much sense. But now it does. Okay. Continue this way. All right, so let's continue this way. Back here. Here's the chill zone. You would think that we bought this pool ring. This donut pool ring. How much we love donuts. I mean, look at the screen saver on my phone. This is not like. It's donuts. We're passionate about donuts. Yeah.  Basically. So the fact that this is here. Perfect. What's the sign? This place is meant for us. Yeah. All right. So we did get a six month lease. And we actually paid for everything up front. So that's nice. Yes, it was a lot of money to pay at once. But don't have to worry about rent for the next six months. Yeah. Right. All right. So this is where we're going to be working. I'm going to show. Oh. Behind the scenes. Behind the scenes. I think this video will come out before we're working on a new program here. Look, show them the name of it. 10K iBook Booster Program. Behind the scenes. Play the video. This is our sales video. Well, I don't want to give away too much. Anyway, you'll see that. And so yeah, that's the little thing that we're working on. I don't know if this is going to come after or before we come out with this. Because that will be next week. Right. And imagine this is where we're going to be doing all our work. Well, it already is. That's where I know how to work. Let's look at the kitchen. So I wish. Oh my God. I wish the staff was here so you guys could meet them. Oh, they're awesome. They're really awesome. Like the maid. So it's a maid slash cook. Her name is Fidri. But I was having trouble saying her name. It's like, it's okay.  Just call me mama. Just call me mama. The sweetest thing you did about this time. Maybe that's all. It's like this tall. She's really short. Really wonderful woman. And then kitchen. Kitchen here pretty basic. So we won't be spending much time here. Just a little something to cook our food for us.  Oh my God. I've always done everything myself. I never had anyone to clean up. Now we can just work and make videos all day. Yeah. So yeah. So let's continue this way to bedroom number three. If anyone's living here, we want to kick them out. You're going to get the third best. Should we give them... No, no. They're not going to get ours. The house is... No, no, no, no. We keep ours. Yeah, of course. This bedroom has a building to itself. Yeah. Nice chill zone. Yeah. Oh, maybe you saw it in the B roll. I was jumping into the pool from there. I'll be honest. It was pretty dangerous. We got some real big chess games. Never gonna use this again. Whoever wins the road to 10K challenge. This is where you'll be sleeping. This is where you will be sleeping. I got to say I love these mosquitoes because they make you feel like a princess. I slept my first night in my bed. I felt and woke up like a princess. And it was an amazing feeling. This bathroom is pretty shitty. All comparative. And there's another... And then here we have another patio section. I don't imagine any of us will be spending any time here. This is too hot. Ow. Ow, this is very hot. Yeah. Okay, back to the toilet. All right, next let's go to the master bedroom. What? Yeah, let's go to the master bedroom. Okay, we'll go to the... Which is where I'm sleeping. I'm sleeping in the master bedroom. I'm not lying. I honestly... I'm sweating and this is cardio. Work zone was down there. Just to give you some orientation. And then here we have a house and a shower. And a gazebo that sleeps like a lot of people. It sleeps... The place sleeps 20 in total. I feel like you could totally just stuff 10 people in here. Yeah. On each level. But yeah, I mean literally it's beds. It's made for that. Those are the mosquito net and everything. If you want to sleep outside, you can. Outdoor shower. Nice little yawn. Nice to have. Oh, wait. I'm noticing this is the first time.  Oh, wow. I haven't seen that before. Wow. That's sick. That is pretty sick. All right. This is the master bedroom. It's over here. My bedroom.  That's hot. Yeah, maybe you're wondering why Christian gets the master bedroom and not me. I honestly prefer the other one better. This one is technically the master, but the other one is newer. It's actually like an addition to the building.  But I have the best bathroom by far. Yeah, your bathroom is sick. Your bathroom is sick. Yeah. So walk-in closet there. This is what I was talking about with the princess. Yeah. Nice to have. What's back here? There's a work desk there. Um, what's in here? I think the bathroom is this way. It's locked. Okay, this. Okay, the bathroom. I love this bathroom. This bathroom is freaking awesome. Look, this is like brand new, actually, unlike all the other ones. Yeah. Check out this bathtub. The bathtub. Yeah. And look at the artwork. Look at the artwork. I didn't even realize that. I know. I didn't even realize that.  