Hi everyone, this is Jason here from Nathaniel, welcome to another one of our lessons. In this guitar strumming lesson, we are basically going to use 16th note patterns pretty much throughout. 16th note basically means you divide the beat into four equal units or swinging units, you could swing these divisions as well, very different than an 8th note division which is 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and where you are dividing the beat into two units 3 and 4 and with 16th you are going 1e and 2e and 3e and 4e and 4 divisions for every pulse, right? So what is going to happen is you are not going to necessarily play these rhythms faster, you are just going to have more interesting points to place your respective hit points at. A lot of these rhythms are going to probably just start with muted sounds which you do with your left hand and you continue strumming in the right hand, so you get this muted sound and then you start inducing certain chord hits, for example a G major chord wherever need be. There we go, right, so most of the patterns will have that endless strumming pattern so if you do not hear an actual chord you are going to hear some kind of a noise and I think more than it is sounding very, very groovy which I think those ghost notes are very, very important for, it also helps up a musician like me or I am sure you also keep in time when your hand kind of goes like this endlessly. Then for the lesson we are just going to take very open chords like C major, E major, maybe E7, A minor, F, G, E minor, very simple open chords are going to be used for this lesson. So get out your guitars and let's get started right away and before we do don't forget to hit that subscribe button, hit the bell icon for regular notifications, leave us a comment, like the video, share the video if possible and now let's get cracking. So we have five sixteenth note based or accented guitar patterns with a lot of percussion, all are very groovy, very popular, very funky if you want to use that word and I thought what better rhythm to start off with than a Latin rhythm or a salsa rhythm which is popularly known as the song claveo which basically feels like this, you hear this a lot right ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta ta so these hit points are what we want to generate on the guitar. So you go with the pulse but that's not how we are going to play it ok you could start maybe you could start with the accents let's say over a C major chord and where are the points at one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a one e and a and and four one e and a two e and and four and if you observe your foot or your leg or your pulse needs to always be there while you play a sixteenth note groove otherwise it can run away from you very quickly and your band or your drummer are not going to be very happy so slow it a bit one e and a two e and a three e and a four e and a one e and a two e and a four one e and a two e and a three and a four a little faster now when you take this with a chord context let's say a C major chord these are the hits with a little bit of muting or stopping that's the clave one e and a two e and a three so how I generally like to play the clave is instead of doing these you know unless you're doing like George Michael's faith that's pretty much the pattern of that song which is very choppy very 80s glam glamish what you could do is you could just maintain a nice consistent vibe of just going down stroke up stroke slightly quicker since it's sixteenth notes and then play the pattern using actual chord sounds or sounding chords as opposed to the ghost so your left hand is going to work on the actual chord and the nothing the ghost or the mute as we call it so it goes something like one e and a two e and start with this all goes one e and a two e and a now bring in the chords at the clave hits which are one e that's the patterns your hand is essentially going with the start slow let's take a g chord something different so at no point am I not doing this movement right if you have a plectrum you can do it pretty much the same way I just prefer to use my fingers that's how I've been learning or playing for all these years I probably because I'm also a piano player so fingers work a lot better than the thing which you hold so something like this so you go try to get a nice clean sound with your ghostings and your mutings you don't want to you don't want to buzz things you don't want to ring things and things like that I'm sure you already know that if you've played the guitar you know that you know that those buzzes and some random harmonics which may come so you need to work on your the quality of the sound that is also very important that's what even someone like me continues to try and do to this day right guys so that was a song clave you can also play the song clave in a couple of interesting ways first of all you can do it either straight or swing so this is the straight version and this is the swing version swing you may want to play it slightly slower feel the swing you could start with just the hits then swing it and also thus bringing in the ghost notes or keep it straight straight doesn't mean faster neither does swing it's the same tempo you're just altering that the the inside beats or the sub beats or the subdivisions by moving them slightly later okay the other thing you could do is have maybe two chords over one bar like you could take it as one two three one two one two three one two or you could have three chords in a bar so do consider those possibilities like you could do G G G F F G G G B flat G G G F F C C C D D E you can get all that vibe going on for you so do consider getting used to the clave then getting options of swinging it and straightening it and then obviously changing your chords playing around but start off with just maybe just a nice muted ghosted kind of a feel let's move on to the next exciting rhythm pattern right so the next rhythm pattern is very inspired by reggae I guess you could actually call it a reggae guitar rhythm pattern so what happens in a with in reggae with respect to what the guitar does the guitar generally plays the chord hits at the ans of the bar of a four so if you take one and two and three and four and two and so what you want to do is maybe take a C major chord like this one and three and four first practice just doing upstrokes and the downstrokes will really not really be there you kind of go down but you're going down to mute the guitar so the sound is only coming with respect to our upstrokes okay so this is one aspect of the reggae feel so try this out everything's gonna be alright now everything's gonna be alright everything's gonna be also what I'm trying to do when I'm muting it I'm trying to focus on the noise I'm making with that percussion the guitars are very percussive instrument so you don't want to just bring your hand down randomly you want to also hear the quality of the sound and figure out if you like that you know and slowly but surely work on that sound as you keep practicing right you could also if you have the opportunity you can connect the guitar to an amplifier or a speaker or a microphone and try to listen to what what it sounds like you know this sound you know so you could go different ways you could try and kind of knock on the guitar a bit or you can just get the nice the string slapping kind of sound so that's the basic idea of reggae but it's not complete unless you add an element of swing which is what the genre like so what was once this can now become so what's happening there one knee and two E and three E and four E and so maybe every alternate beat you could add a double and go in an in a sixteenth swing one knee and two E two E so at the two E I'm creating both strokes so or at the four but both the two and the four if you're not able to get the that extra 16 note ghost it's fine you can just go just up strokes but work on your muting then that ghost tada go through the notation go through the hit points and try to count one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a it'll really help and eventually of course you make it very natural to the body as you play try to always relax stay in a relaxed environment while you do this stuff let's move on to the next rhythm right the next 16 note pattern includes an interesting accent some percussion lot of ghost notes lot of offbeat variations as well so let me play it for you and try to slow it down and guide you as to what all is going on one E and a two E and a three and a four E and I will be the ideal way to go about the counting process that's how it's been and that's how it's going to be in this lesson so it's one E and so you do two downs down down so let's get that first one E and a two and a one and two and a one E and get this first so that's where it goes a bit off so the first two beats are you can also vocalize it you can just do something with your voice to motivate your guitar to get it done so this the first two beats only so so moving forward with all the four beats one E and a two E and a mute E and four one E and a two E and a mute E and a four E and a one E and a I like that that random not so random very exciting percussion noise which I'm which I've introduced at the three so one tan tan tadatadantan so it kind of chokes the sound at the three and also gives you that percussion which you need in the guitar right so now you could do a couple of ghosts or continue strumming the same chord at the and and the E of the four but if you're getting bored at the four four E and then the and and the E can be played either with ghosts or with the same chord right there a nice preparatory thing to do before you actually work on this could actually be to take some time off and maybe do this sort of an exercise you do you do two downs at the eighths and then do four sixteenth notes down up down up but muted just to get your actual sounding chords and your ghosted chord so you go down down down down mute down down mute for mute that itself is quite a nice rhythm if you ask me and come back to what we have on hand now also what I like to do is accent the two play the two a little stronger so and even the four could be accented let's do it with a nice pulse okay let's just take it a bit slower accents at the two and the four and also the ghosting or the muted or the percussive sound at the three and a two E and a three E and a four E and a one E and a two so that's the next pattern for you which uses ghost notes some accents as well as that nice percussion sound which the guitar always brings let's move on to pattern number four pattern number four again sixteenth note based one E and a two E and a three and a four E and a the way I'm I've constructed it is I'm doing one E and a and then I'm keeping some silence there so you could do the silence as you could stop the guitar or what I like to do is just toggle between the actual chord in the ghost so one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a so you see what's happening there some a lot of off beats after the one E and happens it just goes completely off the the grid so to speak that it is actually in the grid but in the sixteenth note dividing by four grid so one E and a two E and a three E E and okay so after you do one E and then it's just going to be E's and ours throughout the piece no on beats no and beats so let me demonstrate that again one E and a two a two will be ghosted one E and a two E and a three E and a and in some cases at the ghost notes instead of actually doing that you could also kind of make the percussive noise demonstrated throughout this lesson so things like that could come into the play if not just go through the pattern which is notated for you down up down down up down ghost ghost okay after down up down it just goes up down up up up up change could try and get that snare drum like sound versus the ghosted sound you could do either one which suits you better again let's do this slightly slower one E and E love this rhythm can go on and on with this rhythm actually let's move on now to the last pattern for this lesson you're gonna really like it do stay tuned and let's move on. Us pattern for the video guys, this one basically is what I call as the 3-3-2 feel generated over 16th notes. So if you hear what I just played, you can actually go, these are where the accents are. It's almost like a thresio, which we call it one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a pa. So all those were ghosts just to show you the accents. So one E and a two. So first get the accents. I think that is very important.  What's nice or what I like to do when I'm practicing all these patterns, if they are different, if they are not copy pasted two beats at a time, what you could end up doing could be do just two beats and practice those two beats as another rhythm and then piece it together with the next two beats. For example, just do that. Also, let the bar, let the thing continue. Just get that. So, what's the first two beats? Down, down, up, down, down. So, what about beats three and four now? Let's work on that. So, that's down, up, down, down, down, up. Right, now we piece it together. The key is to accent at the one, accent just means try to play the chord a lot harder. So, one E and a two E and a three E and a four E and a one E and a two E and a then the jump, the power, tick a boom. Simple chords, right. It actually sounds good even without chords. So, maybe you could start with like just percussion. One, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three. That's why I call it the three, three, two feel because you feel like going in one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two, three, one, two. So, start with some mutes or ghost. It still sounds quite cool if you ask me. Bring in a couple of chords and work on your accents. It's a very important rhythm to have accents. So, I hope I've communicated quite a few important things about strumming in this video. We need to work on our ghosting or muting along with some nice percussive elements on the guitar. Then we need to look at improving our study of accents, improving our counting in general where we need to go one e and a two e and a three and a four e and a, and this was not really a chord lesson as such, but you could start with any chords or any chord progression you know. And as always, search for a sound which you like best. Just keep playing, keep adapting and evolving and see what works for you best, you know, and try to stay as relaxed as possible when you're playing the guitar and use your foot for the pulse as much as possible or use your head or your body to move to the music. That is very, very important. Metronome may be a bit overrated. Do that later once you're sure of your own body's timing. When you have your own internal clock running, then you could use things like a metronome and other fancier tools. Right, guys? Hope you found the lesson useful. This was five slightly intermediate strumming patterns because I use sixteenth notes with accents and stuff. Do stay tuned for more lessons from Nathaniel. We'll be doing theory, we'll be doing ear training, we'll be doing composition, we'll be doing obviously piano, which the channel seems to do a lot of and a lot more on different subjects in the field of music. You could also head over to our Patreon page where this entire set of guitar strumming patterns will be notated and available for you where you see exactly what you need to do and the visuals should hopefully help you nail these things going forward. Thanks a ton and I will see you in the next one or rather you will see me in the next one.


