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Hello, hello, writers! I'm Kristen Kiefer, author of fantasy fiction and creative writing resources, and you are listening to the Well-Stirried podcast, where I share insights, encouragement, and actionable advice designed to help you craft sensational novels and build your best writing life, always in 30 minutes or less, so you can get back to writing, of course. Ready for the show? Let's get talking. Welcome once again, writers! As always, it is such a pleasure to sit down for another episode of the podcast with you all. Today's episode of the podcast translates the latest article from the Well-Stirried blog into audio. Titled, Five Tips for Landing Your First Short Story Publication, you can find the article that also serves as the episode transcript at www.well-stirried.com slash lyfp. That link will be for you in today's episode description as well. Now let's dive in. Five Tips for Landing Your First Short Story Publication One thing I love about being an online content creator is connecting with fellow writers producing incredible work. One such writer is Mandy Wallace, a blogger and writing mentor whose resources at Write or Die never fail to leave me feeling encouraged and inspired. Earlier this week, Mandy published Landing Your First Publication, a short story writing prompt and publication strategy guide for writers who refuse to rely on luck. When Mandy offered to send me an advanced reader copy of the book to review, I jumped at the opportunity and I'm so glad I did. Landing Your First Publication is a beautiful and insightful resource for any writer looking to stop wishing and start making their publication dreams come true. Today, I'd love to share five key submission tips I gleaned from this incredible resource. So let's dive right in. Tip number one, screw luck. 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You can actually catch a sneak peek of these journal-style layouts in the episode transcript, which you can find at well-storyed.com slash L-Y-F-P. On to tip number four, find your submission focus. Before diving into submissions, it's important to identify your publication goals. Do you want to publish quickly? Build an extensive backlist? Seek prestige from top tier publications, or pursue opportunities that come with a payday. After identifying your submission focus, do your research. In Landing Your First Publication, Mandy lists some of the top ways to find publication opportunities that best fit your publication goals. Tip number five, celebrate rejection. Editors and slash pile readers have unique tastes and preferences, meaning you shouldn't take rejection personally. Just because one short story didn't work for one editor doesn't mean you're a bad writer. That same short story is likely to find a happy home at another publication. 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Those are open. You still have time to go. No, I'm just kidding. I'm gonna try and do this in English Let's start with a question. How many of you were at a word camp in Italy in 2014 or 2015? Come on. Where you where where where were you? Yeah, you raise your hand So yeah, that's correct. There were no word camps in Italy between 2014 and 2015 There were two meet-ups Milano and Roma and They didn't meet very often. Okay, they had meet-ups, but things weren't going as they should be So my name is Francesca. I'm a WordPress professional from Italy and today I'm here to talk about the Italian community what we did in the last 12 months Hoping to get more of you involved both in your local communities and the global project so WordPress in Italian We had translations from the beginning There was a very small group of contributors, but they did this So here you see them Paolo and Steve. They were the ones who started translating WordPress in Italian They are the GTE for the project and I'm sure that if it wasn't for these pioneers Today WordPress wouldn't be as popular as it is in Italy But Unfortunately having a translation having a localization is not enough to build a community So how familiar are you with Italians? How well do you know us? And I'm doing this in purpose How do you have ever been to Italy? Yeah, do you know Italians? Yeah, you know them you know us so It's a beautiful country and we are amazing people but in this particular matter of having a community We face two issues One of them is we don't speak English. We are very good at speaking with our hands. So you might Have the feeling that we can do this But it's all a show a big show that we're doing even skill developers They know the jargon, but they can't carry a conversation So if you can't talk to people and have a conversation you cannot really connect you can code together That's good, but you can talk to people and The other problem it's not a problem actually It's one of the most beautiful things we have in Italy, but on this particular issue is a problem We are a huge country With big local differences cultural differences, we have I don't know how many dialects and some of them are recognized as languages so they they have their own localization of WordPress and You have a dialect for every region and every city has its own sub dialect and the farther you go in the south The more people will speak to you in their dialect and not in Italian So despite having this amazing contributors starting from polyglots and then there were more people in other teams and despite WordPress being very Popular in Italy. There was a total lack of offline activities. We didn't meet we didn't even know we existed And also there's another problem. So I don't know how many of you know how open source project works So I know nothing about it I've been making a living of WordPress since 2010 and I took and I took and I took and I never gave back because I didn't know I could give back I'm not a developer So I said, I mean what can I do for this amazing project? Turn out you can do quite a few things even if you can't code and being part of a community is one of them So the majority of users of WordPress in Italy they did something like this They went to their hosting. They did a one-click install of WordPress and that was it The most fortunate the one that understood a little bit how things work went to the locale Downloaded the WordPress installed and that was it So yeah, that was the situation in Italy until last spring So how do you take this very sad wasteland? I just described and turn it in a blossoming me though that I think we are now the people okay, so in spring 2015 There were two meet-ups in Rome to meet ups one in Milan on one in Rome They were meeting once in a while and then all of a sudden things started exploding People were talking about WordPress everywhere. People wanted to do stuff all the time and There were different people different groups of people who started working on it. So on May 2015 at a conference I met this guy. Do you know they have some of you know this guy? Okay, so his name is Luca Sartoni. He's a growth engineer at automatic and The dude likes to talk like for hours. He can't stop. Okay, so WordPress is his favorite. I think all-time Discussion and then he can talk about a B testing and growth engineering And I don't even know what it is growth engineering, but he talks a lot about it But mostly he likes to talk about community and he really wanted to push us and have an Italian community So I met him and somehow in a couple of hours He convinced me to start a meet-up in Torino and start translating. I Had a friend even over there with the striped t-shirt And he was also talking about we were talking about starting a meet-up. Let's do this But we were all talking talking all the time and we never did anything So Luca type likes to talk But it's also wise and you know, you knew that other two people wanted to do the same in Torino one of them is here Maurizio Yeah, he's there You can see him here and Cristiano and Luca thought if we put them together and we couldn't be more different from each other because I'm taking care of business even is a web designer. They are the hard core developer dudes and Like we didn't know what he does because it was meeting for the first time some different universe And we did this this is the first meet-up we had in Torino we 60 people showed up I think we didn't know what we were doing the the evening if I'm thinking about it now It was a little bit weird. We had no direction I mean I babbled on stage for five minutes about how wordpress changed my life And then there was another speech and Maurizio gave a super technical speech There was no connection between any of the things but somehow it worked and It worked so well that at the same meet-up Oleg and Lyuba Lyuba is also here. Hello Lyuba Said hey, we want to join you it looks like even if it looks like you have no idea what you're doing It looks like fun. We want to come with you. So, yeah, there we are in December the six of us Having fun and doing this In the meantime, there was another group of people from Barletta Bologna Brescia Genova other cities in Italy. I Called them the fearless ones because they were the one who did what our grandparents did two centuries ago They expatriate they went they became word camp expats. They went to word camps around Europe and Some of them spoke even like France here some of them volunteered and it was very exciting For them and they really wanted to share this with someone So they like what they saw and they came back to Italy and they say We want to do this. We want to have this in Italy. We don't want to expatriate to go to word camps We want to do this here at home Have you been to word camps of ill? Who's been who was it word camps of ill? Europe. Sorry Petya word camp. You're sorry. I wasn't there and I'm very sad about it But I knew something big was going on because even though I wasn't there for 72 hours people pinged me like Constantly and so I knew something big was going to happen after after Seville a Bunch of people met there about 10. I think there were about 10 Italians and That's the moment where they came they went from dreaming to planning to action It was very quick and it happened In July we started using again tower Rosetta site. Do you how many of you are not? American or So you all have locale, okay? so in your locale site you have a Blog feature and you should use it It's great because you can push information from there everything you write in your blog Rosetta blog can be fed to your Dashboard of the localized version of wordpress that you're using and And it's cool. You can talk to people people at the beginning They will not notice because they're used to get the WP Tavern and other stuff in there But then at some