Okay, hello, everyone. How are you? Happy anniversary of the Satoshi's White Paper, ten years. They are ten in binary counting. Okay, so today I'm going to basically talk about kind of Ethereum 2.0, but not just from a technical point of view, but more from the point of view of why Ethereum 2.0, what is Ethereum 2.0, and kind of how we got here, right? So, what is Ethereum 2.0, first of all? Ethereum 2.0 is this kind of combination of a bunch of different features that we've been talking about for several years, researching for several years, actively building for several years that are finally going to come together into this one coherent whole. And these features include proof of stake, Casper, scalability, sharding, virtual machine improvements, Iwazum, improvements to cross-channel contract logic, improvements to protocol economics, and really the list goes on and on, and there is some power distribution. So, lots of great stuff. Now, how did we get here, right? So, the road to proof of stake actually started way back in 2014 with this blog post that I published in January describing this algorithm called Slasher, which was introduced kind of the really most basic concept in a lot of proof of stake algorithms, which is this idea that if you get caught doing something wrong, then this can be proven, and you can be penalized for it, and how this can be used to increase security, but at the time, as you can see from the slide, I believe that quote Slasher is a useful construct to have in our war chest in case proof of stake mining becomes substantially more popular or a compelling reason to switch, but we're not doing that yet. So, at the time, it was not even clear yet that proof of stake is even the direction that we're going, but as we know now, over time, that changed quite a lot. So, what happened in 2014? So, first of all, went through a bunch of kind of interesting and aborted ideas. Proof of proof of work was this kind of suggestion to try to improve scalability. Hub and spoke chains. So, basically, you kind of have one chain in the middle and a bunch of chains on the edges. This was a kind of very early scalability and sharding proposal that tried to improve scalability for local transactions, but not for transactions that are global, so not for transactions that jump from one shard to another. Hypercubes. So, basically, accept the cube should have 12 dimensions instead of three. So, we can get even more scalability with hubs and spokes by going with hypercubes. Now, unfortunately, for various reasons, this idea ended up getting abandoned, but someone else has a big ICO to make it work, so happy someone is trying it out. So, in 2014, there was still some progress, right? So, there was this concept of weak subjectivity that we came up with, which was this kind of semi-formal security model that tried to capture the idea of under what conditions are proof of stake deposits and slashing and all of these concepts actually secure. Also, kind of, we got more and more certain that algorithms with much stronger properties than the proof of stake algorithms that existed at the time, so things like peer coin and all of its derivatives were actually possible, and a kind of growing understanding that there was some kind of proof of stake scalability strategy that you could somehow do through random sampling, but we had no idea how. And we had a roadmap. So, there was this nice blog post from Vinay Gupta in March 2015, where he outlines the four big stages of Ethereum's roadmap at the time. Stage one, frontier, Ethereum launching, yay. Stage two, homestead, which is kind of going from alpha to beta. Stage three, metropolis, which at the time was supposed to be about missed and user interfaces and improving user experience, but since then, the focus has switched more to enabling strong cryptography, but interface work is still going forward in parallel. And stage four, serenity, proof of stake. So, from now on, we're not going to call it Ethereum 2.0. I also refuse to use the word Chasper because I find it insanely lame. We'll call it serenity. So, after this came a bit of a winter, so we had a bunch of different kind of abortive attempts at solving some of the core problems in proof of stake, some of the core problems in scalability, research on Casper quietly began, Vlad kind of quietly began doing all of his work on Casper CBC. One of the first interesting ideas was this kind of idea of consensus by bet, where basically people would kind of bet on which block becomes finalized next, and then once more people bet on a block, that itself becomes information that gets fed into other people's bets. And so, the idea is that you would have this kind of recursive formula where more and more people would bet more and more strongly on a block over time, and after a logarithmic number of rounds, everyone would be betting their entire money on a block, and that would be called finality. We actually took this idea really far. We created an entire proof of concept for it, and you could see it finalized, and you could see here is a signature function. It burns most of our time on this, but then that and whole idea kind of ended up going away basically once we realized how to make kind of proper BFT-inspired consensus actually work sanely. Rent. So, this is the idea that instead of charging a big one-time fee for filling storage, we would kind of charge fees over time. So, basically, for every day or every block or whatever that some storage slot is filled, you would have to kind of pay some amount of ether for it. And there is this one EIP number 35 that I tried to call EIP 103, but really it was EIP number 35 because that was the issue number that takes precedence. And this is one of the really early ideas that trying to kind of formalize this concept, and we've had many iterations on the idea of how to implement and rent maximally nicely since then. There was also this scalability paper that we tried to do back in 2015. And this tried to kind of formalize the idea of kind of quadratic sharding, super quadratic sharding, but it was very complicated. It had these kind of very complicated escalation games. It had the a lot of them were kind of inspired by ideas of how escalation works in court systems, an analogy that I know Joseph with Plasma really loves to use as well, but we tried to use it for the base layer. Deep state reversions. So basically, if something goes wrong, then potentially large portions of the state could kind of get reverted even fairly far into the future. So there was a bunch of complexity, right? Now, one of the fundamental problems that we couldn't quite capture, but that we were kind of event slowly inching towards was this idea of the Fisherman's Dilemma. And this is a fundamentally and very fundamental concept in sharding research that basically describes the big difference between scaling execution of state and scaling execution of programs versus scaling availability of data. And the problem basically is that with execution of programs, you can have people commit to what the answer is, and you can later kind of play a game and try to kind of binary search your way to who actually made a mistake. And you can penalize everyone who made a mistake after the fact. The problem with data availability is that whatever the game is, you can cheat the game because you can just not publish any data at all until the mechanism tries to check if you published it and only then do you publish just the data that the mechanism checked for.  