to my sound it's just not the high quality of the ideas it's not just you know the intellectual discourse it's not just you know storming the heights of intellectual achievement people want to feel something people want to you know become alive feel like everything feel like they're coming from the inside and so if people can't get that assured you're at synagogue but they're not thriving in their profession or their education all right people keep searching and so they might go to live streams they might go to stamp clubs they might join a dance class and they may take up writing or extreme sports people need to feel alive people need to feel something and sometimes the regular avenues for feeling something just aren't working and so that's what leads to large part extreme politics why do people join and Tifa or America first like why do people get into talk radio or their favorite tv pundit because these people make them feel something and so uh live streams of punditry and talk radio and your favorite you know tv hosts are good if they are a supplement to your life they are a negative force if they are a substitute for real world human connection you know our primary source of meaning and excitement should come from our children and from our family but i'm not married i don't have kids so i have to look elsewhere and so i do live streams if live streams are a substitute for real world interaction then that's obviously negative if talk radio or punditry or politics is a supplement to your real world connections then that's very possibly a good thing all right here's mother jones back in march on autumn nick for instance it came from the basement well written by ali breland okay so very derogatory headline right hey people feel alive and it came from the basement so we have all sorts of emotions and needs that come from the the basement that doesn't make them less real and less valuable all right you may have primordial needs for love and to be loved for connection to hold and to be held all right to to you know build something with with somebody to you know storm the the spiritual heights of the heavens with somebody else you may you know be looking for someone to grow spiritually or grow jewishly with you want to connect with someone jewishly or goishly right we all want to feel alive even if the emotions come from the basement right that that doesn't make them bad eight months before the white nationalist figure in nicholas j. fuentes ignited a political firestorm by dining with kanye west and donald trump at mark okay so this is an article right this is an article that seeks to dismiss dismiss and diminish it's uh it's not primarily about understanding so i'm going to take this article as a start to try to journey towards understanding rather than just you know the easy dismissal so this article aims at the easy dismissal our lago he strode out on stage to a crowd of what he claimed were 1000 followers chanting america first behind a podium flanked by two america so why do we exaggerate the the number of followers or the our accomplishments all right because we want to feel something we don't want to be losers lapania says i want elliott latin forward me to hold me but from a long distance we will spiritually be there for you bro we're not a we're not afraid of human connection here on this show in flags and one with that slogan he hit his standard beats the nation is in decline christ is king while sprinkling in some extremely troubling riffs like comparing latin your putin to hitler and suggesting the similarity was a good thing this myriad con okay so everybody needs to be understood in their genre right denis prager is the genre of no bible based morality applied to the events of the day uh bench appearance of the genre he'll say the most conservative talking points possible even if he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about uh nick fuentes has kind of a gamut mentality all right he's here to help you feel something help the zoom it feel something and so as a host or as a media entity you can choose you you want the widest possible audience even if it's a bunch of losers so um denis prager and uh ben Shapiro and you know other nationally syndicated pundits they talk you know to an average audience with at most an average IQ of 105 so you want to raise the average IQ level of your audience to like 120 such as this show you're going to dramatically cut down on your possible audience so would you rather speak to a very wide audience of idiots who have very shallow understanding of reality but you want to speak to an elite audience of you know thoughtful people and so nick fuentes speaks to zoomers and gamers and uh i don't think there are a lot of doctors college professors dentists lawyers attorneys uh therapists accountants listening to nick fuentes but for people who smoke a lot of dope and play a lot of video games who makes them feel alive he's meeting a real need that apparently churches and other more conventional organizations have failed to meet conference center worth of groipers which fuentes his fans call themselves in homage to a right wing internet frog meme had gathered in orlando for the third annual america first political action conference he was serving as the warm-up act for a secret guest of honor representative marjorie taylor green representative georgia she didn't say anything too noteworthy but her willingness to appear at an event hosted by an openly racist holocaust denier was a massive victory for his cause in becoming a member of congress screen had helped bring institutional credibility to fringe and racist conspiracy theories now she was doing the same for his brand of white nationalism it was a big deal for her to come out in okay where's my sound my my sound is back all right so this article is very much on the you know cheap put down so nick fuentes has many things but holocaust denier is not really one of his major riffs he's virtually never talks about it he once you know made some joke about six million cookies all right and to extrapolate from that and i'm sure he's you know here and there he said you know some crazy things but he's working in a particular genre of shock and or all right so people are working in a shock and or a genre all right they're going to say outlandish things but i don't think either white nationalist or holocaust denier the the proper descriptors of nick fuentes he's a shock and or you know vlogger talk show host personality who helps people feel you know something feel intense feel alive feel like they have a mission i remember when i was listening to denis prager and i was really sick it moved me that denis said to me you know you're needed in the fight for good values you need to get well soon all right who doesn't want to participate in the fight for good values right everybody wants to ride a white horse and let's say that in the real world you're just constantly meeting failure you're gonna look and look and look for areas where you can shine and so that might be in painting or in extreme sports or in extreme politics right we all have a need to shine to feel important do that fuentes said praising green after her keynote you guys know full well the risk she put herself out on a limb tonight and we here at afpack are grateful at afpack i famously said it would be a small group of highly motivated people who would change the world he added here in orlando i say we are that group of people we are going to rule this country the events evolution suggests he's made progress toward that goal the first one the idea that america first and nick fuentes again at rule the country is of course absurd but believing absurd things gives you you know meaning and purpose and passion now you can believe absurd things and still be highly effective in the world but you know frequently people who get into extreme politics or extreme causes all right believing things completely disconnected from reality generally speaking makes you less effective and in the long run that less happy and less likely to pass on your genes in february 2020 had no politicians instead featuring far-right commentator michelle malkin and patrick casey a long-time member and leader of the neo-nazi group identity europa by 2022 six republican elected officials spoke including green and representative paul gosar representative arizona okay so it sounds like american politics becoming more polarized more extreme but the circumstances and the situation has changed so what was taken for granted in america in the 1950s all right that outlook is now known as this extremist ideology of christian nationalism but many of the the tenets of christian nationalism would have been considered you know perfectly normal and people didn't get excited about them didn't even use the terminology christian nationalism but when the situation changes when when the tide starts you know rolling out so the christians have less and less influence in the world then they're going to have to reach for more and more extreme measures to try to stay relevant to try to stay alive and try to stay feeling important they appeared alongside explicit white power activists including vincent james a supremacist influencer who used his speaking i mean are there any you know supremacists uh you know outside of the quote-unquote white nationalist realm doesn't every group think it's supreme i mean come on every group thinks it's the very center of the universe and that the world revolves around it uh japan right the land of the rising sun japan believes that the sun rises first on japan and then goes to the rest of the world china means center of the earth and every group thinks that they're supreme it's not just some you know unique weirdness of uh people on the far right in slot to argue that crime wouldn't go down until even more black americans were in prison peter brimelow who found it well i think what he is a more intelligent way of arguing that is crime is not going to go down until the people who commit the most crime are in prison right and so they're right now there's a disproportionate number of certain types of young black men who commit astronomical rates of crime but in other areas of criminology like other groups commit astronomical rates of crime so you have to punish the people who are causing the most harm the most disruption to society and right now in america that means a lot of a certain type of young black men it's not young black women it's not middle-aged black men it's not old black men right it's not old asian ladies there's a certain element of young black men who are committing an astronomical amount of crime if you take the people who are committing an astronomical amount of crime and you put them away in prison for a long time you can then dramatically reduce crime rates with the white supremacist website vidare and jared okay peter brimelow from vidare vidare is an anti-immigration website right virginia dare was not the first white child born in the united states she was the first british child born in the united states so vidare wants to keep the anglo-saxon tradition strong in america so it has you know black people and asians and latinos writing for the site it's primarily an anti-immigration website taylor founder of american renaissance a racist journal i mean you can call american renaissance many things but just racist journal it's just such an easy put down right you can always call anyone racist but when terms like that are just used you know over and over again they lose all meaning right this is not an article that wants to understand and so what happens when people are deliberately put down robbed of their humanity dehumanized degraded objectified you know pointed out these are the bad people these are the horrible people these are the evil people and that's the only kind of treatment that they get from polite society well you know whether they're muslims or black nationalist or white nationalist whatever group they are that is consistently you know put in the other and in the dangerous and the awful out you know outgroup category eventually people