But um, yeah, this is really crazy to be honest. Yeah. It has like a whole garden and everything. Yeah. Just why don't we end up here? I don't know. Oh, here's one other thing I want to say. So this entire place is funded by audiobooks. All of it. All of it. Not any, because people know we have a course. Course is done well. None of the course might have gone into this at all. This is just publishing. Mm-hmm. So publishing literally created this. Mm-hmm. Yeah, what's it called? 100%. Yeah, yeah. The course makes us stay in the business. Yeah.  Some people, yeah, I just want to make people aware of that. Like the course money, we have not spent a single penny of it on ourselves. Mm-hmm. So that's all been the business investing in more audiobooks, more publishing, pays for the business to grow. Mm-hmm. All right. So there's one more building to show. It's the building that I live in. I have it all to myself. Mm-hmm. The whole freaking, all right, let's run there. All right, let's run there. Let's run there. Staff building. Yeah, a friendly thing. And you know what? I feel really bad because the whole place is really nice. And that's, I don't know. I didn't make the rules. Yeah. No, we let them use the whole house, obviously. Obviously, obviously. Honestly, I don't think they use this. Yeah, I know. They says the staff building, but no, clearly this is never used. Okay. So, all right, so this is my, okay, area of the villa. Wait, where does that door go? Oh, right. So leads out to the driveway. Oh, gotcha. Yeah, okay. All right, let's go up here to my room and a spiral staircase that leads to the rooftop. We'll end it up there. Yeah, we'll end there. Also, check, okay. No, well, the view is better from the rooftop. So let's wait till we get there. Yeah, that's my room. Exactly, this is why. I'm taking your fridge. No, yeah, I'm taking my fridge. I'm on the fridge.  Nothing in there. Probably won't even use it. No, because I was in bed and I needed water. And I was like, fuck, I have to go. That's why they did it. So far. It's a long trek for me. Yeah. I can just go here. So your bathroom is not that sick though.  I got the sick bathroom. You get the fridge. Yeah. Yes, that's the give and take. Wow. How did Charleston came here? Okay. To the villa. All right.  So this is, this is bedroom number two. Yeah, this is a master with number one. Yeah, this one's number two. All right. So that's all five of them. All we have left is the rooftop here to show. So let's do that real quick. Here is one thing I just realized. Yeah. Like we just talked, I just talked to mom yesterday. They're having a snowstorm back home. Oh man. Yeah. Here's like 80 degrees, 85, like 30 Celsius. So we were talking about, we want to make some, a few additions to the place. We're going to make a water slide. A DJ booth. The master pool parties we plan on throwing. Let's go down to the pool. Yeah, yeah, actually. No, I just, I never realized that it came with a huge bong. A huge bong. That's what this is. Sick. Sound like, it sounds like there was someone here. All right. All right. So now we're back, chill here. This is the grind zone. What does it chill here? Let's sit down. How about that? Can we go in the pool? Yeah. Yeah. Let's go in the pool and talk from there. Okay. Yes. Definitely going to the pool. I'm jumping in from the top. I'm going from up there. All right. Okay. Now we'll do a backflip. I haven't done a backflip in a really long time. Fuck. I might land on my head with that at least sentence in the water. I'm saying nailed it. I said that was successful. All right. You got to move.  But I don't. All right. So what are some things we need to cover? Oh, yeah. The price. Yeah. I mean, so originally. No, first. First of all, our budget was. Is there more to say about the mastermind thing? Is there more to say about it? No. I don't think so. Our budget for the villa was $3,000 a month.  So can we talk like, yeah, $5,000 a month? Like, wait, what? Why the hell do we even see in this place? Wasting our time. Yeah. Like our budget's $3,000. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's $3,300. I was like, okay. Damn, that's a good offer. They came down really quick. So I feel like they were just pretending the whole time anyway. Right. Yeah. Launched our short. We took it because we see the value in what it can do. Yeah. So $3,300 a month is a lot. And it's like, for us, it is as well. Especially when it's just us too. But I plan to have more people move in, which I think is going to be awesome. And it's going to be people that can help grow our business.  I'm here to grow my business. We're in Bali to level up. Mm-hmm. So that's where it comes out to. Um, so is that all of it? Yeah. Is there any more to say? For the magic emoji of the day, which can only be the doughnut? Which can only be this. That's an emoji doughnut. If you watch the video to the end. Doughnut emojis. What did I say? Emoji doughnuts. I guess that works too. So we forget to do. If you like the video, leave a like. Oh, subscribe to the channel if you want to learn how to make money online with publishing and all that other good stuff.   