And I wrote this a blog post, it's called a note on a ratio coding and data availability that describes some of the issues in more detail. But still, this was one of the things that delayed us, but even still, we were happily making progress, Ethereum was moving forward, we were on our way. Wait, then this happened. Okay, no more problems. Oh, wait, then this happened. So the Dow hack, the DOS attacks, all of that ended up delaying a lot of people's time and attention by potentially up to six months. But even still, work moved forward, EWASM moved forward, the work on the virtual machine moved forward, and work on alternatives, things like EVM 1.5 moved forward. And people were still continuing to kind of get a better and better idea of basically what a more optimal blockchain algorithm would look like from many different angles. So after this, we started making huge progress and very quickly. So during all of this time, there were these different strands of research that were going on. Some of them around proof of stake and trying to do base layer consensus more efficiently. Some of them were around scalability and trying to shard base layer consensus. Some of them were around improving the efficiency of the virtual machine. Some of them were around things like abstraction that would allow people to use whatever signature algorithms they wanted for their accounts, which could provide post-quantum security. It would make it easier to make privacy solutions among a bunch of other benefits, protocol economic improvements. And really all these things were still happening all the way through. So at some point around the beginning of 2017, we came up with this protocol that we gave this very kind of unambitious name of a minimal slashing conditions. And minimal slashing conditions was basically a kind of translation of PBFT-style traditional Byzantine consensus. So the same sort of stuff that was done by Lamport, Dworklyn, Stockmire, and all those wonderful people back in the 1980s, but simplifying it and kind of carrying it forward into more of a blockchain context. So the idea basically is that in a blockchain, you just keep on having these new blocks appear over time, and you can gain these nice kind of pipelining efficiencies by merging sequence numbers and views. Every time a new round starts, you would add new data into the round. You can also have the second kind of round of confirmation for one piece of data be the first round of confirmation for the next piece of data, and you can really kind of get a huge amount of efficiency gain out of all of that. So the first part was the step was minimal slashing conditions, which had six slashing conditions. Then it went down to four. And finally about half a year later, we ended up merging prepares and commits. And this gave us Casper, the friendly finality gadget, Casper FFG. So last year at DEF CON, I presented this new sharding design that basically kept the main chain and then created sharding as a kind of layer two system on top of the existing main chain that would then kind of get upgraded to being the layer one once it gets solid enough. From Vlad, the Casper CBC paper, the Casper FFG proof of concept. December 31, 2017, 2340, Bangkok time, because we happened to be in Thailand at the time. Basically what happened here is we pretty much managed to nail down what the spec of a version of hybrid proof of stake would look like. And this version of hybrid proof of stake would basically use the ideas from Casper FFG, use these kind of sharding as a kind of traditional Byzantine fault tolerant consensus inspired ideas of how to do proof of stake on top of the existing proof of work chain. So this would be a mechanism that would allow us to get to hybrid proof of stake fairly quickly with actually a fairly minimal level of disruption to the existing block chain. And then the theory is that we would be able to upgrade to full proof of stake over time. And we got very far along in this direction. And there was a test that there were Python clients, there were messages going between different VPSs and different servers and different computers. And it got very far. And at the same time, we were making a lot of progress on sharding. So we continued working on the sharding spec. Eventually we had this retreat in Taipei in March. And around here, a lot of the ideas around how to implement a sharded block chain seemed to solidify. Seemed to solidify. So in June, we made this kind of very difficult, but I think in the long-term really very beneficial and valuable decision, which is that we said that, hey, over here, we have a bunch of teams that are trying to implement hybrid proof of stake. And they're trying to do the Casper FFG thing, build the Casper FFG implementation as a smart contract inside of the existing block chain, make a few tweaks to the fortress rule. Then over here, we had a completely separate group that was trying to make a sharding system that was trying to make a validator manager contract that was later renamed into a sharding manager contract on the main chain. And that was trying to build a sharding system on top of that. These groups were kind of not talking to each other too much. Then on the sharding side, it eventually became clear that we would get much more efficiency by making the kind of core of the sharding system not be a contract on the proof of work chain, but instead be its own proof of stake chain. And because that way we could make validation much more efficient, we did not have to deal with EVM overhead. We did not have to deal with gas. We would not have to deal with unpredictable proof of work block times. We could make block times faster, along with a whole bunch of other efficiencies, and we realized, hey, we're working on proof of stake here. We're working on proof of stake here. Why are we doing two separate proof of stake things again? And so we decided to just merge the two together. This did end up kind of nullifying a lot of work that came before, but what it meant is that instead of working on these two separate implementations, we were working together on this one spec, this one protocol that would get us the benefits of Casper proof of stake and sharding essentially at the same time. So basically, instead of trying to go to one destination, then go to another destination, then later on have this massive work of figuring out how to merge the two, we would just take a path which would take a little longer at the beginning, but the place that it gets to actually is a proof of stake and sharded blockchain with the properties that we're looking for. So in the meantime, we spent a lot of time arguing about fork chouist rules. We ended up kind of getting closer and closer and deeper into realizing that fork chouist rules based on ghost, the greedy heaviest observed subtree algorithm that was originally intended for proof of work, but repurposed by us for proof of stake made a huge amount of sense. We were, Justin started doing research on verifiable delay functions. We had this workshop at Stanford and we made a lot of progress on verifiable delay functions there and Justin is still collaborating with a lot of researchers from there. More ideas on how to do abstraction, how to do this idea where individual users could choose their own signature algorithms for their accounts. More ideas on rent, which we decided to rename to storage maintenance fees for political reasons. And research. So there is a lot of work on cross-shard transactions. So, for example, there is this post I made on cross-shard contract yanking, which kind of generalizes the traditional distributed systems concept of locking into something that makes sense in this kind of asynchronous cross-shard context. Also wrote this paper on resource pricing, which includes ideas about a kind of optimized and much more efficient fee market, along with storage, how to do storage maintenance fees and why, and the different trade-offs between different ways of setting them. And Casey here at DTRIO wrote this post on doing synchronous cross-shard transactions. And of course, in the meantime, Casper CBC research also expanded into kind of Casper CBC's own brand of sharding, which is totally not called velarding because Vlad absolutely hates that term. So, development, right? So, there's one of the kind of key strategies that we tried to really push forward in the Ethereum 2.0 path is the idea of kind of multi-client decentralized development. And this wasn't just a kind of because we have an ideological belief in decentralization. This was also a kind of very pragmatic strategy to basically hedge your bet, first of all, hedge your bets against the possibility that any one software development team would not perform well. Second, because we already, we have plenty of experience from the Shanghai DOS attacks of how there are plenty of cases where if one client has a bug, having other clients being available allows the network to continue running better. Also, wanting to kind of make the development ecosystem less dependent on the foundation itself. So, the client that the Ethereum foundation works on is actually the Python client. And so, it has plenty of use cases, but in Python, just as a language has inherent performance limitations and so, there's always going to be an incentive to try running the stuff built by the wonderful folks at Prismatic