Bitcoin didn't go to the moon this week, so China created an artificial one. So maybe it'll go there. Chinese engineers and scientists want to launch into space to light the city of Chengdu at night, scheduled for 2020, ready for Tim Draper's price prediction of 250K in 2022. But for now, the market is bearish and it is truly a sign of the times when hotlers ditch the Lambo's for more modest vehicles. But don't get down. There are great deals to be had. Change the way you think about bears. And above all, be smart. Also this week, the market crash continues, Bitcoin SV versus Bitcoin ABC, KPMG cautiously bullish on crypto, and Bitcoin's Billy the Kid. Ladies and gentlemen, hi, I'm Mike, and this is your weekly hotlers digest. Early this week, the crypto market suffered heavy losses. Bitcoin plummeted to lows not seen since October, 2017, taking down all other major crypto tokens with it. Despite a brief recovery on Wednesday, the overall crypto market kept falling. Many are now wondering what could have caused such a sudden crash, how long will the bloodbath continue, and how to survive it. In our special report, we asked Alex Tapscott, Anthony Pompliano, and Toneviz about it. In case you missed the full report, you can find it in the description. Bitcoin does that. Bitcoin constantly drops 80 or 90% to make sure people know what they're doing, that they understand why they're in Bitcoin. And I think there were so many big buyers of Bitcoin, and they weren't buying it for the right reasons.  And I think a lot of these people need to exit the market completely. There's a high probability that Bitcoin will continue to go down in value. We could see some 4,000, somewhere in the like 3,500, $3,000 range. And then from the timing perspective, we think it goes into 2019, could go as long as till Q3 of 2019. And so if that happens, we're talking about another nine or 10 months, possibly, of this bear market. Until there's true blood in the street, capitulation, and people basically give up and leave the industry, I don't think we'd hit the bottom. We need to have people feel that there's value in these assets and be willing to buy them, not because of momentum or because of FOMO, but because they're actually valuing it on what the fundamental utility could be long-term. I want to see that this technology is being used, that people are actually getting value out of it, and that the promise that a lot of people made is beginning to get fulfilled. In the end, ultimately, the thing about technology is that people generally tend to vastly overestimate its potential in the short-term, and then vastly underestimate its potential in the long-term. My advice right now is, if you were thinking of quitting your job and going into the Bitcoin ecosystem, don't do it right now. Wait another year. Try to accumulate more fiat capital, and if you see Bitcoin drop below that $3,000 range, start accumulating that Bitcoin. This is not the time to panic sell. Don't ever panic sell. And you're better off waiting and selling at five or 6,000 at a little bit higher price. Many people pointed the finger last week's controversial Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork as the probable cause of the market crash. The fork resulted in the creation of two separate coins, Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV, led respectively by N-Chain chief scientist Craig Wright and Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Veer. Following the fork, the two competing tokens engaged in a hash war for survival, which resulted in substantial losses for both projects. As electricity costs to mine the coins far exceed their current value, miners on both sides reportedly lost around 400K in the two days after the fork. However, at the moment, Bitcoin Cash ABC has the upper hand, with significantly more blocks being mined and a longer proof of work chain than Bitcoin SV. Major crypto exchanges like Coinbase and Kraken listed Bitcoin Cash ABC as BCH, thus acknowledging it as the legitimate successor of Bitcoin Cash. Despite adopting Bitcoin Cash SV on its platform, Kraken warned users that the token does not meet the platform's usual listing requirements and defined it as an extremely high-risk investment. In the face of all this, Craig Wright is not admitting defeat and is certain of an eventual victory. We reached out to Craig Wright for comment on the surrounding turmoil of his brainchild Bitcoin SV is currently facing. We want to maintain Bitcoin as the original Bitcoin. In fact, we're gonna go back to what Bitcoin originally was. We want the original upcodes, we want no limit on scale, and we want effectively what was there in the beginning. We don't want the addition of new upcodes and we don't want to try and make it some anonymous coin. What we're looking at is the original version of Bitcoin. We're having the original version, the original protocol scaled and the bugs, the issue sorted. That's it. Bitcoin is not about decentralization. It is not a Marxist experiment. It is not about that, it is about competition. If you have three miners all competing, you have pure competition. That is the entirety of what it's about. It is not about every person at home running a node. It was never about that. The whole idea is miners are supposed to be in data centers. And these idiots just want to try and make a socialist coin and they want to have everyone involved and it's not going to work. There is not a single post for a Satoshi post that is mentions decentralization ever. There is not a central, it is about capital, pure and simple. It is about competitive systems. There's just no reason for it. There's no reason everyone needs to verify every transaction all the time. It's an anti-corporate message. They're just going big bad companies, you can't trust them, but there's no world government. There's no one corporation. Corporations compete. We can keep doing this forever. We don't need, we can just keep at this rate and growing forever. Roger's saying he can do four. Next year, we'll do 16. The year after that, we'll do 32. We will grow faster than all of the hash rate from BTC and BCH combined. And if he wants to keep up, he will never ever make a cent. The difference is we don't care about exchange value. We care about use. We care about getting this out to businesses. Crypto assets are a big deal according to major auditors KPMG. This week, they offered some light at the end of a seemingly never-ending dark tunnel on FUD and Despair. They published a report that was critical, took crypto seriously, and was cautiously bullish. Coinbase and Fundstrat contributed. The report, institutionalization of crypto assets is divided into four main parts. The case for institutionalization of crypto assets, the challenges they face, KPMG's framework for them, and crypto economics. We spoke with the report's main author, Kieran Nagaraj, about the future of crypto and why institutionalization and stablecoins might not be such dirty words. The timing's interesting because, you know, yes, the price action has been fairly bearish, and there's some general sort of views in the market that the market capitalization isn't necessarily the right measure to measure bearishness in the first place. Say that because, you know, when I look at the market, and I kind of see the amount of activity that's happening, people building infrastructure, people building services, inclusive for ourselves, right? Building a practice around crypto.  Those types of metrics are necessarily bearish. If anything, they're actually, you know, kind of going up. There's been a lot of new startups come in. There's been a lot of new players. You know, I do think 2018 has been a great year in terms of building out infrastructure services and other sort of support ecosystem for the crypto landscape. Ultimately, it's about making crypto ubiquitous in commerce and in the economy and the financial ecosystem. You know, one level deeper, what that means is I think it's going to require participation from traditional financial services institutions, but also the emerging players. It becomes commonplace. That's ultimately what institutionalization is all about. I do want to clarify one thing. I think sometimes this gets confused with centralizing control. That's not necessarily the answer, right? The focus here for institutionalization is to help facilitate scale and increase the trust to drive that mass volume. I'm not going to take names, but there are certain versions and types of stable points which have all kinds of problems, you know, about collateralization, a potential lack of reserves, et cetera, et cetera. Assuming a couple of stable points actually get this right, I think that's a product evolution which will help the crypto market. And you know, who knows where this is going to go, right? If, like I said, if there is a Fed coin, you know, my personal view is then the need for a stable coin could technically go away. Finally, some good news from CryptoAnd. The largest Swiss stock exchange six released the world's first ETP or exchange-traded product, tracking multiple cryptocurrencies. The product's underlying Amon Crypto Basket Index, developed by London-based fintech company Amon, will be trading under the ticker HODL. Initially designed to trade the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap, the platform is currently listing Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin. Bitcoin Cash is temporarily suspended due to last week's hard fork. Amon's co-founder and CEO, Hany Rashwan, explained. The Amon ETP will give institutional investors restricted to investing only in securities exposure to cryptocurrencies. It will also provide access for retail investors that currently have no access to crypto exchanges due to local regulatory impediments. Many see the launch of the Swiss ETP as a sign of the increasing trust of large institutional investors towards the cryptocurrency markets, as well as an important step leading to the introduction of crypto ETFs in the US. However, regulators' skepticism is still very high. Recently, SEC rejected the provosal by the Winklevoss twins and eight more ETF applications because SEC thinks crypto market is not mature enough to handle this kind of product. We talked to Gunther De Bras, partner of the audit firm PWC Legal in Switzerland and Crypto Evangelist to give his own perspective on the issue. If you want to access the market, if you want to trade the market rather than focus on any particular play within the market, I think it's a good representation of that. And it's straightforward in terms of accessing it through the listing by six. And it's a very reliable way to get in and out with the according liquidity. So we will have to see what the uptake will be, but I think it shows a move towards institutionalization, which is very important. Because obviously people had to go quite often through, well, I don't want to be objective, but some of the exchange setups and so forth involved were not exactly ideal. So by having six here at the table, which is one of the most prominent and most institutional setups you can get in the world, I think that's a good sign. We've seen some movement as well with DSCC, but I have a lot of respect for the US regulator. I think they are very conscious in what they're doing and they're not one to be knee-tracked reacting. So they will take considerate measures as and when they see them appropriate. The US has its way of doing it and it's their way of doing it and we have to respect it. And some participants in the market would hope for change, faster change, whatever, but I think we have to accept what it is. From alleged victim to alleged villain, aka Bitcoin's Billy the Kid, aka 21-year-old Nicholas Truglia. We first met Truglia back in September when he called the cops on his friends for allegedly torturing him in order to gain access to his over $1 million Bitcoin fortune. Now it appears Truglia is on the other side of the law. He stands accused of hacking the smartphones of some pretty major players in Silicon Valley and stealing their crypto. The scam in question is SIM swapping. In total, there were seven victims, but only once suffered the misfortune of actually losing funds. The victim in this case was Robert Ross who had a total of $1 million stolen from his Coinbase and Gemini accounts. This was reportedly his life savings and his daughter's college fund. And it's a devastating crime to have, in this case, the victim lost his entire savings and could happen to anybody at any time. It might be the case that Ross does recover his life savings according to the DA. They recovered $300,000. We're always hoping to recover more. The suspect certainly knows where the rest of that money is and we're hoping that he may do the right thing. Bitcoin is, of course, synonymous, not anonymous, and a special task force was at hand when Truglia allegedly shifted the stolen crypto into his personal account. Truglia, who claims to have studied at Harvard, is currently being held at the Manhattan Detention Complex, awaiting extradition to Santa Clara. He's facing up to 20 years in prison. He is charged with 21 counts, seven separate victims. He's being charged with identity theft and network intrusion as to seven victims and then grand theft as to one victim that he's accused of stealing a million dollars. Ever the bombast, the great orange hope announced that he can't imagine anyone else being Time Magazine's Man of the Year. Hey, please comment below with who you think should be Time's Man or Woman of the Year in the crypto world. And as always, like, subscribe, and hodl. Cointelegraph, like, subscribe, and hodl.