All right, real quick. We have a mini course, a free mini course about audiobook publishing. 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What is up, everybody? Jason here from jazbeastcasebrakes.com. Happy new release day, guys. We got 2024 Top Series 1 Baseball Jumbo Edition sold out. Six box case break. Pick your team number two. Number to dose. And Oma actually got number two sold out there. So thank you, buddy. Another case in, guys. Now, we have seven cases up on the website. And pretty much all the breaks are at five or less, as little as three left. And the last three teams are pretty much $20 team, guys. So give it a shot, guys.  Not really the case, guys. Remember, these boxes only cost about, like, $150 a box, or $160, actually, how much they cost, but definitely under $200. So, again, remember, for that reason why, and it's only six boxes, can't really charge too much for a lot of these teams, minus some of them ones with the bigger rookies. And again, it's such a huge product. They print so much of this. So many different parallels, variations, autographs, checklists. I mean, every team's got a little something. So I'd say it's always a fun rip. You know, it comes out once a year and then you get serious, too. Then you get update. So it's always fun. I don't really have the link prime. So if you want to just go to the Fanatics... If you want to go to the Fanatics app, it's easier to find it that way. I don't even know our exact link. Fanatics Live is a little different. Our website's easier here, jasmicecasebreaks.com. Oh, nice. Awesome. Yeah, I know.  So, you know, we stream on multiple platforms, just obviously, because I want to try to rip as much as we can here. But sometimes stuff flies here faster than Fanatics Live. Sometimes Fanatics Live flies faster. That all just depends. Talking about the cheap thing now. I work Thursday, Friday, Saturday. So if I go, I wouldn't be till Sunday. But I believe Nick will just be walking around buying some stuff. But we will not have a booth or anything like that, no. That's interesting. Yeah, me working basically the weekend kind of restricts me of going to shows, really. I don't know if I went through all this already yet or not, but I'm going to go through it again really quick. I think I did, though. And, whoa, how about a little postseason? Look at that, dude.  Chris and Yellich. He's pretty sick out of 25. Michael with the Tiger. Oh, sorry, not Michael. Brewer's. Yeah, Michael, actually. Michael P. And how about a little Jose Ramirez autograph from 2023? Out of 25, too. Cleveland Guardians going to drop. Show Hill, Tony, Relic. Garrett Stone. Whoa, this is like a piece of wood. Heavy lumber. Bobby Webb, Jr. I didn't see one of those in the first box. Kansas City, Brandon. In this case, it looks like it's already giving me more fire. Seawall, Jr. coming there. Connor Phillips for the Reds. And we got a Logan Web Relic for the Giants. Coloss. And Nick Gonzalez. Nice set of 2024. He was a top prospect for the Pirates for a while. Coco Montes. I feel a printing plate or something, guys. And the back of my hand. And my hand is really cold. The stack. So I don't know if it's a printing plate or it's one of those medallions or something, but I feel something. Something is really cold. And it's a printing plate. Hassi Young Kim. The Padres. I felt something really cold. Padres. Cassandra. Nick Prockel. Exactly how it's laid out. What it looks like when there's thousands and thousands of people around there. We were there for a choice of them. And it takes me and makes me start thinking like, we were just there to put. What's the same that this couldn't happen at a trap? What are the events that we do where there's thousands of people around? All having a good time except for someone that decides to make the decision that would be ultimate in terms of being self-confident. That decides to make the decision that would be ultimate in terms of being selfish and non-empathetic in the current corner of Grand Province. You're going to watch for awards for this kind of thing. It's just significant. It's every possible way. I'll let you know everything. You want to change this as possible. Just one thing, right? One thing. And nine in perfect order. All right, last box here and then we'll rip the next one. Hunter Brown, number 299. Wow, the James and Tally on the 73 Black Warder. I'm going to rip the next one, I'm going to rip the next one. It's over. It's no longer safe. Now we have to change the whole way of thinking about how this will happen. We have to change the whole way of thinking about how you go to church. How kids go to school. How people go out to a nightclub.  