point They will see that the content is different now and People started noticing that were news in Italian and people started seeing their cities name on The dashboard I was like well, what is Bologna doing here? I mean Isn't this the wordpress feed? So people started noticing people started showing up more to meetups and people wanted to open more meetups Because they saw Turino Jane of aroma Bologna Brescia, whatever and they wanted to have their own meetup, too So Rosetta is great to push information and I really really Suggest you go and use it. I don't know who Get in touch with your local team and say hey, let's use it to build a community because it's a great tool But we also needed to talk we are Italians after all so And we wanted to help each other and we wanted to share the excitement. We are easily excited about this kind of stuff So here are the true heroes of the story France and Francesco They were the ones who opened the slack instance for the Italian community and This made all the difference in the world because then we really started to talk to each other Having meetups all over Italy was great Every city some cities were doing better other cities were a little bit struggling So the offline activities were doing great But we really wanted to talk to each other and help each other and we wanted to go big We say hey, we went from zero to eight meetups now. We want to want to more we want to have a word camps We want to maybe apply to have a word camp Europe. I don't know So let's do this. We really needed to chat and Yeah chatting we did we did a lot of that we wrote for hours and It was amazing.  We you had people at every time talking and suggesting things and I Don't know it was great and it was really exciting. We open channels for every meetup. We open channels for Freelancers to exchange information. We open channels for TV shows, I don't know. I push to open a random channel to have gifts and Have random talks, but nobody's coming in so I'm always talking by myself and it's a little bit sad But yeah, we planned posts on on Rosetta. We built an editorial calendar. We had the town hall meetings We wrote guides to get into slack because it's not very easy to get into slack. Okay, if you have a local group So by the end of August we had eight meetups and now we we counted this last week. We have 12 and Two more are coming. Thanks to taco that is always pestering people to open up new meetups So they're gonna be other two meetups in Italy. Thanks to taco and his talk So, yeah, we talked we talked we chatted we wrote we hang out We did everything but after summer we really want to get together. We really want to met each other Talk face-to-face because slack is excellent, but we really needed to sit around the table have some food and talk so With the help of Sara Rosso from automatic and your own Jenny Wong We went on and we carried out Bizarre plan something not very common a standalone contributor day And it was great and I really recommend you organize this because they are great events We would meet for one day in Milano that was a bit central to everyone and We would get to know each other and also learn how to contribute to WordPress because at that point We had the local meetups, but we're still not very strong on the contributing part It took us a couple of months to organize this there were people from Milano Torino and Barletta who organized this Barletta is like a thousand kilometers from Milano So it's a big deal to organize this kind of event in Milano and come up from Barletta 10 people We had endless discussions on the most important thing of all Which is? food Yeah, that what the two main discussions were food and the wapu Yeah, Sara got in touch with some lead contributors and it was great we had a couple of sponsors that helped us with food and There were a bunch of people who came to help us and very happy to see some of you here today You really made a difference for us, so thank you so people came and They helped us and they helped us Working of course, but they really helped us understand the true meaning of contributing and giving back and The most important thing they did for us. They showed they didn't just tell us they didn't just say Go to the handbook. They sat with us and they say you see here. This is where you do this You see that that's how you do it. Let's do this together Okay, you should do that until they did it with us. They didn't just send instructions The people came and they talked to us It was very neat. I mean Petia and John were there and who else was there? No, no no one else It was good. It was So, yeah, so what we took home from this was of course the work But also the attitude to do more to help more people and to really give back and We really at that point. I think it was a little bit obsessive we were like going around evangelizing people about WordPress we looked a little bit crazy and and What we learned we really wanted to take home and and we worked in many teams There were many teams the same day But I think there were three teams that really made the difference for all the community in Italy. One of them is community Here see us working and the contributor table. We had a very good time We learned some best practices Jenny helped us with some very practical stuff Like what to do if you're stuck in a meet-up and nobody wants to talk and You don't want to have a meet-up. It is always a speaker and the attendees and you know the distance between them So she taught us a lot of things how to make this Fun and help other people do this. Of course, we had polyglots. Thank you, Petia and yeah go translate all the things because you know now the the localized the Intern in localized versions of wordpress have surpassed the number of downloads of American English wordpress so yeah, it's important to translate okay and translate all the things for the people that could probably Help do other stuff if that stuff is in Italian if it's in English It's a barrier that not everyone can cross and support Support is super super super important There are no stupid question. You don't need to be an experienced developer to help in the forums Do you know one? Do you all know how to install wordpress? Through an FTP. Okay, so if you know that you must know that in the forums There are a bunch of people asking for help with this So even if it this is the only thing that you know how to do in wordpress Go and help someone else do it You will make their day and you will feel good about it. So it's a win-win for everyone We now have also localized version of a forum. We were one of the first to have a BB to whatever and and Yeah, I say that I'm not a developer. I don't care about that stuff I just care that it works and it's fine and everybody has a good time So we have a couple of people who are very invested in helping and moderating and answering And if there is a support forum in your language, please, please, please go to go help everyone who needs help This is so important and Yeah, we're good so finally during this event we sent out the Application for word camp Torino that was the first word camp in Italy since 2013 and Last week 300 of us met in Torino to have the word camp And that's word camp Torino. Yeah We had a pretty good turnout. We had three we sold 310 tickets 290 people showed up we had 17 volunteers with 24 speakers and we had nine organizers We did it We also had talks in English because we felt good about Having a more open Community so we focused on the local But we were also very happy to have international speaker coming I think at this point they're coming because they're really enjoying the food and the culture not because they really want to Speak at a word camp in Italy, but it doesn't matter So they came that that's the important thing And we had an amazing contributor day and when I say amazing I really mean it we had 100 people Showing up. It's one-third of all the people that were at word camp and trust me. This is a huge number in Word camp us in Philadelphia. They had 100 1800 tickets and only just 300 people showed up for the contributor day so having one-third of the people there It's a huge achievement so we have some old friends showed up and Came to talk to us about translation for example in this case is Paolo that you saw in the first slide We had the core. We had mobile. We had support. We had TV. I don't know. What else we had We had the whole spectrum. It was very nice. We onboarded new people We tied at bonds with people that we already know and we made new friends Here is Andrea Maybe some of you know him. He was at word camp Europe both in Leiden Sofia and Seville. He's really into it like he travels to go there So here he is sitting in Seville. He's not alone. He has another Italian friend But it was more dramatic to have the photo of him alone. So for the purpose of the presentation and 10 months later Yay From there. He was one of the volunteers So we are here in track B in London. It's a pretty fancy and big word camp and Some of you are already involved in the community. How many of you are involved somehow in the community work not core not The technical stuff I don't care about the technical stuff. Okay, that's a nice number So for the other of you, are you asking yourself how to become more like Andrea? Are you would you like to be more like Andrea? Yeah, no, no, definitely best answer.  This is so important if there isn't one start one Apply to host the word camp you might You might might get the idea after London that word camps need to be this they don't need to be this They can be 50 people at a community center With the sandwich brought from home. You don't need it to be catered. You don't need it to be sponsored You just need 50 people in a room talking about WordPress and enjoying the day together Help others have a body system in place what I mean by a body system This is this is was this is why slack was so important for us because Some meet-ups were doing really great and some of them were struggling a little bit. So They started asking questions and they say, how do you do that in Torino? How do you do that in Roma or we want to put out a flyer, but we have no designers with us Do you have a design ready? So this really helped and also make help others in your local meet-up because if you always have these Speachers where there is a speaker and the audience people will not get involved So you have to pester people really like go there like a jackhammer and say Next time you're a speaker. No, no, I'm sure.  