I am James Swanik and today we are speaking with Julia Price, a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles, who recently broke up with alcohol, or at least she broke up with her prior relationship with alcohol. So she went 18 months alcohol-free and now she drinks on a case-by-case basis on occasion. And we're going to hear a little bit about Julia's story in just a second. And besides being a singer-songwriter, Julia also does musical workshops with entrepreneurs to help them get into their heart in a more expansive way, which sounds beautiful, which I'd love to dig in a little bit on. Julia, great to have you here. Welcome. So great to be here, James. That was like the best intro. You really have a special talent for that. Oh, thank you very much. And getting people to stop drinking. You're very talented. Very talented guy. Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. So tell us just a little bit more about what you do and with the musical workshops and your singing and songwriting career. We'd love to know a little bit about that. Yeah. So I pretty much always played music. I never really thought growing up it was a career that I could actually do. And so I just picked what was around me. My mom was a producer, a TV producer. So I would, I loved going to the studio with her and seeing her kind of like run the room and organize everything. And I loved that sort of adrenaline rush that you get with live TV. So I ended up working at Good Morning America as an intern right after college. They hired me. I was there for years. And I kept kind of getting pulled into music things, like, you know, how it's one of those things you resist it, but the universe will make sure that it, you know, tells you do this other thing. And so basically I just kept getting asked by friends to do music things. A friend of mine asked me to open for him at the bitter end. And I, which was a venue in New York City. It's pretty well known in the music scene there. And so I started playing there consistently. And some of the GMA Good Morning America crew would come and watch me sometimes. They watched the show. They mentioned it the next day in the hallway. The anchor overheard asked to hear my music, put me on air. And then all of a sudden I had press. And so that kind of led me to make the decision of going for it full time and starting to tour and all that sort of thing. And then I got to a point where I got really, really into personal development work. And because of it, the way that I was pursuing music wasn't necessarily as aligned as it used to be. And I started really loving just like any sort of way I could break down old patterns or walls. And the more I did that with myself, I love to kind of help people around me get to that place too. And I just thought one day, well, what if I combine all these like musical exercises that I've learned and things I've learned while touring and performing that have broken down my barriers and I can kind of like put it into a comprehensive workshop that people who are maybe not comfortable being creative in front of others could do together. All that to say, basically now I do that in more corporate settings and get to work with people, you know, sometimes who are in suits.  And that's so rewarding. I get a lot more out of that than just, you know, a regular performance. Yeah. So most of the audience that you're performing to now, are they naturally more closed off than open and with your music and with your workshops, you try to open them up a little bit more. Is that right? Yeah. I mean, that's a great way of putting it. I think it's one thing to go to a show to watch someone perform. It's another when you all of a sudden are told like, hey, this is an immersive experience, because sometimes people don't know and I can see like the look of horror on their face. Wait, what is happening? But that's why it's really fun to see like the slow, you know, like, okay, maybe I could try this. Oh, that wasn't as scary as I thought. And like, you know, it's a it's a gradual thing. I don't just go and get on stage although I have done that as well. But well, it might be a nice kind of segue into maybe your relationship with alcohol was a gradual thing, or maybe you jumped right in the two feet at the beginning with alcohol. And then maybe it was a gradual or slow kind of breaking up period. So let's just go back to the beginning. Just tell us a little bit about, you know, where and how you think alcohol first came into your life.  But, you know, it was normalized just drinking a glass of wine, or having a half a bottle was very normal. And then when you go through school and college, obviously drinking a lot more is kind of cool and fun and all that kind of stuff. And then when you get into your 20s and 30s, it's against normalized in a different way. It's no one thinks anything is weird about sharing a bottle of wine or having some drinks over dinner, etc. So I'm just curious, what was your introduction to alcohol? And how did that develop over the years, I guess? Yeah, I mean, my introduction, it's funny, because I remember I had a fake ID when I was 16 in order to go to nightclubs, but I didn't drink, I didn't have a fake ID to drink. I just loved going out dancing. So I would just, I never understood why anyone needed to drink, because it was so freeing for me to just, you know, have the lights and like, well, I guess it would now be considered old school hip hop and like, because we're getting older. But I didn't understand it. And then I remember the first time I got really drunk, I kind of skipped there. But basically, I didn't really, I didn't understand the point of drinking. And then I just, I think maybe my beginning of college, it was just sort of normalized around me. So once in a while, I'd like try to drink, I didn't like the taste of it and like the feeling and like whatever. But I remember the first time I got blackout drunk was actually by mistake. I had, I went to like a little picnic in the summer, a barbecue picnic thing. And someone made rum or vodka soaked watermelon and left it on the table. And I didn't know that. And I was eating the watermelon, just as I would eat, you know, on a hot summer day, not thinking about it. And the next thing I know, like, I feel really weird. And through conversation realized, I was really drunk on watermelon. So it was not intentional. But I think that that did open up one thing for me is that I could black out. And I think that's a very scary thing when I had, you know, my friends telling me, Oh, you said this and you did this. And I'm like, I don't remember it. That's weird. And so in general, I'm someone who's very sensitive. Like if I have more than a cup of coffee, I'm my whole day is, you know, very wiry and kind of weird. And I get the shakes and all that. And alcohol was the same thing. I'd, you know, watch a lot of my friends as we go out drinking and college and stuff like that, it became more normalized. And I would just feel like I'd get to a certain point where my body would just be like, you add too much. And I just, you know, wasn't making the best decisions and stuff like that. But I think about it, you blame it on youth. You blame it on like, we're all crazy, we're doing this thing together.   You know, like I would say things I didn't mean to say or I'd, if I was in a great mood, it was fine.  And so I just started seeing that and I'm like, I don't like that feeling of not having full control over my reactions or even sometimes fully remembering them.  It just would, I'd feel really sick from it. I'm like, okay. And then I didn't, I kept like cutting down certain drinks. And I just had a very clear moment. I remember I was single and I went, so now at this point it was pretty much only drinking rosé because my body would like literally reject anything else I had. Like even a glass of red wine, my body was like, nope. It would just like, you know, I'd be puking the next day from one glass of wine. So I was getting all the signs like take a break. And I also knew like I knew for a while there was something in my gut that was like, you don't need to drink. You don't even have, like I have more fun not drinking. It's crazy. Like I don't have more fun when I drink, but I think it's like you said it's so normalized around you.  