That's what we are. So now in a field, see both champions, your brains will forever change now. Freddie Peralta to 2024. And the Joy of Auto Relic. Iber Moreno. And Zack Manto for the Angels. When the Cav. Of course they are members of the nine people who are fighting for their lives and their dangers. This is what happens when all the strength of God is saved. And as we say, moving out of thoughts and prayers are not enough. We continue to say that every time that happens, but yet you say all of it and you say all you can do is just pray for you. You hear what I'm saying. You hear what I'm saying. In this, in this way, I pray for you. What makes you comfortable is what is happening there. With what will make you walk through the mind of someone who needs to repent. Because everyone there is going to celebrate. Celebrate. With the need for our health and care to see if we can hear a single word. Let's suppose that for someone who goes there far and when they're done, it takes the conscious decision to do that. Ah, next box. And a homerun derby champion, predict the homerun derby champion. Enter your code for a chance to win. So we'll randomize this, I guess, right? Because it's not specifically anybody. So I'll randomize that at the end. Colton Kouser. You see that, Michael? At the parade.  Yeah, dude. Camilo Duvall out of 199. Garamichael. Dude, I love how ESPN obviously is owned by ABC Disney. They don't have like a person there at the parade right now. So they're just like, we're just going to show the local ABC News of Kansas City over our ESPN broadcast. So we can get people to watch us here on our channel instead of like the news. And Slate Frazona. Good day, Chris. Miguel Amaya. George Mateo. And a relic there, Schwaber. Michael Harris. Landlice Peta. And a Julio Relic for the Mariners. Put a mark. Whenever it sells out, prime time. So if it's sold out right now, if it sells out right now after I get to know this break, then it breaks next. But there's no specific timeframe, man. I mean, it's whenever somebody wants to sell it out or like I said, if it is sold out right now, I can't tell because I'm breaking, then it's most likely right after this. Nightbot drops every like five minutes or so the schedule, the break schedule that we put up. It's a Google Doc. So if you step away, you can always check with that Google Doc. And if something is sold out and it's on that schedule, it'll tell you a little estimated timeframe of when it's going to be. Okay. Yeah. So yeah, once those two spots that we can break down next. Monty for the Dodgers. I assume we should be able to get that done before I'm off at three. And then Joe takes over at three and then he's on from three to 11. So we're live for 12 hours today on this channel. More than enough time to finish off a lot of these breaks for Rodriguez. Yeah, where's Nightbot? I've seen that dropping.  Nightbot decided to take a day off on Valentine's Day. Wow. Nightbot hasn't done nothing today. Who said who said he has a day off today? I know there's no way we disable Nightbot. He just said screw it. I'm going to take a break today on Valentine's Day. Unbelievable. For real, dawg. Seriously. Man, unbelievable. The freaking day I tell people to look at Nightbot, huh? If Joe didn't turn off Nightbot, we got a problem. Nightbot took a day off today. When he didn't tell us that he was taking a day off. All right, we got a Kyle Tugger Relic to 199. Nice. Good luck, man. For Houston. Stone Garrett. Jeremy, you dawg. I mean, technically, it's afternoon, right? I guess it's almost nighttime in the East Coast. What time is it over there? 4.30? I don't know. It's always worked when I was here earlier. Jordan Westberg. I'm going to ask Joe right now when he already comes in. Also, yeah, Joe's not here yet, so. Whoever took the over was correct. I'm going to ask him as long as he didn't. Ooh. Someone mentioned this earlier. Bullio. Out of 76. Um. I'm telling you, if he didn't turn off Nightbot. Nightbot just said F you guys. It's Valentine's Day. How's it going? Well, they even updated it where it says X now. Then we got a Santa Suzuki to 199. Joe Ryan. Hugo Montez. What else? That's Joe prime time. He comes in at 3 o'clock. Whoa. That's something nice. Bat velocity. At a 25. Superstar blueprint autograph. Of Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Going to DMACC and the Blue Jays. That's pretty nice. That's pretty nice. Janssen. I feel like this case has been better than the first one, right? It's been like the least bigger autograph names. Although I will say, man, unless these, unless all the backwards cards that are foils can be short print foils, I've never seen a short print foil before. I haven't seen one yet. A short print or variation to my knowledge. But of course, when this gets sorted out, they like to try to check for those. Like I said, for the most part, all the foils and all that stuff would ship. So if they are foils this year, I guess they would, but I haven't seen one just yet. There's a black border. Byron Buxton. Number to 73. We'll talk about that. Luke Rayleigh. Number to 2024. Braddish. Here on this side, the veteran commons do not. Everything else will. They are commons to inserts to numbered cards to autographs. Just the old base veterans do not. Christopher Morale. In case you can read it in the item description page of each very clean cursor. All right, good luck guys. Let's do this here. Ronnie Maricio. Let's see, we got a gold coming up. Luis Matos. And how about a Bo Bichette? 