It was in San Jose. I'm sure exactly. Yeah. So anyway, it was fun So we got and George R. Martin has been putting on a losers party For the Hugo Award losers every year for decades. So we got to go to that and fist bump George R. Martin And how is he doing? You know writing books or I mean for the 15 seconds I got to say hi. Thanks for the party. He seemed to be doing great good Oh Good health hail. Yeah. Yeah. No, absolutely did seem the good health. Good. Everybody don't Know was he was no everybody He hates this question and this meme, but there is a like well I hope he lives long enough to finish the series Very very gross and I can understand where it comes from but I hopefully my my dripping sarcasm No, it was it was evident because I think it is ghoulish and disgusting that yeah, you know and he is In fine-fetal. I would say well, so but it but it's Like oh, yeah, okay. I will I will We always forget what those thoughts are after the show try not Yeah, okay good. All right you guys ready? Yep There we go, we do This is the Daily Tech news for Monday August 20th 2018 in Los Angeles on Tom Merritt and from studio feline I'm Sarah Lane Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert Young and our producer Roger Chang is in the house Roger How you been I have been Okay, good. Yeah, never better Got a August Monday full of tech news to share with you including a big announcement from games calm from Nvidia Let's start with a few tech things you should know So back in January Microsoft announced the preview of end-to-end encrypted private conversations in Skype And the feature is now available for all users on Skype for iOS Android Linux Mac and Windows desktop Users can select new private conversation What sends the recipient an invite and then all those calls and messages in that conversation will be encrypted and end Until either user chooses to end it users can also participate in only one private conversation from a single device at a time And then switch the conversation to other devices But the messages they send and receive will be tied to the vice they're using Makes sense. That's good Mine minecraft education edition is coming to Apple's iPad along with new features created for the education edition and available to all players Microsoft announced that the school version of Minecraft will debut on the iPad in September at that time The minecraft education edition app will be downloadable from Apple's app store for use with annual Education edition subscriptions purchased from Microsoft free tutorials and other class resources for teachers are on the minecraft educational edition site Arm has detailed its next two generations of CPU cores following the a76 Demos and Hercules Hercules Hercules both future cores are based on the new a76 micro architecture Demos is its 2019 successor aiming at more widespread seven nanometer adoption And Hercules is reportedly the next phase of the micro architecture for 2020 products and the first five nanometer implementations All right, let's talk about apps Justin Tom Apple removed thousands of gambling apps from its Chinese store after China State run Broadcaster China Central Television accused Apple of not adequately removing banned content such as illegal and fake lottery ticket apps on Sunday CCTV reported that Apple pulled at least 4,000 apps tagged with the keyword gambling on August 9th alone Apple says it was complying with regulation It's It's an interesting order of events If this were the US or Europe you would say oh Totally normal a television network brought light to something that was not being paid proper attention to and the company Has since resolved the situation in China though I think the the conclusion that most people jump to and I'll be honest I don't know if it's actually right or not is that state-run television Stories like this are fed to them from the government which would make you wonder Well, why didn't the government just contact Apple directly, but maybe they want to embarrass them or something like that I don't know if that's true Well and nobody does and that's part of the question is is that you know Which which side of the Apple's interaction with the government which can oftentimes be Touchy American companies working in China are very often touch and go China has shown a willingness to have Chinese companies Have pole position in a lot of these markets.  No, it feels like Apple didn't think these were in violation right for them for there to be that many I mean the other conclusion you could jump to is that Apple is incompetent I don't that doesn't fit with other aspects of things So I feel like either the the rules of the road changed or they thought certain things were allowed that weren't Because 4,000 apps don't just slip by you by mistake. Well, there is there's the old phrase criminal analogy, right? Yeah, the old the old idea of in a top-down authoritarian system You are now watching to see where the portraits in the lobby of the Kremlin are being hung so you know who's in power and who's out of power and This to me feels a little bit like that that Apple's like all right for whatever reason They want to step down on gambling apps Well, then even if it's not against the rules and they haven't told us it's against the rules Then whatever get right now daddy Let's talk about Trackers shall we fit but is making it kind of hard to tell the difference between a smartwatch and a fitness tracker While still not losing the tracker category the Fitbit charge 3 is the new device as a new aluminum body Gorilla grass 3 glass rather 3 display with 40% more active screen than the charge 2 The charge 3 is also water resistant up to 50 meters and is the first tracker to get smartphone notifications That's huge. It gets seven days of battery life on a single charge up from five days on the charge to the charge 3 will also come in two models The core version is one hundred forty nine dollars ninety five cents and then a special edition is $169 ninety five cents that features NFC and supports Fitbit pay or payments Prior to start today shipping due in October Yeah, the verge article in this sort of made a point of How this is a tracker and Fitbit is not giving up on trackers even though everything is all about smartwatches these days But then points out that it's blurring the lines.  The first time a Fitbit tracker has done that So I feel like it reminds me a little bit of how feature phones are becoming smarter and today's feature phone often does things that smartphones did in 2006 2007 when when the smartphone category was very young and The analogy breaks down at a certain point, but it does feel like the difference between a tracker and a smartwatch Kind is kind of blending. It's kind of going away Not only is is that the case but this is a device that effectively says let's just do Literally everything that is well done now on smartwatches Like people still love the tracking has been a thing for a long time even before Apple kind of got in with the I watch and Android wear and stuff like that This is all the things that are done well on a smartwatch, you know notifications have been a thing Pebble owners certainly have very much enjoyed that for years and years The question is is this a device that you're gonna wind up wanting to keep for three years at, you know $150 $170 price point or is it something that as the radios get better as the battery power gets better as the Processing speed gets better and now smartwatches can do more things independently from your phone Are these going to be relics of the past fairly quickly as as those devices step up? yeah, I look at it and I Think well shoot if I can get most of what a smartwatch does for 150 or even 170 bucks Not bad, but also when you buy a tracker, you don't expect it to look like a watch But when you're going out for the evening and you've got a smartwatch that looks acceptable with your outfit You may not wear your tracker Which is yeah, I know some of you kind of dismissed that part of the notion But that that that is a different choice you people who wear trackers sometimes they don't wear them all the time I don't know it's an interesting interesting category I mean, I like the idea of the tracker being the watch just so I don't have to think about the two as Would you ever hit a situation where you're like, ooh, this is a tracker It really looks like a tracker with this outfit or I'm going to a funeral or something and that Well, yeah, which is why I don't have a smartwatch Because I feel like