get a revolt right on the other hand right treat people like human beings you know try to understand where people are coming from and give people a fair go and you're less likely to have a polarized situation the logistics of the Orlando conference like the previous ones we're also designed to accelerate the gop's slide toward white nationalism it was just a 15 minute drive from where the conservative political action conference again just absurd to think that the GAP is on some inexorable slide towards white nationalism now it would probably be an adaptive strategy for both parties both of the major parties in the united states ago where the votes are and so there's the highest potential republican voters out there who aren't actually voting republican right now among white americans and the democrats get overwhelmingly their untapped voters from americans of color so go where the votes are seems like a pretty sound strategy for the republican or democrat which for decades has drawn the party's biggest names and thousands of attendees was taking place the same day AFPAC started at 9 p.m after CPAC wrapped so participants could attend both in the latter half of the 20th century the GOP was pushed right by radio provocateurs like Rush Limbaugh and Fuente okay Rush Limbaugh and radio provocateurs did not push the GOP right as we saw with the fox dominion lawsuit right fox is scared to death of losing his audience Rush Limbaugh was scared to death of losing his audience he paid great attention to giving his audience what it was like name the brave people in punditry particularly right wing punditry who don't give the audience what it wants from Dennis Prager to Mark Levin to Sean Hannity they're all you know highly intent Tucker Carlson they're all highly intent are giving the audience what it wants they're not leading their following right the GOP was not driven right by talk radio right talk radio went right to the extent that it went right because that's where the audience is and almost every host who's successful right they tune in to what their audience wants and repeats the talking points that make audiences feel alive and happy and joyful and confident and supreme this is hero Pat Buchanan people who never held elected office but were deeply influential to a radicalizing party and a portent of its trumpified future today this 24 year old digital native is doing the same and on the right you can see all these articles about how the the democrats have radicalized and you know gone further left and become communist so it's very easy to just put down the other side in these dismissive terms but not particularly adaptive or sophisticated my job for went as explained in a may 2021 live stream is to keep pushing things further Nick Fuentes pushes things further to the extent that that brings in money power fame and you know the sense that he's important right why do people do things after they meet their basic needs for food and shorter right people want to feel something people want to feel alive people want to feel significant people want to feel important people want to feel like they're living from the inside people don't want to feel like they're on the margins and they'll just keep casting about until they find something that makes them feel important that they are fighting to take back civilization that they're fighting for good values that they're fighting to take back america that they're fighting for their tribe or they're fighting for their race or So they're fighting for their religion or they're fighting for their ideology, right? If you don't have family that you care about, right? You have an all likelihood of desperate need for meaning in your life. And when you have a desperate need for meaning, you are gonna be wide open to all sorts of scams, right? You're gonna be wide open to all sorts of gurus. And there are all these belief systems out there that are just highly seductive, right? There are bubbles of belief that while seductively easy to enter can then be almost impossible to think your way out of again. But if you have strong ties to your family and your friends in your community or to your profession, to your education and to your interests, right? You're gonna be much less vulnerable to the allure of gurus and causes, right? You should just find your meaning in your friends and family. But if you're not capable of finding, if you're not finding your meaning in your friends and family, then you're gonna look elsewhere and you're probably gonna make a really bad decision because the drive for meaning really sends people squirrely off into all sorts of generally maladaptive directions. And I know, I'm speaking from experience when I got really sick in my 20s, I felt fairly isolated in the world, like all my dreams had fallen apart. And so to keep myself going, I needed meaning. I needed to believe that I was desperately needed in the fight for good values. Then over the past, I don't know, seven years as I started to build more substantial community in real life, started to make more money in real life, started to build my friendships in real life, build a life that I could be more and more proud of and feel good about, have more and more self-respect than my intense need for meaning consistently diminished so that I could stand up here and go against what everybody in the chat would be saying. So initially when I started live streaming 2016, 2017 into 2018 is incredibly alluring to develop an audience that'd be in the dozens to the hundreds to even over a thousand. And I would consciously feel that tremendous tug to give the audience what it wanted, meaning reward the more extreme elements of the audience. Cause even moderately inclined people often get a charge out of more extreme positions. So someone moderately on the right will often enjoy it, get a charge, get a thrill, feel alive. And they hear presentations of ideas considerably to their right. And so I'd feel that tug to be captured by the audience. And then luckily I read a book on virtually you, the dangerous powers of the e-personality and it really kind of spelled out the dangers of going online where you feel much less constrained than you do in face-to-face interactions. So you tend to exaggerate your own importance. You tend to go into dark areas that you wouldn't normally talk about face-to-face. You tend to say things without much preparation. You tend to remove the filter that you normally employ in day-to-day life. And then you develop shock and awe habits which tend to rebound badly to not just online but they then shift how you react to people in the real world. And you start using some of the tracking language which you begin to enjoy online and it deteriorates your real-world relationships. We, because nobody else will, need to push the envelope. We're going to get called racist, sexist, anti-semitic, bigoted, whatever. When the party is where we are two years later, we're not going to get the credit for the ideas that become popular. But that's okay. We are the right-wing flank of the Republican Party. I saw how Fuentes makes his pitch on a chilly damp day in November, 2021 when he hosted a rally in front of Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City's mayor. A throng of about 100 intently watched as Fuentes waved a crucifix and railed against local COVID restrictions. One of Fuentes is... And looking at the comments on this channel, Pigger says you're needed to fight for good values to build the third temple. So the third temple is the drive to rebuild the temple of Torah Law where there are sacrifices to God and the last temple was destroyed by the Romans in year 70 of the Common Era. So if you belong to a community, it's going to have a hero system. We almost always get our hero system from our community. Most of us are not such amazing artists and scientists that we can get our hero system from our own accomplishments. Rather, we feel heroic because we conform to the value system of our community. So I joined Orthodox Judaism and much of my feeling of heroism is when I fulfill the commandments, the midst vote of the Torah of Orthodox Judaism, follow in the pathways of my adopted people, help out in my modest ways and learn Torah and follow in the hero system of the community. And by doing so, I then feel connected to something eternal. And so this is a large part of where people get sustenance in life, right? Not just from family, not just from friends, but also from your community's hero system.   His talents is pivoting from any topic to his central beliefs. It's not even just about the pandemic, he exhorted. Take a look at this city for the past year. Ever since George Floyd died, just like every city in America, the crime is out of control. Anger over public health measures provided a way to launder more extreme and racist positions and to tap into his audience's fears of being left behind. Okay, I don't think Nick Fuentes or people like him needed the pandemic to launder their more extreme opinions. They developed a particular perspective on life and they were part of a populist revolt against rule by experts. And it's not crazy to want to revolt against rule by experts. And so I'm not completely on the side of the populist, I'm not completely on the side of the experts, but I don't think this revolt against rule by experts is just if so fact a stupid, crazy, racist, wrong, bad. In certain circumstances, it's adaptive.  But if it's ill-judged, then it can become maladaptive and make you less effective and less happy in the world.  The crowd, mostly white, male, and under 30, cheered. A handful waved flags and others in the... Okay, so being white, male, under 30 is a bad thing, right?  I mean, this article is just reaching for every cheap put down possible. The organization's riff on red MAGA hats wore blue caps reading America First. The slogan, popularized by Woodrow Wilson, was adopted by Buchanan and then by Trump and Fuentes. Well, who should Americans put first? It's often said that Americans really care about Israel. Well, Americans don't really care about Israel. Americans primarily care about Americans. And so it's kind of weird if Americans put anything else ahead of America. American Christianity is distinct. It's a whole different culture from, say, European Christianity or African Christianity or Japanese Christianity. So I would expect Australians to put Australia first. I'd expect Israelis to put Israel first. I'd expect Egyptians to put Egypt first. Like putting your own people, your own nation state first, by putting your own tribe first. All right, that seems to me pretty adaptive. Seems to me fairly commonsensical. It seems to be a normal, healthy way to live. Our quality of life is being destroyed. They want us to live in smaller houses. They want us to eat less food, take up less space, have less healthcare, have... Okay, so you can make this kind of populist anti-elite case appealing to people with a 100 IQ, all right? And that's what Nicholas Fuentes does. Now, there's a more sophisticated version of the populist case for the 120, 130 IQ crowd, but that's not where Dennis Prager or Ben Shapiro or Sean Hannity hang out. I mean, Tucker Carlson has done it on occasion, but also accompanied it with a lot of nonsense and idiocy.  I'm not eating any bugs. So anytime you have any kind of identity, whether it's Jewish, American, Mexican, white, black, brown, Latino, Italian, French, English, right? What accompanies every strong form of in-group identity is a sense of victimhood. And if you're a strongly identifying Scotsman, you have a sense of victimhood probably against England, perhaps against the EU. If you're a strongly identifying Irishman, you have a strong sense of victimhood vis-a-vis England. If you're a strongly identifying Frenchman, you have a strong sense of victimhood vis-a-vis the Germans and probably the English as well. If you're a strongly identifying Japanese, you have a strong sense of victimhood against, I don't know, neighboring countries, against the Anglos.  You can come up with a story. It's all an intrinsic part of a strong in-group identity is being angry at the victimhood of your people.   