totally next up we have defending cyberspace by thinking inside the box by Ernest Wong please give him a warm tour calm welcome thank you very much I appreciate just a quick show of hands any military folks or ex-military in the audience would you mind telling me a branch of service army marines okay Marines no Navy no Air Force folks I was gonna give a plug Navy folks because since we're in San Diego I know there's a lot of Navy but I'll give a plug from anyway my brother's in the Navy so it's actually Army Navy games aren't that bad either way my talk is really getting our military leadership to start thinking outside the box for cyber defense I know the title says thinking inside the box but it's really trying to give creativity to our military folks so what for everyone else in here hopefully this gives you a framework for just thinking about innovation in a more structured way that helps you all in your your lives your own lives and maybe for your company and as I go through this presentation I'll introduce myself as I go through the presentation because what I found was that with the keynote speech that Lance gave this morning a lot of similarities I saw myself with him I've only been in the cyber cyber business for two years now so this is my very first Torcon very happy to be in San Diego my brother spent eight years of his military service here in San Diego got chance to visit him coming from Los Angeles so I'm very happy to be here in San Diego and before I get really started on talking about this notion of innovation thinking inside the box not a whole lot of military folks in the audience I'm hazarding guests not a whole lot of folks are familiar with Army Cyber Institute and so seeing I did this nice video about three minute videos hopefully it works gives a little background on West Point itself where I teach and where the Army Cyber Institute located at as a think tank okay it's coming through this yeah that's kind of light but I'll try and narrate it a little bit then it's so each year the NSA hosts this cyber defense exercise and all the military academies participate in it and cadets are working on it's a cyber defense team it's an elective really it's a extracurricular club that these cadets are involved in each year about four of our research scientists at the Army Cyber Institute help out with the oversee administrative coordinate this exercise so that's my boss Colonel Andy Hall is my boss so I am very fortunate to be working the Army Cyber Institute I've been there two and a half years now before then I and I mentioned that the very start that I'm pretty much just a basic before that I was just a basic user right getting the annual training for the military folks you know the online training the hour-long training it tells you what you can and can't do with what you do on your computers and cell phones and tablets and so I see the flawed system in a lot of our education system for our military soldiers and what we try to do in the ACI is promote this notion of multidisciplinary research to solve this challenge known as cyber security and my take on it is that this notion of innovation I I actually don't think innovation as this one monolithic entity I break it up so a little bit of about what Lance mentioned this morning the keynote speech talking about being innovative and being disruptive that's really what I want our military to be in terms of cyber defense as well and so instead of looking innovation as this one entity I've broken it out into several distinctions first on one axis I'm looking at the technological sophistication or complexity of that innovation itself on the other axis I'm breaking up into the target mark this innovation technology device wherever we want to call it is trying to trying to target so if we look on this lower left hand quadrant here this notion of being a low complexity targeting existing markets I call this sustaining types of innovation we can think a lot of companies right they change the colors they're trying to track more market share though that's why I'm thinking of sustaining innovation needing existing customer needs but just trying to grow the business for the high complexity but still targeting existing markets I call this evolutionary right Darwin talked about right all you're trying to do is with evolution right it's the mix that gets you to be one species above some other species and so this is the notion of incremental types of innovation now when we get to new markets and high technology or high complexity I call that breakthrough types of innovation governments tend to be pretty good at this I'm thinking DARPA NASA a lot of government agencies tend to be good at this now what about this thing right low complexity but new markets I'm calling that revolutionary or disruptive types of innovation right hopefully a lot of stuff that we've been hearing throughout the day and hopefully tomorrow will be hearing a lot remotely only what I call revolution disruptive invasions the problem I see here though is unfortunately right most I would say most people in the military most people in the military from what I've encountered don't think revolutionary sustaining invasions as being innovative right they're fixated on this high complexity right AI we saw in that video right machine learning the military likes automating all this stuff because we were tended to be a smaller military compared to write the Chinese and Russian militaries have lost soldiers so in this case a lot of military folks and even some right some people think innovations can only be high tech okay hopefully that's not the case for the folks in this audience right most hackers I think most hackers tend to think otherwise most hackers actually I would hopefully would agree in this room revolutionary sustaining innovations are innovations in themselves hacks hacks themselves right we thought about hacks that's a revolutionary innovation it doesn't cost a whole lot of money to take a lot of research development okay so hopefully that's why I'm gonna convince you for the next 45 minutes here okay I'm a military intelligence officer and so when I think of military intelligence I told you I give you a little background as this presentation goes on the way I think of these innovations and the analogies I use it comes from Hollywood right Hollywood is giving me some some nice little cheap mnemonics from memory mechanisms think of each of these types of these separate quadrants so I think of sustaining innovation I'm thinking Spock okay I'm a Star Trek fan I am a Star Wars fan I'm also a Star Trek fan so I'm thinking Spock right Spock is very logical right he's gonna give Captain Kirk the the course of action that has the highest probability of success even if it means his own life and I guess that was a breath of cotton so Star Wars 2 so he's gonna give the the best course of action based on the bailout information so I'm thinking that's sort of sustaining efficiency gains right thinking Spock on an evolutionary side any mad magazine fans or still remember mad magazine you might remember spy versus spy okay so that's really what I think of evolutionary right for the white spy versus the black spy they're trying to kill each other right so but all they're doing is trying to one up each other and that's a whole notion of evolution on the breakthrough side I am thinking James Bond right James Bond has the entire resources at MI6 the entire British wealth I guess whatever it is after what was left I guess whoever they can say after the the bricks it I guess that's still in place but you know James Bondian types of innovation right he's always got the watch the car the plane whatever it saves the day right this arms and nukes what about this revolutionary side do we have any examples of revolutionary Hollywood icons someone mentioned earlier this morning MacGyver yeah we're all American versus British that's kind of nice way to think of this too right MacGyver he's got his trustee what is it he's always using his Swiss Army knife I watched MacGyver last night for the first time I mentioned this to Aaron earlier I couldn't stay awake long enough to finish it I'm on East Coast time so I think it was on at nine o'clock but I did see him with the Swiss Army knife when I saw that I said all right I'm on the right track I cut them cut the show I don't even see anymore but for the audience no everyone's familiar with yeah I'm pulling this audience now I think everyone should be familiar with MacGyver or the new guy any thumbs up or thumbs down a new MacGyver anyone watching it thumbs down I saw two people in the promo I thought MacGyver was just one person so I'll have to figure that out and now if you're not familiar with MacGyver depending on the audience I think everyone here should be familiar with MacGyver but if you're not familiar with MacGyver you should be familiar with Jason Bourne okay so Jason Bourne right he's using all the tricks of the trade right he doesn't remember like he got all this training but right he's driving the mini-coop the old mini- coop he's right using a stick to beat up the cops he's using a pen right he's using whatever that has fingertips to us to save the day usually it's saving his own life now one of these is not a good military intelligence type of analogy right it's not yeah Spock doesn't really belong here tell you I'm a Star Trek fan but Spock really doesn't belong here right because if we're talking about military intelligence first think about spies right I really am not thinking about mission I'm thinking mission impossible here but I'm not thinking of Tom Cruise mission impossible right because this is the episode where I think it was Rogue Nation where he's climbing the highest tower right the Burj Khalif one of those the towers in in in the United Arab Emirates right with that glove right that's a high-tech equipment right that's a lot of R&D if it were really real right a lot R&D right had glitches right powers off a few times but that's a breakthrough types of innovation what I'm thinking right for sustaining is if you remember mission impossible the original right the black and white it was in color right Paris right letter name would play Paris and for mission impossible right there are tricks of the trade were the skills that they had available to them so Spock spoke like 10 different languages in reality was just different pronunciations of English right it's just very something to all understand it but I remember watching one episode where he played this Japanese ambassador and he was making out like he spoke Japanese usually he's playing some type of Eastern European type of general so again but that was really for all the MI right the MI forces the impossible forces they were doing sustaining types of innovation they were the best at what they were doing right that's what it was the very first sequence you've picked the best people you have with the skills you need you play the con on on this unsuspecting nation now if you are a mission impossible fan I am gonna yes you hear in the background here again I told you this is San Diego I'm gonna play at the Navy folks can you in here that well I'm gonna play it right here we go yeah so you should write your Tom Cruise van I'm not gonna leave you out Tom Cruise was a little bit revolutionary what movie is this top gun I tough gun fighter pilots how can they can maybe revolutionary well this whole notion is that I'll leave it on since it's in the in the Vietnam War the US pilots suffered so many casualties