yeah as far as sort of fashion goes it rarely works, but I I would prefer not to have two devices if I have to care about both of that and that's things All smartwatches are trackers. Yeah, right. This is a tracker saying oh, we're gonna do some smartwatching things But turn creator Brahm Cohen criticized cryptocurrencies using the term gold Bugism gold bugs are people who think that gold is the solution to a lot of different economic problems Brahm says he sees Bitcoin as something that's fundamentally flawed Especially the wasteful mining process. We have to run these high-powered graphic processors or specialty processors And this apparently includes Tron, which is the company that acquired Cohen's bit coin bit torrent company Trons founder recently launched the idea to improve bit torrent protocol by integrating it into the Tron network Which would allow users to earn TRX currency by seeding files Cohen has left Tron and he's working on his own environmentally friendly cryptocurrency called Chichi Chichi It's just spelled CHI But it is based on proof of space not mining So you don't have to run processors and use electricity. You have to have storage, which is an interesting spin So Brahm Cohen has been upset with management at bit torrent for a fairly long time dating back to the previous CEOs Almost 2004 when he formed the tour at the company. Yeah, you know, so I don't the fact that he's left is not Particularly shocking. What is more interesting is the fact that he's a brilliant mind and I'm curious to see what he does next with this You know reaction to cryptocurrency Yeah, the idea that you do proof of storage makes me think well People are just gonna buy, you know terabytes and terabytes of storage But he seems to think that that won't work because there is so much ample storage already That it won't be worth the money to do and he's a smart guy. He's a really good engineer. Maybe he's right Had you guys heard of gold bug ism? Oh, yeah, yeah, it's a 30s era turn It I think it got coined around the time of people advocating to stay on the gold standard. I see, okay, really I Would have thought it was gold rush Related no no gold bugs or the people are like we need to keep the gold don't none of this paper money I don't want your greenback dollar. I don't want your silver change to quote What is so what is he saying in terms of the bit of a bit coin? He's saying Bitcoin is like gold bugs like people who don't really understand how currency works And so they're trying to create they're recreating the the what he considers the mistakes of Gold bug ism virtually huh Well, that's by the way Don't claim to be an expert if you're an economist and you want to explain this a little better Please feedback at daily tech news show dot com, but that's why gold bugs. We're yet go ahead and write on in Well, yeah, gold bugs are definitely already going to write in I would like an economist to write in the gold Bugs are going to write in and say gold standard will work and here's why and I already expected those emails Okay, then gold bugs settle down go ahead and delete that trap The Financial Times reports that the European Union is considering forcing tech companies to delete terrorist propaganda from their platforms Within 60 minutes of it being flagged or phase fines Legislation requiring a 60-minute takedown was passed in March, but the guideline was voluntary EU's commissioner for security Julian King said that the EU had quote not seen enough progress and quote on the issue and was willing to Take stronger action in order to better protect our citizens King said We cannot afford to relax or become complacent in the face of such shadowy and destructive phenomenon not not a representative imitation of Julian King I Don't really know what Julian King's my apologies to Julian King his family and gold bugs around the world Well, listen, I mean, I love the idea the again in theory this is okay if it's terrorist propaganda I'm sure it should be taken down within 60 minutes, but What tech company I mean look at Twitter these days Twitter can barely get its act together on a variety of things like What what company is actually capable of of enforcing something within an hour? I I I think this is the we're confusing a lot of different problems here Twitter not getting its act together a lot of people and maybe you mean they should be taking this person off Twitter And they're not that's a policy decision reaction time is We all agree. There's no controversy that this is something that needs to be removed There's no there's no debate about whether it well, should he be taken down or shouldn't he we're all in agreement this is a terrorist posting and You're taking too long after you know, it's there to take it down And so this is this is where Facebook cycle We're hiring thousands and thousands of people and YouTube is we're hiring thousands and thousands of people to do this I don't know if Twitter's doing that or not Well, I will say that there is an element of like Hey, if you are if this is the rule of the land Then you're going to make things are going to get pulled faster because they would rather air on the side of putting it back up Then violating of the law which could prove to be a chilling effect actually that's yeah I thought that's there. That's where I was I was looking to get well Let's talk about gifts shall we Launched a redesigned home page with a feature called stories that organizes gift Being into themes like for example Justin. You might like this one WWE summer slam or the affair finale or Adorably confused dogs. They're always adorable, especially when they're confused One new story will be published every hour curated by an in-house editorial team The page has been in beta But the official launch coincides with the MTV video music awards Giffy is also exploring ways to share stories beyond the app and the Website was funny about this is this morning when we were deciding whether or not this should be part of the show I was like Giffy has a homepage Yeah, where's that? Okay. I only know it but integrated within Slack so I've always been Fascinated by where the market of gifts as a product are because obviously there's an opportunity for Sponsorship anything that's popular can be advertised on this is I think a greater collection of Of of like up to the moment things So if you want to share stuff and and you mentioned summer slam last night Wrestling Twitter is very dependent on gifts because it is Sharing that one thing that you just saw that you want to you know discuss with your friends I do think that this is a great idea That is going to need to live outside of Giffy and and I am willing to get a new keyboard on my app for it I'm willing to get different things if it can solve you know scratch the itch of live conversation or You know the discussion afterward you see a lot with sports of The thing that just happened. I want to share But I don't know if I ever need to if I'm ever going to Giffy for it Although maybe this is a lure to bring me over that wall Maybe and and sir, I think you nailed it Most of us think of Giffy as that thing in that tool we use that provides easy access to gifts whether it's slack or some other Social network or something like that Nobody thinks to go to Giffy comm anymore They there was a time when I think people did go and they called it jiffy comm That's how long ago it was but they That I think that's what Giffy is trying to realize is we need to figure out a way to get people over here And I can't decide if this is hey a cool thing that will make people start to think of Giffy as a place to see What's up a lot Twitter Facebook, etc. Or Snapchat as they steal the term stories the way Instagram did Or if it's gosh, we really want people to come here Let's do a thing that we think will make them come here and everybody'll say no That's not really what I use Giffy for Well, and I also think okay. Well, if it's you know someone in my family who's like what's a meme Gifts like I know what it is But I don't really know how to like search for them or whatever. That's perhaps Giffy saying, okay We're you know, we we we we we're now a name brand and we can maybe get people who you know Aren't so woke to come to our homepage and Download these gifts and you have to start sharing the stories out for people to understand Oh, there's stories there because right Sarah. You're right. Most people are gonna go. There's a home page there Also, here's the thing about Giffy. What do you share on Giffy? Nothing you