What's happening with human rights around the world on Think Tech Live, broadcasting from our downtown studio in Honolulu, Hawaii, Moana, New York. I'm your host, Joshua Cooper, and the title of today's episode is the Cycle Team Nation Aboriginal Land Title, Canada's Supreme Court Landmark Decision. It's an honor to have two amazing individuals with me, Chief and Cultural Ambassador, sharing their perspectives on the importance of the current 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Chief Francis, can you share with me a little bit about your ancestral homelands and unique culture and cosmology of the amazing Cycle Team Nation? Thank you. We have a very vast land base. We have a few big lakes, river system. We've got about a million salmon that come back every year. We've got pretty well all the animals. We've got pretty cold winters. We had hot summers. We've pretty well got everything that we need to live our cultural lifestyle, traditional lifestyle, so we're pretty fortunate. Thank you so much, Payah. What was it like growing up in the nation and how have you been able to make sure that the cultural values are able to continue and even I would say be in abundance in your lifetime and the amazing work that you do? Yeah, I feel like it's something that I don't realize that we take it for advantage of until we travel a lot more for me growing up. It was every summer being able to catch hundreds of sockeye salmon a day going out and harvesting deer, moose, elk. And it was such an abundance of food and being able to go and harvest the berries, going out to harvest the medicines, going out to explore the land and it provides very easily to sustain us as a people. And it's not until I'm 24 now, and it's not until I started coming out into so-called civilization into the cities and grocery stores and coming to places like New York and going to Geneva and seeing like a lot of the skid rows and how less fortunate a lot of people are compared to us as indigenous people. There's a lot of our own people who are less fortunate but who are stuck on what we call the Black Road and that's a deal with like getting caught up in drugs and alcohol. But for the people that live traditionally out on the land, there are still communities in our nation that go without electricity, they go without running water and that's everyday life for them. It's not something that they're worried about. We can drink straight out of our rivers, out of the lakes and the creeks and we don't have to be worried about it being repainted or having any type of chemicals in them. It's all natural. So it's very, very hard warming to know where I come from, to know that's the territory, the South Cotein territory that we come from. So it makes me value that so much more being able to look back on it and to say that I'm South Cotein and that's basically my interpretation of what it is, what title is, what title means to me and it's just everyday indigenous South Cotein life and that's how it is. Very refreshing and that's also the way I felt growing up in Hawaii is, you know, you have the ocean, you have the Mauna and you had everything you needed in between, and you don't know because the world defines itself just through consumerism and capitalism. But then you realize you actually have all that you needed is provided from nature in many ways. Chief, could you maybe share with us a bit about the history of the South Cotein and how you've been able to uphold your traditional values and even survive through colonization but more importantly be able to provide the path forward for all worlds as we look at more of one of self determination and sustainable development. Our history is like quite a few other nations, I guess, pretty genocide happened to us. We're not really supposed to be here. We're supposed to have been wiped out by now. We were pretty vast, maybe I'm not too sure exactly but probably in the thousands at one time and the government introduced smallpox intentionally into our nation a few times and yeah, it was reduced down to about a couple of hundred people and so that's they were after the land and all the resource I guess we had some gold and all those type of things timber and whatnot and yeah, so our people got together, some of our war leaders and whatnot and they declared war on the government of the time and they killed quite a few of the people that were there, the non-natives and called it the Chilokotin War and they tricked their leaders into coming in for peace talks and then they hung them. They hung six of our leaders and that's what they did and we're kind of rebounding. We're getting serious about our regain in our land and 2014 there was a Supreme Court case started out in BC Supreme Court and then it ended up in Ottawa Supreme Court and after a hundred and some odd years they finally said yeah, you do have title, recognized title, title and rights but we've always had that, we still do today to all of our territory as most nations across this country, they all have title also but we had a bunch of elders that testified just in most of them in our language and they had to have interpreters and all that and so that's what happened. Pretty big area, about 20% of our territory I guess is now recognized title by the governments and industry and everybody else and we're trying to regain all of our territory and get our full jurisdiction back which is important for us and that's the only way we're going to be able to survive as indigenous Chilokotin, that's where all our power and who we are as a people that we don't have to land and our way of life and it won't work so that land is the biggest part of it so that's very important for us and everybody else that's indigenous. That's an amazing historical perspective to put it into that realm of really especially in the age of COVID too that there was intentional infliction of disease to try to wipe out your people that your people are still here and then more importantly sharing even the importance of the legal case brought forward in 2014 and then describing some of those important elements of that case, but it all comes back to land and if indigenous peoples have their lands, then they almost have everything that they need to survive but also even thrive. Payall, could you describe a little bit of where your land is in Canada because many people have trouble with geography and don't know enough about Canada. Can you maybe describe your homeland and share some of them abundance that you're able to enjoy every day and then we'll get also into why that case in 2014 meant so much to you as well. Yeah, we're located in western Canada in so called British Columbia, Central British Columbia on what's called Chilcotin Plateau and that's about six, seven hours north of Vancouver BC, a drive from Vancouver. And it's in between Williams Lake BC, everything from Williams Lake BC towards Anaheim Lake and Bella Cula British Columbia is what we call our Chilcotin territory. And there's a wide, wide variety of ecosystems in the territory, which ranges from desert Sahara like environments. And then we can go all the way to almost tropical heading kind of southwest of the territory down towards our border with the Hamalco Nation. That goes along the Cascade Mountains that go down British Columbia. And we've got our glacier fed lakes, we've actually got one of the highest elevated lakes in western Canada. And it's known as a Chilcot Lake, we call it Taitkhon B in our language. And it's a lake that's roughly about 90 to 100 kilometers long, and probably about two or three kilometers wide. And that entire lake is another world in itself. It sustains not only us as a people with fresh water, but it creates a habitat for one of the largest wild sockeye salmon in the world. And that's one of our main food sources is the Chilcotin people. And we usually expect it to provide at least a million wild sockeye salmon to swim up the Fraser, then into the Chilcotin River, then to the Chilcot Lake. And on a good year, usually every four years, it's a four year cycle where we expect upwards of four to five million wild sockeye salmon to swim up and spawn. And so that's how we're known as the river people. It translates to the word sockeye translates into the river people. And that's all in part of what it means and how important it is, how the, what the title case meant to me. Back in 2014, I was, I believe I was probably, I was about 15, 14 years old. And when I was there, as a youth, at first they were only sending some elders and the leaders and I lobbied and and put in my proposals with all the communities saying, Hey, I think the youth should be there as well. So I wrote up my proposal and I sent them to all the communities and sent it to the nation. And said I got my drum I'm ready to go to sing some songs and to, to support as a youth and so that we can show that us as youth also have a voice to be heard on Chilcotin and rights. And that's our right as youth to be there and to show that and to be there and offer that strength, whether it's through song or whether it's through prayer. And so with, with that it's, it's like Chief Francis was saying it's really about the land. It's, it's all interconnected. The land provides for us. We are caretakers of the land. We. It's not that we have to prove to the government that we have title. As it's not that we don't have title. It's just us giving the opportunity to whether it's the federal or the provincial government to, to have that opportunity to recognize what title is and what those rights are and that that the title is there. And that we just have to try our best as an indigenous peoples to show them what, what title is, and so that they