How am I supposed to press the record button? How am I supposed to even control this game? There's a lot of holes in my logic for this video. Today, YouTube, if you can't tell by the blind, unfolded sheet on my face, today I will be having 10 people say a different song and then my mind is gonna tell me the songs in any order he would like to tell me. And then I have to rank them without knowing the other songs.  But it's your boy, Biscuit.   And we gonna get straight to it. I encourage you guys down in the comments below to play along with me. I really wanna see how y'all listen to what they did out. So the first song I'm gonna give to you is Paws. Paws? Okay, you started, okay, okay, okay. I'm not gonna lie, these are all really good songs. Are you not bullshitting me, are you? I'm not, I'm not.  But I really know y'all picked better, this, mm-hmm. Okay, okay, let's go look at Paws, let's go look at Paws. I don't think this will be top five of what you guys chose. 20 with a 30 as a dick, no stockpiles.  Life of a rock star, rap trapper. Kimmy Evans, R.A.R., and a tractor. I was twicking off the perks, mixing with the shrooms.  Rally on my wrist, did it for the season. I don't know, this is gonna be hard, Chad. Cause like I can really see, bro, depending on what y'all play, I can see this being like at top four. This is gonna definitely be somewhere between four to six.  I'm thinking to lock it in at five.  But this song is so good.  We lock it in at five, Chad. Okay, okay, okay, let's go back to the store. Your next song is Sad Thing. Sad Thing? For the next three songs, we're 100% good. Sad Thing, Sad Thing. Why did I not expect you guys to put one of the new like leaks here? Like, why did I, I should have expected this. Tossing, turning in my sleep, I'm dreaming of burning in misery. Got me hard to scream and get no peace.  What's the deal? I wanted to chill, chill, trying to know my soul. I made you say that he's turning in my sleep. I'm dreaming of burning in misery.  I've been out on break-dots, no explanation. Bitch, I'm not from NASA, but this drama got me spacing. This a touchy subject like hoes lying about their body count. Toss.  Bro, this has to be, is this over paused? That's the first, okay.  I might have to put this at six. The difference between Sad Thing and Young God is literally paused. I would put Young God above pause, but I don't think I'm putting Sad Thing above pause.    She didn't see me sell out of her arenas. Girl don't meet like me in her arenas. Take the niggas till they're cleaners. Even like this is all butter. I don't know, I don't think I can put this over there. I'm gonna have to put this at six. I'm gonna take the risk, Sad Thing. I'm gonna take the risk, we're gonna put that. Maybe y'all will, maybe y'all will. So Southside is still on the track, cause we just did that thing and now we're gonna do Young God. No, no, wait, so you tell me two viewers happened to a camera.  I really don't like y'all. I really don't like you guys. Fuck, I didn't think I was gonna do this to me, Chad.   Doin' drive-by's at night, niggin' no life. Slow down on the perks, I'm don't feel right.  I'm gonna keep goin' no time for a hook. They still in the drip, no time for a crook. Someone come roll back, who's out there. Someone talk down to my name, my slut. He location shared. On the way with sticks right now. We ain't never cared. Ah, we are. You ain't hearin', and we bro, we are. We're the money, we run our fears. Cold ain't cost, we havin' cheers. Box out from the trial, run from the cops, and my raps, yeah. All the people that said that sad things is better, I don't get it, I just really don't get it. I'm trying to understand it. So it can't be at four, right Chad? This is top 10 unreleased songs. If somebody gonna say put my brain, that's gonna decide if I should put this at one or two. Like if I put this at number two, I don't think I could get in trouble for it. Bro's gonna regret this.  Y'all, y'all make it, bro, bro, bro. I'm trusting my instincts, I'm trusting my instincts, and I'm putting it at two. When life gets overwhelming, I just go ghost. They said my life deserves a camera. Go pro. Okay, okay, we chillin'. Off, off memory, that's automatically three, right? Let's listen, let's listen. My life gets overwhelming, I just go ghost. Sounds my life, just so I go by and move on. Let's take it back to basics. Yeah, five grand wood rollin' up face to toe. We take that up to that boy. Killer Roy, killer and the makin', pickin' raisin'. I'll get back to them later, I'm busy achievin' great man. Killer nigga, then get over it. Hangin' niggas like a ornament.  Go ghost. They said my life deserves a camera, I'm a go pro. I never caught that. Killer nigga like an ornament, because you hang ornaments. I never caught that before.   Oh my God, yes, I agree. Kill them niggas like ornaments. I just knew y'all niggas agreed, bruh.  Man, this is goin' at 10 just for that, bruh. I'm thinkin' three. I don't think y'all have two songs on this list that are better than go pro. I don't think so, go pro. I'm thinkin' three. I think, hey, so far? The list is sturdy, though, chat. You know what I'm sayin'? This list is more sturdy than Casanac. Hey, if you're still watching, I promise you the experience is better if you go over on Twitch. This is just me remindin' you to go over on Twitch.  They will, they will.  Y'all not gonna regret it. Go ahead and, hey, slide over. But your next song is gonna be Bearing Me Alive. Bearing Me Alive. This song's a banger. This song, oh yeah, Lullabies, oh yeah, Lullabies. No, no, hold up, wait, no, no, no, wait, wait, no, no, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, wait. Work it every day and nonstop, try to get it. If I dig it close, you look like if I fit it. I ain't gonna lie, I chose some good songs, chat. Y'all chose some good songs. Yeah, y'all made, y'all, y'all, y'all chose some good songs. Okay, okay. I gotta get it if a nigga look close, see the glock and my fitted. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. Money is a motive, but it's not everything to me. And under pain, you can't see it on me. But then try to tell me a nigga, but I'll never go broke, I'm a double bank robber. Bearing me alive in these blue faces. When I can't feel my face. Not one mid song. Not one mid song so far.  You guys have not played one mid song.  That's, like, I'm so proud of y'all. But with that being said, eight. No, hear me out.  Five more songs. You don't think out of five songs, three of them is better than that? Y'all don't think so? I think that's very smart. But our next song is hypnotic. Hypnotic? Okay, bet, hypnotic. All right, bet, bet, bet. I'm falling apart, no, I can't keep it together. Damn, my love on narcotics. Loving you is hypnotic, baby. If I take this pill, then I'll be sleeping forever. Chunky, baby. Mixing pills with a liquor, got a nigga fading.  By the end of the year, then I'll be fine. I guess pussy's power right where to feel it. I'm thinking 10, chat. You gotta go with your gut sometime, chat. I mean, so far, low key, all the stuff that y'all saying isn't too far off from the stuff that I'm saying, right? We kind of agreeing. 10 is crazy, I'ma be real. 10 is not crazy. Let's start off with Curtis Blow. Curtis Blow. Oh yeah, we safe, chat. No, we safe, we safe. Oh, I feel like a different person. Snakes in the grass, God told me how does he serve? Leave me in the room with a nine and a birkin. Five million dollars. My Dave is on, bitch, you funny, funny.  Every day I wake up seven to money. I don't see anyone taking it from me. I don't see anybody shittin' on me.  Don't you get it, Curtis? Blow, blow, blow, Curtis. W, that I play hypnotic in 10. See, y'all wanted to put hypnotic at nine, and I would've had to put this song probably at 10. I'm thinking about putting this song at nine.  Yeah, I'm gonna put this song at nine. Fuck, bro, what's gonna end up being our number one? What's gonna end up being our number one, bro? What's gonna end up being our number one? All right, let's see if you can decipher this. Poy es uno. Bro, I had tacos like two weeks ago, bro. I'm not like, chat, day one, day one. Bitch, you mean greed like juice? Uh-huh. To all my exes, they wanna be friends. Booth ain't like this. I'm not down. Studio all night long. To ooh, nah, nah, when I get home, oh, yeah. And you understand me. I have to show you the rose. So listen to the star. Cut one of my day one niggas off. So I wanna listen to Drake. Talkin' about that, thank me later. Gotta watch you, let grab a seat in the play. They can't eat ain't no fix at the table. Gotta cut them off, give them the razor. The longer we have one, the more, like, I feel like I fucked up, bro. Y'all say gamble? Okay, you know what? We gon' gamble, we gon' gamble. We gon' gamble, bro. We gon' stick it in at four, chat. We gon' stick it in at four.   I'm comin' with a banger on this one. Okay. Journey. Bro, that can't be at number one. That can't be at number one. So that's gonna be seven, but like, what's the last one?  Look, that last song, I'm gonna need somebody to come here and play. Please be 808, please be Stargazing, Starstruck, something that can make sense, please. Let's listen to Journey. Let's listen to Journey, bro. We hittin' it, ties me, get high. Me, but don't die, please.  I quit another day, but right now, it helps me with my peace. Black hair, got me tattooed on your leg. I'm tryin' to thank you with this song, but I keep dozin' off the man. My life is a journey, okay. Hopefully my don't end on a gurney. Okay, is it her or me or her? Watch the wire, it's a carrot. It's your bird, I'm a jar. Too pining, it knows you're caught. I got the juice, I sip it slow. Feel like I'm in the after. We're gonna risk it for the biscuit chat. Journey's going to be a seven, so that means that this last song will honestly make or break our list. I would honestly say this list is almost perfect, bro. The next song is Turkey Burgers. Turkey? I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's not Turkey Burgers, it's not Turkey Burgers. I think you guys got a pretty good list, it's Challenger. Challenger? Oh! Oh, we... Yes, bro. No, we're valid, we're valid, we're valid!  We are valid, no, we're valid is heck, check. We are valid. I go out chat. I should be a professional blind rancor. They're in the nick of the challenger. Yeah, I got a mac and suck.   We're a rapper.   Japanese, I collected them. Then he's back to the house for what my savage man. If I see the hofs on the corner, then get back. Them niggas for the gig, blip that.  She wanna lick that.  I'm shooting that trigger and I feel like Ray. Alibis, um, man. It isn't a challenger, son. I'm on walking down right now listening to a cuddling.  And with that that concludes the video I ain't gonna lie I think my list is very valid give me your opinion in the comments below on youtube rate my list on a scuffle 1 to 10 I think my shit's a 10 out of 10 and if y'all want me to do this video again but with a different artist but with a different anything let me know in the comments below I might do that you know I'm saying chat but it's your boy I love y'all and we're out