find things Copy paste and then you send it as a message to your friends. Yeah, I'm not on Giffy saying hey I don't even know if I have friends do I have friends on Giffy? I have no idea I like Giffy and I don't want to throw him under the bus, but I think you might be right I think it may be backwards, you know, like hey, we we really want to convince you to do a thing and we're like, mmm That's not what we do. That's that's not how we do this. I I do think look it's a good product Where it lives has always been a mystery to me when it comes to a gift aggregation Yeah, maybe they know a secret sauce that we do not maybe. Oh, well, I'll give I'll get in the benefit of that They know their business if he has been doing good stuff. You'll give them the benefit of that I will gif them gif to them Do that Tom at games com and video announced consumer versions of the touring get blue. Oh I'm sorry. Can I say GPU? Sorry games kind of video announced consumer versions of the touring GPU architecture that brings ray tracing to the desktop Thanks to RT core compute units and those new tensor cores for AI interfacing We talked about these in the quadros a while back now. They're ready for you to put in your home computer Founders editions of the RTX 2080 will sell for 800 bucks and the RTX 2080 Ti for 1200 bucks both of those come in September 20th. The almost as powerful but way more affordable RTX 2070 is 600 bucks That one's coming later, but pre-orders are live now The non-founders prices were also announced. Those will come through third parties Talking about 499 for the 2070 699 for the 2080 and 999 for the 2080 Ti ray tracing is the big deal here We can you can find the specs everywhere, but ray tracing makes realistic lighting Look better than rasterization Rasterization is the current process that builds the image up from the ground up ray tracing I actually learned a little ray tracing way back in the 90s You say put the source here shed it here and then the computer figures out where the light would bounce off and how it would interact It's been around for decades But it's something that is very computer intensive and it was not practical to do in a home desktop PC on a even a gaming PC Ray tracing now with this Nvidia says we are able to do it locally On your computer which makes for much better-looking games Especially things that need good lighting and realistic lighting to look good. I will add that What's so monumental about this is it's real time like I remember doing ray tracing back in college Right, and you would literally set the algorithm and you would walk away and eat lunch and come back in about 30 minutes To see how shiny your little billiard ball Yeah, right. That's the classic one, right?  Yeah, and sometimes if you were super paranoid you just you know unplug the keyboard So no one would touch it. Yeah, you walked away and this is huge because up until now you needed a workstation or you needed a cluster of renders in order to do any kind of real-time Ray tracing that was acceptable where someone say hey that was worth the time or the money to put into it and This could help revolutionize the amount of you know, you know small user generated Animation 3d animation in a field that's been typically, you know processor heavy Which also meant money heavy like Pixar or large studios like that So let me ask you guys this Obviously ray tracing is a big idea. Is it worth the price tag on these specific graphics card? I mean I don't find these price tags to be out of proportion to what you would expect in the normal growth of the price tags of brand new GPUs this is this is just the cool thing that this one does the 1080 was really expensive when it came out to maybe not quite this expensive but If you're not into having the latest and greatest video game hardware anyway, then no this is not going to be worth it This is about I have to have the lowest latency the best-looking resolution the best-looking lighting For for the most realistic gaming scenario if you're that person then this is what you're gonna want Someone asked bram Cohen what he thinks about the energy Savings the power draw a good point. Yeah They use a lot of watts Because they have all those tensor cores Remember a lot of the ray tracing being able to do be done locally in real time like Roger said is because the AI is Handling at those tensor cores. 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Maybe two All right, let's move on to the mailbag James from Columbus, Ohio has thoughts on our hotel security conversation We had with Shannon Morse and limper Alta last Friday, which was immediately After Defconn James says in contrast to the hotels you were discussing I recently stated a Hyatt in Montreal and they give frequent guest points for each day that you opted out of maid service as Part of an environmental policy, right? If you don't wash towels, you're saving the earth seems to me it would be more efficient and less intrusive If the hotels you were discussing put their security effort into controlling what entered the hotel Instead of searching rooms, I think they've chosen the intrusive method out of vanity They don't want visible security to disrupt the image of their lobby So they have the security checks going on behind the scenes Well, yeah, first of all, I I think Caesars has the same program which says oh if you don't it's pretty common Yeah, if you don't want the maid to clean the room will give you a credit on something I see that a lot so so that doesn't really play into it It was the people who put the do not disturb sign up and said do not come into my room for more than 24 hours That caused the security so I don't know I I'm sympathetic to James argument that like hey They they wanted to hide the fact, but if you hide the fact Yeah, it didn't work because everybody started talking about it on blogs. Yeah, I also think there's a legitimate impulse behind You know what's disturbing is the person who won't let us come into their room for days on end What are they doing in there? I'm not saying it's this is the right way to go about it But there is a legitimate potential threat there Versus just like oh, yeah, you can come into my room if you want, but don't bother cleaning the towels I you know because the maid will still check the room if you don't have did not disturb They just won't change the towels out. Can I can I say something about this number one? You cannot talk about the DEF CON hotel security thing without talking about the the fact that the attack at that music festival was Uniquely scarring to a town that is built on that is a very good point that it's like this That's the reason why they're doing this and if it happens once It's a tragedy if it happens twice that towns viability Right company the man the corporations that that run that that down their Viability is now at a very serious inflection point number two to say okay Well, this hotel that I go to has a solution for it Understand, but you have to that you have to understand that there are towns like I've heard which intersection it is But it has more hotel occupancy will just one intersection than San Francisco The city has that the the scale at which they need to have security measures is Gigantic so let's be clear the e-mailer was not saying that another hotel had a solution for it No, no, no was just pointing out that there's this maid service thing There it actually isn't related to be honest, and that's what I was trying to do are sure I guess this is this is a huge I think that what happened at DEF CON was a failure to communicate between a very specific clientele and a very Scared corporation that desperate doesn't want this thing to happen And we did bring that up on Friday when we talked about it and the fact that when you were scared sometimes you do things to Allay the fear that may or may not actually solve or prevent the problem And and I'm not I don't want to go too far down that road because that's an entirely different discussion But whether this policy actually was keeping people safer or not is is a question And and to be honest, I think that this had more to do with them proving that they were doing something Yeah, a million different reasons both ethical moral and legal Than it necessarily was about them stopping something. Well, and you know on paper I I'm kind of person who would tend to be like well better safe than sorry But Shannon also pointed out several of her, you know peers who were like, you know I was in the shower and like somebody came into my room. I mean, that's not right either So, you know, there's there's some sort of balance that Perhaps will be struck and definitely folks if you're hearing it for the first time on this episode Please go back to Friday's episode and listen to that entire discussion because there are things We're not going to recover this time around that we definitely talked about on Friday I'm very very sympathetic to all the Def Con attendees that had that had that happen I also know from having many many friends in Vegas the this is not Just a thing that happened. 