and Lighthouse and Status and Pegasus and all the other teams that are popping up seemingly every month. So, soon, something which is totally not going to be called Chasper, Serenity Begins. Yay! Right, so, what is Serenity? So, first of all, it's the fourth stage after Frontier and Homestead and Metropolis, and where Metropolis is broken down into Byzantium and Constantinople with Constantinople coming very soon as well. And it's a realization of all of these different strands of research that we have been spending all of our time on for the last four years, right? So, this includes Casper and not just Hybrid Casper, 100% organic, genuine, pure Casper. Sharding, E-Wassam, and all of these other prion of protocol research ideas. This is a new blockchain in the sense of being a data structure, but it has this kind of link to the existing proof-of-work chain, right? So, the proof-of-stake chain would be aware of the block caches of the proof-of-work chain. You would be able to move Ether from the proof-of-work chain into the proof-of-stake chain. So, it's a new system, but it's a connected system, and the kind of long-term goal is that once this new system is stable enough, then basically all of the applications on the existing blockchain can be sort of folded into a contract on one shard of the new system that would kind of be an EVM interpreter written in E-Wassam, and not finalized, but this seems to kind of roughly be where the roadmap is going at this point. Serenity is also the world computer as it's really meant to be, not a smartphone from 1999 that can process 15 transactions per second and maybe potentially place nake. And it's still decentralized, and we hope that in many metrics it can be even more decentralized than today. So, for example, as a beacon chain validator, your storage requirements at this point seem like they'll be under one gigabyte as compared to something like eight gigabytes of state storage today, and the 1.8 terabytes that trolls on the internet seem to think the Ethereum blockchain requires for some stupid reason. Expected phases. So, phase zero, beacon chain proof-of-stake, and beacon chain proof-of-stake is kind of, the blockchain is not kind of hold any information, right? It's kind of like a dummy chain. So, all that you have is you have validators, and these validators are executing and they're running the proof-of-stake algorithm. So, this is kind of like halfway between a testnet and a mainnet. It's not quite a testnet because you would be able to actually stake real ether and earn real rewards on it, but it's also not quite a mainnet because it doesn't have applications, and so if it breaks, people are hopefully not going to cry too badly as they would, as they did when the Shanghai DOS attacks made everyone's ICOs go slowly. Phase one, shards as data chains. So, basically the idea here is that this is where the kind of sharding part turns on, right? So, here it's just, it's a kind of simplified version that doesn't do sharding of state, it does sharding of data. So, you can throw data on the chain, you could try to make just do a state execution engine yourself, but really the simplest thing to use it for is data. And so, if you want to do a decentralized Twitter on a blockchain, you'll now have the scalability to do this, but you won't really have the kind of all of the state execution capability to build smart contract applications and all of the really fancy complex stuff. Phase two, enable state transitions, and this includes enabling the virtual machine, enabling accounts, contracts, ether, ether moving between shards, all of this cool stuff. And phase three and beyond, iterate, improve, add technology. So, expected features, peer proof of stake, faster time to synchronous confirmation, so about 8 to 16 seconds. Now, notice that because of how the fork choice rule and the signing mechanism works in the beacon chain, one confirmation in the beacon chain involves messages from hundreds of validators. And so, from a probabilistic point of view, it's actually equivalence to hundreds of confirmations of, say, the Ethereum proof-of-work chain. So, under a synchronous model, you should be able to treat one block as being close to final. Economic finality and safety under a synchrony comes after 10 to 20 minutes. And fast virtual machine execution via eWASM, and hopefully a thousand times higher scalability, we will see. Post-serendity innovation, improvements in privacy. So, there has already been a lot of work done. So, for example, in Byzantium, we activated the pre-compiles for elliptic curve operations and elliptic curve pairings, and Barry White had spent doing great work on building layer 2 solutions to preserve privacy of coin transfers, voting, reputation systems, and all of this work could be carried over. Cross-sharp transactions, semi-private chains, so the idea here is that if you want to build some application where the data is kept private between a few users, you could still dump all the data on the public chain, but you would just dump it in an encrypted form. Or you could dump hashes of it and use your knowledge proofs, like your choice. Proof of stake improvements, there's definitely a place in our hard and the road map's hard for CASPER CBC when it becomes clear that it's like, that there is a kind of a version that makes sense from an overhead point of view. Post-serendity innovation, so at some point we have, well, we want to, and we do have a door open to kind of upgrade everything to Starks, so using Starks for signature aggregation, for verifying erasure codes for data availability checks, maybe eventually for checking correctness of state execution, maybe stronger forms of cross-sharp transactions, faster single confirmations, getting the confirmation time down from 8 seconds even lower. Medium-term goals, eventually stabilize at least the kind of functionality of layer 1, think about issuance, think about fees, agree more and more over time on kind of what specific guarantees people expect from the protocol and things that people expect as features for the protocol to have for a long time, think about governance. Now, what's next immediately, so what happens before kind of the big launch? Well, first of all, stabilizing the protocol spec, so for those who have been watching this for a long time, you can go to www.hub.com. This spec has been kind of moving fairly quickly, but it will stabilize fairly soon. Continue development and testing, there's something like eight implementations of the Ethereum 2.0 protocol happening now. Cross-client test nets, so I believe Afri made a statement that he hopes to see cross-client work really picking up in Q1 next year. We'll see. That would be definitely nice to see a kind of test net working between two implementations. Honestly, it would be nice to see a test net working between one implementation. Really, so as a kind of quick history, I'm aside. The Ethereum 1.0 development, time between conception of the white paper and launch, 19 months, part of the reason why it took so long is because we tried to get kind of cross-client compatibility way before the spec even finished. And so we had to agree, test, release the test net, await protocol changes, agree test, release the test net, await more protocol changes, and we had about five cycles of this. This time around, we have the luxury of kind of learning from that lesson, and we don't really need to kind of focus on cross-client compatibility until we have something close to a release candidate of the spec. But I think we're actually not that far from a release candidate of the spec, at least for kind of limited portions that don't include a state execution. So we'll see. Security audits. Who here think that's a good idea? We'll see. Security audits. Who here think security audits are important? Who here think security audits are not important? Who here thinks the world is literally controlled by Lizardman? Okay, so more people for the third of the second. That's good to hear. And then once we're done with that, launch. Who here thinks launching is not important? Okay. Who here thinks that your favorite political candidate is literally a Lizardman? Okay. So launch. There we go. That's basically the milestone that we've all been waiting for, that we've been working toward for the last four to five years, and a milestone which is really no longer so far away. So thank you. What? Oh, sorry. Okay. Enjoy.