Hello everyone, welcome to the being human podcast Scott St. Marie here. We're talking about negative emotion and thoughts today So if you're a human being listening, oh We all have them. We all get them.   Oh my god I just want to sleep if that's kind of where your mind can go Let's talk about it. And we have a question from a subscriber. Oh My gosh, I'm actually scared of clowns We have a question from a subscriber and if you have a question just comment on YouTube because we're gonna be doing this in the podcast And or send me an email. Okay, so Scott I want to first say that your videos are helpful. I haven't watched all of them yet I've been going through them from oldest to newest Second thing I want to say is that you don't have to answer my question in the podcast if you have too many of them I won't get mad Anyways, here's my question. How does a person not let negative feelings get control of the mind? Your videos are not letting negative thoughts convince a person that they are true has been very helpful The problem I have is trying not to let negative emotions get the better of me Emotions are not facts is what I have been told but they can still ruin my day. I did meditation. They still win out Ah So notice first that We're in a black and white world here Like negative and positive negative emotion positive emotion I did the meditation they still win out So with emotion we're at a win or we're at a loss Know what I'm saying here. You know where I'm going with this. We were popped out of the womb real quick depending on what your mom went through and we entered a world and Automatically, it's polarized Audit like look at what the internet is everyone. I'm bored of the internet I am bored of my phone and we're gonna do a separate episode on what that means for me And I just like to discuss who else is feeling that But it's all polarized either you got a girl with 16 abs in a bikini on the beach With a briefcase of a billion dollars saying my life is awesome Or you have someone on social media saying I live in poverty. I need help I deal with mental illness my life's a catastrophe I'm in despair. Oh my goodness talk about the quote-unquote Win and loss the polarization that we see all the time And I know in my life. This is translated into the way I think to It has It's hard not to when you think about what we're always exposed to and it's not to say that Oh, I'm gonna put my kids in a soccer game where there's no winner or loser. We all get ribbons.  No, that's not what we want to do. But when we talk about you my friend It seems like you want control of the mind and you want control of emotion master Emotion and hey man We can do certain tools and exercises to help with that one thing is to do things in spite of how we feel Create distance and space from those emotions like we did in that event We did a few weeks ago. I invited people on zoom We did a certain meditation together to distance ourselves from those and then to go about our days but To answer your question, let's just do this. How does a person not let negative feelings get control of them? I'm gonna Google negative Emotions look at negative emotions list comes up Okay, let's see what's here. A few of the most commonly felt negative emotions are fear, anger, disgust, sadness, rage, loneliness, melancholy, and annoyance like Depending on how often you feel these things depending on how you express them depending on your Relationship and how you actually perceive what is happening in the mind and body I See no problem with sadness isn't why would I am not calling sadness a negative emotion in my life? I'm not even calling fear or anger negative These can be powerful tools guys. I Was again, I was did I I don't know if I started the intro with this I I was at the Lamb of God concert last night Lamb of God Megadeth Trivium and in flames. It was so Frickin awesome Horns up mosh pit everyone in it was the most beautiful thing. I love going to heavy metal shows It's beautiful.  You have people putting their hands up and me. I'm in the mosh pit And we're singing to 512 lamb of God. It's like my hands are painted red My future is painted black and everyone's like I can't recognize myself I've become someone else my hands are painted red and then they play ruin and everyone's like fear pain hatred power See I can't even do it power Screaming these words if people letting anger out emotion out in a healthy way through music like that through community And you create something as a group That was not there in that amphitheater before It's like the beauty most beautiful thing and the reason I'm telling you this man Is because I started to tear up multiple times. I think the buddy I was with did too I think we looked at each other at one point and we're like, yeah, this is it man Wow and if I had a a very controlling mind in that moment and One that seeks only negative and positive What do you think my thoughts would be there me tearing up and crying at a heavy metal concert because it's beautiful You bait a male You sensitive dick, what are you doing crying at a concert get a hold of yourself God? This is a negative emotion. What are you doing? Why are you feeling bad? What is this? What happened to you? Get in the pit get it together so I Didn't think much of it. I was just like this is beautiful and I'm at a concert and I can feel whatever I Whatever comes up So you're wanting to control the mind and when we control something we grip it And I can tell you in a later episode. I'll probably talk a lot about this Jesuit retreat I went on a few weeks ago when you grip when you want to control something Grip it and you want to spin it each way and you want to lift it up and lift it down and push it side to side It's like if you have a bird lands on your fingers. There's this awesome forest in Markham And these birds just land on your fingers because they're so used to people if giving them food and they just flying land on your fingers and To listen to the song of a bird. I need to let it Just land on my finger and let it do its thing and then it floats away and continues being a bird But if it lands on my finger and I and I want to control it I want to keep the bird and I want to move it each way and I'm like sing Tell me tell me what you sound like now sing.  It's not gonna sing its song. It's not gonna do what it's intended to do and with emotion We kind of do that we're kind of like okay. I'm feeling something, but I don't want to so I'm gonna control it by doing something else Distracting myself wanting to feel something different shaming myself doing all of these worksheets listening to a meditation and You're in a win or lose because if you do all these things and you feel the same way you feel like you fucked up If we release the grip a little bit on emotion if we Are a little more gentle man if we're a little less hard on ourselves in these moments if we're not living in a black and white world where Polarization of hot bikini model person in poverty where all the people being like yeah life's good life's okay Yeah, bored some times and I go to work and I come home and I garden and I watch Netflix And that's the day and I'm going to die and that's it it Like we're all those people that's the vast vast majority is 95% But we see both ends we just see when in loss So maybe try to see your emotions when they come my friend a few things take a breath Maybe don't call them negative right away say hey, I'm feeling something here Maybe ask what it's trying to tell you gently What are you trying to tell me? What's up? Maybe nothing maybe nothing but feel it regardless feel it fully Because what we resist persists, right? So if we keep resisting the anger and if we keep resisting the sadness and we're always that Positive person good vibes only hi guys come to my party. It's in the middle of a pandemic people are dying I just lost a limb and I'm on crutches, but life's good Like you don't have to be that You can literally Create a bit of distance from the emotion be gentle with them loosen the grip and When you judge it less harshly you can live beside them What's that Gordon Lightfoot lyric? It's um It's so easy to live wait No, no, sometimes I Got to look it up Gordon Lightfoot It was called oh so sweet off his latest album. Oh so sweet. Oh Man, let's see sometimes I oh there's it Sometimes I remember Here in raindrops fall Feeling my love breathing alongside of me This is not so nice it ain't easy to live with no tears of regret, but sometimes it was oh so sweet so You can have like this this feeling of love breathing alongside of you That's awesome, but to create distance from emotion You can have these emotions breathing alongside of you Maybe that anger is just a little beside you as you go about your day and you try to understand it But you don't judge it. You don't get concerned and dive into it you kind of Release it a little bit release the grip from it and let it be there Let it be there and see what it's like to just go about your day a little bit What's it like to not have to worry and be concerned about how you feel There was that that zoom call we did a few weeks back with people And it was called creating space for anxiety and depression And we did a meditation to create that distance and I hope we'll probably do more events later, but um Listen man, I know I'm going in circles and I know I'm doing a saying a bunch of stuff the the whole summary here and for everyone listening Loosen the grip Loosen the grip a bit When has every anything gone completely the way you planned? And So at this retreat I was With this uh with this priest and and uh, he said you know scott The easiest way to make god laugh is to tell him your life plan Yeah And maybe another easier way to make him laugh too is to tell them exactly how you want to feel all the time Ah You know So be easy with yourself Don't like to let the emotions get you and win Don't think of it as a win and loss Think of emotions coming Feelings of all sorts long big spectrums And they hit you from time to time and you can decide to understand them at certain points Decide to maybe distract yourself at certain points Decide to go for a run if you're angry listen to music if you're angry talk to someone if you're lonely Sit with them alone To feel them out You know work with them accordingly Depending on the situation you're in I think we just get so caught up with these freaking Like not to bash any other podcast or anything But the reason I stopped reading all this psych literature and looking and reading other Uh, or sorry listening to other podcasts about psychology and what to do with negative emotions And how to deal with this and what's the best way to deal with negative feelings and how to not Uh, just shut up just Work on it yourself and see how far you get And then if you need a guide there are millions of guides and podcasts waiting for you to listen But we get so Involved in living the best life the happiest life. We need to do it right We need to win win win win win and we got to do it so we win every time Is then if we fall short of that If we fall short of the happiness if we fall short of the euphoric feeling if we fall short of the raise of the promotion of the Of the success of the friendships of the relationships if we fall short from that we are nothing short of a fuck up That's all we are Be gentle It's not black and white It's not just sunshine and darkness It's mostly in between And we got to learn To know that sensation and feeling of when we're the in the in between It's a good place to be it's a fine place to be I hope that helps dude and thanks for uh, yeah, thanks for For watching and thank you for your question and thanks everyone else for popping in Uh, this is the being human podcast all links in the description Ba ba ba subscribe and I'm going to go What I need to do today Meeting at three.  That's in five minutes. It's 255. Okay. Yeah. All right. See everyone and thank you very much We'll see you next week or whenever I post and stay fresh. Stay juicy. Be calm Ew, why did I say be calm? No, no, no, no I meant be gentle with yourself and love yourself regardless of these these emotions that pop up. All right. Bye. Bye