here's here's statistics about for a million sorties from 1965 to 1968 a million US sorties Air Force Navy US suffered about a thousand plane losses that was the the US forces did not like that so we actually stopped bombing from 68 to 69 trying to figure out how to get our bombers to survive more even our fireplates so what the Navy did the Navy they had right they did this report golly six the Navy said we need to train our pilots better we're gonna get this school called the school called the right it's called the fire weapons school they called it top gun right that's what the movie this was actually from the intro of the movie I had to go back and watch the movie yeah they actually did this right in March of 1960 1969 US Navy established the school the Air Force what the Air Force do they went the route of the breakthrough so the Air Force went the route of the breakthrough they said we need better weapon systems we need an aircraft at the time it was the F4 Phantom fighting against the Russian MiG 17s of MiG 21s okay it was pretty much parody from 65 to 68 parody we shot down as many Russian planes as they shot down a bar so that that's why they stopped those runs the bombing campaigns plus the flights the US military said we can't do this we can't sustain our rates of sorties against the Russian hordes because they had so many more pilots so many more planes and so the Navy went revolutionary they said we're gonna start the school and figure out the techniques that makes our maker pilots better the Air Force went the route of better planes better weapon systems improve the F4 Phantoms and amazing this is from a book called transforming the American Air Power by Benjamin Lambeth he's this is amazing the kill ratio for US pilots to Russians prior to the start of the school was 3.701 so for every one American pilot we shot down 3.7 Russian pilots that's pretty good right but we couldn't sustain that over time that's what the after the school was in place for one year when they reintroduced the fighting campaign over Vietnam for the Navy they went to a ratio of this is amazing 13 to 1 so the pilots who went through again wasn't every single pilot the pilots who went through this four or five week long course at that time was a six week long course they improve their skills so much because they're fighting against right they're fighting against tactics that the Russians are using right if you remember the movie Viper and Jester they were the off for the opposing forces right that's what they did they introduced Russian tactics the amazing thing here's the here's the crazy thing about history I told you the Air Force they went breakthrough the actual Navy actually I'll use a lot of principles from this colonel from the Air Force called John Boyd he invented this notion called Oodaloops this notion of orient observe orient decide assess that's what the Navy was doing throughout that course right see what the Navy pilots doing see what your opponent is doing observe it orient towards it assess what he's doing then make some type of decision that gives you some type of vantage if you can do it faster than the enemy that's even better you can their Oodaloop the Air Force their statistics they had about the same starting off about three three to one after the introduction of new new firepower into the F4's new systems in 1969 the statistics were that year that was the first year the Air Force actually stats went down it went down to 2.9 to one so very statistically no improvement so from a three to one to a 13 to one ratio for the Navy to a three to one to a three to one the or for the Air Force again pretty powerful statistics were an anecdote for disruptive types of invasion now I'm not saying that breakthroughs bad right Air Force does great things doing new generations of fighters but it takes a lot of time and one year span they couldn't do it for Vietnam so this not this notion of looking at this this quadrant system for innovation right this is not from a mathematical perspective right this notion is I don't have any numbers here any business majors in the audience business school yeah you control break the world right business school they tell you can break the world in four quadrants all time I'm not a big fan of that because there's no numbers right where the heck it's my scale right so in this case I'm gonna try to give you a little bit of scale so let's give you a little bit of scale by introducing one more axis this notion called offset potential or possibility of impact disruption that's what Lance talked about last week talked about this morning okay if we look at this offset potential now one more axis right now this graph changes revolutionary and breakthrough innovations those are the ones that give us the best probability of changing the environment sustaining an evolutionary in invasions don't do that right the highest probably success for impacting changing the environment comes from revolutionary breakthrough types of innovation now again I still don't have numbers here right I don't have numbers but this is probably a more representative way of this at the scrap look if I add this offset potential now if I change this offset potential and now probably success we should already know what it looks like right now probably success at these innovations actually succeed yeah then that's the same evolutionary innovations that actually have had had the highest chance right but if you look at right all the business books right all the CEOs are writing take chances make mistakes they're not saying make mistakes with these types of innovation if you're doing sustaining evolutionary types innovation you should be getting 60 70 80 90% success rates they're thinking revolutionary breakthrough right but no one's ever quantified that so everyone thinks of innovation is one of any innovation no I'm telling you you need to be taking revolutionary breakthrough innovations if you truly are following the advice of all these business right these business locals are saying tell you take take chances take risks we're telling you make those mistakes in the revolutionary breakthrough side okay so this is really what would look like more representation okay again I have no numbers here right again as a systems engineer I teach some engineering in addition work the army side of truth as a research scientist I teach systems engineering to cadets at West Point and again I tell them they have to quantify certain things not just call qualitative analysis but quantify analysis as well so I used right this notion called the Arab revolt the green revolt the Arab Spring that took place from 2010 2011 it was amazing right this is kind of like a nice case study it started off with in December of 2010 right a street vendor set himself on fire because the Tunisian police confiscated his vegetables right he was street peddler of vegetables and so he took away his livelihood I don't know what the reason was but because of that the vendor set himself on fire right emulated himself and that sparked long with this whole notion of social media right at that time wiki leaks came out with this report of all these corrupt governments a lot of them in the Middle East North Middle East North Africa right from our intelligence sources State Department cables yeah so it wasn't it wasn't very good so a lot of 13 other countries revolted pretty much within the next six months so revolts anyone remember how many of these revolts actually succeeded Tunisia was one so where first started that government fell Egypt the king there was deposed yeah we have someone saying sort of sort of sort of so hold on to that thought we have Yemen yeah Yemen Yemen the king fled there's still a lot fighting there right the king fled so the revolt succeeded but there's still a lot of fighting in fighting between groups so you might debate whether not the success and we had Libya right Libya fell Gaddafi right two years later we killed them well at least we didn't kill them we some rebels killed them we captured on film so yeah we had someone say so so for Egypt yeah I don't really call that a revolution it started off as a revolution but who took over in Egypt military took over so that was a military coup right it started off as a revolution but within a few days it was the military that actually took over the government and so if we look at these statistics right I don't consider military coups revolution right because military I'm in the military the military has resources to overtake a government that's why when you talk about inefficiencies in the government I look at this and tell yeah we learn from the Romans right the Americans learn from the Romans it's not good to have a large standing army right with nothing to do staying by a government that's probably not doing a great job right the public poll is saying the president's polls are so much in Congress's polls are even worse you really don't want to have a military in the States when that happens so again so just tell you just to give me an anecdote how inefficient the government is I've been in the military for 22 years I've moved 11 times the average is three years for an assignment I took a lot of one year assignments so the average so again that's a lot of inefficiencies a lot of inefficiencies with our service security program that's why I'm trying to promote this this talk here trying to get our government leaders to think of again new ways of thinking this so again that's statistics 21 percent chance of successful revolution and that's just looking at this as a case study that's actually pretty good I would have thought I would have thought it was been in single digits for that if I were just throw a number again using this case say about 20% successful okay so now I can use numbers right and use probability about 20% but again Hollywood right this whole notion of Hollywood again the Star Wars fans who are my Star Wars fans here right Hollywood gives us this notion that revolutions are easy right and then by by by associate theory then breakthroughs are easy right yeah we have this notion of right not just Star Wars we have Rogue One the prequel to Star Wars revolution are easy right people died in those those movies but it happens right we can we can fight the force we can fight the Empire the problem is the problem is on the right once Darth Vader gets hold of what's going on with this revolution right the evolutionary side the spy versus spy he's going to try to wipe out that revolution he can right what does he do where's Darth Vader use where's Darth Vader use he uses the breakthrough right from his evolutionary side he comes up with the Death Star I'm not gonna take care of these rebels one at a time I'm gonna use the Death Star if I think there's a rebel on that planet I'm taking the whole planet out that's a that's a breakthrough type of innovation right it takes a long time right took a long time from the build the Death Star right the rebels got the plans I actually thwarted one of them but right breakthrough innovation once you have one you start making another okay so this notion of revolutionary innovation also instead of thinking just the quadrant system I also think of it in terms of time as a timeline so the person that person's actually came to this timeline this framework here are Joseph Christiansen and I'm I'm sorry Joseph Bauer and Clayton Christiansen a couple Harvard Business School professors and the way we were looking at this right it's color code still writes that we have sustaining