can recognize that in their courts and in their law systems. And so that they can teach that to, to the youth of the province and, and to the children in the school system so that, and also to, to nations worldwide to know that it's possible that it's something that we can have so it's something that I'll remember for for the rest of my life and something that I've witnessed with my own eyes that see the the dozen or so Supreme Court judges all they had no choice to, to, to, to recognize that we had title title land and rights to to the to the it's roughly 1900 square kilometers. And so that's where the title lands is around the northern part of Chilco Lake, and it encompasses the one of our six communities in the South Dakota nation known as honey within the Maya Valley. And it also kind of follows the river that comes from the north side of the lake and it goes up roughly 30 kilometers or so 20 kilometers or so I could be wrong on that part but that part I'm not too familiar with because I recognize our entire areas as title and then it's something that I look forward to working with the leaders and the provincial government and the federal government to, to have the rest of it and that's, that's just the start of it and then. So, yeah, it's very, very important for me to, to continue that work to continue the, the prayers and the songs as that's what keeps us going as indigenous people continuing to be who we are as indigenous people and to carry that spirit, the strength that our ancestors fought for those, those, those warriors that got hung their spirits are here with us today doing the work and they're, they're behind us, guiding us in our every step to to do this could work so yeah. And that was the sense of the nation when the spring course case was decided because it was so historic to guarantee title and really revolutionized jurisprudence in Canada but maybe also rippling around the world as well. Chief, could you share that moment. Yeah, that was the. That was a historic, historic day and historic time. We had a lot of a lot of interveners that intervene from across the great across Canada. You know, so that was quite something and I think that's what kind of threw off the judges and all the lawyers that were there they, I don't think they knew what hit them and you know it was a pretty powerful, pretty powerful day. From there we celebrate it and I think great across BC and Canada and basically when we got over here to the United Nations form in New York and also we're into Geneva. So we, we were celebrating but letting people know what, what that was all about and basically given ever all the other nations hope worldwide that they all have title also, and for them not to give up. That's what it's all about and the governments and industry have to realize that you know that they can't continue to deny the nations of this world that they have Aboriginal title and rights but more, more important, the human rights. And that's what that's all about. You know, so it's really important. Thank you. That's a great point. Thank you so much. What's it like to be here at the UN permanent forum this week you're at the 21st session. What were some of the highlights and what points did you raise this week. Chief if you want to go first and then move to pay up. One of the things that we were managed to get on the floor again at the UN form indigenous, indigenous form there, but we, we still have minors that are we're dealing with in our territory and they still haven't quite gotten a picture that we have title and we have full jurisdiction of our, of our territory and but yeah, we want to let them know industry and governments know that they can continue you know without consent. You know, right now we were holding the minors off and that's we have we got consent and you know, they need our consent to if they're if there's any can be any movement at all. But right now there's a decision that no mining whatsoever to that's that's why we do have a million fish that come back every year if there's they're trying to get up into that area so right now we're saying no our food is more important than clean water is more important than any amount of gold or our money. That's that's what we're all about and we're six communities and we all we're all all the people in our care in our nation that's what they want. It's the food over anything else in our traditional way of life and you know so that very important case and we're going to push until we get 100% title back and basically our leaders from long long ago they they had a you know we can't give up until until that is done we have an honor and a duty to uphold you know because of that and if we have to go all that do that again if we have to declare war or you know if we have to whatever whatever it takes will we're we're going to get her done for the ones all our sales caught in that are here now and the ones that are not here yet you know that's what it's all about and that's definitely why it's important for you to be here for the main agenda item. The theme of indigenous peoples business autonomy and the human rights principle of due diligence including free prior informed consent. So it's definitely great that your voice is added and pale I think this afternoon. In the middle of the events you were at a circle can you share us a little bit about the the drumming circle and what you were doing there and why that was important as well as being inside the room and any other highlights of your time here so far at the 21st session of the permit form. Yeah that was was definitely a highlight in for this week it was it's quite the opportunity to to sit around that that grandfather drum with with fellow singers coming from from all over all over Turtle Island North America and it was another thing I'll really I'll really be excited to to share with with my relatives back home is that we got to sit around that drum and and we had no idea who who who was who where they came from so we sit down and we sing these songs and and we all know the songs we know the words whether it's a Lakota Sue prayer song or if it's a Plains Cree round dance song who was another round dance song that comes from the Algonquin territory and we were singing them together like as as if we've been singing for years together and it was it was very very a spirit lifting and it was a really positive moment to to be able to sing those songs and to to vibrate the buildings around on the streets of New York City and when when we prepare and when we we left British Columbia the territory it's it's like we're okay we're getting ready for business we're going to go sit in a forum we're going to go sit in a big meeting room and there's not going to be much room for for culture for language or for songs and it's it's really like a relief to to express ourselves the way that we that we always have and that's through through song and dance and through sharing that heartbeat with the grandfather drum and that some that I feel us as indigenous are are really well known for as not being a being shy from portraying ourselves like vibrantly as as indigenous people were were not scared to show off our colors were not scared to to whoop and holler around and that's that's something I'm very proud of and so I'll be proud to say that I've sang with new relatives new brothers that have made and it's always something now no matter where we travel whether it's New York whether it's in Geneva Switzerland or even if it's just Vancouver BC everywhere we go it's like they know that word side coating and they know they it's like they know that side coatings are in town so they know something's going down and they know that there's going to be some singing somewhere they know there's going to be some drumming or you know that there's some serious business going down whether it's meeting with some minors mining companies or more relatives and nations across the country so I look forward to to finish an off the week meeting with more relatives and to creating those connections that we get to make in the United Nations it's it's like even just us as side coating when we walk into the permanent forum we feel like we're magnets to two other indigenous groups that they they they know what side coating they they know the work that we've done they know the work that we can do and so it's just like pre-European contact when nations went to visit each other they traded with materials side coating were very well known for having traded with obsidian and the glass stones and it's still like that today without the physical objects were trading that knowledge like we go to Alpioria and we mean with our Maori fauna we traded knowledge as for example maybe side coating lacked a little bit of strength in the economic development side of things and the Maori are doing very well in their tourism part and their economic development but they lacked a little bit on their title and their rights and they're working with their laws and things like that and so we helped them and we showed them how we could do their work in the title case and so it's just like that how we used to trade back before contact but we're integrating that into today's modern day and we're able to trade words we're able to trade songs we're able to trade knowledge and we're able to trade that language and to be able to do that so yeah very exciting things going on and my dad, chief Francis and to experience that and to say that it's a multi-generational experience as a family I've got my daughter here and my wife and we're here we get to experience that and we get to share that experience together and we get to bring that home to our community and to know it's absolutely beautiful it's great to see the whole ohana there and what you're sharing really about the Supreme Court decision we know that led probably to the adoption of the UN DRIP legislation in BC in Canada and we also know that you actually not only participated in Ottawa but also saying a closing song I know we only have a couple of minutes but would you like to share that song with the audience if that's possible and then we'll close out but I really want to thank both of you for joining your amazing contribution here at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues I was actually the first person in Canadian history to sing on the floor of the House of Commons while I was in session so it was the only time I've ever heard it quiet in the House of Commons where the parties weren't bickering and arguing with each other they had to stand up and say hello to each other it's a great honor song that was being sung so I could sing that song it's our song that talks about our warriors and it's more like an honor song Mahalo if you could that's great and I know we'll have to cut away afterwards but Mahalo and thank you so much both for appearing today Mahalo thank you so much for being part of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and we know Indigenous Peoples of the World appreciate your perspective around the planet Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktechhawaii.com Mahalo