Welcome back to Moscone Center, everybody. This is day four of theCUBE's continuous coverage of RSA 2023. I'm here with John Furrier. Dave Dougal is in the house again. He's the founder and managing director of Enterprise Web. Dave, we just saw you at MWC in Barcelona. That was an awesome show. I mean, bigger than this, but this is big. Yeah, this is big. That was about 90,000, 95,000. So it's good to see these conferences coming back. And MWC feels like yesterday, right? I mean, seriously. I mean, I know you guys are on the move constantly, but we had a great conversation at that point. No, John, you weren't there, but there was a Dave and, yeah, Telco SuperCloud with Dave and Lisa, right? That was fun. I think we put on a real good show there. But there we were talking about how the, you know, Telcos want to work across their domains, work across layers, right? So they can flexibly optimize services for low latency and energy efficiency, right? The only problem is that they're static, vertically integrated, tightly coupled stacks, getting away with their digital business transformation, right? They need to be much more, you know, dynamic, loosely coupled, horizontally architected. And that's what we do at Enterprise Web, right? We have an intelligent interoperability automation platform that allows things to be just highly dynamic to meet these kind of modern needs. Yeah, and the thing about our conversations all week, Dave and I have been talking about this, is the platformization of security, which is kind of their first awakening to like, hey, let's build a platform. But the difference is that what you're doing is essentially like a real platform, right? They're doing my focus in security, but the conversation is, if you don't put network and security to enable cloud native, then it's not the right fit. So what we see security doing is saying, okay, if security and network run things, it then has to enable on top. This is kind of what your Telco cloud vision, super cloud vision is. Talk about where your platform intersects with some of the narrative coming out of this show, and what does that mean? Yeah, so I think the whole, and you're right, platformization is a thing now, and I think that's actually almost a maturity of the move to the cloud, right? Because now people are thinking of distributed systems as systems, this is systems thinking. That's what platform is, right? It's a holistic view of your problem space, your problem domain. People used to do these siloed specialized products, and the problem is the problem is no longer siloed. The problem is that you're a whole attack surface, right? So you've got to go wide, you have to have an understanding of that domain, and one of the other hot topics here, of course, is generative AI, right? We came back from Barcelona and also generative AI that sort of stole the thread, right? We've been joking that it was invented over the holidays. AI. Yeah, absolutely. It is sort of funny, because it's been kicking around for a couple of years, but boom, it just exploded, right?  And we're already working with the big players here, because if you think of it, like, generative, this is a revolution in data analytics, that's what it really is, about being real-time, conversational, interactive. Well, then you want your backend to be able to support that. If your backend's sort of static, you're not going to optimize against this information flow that's constantly coming in, right? You want your processes to be able to react to what's going on in the real world.  So, we've actually, believe it or not, we already have an industrial-grade no-code automation demo using generative AI. We just started, I've been here all week in the Valley, running up and down the usual streets, right? And it's blown people away. So what are the requirements, Dave, from the backend to support the sort of new wave of generative AI workloads? What are the fundamental characteristics of that backend? What do they have to look like? All right, so I mean, obviously this goes pretty low. So I think starting at the highest level and then working down, because I don't want to lose people too quickly. I've been accused of that before. And at the high level, you can say this is two sides of the same coin, right? This is just the latest advance in analytics, meaning the latest advance in automation. That's really what it is. And those two have always gone together symbiotically, right? Data drives process, process creates data, and it's just a loop, right? And that's what you really, in a pure sense, that's what you want. You want to be able to observe the environment, use those observations to drive next actions.  And some of these are some of the issues with generative AI right now, right? You want them, you know, sitting aside the whole IP issue about what generative AI is trained on. That's one issue totally sort of orthogonal. But the other issue is generative AI is not always right. Sometimes it's adamantly wrong. Sometimes it hallucinates.  It's essentially drunk on data, right? So you need to put constraints on top. And that's the difference. Again, that's the historical difference that old, old app versus OLTP, if you remember those days, right? Analytics versus transactions, right? Probabilistic, statistical on one side, deterministic rules based on the other side. You can think of those as almost being two sides of the brain, right? Left brain, right brain. You got sort of this creative side that's constantly reacting. And then you have sort of the logical side of the brain that's actually has models and it's applying rules to things. Enterprise Web is bringing sort of that industrial grade side to it. If you look at a lot of the automation demos for generative AI, they're clearly experiments. Are you really like rough beta prototypes? They even say it when they're doing it. And they're sort of like, if this and that kind of stuff, really stuff. They're not thinking about security and they're not thinking about IT governance. Well, guess what? Nobody in the enterprise is ever going to touch that. Right? The enterprise needs, this is you can't have creativity in your transactions. Right? You can't, right? You know, you're doing, yeah, you're doing. It's got to be binary.  You want that kind of transactional control. And so Enterprise Web is adding that, let's say rigor, right? So in this demo that we have today already, we can demonstrate working, it's great. We're essentially, it's a Microsoft stack that we're working through today for the obvious reasons. It's really the one that's breaking away. But we're working through Jarvis, which is our NLP, right? So we can actually talk to Enterprise Web. Jarvis through OpenAI, right? To Enterprise Web. There's another product in between I'll get into when I go into the technical details that you asked. But essentially I can talk to Enterprise Web and say I want a network service, something really advanced, right? That's even hard for an engineer. I want this, please compose this for me. Then when it composes it, I want it to be optimized this way, configured this way, and then deploy it on the network. And this in a couple of minutes, I could dictate this to the machine, the machine does it, and then it shows me the state, right? So I can compose, deploy, and manage on an ongoing basis, the day zero, one and two, working with generative AI. So you can say, okay, optimized for low latency and give me an estimate as to what it's going to cost monthly. Yes. Okay, that's a little too expensive. So dial down, dial up the latency a little bit and you can speak to it in a natural language way and then optimize your infrastructure for an outcome. And this is exactly, in telecom they're calling that intent, right? Yes. Managing the declarative intent, right? So a developer can say energy efficiency, maybe it's not latency, maybe it's energy efficiency, right? So manage, I don't want to care how you manage energy efficiency. The details of that are way too low level. You know, it's down to the network, it's down to the ran, the core, it's like that. We're doing a lot of things at that point. So, but you know, does the business really care? No, it just wants its SLAs and SLOs met, it's wants its intent met. Honestly, if you think about, we've spent the last 10, 20, 30 years of computing thinking so much about our tools, right? Completely independent of the business behavior and objectives. And now we're actually almost at that stage, we're at that inflection point where we're really going to enter the 21st century for the first time, right? I'd argue that we haven't been in it, right? We're still doing 20th century automation. Now we're also going to be in, the focus will be, you talk to the machine, you express your intent in the system and bonds it. And it's fully traceable, right? It's fully governed. Talk about the self-healing aspect of it. I noticed that was in your LinkedIn post. Yeah, yeah. Because that's that third wave of Gen AI. You have prompt engineering, prompt ops, prompt tuning, which is to see the query, operationalizing it, and then self-tuning, tuning it, which means it's on its own. Where do you guys fit in on that piece? Because I can imagine that's where, when you give an order into the command, provision this, the hallucination side's a concern. So I'm assuming you're doing that self-tuning, self-healing. Take me through that piece of it. So we do this, so we're using the Microsoft Gen AI in front, right? So let's call that the Jarvis and the open AI in front. We put another technology between us. Essentially what you want is a vector-based time series database. So this goes to your question, actually to both of your questions, because we do this because we want an intermediary. We want to be arm's length. We want a nice separation of concerns between us and the generative AI for exactly the reason you just described, right? I don't want that hallucination to flow into my commands, right? So what happens is the hallucination is working through this time series database, which is putting that data in order, right? It's taking this massive stream of event information and it's applying rules to it and then just throwing events to enterprise web, right? But those events are already sort of filtered in a way that enterprise web can respond to them. And what it's doing is that, and we work with a company called KX, which is a really interesting company. You guys should have them on some time, actually. What's the company? KX. KX.com, 20 of the top 20 real-time ML partner, right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. So 20 of the top 20 financial institutions use them for real-time trading, right? They wanted to enter Telco, so they actually partnered with us because we have techled Telco domain expertise, right? In this case, so now totally different use cases and more because enterprise web is generalized, generative AI is generalized, KX is generalized for analytics and everything like that. So we use them as an intermediary. So what happens is we're arms length from generative AI. When it's talking to KX, KX is then translating it into the symbolic language, the semantics that we speak for us, right? And it's almost like a universal translator, right? Translating back and forth between vectors. That brings coherence. Coherence, right? Essentially, what we're allowing it to do is through the intermediary, generative AI is walking our graphs, it's walking our domain models and introspecting our catalogs. So when I actually, when I talk to my system and I say, I want something, it's literally walking the enterprise web graph saying, oh, I found it. Oh, and here's the object I want to use. It's a Cisco router, a Juniper router, whatever it is. I'll compose this with this, this, and this, and maybe it's a Fortinet security firewall, you know, whatever it is, it'll put that together, apply my constraints, and then