They are very very good like get all the polyglots together for one morning and Do that and everyone will feel and make everyone feel welcome and help everyone so Also help other people in other communities if you have a system to communicate between you help others if you see that a city is struggling a little bit help them out and lend a hand if You are struggling Ask for help Don't be bitter about the fact that nobody shows up to your meet-up Ask two other people to help you out and they will Make it inclusive. I'm I'm really This is something very very important for me. So I'm gonna read something from the Code of Conduct We are committed to providing a friendly safe and welcoming environment for all regardless of gender sexual orientation disability ethnicity religion preferred operating system programming language or text editor This is from the Code of Conduct all the work camps need to have one Meetups are not formally required to have one, but I strongly suggest you to go read it understand it embrace it It's there for your own good. It's there for our own good. It will help us make it better for everyone Encourage diversity in Torino. We have an amazing group. We have so many female Coming up to the group because of this because we are there again. We're showing. We're not telling we are going to the meet-up the meeting was not something for 20 something white male developers it's for everyone and less but not least Have fun. I mean don't be heavy about it. Don't be super stressed about having sponsors and having speakers just go there and have fun talk about your favorite topic to this WordPress Have some pizza you have a shepherd pie, or I don't know what you eat in this part of the world Just make it a social event Make it a social event You don't need a sponsor to do so. You just need a good attitude for potluck nights Do you do you know what potluck nights are? They're so fun You should have one and talk about WordPress and there you go. You have a meet-up So this is our story. I'm very proud and honored to be here in London telling about the Italians I hope you heard something that will be valuable and helpful to kickstart your community or revive it as it was in Our case and if you have any questions, I'm here for you. Thank you Thank you very much. It's a very good talk. We'll open up the floor now if there are any questions. Can you place your hand in the air? Hello, have you got any word camps planned in Italy for the coming year? Yes, we do so word camp Milano just applied and They are having the orientation talk this week. So word camp Milano is coming up I think it will be in October We have to coordinate with you Dutch people because we like you and we want to come to your camp and we hope You're coming back to our camps. So, yeah Word camp Rome is going to apply. I think in May and there are talks about Puglia, which we will be very good. And I don't know anyone who wants to have a word I think after the first one It will be much easier because we have the experience and we can also help all the other people that want to apply and Hopefully many people will apply to host the word camp in Italy. So, yeah, please join us We're really fun. Even though we don't speak English and we do this all the time Perhaps even work camp Europe 2000 There was a hand over here, I think was there any other any other questions over here Hey Fred, thanks for your talk. It was really great. I'm reliving everything. It's almost awesome Could you tell us you mentioned you're gonna help like other local organizers? You have a centralized kind of team for support for word camps or no, we're just obsessed about it So whenever somebody has something what we do we have the slack the Italian dub Italian WP community a slack and And Yeah, we comb through all the chats and as soon as we pick up people So even if you're not like local to the town that's planning and yeah, you you help the local. Yeah, organize that absolutely last week there was a lengthy discussion in WP Katania Okay, they they have been trying to start a meet-up for like one year I think at some point some of us will just flew there and do that because sometimes you also need that Sometimes you need that sometimes you really need the jackhammer that goes and say now we're gonna do this Let's stop talking about it. And does it continue after that?  Do you think no no we don't really go do but but we really encourage them to I mean I would go to Katania because the food is amazing. So yeah, probably good good go there if they don't pick it up soon I think I'll go there and start this problem But what we're doing with them for example One of the organizers in Torino Oleg I because I I watch what he's doing I've seen it like once in a week. He goes there and says so so what's going on, right? What are you doing with this and a few days after word camp? I saw they had a lengthy conversation where it was telling them like do that And if you need to help with this ask that one and if you not help with that look and at some point I think we We just sent them Google hangout invite and say okay. We're meeting for a hangout. I'm gonna tell you what to do Okay, great. That sounds amazing. Thanks Any more questions in the audience? Oh, yeah, sure Would you like someone to come over and set up Florence and set up? Oh Yeah, yeah, why not Florence doesn't have a meet-up Firenze Firenze doesn't have you're invited, but first you have to start in Kent Okay Thank you Who here has a local meet-up? So lots of hands who is gonna go set up and get involved in their local meet-up after yes, that's the spirit Okay Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you


Compass Guiding Safe Migration My name is Lee, Protection Officer for IOM as part of the Compass Initiative. Hi Lee, this is Mai from IOM, Egypt. I heard that the Compass team is working on case management guidelines. I'm not sure I understand what case management is exactly. Could you explain a bit more? Hi Mai, that's a good place to start. Case management is a way to support migrants who need protection or other assistance. It's an approach that has its roots in social work and helps make an individual's protection journey as smooth and positive as possible. The guidelines that we developed can be used for migrants of all genders and ages in countries of origin, transit and destination. That sounds fair, but why do we need more guidelines if there are already services and manuals available? Excellent question. Migrants have often been through a lot. And even where assistance services are available to them, it can be tricky for them to navigate the different structures in paperwork. This can scare people from starting their protection journey. The case management guidelines start from an individual migrant's needs and connect the dots between those different assistance structures and providers. The guidelines improve coordination between different structures and their activities by aligning their planning processes and follow-up of individual cases. This way, we can support migrants better, together. Okay, I see. So these guidelines are for case workers. How will we make sure that they know how to use them and it doesn't just stay a document? You're right. The case management guidelines are developed for case workers and others providing individual assistance to migrants. And for the guidelines to work, we need to make sure people in the field know how to use them. That's why IOM, with the Compass Initiative, has already started training case management workers in 14 countries worldwide. But that's not all. The case management guidelines can also be used by other international organizations, NGOs or governments. The way that they're built acknowledges differences in service delivery methods and capacity of different countries. They're flexible and can fit into existing structures. That's great. I hope that we can start using them soon. Where can I find more information if I need it? You can find a basic overview on our website www.iom.int forward slash compass. And if you're looking for more detailed information for you or your partners, send us an email at compass at iom.int. Thank you for watching and hope to see you soon.


Tom here from Lauren systems and let's dive into troubleshooting PF sense. And when I say troubleshooting PF sense, I mean connecting to PF sense or connecting through PF sense. These are tools I want to talk about that are built in the PF sense that allow you to diagnose whether you have a firewall rule problem, the ability to talk to something internally on the network, what connections are going through the system, or maybe some config changes need to roll back to get it back into a working state that you may have had it before. I'm kind of going to cover the whole gamut of things that you can do inside a PF sense to help the your troubleshooting journey. Now that being said, everything is time index right down below. So you can just jump to the part that may be most relevant to you. And some of these will have more expanded videos linked in the description below as well, such as the tracking of packet loss. 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If you're not interested in hiring us but you're looking for other ways you want to support this channel, there's affiliate links down below to get your deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel. And now back to our content. First place you want to start is what version of PF Sense am I running? This is the 2.6 release, but for some of these demos, they'll be jumping over to a PF Sense Plus version and it doesn't matter because these diagnostic logs are the same whether using PF Sense or PF Sense Plus, and they're going to be the same in the new version that's upcoming here in January 2023 of PF Sense. Well, we don't have an exact release date, but we suspect that soon it will be released, but that new version of PF Sense that is currently your release candidate still has the same diagnostic menu. So if you're watching this in the future after that release, that has not changed much. The interface looks much the same. Going over here, the first thing I want to talk about in diagnostics is going to be your backup and restore. The backup and restore is pretty simple. Download the configuration. That is a complete configuration including your packages.  