250. I'm scared to be bro, I don't expect someone to be next to me, and we got a Byron Buxton out of 75, we got Judge, Schmidt, Luciano, and Randy O'Jerlain here, series one day, three games, there's Ryan, I am, that's why I'm here, Olson, Bobby Carroll, Gary I took the over, Nolan Aronato, the Tanugay, John Schneider, Zeligalov, Jose Ramirez, it's okay, it's only taking me like 40 minutes to break this. A case? Yeah, Nolan Aronato, oh that's terrible, Schneider. It's okay. No, that's not okay. Online people were Sam's 49ers fans, I was like, Sam's Sam's, Shaul Ver, Marte, Mookie Betts. Alright, this one's not gonna have an autograph, this one actually had decent autographs in the case, and Evan Carter, nice. Alright guys, so let's leave it bold, these are here, but we had some pretty cool autographs in this one, had that nice Vladdy Jr. here, which was awesome, the 76 Julio, Max Muncie, Mitchell, alright, all of these relics here, Slade, Zacknato, Talion, Prato, Phillips, got a 101 printing plate, Bobby Witt, Jose Ramirez, Christian Young's postseason relic, some real nice stuff in this case guys, so again the next one was down to two to my knowledge, let's run that one too as well guys, let me actually also to randomize for this like homeroom derby duel, I guess this is your chance to submit who wins the homeroom derby in your opinion, so we'll randomize that since I'm trying to fill you with any team. And then I'll just randomize teams, roll 5 and 2, 7, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, Yankees, which is going to be awesome, alright, appreciate it guys.


The winners of the X-split GameCaster giveaway are announced on this episode of The George Show. Guys, we didn't have one winner or two winners. We had 50 winners! 5-0! Now guys, we have 150 keys, remember? So these 50 are on The George Show. The other 100 are being distributed through our networks, through our partners, through the Freedom Family. So if you didn't win here, you may win there. How did we pick them? Well, if you look behind me, there are comments. Anyone who left a comment got entered into the prize. Now, in the original episode, I said everyone who's a partner was eligible. But guys, we want you to interact with us. We want you to tell us in the comments below how we're doing. And those that decided to interact with us on the giveaway video are now going to win potentially an X-split GameCaster license. Now guys, only 155 of you left a comment. And there's 50 licenses to give away. So that means you have a 1 in 3 chance of winning if you left a comment. How's that for them odds? All right, let's see how we picked the winners. I went to random.org and I typed in between 0 and 1 and 155. I just clicked random, clicked the button 50 times and I was recording. As you can see behind me, I was recording the results of each number. And then what I did is I took all those numbers and assigned from the 155 people one number to each person, sorted alphabetically. And at the end, we were left with 50 winners in the spreadsheet behind me.  Guys, not all of you had accounts on our dashboard. So if you're one of these winners, go to www.freedom.tm and sign up for an account. And then email freedom at support.tm so that you can tell us, hey, I'm in the dashboard, send me my Xplit key, please. Do say please. It's nice to be polite. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed this giveaway. If you didn't win but want an Xplit GameCaster key, here's how you get one. Make a video reviewing Xsplit. You can get it for free. If you post this video on your channel and send us a link to freedom at support.tm that's our email address. Tell us your link to your video on your channel. It must be public. And if it's a good, sincere review of Xsplit, we'll send you a GameCaster key. And it's essentially a paid one month subscription to Xsplit. So you get Xsplit as well, a personal license and GameCaster to try for one month. And if you make another review of GameCaster and send it to us, freedomatsupport.tm will give you another key so you can give it to your friend or you have an extra month to try GameCaster. All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed this special giveaway, first ever giveaway on the George Show. And if you really want a key and you don't make videos of an Xsplit that stick around, we might have another giveaway coming. You never know. Until next time, guys, my name is George, founder of Freedom, and you've been watching.