Okay. So then I was on this date with this guy. I don't even remember his name. He was like British or something. He had a cool sexy accent. Of course he's thrilled to hear you refer to him. I don't even remember his name. Could have been British, but I don't remember. He was not forgettable. I mean, so, you know, I think it was more about the lesson than the guy for that date because we went out and, you know, British people, I'm going to stereotype here, but they can drink a lot. And so I was like trying to keep up with him. And I'm like, all right. And so it was on like my third glass of rose and I was feeling pretty drunk. And I had this moment and I never went home with a stranger. Mostly out of safety. Like, you know, I wish I could say it was like, I really have no filter in this conversation. I'm just realizing, but I wish I could say like, you know, I just, I don't know. But basically I was just like always so scared of having someone I didn't know in my house or being in someone I didn't know's house. But so here I am with this guy barely know. I'm like, come back to my house. I'll play some music for you, which like weird moves I was putting on him. And I get into my house and I remember, like, you know, kind of like walking in where you're not like walking fully straight, whatever kind of dizzy. And I start playing piano for him. And I turn around and he's on my bed. And I had this moment of panic of like, there's a guy I don't know in my bed in my space. I need him to get out right now. And there was nothing that he didn't do anything. It just was like the intimacy of being in my room. And I remember I said to him, I was like, Hey, you have to go. And he's like, haha, yeah, whatever. And I'm like, no, no, you got it. You got to go. Like, you got to get out right now. And he's like, Oh, okay. And like, luckily he was very gentlemanly. But I just there was something about that. I woke up the next day and I was like, I do not like the decisions I'm making. Like, enough is enough. And sorry, such a long winded way of saying how I got to this point. But I went to physical therapy because I was getting stuff done for my back. And it was very important that I be there. And I remember leaving physical therapy to go have to puke like three times from the alcohol. And I'm like, this is not a sustain like none of this is self love. Like I don't feel good about myself. I'm, you know, I have to either change something or I'm going to continue to break trust with me because I'm not like the person that I know I could be right now. And and I felt very clear that it was because alcohol. First of all, I want to thank you for being so open and honest and transparent. Thank you for sharing that story.  It sounds like you put all the things together and and in that moment, you were like, huh, I'm not making good choices when I am under the influence of what I call attractively packaged poison. Did it feel like an aha moment?  Because if there's anything we know about human behavior is that sometimes even having an aha moment, still you choose to stay in those somewhat damaging behaviors. So yeah, that is a great question. And I kind of even for that very what I felt was a long answer. I I had to cut out so many different examples of that.   And I would wake up and go, Oh, my gosh, like, I have to not like, I can't drink like that. Like, I can't do it. I had so many aha moments, but it wasn't. There was something that was so visceral about here I am trying to do this thing to get better, to make my body better from this car accident I had was why I was in physical therapy. And I'm like, I'm having to leave this room to go vomit. That that's not an alignment, like there's something really out of alignment there. And so the other thing that happened, you know, it's actually interesting because I remember you were doing the alcohol free stuff. And I just, I think it's like through conversations you and I had, or I remember I went to an event that you were throwing pre COVID and like sitting in the room and there were all these other people that wanted to not drink. And I just remember learning more about like, actually, you know, kind of what you said, the poison of alcohol, what it actually is. And I just felt really like encouraged by that. So you were actually a huge part in that. And yeah, it was just what I do really well with structure. And so I said, I'm going to give myself one month off. And that's what made it like attainable for me. Because if I had said right then in there, I'm going to do a year. I don't think I would have believed in myself. And so I was like, I'm just going to do a month because I'm really fed up with exactly what you said, having these moments where I think I need to do something different and not doing it, because it really is one of those things where it starts to translate to other parts of your life. And so I made this decision to do a month and I started sharing it on social media. And I'm like, I'm going to do a month. And I'm like, so many people were like, I want to do that. And good for you. And that's great.  I can do a month. I know I can do a month. What would be really like, what if I did a year? And I'm like, I'm going to do a year. And I put it out there on social media, because I'm like, if I don't do it, I'm not going to hold myself accountable. So I think that's a big thing. It's like, sometimes you can't like, sometimes you don't, you know, that's why it's so important to have the support and to have a network. And I just put it out there. And I was like, Hey, everyone, I'm doing this for a year.  And I'm like, but I'm just like, but all those people, you know, who would probably not even remember. But in my mind, I was like, I can't let them down. And then what I started to notice is over time, because there is sort of this period where like, I'd say the first few months were very difficult because it's a lifestyle change. It's not like I had withdrawals or anything, but it's like suddenly certain people that used to be interesting to hang out with, born is fun to hang out with, because you're not, you don't have like the buffer of alcohol to kind of make you friends with everyone.  So I was actually getting this, a lot of positive reinforcement. And once I started to adjust my lifestyle, it just became easier and easier and easier. But there was definitely a period, and I feel like this is what stops a lot of people is it's almost like the first three months were really difficult. But once I got past that. Oh, and another thing just to add in, I actually got really bad skin at one point. And I never really had this crazy acne all of a sudden, I'm like, where is this coming from? And a friend of mine was like, well, you're detoxing. Like your liver is detoxing. That stuff's going to come out. I'm like, ah, I'm supposed to make my skin better. And then eventually it did. But you know, everything was hard at first. And then it was so much easier. Yeah. Congratulations on taking that first step. Because that's the hardest one for most people. Certainly in my experience. Just to share a similar story to my own story, I remember it was back in Austin, Texas in 2010, March of 2010. And I'd had two Bombay sapphire gin and tonics at an industry party on a Friday night. And I didn't get drunk. But I got a taxi back to my hotel, which is about 20 minutes north of Austin, went to went to bed, work up in the morning, looked in the mirror. And I just felt like I looked weathered. You know, it looks tired. I'd put on about 20 pounds or so over the course of a year. You know, I just kind of crept up. And I just remember feeling like blah, like, man, I feel like a six out of 10 here. And I went to an IHOP, an international house of pancakes right next door to the hotel I was staying in. And I looked out the window and it was an overcast day. And there wasn't particularly nice view out the window. It was of a freeway or highway. And there was some pretty unhealthy looking people eating all you can eat pancakes with maple syrup and whipped cream. And the IHOP have these big bright menus with photos of the food. And I remember just going, oh, man, I just feel average. It wasn't like I was hung over. It wasn't like I was rock bottom. It wasn't like I was waking up in a ditch, or I'd got a DUI or anything like that. It was just I felt for the first time alcohol is really holding me back. It's really just making me feel average. And so that was my kind of moment where I committed like you to just doing 30 days. And I had no idea that I was going to go a decade because it's now, you know, coming up 11 years since I've had a drop of alcohol. But at the time it was like 30 days, I can manage that. I can I can manage 30 days, or at least I think I can. And that was all it took for me to step into that to get the ball rolling to get the momentum going. And then from there, one month turned into two turned into three and then turned into six. And then I got confidence as I as I went along. And it seems like you had a similar experience in that initially you were thinking, I'll go for 30 days. And then that turned into 60 days and then 90 days and then six months. So it seems like we have a similar story in that we didn't say, I'm never going to drink again. It was a bite size goal. Does that feel does that resonate with you? Yeah. And I think and I think that's like sometimes, you know, we see it even with like if someone goes on a diet and then they just do an extreme where they by the way, is that dog? Can you hear the dog? Oh, great. Can't hear the dog. No. Right. Just real life happening, real life happening.   