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I Honestly before before bram Cohen had had you know, I thought he like coined some term Called gold buggerism But it's and it's not a gold bug is someone who puts in an ordinate amount of faith in that gold will hold its value Regardless of what the social context may be but isn't that like pretty? Accepted yeah, because there there's a reason why we moved off the gold standard is that you cannot Generate enough gold to cover the amount of now that we've attracted the attention of the gold bugs Roger should phrase his As many people if not most economists think X Y and Z the gold bugs disagree But but yeah, well gold is gold durable Yeah, is is gold the best investment versus any other economic instrument That's where the gold bugs and most economists depart and it's it's not to say that gold has no value But rather that it has value, but it's not it's not like this one be all source of value investment and and that turn we are yet emails pointing us to articles of the V&E school And and multiple and the the economists that are that are famous for supporting the gold bug cause and there are a few out there So just get ready to get ready for the for the influx of people telling us why we're wrong to not agree with them about gold Well as long as they're not metal bugs I mean gold gold bugs under the mattress Why not harvest them? That's the safe. Yeah, put them in the safe for for the record it is the intersection of East Trap or Tropicana and South locks Vegas Boulevard that I vote And that has more hotel or hotel rooms, I suppose right occupancy then yeah part of that is a little bit and Sarah and Tom you guys would know this but part of that is that there's not a tremendous amount of hotel occupancy in San Francisco No, it's yeah, it's it's it's in certain calm very concentrated in a couple of neighborhoods That the city itself does not have a plethora of hotels and San Francisco by The size of it is not as big as I think people would probably guess 49 square miles. Yeah, seven by seven So, which is I mean seven miles by seven miles. Yeah, it's a small city Yeah, that's part of why it works the math wise But also it's because it's the the Excalibur Tropicana MGM grand and Yeah, well the MGM grand alone. I mean that probably has More than the entire city of San Francisco. It's a Viennese school. I met Austria in school I was I was I was gonna say I should have it Viennese in Austria and it's but it's the Austrian school Too late to stop that email we are speaking of cryptocurrency Venezuela Seems like things are going well there That a notice sarcasm, yeah, yeah I honestly can't tell anymore sometimes I think people Yeah, I don't eat. Yeah, it's like I don't even I don't quite know What what is what is they're tying to crypto currency? The government is devaluing the Venezuelan boulevard by 95% and pegging it to the government's oil linked Chris crypto currency This is according to business insider a Article that was published this morning. I didn't see it until now that is bound authorities are trying to contain rampant inflation of more than 1 million percent per year It's a lot That's that's such a bunch of fun the whole cryptocurrency of Venezuela. It's another they're they're using multiple destruction maneuvers Sure in my country right now.  Please don't send me whatever you go bugs. Please do not send me Yes Send us your gold bug gifts the giffy that keeps on giving the giffy that keeps on giving is Don't want to go with that don't throw them in the buzz is it is it a watch? Is it a tracker like is it a watch a question mark? Is it a tracker question mark? She keeps on giving I want to hear about one there's oh, so well, so my cousin actually Well, how long ago was it now probably about 20 years ago she she's Swiss. She's not American, but she spent a year abroad in Venezuela and in in Caracas and Just loved it and you know had only the nicest things to say about it and was like you gotta go down there I mean, it's it's beautiful wonderful country wonderful people the whole thing and so I always kind of had it in my mind It's like yeah, you know, it's you know next time I go to South America. That's definitely where I'm going to go Things have changed a lot since then now, you know, the you know Venezuela's issues with the US don't necessarily apply to some of her experiences because she's not American, but I I Still in my mind. I'm like I'd like to go. I really would I'd like to I'd like to meet the good people of Venezuela, but pretty complicated These probably not the best timing right now.  It's I guess if it's two ducks, it's still ducks. Yes Two is plural Pluralized, you know, I just realized that data is plural data, but datum datum is single singular singular I don't want your greenback dollar. I don't want your silver change All I want is your love darlin. No There's also now official I think I got an email about it as Partner around noon and I think it just went out to Twitch Prime members, but I think I saw this too Well now no longer provide ad free Viewing all the other perks stay the same but ad free no longer no longer This is twitch so twitches on prime Subscription which you are get for well quote unquote bundled with not not for free with Prime although that's certainly nomenclature they like This will now it used to also give you ad free viewing They have now apparently realized that they sell advertising for a living a wide swap of people not Paying to opt out of it So they will they will retain the twitch turbo program Which allows you to pay to not have ads? Yeah, so you can still get an ad free version of twitch You just can't get it automatically as part of Amazon Prime video or Amazon Prime Right. Yeah, I mean all right always risky taking something away from people I think it's a big screw up on their part And and I don't know if I still have to disclose that that my wife works for twitch I will hurt don't hurt. I think it's it's a They had Amazon Prime Twitch Prime is a big windfall for them. I think it is a screw up within you know the year and change they've had it To pull back that fast on on a fairly key element of it Well, I've gone crazy on Pinterest looking at dog breeds Don't know when the last time y'all were on Pinterest or why but boy or the dog breed people active All I know is when I do a Google image search for something a lot of Pinterest Oh, yeah Yeah, and I always forget because I'm like a Pinterest. I don't know it's about like decorating or whatever You know, it's like it's so much more than that It's Pinterest is is so great for very specific photo based collections of things where I'm like dog breed It's like the Pinterest board there are many and Boy is this a cute one Is there four legs four paws? Yeah, four legs four paws I hope not For you would be in the wrong location. Well, so so and again, I don't want to get ahead of myself I'm so worried that I'm you know, I'm gonna curse it. I'm going to curse it. Yeah, but I'm So apparently the boxer pointer hybrid is called the box of point That's like a I don't know a hybrid of dog that I've never heard of because I don't know or really care about that sort of thing But if you look up the box of points online They often have that kind of funny The that recessive blue eye thing going on. It's pretty common actually and they have real cute markings If anybody didn't hear our pre-show, I'm thinking of adopting a dog Box of point box of points. Yeah, it's box lightning They all say needs a lot of exercise, but very loyal I'm like, okay. We can do that.  