Also, PF Sense keeps by default 30 revisions and that can be overridden right here for the number of backups that you'd like to keep. So if you'd like to keep more revisions, just go ahead and type a bigger number in there, hit save. Now, as far as these revisions, they are logged by which user did it, whether it was a change by the system. For example, PF Blocker automatically updates things. So it still adds an entry for that. That's something of note, because if you have something like PF Blocker making those changes, it may push out some of your older revisions. So it's still a good idea to keep regular backups that you have for the config history. But this config history is really helpful to be able to try and undo something you may have just done that suddenly something stopped working, you can try going back to that particular config and seeing if that's the solution. Also, if you're curious about what you changed during that config, whether you added a firewall rule firewall alias, you can go here and pick two different versions. So this is a modified configuration of the APC UPS CD. So we're going to do this and we're going to go ahead and hit diff. And we can see what changes were made and modified in the config. So it gives us an XML view of that really handy to do. But of course, sometimes that last thing you did was lock yourself out of the firewall. So how do we resolve that? You can go right over to the firewall console interface. And we're going to choose option 15. Now, this is where it can be a little bit confusing. We're going to press one to list backups. Usually if you lock yourself out, it's going to be one of the most recent one or two here, but the rest go off the page. If you press control shift and page up, you can jump backwards through all the different ones. So that's control shift page up in order to get to the other ones, because whenever you hit list, it just dumps them on the screen so fast that they scroll by and you may not know what they said. Once you know which one you want to revert to just press option two, choose the number, there's 30 of them in here choose one through 30, we could choose this and it will go through and restore the system. The system may or may not need to reboot depending on how big of a change that was. Also of note, if you change a firewall rule, you will have to do a rule reload really easy to do. Just go to status, filter reload, and you can just reload the rules. All you're doing is reloading the firewall rules and applying them because you reverted the config, but this will force it to apply any of that config that you did. Next is under status and system logs. I can't tell you how many times I see a forum post where someone tells me something wasn't working and they didn't post the logs. Always take the time to post the logs. Also go to settings. I prefer this. I don't know why this isn't the default, but forward reverse display show log entries in reverse order. I wish that was the default, but it is not. Check that box to just put some newest entries on top. This makes it easy when you're troubleshooting things like open VPN. I would like to have the latest on top so I can go through here and see if there's any particular errors that I need to address or look at when open VPN is not working. Also it's really easy to figure out things in open VPN by highlighting and right clicking and doing a search. This sometimes will solve all the basic problems because you're probably not the first person who have a misconfigured open VPN or some common error message that you may run into in any of these particular logs, whether it's an open VPN log, a package error or system or firewall error. When you're going to system, you also have general gateway routing errors, DNS resolvers, wireless kind of weird. Yes, you can do wireless on PF Sense. I have a video you can find on that topic, things with the GUI service. So this is like the login information that's in here. And I'll also make note that when you go to the settings and scroll all the way down to the bottom, you can push all of this to a logging server. And I do recommend that because well, it's better if you push it all to a log server that way you sometimes may see the last log before PF Sense decided to stop working, being pushed over there. Also, there's a limited amount of storage within PF Sense. So having your logging pushed off site really does help with diagnostics and troubleshooting. So you can look at things over time. I've done a whole video on gray log. It's a great logging server. If you'd like to put it inside of that. The next one I'm talking about is diagnostics and authentication. Whatever authentication servers you have configured in PF Sense, you can test how they work right here. You can put the user names and passwords in, test it against a radio server, you can test it against a local database. And it will give you the results, pass or fail, of whether or not that user has authenticate, or if that user authenticated and does work. And it gives you some other information, for example, with the local database that this is part of the admins group user all. These are really important tools because sometimes your authentication problem is bad user and password, but you're thinking you have a VPN problem that you have using this as a back end authentication. So you can test this right in here, which is really helpful. Now the next one here is doing a port test. This is something that will really help you if you're doing a port forward because you should make sure PF Sense can talk to it. And there's not something blocking it. Sometimes when people think they've done everything right in PF Sense in terms of port forwarding, they're not wrong. They just have a device that's denying access to it. So we're going to check this IP address here. We're going to check port 22. We'll leave it as source address any. And we can see port test was successful. Great. Let's show the remote text on there and hit test again. And when we do the test again with the remote text box checked, we see it responds with the SSH here. So we now know that this PF Sense can talk to this particular device. This is something that if you're troubleshooting port forwarding, see if this works because sometimes if the system doesn't respond to your PF Sense, that can be part of the problem with the port forwarding on there. Next, let's go ahead and test something like google.com and we're going to chest port 443. Now I'm choosing Google and then we can choose where we want this to come out of. Comcast or Wide Open West. I have two different connections on this particular system. So we can choose which one we route out it. So this is also another way to check the connection to see if it's a problem with one of the connections, connection A or connection B, whatever your different LAN or WAN connections are. So you can choose the source, which is also really helpful in doing some of that troubleshooting. And this is nice when you're doing it remotely for a client. Also of note when you're doing it remotely for a client, remoting into their PF Sense and going in and seeing what the PF Sense can see on the network via ports. It's also really helpful to see if something else is blocking. So a couple different options here that you have. Another really helpful tool is Diagnostics PF Top. This allows you to watch all the connections and where they're going and what they're connected to and the status of those connections. Now it supports a lot of modifiers. And for example, we've chose to just show the host 192.1683.225 and seeing anything that's talking to it, which of course is right now just this one computer, 172.161630. So let's go ahead and SSH into it for my computer. So we establish another connection. All right. And now we see 172.16169. My computer has made a port 22 connection SSH into that system. There's a lot of modifiers that you can add into this. Some of the other modifiers you can use are ones such as and and not. So if we say host 192.1683.225 and not port 443, we can now limit it to say, all right, only this SSH connection, or we can invert that and say not port 22. So we can see all the different 443 connections or any other connections we keep making to this particular system. So by filtering these back and forth, you can kind of drill down so you can watch the connections and where they're being established as they go across the different networks. We can also filter this by protocol. For example, we take that same host and we add PROTO ICMP and we'll drag a window over here and we're going to ping it. And as soon as we start pinging, then we can see the results in here going from my computer at 172.1669 to the 192.1683.225. Go ahead and stop the ping. Now you can also flip to this for things like protocol TCP. And there's other wild cards you can add, for example, we could change this to a full network by putting in net 192.1683.0 slash 24. And now we can see everything is going there. We can also filter further or drill down further by typing destination net dst net, and then the IP address range that we're looking for. You can also put SRC and this will let you choose the source network. Now nothing's coming back from that network over here at the moment. But we can actually fix that really quick. So now I have this device pinging one of the other devices on my network. And now we're seeing that traffic go across. The next really helpful tip is dealing with firewall rules and whether or not there's any active states using that rule. Sometimes you create a rule and that rule isn't matching and you'll see the states going somewhere else. But if we look here, we can see that this current firewall rule has states equals zero and state creations of zero. So we're going to go ahead and SSH to that particular server refresh the page. And now we see there is one state created for a connection going across just a really simple little thing that not everybody looks at. But when I'm looking at rules, this is where I go, well, that rule doesn't seem to match. We can prove that's not matching by establishing a connection that we think should be matching and then seeing if it shows up in that particular rule or if it goes to one of the other rules down here. For example, we see this rule has thousands of states because this is like the catch all rule. This particular network has no states on this rule and no states on any of the other rules. So there's only one state because I only created one SSH connection to this particular server that's catching this rule. Just an easy quick look for when you are matching rules. Now I've got an entire video dedicated to end top PNG. So I'm just going to touch on it really quickly. And we're going to look at what's going across, for example, just my wire guard tunnel right here and some of the connections. Matter of fact, let's go ahead and speed up the connection by doing an iPerf test across here. Then we're going to go ahead and look at the flows. Let's sort by actual thoroughput. There we go. Jump it all the way up to here.  