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You're listening to Barbell Logic brought to you by Barbell Logic Online Coaching where each week we take a systematic walk through strength training and the refining power of voluntary hardship Welcome to the Barbell Logic podcast and happy Father's Day to you all all the guys are listening to us And you know everybody else is listening to us. You guys have dads too And so happy Father's Day to all happy Father's Day to you Chris. Happy Father's Day to you Matt. Thank you So we were we thought to be fun for Father's Day Just to take a little stroll down memory lane and we're gonna talk mostly about our memories of Of our lives growing up and then also what it was like in our early years of lifting we haven't talked about that a lot and also our perception of the other during those times would be would will be fun to talk about but First off want to say happy Father's Day to dad. I made a very emotional post on on my Instagram a year ago I don't really post on Instagram anymore about dad and said that that would be my last Father's Day with dad And it still might be because we're recording this a little bit ahead But I saw dad for the first time yesterday in about five months They let me finally go in and see him in the kind of early post COVID and You know it was tough. So he wasn't he's not in good shape He's in he's in hospice and the guy's dying and But man, he was a great dad and I'm thankful for him he loved our mom and loved us tremendously and treated us well and Taught us a lot of good lessons and also there were a lot of lessons. I wish he had taught us that he didn't but but I learned lessons there. I actually think that's a good thing because I've learned things that I said to myself these are lessons are important for me to teach my kids because because my dad didn't teach me that and I don't hold any animosity there against him at all Man, he did the best he could and again I think the most important thing is that you you love your kids well and he loved us well So happy Father's Day to dad who will definitely not listen to this but mom probably will so happy Father's Day to to mom as well and And yeah, it's I'm I'm ready for for pops to to not have to suffer anymore. That's for sure It was such a fascinating thing I I learned so much from dad, especially in the last In the last several years that I was especially that I was in Springfield and we were able to take these fishing trips together and stuff. It was just Definitely in early life. I mean like nobody knows what they're doing as a dad, you know, and he didn't either But his ability to reflect on it later Was fantastic and I got very cathartic. Oh extremely so I mean that he could say even himself like whoo I didn't do well on that, you know And some of the things we were just tells a story that was kind of funny from our childhood and dad would be like Oh, I didn't I didn't do that. Well you know, but you learn a lot through that process and He was so good at Really at listening to something that he disagreed with agreeably that was also something's fascinating So dad and I saw the world from very different perspectives But could talk to each other and and be good friends at the end of it Which was yeah, that's you not everybody has that relationship with a parent And so I appreciate that Yeah, the three of us especially on things like religion we set on three really different areas Like it wasn't sort of a two against one sort of thing. It was like it was actually probably more that dad was kind of in the mid dad was like traditional Evangelical orthodoxy that's kind of what he was right and I'm not that and you're not that and you and I are Unopposite and we were able to have good conversations about on those fishing trip We always love the fishing trips for the for the road trip more than the actual fishing and very rarely would we actually get Step in the water Matt and I got to the point in the last ones where we just let dad wander off We'd make sure that like he didn't float down the river But then he would he and I would just sit there and just chat while we watched dad because dad wanted to fish like dad Yeah, but Matt and I just wanted to take a you know Three-hour road trip and then turn around and take it back home tell stories and talk to dad So which is what this is gonna be today. Yeah, that's what we're gonna do So we're gonna do a little a little stroll down memory lane So we've said this before we were raised Incredibly poor below the poverty line. I was I was I was born in Houston, Texas But but my first four years of life was in Springfield But very early on and when you were a tiny baby, we moved to Memphis, Tennessee Yep for dad to go to seminary and My perception of you as a little kid Very tough very stubborn We're probably gonna grow up to not be very smart I've heard that Yeah, in your in your in your adult life I you are Very tough very stubborn less so than you were as a kid for sure And oddly enough you turned out really bright.  Yeah, they can bam-bam bam-bam you were bam-bam That was exactly who you were growing up. You were bam-bam. Yeah What is your perception of what your young years like what kind of person were mean in those early days? It's really hard to reflect on yourself. You know when when you're young like I actually think I I remember more about Feeling scared a lot which I think is sort of on the outside it must have manifested itself as toughness because I felt like I needed to be but You know, I think I think I'm probably a little more driven by the emotion of fear than Than I realized when I was young Yeah, that's interesting. What is your perception of me as a kid?  I mean We had like this Incredible for the fact that we had no money and like I mean as an adult now I realized just how little money we had like we had no money Our childhood was really good. Like we went out and played baseball basically every day We rode bikes together. We did all kinds of stuff.  I just broke your finger and your finger was broken in a half and turned sideways Yeah, I was like also. I'm kind of thirsty. You'll give me some milk I can actually literally remember standing in the kitchen holding the the gallon of milk with my index finger pointed Straight up and just doing it with these extra fingers and going like why is he making me do this? Horrible horrible.  I don't want to tell the details I want to make sure you know, I don't want to make sure people Truly inappropriate, but it was but it was it was a thing that I felt I harbored a lot of guilt about For for years and so But now I think you and I got along really really well in general, you know We fought like brothers fight and it was but it was like Boy fight and stuff most that was fun. Yeah, it was sports and football Like we get in fights because somebody would tackle somebody too hard in football like we literally basically our whole life We're bicycles Baseball basketball and football and not not team sports because we lived in towns where boys the You couldn't you couldn't go beyond that we couldn't be in the public It was just it was the 80s and there was crack and we lived in a rough town and mom and dad chose to protect us from that and You know and there was probably the right call although a few years later when we went to a public school for the first time It was an eye-opener.  So I kind of just kind of I I Strolled right into the second grade and immediately Ruled the fight. I ruled out. I mean just do fine. I've led the thing and so you think a lot of that is because Like one you didn't have you didn't have those social You know, you didn't have self-esteem issues from having sort of poor social interactions because you were so young And then also, do you think some of it is we've talked about this on the podcast in the past that you you played with me and all My friends and we were older than you and absolutely beat the shit out of you And you were like man if I can if I can hang From you know being bullied by Matt and his friends and play sports with Matt and his friends You can dominate the second grade.    