implement it. The controls come on enterprise website, completely discreet. So generative AI is enabling the conversation. That's super powerful. Almost think of it as the most advanced user interface you can imagine, right? It's now Star Trek, right? This is, you know, right? We said in theCUBE one time, everything in Star Trek will be invented except for transporter room and that automatic food making. But you just gave an example of whatever, a Cisco router or a Palo Alto firewall, whatever. What is it that allows you to not care and then is that different in telco? Oh, so it's interesting. So part of it's what we've already had, the core enterprise web platform. In enterprise web, essentially, we have what's called an upper ontology, right? Upper ontology just means it's the generic set of concepts and types that runs across all enterprise businesses, verticals, whatever. Every business has people and has organizational units that has facilities, right? Those kind of things. And then of course from a cloud and system perspective, there are common types, right? There's formats, there's protocols. At the upper level protocol, enterprise web maintains that. It's sort of the universal concepts that apply to everybody. Then enterprise web allows you to model a domain like whether it's telco, whether it's life sciences, whether it's IoT, it doesn't really matter to enterprise web. We enabled you to rapidly model a complex domain. And then what happens is you're onboarding objects into that domain, right? So that router you were talking about, that firewall you were talking about, right? So what you're doing is instead of doing that old kind of point-to-point integration you used to do in the stack, what you're doing is actually just mapping up to those graphs. You're just mapping in metadata. So we're saying, hey, we understand Juniper router or Cisco router or Palo Alto security firewall or Fortinet. We understand them completely in metadata. Enterprise web is 100% configured by metadata, right? All enterprise web is a graph model, which has policies, which has metadata, policies, and types, and then it's stateless functions. And enterprise web uses that metadata to efficiently hydrate context for stateless functions. That alone is a super big idea, because serverless is true. I mean, you have a very big idea. So the super cloud aspect of the telco thing is super impressive. What you're getting at now is the modern platform vision. It's enterprise is hard. We had Jeremy Burton on who was a very distinguished executive over the years. Now he's doing an observability startup. He's like, it's hard to do a startup, actually in the enterprise, it takes years. Where are you guys at? Tell me about it. Where are you guys at? Take us through your progression because you guys have a solution now. How do someone get in? How do they get involved? What's the deployment? How do they adopt the technology? Because it is definitely in line with what people want. Some people don't have the skills. How do you guys do the managed services? How does someone engage with you guys? And how long have you been around? Yeah, fantastic. So I've been personally, I've been around for a long time. No enterprise web. So actually, so I had started turned around and grown several companies in a row.  Cloud doesn't really take off 2012. Before Kubernetes, before microservices, right? Before containers. My previous engagements, my roles, where I was like seeing that the 20th century automation tools were gaining the way, the kind of things I wanted to do already. Just from a business intuitive perspective is like, why can't I do it? Why does IT tell me what I can't do? I'm the business guy. I want this done. Why is being, you know, when I ask some behavior to be implemented, I don't say do that in concrete, right? I'd like it still to be adaptable if all of a sudden my needs change, the competitive landscape. So I start, in 2007, eight, seven, eight, I read 3, 400 academic papers and industry papers. I seriously, I actually, I left my prior job.  I'm going to do sabbatical. I'm going to figure this out. And so I went out and just did all this research and just look it up. Like, why can't people be more dynamic? And basically it was the old, this old software was based on the old constraints of hardware and infrastructure. And when the hardware and infrastructure kept on advancing, the software didn't. You know, partially because those models of selling package software are pretty profitable. Selling lots of different components. How are you motivated to keep it the way it is? They didn't want to capitalize it, right?  This is really capabilities architecture, right? I should be able to say I've got a catalog with my capabilities and I have business logic over the top. My middleware should be the thin horizontally architected layer between my business logic and my things. And that's all that matters. I don't want to care how it deploys, like we talked about earlier. So I started doing that and essentially I just worked behind the scenes. I just self-funded it. I've taken no money. I've bootstrapped this whole company, this whole way to profitability, right? Congratulations. That's awesome. Not an easy road. I don't recommend it to everybody. It is an elite title to have that self-funded start. But now you have options that you wouldn't have had if you had taken money early on. So we're in production. Some of the world's largest companies and we go to market new channels. So... What kind of company? How big are they? Well, Red Hat.  Said from Red Hat was on with us and that was a great show. So Red Hat looks at us as, you know, maybe being the application layer over OpenShift, right? We have partners with Intel. We just did that award-winning test bed. 5G, we're the closing loop with our partner KX on the AI ML side. Closing the loop from reported event to mediation in 300 to 400 microseconds. Not milliseconds. The state-of-the-art orchestration is 11 milliseconds. I'm at three, right? I'm orders of magnitude more performant they are. And the reason is I have no cruft, right? There's nothing but a graph and the stateless functions. Once something happens, we flatten that graph, execute the functions. I love them. I love serverless. Oh, and we implemented it, so we have our own, so we have 19 ward of patents, multiple patents panting, right? So we actually, because we existed before well, there's other technologies, because you have to remember- At least he's throwing money at you right now. We're getting a lot of interesting conversations. And the generative AI thing is, without me saying anything, the biggest players, and you know, there's only two or three, the biggest players in the generative AI are super interested because right now, every organization in the world is reconsidering their operations in light of generative AI. Totally. Right? In the last two months. If you're not, you better be. And their concern is about the hallucinations which you're trying to address. That's the upside of like, I want pure, reliable, scalable. Deterministic. And it's got to be portable. Low latency, high performance, portable, right? We're 50 megabytes. You know, again, we got all these great characteristics because we rethought it, right? And people didn't think it was possible, so they didn't try. And also I think one benefit. Well, I think your architects that you laid out, also business apps, essentially could be put cloud right there. So you actually had, the architecture was perfectly lined with how the cloud spawned and our super cloud and our rendezvous, our serendipity meeting you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's awesome.  Yeah, yeah, right? So I saw that, I was like, I got to follow up with these guys. We're on the same tribe, let's go. These are my peeps. Well, I'd been on the cube back in 2015 in the structure conference with George Gilbert. I remember that. Back in the day. I do, still working with George. Yeah, great. Actually, I've been having some conversations with him. He's a great guy. And he, of course, dies right through the week. I remember Digital Ocean back then, but I interviewed those guys there. Yeah, it was good time. Yeah, yeah, so we go through market through channels. So we have SI, people like Tech Mahindra is one of our SIs, you know, Red Hat, Intel, you know. How does someone engage with your customer? What, who wants to engage with Enterprise Web? What do you do? Well, so I mean, anybody can, yeah. A channel partner? Yeah, so they can go directly to any of those channel partners or they can, obviously, davidenterpriseweb.com. Can I do that? Am I allowed to do that? Of course, yes. Davidenterpriseweb.com. So anybody can reach out to me and I'll direct them to the right partners that can do service delivery and support. I'm focused on building the world's greatest software company because I think the world needs it. Every epoch, every period, requires that new IT company to come and do that. And, you know, maybe it's Ubers, right? I'm a guy who sits in Glens Falls, New York, and mostly work in my t-shirt and jeans. But, you know, it actually, every once in a while, the ocean does need to be boiled because it's rancid, right? And people need to read things. Well, Gates, I was in Seattle. No one thought anything about Seattle except the same much it pays us. Yeah, we're going to put Glens Falls, New York on the map. I love it. And so, yeah, so it's been a journey. You know, it's been a lot of fun. I mean, I've learned a ton. Right, I've become a student of organizations, you know, working with all these big players. I've been squashed so many times. I've heard of every naysayer. But, you know what I'm saying? I knew our ideas were right. It stayed the course.  We knew that we were doing things right. We were validating it in the background. And that's what I knew I had to do. When you make big claims, you need big validations. Yeah. So that's why- Well, you've got customers. You've got them. They're in production. Yeah, yeah. Big customers. And your next steps now is what? Scaling the go-to-market. Scale out. Scale out. This is ready to rip, right? This has been proven. And you need funding to do that? Yes. So yeah, we're at that scale. So we're at that inflection point. So growth capital, you're ready to go. Yeah, and we have other conversations too, but yes. And you have, yeah, or right. Okay, but then you have options because you own the whole thing. Yeah. That's awesome. Congratulations. And the GNAI piece is beautiful, so congratulations on that. The GNAI almost, you know what the thing is, partially I think is now this is really our moment. I think we were on the right track anyway, but middleware's just never been sexy, right? It's been, it's plummeted. So selling middleware is a thankless job, right? And if we do our job well, it's like a utility. You shouldn't even know it's there. GNAI makes us super sexy. You know, being the back end to GNAI is a, we're talking about what? $100 billion, trillion dollar market opportunity? We're talking about all the time that Amazon turned the data center into an API and generative AI is going to turn away in which we interact with technology into language. And it's automation compatible. People know what automation is on DevOps and operations. They see value in automating undifferentiated tasks. So I think it'll play well. And then having this more self-service provisioning, self-healing. Yeah. All right guys, we got to go. Dave, always a pleasure to see you. Fantastic, thanks so much for coming back. Great seeing you, man. Great seeing you guys. All right, keep it right there. We'll be back with our next guest from RSA 2023. You're watching theCUBE from Moscone West in San Francisco. Right back.