But if you're walking around in a relatively safe multicultural society like the United States or Western Europe, walking around with a sense of in-group victimhood at a five or above is probably maladaptive. You'll be less effective at get along with people. You'll be less popular at work. People will kind of shy away from you.  So all sorts of things are wonderful at a 2 out of 10 in intensity and then become maladaptive with a 5 out of 10 intensity. From Father Coughlin to Donald Trump, demagogues have long commingled racist and anti-Semitic appeals with fear. OK, so demagogues, again, they're telling people what they want to hear, right? Demagogues aren't changing minds. Hitler, Father Coughlin, Donald Trump, didn't change many minds. They released in some people things that were previously latent. But overwhelmingly, people whose outlook on life aligned with that of Hitler or of Trump, right, they supported Hitler or Trump. And then people who are opposed to those perspectives, they didn't change their minds under the influence of brilliant propagandists like Steve Bannon or Joseph Goebbels. So demagogues, pundits, talk radio stars, gurus, they meet a need that people have to feel important, to feel a sense of community, to feel alive, to feel something. People want to be passionate. People don't want to feel left out and on the margins. And people who are feeling left out on the margins, they are just waiting to be activated by some speaker, someone who can come along and give them meaning and purpose. Years of economic decline. Fuentes' power comes from layering on a generational critique that taps into young people's apprehension that their prospect. Fuentes' power comes from making people feel amazing. When Dennis Prager says the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen, he's been to reduce audiences to tears. Now, the thought doesn't hold up to analysis. But when a skilled speaker like Dennis Prager is going at it, he says all sorts of things that just make like-minded people feel amazing. And so to Ben Shapiro or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or Barack Obama, all right? Barack Obama's speeches, when you read them, they were just like nothing.  So the skillful orator that sets off these emotional explosions in you, how does he do that? He gets on the same page with you.  He articulates what you're feeling, he articulates what's frustrating you.  And then he shifts you and guides you and stays on the same page, creating a new shared reality with you. And out of this interaction, you feel energized. People who listen to Dennis Prager get energized, right? His regular listeners, his fans get energized. People who listen to Barack Obama get energized. People who listen to Donald Trump are on the same page. They get energized, they feel something, they feel alive, they feel connected, they feel like they're living from the inside. And so the skilled, smooth talkers, they release these emotional bombs inside of their audience. And it's like, oh, wow, yeah, this is how I've always felt, but nobody's ever articulated it so well. Now, a lot of these emotional bombs turn out to be fatuous, they turn out to just be nothing, they turn out to be pseudo-profound BS, and that's how gurus work, right? On the more extreme end, and yeah, people like Jim Jones, who have followers who follow him to Guyana and commit mass suicide, you have this evangelical Christian pastor in Kenya who got hundreds of people to starve themselves to meet Jesus. That's just an extreme manifestation of people's desire to feel something, to feel alive, feel like they're living from the inside, that they have a community, they have an in-group, they have excitement and meaning and purpose, and that pastor in Kenya or Jim Jones was able to say things that just set off intense emotional reactions with people. But it all begins with getting on the same page, it all begins with feeling a sense of empathy. When I listened to Dennis Prager, when I talked 101 with Dennis Prager or when I attended lecture with Dennis Prager, I felt very connected, I felt like we were sharing the same reality and then we were creating a new reality together and it was very exciting and it would fill me with energy, it filled the crowd with energy. Now, this shared reality was largely pseudo-profound BS, but it's very exciting as long as you don't think too deeply. Okay, that's not why Nick Fuentes has an audience, he has an audience because he helps people feel something, he helps people feel alive, people feel agreed, gives them a sense of in-group identity. He sets off, you know, emotional explosions in people, he creates an intensity of connection with people. He relates to people where they're at and he's like, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, and then articulates what's bothering them, what seems to be holding them down and so he's providing this emotional service. Yeah, it's largely pseudo-profound BS, but it's not because of the economy primarily, right? It's not because of these external economic indicators, it's because people need to feel alive, people need to feel excited, people need to feel connected, MASH joined part of something bigger than themselves, that they're marching with other people to create a better world or to protect their tribe or their country or their religion. And that's what Nick Fuentes is so good at doing for a largely 100 IQ audience. Investors have all led Gen Z to question capitalism. The ranks of democratic socialists... Okay, it's not questioning capitalism that drives the Nick Fuentes movement, right? What drives it is emotion, right? He's able to say things and to make jokes and portray a certain attitude to elites and to the world around us that provides people amusement and a sense of purpose and a sense of importance and a sense that they're on the winning side, right? If you don't have several friends at your church or synagogue, you're gonna hang out there along. If your political orientation doesn't come with friends in a sense that you're on the winning team, that you got something cool, you're probably not gonna hang out very intensely in that type of politics, right?  They wanna look cool to certain people. They wanna connect with certain people. They wanna be bonded with certain people. They wanna be part of a certain social clique and then they choose their politics and often their religion around their desire for social connection. Have grown as a result, but not every young person is drawn to the left. Fuentes is one of a few figures on the right who directly speak to new generations anxious about the decline of the middle class and wondering what to do about it. By combining class and economic precarity with white nationalism, Fuentes makes racism even more persuasive to a certain kind of person. This brew has helped fuel his meteoric rise from fringe YouTube star to Mar-a-Lago guest, becoming heir apparent to the American white nationalist throne. Fuentes is known for his charisma, unlike some of his right wing internet peers. Okay, so one great definition of charisma is that you pull off the impossible. And when you seem to pull off the impossible, like Nick Fuentes has apparently assembled a huge following that then gives you more resources to more successfully pull off more seemingly impossible ventures going forward. And that is the direction of charisma until ultimately you fail.  And he was taking over much of the Soviet Union. He kept pulling off the impossible until it stopped working and that's when his charisma ran into a brick wall. Here's like Ben Shapiro and Tim Poole who speak in monotones and try their hardest to present as intellectuals. Fuentes prefers to grandstand while- Okay, so the idea that Tim Poole or Ben Shapiro intellectuals is just pure delusion. But a lot of people really honestly believe that. A lot of people think that when they're listening to Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro, that they're listening to like premier intellectuals, right? But it's always people who are relatively ignorant in the area who think of Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager or some other right-wing pundit as an intellectual, right? The more learned someone is in a particular area, the less likely they are to fall for some pseudo-profound guru like Ben Shapiro or Dennis Prager or Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, Tim Poole. A working to provoke and engage. Another major component of Fuentes' appeal is that he provides logically consistent, albeit atrocious answers to the contradictions of modern conservatism. Again, this is nonsense. All right, Nick Fuentes' appeal isn't based on providing logical, consistent answers to the problems of modern conservatism. His appeal is that he makes people laugh, makes people feel something, makes people feel amused, makes people feel aggrieved. He makes people feel like they're gonna win. He makes people feel like they're part of an in-group, right? He makes people feel things. That's the appeal of the Nick Fuentes or Dennis Prager or Ben Shapiro or Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson, right? Their appeal is based on making people feel things. It's not based primarily upon ideology. His arguments have a way of ripping open muddled beliefs advanced by mainstream conservatives. Take their grievance against woke capitalism, which really means businesses responding to consumer expectations in a manner that bolsters the bottom line, a complaint that flies in the face of the free market worship that is core to mainstream figures on the right. Fuentes circumvents this contradiction by just never defending capitalism. Unlike many elected Republicans, he does not argue against diversity while claiming he isn't racist. He openly argues diversity is bad because of his belief in the inferiority of non-white races. The list goes on. No, that's not what drives Nick Fuentes.  He, you know, likes his in-group that has absolutely nothing to do whether members of our groups are superior or inferior, right? You can love your in-group and prefer the company of your in-group even if you recognize that our groups in different areas are far superior to whatever your in-group can do. Like you love your mother and father, right? Even if there are other, you know, better-looking mothers or, you know, more productive, more efficient, more effective, more affluent, more successful people than your father, right? That's not going to, you know, affect whether or not you love your parents. So too, people love their people whether or not their people has the highest IQ or the highest, you know, per capita earning or, you know, has the highest number of technology patents, right? It's all about who you love, man. Who you love, right? People love their people, love their families, you know, without regard to whether or not outsiders are, you know, greater, more effective, superior in different ways. If there is a right-wing belief that involves obfuscating and unsavory motivation, Fuentes is open about it. He speaks to the people who don't mind saying everything out loud. Yeah, a lot of people are tired of political correctness. A lot of people are tired of corporate rules.   But if you ever dare comment on it, you're busted. You're put in discipline or fired. So, you know, people get frustrated with the entire civil rights complex with the highly litigious society that limits the things that you can say at work or say in polite society. And so they welcome someone coming along, you know, who's a bit rebellious, who's controversial, right? The left, you know, you still love people who are rebellious and controversial. And, you know, many people enjoy stand-up comics because they stand outside of polite society. You know, they critique polite society, whether it's from the left or the right. And to the extent they make people laugh, they do it because they reveal truths, right? People are tired of, you know, unnecessary rules.   