This is yeah, so it was just Yeah, it had a big effect. I'm watching it with my own children. I mean my I've got the same setup You know boy boy girl and similar distance and my middle son is just fearless and yes It's because terrifyingly so yeah terrifyingly fearless and he he is Dominant in pretty much anything he wants to do It's fascinating and and and your oldest son is very eloquent is a he's a good speaker. He's very smart Yep, he is very risk averse very risk averse Yeah, right and I would say that was me growing up like certainly When we were younger if somebody had said like who's the one that's gonna be the entrepreneur and the risky one It would have been you and who's the one that's gonna that's gonna be an engineer and work at an engineering firm But not own the engineering firm. It's gonna be me and like my identity as a kid I think was wrapped up in I was smart and I was known that I was smart and I was a pretty good athlete. I was a decent athlete, but I was a ginormous sissy Like I was very I was very weak and again I think if I look back, you know, certainly there's a part of me that would love to go back And you know if you knew then what you know now, but I also think that I wouldn't be I Wouldn't have got into powerlifting. I wouldn't have started doing strong man I wouldn't have ended up opening strong gym or done online coaching had barbed logic had I not Later in life looked back on those years with disdain and embarrassment for being a sissy. Yeah and decided Decided to be like I can't be weak anymore. I have to be strong Well, I mean that that's what that's what I did too. It just didn't look that way on the outside I mean the first weights that we got we got from my birthday right when I was 11 and You know, it was in response to our cousin Phil had got a weight set himself and we at Christmas Saw each other and Phil was jacked. We were like and hit puberty early. Yeah I mean, I remember going over so he lived we we lived two or three hours apart and I can very clear Phil was and is to this day and it's if you ever listen to this will be fine. Phil's a nerdy Guy now he's less nerdy today than he was then right like he is really like his social skills have Blossomed but he was a nerdy heat that guy was super into computer programming when he was like seven He was programming computers and playing Sega Genesis video games and piano and every instrument else Oh, yeah, and also as a musical savant And so when we played sports or wrestled we would often have our wrestling I don't remember this so we would we would wrestle and the way you win is you would you would wrestle until someone would pass out You would you would put them in a chokehold until they went limp. Yep. That's how it was As little boys and we weren't 15 doing this We were we were seven and nine doing this and of course, you know We just we just beat the hell out of Phil and then one year we came down as early summer I think it's what I think it was summer and we came and he had hit puberty and Gone to a garage sale and bought a set of weights and started lifting and like you do he had no idea what he's doing You know, I don't even think it was a barbell. I think it was dumbbells.   I actually remember showing a kid like what is going on here?  Again not a talk that we ever really had with dad dad is not ever like hey I remember telling dad one time like dad. I got abs check it out and I was like see this I got a line that goes straight down. I got these abs.  And so yeah I can remember the day that I was like a realization that I was tougher than my father and and I at 15 I Was still pretty weak like I hadn't gotten into weightlifting at all. That wasn't really my thing I didn't discover that until later in high school. And so Let me ask you this and then we'll move on to kind of the early lifting days more of the lifting days My identity I felt like in high school and I've often used the term. It was I was painfully average, right? I was smart and I was known for being smart. It's where the top top of the class I was a little bit lazy So my teachers were frustrated with me because I was always the guy that would do really well in the finals and do Really well on the standardized tests and like not have the greatest grades because I was just like not interested And and I was a I was a pretty good slash decent athlete And so I could hold my own in sports and I was pretty smart But like outside of that You know, I was just sort of forgettable and I wonder for you. You were always Very tough and very good at sports but like we mentioned you had a reputation at least among the family being condom in the early years and Something can you remember when the transition occurred where you felt did you one?  Did you feel that there was a transition and we're like holy shit? I'm actually smarter than everybody else now. I never felt dumb. I Did not care about school at all whenever the in the in kindergarten in first grade Second grade is when the blossoms started to occur We went to public school and I was like hmm all these other kids are here and I think I'm smarter than all of them And so whenever they took we took the standardized test I guess I did exceptionally well on that and they put me in the gifted program after that and Once once I realized what I was capable of then it that that sort of turned it around But I still didn't really think of myself as being I knew I was one of the smartest kids in class In the third grade But I was much more focused on the athletic side of things. I mean I I remember You know again just on the playground, but it was At Cotter they played basketball like they played school basketball in elementary school You wore your school Cotter Jersey and played basketball, right?   They were like three at bats the whole season where you didn't hit a home run Like one was a double and maybe two singles. I don't even know if you ever got out the entire time I mean it was it was bizarre.  You know they're like he doesn't play football. You don't play football I wanted to play football dad wouldn't let me play football.  I'm glad I quit. Yeah, it's a great. I'm actually back now I'm like, oh man think about it. Yeah, same for me So we got out of I got out of high school and at the end of your high school years Yeah, I floundered around for a few years in college lifting. I would have said that I was bodybuilding I never was interested in the actual sport of bodybuilding that seemed ridiculous and then The infamous day that I found the Dave Tate article on what is now TMAG T nation that used to be called testosterone net and he wrote an article many years ago 20 years ago about how to bench-press 600 pounds and I discovered West Side Barbell printed out Hundreds of pages of articles from Dave Tate and Louis Simmons And then we all went to Destin, Florida on a family vacation And we read those articles on the beach and went to the Barnes and Noble in Destin in like 99 maybe 99 and And bought our first two powerlifting USA's Yep, one of which had had all the West Side crew on the cover and we were in and all of a sudden we that we entered into that Stage where it was powerlifting full bore for several years. That was crazy. It was crazy times I mean, I was about to get married when it when we really decided we were gonna start competing and I was a hundred and 70 pounds I think at our first powerlifting competition in Tulsa Yep, and I remember going into that competition and it was just I just felt silly I mean, I was like around these other guys and they were huge and I was not but I still at a hundred and seventy pounds that Competition I deadlifted 500 pounds and I was you know, which isn't bad for somebody hasn't really done it very much I think everything else was pretty terrible, but you know, my deadlift was decent and and Three months later after that competition, we competed at Eagle Gym in St. Louis Yep, and I competed at 220. Yeah from 170 to 220 and I took nothing Right, I'm not kidding. There was no I really just we ate so much food and it was it was terrible food It was McDonald's. I a lot of burger every day. That's right. That's right It was massive amounts of McDonald's. It was pizza with oil poured on it. It was canola oil Why we chose canola oil?  