So Let's see how this goes Sam's gonna be so mad. This is you won't be jealous cat He's yeah, he's Lucy sort of like friend to anybody, you know and Sam sort of like I need an hour And I'm gonna like look at you from like the corner of the room, you know Like an old man and then then he'll be fine. But yeah, he he I don't think he'll be He's all but us. I think it's also a male thing. He's not great with men Whether it's like a human man or another cat or a dog or just anybody who's a male alien man That's an alien man still didn't like him So when when is this? Yeah, I'm terrified and excited and I don't know just seems something about this whole thing seems crazy, but right You you seem exhilarated by it like Lightning strike It's a bit. I mean listen. I love animals. I've had dogs growing up You know several of them, but I have never had a dog as an adult Single person, you know I've cats currently and I think I think that the whole thing should work out well, but it's like to me It's a big deal. I don't you know, I mean I live on I live on the beach and all my neighbors have dogs and dogs are you know That's dogs are a big part of my life and you know, there's more arrangement of your day required with dogs because yes outside Right, and right to when you're gone. They need to have someone do all of those things for them. All right. Yeah It's it's it's a huge commitment and I you know part of me is like Sarah You're never been stupider. This is a terrible idea Have kids but at the same time. I'm like, well, you know what I'm not having kids currently I've never had a dog. I never really grew up with the dog or a cat to be honest but We have dog sat for Darren kitchen for the last couple weeks On and off when like they were at Def Con. Yeah, they got him But man those dogs they're on they're on a sketch a lot. Yeah Feelings and thoughts and they're gonna let you know, they don't speak English Roger, we know you're dying to jump in and tell us how much more complicated it is for human children We and you're absolutely right Actually, I wasn't but okay I was gonna say that the few times I've actually had to take care of a dog. They're actually pretty Genial and they were pretty like laid back, but it could have been the owners like they weren't at all This one's a puppy too. So this is a little puppy and but remind me what kind of dog it is I actually don't know. I'm not up on on the dog breeds. I know it was a Big dog small dog. What are we talking ball dog ball dog? Okay? Princess peach and She was by and large, okay, you know where we were a little maybe to Focused on how she would get along with the birds because you know, right, right? Yeah takes one One moment where you're not watching for things to go and the birds are used to they've got free rain Right, like the birds aren't just gonna be like caged because you have a dog in the house, right? But also There are a lot of things that are going to just be Useless to literally I won't go into the blow-by-blow of some of the politics of letting while the dog was running around but needless to say That was not so much of an issue. What was more of an issue was, you know, we're doing very normal things like You know settling in to watch some Netflix, right? Mm-hmm. Sure. Sure all of a sudden Princess Peach the puppy wants to start barking and what we don't know You know, there's nothing really that's making any kind of sound that would freak her out You know, we try to make sure that she gets a little treat or she has a ball to play with Doesn't that and I break down I start talking to her like I've trained her like I just feel like Listen, princess. Yeah, so I might go in your thing and you're I don't even know what I'm calling it because she self-sleeping it like me a makeshift dog bed in This whole foods bag that we have and so she was like sleeping. I'm like in the bag Go to the like if I speak firmly enough, she'll understand. She didn't she just kept park Well, so this this particular special buddy You know who may be part of the family.  No, I mean where they live That's where they are during the the thing that they're a went to Not all just milling around all over the right. It would be pandemonium otherwise It is and it actually was yeah I mean if you want to find out what happens next you got to be a patron because we really need to go All right. Bye


Hi my name is Danny and welcome to Esoteric Moment. Today I'm just gonna do a quick drawing for my 100 subscriber giveaway. I want to thank everyone who commented on the video. I got some fabulous ideas for videos and I'm going to try and get to them all in the next couple months. Some of them will be a little bit more involved and a few of them are a bit shorter so they might get thrown together in a Q&A style video. But again, thank you for commenting and giving me all those fabulous ideas. So the winner for the book, a Druids herbal and the crystal and a few other goodies that I think you're really going to love. I put everyone's name on a card and I am randomly picking out a name. The winner is Shane Lanning. Congratulations Shane and I will be sending you a message on YouTube and asking for your address.  I'm also going to grab a second name on the off chance that in a month I still can't get a hold of Shane then there'll be a runner-up. But congratulations Shane and thank you again for everyone's ideas for videos and subscribing. And as always may you find peace in the sacred grove.


Hey there, are you experiencing work stress right now? So either coworker said something to you that has caused you to have some not so great, not so pleasant feelings. Maybe it was a performance review that went worse than you thought. It might be that the report that you thought was do at three is now do at one o'clock or anything can really happen that can increase your stress at work. But you're a professional and you want to know how you can get some relief from the stress immediately so that you can continue on your day and not let it weigh you down. So that's what I'm here to teach you. There are, so when you're doing meditation and mindfulness there's techniques where you can turn towards some of those feelings and break them apart or you can anchor away and focus on something else. This is an anchoring away and it's not saying, hey, I'm not having these feelings. It's saying, I can't focus on these feelings right now because I have work to do. I'll have to come back to them later and I need to create a buffer zone so that the way that I act the rest of the day is in line with how I want to show up and how I want to behave when I'm at work. So I'm Carrie Twig. I'm a lead unified mindfulness coach and I want to teach you an immediate way to help to relieve some stress that might be feeling at work. You can do this practice standing up or you might be sitting down and we'll just start by getting into a grounded position. So if you're standing, that probably means just feeling your feet on the ground. If you're sitting in a chair, I'm gonna just putting both feet flat. Beautiful. This one we're gonna have our eyes open and I invite you to look around the room in which you're in and let your awareness, let your attention go to whatever it is drawn to visually. And when something catches your attention, stop, note, which just means pay attention that your awareness is on something. And in your mind, say see and continue to say see to yourself for as long as that item is interesting. And if your attention gets pulled to something else in the room, great, note that. And in your head, say see in a really calm matter of fact way like this. See, see, see. And continue doing this for a minute. And if you hear sounds, you're talking to yourself, you're feeling some other stress, let that be in the background. It can exist with this, but most of your awareness is on noticing what you can see and labeling it see. Beautiful, that's it. So that's a technique that you can use. I have clients who will use it before they do a presentation. They'll be backstage, and looking at whatever they see, right? So putting your attention somewhere else so that whatever stress you're feeling has a time to settle, and then you can move on with the rest of the day. Now, in a full mindfulness program, you would want to develop some of those skills that you could turn towards some of those stressful emotions, but usually the time to deal with the stress and the cause and the big reaction isn't in the exact moment of it. Until you've sort of built up some of those mindfulness skills, like concentration, sensory clarity, and equanimity. But just this technique is called see out. So if you're feeling stress, see if, paying attention to what you can see in the room in which you're in allows you to experience some relief so you can show up at work how you want to. I'm Carrie Twig. Thanks for watching. I hope that you experienced a great relief today. Thanks, bye.