I can also click to any one of these servers such as this one here. Look at the traffic apps and data that's going across and start drilling down mostly it's ICMP. It's kind of weird the iPerf test gets labeled as target data speed. But that is what it calls that in terms of application identification. You can also go back over here and we'll switch, for example, over to the NSFW LAN. It tells you this host isn't in that LAN, which is correct. It's not. We'll look at the interface here and we can look at the apps overview and kind of see where the data is going. And it'll also let us drill down into any one of these. For example, if we wanted to drill down into how much Facebook traffic is on here, these ones are the ones talking to Facebook. So it's <IP_ADDRESS>. Be able to go ahead and click on that and get more statistics on it. Like I said, I did an entire video dedicated to end top because there's so many different things you can do inside of here to track traffic and track history of it. Also, if you may have noticed that the host name is Pixel 4 XL, I happen to know that particular device is my wife's Pixel 4 XL. And she's undoubtedly on Facebook or doing something clearly that is pulling a lot of data and watching some videos or TikToks or whatever on there. Kind of get the idea here, but this lets you drill down and find those traffic flows. I have my video to end top link down below where I go more in depth on this and setting it up and configuring it. But it's a great plugin built in to PF Sense. Now let's talk about diagnostics packet capture. This is something that I don't use often, but when you have a troubleshooting task, this can be very, very helpful for doing this particular task. When you want to go grab something off one particular network, any particular family address, and you don't want to initially dump everything, but maybe you want to go check that one server again, this <IP_ADDRESS>. And we'll just say a normal packet capture, we're going to hit start. We'll start that capture ISSH into that particular server. So we'll hit stop. And we can see the data from my system going in and the data back and forth from it. We can download that capture, open it up inside a wire shark and look at the connection. Look at the TCP handshake and we can see ISSHed in. Here's all the packets that are going back and forth. This is really, really helpful when you're troubleshooting, especially phones. When you're trying to figure out what connections you're trying to make outside of the PF Sense, being able to throw the IP address of one particular device in there and capture it or a particular port packet length is really handy. Of note, when you're doing this, make sure your PF Sense has room to store this data. So you can have it do different log levels, normal, medium, high, full, but make sure you have enough data if you're storing it on there. I've done a video also on using SSH and WireGuard directly with PF Sense. That's something that's supported as well. So it's nice to be able to grab a few packet captures like this, but you can use via SSH, connect your WireGuard system right to this. So you can WireGuard right in and capture all the packets directly and do your own filtering on there so you don't have to use any storage on the PF Sense, but having this built in so you can download the captures and the standard pcap file also really handy. Now let's talk about status monitoring. This also has its own dedicated video because there's a lot you can do, use a lot, you can edit on this. And it's a great way to look over time at the packet loss or quality of service you've been having with any particular connection. We have a wide open West connection. We have a Comcast connection. My Comcast connection as of late has been very troublesome, as you can see by the regular packet loss on here. Now you can go here, click the wrench and we'll change it from instead of a day, let's go to one hour, update the graphs. And we can look at the packet loss by itself, delay averages by themselves, any one of these. This is already built into PF Sense, so it's nothing you have to install as a plugin and it starts tracking immediately. You just have to change these settings. For example, to left access quality, you can actually overlay this with other pieces of information if you're trying to correlate that. I break that down in my video on this topic. But it's just a really simple way to go look, all right, has this connection had some packet loss 6% here, or look at it over different times, like an eight hour, one year, well, we'll have a year's worth data, we can do a month on here. So we'll update the graphs to a month. But I like the breakdown to be an hour, we can change it to a bar graph, update it. And we can see it based on these different pivot points. So this is a great tool for tracking over time, things such as packet loss or quality problems you may be having with a connection. I think worth mentioning are routes. This is something where sometimes there can be a lot of confusion when you're setting up routes because this is how VPNs know where things go. And if you do not have when you have separate networks, for example, this 172 1669 network is at my office, not here at my studio. So it is routed over this particular gateway. And this gateway is called ton WG one because yes, it is a wire guard tunnel, not understanding where your routes are going are all those things that can really lead to a lot of confusion as to why the VPN isn't working. So we want to look at the 3.0 network. For example, let's go ahead and update that. And now we see this one also is routed over that. This is one of those simple things. But it's one of the first things I check when someone tells me either their IP sack or wire guard tunnels aren't working to get something over to the other side of a VPN. Just go in here to the diagnostic routes and take a look at it package IPERF is great. We have it either as a server or a client setting up as a server, you would simply go here to server and hit start and run IPERF. I've actually got IPERF running on my other PF sense, which is at 105555.1 across the VPN. What I want to do here is see what type of bandwidth I'm going to get if I send this data across. So let's go ahead and run the IPERF client. And here it gives me the results. Now the advantage of running IPERF right on PF sense means I don't have any other factors that I'm trying to sort out. So when you have PF sense connecting directly to IPERF on a machine, whether that be a Windows or Linux machine itself, or in this case over VPN talking to another PF sense, I'm eliminating any other factors that may slow down this connection or be more things to troubleshoot. So as you're troubleshooting each leg of the network, this is just really helpful to do kind of a raw speed test. I didn't think they needed to be covered in this video, but there's plenty of other little details you can look at on the diagnostics page, you can ping things kind of an obvious if you can ping something to see if it's online. There's different tools just to give you statuses of everything. I mean, those are nice because I'll look at them on the dashboard and see if the service is actually running. But for the most part, I don't go to those too often once we establish that the service is running. Most of the time when people contact us for consulting, it has a lot more to do with the troubleshooting related to why is this data going here, why doesn't this router or VPN, my VPN didn't start, etc. So hopefully these diagnostics help you on your journey to figuring out why something's not working. Leave your thoughts and comments down below as to you know, what more you'd like me to cover around this topic. But I think I covered the ones I primarily would use in any one of my troubleshooting scenarios. And of course, the more in depth videos on things like end top, which is just such a cool plugin is linked down below. And head over my forum for a more in depth discussion. Thank you. And thank you for making it all the way to the end of this video. If you've enjoyed the content, please give us a thumbs up. 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Welcome to American Issues Take One. I'm Tim Apachele, your host. Today's title is Trump's CNN interview, Samo Trump. You know, Trump had his interview town hall meeting, whatever we want to call it, last week, and it received a lot of criticism. And why is that? Well, a lot of people felt that Donald Trump was solely responsible for trying to undermine a democratic election and solely responsible for the January 6th insurrection against our Capitol. And people think that he failed that time, but he's running again, and he won't fail the second time. Therefore, why give him a microphone, a stage, and any platform to advance his career desires? You know, before the CNN town hall, CNN had a viewership of 589,000. After that, that town hall meeting, they dropped down to 335,000. CNN now sits at fourth place behind Newsmax at 335,000. Newsmax is 357,000, and Fox is at 1.44 million. With us today, we have my co-host, Jay Fidel, and our special esteemed guest, Chuck Crumpton. Good morning, gentlemen. Morning, Tim. Morning, Chuck. Tim, Jay. Jay, PU, is the criticism well-founded that CNN gave Donald Trump, only Donald Trump, by the way, he's not the only candidate running for 2024 for the GOP ticket, but they only gave Donald Trump the stage and the microphone. Is the criticism well-founded or not? Absolutely, totally well-founded.  And they should be criticized mightily for that.  No way you could justify that. And frankly, I'm done with CNN. I don't trust them anymore.  