But I think anything that's that extreme, you know, having an expectation of I will never drink again. It's like that. I mean, I think it's different. I do want to distinguish because I think it's very different when you're someone who's like in the program of AA versus someone who's making a choice based on, you know, lifestyle perhaps. And so I do think I, for example, my ex when I was 25 was two years into AA. I think when we started dating and I actually went to a lot of the AA meetings with him, like that you could bring friends and family, which is kind of how I got into personal development. Actually, I was like, whoa, 12 steps taking responsibility. Like there's a lot of good stuff there. But he was the kind of person where the way he described it was if he had one drink, he would, you know, maybe wake up on the beach with cocaine in his pocket, which happened. So it's like, I think there's sort of this, there is something to be said about. And while I never will like, you know, know how to advise someone on that, it's like what I experienced in watching him is he's someone who has to say, I will never drink again. That works for him. So that's different than someone like me, who if I said I will never drink again, that's like, that feels like a goal that wouldn't be something that I would achieve, which would make me feel bad about myself because I have a very different reason for not wanting to drink than he does. And so I think it's, it's really up to you as an individual. I think we all know this deep in our gut. And so there's, yeah, I just felt like that was very important to point out. I kind of forgot your original question, though. Oh, good.  I hate it. Let me get back to the drink so my skin looks better. Tell us what were the irritations or the seemingly bad things that happened when you stopped drinking? And then what did you notice were the good things, the seemingly good positive things that happened when you stopped drinking? So what were the bad, what were the good? Yeah, I mean, I think for me that the skin thing was big because I had this idea, just an expectation that like, I'm going to stop, I remember seeing these slideshows of people who would stop drinking that just looked like 20 years younger and just, you know, amazing. And then I'm like, I look worse. So that's like, and also it was really interesting. I lost like a lot of my, like, I had like, and this could just be getting older, but I had like chubbier cheeks before and I'm like losing all this weight in my face. And I'm like, wait a minute, I didn't want to lose the weight in my face. I have like long features already. I'm like, I want those cheeks. So that was interesting. But here's the alternative of like, such a superficial thing. Like once I, you know, got a lot of the, I don't know, maybe let's say for two weeks, I had really bad acne, but then my skin was like so clear under eye bags and darkness started to go away. My eyes just looked brighter. I looked more alive. Energy level was just like, it's funny because at first talking about the downside, I had less energy and I could not figure out why. And I realized that going out and having a drink is sugar. Like you're putting sugar into your body. So I'd go out and I'd be like, that's 930. I'm exhausted. Why did I stay up so late before? I'm like, I was drinking sugar. I'm not drinking sugar anymore. So something like that, I would notice. But another thing too, I think I started to become more aware of anxiety I have. You know, when you're drinking, you suppress that a lot of the time and then it's often worse the next day. But there's sort of a, you know, going to bed at night, all of a sudden, I'm sober. I have to deal with all my thoughts, conversations that I could add differently, things I have to do that I didn't do. Whereas, you know, I have a glass of wine before bed. Usually I'd be right out. And so that's why I had to learn about breathwork and meditation and all these other things that again, like they're all healthier in the long run. But there for sure was a period that, yeah, all those difficulties came up. I mean, did you have that? Yeah, I had more social difficulties in the first two weeks because I was worried what people were thinking. In fact, I went on a date with a woman named Andrea to the Jones Bar on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. And I got to the date at 715, the date started at 730. And I made a deal with the barman that when I ordered drinks from my date and I that he was to make it look as if he was making me a vodka soda, but in actual fact, just give me a soda. Because I was so afraid of what my date would think if I told her that I was going, I was trying being alcohol free, I didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable. And I didn't want to feel uncomfortable with her thinking that I was uncomfortable or that it was an uncomfortable situation. So I also experienced a little bit of irritability and some broken sleep in the first week, but then changed the physical aspects of the changed after about seven to 10 days. And all of a sudden I just started sleeping beautifully. Like you said, the bags under the eyes disappeared, the crow's feet disappeared. In fact, there was a study out of the UK. In fact, a similar study out of Sweden just last year that shows that if you stop drinking, like if you stop drinking alcohol, your the visible signs of crow's feet and wrinkles around your eye area reduces by 30 something percent. It's kind of crazy. So but you know, it takes takes a week.  And by the way, you don't need to be like getting drunk every night, even if you just have the occasional, seemingly innocent glass or two of wine.  Your body's going to go, hang on, what's going on? I'm not used to this. In your case, it seems like toxins started coming out through the skin. In my case, there was irritability. My sleep patterns were disrupted. And then of course, there's the mental game where I'm like, oh, I'm so terrified at what my date's going to think. If I'm not drinking, I'm going to trick her into believing that I am. So you know, there is a period of adjustment, but then this beautiful thing happens. For me, it was seven to 10 days. For other people, it's different. We're all of a sudden you wake up one morning and go, oh, I can feel this now. I can see how my body's starting to operate the way I suspect nature always intended it to operate. This is what I'm supposed to feel. It's not kicked along or fueled by sugar or toxins, et cetera. It's just fueled by my breath and by good nutrition and by exercise and by sunlight and being outside. And this is the way that nature always intended me to live. That was a bit of a long-winded response. No, but you made a really good point about the irritability that for sure was a thing for me, too. And I love that you brought up the social component of it, because I'll be honest, living in LA, I have a lot of people that don't drink consistently. It's just the culture there. I did find it to be more of a challenge when I went home to have, I think it was Thanksgiving or Christmas last year with my family, where everyone's drinking wine. And that was where I actually missed it the most from a social component. So there are definitely situations where that would come up more than others. For sure, if you're someone who is living in an area where you go out and you drink, it's going to be more of a challenge. But with the bigger challenges comes the bigger reward. So I think you will find people, just that's what we do as humans. We find people who are like us. You'll find people who, again, by choosing to not go out and drink, you'll go to bed earlier, which means you'll go to an earlier gym class and you'll meet like-minded people. This will happen even if it feels lonely at first. And so it was interesting too with the dating thing, because I am already gluten-free, dairy-free. Don't eat avocados, because these are all allergies. So by the way, people get so upset about avocados in California. They can deal with everything else. They're like, avocados. I'm allergic. It is what it is. But then to add on top of that, you know, so poor, you know, we're already trying to figure out a place I can eat. And I'm like, and I'm not drinking for a year. It's like, people must have been like, geez, but I would just make a joke. Like, yeah, you know, I'm like super high maintenance. I know. Or I'm doing this year and I'm really excited about it. And most people are pretty supportive.  