let's go to john and philly a john what's going on brother good morning tommy coming back to take a call absolutely done say uh... tom uh... and tell me i wanted to ask if you could uh... give me some of your import regarding gdx uh... that e t f is currently trading right at thirty three it's pulled back in the past couple of weeks and it is that at least at this moment in time bouncing off of thirty two and uh... you know i look at thirty two as being potentially pivotal in that that was the high of two thousand sixteen and then of uh... fedora this year uh... is that important to that mean anything to you and can you just give me your gdx input uh... what you envision the next significant move absolutely so stay right there we'll take a quick break folks who come back to be talking uh... gold silver equities will be taught talking about the metals in general uh... doubt out right now the seven seventy nine as except to twenty nine s of p's are up seventy eight coming back walk back folks uh... doubt out about eight hundred and six nasa accept two thirty one s of p's are up seventy nine we're talking with the john from philly we're talking about the gdx so the gdx you know in general john okay this is this consolidation's been going on since april seven you know we rejected lower price yesterday so i'd say that okay you know you can't bust them down to try to bust them up again uh... that's how this is set up and you know i would have i would like to see right here today as if we look at it what you're gonna see is this is that what happened yesterday folks is that we get down it rejected price uh... and what we've just done here if i bring a few of the bigger ones up what you're gonna see is that where we're actually just pulled back to where it had strength yesterday like if we look at barric barric had some strength at twenty four fifty one we had twenty four twenty six this morning we're twenty four twenty four in newmont the same way uh... you know so that's telling me that the per the set up's not perfect right now we both know and if you've been in the gold of civil market for a while folks okay when you reject price whether it's at the highs or lows the risk now would be not being in it that's my take on it because of the fact that we rejected it and i think the top of the range is game now just mention the setup's not quite perfect right appreciate that input of yours time and uh... well uh... we'll see what goes from here and which we know because what happens here folks is this and john knows this these setups as particularly in the gold market when this when they're really great it's awesome but there's many times that they're just off a bit and then all of a sudden i don't know where it goes bomb you know and you know what i've seen is that like right now is the first time in a long time we've been positioned in silver stocks and even out of the gold report on realizing okay i got four silver stocks and i don't have one gold stock so it's pretty intriguing do you know what i mean because it could have i do yes really bad yesterday uh... but that's telling me also that if in fact the silver stocks are stronger than the gold stocks that's a big plus man because silver has been the lag it for a long period of time i mean it picked its head up you know a couple months ago but the silver market in general folks has been to basically keeping that uh... metals market down because of the volatility is vicious man is no doubt very good thanks so much for your help i appreciate it brother have a great one man have a safe one


It's interesting why we want to fit in or be like others when one of the most attractive qualities that someone can have is to be unique and to be different. Let's say public speaking or being different, weird or a style that you're doing that nobody else is doing. If you own it and you're confident with it, it tends to attract a lot of people. If you do it in fear or you do it in shame or you do it like I'm embarrassed, then it does tend to ostracize you.  You really have a choice on what direction that leads for your life is like either it's going to send down this path of victimhood and feeling sorry for yourself and why do I look this way and why am I so terrible at this versus just like owning it, accepting it and saying that this is what makes me unique.


Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Kevin C. Miller, and I'm the Associate National Communications Director with Disabled American Veterans DAV. Joining us for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week is Anthony Love. Mr. Love serves as the principal advisor of Intera Agency Collaboration and Director of Community Engagement for the Department of Veteran Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Homeless Programs. In this role, he develops and implements strategies to improve VA's engagement with federal, state, and local agencies, communities, and other interested stakeholders to ensure every resource is available to veterans needing to exit homelessness. He also provides timely and insightful advice to the Director of VHA Homeless Programs on operational and security opportunities, as well as identifies and recommends best practices related to homeless solutions, community, state, and local government engagement, as well as facilitates alignment of VHA operations and research functions. Thank you, Anthony Love, for joining us today. And just to let our audience know, we will be answering any questions in the comments today after our Q&A ends for the last segment. Thank you again, joining us today. Dr. Love, I mean, Mr. Love. Yep, that's Mr. Love. Thank you so much for having me. Definitely appreciate it. I appreciate being here. Look forward to the conversation. So to kick off, earlier this month, officials from VA, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the US Interagency Council on Homelessness released an update on veterans experiencing homelessness. Mr. Love, can you let us know more about this latest update of the number of veterans currently experiencing homelessness? Oh, absolutely. So every year, the communities around the country do what they call a point-in-time count. And this point-in-time count generally is led by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. But VA and other agencies participate in that. The point-in-time count that was done this year, for example, was the first full point-in-time count done since 2020. And so we've gotten a partial result of the point-in-time count showing that on a single night in January, there were over 33,000 veterans who were experiencing homelessness in the United States. And so with that number, we've seen the number of veterans experiencing homelessness decrease by 55% since 2010. And so that is a major, major celebration, short-term. But the fact of it is, there are still over 33,000 veterans who need a place to call home. And so we still have a lot of work to do. But for the point-in-time, we recognize that we know what works. And being able to reduce those numbers by over 55% says a lot for the strategies that we've put in place to ensure every veteran has an opportunity to have a permanent and safe place to call home. Thank you for that insight. And I'm glad to see we're taking continue to make inroads and positive steps forward in reducing the number of veterans experiencing homelessness. To that, can we, next, can you elaborate a little bit on the demographic of who's amongst that 33,000 veterans who are still working to find a place called home? No, absolutely. So as you can imagine, pretty much homelessness, even homelessness among veterans, touches every demographic. But it impacts different demographics differently. So when these numbers came out, what we saw in terms of who it was impacting, we saw that African-American and Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Native American Pacific Islanders were overrepresented within those populations, in the homeless veteran population. And what I mean by that, for example, Hispanic and Latino veterans account for roughly about 7% of all US veterans, but they were 11% of those veterans experiencing homelessness. Same goes for Black or African-American veterans. Black and African-American veterans account for about 12% of United States veterans, yet they account for 33% of veterans experiencing homelessness, same for our Native American veterans, who only account for a little under 1% of US veterans, but are 3% of veterans experiencing homelessness. We also have women veterans who are experiencing homelessness. The thing that we've seen with that, though, is that women veterans are roughly about 8% of US veterans and also a little over 8% of veterans experiencing homelessness. We even have veterans who have identified as gender non-confirming or transgender, and