Nick Fuentes grew up in the relative comfort and stability of a two-parent household in the Chicago suburb of LaGrange. He has said that his father, Bill Fuentes, a vice president at a ball-bearing manufacturer, is half Mexican, which Nick sometimes uses to claim he's not a white supremacist and sometimes brushes off as distant lineage irrelevant after decades of assimilation.  In one, he said that growing up, his family avoided Applebee's and Red Lobster because they were commonly known as Black Fair, adding that they shared a saying about Olive Garden that contained the N-word. In December, 2000... Yeah, well, a lot of people avoid places that are dominated by, you know, outgroups that are causing them grief or that they just plain don't like. And it's not something unique to Nick Fuentes. All right, what's going on with Disney and Ron DeSantis? The second breaking Disney news update I have for you guys is Parks Chairman Josh Tomorrow finally releasing a statement that I think we've been expecting for a while here regarding the Lake Nona project. Disney is officially abandoning the project. For those of you who don't know, the Lake Nona project was previous CEO Bob Chapex plan to build a new Disney headquarters inside of Florida in Lake Nona, a very nice planned community that is up and coming that you have near the airport in Orlando. It's a beautiful area. We made a video here on the channel about two years ago taking a look at where this office was going to go, the land that Disney acquired. The media is spinning this cancellation as being due to DeSantis and the hostile business environment, which he helped to create with Disney. The reason I'm skeptical that DeSantis really had so much to do with this cancellation is because we know people in high places. You guys have seen some of the stories we've broken here on the channel in the past. I've been hearing for months that this is just a Chapec-era project that Iger wants nothing to do with. Look at how fast all these Chapec-era projects are just crumbling, turning to dust. The reality is that Disney has huge bills coming due on the streaming side. They're having issues on the earnings side of things, paying to build a big new campus, a big new headquarters in Florida, making people move from California, which is very unpopular internally and part of why Chapec was so unpopular inside the company. Iger's wiping his hands clean of this whole thing. All right, this is Tucker Carlson about 13th before he was fired. I can say, I don't think we should fight a war against China. I definitely think we should fight a war against Russia. But you can't say the world is gonna be a better place when China and Russia control the majority of it. You just can't say that. I'm sorry, you just can't. No, you can't. And yet, they're making that a dead certainty. Well, I saw Trump said he could close that in 24 hours if he wanted to. Do you think he could? Before I arrive at the Oval Office, shortly after I win the presidency, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It'll take 24 hours. If it's not done before then. President, and I say this, I will end that war in one day. It'll take 24 hours. Do you think he could? I have no idea. I mean, he couldn't build a border wall in four years. So, you know, there is a gap between promises and deliveries. And maybe because he's a little bit autistic, no person can say, like, I don't think we should fight a war against China. Okay, back to this Mother Jones article on Nick Fuente. 2021, his mother phoned into his show to speculate on the race of a man who'd opened fire in a mall near her home. What flavor do you think that shooting was? Laura Fuente has asked. You know. Okay, this is very normal. All right, it's not polite. It's not praise. But when John F. Kennedy was shot, the reporter, Tom Wolf, the future novelist, went around New York and he found that every group blamed some other group that they didn't like for Kennedy's assassination.  All right, everyone had some, you know, outgroup that they didn't like. They then blamed for the Kennedy assassination. Know what I mean? Before hanging up in a laughing moment, she insisted Nick had learned anti-Black prejudice from your dad. Nick entered high school in 2012, where he assembled a roster of activities that suggest a lust for attention and budding oratorical skills. He joined the speech team and Model UN, got elected student body president and was selected to greet Illinois governor during a school visit. Fuentes hosted a campus TV and radio talk show where he discussed his conservative politics. He was more moderate then, he would later admit, sometimes describing himself as a former libertarian. Bill Allen, who taught Fuentes and ran the school's television programs, told the Chicago Tribune in 2017 that none of the stuff he produced was even close to the level he's at now. So, why do people like commentators sometimes become more radical or more moderate? They're responding to incentives to a change in situation. If you're in a situation where it pays for you to be moderate, you'll have all these incentives to become more moderate and you likely will become more moderate. If to get an audience to maintain public attention, you are incentivized to become more extreme, more radical, you'll shift in that direction. So, why do people do the things they do? In large part because of events, my dear boy, events. And otherwise, known as situations. When situations change, people change with them. The libertarian to fascist pathway is well documented. And this...  Right, because situations change, people change, they have different life experiences. The world around them is changing. And so, people are trying to reach for a hero system that kind of makes sense of the world around them. Most people aren't deep, sophisticated, coherent political thinkers. They're just reaching for something that feels good, is aesthetically pleasing, helps them to associate with a certain crowd and helps them have energy, meaning, purpose and an in-group. Seeds of what his politics would become were already present in a blog post from just after... Yeah, because most people's political, cultural and psychological orientations are strongly influenced by their genes. Okay, so why would a pundit harbor a pessimistic outlook? Well, how many followers are you gonna get if you say, this is a beautiful world? You know, life is pretty good for all our problems. Life is good. I see trees of green, skies of blue.  Life is pretty good for all our problems. Life is good. I see trees of green, skies of blue.  But there's not a large audience that's going to... All right, the easiest way to connect is to outrage people. Who's the spoils of the American experiment squandered for one final time before the dying gasp of a once exceptional people as the free world and economic abundance of Ronald Reagan was inherited by the lizard people. My generation is the generation of hopelessness. In a foreshadowing of his turn to Christian theocracy, he promised to... Okay, there's no generation in America that is dominantly hopeless, right? There's every reason for hope, no matter what generation you're in, as long as there's life, there's hope as long as you're connected to your family and friends, to community, to some purpose a little higher than yourself if there's opportunities for you to volunteer and to contribute, right? There's no reason to be hopeless. But when people get caught in, particularly in a cycle of their own self-destruction, then it's very tempting to try to look for some kind of outside reason for why you're suffering. It's the Jews or it's the blacks or it's the Catholics or it's the socialists or it's the commies who are causing most of the problems. In reality, if you're living in the first world today, life is pretty good compared to what most of people have experienced through most of history. And if you're unhappy in all likelihood, in this world, the problem is primarily with you. It's not with the political system. This is Dr. Alan Burger. He says, try to use willpower when you have diarrhea. It just doesn't work. No matter what you do, if you have to go, you have to go. And he says, if you have any question of what powerlessness is like, just think about that. I love him. He was a very special man. So in this step, we are beginning to align ourselves with reality. We are learning the importance of an alignment with reality and being able to live a better life. Now remember, one way of thinking of emotional sobriety is always aiming at the best possible attitude we can have towards ourself, towards our life, towards reality. Well, this is about having an alignment with the reality of who we are. I love the quote that Roger brought in last time that live in responsibly towards reality is what self-esteem is all about. Well, we can also say that that's what emotional sobriety is about, living responsibly, being able to respond to reality in the best possible way. That's what we're striving for. Well, tonight I wanna talk about another thing that has to happen in order to get aligned with reality. We have to surrender what Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin called our special status. I love that term, our special status. That somehow all the rules that apply to other people don't apply to us. We're special.  Gravity is gravity just all the time. It doesn't care what you think about it, whether you think it's not happening or not.  Well, it's also true that when we don't live in honor of the reality of who we are, we're jumping off a building all the time. We are at odds with reality. And we keep trying to figure out a way to control something that we don't have any control over. And it's not until we admit that we're powerless that then that paradoxical change takes place, we're able to find a different kind of power that comes out of acceptance, not out of controlling, but out of letting go. Boy, that's something that not many of us have thought about. But now let's put that. So we have to surrender our special status if we're gonna become aligned with reality. If I think that somehow the rest of you have to surrender your powerlessness, but I'm gonna finally figure out a way to control my drinking. Well, we see what happens when people do that, right? What we say the outcome of this illness, if it's unchecked, is we die from it. We end up in an institution. We end up in jail. We end up losing everything that's near and dear and important to us. So if we go back to self-esteem, and we're using Dr. Nathaniel Brandon's model, the six pillars of self-esteem, which we really actually, he said there's seven pillars. So we're gonna start talking about his seven pillars of self-esteem and just a reminder of what those are. And then let's look at what's happening in this step in relationship to these pillars. The first was living life consciously. Well, that means seeing life as it is, being aware of what is happening for us. Does this step help us move in that direction? Of course it does. Yeah, so step one is in recognizing that you have a problem, and there's probably a more effective way to go about living your life than just following your own inclinations. All right, back to this Mother Jones article on Niquroentes. Pramilgate and preach the good word of the American restoration. In that same post written the day before.  