Here's what I think canceling is and why it's different from criticism. Criticism is expressing an argument or opinion with the idea of rationally influencing public opinion through public persuasion, interpersonal persuasions. Cancelling comes from the universe of propaganda, not critical discourse. And it's about organizing or manipulating a social environment or a media environment with a goal or predictable effect of isolating or de-platforming or intimidating an ideological opponent. It's about making an idea or a person socially radioactive. Today, you'll hear the activists say, well, I didn't read the thing. I don't need to read the thing to know that it's colonialist or racist. So an open society is a place that has a lot of intellectual pluralism, a lot of diversity of viewpoints. It tries to pit bias and prejudice against other biases and prejudice. And it does that by forcing contention and critical argument and forcing people to persuade each other over time. That's really what science is. That's really what journalism is. The open society is not only incomparably better at producing knowledge than any other society because it allows us to make errors and not be punished for making errors. It allows us to make errors, in fact, much more quickly. That's the secret of science. I call it liberal science. The magic of liberal science is in the institutions that force us to channel these conversations in socially productive ways. If you're an academic, you're writing for journals, you're undergoing peer review, you're being credentialed by some kind of scientific organization. If you're a journalist, you submit to ethics codes, you probably were for an organization where you're supposed to tell the truth. All of these things are mediated in ways which allow us to be individuals but also to understand some rules of engagement to follow each other. Society where you don't have that or a community, like say Twitter or like say an academic culture where it's student to student and peer to peer. Where you don't have that kind of mediation going on, this social fabric turns into kind of Lord of the Flies, who can gang up on who, who can make the most noise, who can attract the most followers and you begin to display to each other instead of talking to each other. Weirdly, the way to help us be more liberated as individuals is to strengthen the institutions that we use to connect each other. This is not a fight between one set of people and another set of people. It is also a fight within ourselves. There are ideas that each of us hate that it's very hard to restrain ourselves from not ganging up on in an illiberal way. The idea that wrong-headed and dangerous and heretical and blasphemous ideas should be not only allowed but protected is preposterous. It's ridiculous. No society has ever had that idea until about 250 years ago. It shouldn't work. But here we are and the reason is because despite its ridiculousness, it has the one great advantage of being the single most successful social principle ever invented.


I'm Nicole. I'm the current political action co-chair of the Black Students Unit here at MIT. I really got involved with the political action last fall. I live in Newhouse and on my floor in another community in Newhouse 3. I think someone was just fed up with the state of the kitchen and there were a lot of dirty dishes around. And essentially they put up posters with a lot of violent language. And it also included the tire trip of starving children in Africa.  Oftentimes what happens is the BSU exec will organize a number agency GBM just to gather the opinions of people. It's also kind of a check-in like how are you guys doing? How does it affect you? Like community like how are we doing as a whole? And then after that we kind of brainstorm solutions and what we want MIT admin to do. Like last year I was not BSU exec but I worked really hard on writing the demands after Newhouse 3 because I just thought it was ridiculous that shit like this could happen. It was so many nights of meetings and talking with admin. Like even though I was choosing to put my time into it, it's not like another extracurricular. It's not like I'm choosing a soccer practice over doing my homework. It's not like I'm going to like the business club. Like I am a black student. I'm affected by this like instance of race-based violence. I am calling an MIT to respond. It's not my fault that I have to do that on top of being an MIT student. But officially we asked for a couple things like a public apology, the dismal made known, the incident made public to the MIT community. None of that happened. MIT is a money-making institution. In meetings with admin it's never been hostile but it feels like we're not being heard. They will sit with you, they'll have a meeting with you, have a discussion and then after that either there's no follow-up or they tell you, sorry no. Like I know Boston is one of the most racist cities in America. That's not it. We are on MIT's campus and in Simmons actually last year a student walked into a room full of people of color and just called them slurs and then walked out. Why do I have to go through MIT being subject to this? And MIT does nothing about it. And it's really hard because people are saying like oh you didn't have to be BSU co-chair, you don't have to get involved in BSU exec, you don't have to completely disengage from your identity but you don't need to do activism. If I don't do it, who is going to do it? Because MIT is not fighting for black students. And I've heard that from admin like they will not act unless we as students push them to act. So yes I don't have to be co-chair, I don't have to be on BSU exec. But that means there will be no place for black students at MIT. And I cannot have that.


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Best of the Best came out in 1989, and not only is it the great martial arts movie, I feel it's a fantastic representative of the art of Taekwondo. Now, despite the onsite of comments I'm sure to get, today we're going to look at Best of the Best and why I feel it is the ultimate Taekwondo film. Now, before we get started, I just want to thank all of you who have supported this channel for the past couple of years. Now, we do have a lot of goals and places we want to take content, produce more art history, material, interviews, and so many big projects, and we can only do that if we can devote more resources and time to that. So, we do have a Patreon site, but now we're happy to announce that we also have YouTube memberships unlocked. And with YouTube memberships, it's the same exclusive content that you'll find on Patreon, but now you can do it right here through YouTube. 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I know there's a lot of people out there who hate the art, and there's a lot that love it. That's not what this argument is today. It's more about the representation of the art in the film Best of the Best. Now, the great thing about Best of the Best is that while Taekwondo is definitely the featured martial art present here, it doesn't beat you over the head with the art itself, with the style, the history, the kates, or anything like that. And I think that's its greatest strength, that it shows you more than it tells you about the art. So, just as a quick warning, there will be spoilers. If you have not seen this film yet, we're going to be talking about plot points and even the endings. So, if you don't want it ruined for you, hit pause, go watch the film, and then come back and join the discussion. Otherwise, let's take this sucker apart and see how it ticks. Now, let's be honest. The plot of this movie is pretty thin. It's essentially about five American athletes who are joining an American karate team that are going to go to Korea and compete in some national championships. It's pretty ambiguous, and, you know, as far as the skeleton, it's pretty thin, but they do manage to pack a lot of meat on these bones. And now, while this is primarily a Taekwondo film, there are little pepperings and flavors of other martial arts in there, which we'll get to in a little bit. Now, the term karate is used quite a bit in this film, which is not entirely inaccurate, as Tonsudo and Taekwondo are often referred to as Korean karate. But you're going to see here that Taekwondo definitely is the featured art of this film. Best of the Best showcases the strength of Taekwondo through the example of its players. This is not an action film. This is a character building drama with martial arts at its base. And even though it feels like it's a little bit stuck in the 80s, down to the hair, trophy bar fights, and obligatory training montages, this film still stands as a great example of how martial arts can be used to develop strength, character, honor, build relationships with teammates, and to overcome any challenge, whether it be an actual opponent in front of you or personal grievance. So let's start off by looking at the characters, and then we're going to look at all the great ways that Taekwondo was showcased in this movie, and then finally how it all comes together in the end becoming one of my personal favorites. Now, this story is centered on five Americans competing together on an American national team. We have Tommy Lee, Alex Grady, Travis Brickley, Virgil Keller, and Sonny Grosso, with character development built in that order. To be honest, the character development in this film is a bit thin, especially with the last three. Travis serves well enough as a bad boy plot device to show the struggle of the team congealing together, but doesn't really offer much else. And sadly, Virgil and Sonny are pretty much throwaway characters. It's like the movie acknowledges that they're one-dimensional because they're serving as fillers with maybe the occasional moment of comic relief. Do you know where you are? On the floor. Now, the real meat of the story comes from the characters of Tommy Lee, played by the Taekwondo great Philip Rhee, and Alex Grady, played by Eric Roberts. Tommy's story centers around him following in his brother's footsteps as a Taekwondo competitor. The movie slowly reveals that his brother was killed in a tournament when Tommy was a little boy, and his memory haunts him and drives him to push forward. He's a lifelong martial artist in this film. He runs a Taekwondo school, which by the way is a Junchang Taekwondo school, and Taekwondo is part of his character makeup, and he is by far the most impressive of the American fighters. And it takes a turn for the dramatic when Tommy realizes that the person he's pitted against in the tournament is none other than Dae Han, the very competitor that killed his brother. Alex Grady is a single father who had a rising career in martial arts competition until he suffered a severe shoulder injury and was forced into retirement. His invitation to qualifying competition gives him a spark and one more shot at fulfilling his martial arts dream. And there's also some sweet father-son moments, which help us empathize with him in his family situation. And