Five, we have some big breaking news from Tatt lifestyle and wellness. Big breaking news from Tatt lifestyle and wellness. Like usual, we're the first ones to break the news. We love to break the news first and we love to bring the news first. Tatt, as you can see here, this is from Tatt lifestyle and wellness. Cross mark, that's right. Cross mark begins. This is big news, guys, for Tatt lifestyle and wellness. Cross mark begins initial rollout of Tatt to wholesale and retail accounts. Big breaking news for Tatt. This is going to generate enormous revenue for Tatt lifestyle and wellness. After announcing its engagement with Texas based CPG sales agency Cross mark on February 2nd, 2021, Cross mark began its early stage initiatives to bring Tatt to new points of sale in Ohio last week. With an objective of complimenting the products is existing presence in the state. So far, more than three quarters of Ohio retail accounts approached by Cross mark have stated their interest in carrying Tatt. Wow. In Q2 2021, Cross mark will be servicing more than 7000 convenience stores in Ohio to provide greater clarity with respect to Cross mark's role in the launch of Tatt. The company's chief executive officer, set the Cosscarella up here in a video in which Mr. Cosscarella uses laypersons terms. To explain, I think he means layman's terms laypersons. They don't want to use men's. I get it laypersons terms to explain Cross mark's scope of duties and how they can create value for the company. Tatt lifestyle and wellness, T A A T in Canada, T O B A F in America and two T P two in Frankfurt, Germany is pleased to announce that last week, National Consumer Package Good CPG Sales Agency Cross mark Inc. began its early stage initiatives to bring Tatt to new points of sale starting in Ohio to build upon the company's existing retail presence in that market. In a press release date of February 2nd, 2021, the company announced its engagement with Cross mark, an omnichannel agency for products in the CPG category based in Texas with more than 25,000 employees, massive 25,000 employees, Cross mark, which directly services over 100,000 convenience stores across the United States has a proven successful in bringing a wide range of CPG products to mainstream retail channels. Wow, Cross mark, which directly services over 100,000 convenience stores across the United States has proven successful in bringing a wide range of CPG products to mainstream retail channels, including an e-cigarette product that achieved dominant market share in the subset of the tobacco category. This commencement of Cross mark's initiative coincides with the February 17, 2021 launch of the Tatt e-commerce portal, which made Tatt original, smooth and menthol available to the majority of current smokers age 21 plus in the United States. Last week, Cross mark began introducing all three varieties of Tatt to its accounts in Ohio, including wholesalers and distributors of CPG and tobacco products, key retail accounts and individual stores with whom Cross mark representatives have established business relationships. In Q2 2021, Cross mark will service over 7,000 convenience stores in the state of Ohio. The key account manager for Tatt in Ohio, who has more than a decade of experience in sales for major global tobacco firm, has been leading sales training with Cross mark representatives to ensure that Tatt is positioned optimally among incumbent tobacco category offerings with an objective of capturing the attention and interest of current smokers age 21 plus and potentially persuading them to choose Tatt at the point of sale instead of their tobacco typical tobacco cigarette product through a combination of rollouts led by Cross mark continued in-house efforts conducted by Tatt personnel and digital advertising campaigns designed to direct smokers age 21 plus to the Tatt online store. The company anticipates that these initiatives could collectively contribute to achieving greater market penetration for Tatt in the USD 814 billion global tobacco industry. This is one of their websites, Tattglobal.com. Take a look at Tatt.com. So they are growing and they were going to continue to grow. And I believe that this is huge news for a Tatt lifestyle and wellness in addition to introducing products such as Tatt to potential new accounts and providing strategies to efficiently sell the product at retail. The company has also engaged Cross mark to oversee the order to cash process O2C on its behalf at a high level. O2C typically involves processing purchase orders and conveying the order to wholesalers or distribution centers for fulfillment. Although such functions could be carried out internally by the company, large scale CPG firms often outsource O2C to third party firms such as Cross mark to obviate the need to perform these functions themselves, which can become complex with products sold in multiple jurisdictions through several different wholesalers with numerous shipping points. Tatt chief executive officer set the cost for a little commented. There are existing times for the company. These are exciting times for the company as we enter the final month of Q1 2021. Now that our product line has had the opportunity to be tested by smokers 21 plus across Ohio with consistently positive reception, we can start to roll Tatt out. We can start to roll out Tatt more aggressively with the knowledge that we have a solid product formulation and commercialization playbook. Last week, Cross mark got to work with introducing Tatt to its impressive portfolio of accounts in Ohio and more than three quarters of retailers have stated an interest in carrying Tatt in their stores. What could this mean for Tatt? Cross marks efforts will run concurrently with our continued in-house sales efforts and promotions for Tatt online store. We are excited to see the impact Cross mark will have on our overall performance of Tatt as we continue our push to capture additional market share in the USD 814 billion global tobacco industry. 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What's up, guys? Welcome to another new year, another new decade, another new everything. And with that, why would we want to be in that same location? We can be somewhere totally new, totally exciting for the new decade. Welcome to Greece. Not Greece. Welcome, natural guys. So, one of the most important things is always being able to adapt. So, once we're entering this new year, new decade, it's important that we're also adapting on our ticket-buying skills. So, I want to talk about a couple different ways you can go ahead and buy tickets in 2020 so that you are always going to get best tickets possible. But before we do that, we got to get somewhere a bit less rain, a bit less wet. It is like super gross, but actually, last time I was out here in Nashville, the same thing happened pouring rain. I did run outside, though. I think I was slightly crazy, but I wouldn't worry about it. Anyway, let's get out of here. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. Gross, gross. First and foremost, the most important thing you need to know about buying tickets in 2020 is actually knowing how to use the Ticketmaster Verified Fan Presale. Definitely the number one thing you need to know. It's one of those things that, if you haven't gotten used to it by now, you really need to learn because it's definitely something that's not going away. Every single year, they keep adding more and more events to the Ticketmaster Verified Fan Presale. So, it's very important that you actually learn how they work and how to make sure you get your tickets. So, I actually have a video on already. Go ahead, click up here, take a look at it. Get yourself familiar with it. It's going to be key for buying those tickets in 2020. Now, number two, the next thing you need to know about getting tickets in 2020 is by joining fan clubs. What do I mean by that? Basically, it's all about buying those tickets through a fan club because they get access to special presales that are generally in advance of everything else. If you don't know if a fan club exists, just go to their website for the specific artist or band. Go ahead, just kind of play around in there, take a look. There's quite a few of them out there. Not everyone has one. Some of them are paid, some of them are free. It really depends on each individual artist. But what you need to do is make sure that you're subscribed to their various fan clubs and newsletters. Anything that gets you more information about what's going on with them so that you get access first. Let's continue this in a moment. Please hold. Number three and number four, they're actually super related, so we're doing them together. Number three is actually geolocated ticket purchases. Anytime tickets are being bought for a specific event, what they might do is actually limit who can actually buy these tickets. So they'll limit it either by the billing zip code or by actual states that are nearby for the venue itself. So with the national providers, they limit purchases to the Nashville and Tennessee area. And then you'll actually see it a lot with different Broadway productions, specifically with Hamilton, I've been seeing it quite a bit. So if you're trying to buy tickets in a different state, different country, basically different location, if you're not from that specific location, they might actually cancel your order completely because you're not from that specific area. They're trying to make sure that those residents or people who are from that area are actually the ones who are able to buy those tickets. Now with that being said, if you are from out of state, out of town, out of the country, there is another way of you still getting these tickets and that's through number four, will call. So what they might do is they'll still allow others to actually go ahead, try and buy these tickets if they're not from that specific region. But if you are not from that region, they're actually going to force those tickets to be held at will call, basically meaning you won't be able to get those tickets until you actually show up, you know, an hour, two hours this day of the event itself. This is really to help prevent resale tickets. So that's kind of their control around it. Speaking of will call, also you'll find that a lot of events, the actual prime seats, the best seats in the house, they're actually all tied to will call itself. What you'll find is that a lot of the seats there, they're trying to make sure that they don't get into the hands of brokers for the purpose of resale. So what they're going to do is actually hold a lot of tickets at the will call box office themselves, forcing people to actually show up to the event to be able to pick up those tickets. Example of this, I actually just bought some tickets to go see Trevor Noah in September. All the floor seats, the entire floor section was all held in will call, basically forcing everyone to show up to the event on the day of to be able to pick up their tickets. Where are my seats located? They're located in the first row, right in the front. I can basically see him sweat. That's how close I'm going to be. And it's all because those tickets are being held at will call. Finally back home. Time to talk about our final last thing you need to know for buying tickets in 2020. Patience, being patient, being able to take the time and wait before you actually buy those tickets. Because sometimes just not worth, you know, getting all caught up in the emotion, the excitement and things are going on sale. You got to buy it now, now, now, now. You got to do it now. It's okay to just wait, especially if you're buying them on the resell market. You don't want to be buying them basically the day they go on sale, the day the first presale happens. You can wait because there's always going to be more tickets that are coming onto the market.  Some people, they have to go visit their friends or someone gets sick, can't go to the event, so more tickets show up all the time. As the event gets closer, the box office always releases extra tickets, production holds, things that are just being generally held back. So those are another option for you. And then just the generic buying last minute. You have all these different strategies, all these different tips, all these different ways of actually being able to save yourself some money. So don't feel like you have to be pressured to buy those tickets immediately to make sure you get them. You can just wait, just patience, patience. So yeah, a little patience, it can go a long way. All right, I think that kind of covers everything for buying tickets in 2020 and beyond. Now, don't forget to subscribe, tons of great content coming up. I want to make sure that you guys become the best ticket buyers out there in the world. And, I'll see you guys next time. Look at this. I was walking and I... 10 foot cable, okay? 10 feet. It's supposed to be the most amazing thing ever until you do something like this. Now we have to replace this because I have a 4% battery. I don't know if we're going to make it. Just because Walmart should be fine. Let me tell you though when I get back. We got problems. As I showed you guys, I destroyed the old one, my 10 foot cable, my backup 10 foot cable. But when I did it, because I was in such a panic and such a rush because my battery was about to die, I bought... I bought a cable, see? You know, genius, genius like a genius would buy cable. But then, see this thing? Lightning cable. See this thing? Not lightning cable. And then just the top and all off. Remember, as I was at Walmart leaving that I had something in my bag because I, being the ever so wonderfully packed traveler had an extra cable in my bag. So, you know. Alright, so it's the next morning. I'm off to the airport a couple hours. But, remember how I said that I solved the day because I actually had a cable back in my bag ready for us, ready for me to be able to use so that I could, you know, charge the phone? Well, went into my bag, found the cable and then when I tried to plug it in, that's when I realized it is, I don't know if you can tell, but basically this thing here, it's broken. Like the cable, it's busted. So phone, dead. Cable, useless. Other cable, also useless. I, I don't know. Time to give up, time to go home. That's the only solution.


section 19 of Good Sense by Paul Henri Thierry, Baron Dolbac, Translator Unknown, section 19, parts 191 through 200, 191, if philosophy were substituted for religion. Philosophers have everywhere taken upon themselves apart which seemed destined to the ministers of religion. The hatred of the latter for philosophy was only a jealousy of trade. But instead of endeavoring to injure and decry one another, all men of good sense should unite their efforts to combat error, seek truth, and especially to put to flight the prejudices that are equally injurious to sovereigns and subjects and of which the abetters themselves sooner or later become the victims. In the hands of an enlightened government the priests would become the most useful of the citizens. Already richly paid by the state and free from the care of providing for their own subsistence, how could they be better employed than in qualifying themselves for the instruction of others? Would not their minds be better satisfied with discovering luminous truths than in wandering through the thick darkness of error? Would it be more difficult to discern the clear principles of morality than the imaginary principles of a divine and theological morality? Would men of ordinary capacities find it as difficult to fix in their heads the simple notions of their duties as to load their memories with mysteries, unintelligible words, and obscure definitions of which they can never form a clear idea? What time and pains are lost in learning and teaching things which are not of the least real utility? What resources for the encouragement of the sciences, the advancement of knowledge, and the education of youth well-disposed sovereigns might find in the many monasteries which in several countries live upon the people without in the slightest degree profiting them. But superstition, jealous of its exclusive empire, seems resolved to form only useless beings. To what advantage might we not turn a multitude of Cenobites of both sexes who, in many countries, are amply endowed for doing nothing? Instead of overwhelming them with fasting and austerities, instead of barren contemplations, mechanical prayers, and trifling ceremonies, why should we not excite in them a salutary emulation which may incline them to seek the means, not of being dead to the world, but of being useful to it? Instead of filling the youthful minds of their pupils with fables, sterile dogmas, and purilities, why are not priests obliged or invited to teach them truths and to render them useful citizens of their country? Under the present system men are only useful to the clergy who blind them and to the tyrants who fleece them. 192. Recantation of an unbeliever at the point of death proves nothing. The partisans of credulity often accuse unbelievers of insincerity because they sometimes waver in their principles, alter their minds in sickness, and retract at death. When the body is disordered the faculty of reasoning is commonly disordered with it. At the approach of death man, weak, and decayed, is sometimes himself sensible that reason abandons him and that prejudice returns. There are some diseases which tend to weaken the brain, to create despondency and pusillanimity, and there are others which destroy the body but do not disturb the reason. At any rate an unbeliever who recants in sickness is not more extraordinary than a devotee who neglects in health the duties which his religion explicitly enjoins. Ministers of religion openly contradict in their daily conduct the rigorous principles they teach to others, in consequence of which unbelievers in their turn may justly accuse them of insincerity. Is it easy to find many prelates, humble, generous, void of ambition, enemies of pomp and grandeur, and friends of poverty? In short, is the conduct of Christian ministers conformable to the austere morality of Christ, their God, and their model? 