And he was like, I wish we could just have a glass of wine together. And I'm like, it's my year, man. Like, not gonna happen. So you and there's sort of this like release, again, there's like so many, it's not like just quitting alcohol, it's really choosing to elevate, I think, in so many different ways, like being able to sit in comfort with yourself and honoring your boundary and saying, this is what, this is what I feel is best for me. And I'm not going to worry about what other people think or try to make other people feel comfortable. Like, I'm doing this for me. And I'm actually an emotional thinking about it, because there was that shift happened for me. Where at first, I kind of like downplay it. And then I got really proud of myself because it took so much for me to get to a place where I was genuinely unaffected. And by what other people thought, because I knew I was choosing from a place of self love. And that really reflected in all other areas of my life.  But it's like that really set a tone for everything in my life. Yeah, beautiful. Many people, I'm sure listening to you share that will take comfort from that because the social aspect of it and feeling confident enough to be able to share with someone, whether it's a date or a husband or a wife or friends or peer network or boss or colleague or whoever it is. It's scary. It feels scary, doesn't it to be able to at times it can feel scary to actually say to someone I'm choosing to be alcohol free because there's the danger that someone's going to judge you. There's the feeling that people are going to create a story about you. There's people have shared with me that they feel shame or guilt. They feel like sometimes that the social group that they're with are going to ostracize them from the group. And then people's identity feels threatened. It's like, wow, my entire adult life, I've been a drinker, a social drinker and I've been this person and now that I'm not, is my social group who are still drinkers, are they going to still accept me?  Maybe you didn't always have it, but you found that spot where you drew the line and you said, you know what, I'm confident enough now to be able to share this is my journey. This is who I am. And not to take it or leave it in an aggressive or combative way, but just like a, you know, take it or leave it kind of beautiful open. This is me type of way. Does that resonate with you? Oh, for sure. And I think one thing is like I definitely didn't have the confidence in the beginning. I think it was a lot of the confidence was established by not breaking my word to myself, you know, I had made this commitment to myself and it was, it required a lot of discipline. I'm an artist. Like my lifestyle is revolved around nightlife and drinking and being in nightclubs and like, you know, playing music until one in the morning in studios were bottles of wine or there, you know, it took like a lot of discipline. And I really, once I got to around the six, seven month mark and I was like, I am actually really going to do it. And I started to like, because I showed myself that I could, it built this other level of trust in me. Like honestly, it's a level I never had before. And that's when I noticed the shift. But it's again, by choosing to honor this goal that I had, regardless of what was happening around me. And I had never in my adult life been so unwavering with something. And this was the first time I did it.  But for me, it was everything, it shifted everything. Yeah, beautiful. Congratulations on that. So fast forward now to you, but you were alcohol free for I think 18 months. So you broke up with alcohol for 18 months. And then jokingly, we can say you got back together with alcohol, maybe in a different style of relationship. So walk us through that process or what happened there where you're seemingly enjoying the benefits of 18 months of the alcohol free lifestyle. And then choosing to drink again, albeit as from what I understand at a far reduced level. So walk us through that. Yeah, like I can't, I haven't been drunk again. I just want to like, it's very interesting. I initially, so here's kind of the way this moment happened. I was in Park City, visiting about like one of my best friends were sitting. It's the first time we went out to a restaurant, you know, we're outdoors, post pandemic, sun is setting. And I see this glass of wine. And I'm like, Oh, you know what, that looks, I would really love to have a glass of wine and a steak right now. And I'm sorry to whoever's vegan. I have lots of vegan friends. And this is another ongoing conversation, but for a different time. It's like, I just really would love this as a whole experience. And she said, Well, why don't you want to? And I didn't answer with, you know, I didn't say like, Oh, I've been feeling so good, or I've been this, or, you know, I was like, Oh, I just feel like I'm going to let people down if I do. And she goes, That's interesting. And she's not like a personal development friend of mine or anything. She was, Oh, that's interesting. She just kind of looked at me and I go, All right. And I'm like, Well, let me check in with myself. Like, What, do I feel expansive? Or do I feel like I'm making this based on like, not wanting to miss out or like, you know, I kind of ran through and I'm like, I actually would really like to have a glass of wine. Like it felt expansive. I don't know how to like another word. And I was like, Okay. And I think it was for me realizing that I was at a point where anytime you're making a decision based on other people. I mean, look, there's a different spew of kids and stuff like that in a family who need you to do something. But like the, I was making that decision. I realized in that moment based on like the perceived disappointment that would happen if I did. And I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna have a glass. And then I did and I could have like three sips. And I was like, that is intense. And it's going right to my head. And I was like, Oh, yeah, that's, that's not a feeling I like, but I enjoyed the taste of a few sips. And I was like, cool. And then, you know, it's interesting because I don't know what happened with me, but it never, I'll put it this way. I used to notice I would drink when I was stressed or upset, or just doing it, not even consciously, just like I'm out with to dinner, I'm going to get a wine and not think about it, because that's what people do. Or this experience was so like, I was smelling it, I was doing all the things they do, like the fancy wine people, I was like swirling it around, you know, I had an experience with it. And I wondered, I'm like, does that mean I'm like drinking again? But it's really interesting because I know how good I feel when I don't get drunk. Or if I, you know, I just know what it's like, I know what a hangover is like versus not having a hangover. And so once in a while, I guess from there, like once in a while, I'll have a glass of wine. But as soon as I do, I like have a ton of water after I don't ever feel a need to have a second glass. It's like, and I do not see a world in which I would allow myself to be drunk again. And it's sort of hard to explain because it's like, but there's no part of me that wants to be drunk. And there's no part of me, literally, I will like, if I have a glass of wine, it takes me the whole night to have it, like, and I'm like constantly drinking water in between.  And again, I think for sure, for some people it is. But, you know, I'm someone who I found out I was allergic to gluten 12 years ago. I never cheated. I never eat gluten. I never eat dairy. I don't do these things because of my health. And I think some things you can, you can introduce with allergies, you can reintroduce in your body will have a different reaction if you give enough time. And so alcohol is actually very interesting. It was one of those things. But I do notice like I can tell the difference now where if I'm stressed out and I'm like, oh, I'd love a glass of wine. I'm like, nope, you did not get a glass of wine from that place. You get it? The same way you'd like, you know, just again, like having that moment of like having a steak and a glass of red wine, that feels expensive being stressed out and wanting a glass of wine does not feel expensive. And I'm like very clear on that. So, you know, it's still a process like I would never drink liquor again. I feel clear on that I'm complete with my liquor journey. That's pretty much like rosé and maybe red once in a while. And again, it's very like, it's when it feels right. Yeah. But I don't have that feeling of needing it to like, you know, have a conversation or have a date or any of those things. And so that I think ultimately was what I had to break up with. And honestly, like, I'm fine either way at this point. Like, it's not a thing that I really see as a part of my life anymore. So, yeah, like I've gone out with people, again, it's weird because of COVID, but you know, you might go out to like a distance park picnic or something. And I see wine there. I'm like, yeah, I don't really want it right now. You know, which in the past, if there was wine there was drinking it. So it's like, it's cool.  