also is a fun fact, the character of Walter, his son, was actually named after Eric Roberts' real-life father, Walter Grady Roberts. Travis is unfortunately little more than the cowboy from Miami with a big mouth, a temper, and cheap shots. Even when he's losing, he's spewing slurs and insults. His only redeeming factor is the believable performance by the late Chris Penn in the few moments where Travis becomes a team player and shows a glimmer of likeability. For you, Travis, take that. Sonny, played by David Agresta in his only movie role, and Virgil, the late John Dye, also seen in The Perfect Weapon as Justin's brother, have almost no story here. Virgil is a Buddhist vegan, and Sonny is from Detroit who likes a good fight. And unfortunately, we're not really offered any much else in their background, so that's pretty much what we get with him. Then we have the great coach Kuzo, played by the legendary James Earl Jones. His booming voice and large onscreen presence gives the movie an appropriate authority. He has no nonsense and he does a great job keeping the team focused on their task. He even serves as a personal obstacle to Tommy and Alex later in the film when they are forced to choose between their loyalty to the team and their personal lives. Contrasting against him is coach Catherine Wade, played by Sally Kirkland. She is the counterbalance to Kuzo's harsh coaching. Where he is booming and authoritative, she is soft spoken and peaceful. She brings in the harmony and the Eastern philosophy. He drives their body, she guides their minds. There is good chemistry between them and she even gets a moment to show she's not all huff and puff. Then we have Don Peterson, played by Tom Everett, as a technical coach, providing stats, data and video study of all the competitors. His role is very minor, but these three coaches together serve as a great example to demonstrate that in order to overcome what might seem as insurmountable odds, you need to be best physically, mentally and technically. Now, even though this movie has moments of ham and cheese, the story of an unfulfilled man chasing his dreams and another man wrestling between vengeance and forgiveness is enough to carry this along, especially given the performances by Eric Roberts and Phillip Rhee. And onto the martial arts portion. Yes, the movie does have some slow pacing, but when we do get to the parts where we see Taekwondo in action, it's satisfying. And I think overall, this film is a great job of showing Taekwondo in a very positive light. First, the way the Korean team is portrayed here serves well to give the competition some serious weight. Their intense training sessions and demonstrations show incredible uniformity and discipline, and the movie gives us a taste of their traditional culture. Combined with some great performances of Taekwondo greats Simon Rhee, James Liu and several others, we're presented with a Korean team that feels formidable. They are dramatized as almost superhuman to the point that we can completely empathize with our heroes when they see their opponents for the first time. Overall, best of the best provides some great build-up and anticipation for the final tournament. We also get Taekwondo presented to us in a few different ways. We see it in a qualifying tournament, which looks and feels like a real-life tournament does. We also see it later in the bar fight in use as self-defense, albeit in a fictional and cinematic way. And then we get a beautifully stylized and choreographed final act, which totally moves up to the anticipation the film builds to. And a quick fun fact about the bar scene. The character Bert is played by actor Kane Hodder. For those of you who don't know his face, that's because he's more famous for covering his face with a certain iconic mask. Yes, Kane Hodder actually played Jason Voorhees in several Friday the 13th films. He also has cameos in Best of the Best 2 and 3. The techniques in this film are sharp. Philip Rhee has to be one of the best kickers I've ever seen. And him, along with his real-life brother Simon Rhee, playing Dae Han, have some of the most beautifully executed moves I've ever seen on screen and really showcase the powerful kicking that Taekwondo has to offer. And even though this movie is fictional and, you know, choreographed entirely for entertainment, it's still incredibly engaging. And just as I brought up in the perfect weapon movie, Best of the Best also has some great sound design, and some of those sound effects really sell the intensity of those landed strikes. So in terms of the martial arts presented in this film, Taekwondo is front and center. Philip Rhee is very notable in the art, and he's also the student of another Taekwondo great, Jun Cheong. Now, Jun Cheong's name has come up before on his channel, as he was the owner of the school featured in the Karate Kid series. Even the Korean coach is a highly respected Taekwondo master, Hee Il Cho. So between Tommy and the Korean team, this is a Taekwondo film hands down. Although, there are peppered references to some other arts in there, if you look close enough. Now, we're not really given a lot of background information on the training of the other four Americans, but if you look close enough, there's a couple of clues you can draw from. First, Travis, even his red gi, he's wearing some sort of goju-kai or goju-ru patch. His techniques in the film demonstrate it by his strong driving attacks. So we can reasonably conclude that Travis has a background in hard traditional karate. Alex is a little bit more ambiguous. He wears a plain black gi that is almost identical to the signature Ed Parker Kempo uniform, but his techniques don't look that Kempo at all. He wears no patches at all, and according to IMDb, Eric Roberts has experienced in Taekwondo, Shodokan, Jujutsu, Kyokushin, Hapkido, and Shaolin Kung Fu. So he's a little bit of a wild card in this mix. Sonny has two patches that are barely visible. One of them appears to be a patch for the United States Traditional Karate Association, and the other I couldn't fully identify, but it does seem to resemble a World Taekwondo Federation patch. Virgil wears a white karate uniform with the yin-yang symbol on it, and the patch that has the kanje for the word karate. So that's about all we're really given in his case. Now, on the surface level, this might look like your typical 80s martial arts film, but if you really take a closer look, you'll see there's a lot going on under the surface, and this movie showcases a lot of duality. There's America vs. Korea, power vs. mind, vengeance vs. forgiveness, pride vs. failure, self-devents vs. sport, realism of competition vs. dramatic presentation, new school training with technology vs. traditional old school methods, honorable vs. dirty fighting, family vs. team, and ultimately the choice between life and death. Now that's a lot to pack in an hour and a half, and I do feel that this movie delivers on that, and even manages to pluck on some heartstrings along the way. And speaking of heartstrings, let's talk about that final act. Do movies spend so much time building up towards the competition that when we finally get to it, we realize we're easily at the best part of the film? It delivers on the anticipation, and we're given an energetic and what is probably one of the most beautifully filmed tournament scenes ever. It builds on the stakes too. It works backwards from the expendable characters to our main heroes. Sunny and Virgil are completely outclassed and tossed aside. Their fights are compressed to just a couple of highlights as if the movie acknowledges they've served their purpose and they're just getting them out of the way for the better fights. Travis gets some more screen time and puts up a better fight. Although there really isn't too much to say here, other than it wraps up his temper vs. focus story path, but it's satisfying enough. Now Alex and Tommy's fights are much more dynamic and emotionally charged. Alex is beaten and pushed a distance, but with the help of his coaching and determination, he's able to stand his own and complete his personal conquest. Tommy's fight with Day Han is absolutely mesmerizing. Both fighters deliver the intensity and we can almost feel each hit landed. It's violent and emotionally charged, but damn is it satisfying to watch.  If you can watch this full sequence with completely dry eyes, then you my friend have some soul searching to do. If you put aside the thin plot and some of the 80's cheese, you have a movie that has a lot of heart. It gets a lot of mileage from the little it has to work with and I feel it showcases martial arts in a way that they should be. You know, it's about becoming a great fighter, but not only that though is, it's got lessons about using the martial arts as a base to your own life. It's about building character and making better choices and being able to draw strength from something when you have insurmountable odds to overcome, whether they be mental or physical. And I think that the best of the best really sums that up in a neat, tight, entertaining little package that shows Taekwondo in a way it should be shown. It has a good mix of action, humor, drama, and cinematic artistry that makes this a favorite in my collection. And yes, there are three other best of the best movies, but in my opinion, your time is probably better served just skipping them all together. Maybe part two, that one's kind of washable if you want to go in there just for a dumb action movie that kind of teeters on a wannabe Mortal Kombat film, but three and four are totally not worth it. But what's really sad is you've got this first movie that's so fantastic and so great with the way it builds character in the heart and the messages it fuses that it's all kind of thrown away and the sequels kind of become what the first one works so hard to break away against.  The only redeeming factor at all for the sequels is honestly watching Philip Reed do his thing. But bottom line to wrap up the whole message of this video is you finish this movie off feeling good. When the movie ends, you feel like that you and everyone involved has won. And that's why I feel that best of the best is the ultimate Taekwondo film. So if you enjoy our content and you would like to support this channel, there's a couple ways you can do that. 