and evolutionary innovations again it is making progress over time but incremental right very small so if we look at breakthrough it's jumping above lights that's why I call it my subplot for breakthrough innovation is jumping a curve it's jumping what the market expects of some type of device technology equipment whatever it is on the revolutionary side yeah so the Christian Bauer they actually study this notion the failure of leading companies right companies on this green line to stay at the top of their industries when technologies and markets change how is that even possible right if you're on this green line that is a great place to be right you're almost like a monopoly power you're on this green line we dominate the market why would these small rebels insurgents very calm upstarts right in the in the business parlance why would these upstarts ever bother us right we compete with them on every level well this notion of revolutionary innovations and a current Christian and sin and Bauer talked about this specifically is that revolutionary innovations only appeal to a small set of new markets I talked about that that quadrant system it's really an emerging market initially it's really for the individual right as hackers we make hacks because it suits our lives but it focuses on a different set right that criteria that's so important to that individual is not what the folks on the green line are thinking about that the folks on the green line are thinking of things that improve their current customers typically their current customers are the big customers right we want the biggest market share that is that what they teach us in business school right we don't care about the small margins let the small margins go to competitors they can have that market segmentation we want the big customers our most profitable customers for the revolutionary innovation though it is far worse in at least one or two areas usually a lot of areas it's far worse not least one or two mainstream areas but the notion is that if it's successful the value criteria which the guys in green are are ignoring right it gains such a attraction that folks keep buying it to the expense of the guys in green they've missed that opportunity can we think of examples of that this in history from business Xerox versus cannon yeah yeah I'm gonna come up to that good hold that thought what about Xerox first would cannon due to Xerox everyone remembers Xerox yeah Xerox used to have print divisions right they sold these monster that would probably fit in half this room especially like universities large corporations IBM's the cannon cannon specifically who who did cannon target they target the home base business yeah right cannon came up with this copier that could fit on your desktop right desktop printer terrible right Xerox laughed at cannon when it first came out because the quality was terrible right Xerox is on the green line they laughed at cannon right another example IBM versus Apple same thing IBM laughed at Apple when they came up with that right to we saw it this morning Xerox and Apple as yeah well well you know you all well I'm in a room hackers right we all know the history right everyone's seen the movie jobs right Steve Jobs and Wozniak those the two two Apple folks are really famous there are two other guys in the garage no one talks about them guess where they came from it came from Xerox the two other scientists that were in the garage with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak they came from Xerox Xerox did not approve those two inventors those two technicians plan for a personal computer so those two guys quit Xerox jump on board Steve Jobs Xerox right Xerox Park used to be the engineering Xerox Park still around but it used to be where if you're an engineer that's where you want to go and these two smart right enthusiastic engineers that hey we have this great idea right target instead of mainframes let's target it for right home-based business they said nah it's non-competitive right margin is too low we don't like that but someone else mentioned auto industry this was a shock though this was not a market reaction it was a shock to the system 1979 what happened to gas prices yeah they went through the roof right doubled really overnight because the Iranian embargo with the the whole notion of the was the hostage crisis that we had they closed down which company is this okay yeah I'm not aware of that but there's no notion of why did folks gravitate towards these Japanese companies what was the one feature that they had fuel costs right fuel efficiency right the big three they focused on big engines right law of accelerations big vehicles right that's what Americans wanted so they they catered to the American customer but with the oil shock all of a sudden the criteria that became value right difference of criteria it was not quality initially right we think of Toyota Honda's the Subaru's as being high quality today initially it was not quality it was fuel efficiency as they moved up the curve right as the Honda's right they kept selling more cars as they then they started to compete with the big three on quality as well surpassing them some instances now who's competing against Toyota's and Honda's today from do you think Tesla's more on the red side or more in the blue side I think Tesla's more on the blue side right a lot very expensive love R&D so who's competing with yeah the Hyundai's the Kia's used to be the day was but they swear fellow I remember I told you probably success right 20% 30% majorly bang average but Kia's competing against the Kia and Hyundai they're competing against Toyota the exact same model that's why clean clean and clean Christmas and Joe's bar study this it's amazing right now the tears and the Honda's they've made it to the green line and now we have the upstarts again the Hyundai's and the Kia's it's the same company really it's a subsidiary of one other who's competing with Kia and Hyundai now we're gonna see this again possibly Tata where's Tata being made India where about a Chinese company there's a company called Cherry possibly we don't know right the Tata's of India the cherries of China they're competing on this lower end right the smaller vehicles but again we'll see right again 30% success rates at best I'm thinking about but it's amazing that this this cycle keeps repeating itself and it's not just car industries right it's disc industry right the floppy drive disc industry the the drive space industry it's the same thing Western Digital Seagate all those very similar we bought something more recent anyone still have a blackberry I have I have a blackberry the government gave me a blackberry I told you in efficiencies right government gave me a blackberry they have their own smartphone now but at the height remember when President Obama was using the called the crackberry 21% I think about 21 22% blackberry rim had the share the market share you know what they have now but 1% it's gonna be tough for them to break out of this right what was the feature that the iPhones had the androids was that one feature it was apps but did anyone remember any anyone over 70 using a blackberry what was that that was the feature of the blackberry right what was the feature of the blackberry keyboard right it was the keyboard or the keypad right so we always saw President Obama typing really fast and they'd have races with the guys on a keypad versus Morse and then so really with the keypad so iPhone said yeah let's get rid of the keypad I don't need it I guess who they targeted it was where their feature was simplicity right apps was one so it made it tailorable customizable but the simplicity right we started seeing grandparents we started seeing little kids with I never saw a grandparent with a blackberry not because of the exterior I think it's just because it's just so foreign again a lot of folks using it but again I'm still using blackberry again partially because of government but again I just want to remind yourselves like even if you're looking at it from a timeline again more failures than success right about 23% same thing with revolutionary just want to highlight that more failures but it's okay it's okay if we recognize this in advance let's see okay so how can you best protect a feature I've advocated thinking about disruptive innovations in and revolutionary innovations is taught but we have to really do all four right the reality is I want to be doing all four innovations especially for the government sector the government sector does really need about thinking about all four the problem is I think we think too much about breakthrough the government's fascinating with breakthrough innovations but here's the risk of not think about disruptive right if you if we aren't thinking about disruptive let's take a look at again military history though let's look at the wars where we either didn't lose or lost right you can debate that start with the Korean War jail MacArthur right we actually defeated the North Koreans we pushed the North Koreans German Arthur and you enforce they push the North Koreans all the way back up to the Chinese border right then these pesky right Chinese volunteers right there a million a million man I'm on it wasn't a million-man army at first was at first they thought it was estimates of 20,000 30 200,000 300,000 Chinese cost the board this is about the October November time from 1953 the problem that MacArthur had breakthrough innovations right MacArthur 19 what is now 19 and remember when it started 1950 was 1953 in 1953 June of 1953 okay after World War two what was the big invention for if you're a spy these are on airplanes you to the U2 wasn't quite ready yet but what film photography right so MacArthur relied on what film photography what's the drawback of what film why you need daylight right you need light what film photography right right photography you need light so whether or not the Chinese volunteers figured this out they operate exclusively at night under penalty of being shot right the captains were told to shoot folks who maneuvered during the daytime so the again intelligence officer we call it the two right the two is the intel officer in the military unit MacArthur's J2 consistently underestimated the Chinese military strength by a factor of ten you can mess it up by a factor of three and still get away consistently throughout the war he underestimated Chinese strength by a factor of ten you can't win a ground force if you're underestimating your enemy by a factor of ten that is difficult to do so I'm actually surprised his J2 never got fired what about the Vietnam War again I talked a little bit about this early but this is a different aspect we the US forces bomb the heck out of this thing called the Ho Chi Minh trail we tried to stop the supply lines right it went through the Cambodia through Laos but really this notion of the Ho Chi Minh trail right it was causing us problems right how are these Vietnamese vietcong rebels right bandits how are they getting Soviet weapons systems that could shoot down right our helicopters that could shoot down right can blow away our tanks so we bomb the heck out of the Ho Chi Minh trail what's problem with bombing Ho Chi Minh trail well yeah this notion was the Ho Chi Minh trail we didn't figure out it was not initially dependent on infrastructure no road networks right no rail networks it was dismounted infantry you can bomb the heck out of a force and where the people do when you see a crater you