193. It is not true that atheism breaks the bonds of society. Atheism, it is said, breaks all the ties of society. Without the belief of a God, what will become of the sacredness of oaths? How shall we oblige a man to speak the truth who cannot seriously call the deity to witness what he says? But does an oath strengthen our obligation to fulfill the engagements contracted? Will he who is not fearful of lying be less fearful of perjury? He who is base enough to break his word, or unjust enough to violate his engagements, in contempt of the esteem of men, will not be more faithful therein for having called all the gods to witness his oaths? Those who disregard the judgments of men will soon disregard the judgments of God. Are not princes of all men the most ready to swear, and the most ready to violate their oaths? 194. Refudiation of the opinion that religion necessary for the vulgar. The vulgar, it has repeatedly said, must have a religion. If enlightened persons have no need of the restraint of opinion, it is at least necessary to rude men whose reason is uncultivated by education. But is it indeed a fact that religion is a restraint upon the vulgar? Do we see that this religion preserves them from intemperance, drunkenness, brutality, violence, fraud, and every kind of excess? Could a people who have no idea of the deity conduct themselves in a more detestable manner than these believing people among whom we find dissipation and vices the most unworthy of reasonable beings? Upon going out of the churches, do not the working classes and the populace plunge without fear into their ordinary irregularities under the idea that the periodical homage which they render to their God authorizes them to follow without remorse their vicious habits and pernicious propensities? Finally, if the people are so low-minded and unreasonable, is not their stupidity chargeable to the negligence of their princes, who are wholly regardless of public education, or who even oppose the instruction of their subjects? Is not the want of reason and the people evidently the work of the priests who, instead of instructing men in irrational morality, entertain them with fables, reveries, ceremonies, fallacies, and false virtues which they think of the greatest importance? To the people, religion is but a vain display of ceremonies to which they are attached by habit, which entertains their eyes and produces a transient emotion in their torpid understandings without influencing their conduct or reforming their morals. Even by the confession of the ministers of the altars nothing is more rare than that internal and spiritual religion which alone is capable of regulating the life of man and of triumphing over his evil propensities. In the most numerous and devout nation are there many persons who are equally capable of understanding the principles of their religious system and who find them powerful enough to stifle their perverse inclinations? Many persons will say that any restraint whatever is better than none, they will maintain that if religion ows not the greater part, it serves at least to restrain some individuals who would otherwise without remorse abandon themselves to crime. Men ought undoubtedly to have a restraint but not an imaginary one. Religion only frightens those whose imbecility of character has already prevented them from being formidable to their fellow citizens. An equitable government, severe laws, and sound morality have an equal power over all. At least every person must believe in them and perceive the danger of not conforming to them. 195. Logical systems are not adapted to the capacity of the vulgar. Perhaps it will be asked whether atheism can be proper for the multitude. I answer that any system which requires discussion is not made for the multitude. What purpose then can it serve to preach atheism? It may at least serve to convince all those who reason that nothing is more extravagant than to fret oneself and nothing more unjust than to vex others for mere groundless conjectures. As for the vulgar who never reason, the arguments of an atheist are no more fit for them than the systems of a natural philosopher, the observations of an astronomer, the experiments of a chemist, the calculations of a geometrician, the researches of a physician, the plans of an architect, or the pleadings of a lawyer who all labor for the people without their knowledge. Are the metaphysical reasonings and religious disputes, which have so long engrossed the time and attention of so many profound thinkers, better adapted to the generality of men than the reasoning of an atheist? Nay, as the principles of atheism are founded upon plain common sense. Are they not more intelligible than those of a theology beset with difficulties, which even the persons of the greatest genius cannot explain? In every country the people have a religion, the principles of which they are totally ignorant, and which they follow from habit without any examination. Their priests alone are engaged in theology, which is too dense for vulgar heads. If the people should chance to lose this unknown theology, they might easily console themselves for the loss of a thing, not only perfectly useless, but also productive of dangerous commotions. It would be madness to write for the vulgar, or to attempt to cure their prejudices all at once. We write for those only who read and reason. The multitude read but little, and reason still less. Calm and rational persons will require new ideas, and knowledge will be gradually diffused. 196. On the Futility and Danger of Theology If theology is a branch of commerce profitable to theologians, it is evidently not only superfluous, but injurious to the rest of society, self-interest will sooner or later open the eyes of men. Sovereigns and subjects will one day adopt the profound indifference and contempt merited by a feudal system which serves only to make men miserable. All persons will be sensible of the inutility of the many expensive ceremonies which contribute nothing to public felicity. Contemptable quarrels will cease to disturb the tranquility of states when we blush at having considered them important. Instead of parliament meddling with the senseless combats of your clergy, instead of foolishly espousing their impertinent quarrels and attempting to make your subjects adopt uniform opinions, strive to make them happy in this world. Respect their liberty and property. Watch over their education. Encourage them and their labors. Reward their talents and virtues. Repress licentiousness. And do not concern yourselves with their manner of thinking.  On the evils produced by implicit faith. Does it then require an extraordinary effort of genius to comprehend that what is above the capacity of man is not made for him? That things supernatural are not made for natural beings? That impenetrable mysteries are not made for limited minds? If theologians are foolish enough to dispute upon objects which they acknowledge to be unintelligible even to themselves, ought society to take any part in their silly quarrels? Must the blood of nations flow to enhance the conjectures of a few infatuated dreamers? If it is difficult to cure theologians of their madness and the people of their prejudices, it is at least easy to prevent the extravagancies of one party and the silliness of the other from producing pernicious effects. Let everyone be permitted to think as he pleases, but never let him be permitted to injure others for their manner of thinking. Were the rulers of nations more just and rational, theological opinions would not affect the public tranquility, more than the disputes of natural philosophers, physicians, grammarians, and critics. It is tyranny which causes theological quarrels to be attended with serious consequences. Those who extol the importance and utility of religion ought to show us its happy effects, the advantages, for instance, which the disputes and abstract speculations of theology can be to porters, artisans, and laborers, and to the multitude of unfortunate women and corrupt servants with which great cities abound. All these beings are religious, they have what is called an implicit faith. Their Parsons believe for them, and they stupidly adhere to the unknown belief of their guides. They go to hear sermons, and would think at a great crime to transgress any of the ordinances to which, in childhood, they are taught to conform. But of what service to morals is all this? None at all. They have not the least idea of morality, and are even guilty of all the roguery, fraud, rapine, and excess that is out of the reach of law. The populace have no idea of their religion. What they call religion is nothing but a blind attachment to unknown opinions and mysterious practices. In fact, to deprive people of religion is to deprive them of nothing. By overthrowing their prejudices, we should only lessen or annihilate the dangerous confidence they put in interested guides, and should teach them to mistrust those who, under the pretext of religion, often lead them into fatal excesses. 