they account for 0.4% and 0.3% of those veterans experiencing homelessness in that order. So like I said, it pretty much touches every demographic, but it also impacts certain demographics more than others. Thank you for elaborating on that. And it's good to see that we've made overall progress, but it looks like we still got a lot of work to do to continue to reach those underserved communities that you mentioned. To continue to go off that on the follow-up, I'd like to ask, what are some of the risk factors for veterans who are potentially facing homelessness? Yeah, that's a very good question. There are quite a few risk factors that impact those veterans that are at risk, their risk of homelessness. There are several studies out there, but one study that we looked at kind of characterized these risk factors contributing to veterans experiencing homelessness in two ways. There are those individual level risk factors, and then there are those system level risk factors. So when we talk about individual level factors, we look at those factors like substance use disorders, a lack of stable income or an employment history, or a history of incarceration. Also, you can put into an individual risk factor is a lack of social support, not necessarily having family or friends that you can turn to if things get tight, and also adverse childhood events, things whether you were in foster care or you came from a household that wasn't very stable. Those individual level factors really increase the risk of a veteran becoming homeless. And then you also have those system level factors that we don't often talk about but are very key to consider, particularly if we're talking about finishing the job of ending veteran homelessness. And some of those system level factors include a lack of affordable housing, lack of opportunities, and kind of neighborhood factors. I think before we started, I talked about NIMBY, not in my backyard, when you're trying to build affordable housing for veterans exiting homelessness, and the pushback that you may get from certain neighborhoods, and also different cultural factors. And this is where in some of those system level factors where you find the structural racism that has been embedded within those systems that really impact those veterans who are experiencing homelessness and looking for those opportunities to exit. So those factors really increase the chances of those veterans becoming homeless, particularly the ones when I talked about those who are overrepresented, all of those who are overrepresented within that factor fall within our veterans of color, so to speak. Thank you. And you really addressed the complexity that is in the background of a myriad of issues that can potentially have a veteran and their family fall into homelessness. And thank you for elaborating on the different factors that really can potentially put one at risk for losing their home and trying to regain footing within their life. But you mentioned the numbers earlier, and we have seen a significant drop in veteran homelessness of more than 55% since 2010, which really demonstrates how impactful the programs that the Department of Veteran Affairs has been. So my next question is, can you let our audience know what programs are available for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness? Yes, there are a ton of programs that are available. I mean, for veterans who are at risk, imminent risk are experiencing homelessness. Particularly, a lot of those programs that are offered by VA, those programs and services, they really go a long way at addressing the full spectrum of housing instability and the homelessness experience of veterans. And all of them are built around what we call a housing first approach. And just real briefly, what housing first is, is the ability to ensure moving a veteran into a housing setting, a permanent housing setting, and wrapping around him or her those services that they need in order to stay stable within that housing as well as to begin the process of improving their quality of life. The idea of housing first is to eliminate the chaos that comes with homelessness, and then that veteran can then focus on those services that would help him or her begin to move forward in life. And so a couple of categories in which those services fall under, and I'll start with what I would call our permanent housing services that we have available. One such service, which is a new particular service program, is our supportive services for veteran families. And that particular program really has a component that is twofold. One is to rapidly rehouse those veterans who have recently become homeless by helping them to move back into permanent housing and provide some support both on the supportive services side as well as the financial support for, I think, roughly about four or five months. And then they began to be able to move forward, still having access to some of those support services, but being able to take on the financial piece on their own. Also, HUD VASH, or HUD, what we call a HUD VA supportive housing program, a lot of people know that as HUD VASH. And that is a partnership between Department of Veterans Affairs and HUD. And then when you go down to the local community, it is the VA Medical Center partnering with your local housing authority, where the local housing authority will provide the rental voucher to that veteran, where that veteran would only pay roughly between 10% to 30% of their income. And the voucher will cover the additional piece. And the VA would come in and provide the supportive services for that veteran to ensure that he or she can stay in that housing, as well as, as I've said before, begin to work on those areas that not only stabilize them, but to help them improve their quality of life. Another program we have followed under the residential services. And so a lot of folks are familiar with our grant and per diem program. And it provides a temporary placement in the form of transitional housing. And that transitional housing can fall under several categories like bridge housing, which is a 90 day stay for a veteran, while he or she may be in the process of moving into permanent housing, and only needs that light touch, 90 day stay while the housing is becoming available. To give you an example of that, if you or I were to sign a lease on an apartment, nine times out of 10 that apartment is not gonna be ready the same day. However, you or I can go back to where we were living at first while that apartment is being made ready. But if you're homeless, you may not have that ability. And so these bridge housing, that bridge housing piece of grant and per diem allows a veteran to have that stable place to be for up to 90 days before moving in. There's also the hospital, I think I'm getting it right, hospital to housing where those veterans who are what I would call their inpatient hospital and they're getting ready to be discharged because they're not sick enough, if you will, to still be inpatient in the hospital, but they're not really well enough to be on their own. And so this particular program would address that to help that veteran fully heal, fully get ready and in the help to him or her to transition into permanent housing. And then you also have a low barrier program within the transitional piece, which really operates with what we'll call a harm reduction model, as well as easy entry, if you will. And when I say easy entry, I just mean that you're looking for ways to screen the veteran in versus screening them out, working with them where they are to help them again, staying that, you know, providing them with the supportive services, substance abuse services, mental health counseling and the like before them transitioning out. And then you also have the, what I would call the traditional transitional housing, the long, what I'll call service intensive transitional housing for those veterans who may really have just said, look, I need some time before going into a permanent housing setting. And so you work with them to deal with employment issues, getting ID, doing all the other paperwork as they are getting ready to make the move into a more permanent setting. And so that is all of that is under the grant and per diem. We also have a healthcare from this veterans contracted residential services, which are more around the form of an emergency type of housing. And all of these are for those veterans who need a place to stay right now. And then we have what we call our outreach engagement, assessment and referral services. And again, those come under the, one comes under the healthcare for homeless veterans going out to do outreach in the community, identifying those veterans where they are trying to get them into housing, whether it be permanent emergency or transitional