But it doesn't mean I need to hang out with you every day. We don't have to talk all the time. But it's nice to see you in social situations sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. What you're describing is probably what most people listening would love to get to. That's what they think or they feel in the beginning. Many folks, once they get, you know, many months behind them of being alcohol free and they get power over it, many folks say, that's it. I'm done. Never again. I don't see any reason why I would go back. Other people, I think maybe who are listening to this who haven't yet started their journey, who want to break up with alcohol would probably feel some relief. I think to hear you say that you're able to go 18 months alcohol free and then powerfully choose to have a drink on occasion. But you have ultimate power over alcohol. Does it feel like that now? Does it feel like you have ultimate power over it? Yeah. And you know how I actually know that is there's not there's not even a there's not even any power in the thought of it. Right? Like there was a time where even when I was debating, like, should I stop drinking? I would feel so much power with that. Like I'd be like, Oh, I can't do it. I can't do it. And now it genuinely is like, I could go either way. You know what I mean? So because of that, I tend to choose not to drink. It's just it's it really is one of those things again, where it's situational where once a month I have red meat, once a month I have a glass of rosé, once a month I have some sugar, you know, it's like these things. But I do think, you know, I don't know why my body has responded this way. It could be again, just because of the way that my mind feels. And I do also feel like if I was going through a really challenging or hard time, I would cut alcohol out again. Because I think any like right now I feel good, I feel strong. But I expect in life you're going to have peaks and valleys. And I do think in a time like that I now know that that's a time to not drink anymore. And so everyone's different. I mean, I think it is one of those things where we get these internal messages. And, you know, luckily for me, I never was in a position where I, you know, got into a car accident because of drinking or anything or pulled over anything. I know some people do have those moments. I know people have like affairs. And so, you know, there's a lot of things that can happen that's like the universe really screaming at you to stop drinking.  And I think that's why it's so great with what you're doing.  And so like you building this community where people can share their stories with each other and kind of encourage each other. I think it's so great to have something like that. If you're thinking about it, here's the thing. Like if it's something that you feel in your gut, I kind of say, just go for it. Like take a leap and see what happens because nothing bad's going to happen. The bad things don't happen when you stop drinking. So it's like, really don't have anything to lose. Well said. Julia Price, thank you so much for sharing your journey with my community. And congratulations on the growth that you've seemed to have had over the past 18 months and beyond. And along my continue. And I just want to, if you're comfortable, maybe you might share your social media handles where people could reach out to you. And just to the listener or the viewer, I encourage you if something spoke to you, if something resonated with you, if something inspired you from Julia and her story today, please do send her a message. Julia, where can people connect with you? Yeah. So I think the easiest way is probably Instagram. It's Julia Price Music. And I, you know, if you, Julia Price Music pretty much any platform, you'll find me. So I'm around. But yeah, I mean, I just want to say to you, thank you again. It really, and I don't mean to make you feel weird because it's your podcast, but like, you know, I don't know if guests usually tell you this, but you really have been so like a huge inspiration in me, making that choice that ultimately changed my life. So I'm really grateful and, you know, grateful that you built such a strong community around similar values. So it's really an honor to come here and talk about this. And, you know, I think that I'm like even surprised how much I talked about it because I'm really excited about it. Like it's just, I'm like, I have so many feelings about this. So thank you for giving me space to just, you know, talk and talk and talk. You're so welcome. And thank you for sharing that with me. It really touches my heart. So Julia Price, thank you again. So wonderful to see you. 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John and boss man, what do you think about the economy? I know you're from Canada and all But all but do you think the US will be okay in four years? Is there any recovery? There is recovery, but it's not going to be for at least another decade. Okay Western world is on a downturn on a multi-year downturn. There is not going to be any uptick The wave Basically So basically think about this way Should have brought a pad too You can think about it this way Here's time Usually you put time on the x-axis right time Let's assume We're on a We're on a uptick cycle like this. We're on a multi-year downtick cycle like this But everything doesn't work like this, right? There's waves within waves Right, so we're in a cycle like this right now Just based on the stock market. I'm guessing we're here Right, the odds are we're gonna come down again Maybe go up again. Will we go past the last peak? Possibly, I don't think so and then down again. So we're on a multi-year cycle downturn certain things will do phenomenal in During the Great Depression those that sold alcohol made Mint money Lots of money, right? They became extremely powerful So it really depends on which market you're in Okay, but in general what this multi-year down cycle means is That poverty is going to increase The wealth gap is going to increase There will be rise in crime. Okay, there will be shortages and There will be turmoil instability right That's my prediction Okay, necklace salutations. Hope you do now. What are you doing up so early? Salute


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No, it's fine. It looks fine. Where's the mouse? The mouse? Thanks to the organizers for inviting me, for giving me the opportunity here. I will talk about active matter. Basically it is friction, but it is friction between fluid and solid, as we heard this morning, and sometimes also between fluid and fluid. Let me start with a movie, and I hope it will work. This is an island where Impala is trapped, and there is a croc waiting for the Impala and swimming, hunting it. And you see, the croc is faster than the Impala, and I cut the video here, since it's a bitter end. So it matters how fast you can swim, maybe again. So the croc is in the bag, it decides to jump, sometimes there's no other option, but then in the water, I mean, the croc is overtaking and approaching. It sprays. So this happens also in the micro world. This is a micron-sized white blood cell, following the bacterium, which you see, and it now swells it. That's it. That's the end of it. So the conclusion is, the swimming speed matters, and if the swimming speed matters, friction plays a role. If you swim in a superfluid, I don't know how to do this, but it makes a difference than if you swim in honey or in water. And it depends on a lot of things, your shape, but in particular also the propulsion force and also the technique to swim. And this is, I think, a pretty new research field also now in physics, if you go to the micron scale here, and then if you estimate what is the typical number, say the typical Reynolds number, Reynolds number is the ratio between inertial forces and viscous forces. Then viscous forces, you are in a viscous liquid, are very, very large relative to inertial forces, and this has to do not only with the effect that eta, the shear viscosity of the solvent is large, in particular that the typical length scale of the swimming object, L, is very small. This is in the enumerator, L, and eta is in the denominator. Small means, in this case, that if you go to micrometers, the Reynolds number is 10 to minus 6, or 10 to minus 4, so it is practically zero. While for, say, a human body, if you swim in a swimming pool, the Reynolds number is of the order of one or larger, and for a racing car it is even much larger. If you look how bacteria swim, they swim 100 times their body length in one second, while a human only swims, if you are a good swimmer, 1.5 times your body length in one second, so bacteria manage, if you believe, this is a fair comparison for body lengths, bacteria manage to swim very quickly, and also the technique of swimming is completely different.  