go around it that's what happened initially throughout the war right we there's Ho Chi Minh trail right all these supply lines we know where the the concentration is so we bomb the heck out of it and we thought that would stop it walked around the craters right if you're the V con so that was problem with the Vietnam War a rack of a gas tank major killer for US forces improvised explosive device improvised right it's even in the name it's a disruptive type of innovation right Iowa station Iraq for a year right it's old they call it unexploded ordinance out there they we used to have a placard in our vehicles to call the EOD units right hurtlocker those explosive ordinance detachments you call them in they'll get rid of them there were so many in the area where we were at right it didn't make sense to do that I don't know why we even had that in our vehicles like this makes no sense right government efficiency yeah this placard tells us do that they're all over the place and so initially a lot of the EODs are made from remnants of the Iran Iraq war right just 60 million more tubes right the duds right essentially dudded but they picked up maybe it might still explode and that's where it was did they get better yeah over time right they used copper plates they use other things but then I started using right the track triggers right so the cell phones they got better over time but they're initially a lot of passive IEDs right command detonated right you stepped on it blew up a lot of stuff from Vietnam again we're about cyber warfare my contention is that nearly all a newly discovered malware very first time comes from the disruptive realm right you might debate me on that but that's my contention that's why I'm telling these generals right most malware discovered for the first time originates in this disruptive space right so we need to be thinking about this disruptive revolutionary space okay so I say okay it originates right most malware originates in this revolutionary space atop left quadrant but again there are sustaining evolutionary right version 2.1 version 2.0 goes on again there's not a whole lot of breakthrough malware right there's not a need for it okay sure there's some right Stuxnet I'm thinking right we don't know who's supposedly released it I can't tell you right I can't confirm or deny who released it but if you watch the movie Zero Days right intimated that's your Israel's and you must see I have to make that that citation it's not from the US government citations from the movie Zero Days but if you look at cyber defense here's the problem with cyber defense yeah whole lot of breakthrough evolutionary sustaining not a whole lot of revolutionary types of innovation for defense except from this room that's why I love coming this convention I'm hearing about disruptive innovations for disruptive defense from this room sect devops right that is disruptive you're using tools that you have available think MacGyver just a new way of putting your people together to get more security right that's you're not training them any better you're not using newfangled technology you're just putting people together to talk to have after mine right this notion of tabletop exercises for cyber defense just bring people together it's amazing when you put people together right things happen you talk communicating you find out what the weaknesses are but just by communicating together tabletop to me that's disruptive innovation doesn't take a whole lot of AI machine learning right that takes a lot of time so when I see this as a military intelligence officer I'm seeing a gap there's a gap here what there is in cyber offense and what there is for cyber defense right this whole notion of we're not doing enough really on defense not enough revolutionary types of focus for cyber defense now so if you agree with me on that premise we're not doing enough cyber defense revolutionary cyber defense right I just want to reiterate that again it's tough to do is okay it's tough to do that's why our military just needs to know that beforehand that's tough to break through innovations right success rates probably why it's same so you might as well do them both right independent now if you really do think you have a way to do disruptive defense right this is what I recommend you want to count it early that's where a little late for that now right though with a model malware and really the vulnerabilities that we have with our system the last the last point there is being an early adopter of product experimentation is probably the best way of doing disruptive or revolutionary types of innovation so if you want to encourage it this is what you want to do experiment right this we learn about experimentation in in grade school right experiment drop down the results figure out your control group figure out your experiment right figure it out and it's got to be cheap though make it fast and cheap and that's my last point here attributes of successful patient if the expensive experimentation you generally don't learn from it NASA is trying to expensive experimentation I don't think NASA is gonna succeed very well if I were advising them I tell them go cheaper you need cheap experiments you learn better even failure and here's the problem if you're not doing any experimentation if we only focus on breakthrough and this notion of evolution is staying invasions the problem is if we don't do revolutionary we don't do this experiment right we lost this opportunity to experiment and that's problem and the other problem is breakthroughs expensive same success rates right 30% at best but we lose this notion of experimentation that's what I think it might be happening or our military right for our military we often say that if you heard journal Paul's talk right he said we don't have a zero defects army anymore right he told you about his failures at second lieutenant right he lost the weapon during one of these field exercises his company commander tuned him out but they eventually found the weapon that's his notion of yeah we're no longer zero defects military I would agree with that the problem is I want to be better than a zero defects and no zero defects army I want to be an experimenting army right I want to be an army that that's doing all this stuff in red big thanks to Atari and the torque on crew for inviting me here having a Fed speak is for me it's a it's I enjoyed giving the talks hopefully my audience is primarily to be military leaders but hopefully this framework also gives you this notion of the experimentation that you're doing as hackers I encourage it because as Lance mentioned right we're trying to get more hackers into cyber defense even for the military right much much Zacko worked a lot it's amazing I work in the Army Cybers to again I told you I was a newbie we they always have these guest lectures right what was introduced to me in the email was oh we have this famous hacker coming to give a talk to us come everyone come down in the conference room and here okay so I learned okay it's much Zacko I have no idea who he is it's not till afterwards right okay I with the research you much Zacko was holy smokes he is not a famous hack he's the hacker right the loft so he's the guy who breaks in the NSA for the first time so it's yeah it's for me it's exciting working in this space I'm new to it I am very thankful for being in conference like these because my benefit is not from giving a talk almost every conference I go to I find at least at least one speaker I really want to write a paper with because the ideas that they bring out it's it blows my mind right because it's nothing the military is talking about it's the first time I'm hearing about it I'm just starting to go through a lot of these sans courses so for me a lot of terminology is all new so I'm a neophyte and admit in neophyte but again look at just some of these talks right stuff that happened today a lot of this is disruptive revolutionary innovations right this afternoon again some of its sustaining evolutionary some might be breakthrough but most of this stuff is in the red red red box right that's why I'm encouraging that's why I'm encouraging our military leaders start thinking a leverage the expertise leverage disruptive thoughts leverage the revolutionary right leverage the revolution right the revolution is with the right I'm gonna I'm gonna use that when Lance Lance is said hashtag is the pound I'm using the pound sign now as a revolutionary sign and with that I only have a minute left and so why don't I disconnect and let the next speaker set up but if you have a question I can feel that while while we're we're doing that transition here doesn't have it anyone have any questions I'll I'll be here for the rest of the conference I'll be here rest today and tomorrow trying to gain again more of the wealth of knowledge on disruptive innovations taking place inside the defense the great thing again I didn't mention was another thing that I've learned from from ten of these conferences that right Lance mentioned this right we hackers not only try to break things but we also try to give back to community what I've learned is that from these talks that here not only do the hackers tell me how they broke it right how they got the NSA how they got in target things like that but almost always they'll always come at the very end okay if target or company X I've done this one little thing how we've gone to a different company we've gone to different site when I hear that right that's what sparks me right they've done this little thing right everyone here any deviant olams talks physical pentesting right deviant olam I show his video on day one of my lessons now when I when I give my classes because to me cyber security was too abstract so I play deviant olams physical pentesting right deviant olam not only tells you oh he laughs right I broken this door so easily I broke this L there so easily but he gives you the 10-second clip that says if he had done this one thing he had gone to Lowe's or Home Depot and bought these champions for 50 cents I wouldn't have taken this door apart right so I didn't hear that that to me is revolutionary innovation right pound sign revolutionary innovation and that's why that's why I love coming to this conference and gaining your insights as actors and and hopefully now that you know this framework you guys are doing you guys and gals right you guys and gals are doing disruptive innovation you guys are doing revolutionary invasion hopefully it's for the defensive side but even when you expose that the weakness on the offensive side you give me that little trick that little twist that tells me okay if you've done this I would've gone somewhere else and that's why I like hearing and that's why I want to promote our military right more of this little tricks that they do this our defense is much better so thank you very much