So which I think is made from corn husks or something Yeah, canola oil we pour that in our protein shakes like just to get calories Because all we cared about was getting strong. Yeah, and so uh, yeah, and we gained a ton of weight and There were no there are no performance enhancing drugs Yet for me especially There was just it was just food it was just food and milk and and and we were you know You were 18 or 19 years old and I was 20 or 21 years old and we were like the perfect age and that's the other thing is like We had so much testosterone running through our veins Naturally because we were the perfect age and doing the right stuff to be able to have that that our bodies just grew and I Remember how how fun it was we those early years we would go train it at St. John's Fitness Center, right? It was a hospital it was a hospital gym Yeah, and we would add weight and add weight and add weight and I mean for years We could just we just added weight to the bar literally every workout for you know We talked about this and I would love to note I need to go back and see what I have my old training logs I think it'd be a really fun thing to like scan and publish at some point like on barbecue at my original training log I mean embarrassing, but but you could just see that and I kept all my PRs in the back You know and so I can still go back and see what my one rep max PR squad is my three rep my five rep my box squat And we did Westside in those early days, right? There was no it wasn't like novice linear progression stuff It was just I mean it was linear progression because we got heavier every single time right But we did a big variation and exercises in those early days and just got strong it got big I can remember I'll remember like it was yesterday the first time I stepped on the scale and it said 200 Yeah, when I crossed the 200 pound barrier I can remember the first time that I bench-press 300 pounds like it was yesterday the first time I bench-press 315 That same thing the first time I deadlifted 500 was in that st. John's fitness center that looked in 500 and then You remember those remember doing the the old SLP powerlifting great at st. John's fitness center and it was just a Bench press and deadlift to the meat very clearly and I had I had performed I had had a Car accident happened right in front of me the day before and I had performed rescue breasts and CPR on a girl who died on me while I was while I was performing CPR and And it was weird in the moment it was surreal and I was just you're just going and I had been trained in CPR At first aid it was actually had actually was coming home from renewing the license. That was what was also really strange And I went into that meat not thinking about powerlifting not thinking about lifting couldn't care less It was couldn't get it out of my mind trying to save this girl's life and her dying on me And for the first time ever our family and our parents who were not supportive in general of powerlifting Showed up to support us and cheer us on at this meet and I had one of the best meets of my life That now this was in the early days. I was benching in a bench shirt. I benched 525 in a bench shirt Old denim bench shirt and I and I deadlifted conventional raw It was my first 600 pound deadlift was there and I can remember you didn't have to wear a singlet and I was wearing Like basketball shorts and a t-shirt and I and I pulled 600 in basketball shorts and a t-shirt And so that was was a blast those days we trained out at my old house in Republic, Missouri in a little bedroom and and had started training with with Dave Gullage who was Far more Athletically talented than us and showed up and he's bigger and stronger than us the first great lesson for me on Always making sure that the people that you if you're doing something you want to improve on Making sure that you're you're doing that around surrounding yourself with people that are better than you like Dave when they walked in I Was afraid there were a lot of weights I was afraid of right and when Dave walked in and just Obliterated those for yes, you know ten reps or something that I was like. Oh, okay. We got We put a hundred pounds on every lift after Dave's right there from training with Dave No, that's there's no doubt it and he was a great training partner. He was always He was always there always on time didn't call in sick humble humble guy like never super That's right. That's right quiet was you know happy to help if you ask for help Was a couple years younger than me was probably he was about your age, right? Barely older than me. Yeah, just yeah, so between the two of us and to put things in perspective Well, I would have said we were decently strong at the time So so I in my world I think of us being equally as strong and in those days maybe one of us were a little stronger than the other doesn't matter You know, we were doing like maybe we do a two board press like a west side two board press Where you put two, you know two by four or two by six is on your chest and we bench We go up to you know, 315 335 and do it for a triple and then Dave would do it for 585 for a triple raw 565 for seriously It was we box what 500 and be like we are so strong 500 box what and then he'd box what 830 the same day The same workout. He just keep going up.  He did an 800 pound conventional deadlift in a meat in a meat Uh, crazy. So those days were awesome. They were fun.  Yeah, and so I mean Oklahoma's strongest man. Yeah, not bad Not bad for like it was it was uh, and I a lot of fun But I couldn't keep up. I knew I couldn't keep up with the training regimen if I was going to start a company So, um, you know, I had to I had to stop and then you you kept going I mean you kept going I think it created a natural transition for me because we had power lifted together We had just started doing strongman together But we're super green as far as strongman goes and then your company started to take off and you're like, okay I'm taking a Yeah, I'm gonna I'm just I can't train can't do this anymore And I went full bore on the strongman stuff and won my pro card the next year And an open strong gym a year and a half after that and it was kind of off to the races And of course, I'd never thought that would be a career I just thought it would be like the super intense habit Like passion that I that I you know like a hobby a hobby not a habit That I had but an intense one Um, and you know, it's uh, obviously it's it's worked out. So, um, and those were good days by the way Phil Ended up coming in and training with us for a while. Yeah, uh later in life It was funny and then we had caught up and then passed him Uh, and he and actually to this day Phil's got a really nice like rogue set up at his house And he still goes in and he he does all the basic stuff But he's one of those guys was like not not really interested in ever squatting or you know, I want to bench I never would have benched more than 225. I want to be always be able to do 225 for 10 Like that's kind of Phil right and squat and deadlift a little bit But he's got and he's got a great setup and he still does all the basic lifts He doesn't care about it being he's like as long as I maintain my strength for the rest of my life I'm fine. Uh, but yeah, I remember I let when I stopped powerlifting So at that slp meet that you talked about that was uh, st. Johns. I was 262 That was the heaviest that I ever got After that meet I and and we finished Um strong man, I think it competed strong man at 220 So I was kind of coming back down and then I ended up about 220 whenever I stopped powerlifting And I I I stayed there because I mean my habits were you know about eating and whatnot were sort of in that Still in that zone and then I kind of got tired of holding that weight and I decided that I was going to run enormous distances I was going to run marathon link distances and I went from 220 back down to 170 from a period of I think it was Thanksgiving just before Thanksgiving One particular year took Christmas of that year. I was I was down to 170 and I held 170 until wait a minute You couldn't have gone from two six to 30 to 170 in one month. It was 220 and and yeah, no, you're right. It wasn't it was uh Would have been Thanksgiving was the start and I guess it would have been February march Probably by the time I ran that first long race. See Reynolds exaggeration doesn't just stop with me. No, we both have it We both have it In one month. I lost 60 pounds and the furthest that I went I I did eat I mean I was in 18 mile runs.  