I'm afraid they don't have that. And if you looked at Anderson Cooper's defense of it a few days later, that was pretty lackluster also. So bottom line is this was terrible. It was terrible for the American people. It was terrible for the American people who are like cheap and buy into Trump's Michigan. But it was also a reflection of something awful that's going on in the country. It's about media that is driven by dollars and by the need to have eyeballs. Eyeballs equals money. That's what they were doing. And I will never forgive them for that because I believe that they probably converted people in favor of Trump, whether they intended it, which I believe they did or not. So the question for me, Tim, is larger than just this platform, this presentation, this extravaganza, this event on the media. It's what is going on here that the media should conduct itself this way. Any media, they should be roundly criticized. And the MSNBC is roundly criticizing them. Good for them. But there has to be some kind of reform on this. We're not getting a straight poop. How can we have a democracy with this? Good point. Let me go to Anderson Cooper and his kind of the defense of why CNN gave Donald Trump the stage. And if I remember the justice of it was we can't afford as Americans be it independent, GOP, not the mega GOP, but the GOP and Democrats cannot afford to put one's head in the sand and pretend like Donald Trump is not a force that could very well be the next president again. What about that criticism in lieu of what Anderson Cooper said to that statement? Very defensive. You know, the fact is they did it at a terrible effect and it reflected a terrible process. So, I mean, the whole notion of First Amendment, we have to reveal everything. We have to show this guy. You know, we have other problems in the country, especially in the Justice Department. But the fact is that he was impeached twice. We all know that he's been conducting criminal activities for his whole life. We ought to write him off. And yet our system allows him to run for office to become president. Our system allows him to have this platform with CNN and gone or votes along his base. He's a criminal man. How can we let a criminal up there as part of our political process into the power structure like that? So, I don't think too much of Anderson Cooper's defense. We should not let him on. You know, Tim, we should not be having this show. Chuck, we should not be talking about Trump. We swore off years ago and yet here we are again talking about Trump who defines the headlines, who defines the Republican Party, who defines politics in this country, who defines the image of the country to the world, who is crashing and burning everything around him. He is a monster, a destructor. He's really out of a bad novel. He's out of a bad reality show, as a matter of fact. So, I don't want to pay so much attention that I don't agree with Anderson Cooper. They shouldn't have done it, period. And he should not try to defend it. Of course, he was trying to defend it to protect CNN. And that's equally a lie. Okay. Thank you. Good points. Chuck, it said that the media, regardless of its CNN or Fox Entertainment or anyone of the ABCs, CBS or NBCs, they should report the news and not make it. Do you think this town hall meeting forum was CNN making the news? I think it was CNN going back to exactly what the media as a whole, including the so-called liberal media, did wrong between 2015 and 2020. They gave him control of the narrative.  Here's a guy who has no allegiance to truth, no allegiance to reliability of sources, no allegiance to any of the so-called journalistic or ethical standards that public communications are supposed to be subject to. And they give him the microphone without limitation.  So, I don't think, I agree with Jay. What do you think CNN learned as lessons when you dropped from 589,000 viewers down to 335,000 in a course of a week or so? Do you think they got the message or not? I think Confucius said quite wisely and more eloquently on Mandarin, but the vernacular translation is hard to see light when head in dark place. Okay. Heads in dark place. CNN is guilty of that. And so are a lot of the other ones. So why should we pick on CNN? I mean, what's, other than all the points that Jay raised, and they're all valid ones, is there a harm? Is there a harm in instances, making the news and Donald Trump into a reality star?  Okay, prediction time. Does CNN get another shot at it in the future all by himself? That's the whole point of that episode, is to ingratiate themselves. I mean, yeah, they get ratings for a night. They knew that would be temporary and pleading. But if he wins, they want to have an avenue to be able to be part of that narrative that he will control just as he did for the four years during his presidency and even before and even after that. Okay. Well, you know, had we not had the town hall meeting, we wouldn't have learned some of the things that Donald Trump revealed on that night. And some of the stuff was jaw-dropping. And quite frankly, my jaw did drop. And let's just go down the list of a few things here. But remember, he said that Mike Pence should have overturned the election of the Electoral College. He stated that. He wouldn't leave that topic. He said that the Secretary of State of Georgia owed him the 11,780 votes because by large, the election was stolen from him. And he's owed those votes to prevail. I mean, this wasn't 2021 or 2020. This was last week. We'll go down the other things. He's been saying this same stuff for years. There was, show me something new in what he said to CNN. Well, I mean, okay, so that's my point. I mean, we'll go down the list of, I mean, some of these horrible things he did and said, but isn't this good for the American public to see that Donald Trump hasn't changed to hear his words as a candidate for 2024 as the next president of the United States? Isn't some value to that and didn't CNN- No, no, there's no value to that. And that's why- No, and tell us why, Jay. What he's doing is reality show. He's trying to get your attention.  He wants to make outrageous comments. He keeps making outrageous comments. So on the one side, it looks like he's trying to vie for power and lying about it. On the other side, he's trying to get your attention. He's trying to be the headline every day and he's succeeding. This does remind me and remind all of us what happened in Germany in the 30s. By the time we hit 1933, there were no contenders other than Hitler. And he kept on doubling down even on outrageous lies. And so what he is doing, what Trump is doing, which is so much like Hitler, really, if you look at the book on it, is he's trying to say outrageous things. Yes, it's past the power, but it's also past the attention to being the exclusive voice, the exclusive narrative. And that's why it's not good for us. He doesn't really mean it anyway. I mean, a number of commentators that I watch anyway have made it clear that Trump is not into truth. He's into getting your attention. And I guess my point is you can't take him seriously. You can never ever take him seriously is always an agenda. And the agenda is not what it seems to be. So it's a quote, joke. Everything around him is a joke. Although it's a joke, isn't it beneficial for the independence of this nation, the GOP that are non-maga GOP, to see this joke that's on the stage? Isn't that beneficial for them to confirm that Trump is not going to be the one they vote for? Isn't there some benefit to that? Entertainment. My favorite part, I mean, there's a lot of favorite parts. My favorite part of that whole affair with CNN was where the interviewer got him to say that, what, during his time in office, he took one position. I guess it was about immigration. And now that he was not in office, he had changed his comment there on the stage with CNN to 180 different. And she said, how can you justify that? And he said, because I'm not in office. I'm not the president. I actually, I think that was on the dance. Here's the point. They laugh. It was a joke. They laugh, but they also loved him for it because he was entertaining and it was stand up comedy is what it was. But, you know, that's what I'm concerned about. The truth was irrelevant.  And they're laughing. You know, we have a problem that goes beyond Trump. The other half that problem or more is the people listen to him. I think you raise a good point that our news anchors are trying to be more like John Stewart. I remember distinctly Rachel Maddow trying to pull it off while she is interviewing John Stewart. And he said, you know, you're not doing the nation of service by trying to be a comedian. He goes, that's my job. I get to say these things in the way I say them. But you are not a comedian and you shouldn't try to be when you have your show on. And the look on her face of disappointment that her idol John Stewart kind of chastiser right then and there on during her show. But it's true, Chuck. Is that the issue that our media personnel are trying to be humorous and entertaining and forget the hard follow up questions and just let them off the hook? As long as we get some laughs and comedic value out of it. Last laughs and sponsors. Don't forget the money. Don't forget the money. What do you think, Chuck? Yeah, no, I think Jay's right on.  Show me one true investigative independent journalist out there now. There are people who are writing. Heather Cox Richardson is amazingly independent. Well read, well lettered historically based and nails it every single time. But she doesn't get any press attention, even though she speaks more truth in one daily blog than Trump has in his lifetime. But that's not what he does. Okay, so to quote Yogi Berra is a deja vu all over again that we're going to repeat the same media's travesty that we allow the circus to occur.  I know I'm asking you to answer the impossible because we don't know. But I guess the question is really does CNN and other news agencies, do they change their mantra of entertainment versus news and the quest for real news? And the truth. Yeah, they do change their mantra. The dynamic is they get worse. They get worse. Chuck, you agree with Jay on that? Yeah, the quote that's applicable here comes from Mark Twain. To argue with a fool is idiocy because they will simply drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. Okay. They continue to subject themselves to that. I honestly don't think Maxwell Anderson Cooper would have done any better than Caitlyn Collins did because they give him control of the narrative. Once you've given it away, you don't get it back from a narcissist. Narcissists don't change their behavior. Tim, I want to ask Chuck some questions. It's not to win a discussion. They're not debating. I want to ask Tim some questions.  