Hello, welcome to SSUnitech, Sushil this site and this is continuation of PySpark tutorial. So in this video we are going to see about the cast. So what is the cast inside the PySpark? So cast is nothing but it is going to use for converting the data type of any column. So cast we can use with column and we can also use with select expression. So we are going to see in this video for both. So let me quickly go inside the browser and we will try to see in practical. So here I am going to create one of the data frame and this data frame will be having name is job start date is graduate, gender and salary. So all these columns will be having in this data frame. And here I am going to print the schema of this data frame. So here we can simply check what is the data type of all these columns. So here we can see for the name we have the string data type for the is we have long then we have string string string and for salary we have double. So now let me try to convert the data type of the is as string and job start date as date is graduate as Boolean. So how we can do that? So simply we can use the cast function. So first let me try to import all these functions. So simply we can use the from PySpark dot SQL dot functions then import as thick. So it will import all the function. Now let me try to also import the data type. So we can use the from PySpark dot SQL dot types import as thick. So what these two lines will do, it will be going to import all the SQL type function and types. So types is nothing but the data type. Now we have one of the data frame that we have created that is the DF as we can see here. Now we need to replace the is. So let me use the data frame DF dot then we can use the with column. So simply inside the with column I'm going to replace the existing column which is the is but here I'm going to update the data type. So simply we can use the column by which we want to do the update. So that is the DF dot is dot we can use the cast. So cast function will help us to update it here it is asking about the type. So which data type we want to add I'm going to convert this into the string data type. So we can use the string type like that. So let me try to put this into another data frame that is DF one and simply let me try to replace the data type of one more column. And this column is job start date that we can see here. So this job start date we just want to replace from string to date. So here we can use this job start date and this will be job start date and after cast instead of the string type this should be data type. So we can add the data type like this. Let me try to replace one more. I'm going to replace for the is graduate and this will be the Boolean type. So here we can use the is graduate. And here I'm going to replace the existing one is graduate. And here instead of the date type this should be Boolean type. Now here we can execute all good. We can expand this and we can check the data types. So for the is graduate we can see the Boolean for the job start date. We have date for the is it is converted to a string. So simply we can use the with column. We can specify the existing column in the first parameter in the second parameter. We can add the data frame dot your column name by which you just want to convert. And then we can use the cost and inside the cast we can use the actual data type that we just want to put. So simply we can use it. The second way we can also use the select expression. So how we can use the select expression. Let me try to compete this from here and let me go here in this new cell. And here we can use the df dot select expression and he will be in caps. Now here we have to specify all the columns which is available in the existing data frame. Then we will just want to add few additional columns. We can add this double code and inside that we can use the cast and here is as a string. So it is going to work as SQL statement. And after that we can also provide the alias of this. So this will be going to add a one more column with the is and let me try to put this in another data frame. And here let me execute it and we can expand here and we'll see and verify new as is converted to the string. So this is the one way by which we can also implement it. So either we can go with this way or we can go with the first one. So I prefer to use the first one. Here we are going to replace the existing column only updating the data type of those column. Thank you so much for watching this video. If you like this video please subscribe our channel to get many more videos. See you in the next video.


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Here is the smoking gun. Here's the smoking gun. He didn't even wasn't behind closed doors. It was open. That Trump invited and demanded that Russia collude. And Eli, in your wonderful most recent episode of The Re-Education, you talk about how a great journalist like Jonathan Rauch points to this or says, Trump on occasions openly invited the Russians to meddle in the election. This is the clip that we're talking about. Let's run this thing. What do I have to get involved with Putin for? I have nothing to do with Putin. I've never spoken to him. I don't know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesn't respect our president. And if it is Russia, which is probably not, nobody knows who it is. But if it is Russia, it's really bad for a different reason because it shows how little respect they have for our country when they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see, I will tell you this, Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Was that collusion? The dead two rights. Get him in an orange jumpsuit, frock march him out. That's it, where's the Justice Department? We've cracked the code. Really, really? Have you never seen this guy before?  And it seems to me, I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but I interpreted that as saying, I don't have anything to do with the Russians. By the way, that was wrong. When he said that, his fixer, Mike Cohen, was trying to arrange a deal that never happened to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Okay. And then he says, it would be really bad if it was the Russians, because it shows how little respect, which is true, it does show how little respect they have to the United States. And then he's then talking about the missing emails that was the kind of prevailing narrative at the time, which was, well, what if she deleted all these emails and they didn't charge the attack or anybody else and like, it's not unfair and, you know, locked her up. And what was in those emails that was so, you know, there must have been something so devastating that they got rid of them, which also is not clear, right? Well, it's, yeah, it's like that, if you want to, that's a little bit of an innuendo kind of attack too. On the other hand, again, I look at it as a matter of sort of double standards. If somebody in the Trump campaign, even if it was a junior, junior, junior chipmunk, like a George Papadopoulos had deleted information that was opinioned by Congress, you really think everybody would be like, oh, who cares? What, that's not a big deal. I didn't do it for corrupt reasons. So, but anyway, that's what he was getting at. He was like, well, you know, you can find them. And we now know because of the Mueller report that there really was Trump was obsessed with finding those emails. So he contracted people to, you know, he asked Mike Flynn to go find them. And I think there were people who were willing to go try to get them from anyone, but that is not, and it doesn't have anything to do with what the Russians actually did. They hacked the DNC and they hacked John Podesta and they gave, it was separate emails. They're both emails, but it's different things. And again, I don't think I'll ever convince David from or Jonathan Rauch or Lawfare, you know, Ben Wittes. I'm probably never gonna convince them that this is like, what is this? Like, how is that count of anything? But they, I mean, it was certainly said we also know. I mean, listen, when this started and people thought that Trump was gonna get nailed by Mueller, so for the, nobody said in those first two and a half years of the Trump years, like, hey, they already got him. I mean, look what he said in July 27th, you know, 2016, it's right there on tape. Why don't we have to do any more investigating? That's collusion, everybody. No, they thought that we're gonna find, but, you know, was described in the Steele dossier, well-developed conspiracy and like Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen and Prague and all this other stuff. None of it true. The way that Trump himself has reacted to the Durham report is worth talking about a little bit, I think, because he has a certain manner that he likes to frame things. We all remember, you know, hoax, witch hunts, crime of the century or the terms that he generally throws out there. And he was recently on Dan Bongino's show reacting to the Durham report. So let's just play that clip and I'm curious to hear your thoughts, Eli, as to what Trump had to say. This was a coup and if I didn't fire, tell me, probably you wouldn't have made it. I wouldn't have made it. This great administration that did so much wouldn't have made it because, call me, this was a whole coup. They were ready to go in. If I didn't fire, call me. He would have walked in with Stroke and Page and this one and McCabe. And they would have said, sir, I'm sorry, but the Russia thing, I said, what Russia thing? Can you imagine if you would have been taken out of office as something that you never even heard about? These are bad people.  Was this an attempted coup? You know, that's over the top. I don't like, I mean, it's not a coup in the sense of there wasn't like a general who got a group of officers to storm the White House, but it was certainly an outrageous kind of interference. As I said, in the presidential transition, the FBI leadership's actions. I mean, remember, in March of 2017, again, the FBI has zero evidence at this point. Comey tells the House Intelligence Committee there's an ongoing investigation in Trump's campaign having to do with Russia, confirming, by the way, stories that were already leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post and everybody else. Why would he do that? He mentions the investigation in 2016 initially in July in order to say he's not charging Clinton, also highly unusual. But why would he then bring up this in an open-ended investigation when, again, the FBI had nothing with the exception of the Steele dossier, which was disinformation. So, and the FBI, by the way, at that point knew that Denchenko was walking away from it. You can go through the list of all of the problems. They offered Steele a million dollars we could corroborate and he couldn't. So all of that information is somewhere. The CIA looked at it and said they thought it was junk and shouldn't be included in the intelligence assessment. So it's Comey out there who then says, I need to confirm this and everything like that.  The FBI director is announcing an ongoing investigation into the sitting president, Holy Tahiti, and it confirms so many of the priors of people who still bitter about Trump winning that election that we sort of stopped and we didn't really capture or examine like, what the hell is the FBI director doing? Why would he make that announcement? And now we know there was no reason for him to make that announcement. We now know that what he said was, I mean, why would you say that? That it should have pretty much been closed at that point. So I wouldn't call it a coup, but I don't have much sympathy. And even though at the time, you know, Trump couldn't have screwed up more about how he ended up, how he fired Comey and bragging to, you know, the Russian ambassador, the Russian foreign minister in the White House the next day about how he was crazy and everything like that. All really, that was bad, but probably one of the best things that Trump did was getting rid of Jim Comey. That was an excerpt from Reason's live stream with Eli Lake dissecting the Durham report. If you wanna watch the whole conversation, go here. If you wanna watch another excerpt, go here and tune in next Thursday at 1 PM Eastern time, because Zach Weismiller and I here will be back here with a great guest. Thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's casebreaks.com doing a quick little random number block randomizer for that big group of teams right there This is for pick your team for we did it. Thanks everybody. Here's how it works if you're not familiar with it These people are familiar. You know how this works. Thanks to this group here for getting this one done There are the numbers right there. Let's roll it. Let's randomize it One and a three four times For names and teams names and numbers one two three and Fourth and final time three and a one Couple PJs down to a miles One of the three four times one two three and Four and after four times we got three down to five All right PJ with three and eight Nathan with two mark with zero So you'll get any and all redemptions for that big group of teams right down there including one-of-one redemptions Sean Maddock, you'll still get live one-of-ones Mark also has seven David with six mark with nine PJ with four Sean once again with one and miles with five Let's sort this numerically and coming up in a different video will be the break itself We'll see you for that jazzy's casebreaks.com


Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 2002 film release Bubba Ho-Tep, which if you're not familiar with Bubba Ho-Tep, stop this video. Go watch it. I do recommend it for people who are into horror Bubba Ho-Tep. I've owned this on DVD for a decent amount of time Been a fan of this for a while Re-watching it. It was even better than I remember it being to be honest because there's a lot going on in this film. So With this there are two forces kind of coming together in this movie that I really really love two people in particular Who I'll talk about that makes me love the film even more than I otherwise would so obviously Bruce Campbell's in this film So many people love Bruce Campbell. He's got such a wonderful following Met him recently super nice guy. I've always loved his work. I think he's just a character actor He's one of those cool character actors who Yeah, I mean if you if you like one of his characters, you like all of his characters pretty much You just like his acting style. He's just got this way about him. He's very like confident. He's snarky Fun times you can tell he has a good time with his roles. So he's in this But I also think that Ozzie Davis does an exceptional job in this.  I'm JFK.  I don't know but He does a really good job with that role as well So Bruce and Ozzie do a wonderful job Also, there's a small small role for Reggie Bannister in this which I greatly appreciate because I love Reggie Bannister From all the phantasm films. I'm a huge phantasm fan ph an So that leads me to the other force with this film that I'm all about is Don Cascarelli I really love Don Cascarelli mainly because of the phantasm films that he's given us I I also like he's he's a fiercely independent filmmaker From what I know I've heard an interview with him and he tries to do all his stuff independently He tries to not have too much interference from actual production companies that aren't his own so a lot of the times What he's putting together is severely low budget and it kind of seems that way a lot of times But he does try and go as big as he can on practical effects Which is another thing I appreciate but his stories or what he chooses to use as his story For inspiration for a film are always kind of weird and I and I like the weird obviously phantasm super weird concept Bubba Hotep is also a very weird concept But I like it. I like the weird original interesting ideas and horror This is actually based Bubba Hotep's based on a short story by Joe R. Lansdale who is a very established horror writer I actually haven't read any of his stuff But I've seen some films and short films that are based on stories of his so I Will get to reading some of his stuff one that I really want to check out because I heard an interview with him And he was talking about it in depth the drive-in. I think yeah, it's just called the drive-in apparently the concept is like Some like meteor hits hits the earth and and people at this drive-in are then like stuck at this drive-in movie theater And then they start like mutating and there's all sorts of wacky things that happen And then they have to create their own Society because they're trapped there and it gets really weird. It sounds fun. It sounds Nutty and sounds like it's up my alley. So I want to check that out. I have a lot of Respect for Joe R. Lansdale because I know What he's done. I just haven't read any of it yet Okay, so this movie just about broke even when it was released They came out $200,000 ahead. So that's not a whole lot Especially when you're putting a lot of time and work into a film like this So they probably wish they would have made a lot more money than that, but hey, it didn't lose money. So that's a good thing It pretty much hit cult sets cult status out of the gate It got pretty pretty good reviews to be honest and a lot of people liked it immediately they had been putting it on a bunch of festival circuits and Between hitting the festival circuit and doing that as much as they could and Bruce Campbell being in it because he has that star power With people in the horror community People were drawn to it pretty quick as soon as it hit DVD. So it was kind of an immediate cult status film, which I'm glad Sequel was going to happen. It had a script But it didn't get enough interest from investors That is a story that you end up hearing a lot in Hollywood, especially with horror films, although You know, I say that but maybe I don't know maybe it's not especially with horror films I just am more keyed into horror films because that's my thing. So Excuse me. So maybe it's prevalent with everything every genre. I don't know But doing my research. I didn't know about this. We didn't get a sequel, but apparently I need to look into this IDW publishing which does comic books did a five-issue Prequel to this film called Bubba Hotep and the Cosmic Bloodsuckers and Joe R. Lansdale Supervised that project. So I'm gonna need to find that because that sounds awesome Okay, so let's get into the actual film portion of it. This is shot very well I love the way it's shot. It has quick shots where it needs to have quick shots But and that's another thing. It's edited very well, too. The pacing is decent Yeah, I mean if you're familiar with with what Don Cosperilli's done in the past the way he directs the way his cinematography is It's very good. He does it well. He chooses shots. Well, it looks aesthetically pleasing. It's good So this actually immediately puts directly in your face The depression of being in an assisted living home, which actually speaks to a much larger theme Which I'm gonna talk about a little bit more later And it kind of gets you know, it lets you know immediately that like this is a fun movie because The main character as you first meet him at his Bruce Campbell saying that he's actual Elvis that everyone says Oh, you're Sebastian half sir. You're misremembering. You have dementia or something. He's like, no, no No, I am actual Elvis. I switched places with Sebastian half He likes drugs even more than I did had a heart attack and died and now I'm stuck at Sebastian half Even though I am actual Elvis. I'm the king So you meet this character immediately and you're just like, oh, this is gonna be like quirky comedy fun But they do a really good job of also giving you the message that this is also about something else. It's about Aging and it's about what happens to you when you age And I'm gonna talk to talk to that a little bit more So for that reason it is fun and funny, but it's also very serious and has a lot of heart to it And there is impact if you're really paying attention to the film So one of the cool things they did with this is they Did a really good job of portraying that Bruce Campbell's character Sebastian half or Elvis as you want to however you want to put it because it's never really fleshed out like You could see it being either way You could be like he's got dementia and he just thinks he's Elvis or you could see it as he actually was Elvis So choose to believe it how you want. They leave it very ambiguous and I kind of like that about the film So the days just blur together for him and they did a really good job of visually portraying that He's getting like flashes of things happening He's not even sure that he's seeing certain things and it's all just blurring together So I can imagine that that's kind of how it is being an assisted living home Especially when you're not doing a whole lot which they portray with his character He's laying in bed a lot and that's kind of how it seems to be with a lot of assisted living homes Is that they're just kind of hanging out, you know, they're just there Which sucks so Yeah, I feel like that's probably an accurate portrayal So then there's the moment where the daughter of his roommate who passes away comes in and she starts just throwing all these things out including pictures of her father his purple heart she throws out his purple heart and Sebastian half or Elvis I'll just say Bruce Campbell's character Bruce Campbell's character is like can I at least have his purple heart He was very proud of that thing. So this kind of speaks to one of those themes of like what happens as you age Our society in general at least in the United States is very geared towards young people It's all about people who can be in the workforce and contribute in that way It's all about the young It's all about marketing the young people and when you age to a certain level You're just kind of viewed as persona non grata in a sense and that plays out in this film a few ways One way is with this daughter coming in and just throwing out all her father stuff I mean he just died and she's just basically like all right It's over dead and gone and it kind of raises this question of when you get older the appreciation for you Drops significantly because you're not young anymore because Everyone else who is young is so focused on their own lives and other people around their age And you're just kind of looked at is you had your life You're done now go sit in this assisted living home or lay down in this assisted living home and wait for death And on top of that it's kind of this What do you do and and did your life even matter like when you're gone are your memories there did what you do What you did during your life did it matter did it have an impact will people remember you and with this This woman coming in and throwing all her father stuff away. It's showing that she's just kind of like all right That's the end. That's the end of his life Moving on and the memory does not live on really and that's pretty sad to be honest The other thing is sexuality kind of going away, which which plays a lot with Bruce Campbell's character because he keeps talking about how you know back in his day He would he would get erections all the time and and have no problem But now that he's older He has a problem with it and it's very depressing and then talking about how he could get women if you wanted to But now all these women look at him and they just see him as nothing basically and that's kind of what happens You know unless unless it's you're with other older individuals and you know There can still be a sex life in at old age, which I'm sure some people heard that we're like eww gross But hey, you know, it's it's healthy if you want to do it all good, but There is this this Overall idea that you age out of sexuality too and you're no longer looked at that way Which has to be particularly tough for males because you know being a male I know that that sex is a big thing in your life And especially when you're like young that's one of your big driving factors. I mean, it's it's an animalistic Tendency, it's natural.  