Yeah, that's right. Well, I mean there's one guaranteed way to make sure you don't quit Right. It's uh, that's right.  So No, that's good. That's good.  Give him a hug. Tell him how much you love him We wish that we could do that and I know there are a lot of you that are listening out there that can't do that anymore And wish you could and so for those of you that still can Take the opportunity to tell your dad how much you love him None of none of those dads none of our dads were perfect. Some are better than others Most did the best they could and uh, and they deserve some love and affection today for that and so, uh Try to see the good in your dad today And if your dad spends some time loving on your kids as well And so you've been listening to a principles podcast with matt chris reynolds You're at barba logic and enjoy your father's day the rest of your father's day Again, if you don't have uh, if you don't have training, uh, or you don't have a coach and you need one or your dad needs one We've got a great sale running right now If you check that out, uh, our father's day sells 50 off your first month of online coaching Plus you get a $50 gift card So we say to the retailer of your choice, but our thought was you know, if you get a $50 gift card for dad, uh at Like home depot or lows or something like that. So, uh, go to barba logic dot com and you can check out online coaching and and uh, Check that out. So Fun show today. I'm glad we got to talk about that a little stroll down memory lane. Dude, happy father's day to you Hope you enjoy it with your kiddos you too, man Are awesome. I will talk to you uh next week and the rest of you we will see you tomorrow morning. See ya


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Mae'n dwi'n mynd i gael, oherwydd fynd i gael ei dynnu, mae yna gell gwiawn yn y bag, I thought they were very similar in sort of size, shape and profile and in some areas of the bag they are but in others they're not. And start off with the two five irons and just have a look how different these two clubs are. The halo or Cleveland product is very much more like a hybrid slash iron if you like a combination of the two. Whereas even though that Stealth HD is a bigger overall profile, you can see it's far slimmer than that of the Cleveland and I think that is something that again separates these two clubs quite significantly, although the short end of the bag you'll see a bit later on they are very very similar in their profiles. So a much more progressive set in the Cleveland in very big to not so big down the short end and then in the tailor made HD line up you've got a profile that pretty much sits fairly constant throughout the set. But the question is how do they separate in terms of performance because at the end of the day that's going to be a key factor, perhaps the most important factor in your decision. That was a five iron from the halo. What they do incredibly well is launch the ball high, incredibly good ball speeds and right throughout the set in my initial review at least I was super impressed in how these things perform. So in today's video we're going to five iron, seven iron, nine iron, one against the other out on the course, forget dry ball data, what do I think separates these two clubs and if I was to choose one which might it be. So then the same iron from the HD line up and I've got to say nowhere near as good of a strike slightly off the bottom grooves but that's what is super impressive about both these sets of irons is they're packed with forgiveness and what I mean by that is off centre strikes like that which I can see is right out those bottom grooves still performs far better than it perhaps should do. So at that price point and with those looks that either of these two irons appeal to you or is it still that kind of golf snobbery that exists with the likes of me when you still want to see a particular style of club address, a club that you associate with being an iron or any of these two going to persuade you to make their way into your bag. Let me know in the comment section down below. Right so a couple of long irons and to be honest with you equally as impressive although I would argue that well in that case the Cleveland performed far better than I did with the Taylor maid probably but I based that purely on the quality of the swing so next up a couple of seven irons were just over that sort of 150 in fact to the flag it's topping out sort of the 160 area but the kind of area that I'd be expecting to play seven iron front. Let's see what this thing does. Cleveland that is by the way that's a really good strike again picked it up neat is right on the flag to be honest with you very much dependent on what it's done in terms of the yardage but can't knock this thing and I can't knock these irons full stop so there's going to be I mean a bit of a spoiler there's going to be no criticism of these irons either sets of them they perform so so well and I just don't know why as golfers we keep ignoring them or maybe that's just me. Into the seven iron and I was just having a look at that sort of the width of soul really is the thing that differs greatly and although they're closer in terms of their profile in the seven iron they are in the five where there's a noticeable difference still a more streamlined version in the stealth HD product but that makes no difference what will this thing do in terms of performance at this stage then the things we put on there. Cleveland have been super impressive now that again is a absolute rocket ball much better strike arguably a tad down the left it's always going to be difficult for me to film ahead to head because at my level I can't really consistently perform with two exact same shots so down the left it looks to me though like carry distance is very very similar maybe a tad longer again just from that clubhead speed of generator seemed a little bit quicker swing than that of the Cleveland but yet again they're off this tight lie they picked the ball up they launched the ball high the ball speeds are good hard to again sort of comment on spin right now but again from dry ball data they both do this thing incredibly well they're so impressive you know a couple of long irons couple of mid irons I'm actually just going to switch back and hit another couple of the five irons to be honest with you because for me these irons in particular sort of really shine if you like at that kind of the forgiveness elements and that's the long end of the bag so I like the kind of help and assistance these give both of them but there is one thing that separates them both in the shots the four shots that I've hit so far and I just want to see if we're able to pick up on that with the next two that I hit right let's go to the Cleveland first that's an unreal strike to be honest with you know one of the best balls I've hit today it's not been my best ball striking day but that five iron is defies what more put it this way the easiest thing I've just come to mind is that if I add my existing five iron I ain't getting that ball right probably not getting that ball speed and what that has done is hugely impressive stealth over to you because that takes one beat and I just hope I can put another swing on similar to that but you know what that's that's not a bad effort to be fair great shape again just trying to look down where they've both landed not a great deal to separate them the thing I'm trying to pick up on and you ain't going to get it I don't think but we'll take our puntly I picked up on some audio what Taylor made have done really well is they've got a softer sound and what what I mean they're probably more like their existing stealth irons that's put it that way whereas the sort of hollow bodied um Cleveland is more like the sound that you would get off a hybrid let's say so more clickier