198. On the evils produced by implicit faith. While pretending to instruct and enlighten men, religion in reality keeps them in ignorance, and stifles the desire of knowing the most interesting objects. The people have no other rule of conduct than what their priests are pleased to prescribe. Religion supplies the place of everything else. But being in itself essentially obscure, it is more proper to lead mortals astray than to guide them in the path of science and happiness. Religion renders enigmatic all natural philosophy, morality, legislation, and politics. A man blinded by religious prejudices fears truth whenever it clashes with his opinions. He cannot know his own nature. He cannot cultivate his reason. He cannot perform experiments. Everything concurs to render the people devout. But everything tends to prevent them from being humane, reasonable, and virtuous. Religion seems to have no other object than to stupefy the mind. Objects have been ever at war with genius and talent, because well-informed men perceive that superstition shackles the human mind and would keep it in eternal infancy, occupied solely by fables and frightened by phantoms. Incapable of improvement itself, theology opposed insurmountable barriers to the progress of true knowledge, its sole object is to keep nations and their rulers in the most profound ignorance of their duties, and of the real motives that should incline them to do good. It obscures morality, renders its principles arbitrary, and subjects it to the caprice of the gods or of their ministers. It converts the art of governing men into a mysterious tyranny, which is the scourge of nations.  One ninety-nine. All religions were established by impostors in days of ignorance. By tracing the history of the human mind, we shall be easily convinced that theology has cautiously guarded against its progress. It began by giving out fables as sacred truth. It produced poetry, which filled the imagination of men with its purile fictions. It entertained them with its gods and their incredible deeds. In a word, religion has always treated men like children whom it lulled to sleep with tales, which its ministers would have a still regard as incontestable truths. If the ministers of the gods have sometimes made useful discoveries, they have always been careful to give them a dogmatical tone and envelop them in the shades of mystery. Pythagoras and Plato, in order to acquire some trifling knowledge, were obliged to court the favour of priests to be initiated in their mysteries and to undergo whatever trials they were pleased to impose.  It was from Egyptian, Indian, and Shaldean priests from the schools of these visionaries, professionally interested in bewildering human reason that philosophy was obliged to borrow its first rudiments. Obscure and faults in its principles, mixed with fictions and fables, and made only to dazzle the imagination, the progress of this philosophy was precarious and its theories unintelligible. Instead of enlightening, it blighted the mind and diverted it from objects truly useful. The theological speculations and mystical reveries of the ancients are still law in a great part of the philosophic world, and being adopted by modern theology it is heresy to abandon them. They tell us of aerial beings of spirits, angels, demons, genii, and other phantoms which are the object of their meditations, and serve as the basis of metaphysics, an abstract and futile science which, for thousands of years, the greatest geniuses have vainly studied. Hypothesis imagined by a few visionaries of Memphis and Babylon, constitute even now the foundations of a science whose obscurity makes it revered as marvelous and divine. The first legislators were priests. The first mythologists, poets, learned men, and physicians were priests. In their hands science became sacred and was withheld from the profane. They spoke only in allegories, emblems, enigmas, and ambiguous oracles. Means well calculated to excite curiosity, and above all to inspire the astonished vulgar with the holy respect for men, who when they were thought to be instructed by the gods and capable of reading in the heavens the fate of the earth, boldly proclaimed themselves the oracles of the deity. 200. All religions borrow from one another ridiculous ceremonies. The religions of ancient priests have only changed form. Although our modern theologians regard their predecessors as imposters, yet they have collected many scattered fragments of their religious systems. In modern religions we find not only their metaphysical dogmas, which theology has merely clothed in a new dress, but also some remarkable remains of their superstitious practices, their magic, and their enchantments. Christians are still commanded to respect the remaining monuments of the legislators, priests, and prophets of the Hebrew religion, which had borrowed its strange practices from Egypt. Thus extravagancies, imagined by knaves or idolatrous visionaries, are still sacred among Christians. If we examine history we shall find a striking resemblance among all religions. In all parts of the earth we see that religious notions periodically depress and elevate the people. The attention of man is everywhere engrossed by rights often abominable, and by mysteries always formidable, which become the sole objects of meditation. The different superstitions borrow from one another their abstract reveries and ceremonies. Religions are in general mere unintelligible rhapsodies, combined by new teachers who use the materials of their predecessors, reserving the right of adding or retrenching whatever is not conformable to the present age. The religion of Egypt was evidently the basis of the religion of Moses, who banished the worship of idols. Moses was merely a schismatic Egyptian. Christianism is only reformed Judaism. Muhammadism is composed of Judaism, Christianity, and the ancient religion of Arabia, etc. End of Section 19, Recording by Roger Maline Section 20 of Good Sense This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Recording by Roger Maline Good Sense by Paul Henri Thierry Baron Dobach Translator Unknown Section 20, Parts 201 through 206 201 Theology has always diverted philosophy from its right path. Theology, from the remotest antiquity to the present time, has had the exclusive privilege of directing philosophy. What assistance has been derived from its labors? It changed philosophy into an unintelligible jargon, calculated to render uncertain the clearest truths. It has converted the art of reasoning into a jargon of words. It has carried the human mind into the airy regions of metaphysics, and there employed it in vainly fathoming and obscure abyss. Instead of physical and simple causes, this transformed philosophy has substituted supernatural, or rather occult, causes. It has explained phenomena difficult to be conceived by agents still more inconceivable. It has filled language with words, void of sense, incapable of accounting for things, better calculated to obscure than enlighten, and which seems invented expressly to discourage man, to guard him against the powers of his mind, to make him mistrust the principles of reason and evidence, and to raise an insurmountable barrier between him and truth. 202 Theology Explains Nothing Were we to believe the partisans of religion, nothing could be explained without it. Nature would be a perpetual enigma, and man would be incapable of understanding himself. But what does this religion in reality explain? The more we examine it, the more we are convinced that its theological notions are fit only to confuse our ideas. They change everything into mystery. They explain difficult things by things that are impossible. Is it a satisfactory explanation of phenomena to attribute them to unknown agents, to invisible powers, to immaterial causes? Does the human mind receive much light by referring to the depths of the treasures of divine wisdom, to which we are repeatedly told it is vain to extend our rash inquiries? Can the divine nature of which we have no conception enable us to conceive the nature of man? Ask a Christian what is the origin of the world? He will answer that God created it. What is God? He cannot tell. What is it to create? He knows not. What is the cause of pestilence, famine, wars, droughts, inundations, and earthquakes? The anger of God. What remedies can be applied to these calamities? Prayers, sacrifices, processions, offerings, and ceremonies are, it is said, the true means of disarming celestial fury, but why is heaven enraged? Because men are wicked. Why are men wicked? Because their nature is corrupt. What is the cause of this corruption? It is, says the theologian, because the first man, beguiled by the first woman, ate an apple which God had forbidden him to touch. Who beguiled this woman into such folly? The devil. Who made the devil? God. But why did God make this devil destined to pervert mankind? This is unknown. It is a mystery which the deity alone is acquainted with. It is now universally acknowledged that the earth turns around the sun. Centuries ago this opinion was blasphemy, as being irreconcilable with the sacred books which every Christian reveres as inspired by the deity himself. Notwithstanding divine revelation, astronomers now depend rather upon evidence than upon the testimony of their inspired books. What is the hidden principle of the motions of the human body? The soul. What is a soul? A spirit. What is a spirit? A substance which has neither form nor color nor extension nor parts. How can we form any idea of such a substance? How can it move a body? That is not known. It is a mystery. Have beasts souls? But do they not act, feel, and think in a manner very similar to man? Mere illusion. By what right do you deprive beasts of a soul which you attribute to man, though you know nothing at all about it? Because the souls of beasts would embarrass our theologians, who are satisfied with the power of terrifying and damning the immaterial souls of men, and are not so much interested in damning those of beasts. Such are the pure solutions which philosophy, always in the leading strings of theology, was obliged to invent in order to explain the problems of the physical and moral world. 