I mean, Arabs want a restoration of Arab glory. Muslims want a restoration of Muslim glory. Christians want a restoration of Christian glory. Jews want a restoration of Judea glory. The Japanese want a restoration of Japanese glory. It seems like a pretty healthy and nigh universal impulse. Or Trump was formerly nominated as the Republicans 2016 candidate. Fuentes described his ascent as an opportunity. Donald Trump has created an opening. We don't know for how long and we don't know if it's big enough, but it is an opportunity for the American people to throw off the yoke of the new age orthodoxy which has enslaved us. Fuentes eventually deleted his blog and began the live streams that would make him a far right star from his parents home. After enrol- So why have many bloggers turned more to blogging? So my primary way of speaking to the world used to be writing my blog but I devoted much more energy and time to making videos because it's more fun. My writing is really hard work and it can be more lucrative and you can reach a wider audience. So many people are used to consume large numbers of blogs, they now prefer to take things in video format. Pulling at Boston University, he would broadcast nightly from the dorms. He grew more radical and established a campus reputation as an Islamophobic Trump supporter. He claimed persecution, likening the grief students gave him for wearing a MAGA hat to being discriminated against for being black or wearing a hijab. I'm sure he was persecuted. Anytime you violate social norms, you're going to feel persecuted. When Campus Conservatives tapped him for an election debate against BU's student president, Fuentes seized every opportunity to antagonize the audience. After claiming that multiculturalism is a cancer and trolling the crowd as godless hippies, Fuentes admitted to a student journalist that it wouldn't be fun if it wasn't ugly. Okay, so in some circumstances, monoculturalism is a more adaptive response. In other circumstances, like in safer circumstances, in more prosperous circumstances, then multiculturalism is probably a more adaptive response. So in times of threat, in times of great peril, in times of great danger, a monocultural approach will usually be more adaptive, make more sense. In times of prosperity and relative safety, then people more inclined towards multiculturalism because it'll help them propagate their genes. It'll be more adaptive, more efficient, more effective, more prosperous, more happy way of life. So, monoculture works best in some circumstances, particularly circumstances of great peril, and multiculturalism works better in circumstances of prosperity and relative safety. After Trump took office, he told the Boston Globe that Trump is a rocket ship and everyone is trying to attach themselves to it. While there's little record of his actions that weekend, Fuentes attended the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Confederate flags and torches were hoisted by neo-fascists, neo-nots. So Fuentes shows up at a lot of events like the Unite the Right in Charlottesville and then the January 6th protests without getting arrested, without seeming to get into too much trouble. So for, you know, right-wing extremists, he both makes dubious choices of showing up to dangerous events but somehow manages to navigate and surf the danger to avoid the same kind of destruction that's happened to so many other people. Now, anyone who would choose to show up to January 6th or to the Unite the Right event in Charlottesville is highly disconnected from reality, right? They're causing irreparable harm to themselves. They're not doing good. They're just laying themselves wide open to get fired, to get doxxed, to get harassed, to lose so many things that they hold sacred. So what kind of person shows up to these extreme and dangerous events, right? Someone who has become disconnected from reality, somebody who's become so drunk on seeking meaning and purpose that they've lost their ability to make good judgments. Someone who is largely disconnected from their families, right? Generally speaking, people who are tightly connected with their families and prospering in their careers and not showing up to events like Unite the Right and January 6th. Nazis, white supremacists, militia members, and other far-right demonstrators, one of whom killed Heather Hyer, a counter-protester by running her over a few months before. Okay, so I wouldn't show up to a Jewish rally, a Torah rally that was very likely to be dangerous surrounded and outnumbered by people who hate you. An event where people are very likely to be physically injured or possibly killed. And I'd say far away, like when there are knock bar events, right? Morning the emergence of the modern state of Israel and taking away of land that used to be ruled by people who are now known as Palestinians, right? I don't then tend to hang out at those events, wearing a yarmulke. Montez had just 2,000 followers on Twitter, but back on his own campus, he said he faced death threats from other students over his presence in Charlottesville. BU security didn't respond. Right, no one can be in public life, right? Whether it's a sportscaster, a weathercaster, a model, let alone a political pundit and not receive death threats, right? That's just the price of fame. Onto a request for comment on his claim, but contemporaneous press coverage repeating it raised his profile. By October, he had amassed 12,000 Twitter followers. The rally proved to be the terminus point for key figures on the alt-right, leaving prominent white nationalists like Richard Spencer and James Alsop either tied up in litigation or too toxic to generate mass appeal. Right, so whenever you do something, right? You engender certain reactions to you. And when you engender reactions that are far more, hateful towards you and far more effective in negating you than creating positive repercussions, right? You've usually made a really bad decision. So it's worth contemplating, how will my words, how will my actions then be perceived by people who don't have a particular ideological agenda? How will it go over with the people who are most important to me? How will it go over with people in my community? How will it affect those things that are most precious to me? What will be the implications? Hey, it may feel good for me to say or do this outrageous thing, but what will be the consequences, right? How will it affect those people who I care about most in the world? That's it.


What's up guys? Welcome to SPM Buzz. This is Friends Vibes and we're here again to give you a juicy conversation so on today's episode we're going to be talking about relationships and boundaries. We want to know when you're in a relationship, what boundaries are you not supposed to cross? And I'm here with my panelists. My name is Liz Jackson, the richest girl in East Africa and... Eddi Mastore. Eddi Butita, the wealth. Oh, wow. Nice to have you. The what? The what? We need to find a name. We can't find a name for me guys. It's alright. What boundaries are we talking about? Boundaries. So there's this viral video that went about social media where you know there was a party and we were seeing Milichebi and Bahati having fun dancing together. Was that a boundary that was crossed? What boundaries do you have with Milichebi? I don't know whether that's the right word or not, even if it's a panga, but yes, that's the video. What's your name? Kutwakiwa na? No, like your wife to your girlfriend. Like your wife? Yes. And what's your name? What's your name? I don't have a wife. What's your name? I don't have a wife. And what's your name? Sasa you see, my thing is, I would not do something, you should not do something in a relationship. My thing is, you should not do something that you know you'll get mad when I do it. So twaking is twaking, once you are in a relationship, you should stop twaking for 100 people? Yes. And you should not be twaked for if you expect me to not stop. I should be twaked for. You can't, for who? I should be twaked for. So even me can't talk for another person? No, you can not. It's not about atiyo kujipenda, but na jua chaliya kitwakiwa na dhim. Mesa mimi nikiwa na meka twivi, dhima kujia twak. Nana dance too. Like there's nothing big about that. So boundary is only applied to men? Clearly. That's what you two are insinuating. Because you feel like talking, me talking for another person. Nan married. Ya listen, you feel like if you are in a relationship. My point being. If you are in a relationship and you feel like me talking for another person, but that's a boundary. That's a boundary for you. So wait, we are in a relationship when you are talking for other people? Yes. Una jisikiya una jisikiya. No listen, that's a boundary for you. No, it's a boundary for you. I should not do that in a relationship. It's a red flag. But you can be twaqed for and it's okay. So that's not a red flag. Aami, you see you people, you have with all your heart. When you twaq, you are making it from the heart. No first of all dancing for women, I can't talk for anybody in the club and you are alone. I can't talk for anyone in the club and still go back home alone. No, you are visualized, it is emotions. Like you are giving it. You can talk in the club because you are single. You can't go and twaq in the club and you are married. Come on. But you are a married man. Me as a married man, I can go to the club and somebody twaqs for me.    I am attracted to that I am twaqia. Hey. And you are married. Yeah, you should be proud of yourself.   I can't tell you who I am.  That's why I am married to you. Here is a poor woman who is a man who is pro-wrestling. Hey, you are the best.  Actually, if you are married to a woman who is old, wiz cheke teni mua dara teni na tizi teni meref 2001 ..tsema tfu that'sf verkini sof bi regardless cheke�� ayon jok craju uf ½ kama hima kniyiko kama hayoko cheka ..if kama kum dating And then all of a sudden, nusha kwa kevin hard. Now you niche kashangi. Sasa yoni good time. I'm giving your friends a good time. Ay, why is it that when it comes to the men? Ya, I'll be your hand now. At a good time. Ono nga watu burita. First, yaman nga umonono pata, umedata shoma early. Uda pata, ako so insecure to assend that anam valisha. Ushona gawale wazai ame valisha wa suuti na tena ame valisha kako fekena katsu yuadi. Ten na nini koka kola. Anata katu watu wa sukwone. That's a lie. Awa na kwa nga insecure na sisi. So when they have a man, actually do you know edu? Girls do not introduce their boyfriends oftenly to their best friends. They don't. Because they fear what are we sure. In Nairobi. Okay, no, no. For me and my friends I introduce them. Like you introduce them, but it doesn't really depend. No, for me, I introduce to my best friends to vets. When they have a good time, they don't know what to do. They don't know what to do. When they have a good time, they don't know what to do. No, this is for a few people. By the way, it's very serious. Yeah, and the same goes to you even. In fact, at the headstin madem, nini. Nini, when let me say my boyfriend is introducing. Like I'm your boyfriend now. Don't. It's okay. We can use that as an example. It can be a bad example. Very bad. Just an example. Yeah, you're introducing me to your friends. Yes. Immediately na toka hapo evo. Your friends are the ones texting me, DMing me. No, not the friends that you have. Exactly. The friends. Imagine. The friends you have, but you know.  There is a very big difference. What is the difference between them?  That's why I'm telling you. Okay, there is a very big difference between a girlfriend and a wife. Boundaries have to be there when you are married. But even when you are in a relationship. Technically, even a man that is married, there are some jokes. I don't know why you people find it. Ladies find it okay to have male friends. But they don't find it okay for us men to have female friends. There is a very big difference between married and having a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Marriage should have boundaries. I don't know why you find it okay. Girls find it okay. Ladies find it okay for them having male friends. And they don't find it okay when we have female friends. It's because of boundaries. Because they know female friends might try to tempt us. But they don't want us to think that male friends can't tempt them. Because on rainy day, that male friend will really piteo that thing. So you don't have which kind of friends? No, that's true. Listen, listen. You as a woman, you can't have a male friend. Like a tini bestiangu tu. Mini, mimi kama boi friendo kwa. Ili siku tu neza kwa sana kido go. Nona, chances are uta muende na umutama lize na wuku. Ya, that's true. That's because that's how you think. No, there's no single man, listen. There's no single man that you as a woman will be just your friend. That's it. Aiii. Goja edu. So tu mesa, tu samarai kwa tu pole pole. So akuna kwa dance suggestively. True. Just laughing two of you, aimlessly. Laugh. I should not have said that. Because I'm married. No. So edu, edu demia kwa niyuna hoa niyuna hoa niyuna. Demia kwa fai kuchekeshwa na mutu? Ufai kucheka wu. Na wama niye simpan. Oh, wio-wio. Kucheka, yes. But kucheka wio-wio. Atu wana wana kufuraisha. Yes, suggest. Una tumbuizwa. Yes. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ie niyu, na kisha wana kucheka wu. Tema kuna jika. Kucheka wu seme. Ah, Aribani. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. Ufai tumbuizwa. So sabu, wimia kucheka biyana hua. So dancing. Laughing na niyuna hoa niyuna hoa niyuna hoa niyuna hoa niyuna. Na ii niyuna maziman, ya akuna friends. Akuna friends. The 4th one. The 4th one. What is the 4th one? 4th one, minafikiria. Kamwa kusu. Kwa maini wa mico, na ma demiya mico Okay hini na peregunama, usiazikubia demiya mo kusumataere kind na boka. Siakusumata nandu qusumata Na ambiya zdi demiya mico naka fi miti Enalizi yu guys are very like And they kind of got very insecure If I have a girlfriend and she's dressed well She knows that. I've told her she looks nice So she should not be complimented? So when someone tells you you are complimented, nla bakini kuakili ya ko like 24 hours? Oni. Buna ue ue senia mi na katanga fiti ya ra undi compliment? Ega ma skuambiyangi, basi pii amini ko nama kosa, sasa unafa uhu nabi wendi. But kama na kuambiya, what was kwaandi? So what you're trying to tell me? No, in case you can't be one, it's all right, but this is a boundary that I'm telling men. What's the kusimad? Ati demi hangu, ni kitu. Ati we ni kitu. Ati we ni maili. Ati we ni maili, ati una kaafiti. Eh, we ni mini piya. Ati no, mi weza. Eh, wuki skia demi akona ni yemi mi weza. Ama demi akona ni yemi mi piya nukuni. What do you feel, Adi? Ay, those are just compliments. Just a compliment, guys. Very short and precise. Exactly, ume weza? Sinivo. Una ka poa. Short and precise. Siya ti, una ka poa. Jana dewe kwa sayi niza problem. So ati bile ina se mani shida. Iwa, asu se maraka, eli una kaafiti. Him na ka ni kaafiti. Na nikijangili. How do you guys stand this? Remember this boundary? It's like it's freezoid. This boundaries, we are very clear. We are not setting boundaries for you ladies alone. We are also telling fellow men, these are the boundaries that we don't want near our women. So we are also free as ladies to tell us these are the boundaries that other ladies should not cross when dealing with your men. Like you know, it's what boundaries we do. Dema si cross. Asifanya iwa na mutuwa. Kwa ni demu kuna chali ya me iwa, e doa paivi. Una get. Ni nini utaki. Okay, your friends, your girlfriends. Chana, Bami, Marafizako. If my friends should ever get my boyfriend's number or even just DM them. You see? Atakama akuna bieshara. That's different. Bieshara again. But bieshara, ita kwa mimi, through me. Any communication you are having with my partner should be through me. Iena kwa kwa iwa. Any communication as my friend or anyone that have introduced you. Do you mean on my introduce? So how come you are going behind my bar? Iena depend. It does not depend. You have to start everything through me. Penginewa na bestiako. Penginewa ni demu kuna bestiako ni bestiago. Sinsi ni mudiwa through wewa. Ima kwa bestiako. No, your girlfriends friends are not your friends. Yes. If we are dating, my friends are not your friends. And even you, your friends as my boyfriend. They are not my friends as well. So even you guys are insecure. No, we are not insecure. That's unnatural rule. That's a boundary. Let's give it to them. No taking phone numbers from boyfriends. Like you are telling girls that today on camera stop taking phone numbers and DMing other people's boyfriends. Second boundary. Give us another one. Mini kwa na boundaryingine. I think when I post my man on Instagram don't follow him and then you start liking his photo. Then why do you post him? Sitru just make it public that I am in a relationship. But what's wrong when people follow him? Then what's wrong when people follow him? Like I just post, now I'm liked by Naisa. All of us. I'm post, liked by Naisa. What do you post? Apana ni boundary. That's real. Ikitu ni kama kusema iti ni kama tego. Ni kama iti kuna mapakazina chazapo but iti kakajama apana. No. No, that's not true. Sir imagine, no shanko me. Let me put it in your own perspective. Yes. Imagine me post it in your own perspective. Na edu acha acha like didn't follow her, ama ni ni. But all of a sudden since edu nubesh teako we're talking about friends. You get. I'm a people like you know. All of a sudden edu ame. And the son of Naisa kuna he likes. He comments. He comments. He wants to do it. He wants to do it. I'm on Instagram. No. Yeah. Instagram what? That's how you call it. That's okay with you. Like my picture. Apana. Is that okay? Okay. That one I'll share with you but why you liking my girlfriend's picture? Exactly. Why you liking my boyfriend's picture? But me meeting him alone. Okay. Liking is good. Just like it on social media. But comment. Yeah. You're there commenting. Oh, cute. Ah, no. Comment it. It's beautiful. Kamade miyango me pige picha mombasa. You guys. Uliza yo ni utili gani. You guys are parameter. You guys are parameter. Because mi miya think. Listen. Miya think. Thank God. Yeah. But is ni apanya darani like on like and comment. Ah me fanya darani. All over sudden. But if you go to the DM. No, that's it. That's it. Yeah. Actually, because already we come up. Yeah. You need to be called. Apana, no. Come on. We go up as a hake ni. Exactly. Naki ni mi si hands a, uliza, uliza ni zinu na m actionable. One other. Mi na kwen miya kamiya kamaa li, muliza ni zini. na kwa hafira after iss kaisAUote nakiwa Koshi wini wini �o Sukuli Lise Aper wiki nul 2ndu 1,000 tom sayu 1,000 tom sayu know 3rdu 100 We need to ask the 524 for Not sure what it is but you have to forget some. What's that? Those earning $2000 per hour. What's that you earned $2000? It's flatCom... Man... Is it considered no work? That it is and wouldn't work out well. Did it accept me? S that's the matter? I have an question for you as a guy cause I want to admit you're not my girlfriend. No that's girlfriend's now trigger... This is your very close friend Are you okay, wo they do? Like but you ok hanging out with another person's girlfriend no why would i Unless I have an issue Personali mi na rispet kubuwa sana Demi ya mutu si faniwa ginaibiesa na higine Unless one ake na jua Okay Atini mi hangout na bibi ya kwa simi Because things happen I might start being just genuine Na pigetu story na if ya ganafani pende So kiki kupenda you give in To that pressure Temptations happen Okay mi, I'm saying I can give in Si wezi wacha Tuna na? Tuna ku jua Chanda we This thing you're not a kani Oh my god So hanging out is a red flag Okay So and in the scenario Because we gave in Another red Boundary Boundary is I have to know where you are In a relationship Like every time or what? Every time Every time like wherever I'm going I have to call you I'm here, I'm here No update me if you're in town Uki tokatao, also ni meto kapa Super lezi It's just Would you like the same? Yes, I'll do the same This is I'm telling you this for free Unge taka ku chunga boyfriend ya ako Sim chungi Sim chungi That's why this is why I'm telling you guys You guys are making it seem as if Sim chungi I'm giving him that option Of him telling you So before ni hanzi kwa DCI The problem is The problem is mi mi na ona If you do like that ita fika ma Ita bidi hanzi kwa danga No The reason for them Me nezao encourage mu su But monome kiyo nangori nafa atapigasi mu Mi sababu Unazo siya monome vibaya Umona ume Anafa adjuwe ni mona ume Anafa adjuwe Siya ti angoji kulizu wana de mi ake Atu kwa api Unafa nyanini Naka ni kama Na chania kwa kulizu zoma suali Then he's not caring Inifak tu ekama de Nafa ni kulizu kwa api So this is one way Unafa nyanini Make it make sense Kifika sa amoji You need to be taken care of Why can't I take care of you? Wana ni sijuwe mali uko Adjuwe nini Mali nini kwa ni jenini No Why I'm asking Why I'm saying this is because To avoid unnecessary things Like I'm not telling at you Lazi ma ni kwa Amantakulizu Kwa uko api Ama ni mi No, it's just that It's catches and I don't know Just to say Beb By the way, Leo This is my program I know But you know sometimes Inakwa gaha It's not that I'm forced At wu Kwa api Nini namaskini No Unapata I'm with my boys Ma zitu na Exactly, tell me You are with your boys Then unan pigia Unan pigia Unaju anita kwa mi Mali niko Uranemi wu kuna nani Unafa niya So ma boys Oki skia ni kiki Explain I do ma zi Kwa didi Naka lutaru diwa Kwa ma poliza Kwa ma poliza Kwa ma poliza Uko api That's a concerning Question Una fanyanini Kwa zia Anu liza Lakin ya kiaza Na nani Una fanyanini Muna dua lafa katesi Muten after 20 minutes Usai yuko No, that's security Uyo nimpelelesi Buona Chansa sewe kupata mutu Anaku pigia tukujwa mali yuko Inakwa nga losa Inakwa gatu anata kujwa nga nani No No, it's not like that I don't know I just want to know I just want to be let To be let To be filled in To be filled in To just know I don't want to like Ukinia meya Ukinia meya beb Nime tokat niko tawo That's it Uki tokat tawo And you go to another place Just let me know No, it's okay I don't even have to ask you Just let me know If you're going to hang out with your friends Go hang out with your friends Just let me know Siungo aja nirudi Nikupati faw In the fact But you expect me to tell you my every move No, I'm caring That's the point You should I can't take care of you Now you guys complain We don't take care of you Ask when you show care It's upelelesi Where we are talking Kwa ni niya kukula keiki Sayama na kula keiki You may teach us order Yoni patines Yoni patines Urasimawa na zimo asebe They must Yes, it's required I don't know how you guys have this one For these guys I want to send people I want to send men to talk to us Not this one Not this one This one This one As women As girlfriends No, that's what you guys want You people have tabled boundaries We also tabled boundaries So you people have said That I should report every time Not report But as we are saying Let me know That is a boundary Lik wacha na usikro si Niaje umekunyoma jigani Minero water So we have tabled boundaries We have tabled yours Let's see what the audience asks Can I ask you a question On that note If I ask you Be kumekula ni ni Was that upelelesi Yama caring Ah, that's caring Yoni romantic Yoni caring Ukonanani ni upelelesi Ukonanani Alaptina ingina Ukonanani Uksha muambia Munafanya Yosu za ni easy Yosu za ni Yoni commission of inquiry No, but you can't tell me You know you guys You can't tell me Ati nikonama boys And all I'm hearing is Girls shouting shots Munafanya Ya, nazima ni jwe mahala Waka ni kulise What do you mean? The next thing I would want to know What's your view on Passwords za simu? View haji Like, munafakwa na Munajona passwords za each other Password is a boundary Password is a boundary No, iPhone is a boundary No, iPhone is a boundary Nizakwa boundary Nizakwa da simu Nizakwa da simu So, just assume Your partner is responsible Even men I don't advise you to get it Yeah, partner's fault But me, we have a different opinion I know you do Yes, of course Me, my password is my Uasis house Why doctor? Tosa ni niniu na tafuta Ati kuwa na easy ma bitise So what value do you get By having her password? Mine is private Ya ke As clear as Ie ni ma liya ngu Wari wei wei simu liya ke? Mimi ni ma liya uma The thing is simu yungu Ya ke ni yetu We get my points Mimi simu gabi wu du ya ngu No Wari wei ni ma liya ngu Mimi ni ma liya uma Ako na ati tima posta ba rua Ati posta ba rua Ati ni ma liya uma No, the fact that na se ma usingi ya kuwa simu yungu Imani shi tana tu ni karebi usherati No, it's just Niju, usi ya ke tumitu kwa positionia Ati wei umi chu yungu ati ya ko No, but with the points, do you know Ati aka mamtu wa shi tana ni ni You'll always find something Udu trust your partner with your MPSA pin? Ya Udu? Terain million ya? Ya, it's my millions Alright guys, that was it from us Let us know what boundaries to limit out Apoka comment section Tell us Una support nani Ni ni ni hau support Let us know apoka SM That's why I want to give you a big up Fana wei tu wa friends vibe Nikianda pale na Houston Eili eki wa pale Houston Fana kubosana friends vibe Eki wa pale na kina Beki Eki wa pale na kina Dan Kuna edu na siwa eduka wei Kuna yolanda Edu eki wa pale Houston La big up wa usasa Kuna yolanda Kuna pale Kuna DT Kuna Kibet Nini amziwa tu Amerika Buu giyangwe Kalifonia This a local girl Alafpiya salam Muka San Francisco Kuna Peter Ni kutusa wa nimi Shabigia Potwangu U.S. Thank you for watching the show Continue watching this show And that's why I have good news For you guys Peter Kase from San Francisco Ame sema isho yaleo Mupewe Ame sponsor Ame sponsor isho Katasi Of Doctorie Isho Ni yake So people You can adapt an episode Any episode of friends vibe Na utwambi eni aje una onak tukawapia Taka uko Kenya Mr. Gopi Sida Espora 2 Edupia nze kuna mabeste Germany Frankfurt pale Lakin ni kuna mutu pale that month Na nu Alright guys make sure you subscribe Like share See you on the next one