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When did Marceline realize that Simon wasn't coming back anymore? That the Simon she knew didn't exist anymore? Marceline and Simon were together when she was seven years old. Before Simon, she was with her mother. We know that her mother loved her dearly, but the girl believed her mother was scared of her daughter's demon abilities, maybe scared that her daughter would become like her father. And so, when the moment presented itself, she found a motorcycle and left her demon daughter behind. So when Marceline found Simon, how did that make her feel? That she found a father figure who loved her. Despite her pale demon-like skin and fangs, she found someone who cared about her well-being. Someone who made her laugh and played with her. Someone who only wanted to make her laugh. He called her darling, dear, Marcy, just like her mother did. When he found her, he wiped her tears and gifted her a lifelong present. He calls her a little girl, not a demon. That must be confusing for a little girl, right? To finally find love, but have it slowly taken away. Simon Petricov was one of this series' truly pure-hearted individuals, a man who carried so much love. In the pursuit of his love, Betty, he found love in a new form. Simon, suffering the effects of the crown, found a lonely, strange girl in a post-apocalyptic world that couldn't protect her. And so he took it upon himself to do so. He adopted and ended up sacrificing his own sanity, his own pursuit, his own desires for a little girl he barely knew to save her life. A part of what makes Simon's descent into the Ice King so heartbreaking is the time that it took for him to truly become the Ice King. The slow decay of Simon Petricov was juxtaposed with his desperation to try and claw his way back into his own body and mind. Everything stays, flashes back to the moment Simon finally left, and Marceline is quite a bit older, maybe a teenager now. He met her at seven, that's maybe three, four, five years of the slow, but imminent rise of the Ice King. I remember you really paints Simon's desperation, and it again highlights his love for Marceline. That even as he was losing himself, he was still so worried about the little girl. The tug of war between the absolute need to wear the crown in order to protect Marceline, but wanting to remove the crown in order to save himself so that he may take care of her is so emotional. And behind all that, we have the crown advising Simon, telling him about the secrets of the frost, of the crown's abilities, promising that the crown can protect him. He's fighting all of these different factors. Simon's story is sacrifice, but it's not just a matter of choice. It's also the crown's clutches pulling him back. In Everything Stays, Simon makes that decision to leave her, to ensure that he doesn't hurt her anymore. The letters that he wrote to her, on newspaper clippings, on receipts, on menus, in the moments that Simon had true clarity, he was thinking about Marceline. And of course, on the one picture that Simon took of Marceline, he writes those first heart-wrenching lines to I Remember You, a letter apologizing to her. That despite slipping away, Simon wants to be absolutely sure that the girl who's felt unloved by her biological father, abandoned by her mother, this girl who does not know love, Simon does everything in his power to make sure that she knows that someone in that world loved her. Simon's memories are fleeting and he's suffering. He's desperately trying to keep it together, but his will is strong. Other characters got corrupted by the crown instantly, but Simon fights off the crown's ability for so long, until he couldn't anymore. When he met the little demon girl, he was able to wipe her tears. He was able to protect her, and in their final moment together, he tries to wipe her tears, but he can't. He hurts her instead. And we saw his reaction to that. The only thing he wants to do is to take care of her. But he physically cannot, and even as the crown is burying his mind, he's still able to send Hunson back to see his daughter. Simon understands the person he's becoming, but he can't control it, so leaving her is better than hurting her. When did Marceline realize that Simon wasn't coming back? What did that sadness feel like? How hard was it for her to recount these stories of her and Simon to Finn and Jake, knowing that this man in these stories, this great man, the one whom she grieves for every single time she sees him, is never coming back? Ice King with Simon, completely trapped in the crown, is subconsciously drawn towards Marceline. When she sings and I remember you, leaning on the fridge, she states that, every time she moves and ooh, eventually Ice King finds her and starts hanging around her, even though he doesn't remember her. But seeing this version of her old friend gets her down, understandably, and yet Marceline reveals that she does have an unexplained, subconscious feeling of joy when she sees him. And that joy turns into desperation in this episode, when she hugs her old friend, and later tries to get him to remember their time together. Marceline looks into his eyes, searching for a sliver of Simon, begging him to remember, searching for the man who saved her, the same way she begged him to take off that crown, but he never will. And afterwards, she grabs her guitar, she sings the lyrics to his song, eyes closed in tears, singing out a song that means so much to her. And it almost looked like this was the moment that she had finally accepted Ice King, that she accepted that Simon wasn't coming back. But she also accepted that though he wasn't coming back, she was grateful for it all, and by Simon and Marcy, she accepted that she was going to protect and take care of Ice King, for the man that he once was, and for this new version of him. Ice King constantly mentions that he knows something's wrong with him, and he cries out for help, he's so lonely. Adam Muto noted that the original title for this episode was titled Help, and that's what Marceline aims to be going forward. Help. Betty's love for Simon is completely different than Marceline's, both in the nature of their relationship and in the way they view Ice King. We learn that Betty gave up quite a bit in order to help Simon on his quest and research of ancient artifacts. Betty over the course of this series really only has a singular motivation, that is reuniting with Simon. In their final moments, he was chasing after her, frantically demanding for his princess. In the episode Betty, as he was dying, she asks him, where would I go without you? Betty and Simon seem to be attached at the hip, perfect for one another, until he put on the crown and drove her away. It was Ice King who drove Betty away, and not Simon. And in a flashback, we see Simon hoping that once he is cured, that Betty might forgive him and love him again. Until his final moments as Simon, he believed that Betty stopped loving him, because of what he had done. Simon's incessant pursuit of princesses, of the genius princess, it stems from Simon losing his own and scouring the earth for her. Betty seemed to be so enthralled with the man that Simon was, with his intellect, his humor, his kindness, his love, that she did everything she could to bring Simon Petricov back. Betty fought death itself, she fought Belanoche, she studied all types of magic and science, even becoming Magic Man, a wizard to try and save Simon. She tried to make alterations to Ice King's crown, and nearly lost her sanity trying to save her fiance. Betty tried to even go back in time, and when all of her attempts failed, Betty even tried to help Ice King remember their first date. And he just couldn't. This Simon, this Ice King, was not the man she fell in love with, she simply could not accept him, not for what he was and what he had become. All of these efforts were Betty's way of grieving, love with nowhere to go, what his grief if not love persevering, as WandaVision describes it. A grief turned unhealthy. And during all of this, we are left with Ice King, in his current form. Through so many episodes, we come to accept Ice King, a once honorable, sane man. But also we come to accept him as the individual, as his own separate identity. It's important to recognize Ice King both for his flaws and his strengths, that yes, Ice King has done bad things, he's kidnapped and harassed princesses. He tried to assemble and create his own princess once, by using parts of other princesses. He was a bad person, but we also have to recognize that he has changed. And because he's changed, maybe he does deserve the companionship that he's so desperately after. Maybe he does deserve to have friends, despite what he's done. And it's hard to accept that. He says it himself, he is not Simon. He is Ice King and he is worthy of respect. I began to appreciate Ice King because he was once Simon. But when even Betty can't love the individual Ice King, when she becomes hell bent on destroying this individual, you begin to feel for him. When he's sobbing, drowning in his own tears, begging for love, begging to be healed, to be fixed, how can you not? Because does Ice King not deserve good things as well? Not for his association with Simon, but because he is his own entity. And after all that, Betty then summons Golb and saves her fiancé, finally. And in their final moments, she makes sure that Simon knows that she loves him. But she goes one step further and saves Simon forever at the cost of her own life. She sacrifices her own life for Simon, the very man who sacrificed his life for a little girl's. Love sacrifices for love. Love is sacrifice. I think this ending, this conclusion to Ice King's story, embodies so much of this show and its ideas. Everything around Simon has always been tragic. And this finale is no different. Simon's return was supposed to be a somewhat joyous occasion, right? Simon's back. Since the reveal of Simon Petrkov in season 3, we've been waiting. Seven seasons for Simon's return. Somehow. And here it is. He's sobbing in Marceline's arms, begging for his princess back, just like he was so many years prior. This isn't a happy ending. He's not happy. Because so much of Adventure Time lives within the grey area, so much of this series is about representing the multifaceted nature of people. Ice King's conclusion to me was very much an amalgamation of that. Betty was selfish. She couldn't accept Ice King for who he was. That was wrong and Ice King deserves respect. And yet, at the same time, did Simon Petrkov not deserve to exist and to live as well? To live a life free of the crown's clutches? Simon back in Betty says that he would rather join death than be Ice King again. Simon was suffering, trapped in his own mind. Does Marceline not deserve to have her real father back? In order to have Ice King, the Ice King that we knew, for him to exist, Simon has to inform some part of him. So, at least with this ending, they can both coexist to some degree. This ending also shows us what Ice King has brought Gunter. Whenever Green was his mentor, he was berated constantly. His value was never appreciated. He was never cared for. But when Ice King takes care of them, he worries for Gunter, cries for Gunter. He loves Gunter. So much so that Gunter wanted to be just like their mentor. One more time. This ending showed us that love is complicated. Betty was selfish, but she did sacrifice herself out of love. Like Marceline, love is also patient and resilient. And like Simon, it is sacrifice. But like Betty and Simon's fate, it can also be senseless and tragic. So, so tragic. Simon has returned. He's back, but he's missing a piece of himself. He's now faded to search the universe for Betty. He has to find a way to bring her back. But Simon has returned, right? Love is complicated.