203.  How many evasions have been used, both in ancient and modern times, in order to avoid an engagement with the ministers of the gods, who have never been the tyrants of thought? How many hypotheses and shifts were such men as Descartes, Malabrange, and Leibniz forced to invent, in order to reconcile their discoveries with the fables and mistakes which religion had consecrated? In what guarded phrases have the greatest philosophers expressed themselves, even at the risk of being absurd, inconsistent, or unintelligible, whenever their ideas did not accord with the principles of theology? Priests have been always attentive to extinguished systems which opposed their interest. Theology was ever the bed of procrustes to be adapted to which the limbs of travelers, if too long were cut off and if too short were lengthened. Can any sensible man, delighted with the sciences and attached to the welfare of his fellow creatures, reflect, without vexation and anguish, how many profound, laborious, and subtle brains have been for ages, foolishly occupied in the study of absurdities? What a treasure of knowledge might have been diffused by many celebrated thinkers, if, instead of engaging in the impertinent disputes of vain theology, they had devoted their attention to intelligible objects really important to mankind? Half the efforts which religious opinions have cost genius and half the wealth which frivolous forms of worship have cost nations would have sufficed to instruct them perfectly in morality, politics, natural philosophy, medicine, agriculture, etc. Superstition generally absorbs the attention, admiration, and treasures of the people. Their religion costs them very dear, but they have neither knowledge, virtue, nor happiness for their money. 204.  Some ancient and modern philosophers have been bold enough to assume experience and reason for their guides and to shake off the chains of superstition. Democrates, Epicurus, and other Greeks presume to tear away the veil of prejudice and to deliver philosophy from theological shackles, but their systems, too simple, too sensible, and too free from the marvelous for imaginations enamored with chimeras, were obliged to yield to the fabulous conjectures of such men as Plato and Socrates. Among the moderns, Hobbes, Spinoza, Bale, etc., have followed the steps of Epicurus, but their doctrine has found very few followers in a world still intoxicated with fables to listen to reason. In every age it has been dangerous to depart from prejudices. Discoveries of every kind have been prohibited. All that enlightened men could do was to speak ambiguously, hence they often confounded falsehood with truth. Several had a double doctrine, one public and the other secret. The key of the latter being lost, their true sentiments, have often become unintelligible and consequently useless. How could modern philosophers, who under pain of cruel persecution, were commanded to renounce reason and to subject it to faith, that is, to the authority of priests? How, I say, could men thus bound give free scope to their genius, improve reason, and accelerate the progress of the human mind? It was with fear and trembling that even the greatest men obtained a glimpse of truth, rarely had they the courage to announce it, and those who did were terribly punished. With religion it has ever been unlawful to think, or to combat the prejudices of which man is everywhere the victim and the dupe. 205. Religion is an extravagance and a calamity. Every man sufficiently intrepid to announce truths to the world is sure of incurring the hatred of the ministers of religion who loudly call to their aid secular powers and want the assistance of laws to support both their arguments and their gods. Their clamors expose too evidently the weakness of their cause. None call for aid but those who feel distressed. In religion man is not permitted to err. In general those who err are pitied, and some kindness is shown to persons who discover new truths. But when religion is thought to be interested either in the errors or the discoveries, a holy zeal is kindled, the populace become frantic, and nations are in an uproar. Can anything be more afflicting than to see public and private felicity, depending upon a feudal system which is destitute if principles, founded only on a distempered imagination, and incapable of presenting anything but words void of sense? In what consists the so much boasted utility of a religion which nobody can comprehend, which continually torments those who are weak enough to meddle with it, which is incapable of rendering men better, and which often makes them consider it meritorious to be unjust and wicked? Is there a folly more deplorable and more justly to be combated than that which far from doing any service to the human race only makes them blind, delirious, and miserable by depriving them of truth, the sole cure for their wretchedness? 206 Religion prevents us from seeing the true causes of misfortunes. Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason, and morality. Religion diverts us from the causes of evils, and from the remedies which nature prescribes. Far from curing it only aggravates, multiplies, and perpetuates them. Let us observe with the celebrated Lord Bolingbroke that theology is the box of Pandora, and if it is impossible to shut it, it is at least useful to inform men that this fatal box is open. The End End of Section 20, Recording by Roger Moline End of Good Sense Without God or Free Thoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas by Paul Henri Thierry Baron Dobach Translator Unknown


Bendy is in trouble. Following a tumultuous few months, Mike Mood and The Meatly have had to lay off the majority of their studio's workforce. The Kindly Beast, a team that grew out of the accidental success of Bendy and the Ink Machine, has been decimated by layoffs that have seen over 50 people lose their jobs, just in time for Canadian Thanksgiving. We like Mike Mood and The Meatly. They've been kind to our channel personally, sharing our videos and helping us to grow. We don't want to vilify the pair for a mismanaged situation. In our opinion, Kindly Beast simply flew too close to the sun. Nevertheless, some anonymous reviews of the company from former employees paint a cautionary tale about the importance of careful structure and planning for big games. As such, let's take a look at work on Bendy and the Dark Revival, how things went wrong, and what other indie developers can do to avoid making similar mistakes. Right from the start, it's been clear that Mike Mood and The Meatly haven't ever been very good at project management. The first chapter of Bendy and the Ink Machine was thrown together over a weekend, and the second chapter was made in two weeks, while The Meatly was sick. The pair of developers focused on getting their work done at all costs, and this likely set a negative precedent for future work. I swore I'd never work like this again, Mike commented, while endlessly bug testing chapter four ahead of its release, it seems that he is chronically incapable of relaxing. As Bendy's popularity grew, Mike and The Meatly found themselves scrambling to put together an entire media empire when their primary talents lie instead in game development, a very different skill set. Once Bendy and the Ink Machine was completed last year, they put their small studio to work on several follow-up projects, including Showdown Bandit and Bendy and the Dark Revival. The previously named The Meatly Games became Kindly Beast, in anticipation of a big period of growth. In February, in an effort to grow their business to take advantage of Bendy's widespread appeal, Kindly Beast bought out Carmen Interactive. This was a moment of pride for Mike, who had previously worked for the company, and had hired them to make the mobile game, Bendy in Nightmare Run. Over a short period of time, Kindly Beast hired 40 new people, all of whom were set to work on various projects. Out of four anonymous reviews of the company, three mentioned the studio's free coffee machine as a perk of the job, all of the reviews mentioned that their colleagues were wonderful. That's about all the positive things they have to say, which, a day after being fired, isn't all that surprising. Showdown Bandit was the work of over 20 developers, but two weeks away from the launch of its first episode, it was still a long way from being perfect. Seemingly falling back into familiar habits, The Meatly and Mike took over the project entirely, opting to finish the episode themselves, rather than rely on their full team. The game eventually released three weeks late, but not before Mike and The Meatly laid off all of the previous heads of Carmen Interactive, leaving Kindly Beast without an upper management body. The stress of this alone led several employees to go on medical leave, unable to cope with the pressure they were facing. Delegation seems to be difficult for the pair. One review claims that the board was the only point of contact for any and all creative and business decisions, with 50-plus employees awaiting instruction and feedback at all times. Apparently, creative work was often dismissed entirely by Mike, who would insist that teams started all over again with a new direction. Eventually, as the working environment became increasingly stressful, developers were encouraged to stop aiming for perfection. The company's new mandate was get it done good enough. Kindly Beats was no longer a studio that aimed to innovate or excel. If a game was