It's inertia which drives you forward, while this doesn't work for bacteria, they swim at low Reynolds number and need another technique. And here is a famous theorem, so-called scallop theorem. This is a model of a scallop, it's a scallop if it just does this and then goes back. It works in water for a macroscopic scallop. This is a way to propel, but if you go to a very viscate liquid or to very small sizes, at low Reynolds number, it doesn't work any longer. What you do is you move forward and then if you open up again, you move backwards. So you just do this. This is not good if you want to escape a predator. You want to move. So bacteria, some of them at least, typically have corkscrew flagella in the back and they are rotating this corkscrews. And this means that the motion of the flagellum is non-reciprocal in time. What do I mean by non-reciprocal in time? Non-reciprocal in time means if you mirror the time, so if time goes in minus time, the motion is not the same as before. For a scallop, if you mirror the time, it's always the same. For rotating helix, if you mirror time, it goes the other way around, clockwise goes anti-clockwise, and so it's not the same. And that's one of the reasons why the bacteria swim very efficiently. Now there's a new development in the last decades. They say, I don't want to use mechanical motion of my limbs or whatever, of my body. And this is difficult for micro-nanoparticles anyway, since what you should do to mimic mechanical motion is do little robots that do motion like this. It's not so easy, but there are better and more efficient techniques to self-propile, to swim in a solvent. And this is how it works. The particles themselves generate a gradient of something. I will give you an example later. And then they move autonomously along this gradient, since you have a non-equilibrium situation. And this brings you to the picture of artificial model micro-strummers. And these are dominated by dissipation, since you are always at low Reynolds number, and by friction. Here I say our working horse now for such an artificial colloidal micro-strummer. It is a Janus particle. Janus is a Roman god who had two faces. So you have a colloidal sphere, micrometer sphere, and you put a metallic coating on half of it. So there is a cap, in this case gold, and say a non-metallic other part. And then it's micrometer size, several micrometers, and then you put it, that's the one idea, you put it into a reactive solvent. Of course, if you put a Janus particle in an inert solvent, it will just perform Brownian motion. There's nothing it will do else. But if you catalyze a chemical reaction at one of the surfaces, say for example it's a gold part, then something goes on on one side, which is missing on the other side, and you get an imbalance of the situation, an imbalance of forces, and that drives the particle. And in this case you use a decomposition of H2O2 into water and oxygen, and at one side we have platinum gold rods, it's a platinum side, you have oxygen that is produced, so you have little bubbles from the chemical reaction, and these bubbles more or less drive the particle to one side. Actually, the mechanism is not understood completely, even today, but you can move these particles. So you have little submarines on the micrometer scale which move on their own. You don't have to, they beat them from the outside, they do it on their own, so they are autonomously swimming or self-propelled particles. One disadvantage here is you are running out of fuel since at a certain time, after two hours, the amount of H2O2 is exhausted, so there is no fuel any longer and the particle gets slower and slower and stops. How can you get out of this fuel limitation? Okay, here's another, I think, very ingenious example that you use laser illumination to get particles running forever. And the idea is to use a non-equilibrium phase change, a fluid-fluid demixing in the solvent and then you throw the particles into that and heat them very, very little bit up. The idea is here, in this phase diagram, it is now a very good idea to use a certain mixture. It's water and lutein, lutein is stinking a lot, but at least it has a lower critical point at about room temperature and that's what you take advantage out of. At about 30 degrees, there is a phase separation from A to B. If you are in A at low temperatures, there's one phase, a homogeneous phase, if you go to B. If you heat a little bit, the system phase separates into a lutein pool and a lutein rich fluid. Now look at this picture, bottom left. You take such a Janus particle in a mixture and you laser illuminate and then the metallic part heats up a little bit. It's getting warmer there since the heat is absorbed.  You go into the two phase region, which means that there's more lutein in the metallic surface than in front of the particle and this brings the solvent into flow and this makes the particle propagating on its own. That's the idea and it works and you can let the particles run forever, basically. Here are some more details. I mean, in this picture below, the laser intensity is shown, so it's not much. It's micrometer squared and if you exceed a certain threshold, I0, you bring the particle into motion and the particle velocity approximately scales linearly with the laser intensity. So you can now at which control your motion. High laser intensity, particle goes, low laser intensity stops and so on and so on. So this is one of the, as I said, working courses where many experiments by now have been performed, mainly in the group of Clemens Bechinger, who is now in Konstanz and here's a review article on all this physics of active matter, active colloidal particles, in particular what you have to take into account are fluctuations. So these particles are still Brownian and he is just an idea of what can be artificially done and also what is found in nature for real bacteria, sperm, E. coli and so on. Now I would like to bring a little bit of theory to your attention how this idea of self-propagation and friction and also the fluctuations are important. Now, we are at the microns scale, so fluctuations are important and you don't want to be killed by the fluctuations. You don't want to go on your own. And the simplest model which brings all this about, so self-propagation, friction and also fluctuations is a so-called active Brownian motion, active Brownian particles. And the equations of motion are shown here in this first block. There's a fourth equilibrium and a torque equilibrium. Let's first talk about the force equilibrium. You are normally expecting a mass times acceleration term first. This is zero since we are at Lorena's number. Everything is dominated by friction, so we have friction constant times velocity and that's equal to first of all a fluctuation force that's the right-hand side, f of t, but also an internal force that is the important one, the red one, which scales with the self-propagation velocity and is directed along the particles, say, Yano's caps. And this orientational degree of freedom in two-dimension is fluctuating with orientational noise. So you have Gaussian noise for the translation. This is f of t. You have Gaussian noise for the rotation. That is the random torque, that is g of t. And these equations are coupled via the self-propagation term. And if there is no v0, if there is no self-propagation, we are back to ordinary Brownian motion that was solved by Einstein many years ago. And what it basically says, these equations, is you have not any longer a random walk.  The mean square displacement scales with time. But what you have here is something like a random drive. So remember, you have a car and the driver is blind and it steers. It has a steering wheel and it has random fluctuations in the orientation where to go and it goes at very high speed. This is a dangerous concept. So you go with your car very quickly and you have random orientational motions. This is what people call a persistent random walk. You remember where you came from via the orientation degree of freedom and you may also call it a random drive. So in this active Brownian motion model, you can calculate the mean displacement, but the mean square displacement, you can calculate this in this formula and you should do a log-log plot of the mean squared displacement. You see for small times, it's linear in time. That is translational diffusion. For long times, it's diffusive again since you go on average randomly. But intermittently, for an intermediate time, you have ballistic motion and this reflects the fact that you have your velocity v0 at work and the diffusion coefficient for long times scales as v0 squared over for the rod. It's much, much larger than translational diffusion. So you can significantly enhance the diffusive motion and that is what bacteria actually do if they are searching for food.  