This is why relationships don't work with narcissists. When you are with a narcissist, it can often feel as though you don't even exist. You feel invisible. You feel like you don't matter. Although they may have mattered to you. You may have decided to be with this one person. One person you could spend the rest of your life with. Someone I could support and hope for their success. Someone I could encourage. Someone I could love. A person I could be vulnerable and intimate with. Without being cautious about potential trouble or danger. A person I could just be myself around. But I could just act naturally. Without the fear of being criticised or judged. A person who could be themselves around me. Someone who doesn't have to constantly try to prove themselves or impress me. Someone who can let their guard down. Someone who can be vulnerable. Who I could then love unconditionally. Protect and support. Provide for. Someone who shows her the way. Someone she desires. Someone to be loyal to and share affection. Someone that I could give the best myself to. Knowing that she would cherish it. This is what we wanted and hoped for. When we let our guards down around the narcissist. And while we may have been needed. While we may have been considered to be useful for an actively or purpose. It is not one that we had imagined. The narcissist saw you as a doctor or therapist.  They were looking for a remedy or cure. Something to fill that void. It's not something that they can do on their own. They cannot complete themselves. So they look for someone to bring them this remedy or cure. And as I said earlier. We were looking for someone we could give the best as ourselves to. We were looking for someone who we could do things for. But we were also hoping that it would be reciprocated. Because we all need to feel loved. We all need to feel like we are being listened to. We all need to feel like we matter to someone. The basis and foundation of a relationship. Is that it should be reciprocal. There should be an equal exchange. But the narcissist has nothing to give to you. They are the ones who are seeking treatment from you. They are the ones who need your support. The patient is not supposed to support the doctor or therapist. They targeted you based on your qualities and abilities. Believing that you had the remedy or cure. They believed that you were going to be the medicine. That would make everything better for them.  Attention and admiration. Emotional regulation and support. Listening to their issues or problems. Fixing things for them. Solving their problems. Making them feel good about themselves. Making them look good in front of other people. They need this medicine. They believe that it is going to cure them. And that is why they will do whatever it takes to get it. They will be fully committed to you. Because you are the doctor or therapist that they have been looking for. They were like patients looking for the right doctor. Someone who can prescribe them with what they need. Tension and admiration. Emotional regulation and support. Someone to make them feel good about themselves. Someone to make them forget about what they really are. When you begin to realise that this is never going to be reciprocal. You lose the motivation and desire to give them what they need. Because you are just getting drained in the process. You no longer have the energy. So the treatment you are giving to them no longer has the same effect anyway. And that is why relationships don't work with narcissists. Because they are never reciprocal. There is never an equal exchange. Which means that you are always getting the short end of the stick. And they are taking what you would otherwise use to support yourself. For their own needs. In their attempt to fill that void. Which inevitably leaves you feeling drained and lifeless. You no longer have the energy to support them. But they don't look at it as though they have drained the life out of you. They see it as though you are lazy. They see it as though you are no good. And that is when they will then leave. And find someone else. Who they now perceive to be superior to you. But the same thing just happens again and again. They are just patients. Looking for the perfect doctor or therapist. Someone to fix them. Someone to meet their needs. But it's just not possible for anything to sustain that over a long period of time. Without receiving the attention and support that they need in return. You can't maintain your energy and health. Under that level of demand and pressure. It's only a matter of time until you collapse. And then the narcissist is going to see it as though you were defective. When in fact they just used you up until there was nothing left.  It's like driving a car until the fuel runs out. And then wondering why it won't work anymore. You need to take a break from driving it. Fill it up with some fuel. Look after it. And then it will be ready. Take you to where you need to go. But narcissists do not understand this mentality. They are only focused on their own feelings about themselves. Their own issues and problems. And that is why relationships don't work with narcissists. Thank you for watching. I hope this video is in with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you are elected today. My paypal link is in the video description. Coaching inquiries, you can email me at nagsforilcoaching.com Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.