relatively stable, it could be shipped, flaws and all. It didn't help that the company's production workflow was disorganized at best. Mike and the Meatly were developers, game makers, not managers. They were a long way outside their comfort zone trying to manage such large teams, and their typical strategy of making things up on the fly simply wouldn't work when juggling on so many different projects. Employees got used to long periods of downtime as they awaited instructions from Arnhay. They couldn't get any work done without the boss's permission, and game development began to stall. It didn't help that Mike, according to one employee review, often wouldn't come into the office. Whether he was working from home or simply taking time for himself, it didn't matter. Some kind of leadership was needed at the office. The working environment quickly became more stressful, but employees were assured that their jobs were safe. The removal of the former Carmen Interactive bosses didn't mean that their jobs were in danger as well. Then, employees discovered that their personal accounts on the company's system had been locked. A subsequent publicly posted note explained that staff were to lose their jobs, but reminded them to abide by their contractual obligations. After only around eight months since Kindly Beast ballooned in size, it shrank again. Over 50 people were left without jobs, amounting to approximately 80% of the company's workforce. It seems that Kindly Beast likely grew a lot faster than its founders could manage. Wanting to be involved in every single decision that went into their games, the Meatly and Mike simply didn't have the right skill set to handle such a large workforce of employees. Management skills have their place in a game studio of any size, but the larger the team, the more important it is to have a clear, well-structured organisation. We don't think that Mike or the Meatly set out with the express goal of harming their employees' mental health in exchange for a quick buck. What's far more likely is that they tried their best, but got in over their heads. Perhaps this wouldn't have happened if the pair had ever learned to take their time, without rushing from crunch period to crunch period. The finished Bendy and the Ink Machine released last October at around the same time as Red Dead Redemption 2. We almost made a video at the time about how both games featured dangerous development crunch, but that Bendy's was more justifiable because it came from a position of genuine passion. It seems we were wrong. Game development that is built around working long hours without proper breaks or careful structure will always end in ruin eventually. The loss of telltale games earlier this year similarly shows just how important it is for game studios to build slowly and carefully, and be content with living within their means. We as gamers need to be aware of this. When a game like Untitled Goose Game releases and is shorter than People Might Hope, we should appreciate that it was made by four people who made the wise decision not to overextend themselves. Ultimately, a small gaming project that achieves its goals is far better than a theoretically impressive game that falls apart mid-development. We wish Mike and the Meekly all the best in trying to put Kindly Beast back together, and we look forward to seeing what comes next, not just from them, but also from all their former employees as they move on to new pastures. Whatever you're trying to achieve in life, make sure you are pursuing your goals in a healthy manner. If your dreams are really worth reaching for, they're worth waiting for as well. As the old proverb says, be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.


So we see here Tesla is not doing too well today, it's already down 8%, down about $25.91 at the minute that I'm recording this video. And we got some news from Tesla that they missed Wall Street's production estimates. We're going to hop into an article very quickly in about a minute or two to see what exactly happened here. But let's take a look at this chart, guys, to see how much Tesla has fallen. So we see it's down about 8% right now and it closed the day, I believe, on Monday at about $330. We can see here on the 20-day one-hour chart, we can see we were all the way up to about 330, 340. We got rejected officially right now by this 180-day simple moving average and we've fallen like a knife pre-market hours and into the trading day today. Due to this news that I'm about to show you guys, and I'm sure all you Tesla investors out there already know this, but I wanted to make a quick little video today on this. Anyway, let's just hop right into it. So Tesla misses Wall Street estimates with 90,700 vehicle deliveries and the fourth quarter shares tumble. Tesla delivered 90,700 vehicles during the fourth quarter falling shy of Wall Street's estimates here, but they were already up 8% from the previous third quarter, which is a good sign. But again, they missed Wall Street's estimates, which really just sends stocks tumbling a lot of the time, guys. And this is exactly what's happening right now to Tesla. So Tesla boosted production during the quarter, churning out 86,555 vehicles up 8% from 80,142 during the third quarter. Investors are disappointed in the news sending the shares down in pre-market trading. So another very interesting thing that Tesla did was they cut the models by $2,000 and we can see that here. The company which released its production and delivery results for the fourth quarter also announced that it was cutting prices on all of its models by $2,000 to help offset a reduction in federal tax credits for drivers who buy electric vehicles. So the fourth quarter marked an end to 7,500 federal tax credit that Tesla was able to use to lure buyers in the past. So that was cut in half to $3,750 starting January 1st. So there are a lot of ideas out there on to why Tesla might have done this. Some bears think they're doing this to stimulate more demand, like said right here. And I could agree with that to a certain extent because we've seen Tesla's cars. They're very expensive cars. They're making a new model right now that is more affordable to the average person, which I think is a very good idea for expansion of the business because if these cars guys are running people 80, 100, $120,000 sometimes, right? If you put the most expensive battery pack in there, the longest lasting battery pack and all of some other features that they have, these cars can run up to $120,000. If Tesla has this model of more luxurious cars, they're not going to be able to reach as many people, right? So that's why they're starting to potentially, this is potentially why they're starting to cut the costs of the car by $2,000. This could be the reason, right? And you know, this is something that I think, again, is a good idea just to stimulate more demand. So the company delivered 8% more vehicles during the quarter, a new all-time high, but the numbers were fewer than expected by Wall Street, like we said. So the company said it delivered 63,150 Model 3s, 13,500 Model S sedans, and 14,050 Model X SUVs. Wall Street analysts forecasted 64,000 Model 3s, so they were cut short on that, 14,200 for the Model S, cut short on that, and 13,600 for Model X, which was actually surpassed. So according to the average estimates of nine analysts, that is what they were expecting for Tesla this quarter. And Tesla boosted production during the quarter, we talked about that, but previously gave investors hope was that the production rates would improve, saying the number of labor hours to build the Model 3 fell by more than 30% from the second to the third quarter. The company also told investors in late October that it took less time to build the Model S sedan and Model X sport utility vehicle, another first for the company. So let's just take a look right here, guys. This is a very interesting little paragraph here. CEO Elon Musk announced that on October 23rd, the company planned to limit certain options on its higher-end Model S sedans and Model X SUVs to streamline production. The company also announced plans during the fourth quarter to start selling a $45,000 version of the Model 3 before raising the price to $46,000. It has yet to produce the Model 3, base Model 3, which it has promised for a price of $35,000 before incentives. And this is what I talked about a couple minutes back, the cheaper model of the car, which is going to expand the company just to a larger market. So people, more of the average American out there, middle-class person could afford a Tesla if they do like the vision. They do want to be environmentally friendly. They do want to get into a cooler-looking electric vehicle because we know a bunch of other companies make electric vehicles, but none of them are as sleek-looking as Tesla, at least in my personal opinion. So giving this opportunity to the middle-class person of $35,000 and even $45,000, guys, is a very good idea in my personal opinion. So drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think. Is Tesla going to keep going down in price? I personally hope so because my price target right now on Tesla, where I want to add more shares, is at about $250. I talk about this all the time. And I'm just waiting patiently, guys, because I like Tesla, guys. I want to make this one of my riskier investments, put about 5% of my portfolio in it, because I honestly believe in Elon Musk and the vision that he has for the company. So I'll catch you guys in the video later today. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Peace out. Good luck today.


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