It's an actual Nature-driven thing to procreate to be driven to procreate Although we're at a societal point where we don't have to procreate so we'll actually have sex for fun But that urge is still there. It's still driven by nature and so I can't imagine as a male getting to that point where That's not a thing anymore. Like you can't even engage in that and people don't look at you that way And well, I mean your loved one loved ones females Relationships wouldn't look at you that way anymore really so it's kind of hard to wrap your mind around And I think they do a good job portraying that with Bruce Campbell's character in this film This is what I'm saying. They're like many many facets to the idea of aging and obviously a lot of this Credit goes to Joe R. Lansdale who wrote the short story. I would assume Um Keeps it. Oh, yeah, I already talked about it You know keeps it relatively ambiguous, which I like whether he's actually Elvis or not Bruce Campbell as Elvis is everything in this movie. I wrote down. It is so fun to just watch him chew the scenery It it looks like I mean he could fool me if it's not the case But it looks like he's having a really good time playing Elvis in this role Every time he's on the screen. It's just fun the way he plays it There's so much joy in it. I love it. Like I said, he's everything in this film one of the main reasons to watch it There's a good casual comedy to this that's throughout the entire thing And the action the delivery from the actress actually helps a lot too. So there was a good job writing kind of casual comedy It's not like over the top. It's not too understated. It's kind of like this nice kind of medium level and the performances of Ozzy Davis and Bruce Campbell in particular really helps sell those lines and I love it and their interplay between the two of them It's very believable what's going on between those two and I and it's a lot of fun So the scarab beetles in this that show up initially a lot of people probably don't people just like beetles It's supposed to be scarab beetles since they're tied into the whole ancient Egypt mummy thing So the scarab beetles look Appropriately hokey, I would say like they look like that perfect mix of hokey and realistic And it makes sense because this is a film that has a lot of comedy to it So that fits in some other films like say they look like that for you know The the Brendan Fraser the mummy wouldn't work so well because it's too much on the comedic end They were going for more serious although there is a little bit of comedy But for this perfect love love the way it looks and practical effects once again love that as I've said so many times the scene of Bruce Campbell and Ozzy Davis's characters going to battle at the very end is wonderful in this film that It's like it always sticks out in my mind That is the one scene I remember most from this film when I think back to it It's them coming down the hallway in the assisted living home Ozzy Davis's character in his motorized wheelchair and right next to him Bruce Campbell's character with a walker which my wife was watching this with me and she's an occupational therapist So she knows about walking assisted walking devices and she was just like he's not he's not using that walker correctly and I turned to her I was like Rebecca I I don't think they really cared about that when they were making this film She's like well, I'm just saying if they wanted to make this realistic. That's not and I'm like I don't think they really care and I think your your typical viewer doesn't either and they probably don't even pick up on it They're just like, you know, whatever Because that's not what that scene is about that scene is about These old people who everyone thinks are useless to society at this point pretty much forgotten and left there for dead and It's their badass moment They have a new lease on life and Bruce Campbell's character talks about this in the film when the mummy shows up at the Assisted Living Home and he has something to get involved in something to investigate something to fight against it makes him feel Invigorated again, and he's just like he has something to live for it's not all about just laying there and waiting for death anymore it's about getting involved having some action and Just seeing that moment of them being motivated and they're like Yeah, we're at the end of our lives, but we're still gonna make a difference And we're gonna save the souls of all these other other individuals at this assisted living home It's just a badass moment for these older gentlemen who people look at it and just like whatever their life is over Not so much because they're going to be heroes, and I love I just love that moment The music is great in all such situations in this in my opinion especially at the end when you have the very impactful moments of Both the characters dying basically passing away The heartfelt music that plays is very well done, and it really helps those scenes And it's impactful. It really is because You know they went out on top in a sense the these guys The whole movie is basically a meditation on aging and if life even matters once you've passed away I kind of talked about this a little bit, but it's this kind of it makes you think if you're really watching the film paying attention You know when I age how are people gonna view me when I die are people gonna remember me It kind of plays to those fears I feel like a lot of people have those fears in life is what happens as I age to my body To you know my mind to how people think of me how people view me My interaction with society My ability to do things on a daily basis, but then also when I'm wet when I die Will people remember me while I leave a legacy and I feel like that's why a lot of people have children for that reason, but That doesn't guarantee it as you see in this film with that daughter Throwing all her father's things out because she's just you know, she didn't care So this plays to a lot of fears about aging and dying and these are fears That should resonate with everyone because it will happen to everyone and for this reason It's not just a good movie because it's fun and there's good comedy to it It's a good movie because it has an actual message It really has something to say and it should resonate with pretty much everyone I mean it certainly resonates with me as you can tell and The last thing I just said The last thing I want to say about it is a more simplistic version of what I was saying is this film has a lot of heart Because it has a lot to say and I really like it. I love this film It's it's a really good time and I feel like every time I do watch it, which it's been a while since the last time Every time I do watch it. I'm reminded how good it is Like I always remember liking it and then I watch it and I like it more than I remember liking it So It's the gift that keeps on giving every time you watch it. So thank you Bruce Campbell. Thank you Ozzie Davis Thank you Don Cascarelli Thank you Joe R. Lansdale and thank you to everyone who came together to make the film possible because it is an Awesome cult classic Hopefully everyone enjoyed this review now. I'm gonna do my star rating on this one Five stars out of five stars with half stars in play Four stars I'm gonna give us a four star. I think it's firmly there. It makes a lot of sense. This is a four star film It's a good thanks everyone for checking this out. If you haven't seen this film I would have hoped you didn't go all the way through this because it spoiled a bunch of stuff But go watch the movie anyway. It's totally worth it. Hit that subscribe if you can for me That's your one way to pay me back cost you no money like a second of your life and It can mean a lot for my channel So thank you for checking this out though spread the word if you can until next time keep it brutal


Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. You told me once that bad news tends to happen all at once. Catastrophic events, sudden losses, dramatic reversals. Whereas good news often happens slowly. Well, here's some good news happening slowly. The sun is setting here on the western shores of Lake Michigan, known in these parts as America's Third Coast. I just read a wonderful book by Julia Baird called Phosphorescence, in which she writes about the importance of savoring experiences, taking the time to really enjoy something, like to really taste an Oreo or to really watch a sunset. Baird cites several studies linking savoring to well-being, and that does align with my experience. I've had years where many wonderful things happened that I found impossible to enjoy or even meaningfully take in because I lacked the time or psychological well-being to properly savor them. And then I've had days like this one where I am well enough and moving slowly enough to savor the simple and routine wonders that are always around me, like the sunset. The one daily phenomenon that for me anyway never gets old. Like most things, savoring takes practice. It also takes time, slow time, thick time, the kind of time that is required to see the good things that do not happen all at once. This is, it must be said, not what YouTube is known for being best at. For years I've edited nearly every breath out of my videos because in this hyper-distracted information landscape, even a half-second pause is often enough for someone to think, I should check out one of the other 72 tabs I have open. But here is a breath.  I've spent a lot of my life thinking and writing about how we go on, especially in the context of mental health challenges, but of course how we go on is profoundly linked to why we go on. We go on because despair may be powerful, but it's untrue.  We go on to help those we love, including those we don't know but still love, and those who aren't here yet, but will be someday. And we go on because life is beautiful, because our lungs were made for this error. Life isn't merely beautiful, of course. It is also awful and painful and unjust and much else, but none of that can negate its beauty or the gifts to be found in savoring that beauty. So much of the time I'm obsessed with what's next and with feeling busy and feeling like I need to be deeply engaged with the quickening pulse of the right now. Like if you go to Twitter before you write anything in the box, the box says what's happening, and I've long wanted to know what was happening. I've wanted, in truth, to be part of what was happening. But so much of what's happening isn't happening fast. It isn't news or even new. Nobody's tweeting about it. It's water rolling in and rolling out, the sun setting and rising, lives being lived. I wish you could be here, Hank, not just for the sight of it, but to smell the pine trees, to feel the wind on your skin. But then it occurs to me that wherever you are, there is also air and sunshine, and the sun will set tonight. And I hope you have a few moments to savor it. Hank, I'll see you on Friday.