That's all good. So now I'm going one step further and starting many particles, many Janus particles which are interacting and we have done simulations with a pairwise potential, in this case a WCA potential, but we have also, I should say this at this conference, done simulations with the Yuccava potentials, maybe two on the Mark Robbins who did fundamental studies on the Yuccava, many body systems with Kurt Kramer and Krest is an important paper on the phase diagram which we also used to calculate activity effects here. But anyway, many particles, classical particles, they are all self-propelled and they are interacting via a potential that is not aligning. So the particles just bump into each other. They don't align. And there is a dimensionless parameter, the so-called Peckley number that measures, say, KBT, the fluctuations over the systematic energy which you get via friction and if this is small, you have equilibrium effects. If this is large, the system is dominated by self propulsion and there is a new effect that you don't know from equilibrium physics and this is now called MIPS, Mortility Induced Phase Separation. And let me briefly explain how it comes from. Suppose you have all these particles moving and there is a triplet collision. Like a Mercedes-Benz Star configuration in B here, three particles are opposing each other in the self-propellation and then they are blocked. And they are blocked for a long time until a fortunate rotational motion brings one particle out of this, say, blockard effect which you can escape. And now there is a competition between two effects. The time it takes to deliberate yourself from this blocking configuration goes with one over the rotational diffusion. That's the typical time you need to rotate. But in this time other particles can come and collide with the cluster and make it larger and more immobile and this is the traveling time which scales with the particle density and also with the self-propellation. And if you put these two timescales equal there must be, say, a fundamentally different behavior. If particles can become free there will be no clusters if particles cannot become free. What is going on? Stop or continue? No. That's actually what happens. And here I show you two movies. No movies, but in the low-peckly number case particles will form clusters transiently but these particles will dissolve while in the high-peckly number case on the right-hand side there will be in the end one big system-spanning cluster and that is seen in the experiments and in the simulations. I will try to get at least one movie running. Everything is crashed. You can work it out with a field theory but the critical point, the question is are the exponents classical, easing-like or not, you can find analogies to thermodynamic phase transitions beautiful, so that's MIPS and that's not for passive systems since for passive systems you know once you have repulsive interactions there's never a fluid-fluid demixing. There is a critical point only comes from attraction. How much time? Ten minutes, very good. Now let me go a little bit up in Reynolds number again so up to now we had inertial and viscous effects went down to very small sizes so 10 to minus 6 where we could neglect all the inertial effects and ended up with fluctuations and viscous effects so friction and fluctuations now we go a little bit up and then we keep the term which is proportional to inertia this is mesoscale active matter and the model is now called active longevity motion and you have look at these different organisms you have scales where bacteria and cells are moving on the left-hand side but then there is a mesoscale regime where little animals like flies and little fish and bees are experiencing say inertial effects up to marine macroscopic scales where inertia is dominating so I will now go back a little bit about the inertial effects and how to generalize the equations is pretty clear now is I include in the red box here inertia for both translation and rotation and then the equations are more complicated same kind of noise that you could even introduce a systematic talk M here which brings a particle in a systematic rotation this is a circle swimmer but I will not go into this so now we go from a micro swimmer to a micro flyer now you are moving in a gas phase and there are several timescales and I cannot explain them in the remaining 10 or 9 minutes but I just say well the important timescale is a persistence time again so that's the time upon which the particle loses memory and there is a translation momentum relaxation time dd tau d that is mass over friction and if this is zero you can immediately relax if this is large the momentum very slowly relax and the same for the rotational degrees so what you can do in this model is calculate the long time diffusion again you have something like a random drive but now you have inertia and you end up again with a formula that scales with v0 squared over dd root and there is a scaling function you can calculate however it is a lower incomplete gamma function and something a combination of that it is not say standard and interestingly for passive underdamped motion this long time diffusion constant does not depend on the mass and on j but it does so if you include activity it does not depend on mass but it depends on j so on the moment of inertia and here are the high j and low j expansions of this and again what matters is persistence since the moment of inertia also makes the rotational motion slower it slows it down so you keep longer your memory and that is what brings you forward in terms of diffusion and now there is another inertial effect and maybe the movie works I don't know it should be a very nice movie it is a very very nice movie and you can tell a racing car driver to move along the corner to make a curve he or she exactly knows what to do first turn the steering wheel and then inertia will hinder the rotation but later on it will win and you go around the corner so first you steer your wheel and then the velocity follows that is what the racing car driver does and you can also see this in the inertial swimmers by defining a correlation function it is now a dynamical correlation function I correlate the velocity after a time t with the orientation before a time t and you interchange the time arguments and subtract two things so if they are completely uncorrelated this is zero but if this is positive it means that first your orientation changes and then the velocity follows this we called inertial delay this correlation function has a peak at a say certain time and the amplitude shows you the effect of inertial delay and here is an analytical formula you can work this out completely and you can test it we have tested this also against data of swimming beetles predatory beetles swimming at the water interface and they exhibit also this kind of inertial delay effect and you can do here are a couple of other papers which have to do with mass ejection or injection and active motion how to say realize that swimming beetles but also there is here dusty plasma dusty plasma are basically micron sized spheres but not embedded in the liquid but in the plasma so in the gas inertial effects play an important role and they are now first experiments for Janus particles in a plasma that confirm basically these equations now in my last minutes I would like to tell you what happens with this MIPS motility induced phase separation this Mercedes star collisions if you have inertia I normally know if you change a parameter in 95% the result is boring the expected one but in this case it wasn't I would like to tell this story to you now so the equations of motion are clear so we take this interaction potential Java or WSA doesn't matter repulsive in any case and then we write down the active longevity equations with the self propulsion velocity we are not here and what about MIPS with Sovendu Mandal and Ben Ulypian in this paper here he obtained several effects first of all inertia destroys MIPS third the cluster goes exponent is smaller than one third which it is normally for active Brownian motion so inertia changes the exponents but what you also see is you have a coexistence of two phases two different kinetic temperatures and that is surprising since you learn in thermodynamics if you have phase coexistence phase A here and phase B here the temperatures should be the same since they wouldn't be the same there is heat flow as long as the temperatures so long as the temperatures are compensated and are equal this is not the case in this non-equilibrium situation and here is hopefully a movie which works so I describe in words that you have an