You've been involved in interaction with people in contentions and controversies of your professional life. And I am sure that as you watch that, you thought for a second, I would have asked him a follow-up question. I would have disagreed with him. I would have shouted him down. I would not have given him the stage that way. Now, honestly, look in your heart. Look in your heart. And tell me, do you think you could have done that sitting across from Trump? Well, you've assumed, in fact, not an evidence, as we like to say, right? Which is one that I would watch Trump, which I don't, have not, for a number of years now. That one is unavoidable. If somebody puts him on a screen unexpectedly, he may be there for hopefully a short somebody. I can see Clockwork Orange. Clockwork Orange. They strapped Chuck in a chair, and they forced his eyes open and tie him down and make him watch Trump. Okay, let's assume that's the way it went. Well, the only question is whether the gag reflex or the vomit reflex is going to take over first. We're not getting any answer out of Chuck. What do you think we're getting, Jay? Let me ask another question. Well, no, I think any lawyer would look at that stuff and hear the colloquy and say, gee, I might have been able to do better. I'm not sure, but I would have asked him this and I would have asked him that, and I would not have been deflected the way he deflected Caitlyn. So, Query, Chuck, from what you know about this event, do you think you could have done better? And if so, how? Well, one of the things that I would have done is to set it up so that ChadGPT was doing an immediate instantaneous fact check and reportage on the closed caption portion of the screen below the screen as Trump spoke throughout the entire thing, so that we could see a dual narrative all the way through. Listen to that. Wow. Okay. Hey, Jay, before we came on with the show, before we came on the show to answer your question, Jay, I think any journalism 101 student could have done better as far as the ability to follow up on questions and not let Trump sweet talk his way out of it and go on to the next question. I think this is some pretty basic journalism stuff here. Remember I told you about the phenomenon in schoolyards all across Queens? It was called ranking. And part of ranking was interrupting the other guy, never letting him finish. And that's what happens in these Republican situations where you shout down the other person. And if Chuck was going to take a position like a first-year journalism student and ask important questions and have ChadGPT showing on the screen simultaneously for great fact-checking, Trump would have ranked him. He would have shouted him down. He would not have allowed the second question. He would have called him names. He would have kept his mouth and gear the whole time. And that's the problem in dealing with a pathological character like this. Great point. Excellent point. Hey, switching gears here a little bit in the microphone and you have the ability to turn it off. Well, I don't see CNN walking off the stage and saying, oh, if you're not going to answer the questions honestly, why conduct the interview or the town hall? But they could have, but I don't see that happening.  And there was discussion at that time, if you remember Tim, there was discussion about turning him off, about turning off his microphone. But nobody ever did, you know, first amendment, what have you. Didn't he walk off the stage on Leslie Stahl when she asked him some tough questions? Yep.  Well, that's what Caitlin should have done. I'm sorry, this interview is over. He's not answering my question. That was my point. I mean, would that have been appropriate? I think it should have been, but is that too much money loss from all the sponsors and didn't get to play all their commercials during the hour and a half segment? It would have been a high wire act. I mean, she could have been the world's hero and she could have crashed her career all in the same moment. So you don't know how that would work. You don't know how that would have unfolded. One thing is if she left him there, walked off the stage and the microphone was not turned off, he would have really had a good time. He would have criticized her up and down. He would have criticized CNN and the press and everything. He would have gone to town, literally. And so the answer goes back to what Chuck's suggestion was, turn it off. It's electronic. Just flip the switch. When he's not supposed to be speaking, you can't hear him. Okay. Well, we did hear him. And I want to go to those at least three points he said on the town hall meeting that I think is good to remind ourselves of. Number one is he pretty much strongly implied that he would go back to a zero tolerance policy at the southern border, which is to say to take away children from their parents, children from parents, those parents seeking illegal asylum. So he more or less confirmed that. He also basically said that he would allow the debt structure to be compromised. If the GOP did not get what they wanted, then go ahead. Don't agree to extend the debt ceiling. That was pretty jaw-dropping. And then last but not least, he took the opportunity to go after E.G. and Carol again. And that was pretty deplorable as well. Your thoughts on those three points? Who? J.U., sorry. Oh, well, I want to go off the reservation for a minute. I'm going to talk about the Zambizi River. For the first time? Okay. You know, these were outrageous statements. And yet the media, which is so powerful, gave him the opportunity, didn't cut him off, didn't even question him. That's one thing. Two is they loaded the room with people who applauded, but wouldn't were told not to boo. That's really interesting. And three, and this is the largest problem of all, the people out there taken seriously. They don't take it as a joke. So we have a structural problem. This is going off the Zambizi now. We have a structural problem in this country. Classified rappers, by the way. Yes, exactly. We have a guy who is accentuating and encouraging us to be immoral. And point after point was immoral and destructive. You know, you want to not lift the debt field? Okay.  What do you think about that, guys? Yay for Trump.  And people buy it. And that, you know, there was an article recently about how, so 40% of Americans, maybe it was a higher percentage, cannot name the three branches of government. It was an article recently where they don't have enough teachers in the schools and kids are not getting an education and nobody is encouraging them to get an education. And for generations now, but especially recently, we have kids coming out of school who don't know which end is up about the country, about government.  And so, you know, what I did out of this, it takes multiple hands to clap on this. When he makes those outrageous statements, talking about how he's going to destroy the world, he really does sound like Adolf. And he means it in terms of continuing, you know, the narrative that way. He will continue it. And if he's elected, you know, we have to find a way to get to Norway, maybe Sweden, maybe Finland. All right. I hope you're back on the shores from the Zambezi River. But is it May, Chuck? I'm going to throw out something else that Trump said. I want to like to get your reaction to it. And certainly the question was, do you want to see Ukraine win the war? And he could not and would not answer that question. Is that important to hear that, given the fact that most Americans do support Ukraine in this effort? No. I think I hope we've made it clear by this time that it is not a justification to allow Trump to repeat or even extend and expand on. I don't think we've heard that before though. I don't think we heard Trump out and out, basically refused to answer whether or not he wanted to see Ukraine prevail against Russia. I think that was a new, I think that was something new that we haven't seen. I mean, should we take note of that? And did CNN do some sort of, and I don't want to ask the question again, but some sort of service to let us hear answers we've never heard before? He still thinks Putin is a genius. So I don't think there's any question. Yeah, Putin helped him win the election in 2016. Absolutely. And we haven't really had enough that Bob Mueller did not do a good job. And, you know, as it is now surfacing, he was actively working with Putin to win that election. But here's the thing. You say he wouldn't commit to helping Ukraine. Well, it is so reminiscent of the time a reporter asked him before the 2020 election, will in fact, the 2016 and the 2020 election, will you accept the results? And he would not commit to accepting the results. We all should have, we all should have known then then. Yeah. Okay. Well, I think we've hit all the low points. I was going to say the high points, but there were no high points. We've hit all the low points of Trump's town hall meeting. So let's wrap it up and go to Jay to you for your final thoughts. At this time, I want to refer to two things that came up in the course of conversation. We do need to fact check on an instantaneous basis. Tuck's idea about using chat GBT is wonderful. That would be that would be just just lovely. And the other is turning off his mic. But we have to get the media straightened out on this because the media is driven by dollars. And is it any worse that CNN did this ridiculous presentation, this platform, this town meeting in New Hampshire, than what Fox has been doing? It's lying for dollars. It's giving Trump a platform for dollars. And this is very deep stuff. This is the heart of capitalism. And it is corrupting us. It reflects a huge corruption around the media and the news. And it's not limited to Fox. I wish I had time for more time. I'd ask you a question following up on that. But we're going to go to you, Chuck, and your final thoughts on the town hall meeting that Trump got. And probably, as you say and Jay say, he'll probably get another opportunity, but we'll see. Chuck, your final thoughts. Well, look, here's a guy who has never come within three million votes of winning the popular vote in any election ever. He's lost the last several election to give him control of the narrative for openly, blatantly destructive, irresponsible, anti-truth, anti-democratic, anti-humane purposes. It is to commit exactly those same acts by complicity. All right. I mean, I've heard that before that he can't get close to the popular vote. But what does it matter? As long as he can nail down the swing states of Ohio, Wisconsin, Arizona, in the Electoral College, isn't that all that matters? It will be. I mean, maybe that's why he's so outrageous because he knows the flavor of those swing states. And he doesn't care if he appeals to anyone else. He just has to nail down those swing states. Isn't that maybe the reason why he takes these extreme measures and positions? If the media role has any impact on those swing states, and if it is less than as an independent media, the risk of an adverse result again rises dramatically. So the more irresponsible the media is, the greater the risk that we'll have an irresponsible outcome. Great point. Irresponsible. Irresponsible. As Tim mentioned at the outset, irresponsible means something different now. In 2016, irresponsible meant that he could play some games and fool around and try to corrupt government. Now it means more like the end of the world. So this is really, really important. Yeah, we'll have to do another show on what dedicated to what monumental force it would take for the media to change its habitual habits of how they cover candidates, especially Donald Trump. So another show, another time. I'd like to thank my co-host Jay Fidel and our special esteemed guest, Chuck Crumpton, for joining us on American Issues Take One. I'm Tim Apachele, your host. Won't you join us next week? And until then, aloha.