Yeah, so we started a little project about three years ago, so it's been on Moodle.net for two or three years now. The templates, even if you're not making learning objects, it's still a really fast way to make really interactive, complex Moodle quiz questions as well.  This is what something looked like. This is the journey. And OMG is obviously our women's health module for our med school. So we had some parameters. We wanted it to be interactive, wanted to go in the gradebook. Need to have text entry. A lot of learning objects don't have that. Good price. And lots of analysis at the back end that the Moodle provides. So that was some of our key points. We ordered a few. H5P unfortunately came out afterwards, so we use quite a bit of that now. CuraCloud is an Otago thing, which was developed down in Tunisian. Articulate, my colleagues wanted to use that, but again, that's far too pricey. And then the sharing of the tools and the authoring, it becomes quite a problem. So I was quite keen at looking at what we could do with Moodle. And so we looked at a few pages. Obviously content pages have come out since then as well. So that's another thing that's been good. And I was quite keen to see what quiz could do. But obviously there's a few issues. Good thing is our staff already know how to use it. So it's one tool. Keep to the same tool. It's always a good rule. Text entry free. And integrates with Moodle in the gradebook. Unfortunately, Moodle is pretty clunky. The Moodle quiz tool doesn't look really like learning objects. And a lot of the complex questions take a really long time to make, so how can we get around that? So we addressed some of those issues. We created a whole bunch of templates. Then we changed our theme to adaptable, which enabled us to expand it to full screen, making it more like learning objects. We put in a loadable question types and investigated those more. And we added a few plugins and stuff and started looking at things like plottergon and stuff like that. So those are the templates. They're downloadable from Moodle.net. They've been there a few years now. I just updated some of them in the other day. So 60 odd of them. You might ask why we have so many of the same type. And when you start doing it, you'll see that, obviously, you don't want the same look and feel from all the same question types, but all of them have different ways of feeding back. They take up different real estate. So if you use 20 true false questions, you're going to have a page that's about that long. So you want to make that into a shorter space. And a lot of development into just making them look like learning objects as opposed to just the standard Moodle questions. And on the way, we found out a few things about Moodle quiz. So Moodle quiz obviously doesn't work when you start upscaling it to lots of answers and stuff. SA question isn't good for immediate feedback. Lots of learning objects you put in your answer. And then you see what the model answer is and compare. SA won't do that. Drag and drop matching, that doesn't work after you've got eight or 10 options because it's just scroll all the death. And the embedded question gives you lots more functionality for stuff. Matching questions, one of the poor things that Moodle doesn't do is if you're trying to learn as you go, you want to see as you respond each time and have each multiple try the feedback for each multiple option. And none of the questions seem to do that very well either. Pass and match turned out to be our answer to immediate feedback. And if you're doing interactive multiple tries, it takes a long time to add all those multiple tries if you've got standard quizzes that are already built up. So what do these templates look like? So image templates you can see on the right there that's what the template looks like. So now all you need to do is choose how many items you want, chuck that in, chuck your picture and change your label as jobs done. Matching templates, pretty simple as well. Different layouts, different the way they'll feedback whether you want drag or drop them or drop down menus. Sequencing, Moodle doesn't do that particularly well but now we have four or five versions of doing that. Categorizing really hard complex question type to set up with all the parameters right. Now you can choose how many categories you've got, throw in that, change your labels, jobs done. Gap filling same again, multiple ways of doing gap filling or have their own different bits and pieces as we're saying before true and false. So rather than having loads of true and false you make one question which has 10 or 20 true and false saves lots of real estate. Again, you're using rating questions so start to use the embedded question a bit more so you can do that. Then we got to the fun part so you can actually start seeing what learning objects look like with pop up menus and lots of bootstrap elements that's a standard thing that's in sitting in Moodle already. So we use modals, hotspots, popovers, even things like interactive maps with pop ups and stuff like that. So when you come by that we would, in embedded question we had lots of call for log books. Unfortunately the assignment doesn't have a response template so we had to use quiz. We ended up using crazy things but again it served the purpose and we now have loads of templates so people can see what we can actually make with an embedded question. As I said, four pattern matches the only one where you can actually put the text in and then see what's going on so you just put in a bogus answer and it will do what you want. Annotation tool, that's another obviously question type plugin. So what you wanna think about is the space you're using. You can see why I have a multiple choice when you can have floating pictures to the side of it to actually make it look like a learning object. Look at the text, bring down maybe make all the text gray but obviously look at the graphics and see how you can make it look less like Moodle and more like a learning object. So when you combine that with other tools that are out there we have H5P which is quite good now. If you embed that, that's giving you even more question types to go with it. We use Plotagon a lot. If you haven't heard of Plotagon that's an animation tool. Stick in your text, make your own scenarios. We use a lot of that in our learning objects so people can go through medical scenarios and obviously you've got your YouTubes and other videos which you can put in your question types and drop them to the templates as well. So there's a few settings that need to be done. You need obviously for each quiz you need to have immediate feedback and to interact with multiple tries. If you have multiple tries you've got to spend the time to put in the four or five different hints to go with it otherwise they get the answer straight away and then you also need to set up a question bank at a system level right at the top so that people can see that and get to it and then you'll need to make a quiz bank user role so that they can actually see up to that category. What are they being used for? We use it for lots of pre-tutorials, knowledge checks and we've had hematology man turn up on the scene and he's done through Plotagon and he has lots of adventures doing his hematologies, lectures and stuff from pre-tutorial stuff. I'm really just taking dull subjects and making them interesting. Still bugs in the system obviously the feedback questions with multiple tries you're not able to get a feedback for each option that you choose only for multiple choice question. Drag and drop interfaces would be nice if we did that. The biggest bug is probably you have to choose with the quiz user role whether they have full access to the bank and can delete it or just duplicate and if they can only duplicate then they can't migrate it back into their core so they have to actually export it and then import it back in or put it in a folder which says duplicate the questions. So there's a bit of clunky there that would be nice if the permissions were a little bit better in that respect. But all the good bits we didn't have to teach them anything because they already knew Moodle. It's much, much faster. You can make loads of quizzes in no time save me loads of time. No migration of content and all that lovely rich analysis that Moodle also gives us all the time. Do we achieve our goal? Kind of. Some people jumped on board we get a lot of more requests now and it's a lot easier to make learning objects when people send us their little dialogues that they want created. So it's saved us loads of time. Thank you, Scott. Do we have questions? Anything? Sorry. I'd really like to read your slides at a slower pace. Yeah, I'll be sharing slides? Yeah. Yeah, so there you go. Yeah, and you can email me. Okay. Thanks. I was stuck with seven minutes, so. Anybody else? Sure. Thanks. Thanks, there's a lot of information in your presentation. I just missed the first couple of minutes so how did you actually make the quiz templates? A lot of time basically setting them up but just using the standard Moodle questions and then standard backgrounds, standard formats. So something like the categories question we realized that people wanted to make them but there's no question that set up and you have to do those, you have to get all the parameters and all the hotspots and all sort of sorted out. So you basically set that up and Photoshop and do all those and then now in spending say 20 minutes for one question, you can do it in about two. Yeah, so it is just a list of questions that have taken a while to build but that you can replicate really quickly. And since we've had duplication on questions for a while in quiz now, that's made things lots and lots faster. Did I hear you correctly when you said that these were available on Moodle.net? That's correct. That's what, in downloads? Yeah, it's in the quiz area. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Yeah. I've been there for a wee while. Very interested in H5P and just wondering how you get that to report back out to Moodle for the... Yeah, H5P is really good. The thing I have, there's pluses and minuses of it. If you, the thing it doesn't do very well is it doesn't do multiple pages. So you're stuck with either what's called a presentation slide or I think it's called a column. The column goes on forever. It's just this roll of death and with lots of questions. And the other one is presentation, which will give you tabs. And those are the only two question types which will give you multiple pages and then score in the grade book. So I think the thing that's against H5P is that you can only have one or two of those activities sitting and then scoring in the grade book. I think if you're gonna combine it with that, you'd probably use your quiz ones with what you actually want feedback on. And then we've just used the interesting question types for embedding it, so we'll do a direct embed. Thank you, Scott.