as quickly as possible. And then we have the National Call Center for homeless veterans. And it serves kind of as this front door to both VA homeless programs and to the broader VA healthcare system. That's great. That's a wide array of programs available to veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness. And it's great to see that the VA has developed this over time to really meet veterans where they are at whatever phase they are in their life. Cause there's never, one solution doesn't fit all. And so, having this, the diversification of the programs as I can see has really beneficial in providing an open door policy for veterans to pursue different means to obtaining permanent housing. Absolutely. And I would be remiss. I mean, because that's not an exhaustive list. I mean, we also still have programs who are involved in the criminal justice system, veterans helping them to gain meaningful employment or to take care of their health needs through primary care. That's tailored to their unique access barriers that these particular veterans experiencing homelessness face. And I might wanna add a plug that for people to remember, yes, we have a wide array of programs and services for veterans trying to exit homelessness within VA, but first and foremost, veterans are citizens first. And so there are also programs within the Department of Labor and Health and Human Services as well as HUD programs that veterans also can access to help them exit homelessness in their community. Great, thank you. Just to let our audience know, a lot of the resources that Mr. Love did mentioned in the last question will be posted and links and replied to in the chat. So if you wanna know and elaborate on how to access these resources, we'll be making sure to respond to that at the conclusion of our Q and A. And so if you do have questions, please do address them in the comments. We'll get to them at a later time. And so for my last question really to kind of like tie this up, Mr. Love, what advice do you have for our audience today so that might want to help homeless veterans in their community? They see someone on the street or they have a friend or a family member, they know that's come on a hard times. What advice would you give them to point them in the right direction? That's a very good question. I mean, there's so much that all of us can do. We all have a part to play in ending veteran homelessness. So what I would say, there are a couple of things that I would add that one, if you are a veteran who's homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness or if you are an individual who knows a veteran, a veteran or his or her family who's homeless or at imminent risk of homeless, you can call the National Call Center for Homeless Veterans. It's<PHONE_NUMBER>. And then this particular call center is a 24-7 center which have operators there that will talk to you on the phone, ask where you are and connect you to the resources closest to you in that community. Also, if you are a landlord or you are a housing provider and you have housing units and are interested in renting to veterans, we have a website you can go to at www.va.gov forward slash homeless, forward slash landlords.asp that will show you how you can help and be able to help us to house veterans who are trying to exit homelessness. We would encourage you to go to that website. Also, if you are a landlord and you don't have time for the site, if you're and you're familiar with our different programs, just ask you to take those vouchers that veterans have and support that hero who is really trying to get his or her life back together.  You can visit our website at www.va.gov but with this one, forward slash homeless, forward slash CEC contacts ASP. And this will connect you with your local VA community employment coordinator, can work with them to ensure if you have an interest in hiring veterans, they can help you get those veterans connected. And again, let me repeat that call center number because for all of us, again, if you don't know of any places in your community and you know this veteran and you may not want to approach, but you can still call that number<PHONE_NUMBER> and you can use it if you know of these veterans who are in need of assistance. Great, thank you, Mr. Love, really appreciate it. And you really highlighted by all the ways folks can get involved or how to point them, it's a community effort. It really is a community effort to make sure we hit our mutual goal of ending veteran homelessness across the country. While we've seen great strides and positive step forwards, there is still a lot of work to be done, but thanks to the leadership of the VA and other community organizations serving veterans, we're continuing to get closer to that goal. And so, as before we wrap up here, I'd like to leave our audience with three additional ways of how they can support, volunteer, or advocate for veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness. DAV's Charitable Service Trust also financially supports many organizations that helps veterans experiencing homelessness, distributing more than 100 grants totaling nearly $4 million over the past five years alone. If you'd like to make a donation today to support the work of DAV's Charitable Service Trust, or if you're an organization serving veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, looking for grant opportunities to help funding to serve these veterans, please visit cst.dav.org. Also, DAV offers a wide range of opportunities to assist our nation's veterans, including serving veterans at homeless stand downs. For information how you can get involved in these events, please visit www.volunteerforveterans.org. And lastly, to stay informed on how you can take action to support federal legislation and policies affecting veterans experiencing or at risk of homelessness, please join us at DAV's Commander's Action Network, also called DAV CAN by visiting www.davcan.org. Thank you again, Mr. Love, for joining me today in DAV and for National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. It's really with your support that we continue to address this issue and inform our community members of the steps we're continuing to make to end veteran homelessness once and for all. So have a great day, continue the great work you all do and we appreciate your time. Thank you so much for having me and thank you for the great work that DAV is doing in the community and helping us to help those veterans who...


Okay, let's try this one. So the first thing you want to do always, or the last thing you want to do is balance your oxygen. So the way I do it is I would do B, H, or HB, F, doing the same thing over here. Okay, so two here, one here, three oxygens, hydrogens, one, F, three, two, one. So like I said, the first thing I would balance is the B, and you're just going to have to keep going back and forth, you know? So the other thing we know, well, in this case it might not be best to do B first because if we put a two there, right, we already know we've got three there, so we're going to have to have three of that, you know what I'm saying? We're going to have some multiple of that. So let's just do it this way, the way we were going to do it. Okay, so there's two B's here, right, so there's only one B there, so we at least have to multiply it by two, okay? Right? Okay, so now what do we've got? We've got two B's here, right, and six F's. That's what we've changed, right? And now if we come over here, we can do F's now. So how many F's do we have? One, so we'll just put a six there, right? Now we have the same amount of F's, six, right? But we also have six H's over here now, like that, right? Okay, don't make it harder than, you're trying to make it harder, way harder than what it is, okay? So six H's, so we go over here. We've got two H's, so what times two equals six? Three, so we put a three there, right? So now we've got six H's over here, right? How many oxygens do we have over here? No, three times one is three. And how many oxygens do we have over here? Three, so it's balanced. That's it, right? Don't go any further, don't keep going, right? Everything's balanced. Once this checks with this, and this checks with this, and this checks with this, and this checks with that. Yeah, it's much easier than most people want to make it out to be. Always, yeah, it's so much easier. That's why I taught you how to do it that way. Oxygen, you always want to balance. I know, that's what I, you see it every day. You should stand up here, you know?  But you have to always remember what it was like when you learned this stuff, you know? Anyway, it's always going to say, always want to balance oxygen last. It makes it much easier, okay? Can I show off the videos? Are there any more questions about this one?