Oscar Isaac stars in 2013's Inside Lewin Davis. Imagine my surprise and disappointment upon finding out this wasn't to porno. Let's begin. Inside Lewin Davis was requested by Patreon user Brian Davis. Not sure if there's a relation there or not, that's odd, that's oddly coincidental. Anyway, you can also recommend movies on Patreon if you become a Mithril member. It's quite the experience. You can suggest any movie you want, and I have to review it and give you a shout out. And once in a while, the movie's so artsy and boring, I just think, is it really worth it, Adam? Was it really worth it for that Mithril membership? So thank you, Brian Davis. Let's talk about the film briefly. Inside Lewin Davis is a Coen Brothers vehicle, so 50% of the audience is gonna hate it right out of the gates. They're typically a slower, plotting affair, focusing on character development, focusing on story, and being outside the norm. Be the little bit different than your traditional film for mass audiences. No, no, no, no, no, no, the Coen's like to let things sit. Let things simmer for a bit, and once in a while, I think they knock it out of the park. In the case of Inside Brian Davis, for some people maybe, not for this guy. Let me tell you why. Oscar Isaac plays the titular character here. Inside, that's not right. Lewin, Lewin Davis is who he plays. The inside isn't part of it. That's actually the title of the album he created because you see, he is a folk singer. He's a musician. He's an artist. And he's a struggling one. And that is an understatement. The guy doesn't have a home. Doesn't have a PO box. If you wanna reach him, you can find him sleeping on the couch. If he's lucky, sometimes he's on the floor next to the couch because someone else has already taken that spot. I watched this movie with my wife. She hated it. I, myself, had mixed feelings. I appreciated the narrative. I appreciated the Coens once again, bucking the trends, doing something a little different. The movie's not that subtle though when it comes to the message. In fact, the Coens go out of their way to focus in later on the film on a poster at the movie theater for an amazing journey. I think that's what it's called. Homeward Bound. Remember that movie that Disney gem about the three animals that go on an adventure? Thousands of miles from home only to find themselves back at the beginning. That's very much the structure of this film. We start the journey with Lewin as he's playing a beautiful song. I will point out the music in this. I'm not like a huge folk guy. I really liked all the different flavors of music that's easily the highlight for me. After the song in the Dank nightclub, he goes out to the alleyway, which is just as dank as the nightclub itself. He gets his clock cleaned by some stranger because apparently he was heckling his wife a night or two before. This will come full circle at the end.  Thousands of miles only to wind up where he started at. And where did he start? Well, at the bottom. There's no celebration in this movie. There's no real happy people in this movie. They're all kind of trash.  They're all miserable together. And Lewin's a very cynical individual, so it's hard to sympathize. It's hard to get on board with his struggles. I get that he doesn't wanna live his one life here doing the day-to-day grind. End up like his old man who's shitting himself isolated, alone from society, not remembered. Lewin Davis wants to be remembered as this amazing musician, bringing art to the world. The irony in all of this is the people in his life in his inner circle all know who his dad is. His dad actually did make a name for himself with his craft, whereas Lewin Davis is gonna end up, by the end of his life, mounting to nothing. This is the type of movie to me where I talk through it and then I find myself appreciating it a lot more than when I'm in the moment. It's not really a movie I enjoyed watching. It's not a movie I want to revisit, but I respect it. I can see why it was recommended and I can see the artistry on display. Visually, it's a good looking movie. It's not blowing me away, but it has some good contrast. It's got some good color. I like the blues, the somber tone throughout. We have obvious symbolism with a cat that's constantly in his life. He loses it. It gets injured later. It comes crawling back, much like Lewin himself. I mentioned the music. I wish there was even more of it because that's the stuff that really spoke to me and it would have made me connect to Lewin a little bit better because the dude's given multiple opportunities and he just pisses him away. And he's not very appreciative to the people in his life and there's not really any part of this guy that's very charismatic. In fact, the people that cross his path tell him, you gotta be a little bit more exciting. You have to draw us in and as it stands, you're just not worth it. You're not worth the investment. Justin Timberlake's worth the investment. Adam Driver's worth the investment. These are guys that are gonna crop up through this film and they're very welcome. I wish they stayed longer. That's the thing that really bothered me about the movie. I wish the good stuff stayed longer but instead we spent like 20 minutes or so on a boring road trip with John Goodman. Now I love John Goodman but this section of the movie was just a slog to get through. Carrie Mulligan has a small role in this too. She's from a promising young woman. That's a great movie. I think that's a lot better than this and that's kind of where I sit with the movie as a whole. Great performances, great visuals, great audio, story, just a little too slow for me doesn't really have a payoff at the end. It kind of just ends and I get that is the entire point the Coens are going for. There's nothing here. But then at the end of the day when I'm watching the movie, there's nothing here either. So it's a story, it's like Seinfeld. It's a show about nothing. It's a movie about nothing but at least Seinfeld's funny and entertaining whereas this movie, not so much. All right, those are my thoughts on Inside Lewin Davis, Brian Davis. I wanna thank you for recommending this film even though it probably didn't hit me the same way it hit you. I don't know how much you enjoyed it. Let me know in the comments and same with you, the viewer. I wanna hear what you thought of Inside Lewin Davis from like a decade ago. Leave a comment below. Like the video if you had a good time. Maybe join me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies. Even if you can't be a myth roll, there's a $1 tier. I think if you've gotten any enjoyment out of my show over the years, that's a nice place to start. 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So we know many things about light already. We know that it travels in straight lines near enough And so it's either stuff like particles or else. It's a very short wavelength wave We know that it travels very fast, but at finite speeds So it takes light about eight minutes to go from the Sun to the earth and just a small fraction of a second to go Around the earth or if you bounce up across the satellite and back then it takes an appreciable fraction of a second And you can notice it in a phone call Light travels in a vacuum it does in fact go from the Sun to the earth and there's no stuff there for it to be Oscillating in so it's not a mechanical wave. It's something else So it's either some special kind of wave that can actually travel in a vacuum or else It's actual stuff that's being emitted by the Sun But our everyday experience of light doesn't depend so much on the details of what it is It depends on more mundane things like how our eyes work or how light interacts with things how it reflects from things And how it's absorbed so our eyes are fairly amazing devices that convert light into electrical signals that our brains can interpret They can do that differently for different kinds of light We have some parts of our eyes that just tell us about the intensity of the light and Some parts of our eyes measure the intensity of particular colors of light So loosely speaking eyes have three kinds of color receptors They have those that measure things that are kind of red They have those that measure things that are kind of green and those that measure things that are kind of blue And if you have an equal measure of these things Then you can use those to figure out what colors are of any particular thing you're looking at by seeing the different ways In which these different receptors are being affected by the light And we also have some receptors that are just measure the total intensity of the light of all the light And those are more sensitive and so though they can't tell color they are good for things like night vision And that's why you don't see color as well when it's very dark So the detectors that are very sensitive to light but can't discriminate between different colors are called rods because that's what they look like That's their shape and the ones that are very good at detecting different kinds of color are called cones for the same reason They have the shape of a cone So some people have extra kinds of cones in their eyes And they're particularly good at detecting different color changes particularly subtle ones And some people have less kinds of cones in their eyes and they have various forms of color blindness So they can tell that there's light there, but they can't tell exactly which color it is Now what is this intensity that eyes are measuring? Well, you might be able to guess from the units So intensity is measured in terms of watts per square meter. And so it's a certain amount of power Per square meter. So if I imagine I have a light source Maybe it's a star or a candle and it's giving out a certain amount of energy per second and one joule per second is a watt But that energy is going out in all directions So if you've got a star sitting in space the light that it's sending out goes out pretty much equally in all directions And so the earth doesn't receive all the power that the Sun's putting out In fact, it only receives a small fraction of it If we have the Sun here and then we have the earth going around it not to scale Then the Sun is putting our energy in absolutely all directions And so what fraction of that total power output of the Sun does the earth in fact get? We can work it out by thinking of all of that energy being spread out in a sphere So if you have a sphere around the Sun and the radius of the earth then any piece of that that's sort of the earth size Will get exactly the same amount of energy as the earth And so we've got that same amount of energy per second that same amount of power going out in all directions And if we want to figure out how much the earth gets we have to work out how much of that power is going out per square meter And we can see that that is going to go down the further away We get because it's going to be spread out over a lot more square meters Remember the surface of a sphere goes as the radius squared So the surface area is going as the square of the radius And what that means is that the amount of power per square meter is going down as the inverse square of the radius So the intensity is defined as the power per unit area And it tends to go down as the inverse square of the distance between the source and the receiver One of the really impressive things about eyes is that they work very well with a very large dynamic range What that means is that they work very well with very high light intensity We can work in very bright areas and still see reasonably well And we can also work in very dark areas and see surprisingly well