Hi, I'm Lance Coyke and we're going to talk about box squats today. So box squats are generally used as a hamstring dominant exercise, a hip dominant exercise, a squatting variation among very serious power lifters. It's a nice way to get away from the monotony of the traditional squat and throw a little spin on it. So as I'm doing a box squat, one of the main components of this is as I sit back and I come in contact, I actually shift my weight onto my butt and off of my feet. And I might still have a weight on my back, but I'm coming back up and driving through it. So as I sit back, I might have like a neutral spine position here as I sit down. And then when I actually receive the weight on my butt, my back will round a little bit more and then I shift forward and I arch it back so that it's neutral again. So that's something to be aware of. That movement under load is generally seen as pretty unhealthy for the spinal discs. If you've read any of Stuart McGill's research, he talks about that a lot. So this is not a variation that I use for that many people. It can be a good way to load and cue hamstrings as I sit back, but I don't want you totally losing your spinal position and rounding everything down here and coming back up.  Don't go all the way back so that you round, but keep your position and then come back up through it.


What the f**k? Oh my god! What up cocksuckers? Today we're doing episode 3 of full metal alchemist. I want to know something. You have 3 choices. Which one would you pick? 1. To be an alchemist. 2. To have a death note. 3. Have the ability to be a titan. You can only pick one. Which one you picking? You want to know what I'm picking? My nose because I have some s**t in it. Anyways, yeah, let's get to the episode. Yay shall be saved! Kanye's in this s**t too! Oh my god! Jared Leto! Yo, what the f**k is that? Yo, Chantaro, if I see you hanging from up there... Street performers! This dude belongs in New York! Honestly, like if I saw these two, I would think they're street performers too. This happens every day in New York. The other day I was on the train, I saw a guy pull his pants down and take a s**t right in the middle of a pole. Like, I'm not even lying. That happens every day.  Now he's doing magic!  What is that? Oh s**t, they don't know. Damn! Oh yeah, blowing him. Oh my god, there we go. That's what I needed in my day, bro. Whenever I'm having a rough day, bro, I put on this show and I look at his face. That's it, man. That completes me. What? The bib squeak! So I'm guessing that's like a common theme, a running theme in the show. Everybody's going to call him like a little man.  I promise you that. Look at the art style of this show, man! Oh, I definitely don't trust him, bro. Never trust a priest, man. You hear all these stories about priestess and children and s**t and they're like doing some funky s**t. This is why, man. This is what I believe every priest does. I don't trust him. I don't trust a pope. Nick, don't say that. I praise the pope. Man, would you trust this guy? It looks like a mob boss. Only one volume of mass can come from the same volume of mass. Oh, man. This is bringing back PTSD to science class. Oh god, another class that got an F. Straight F student, bro. Look at him. He looks like Thanos. Would you trust this Thanos looking mob boss over here? Oh, I want to see some blood in this church.  I'm R... Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What do you say? I'm R-Ligious? The f**k does that... oh, A-Religious. Oh, my god.  Oh, s**t. Oh, my god. That makes me want to turn the camera off. R-Legit... A-Religious. I don't believe in anything. I just believe in you This is what I mean, bro.  I didn't ask for this He entered church and he's saying this is all fake.  Oh my god. I feel you You Damn All right, I believe the first part of the sentence people are not things Heaven's wrath. I'll show you hell's wrath.  I Think she has a really big connection with God if you know what I mean Looks like Thanos Even as a ring on is that the affinity stone on his ring I ain't calling him father.   He's holding a pistol Get her next Look at her.  She is fascinated by a human being right now. Look at her. She's she feel she's looking at him Like he's God That ring the ring I think so too that that ring is glowing that ain't no ring from hot topic man.    Shoot your brains out. Okay, daddy.   Oh My god, this was pointing at him Love the show might be a demon slayer with the comedy and the drama But it's different different setting.    I don't understand what I'm looking at right now Why are they just looking at him like it's nothing like look at Alphonse. He's like hey, dude So what are you in here for it's an Alphonse or Alphonsey? I'm just gonna call him out.   What's wrong pussy get a good taste. Oh my god I should say that to the next girl I'm with Pussy I can't believe you said that I must start taking my shirt off like that third string they gotta stop doing that Oh Look at that angle before the commercial break the intermission. It was like a different angle, but then they showed it through her eyes Look at that Damn you're changing her beliefs on the spot like that.   That's my motto for life.  That's my motto Man, I don't trust any priest especially after this episode. Oh Man, man, man, man, man, man.  Why is this guy smiling with a pistol in his hand? Aren't you supposed to be a servant of God this way? I don't believe in religious people I'm sorry if you're religious. I love you, but like these people know when they're like this Look at this guy the music in a show the score in general is phenomenal. I love it. It's so unique to the show It's not like a very cliche theme that throws in every show like it's very unique to this show It makes me how many times am I gonna say show Now she's gonna worship them You don't know I mean this is an emotional scene. I shouldn't make jokes Listen to this music man, this guy's in the studio I love it. That's the karmic in nature of the path we chose I love it My girl better be this devoted when I die Shit the right ending the father Ricky Dink This Ricky Dink I'm gonna start saying that Man, you're not gonna make it past this episode what are you talking about?  No, this is funny your third string Love it. I love his attitude This guy's face this guy is gonna find the nearest roof in about a minute Oh Edrick elder Rick.  How do you say his name?  It's the guy my foot. Oh my god.  I'm gonna throw it at you.   I should have known as a third episode. They're not getting this stone Ed Ed Eddie Ed boy is episode three You're not finding this stone and it's what like 60 plus episodes You got another 60 or something to go buddy. You ain't getting this stone right now. He ain't seeing his body anytime soon oh My god Oh daddy, okay. Oh my god. I mean, that's all they can say honestly You got two fine legs Eddie. Oh My god, buddy.  I see what you were doing You want to perform alchemy all right? He's like alchemy. I want an orgy Evil girls back. Oh my god. Oh, I'm ready Yes, camera angle. Yes. Oh God, I would thank her. I even know I'm dead. I'd find a way to thank you for that You could put your finger through my head Who does she call father? You know not a lot happened in this episode, but I still really enjoyed it Like it gave me more of Ed's and Al's Personality it showed us what this world is gonna be like the the world outside Looking in like how they see alchemy what they do They're praising this false god who turns out to be a fraud and then he dies at the end So not a lot happened, but a lot happened at the same time and I still really enjoyed it So there's no complaints on my side. I want to know in the comments Who do you guys relate with more Al or Ed personally?  I'm sure you know that but yeah, it's gonna be it for today's video guys I'm gone. Good. Bye