sound now I've got no issues with the way a hybrid sounds but the problem is is when you're expecting to hear a certain noise from an iron it is a bit different so they're very much more hybrid like not only in the looks but how they sound whereas these are more like an iron in both the way they play and the way they sound I hope that made some sort of sense to you because I was struggling a bit now when you get down to the shorter end of the bag it changes up quite a bit because now the two nine irons in terms of their width of solid least they look very very similar indeed so the changes there's very much a progressive set but there's much more of a leap from the Cleveland set from what you see from a five iron to when you get down to the nine iron to to that of the HD the question is a little short chip and run what kind of response or feel do I get from the Cleveland first of all well again you know what I really like about the Cleveland product or that not not the Cleveland this style of iron is that width of soul just slides along the turf if I'm honest with you I mean there was potential there with a with a wedge in hand with a thin soul on a wedge I reckon I could have possibly dug in a little bit there that certainly helped me out the width of soul and slid her on the turf and produced a result that was sort of acceptable so much better clip there from the from the stealth product but in all fairness that was very much down to my execution of the shot either way I take them one thing I've said throughout the video is that for me the bit that's still surprising and again noticeable at the short end of the bag is just that little bit of soft to feel and less clicky sound than you get from the tailor made product than you do from the Cleveland but either way the question is can you play bulky irons and still get a little bit of feel out out of them in and around the green and the answer is 100% yes you can I'm going to pitch up on the 100 in marker and there's a good reason for that because again often the criticism of this style of iron is the factor but you can't really play much of a half shot you can't sort of manipulate the club if you like to do something you'd like it to do other than a sort of full all out swinging again I've not really seen that I've seen the opposite if you can execute the shot you can do with this club as much as you can do with any other we'll start off again with the Cleveland like I said 100 yards in and for me this 99 is probably playing about 130 so we need to take a little bit off and let's see if we can even maybe flight this down a little bit we didn't flight it down well that's right on the flag in fact that's a really impressive result and again I'll switch over from exactly the same position and go into the stealth you know there's so many myths in golf or around golf clubs that is and often like I said golf snobs like me were referred to earlier you look at clubs like these and you think you can't do certain things with them um and seriously I just wonder how hard we're making this game at times right getting really nice pick up me leaked a tad down the right hand side by comparison but again the ability to just take a little bit off nice smooth and easy swing how good the both of these clubs pick that ball off the turf it's really impressive so from a short game perspective the short end of the bag that is both of these do exceptionally well and like I said from a profile perspective are very very similar indeed right we'll leave it there all done I can carry on hitting shots all day and don't think we're going to learn a great deal more the thing is about both these sets of irons I said during the video was that there's not really a criticism of either of them to be quite honest with you it's about adapting your mind to accept that kind of profile and head shape that we're not accustomed to but they perform really really well both of them I said that Cleveland had a bit of a problem with this new HD lineup I'm not sure they do have to do in the test because I still think they're very different sets of irons it's easy to categorise these as the same just because they're a bit more bulbous than the norm but these are very very different like I said just looking down at the bag now there's two five irons together are chalk and cheese very much more hybrid like as I've already stated I hit a five iron a couple of shots ago which was arguably the best shot I've hit all day and I've not been playing great today don't get me wrong but I hit it and walked 50 yards and thought why would you not play those irons they're just so so good in terms of what they did and I know for a fact that I could be there all day long with any other iron and it isn't going to outperform it so I think that's huge credit to what Cleveland have done in this set of irons but the reasons you're going to go for one over the other is going to be based on aesthetics because they're very different there is that price difference and then it's that sound that I referred to as being more hybrid like with the Clevelands is that something that perhaps you're positive with and it's not a negative which it might slightly be for me personally either way go and try these two sets of irons out if you need a bit of help with your game they're game-improving irons and they do exactly that in my opinion with an abundance of forgiveness right as ever don't forget you can buy both these sets of irons from our partner at hotgolf they'll go and give them a look check them out I've got no more to add really thank you for watching as ever and I'll see you all tomorrow night


Hello everyone, welcome back another Dolly 3 video or chat GPT Dolly 3 video and this one going to show you how to create images in a consistent style. It's very easy to do. It should take like 60 seconds for me to show you. Here is an example of a French Bulldog I created and I just made really simple prompt, create an image of a French Bulldog reading a book. And then down here I did the same thing except in English Bulldog and you'll notice the style consistency. Let's go through it step by step. It'll take a few seconds at most. Okay, so the first step you need to do is you want to click on the explore button on the left side and then click on Dolly. You need to make sure that Dolly is selected, at least at this time. It may change in the future. Then when you're in the little prompt here, just type in, I don't know, French Bulldog on a trampoline. I don't know. I'm just having some fun here. Hit enter. I'm going to see what this comes up with. It should take a few seconds. I'll come back when it's done then I'll show you the next step. All right, so I just did a very simple prompt and in here are the two images. This one's pretty good. Let's take a look at the second one here. I'll just click on this little arrow. Okay, I like this one. So here is the critical step. What you need to do is you got to go please or you don't have to use please but I'm Canadian. Provide me with the gen IDs for both images. Now, you don't have to type it out exactly like that. You could probably just say, hey, what are the gen IDs? But these are generative IDs that are basically like seeds, except well, if they call them gen IDs, because I guess they want to be original. So here they go, the gen ID for the first one, gen ID for the second one. I'm just going to copy that here, this little string here, 2RR30, whatever the heck it says. And then I'm just going to go with this English Bulldog jumping on a trampoline. And then the last final part, the important part here, here we go, in the style of, and then I'm just going to copy and paste in that gen ID. Now I'm just going to let this run. I'll come back when it's done, show you what we got. And that's it. Awesome. So here it is. This is the gen, this is the Bulldog and the nice cool style. And you can see the shadow on the trampoline here. And then this is the French Bulldog. It's fantastic. Keep in mind this is for consistent styles, not for consistent characters. That's a little different. And chat GPT, dolly three doesn't quite have that down yet. But there you go. That's all there's to it. Thanks for watching.