initially homogeneous system temperature, kinetic temperature is homogeneous and density is homogeneous and then spontaneously you get a region which becomes very cold and another region which stays hot and where it is very cold the particle density is very high that's the idea and the idea is here is a snapshot here is a snapshot the end state point of the movie that you get say a temperature inside which is very very small and the density that is shown here is very high the idea is that in the dense phase there are so many collisions that the particles cannot accelerate to obtain their terminal velocity V0 but they can do so in the gas now you can think about this is crazy so we have put forward an idea of active refrigerator which uses this effect so it cools self cooling not as a heating but as a cooling machine and there is also the fundamental question how can we describe this there is no theory up to now these are just simulation data and this is something and here is again the mechanism in the gas phase particles accelerate there are only few collisions until they have this velocity V0 they cannot do so there is so much jammed that they are completely cold and here is a simulation data for the gross exponent of the dense cluster and you see that the gross exponent significantly changes from 0 to 1 over 5 I am sorry jump the self propelled colloidal Janus particles show fascinating single and collective phenomena dominated by friction thank you very much for your attention the questions a lot I think we start with you very nice talk I just wanted to ask what prevents the continuous aggregation in the case of self rotating particles is something related to centrifugal effects like in the meteorites that both persons showed before what limits the aggregation into the clusterization of these self rotating particles ok if I understood correct I mean the end state is one big cluster the one phase separated bulky part of dense system and what limits it is the pre-scribed density you impose the density if you have a very very large system you have density and then this dictates the portion of dense phase is that was the question like in thermodynamics very nice talk do the Janus particles when they flow create a flow in the liquid afterwards so that you get correlations between the Janus particles very important and very interesting questions they do, there is an idodynamic flow field and one should take this into account if you have dense suspensions people here discriminate between pushers and pullers so if you push the liquid so if you do it with your legs you are a pusher and if you do breast strokes you are a puller so you pull the liquid these are two different hydrodynamic flow fields and actually what we did for the MIPS we neglected all this but if you take it into account it diverges normally against MIPS it doesn't want particles to have close to each other but it is a really subtle thing and can also be measured one quick educational question so the Reynolds number does not depend on the slip length or on the liquid solid friction it is just viscosity and size it is just viscosity so we assume that the slip length is much smaller than the body size and that is always even if you start including inertial effects you go down to the level scale it is questionable but for micro size particles in normal solvents that is fine there is only one length scale here no important point do you want to see an experiment yes if I get one minute to talk about that we have an experiment in our cellar so I am in an institute of theoretical physics but we have a vibrating plate where you put little plastic animals granules and then they move and they are dominated by inertia we hope to find or are beginning to find this effect in an experiment the real new trend that is that theorists are becoming experimentalists so this is really what we should ok thanks a lot thank you


This is Witchbase news for Friday the 18th of August 2023, I'm CMDR Buur and Elite Dangerous News this week. There's a new guide with some valuable info on scythe survival, the archive of Guardian site aerial recon photos is updated and some odd behaviour is witnessed from Sentinel drones at the new Guardian sites. As always if you enjoy our videos please do hit the like button and if you haven't already be sure to subscribe and ding the bell so you don't miss any of our Elite Dangerous content and if you'd like to help directly support our work you can also join our Patreon links to that and everything else are below. Just a quick note before we get cracking this week, the next episode of the Fdev Elite Dangerous live stream series Frameshift live episode 33 was due to air on the 17th of August that's yesterday as I speak these words, Fdev announced on Monday they were rescheduling the live stream to the 31st of August putting it back by 2 weeks, this is almost certainly due to the weight of duties the community and dev team have on them at the moment, they're attending the Elite community meet in Wokingham in the UK this weekend and then they're off to the Gamescom convention in Germany next weekend. So the 31st of August sandwiches them nicely between all of that and our very own Pitcon which they're attending on the 16th of September in Nottingham. Commander Mechon of the AXI has been busy of late updating their excellent guides to all things Thargoid, of particular note to nearly all commanders is the latest addition to the No Thy Enemy series which now covers the new scythe hunter class vessel that arrived in update 16, there's particularly useful information contained in there if you're being harassed by scythe's while attempting to run emergency evac missions around Thargoid controlled space. There are also some interesting and useful pieces around the most recent and quite significant changes to Thargoid interceptor behaviour patterns that the AXI have been observing since updates 15 and 16 and these are worth noting even if you're a more casual AX player. All Mechon's guides are quite excellent, very succinct, useful and precise, you'll find a link to the channel in the description below, be sure to add it to your subs to catch any future updates from them. In case you didn't already know Commander Greybeard Seawolf maintains an incredibly useful archive of aerial reconnaissance photos and diagrams detailing guardian structures and how to navigate and activate them. The archive was updated this week to reflect one of the new guardian sites that were added in update 16 that we reported on earlier in the week, you'll find that video linked on screen now in case you missed it. The recon photos contain icon highlights and a key to show where the various pylons and destructible panels and pillars are as well as where you can expect guardian sentinel drones to deploy from. On one personal side note here if you've not visited the sites or have perhaps been intimidated by the volume of chaos that they could generate for a lowly SRV in the past then I'd highly recommend giving them a try now. If you pump all the energy into the shields and weapons then the tankier scorpion SRV is largely completely unfazed by the drones and can easily dispatch them and a single point defence turret in a roof mounted utility slot of your nearby parked spaceship will more than adequately deal with any missiles that do survive the drone's appearance. You'll find greybeard site linked below this video and you can also follow greybeard seawolf on whatever the hell we're calling twitter these days. While we're talking guardian sites we thought this next oddity was worth noting just in case anyone else in the community notices anything, elite being what it is. One research retweeted yesterday a video from commander Clara Bloodwin showing three guardian sentinels at the newly discovered rego site apparently passive and hovering close to the ground in a formation that is somewhat reminiscent of the azimuth logo. There was some speculation that this could be a signal from the recently guardian absorbed ghost of salvation trying to send a message. I have to say that our experiments today at two separate guardian sites including one at rego have not demonstrated any similar such behaviour with three guardian drones at rego continuing to fire at me whilst I type this very script on another screen in fact but these things are always better with many eyes on them so we thought it best to let folks know just in case. As is always the case if you notice anything in game that other folks might not be aware of or it's likely a new discovery we'd recommend that just like Clara you tell everyone as soon as humanly possible. Have you found commander Mechon's guides enlightening? Have you visited the new guardian sites in the rego system and are you attending the elite community meet this weekend in the UK? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.