In this video I'm going to share some extremely useful tips that if you actually use them will instantly make you a better player. The next time you step on the field you will play better but you have to use this advice. Now before we jump into all these tips I need to speak on a very important point and that is the idea of your mind being open to learning, being open to advice, being open to criticism. If you think you already know everything you can never improve and not only is this video not for you but this channel is not for you.  If that's your attitude then you're in the wrong place. But if on the other side your attitude is ok I may not appreciate their advice or I may not think that's right but I'm at least willing to listen and I'm willing to think about it and try to apply it to my game. If your mind is open to growth, if you're open to criticism from your coaches from your teammates and you don't take it personally you just take it as knowledge, useful knowledge that you can use to improve your game then you will improve much faster than the most skilled player who is shut off who thinks they know everything. That player might be good for a couple of seasons but in the long run you're going to pass them in leaps and bounds ok. So let's get into this here are some world class tips that nobody talks about and if you actually use them we'll make you a better player the next time you step on the field. I'm going to start with a tip that a lot of you out there probably don't want to hear and don't want to agree with but it is extremely true and if you ask anyone who plays at the top level they would agree with this off the ball movement is more important than on the ball movement.  You will be a more effective player if you focus on your off the ball movement because most players never even think about that they just think about what they're doing when they do have the ball ok. Did you know that the average player in a professional match is on the ball for 45 seconds to one minute in a 90 minute match? What are they doing the other 89 minutes? The other 89 minutes and 15 seconds. What are they doing off the ball and that's what I want to talk about and that's what you need to start thinking about ok. So like I said what you do on the ball it is important it's very important you got to take care of that ball you got to be direct you got to make things happen but you're not on the ball that often during the game most of the time you're going to be off the ball and we got to talk about what we're doing when we're off the ball ok. So two things I either want you to support the ball get in good position to support the ball give your your teammate an outlet so if he gets trapped he has somewhere to go or you're trying to make a forward run so we can get into attacking positions and we can create goal scoring chances for ourselves but also for our teammates ok. So when my teammate has the ball he's dribbling up the field a lot of us we're just watching him we're slowly jogging up the field or we're slowly jogging up or even worse we're just standing there we're just watching ok we're saying hey buddy you got the ball go ahead you got this covered no you need to get involved in the play you got to get up the field ok and again show for those passes or make forward runs or if he gets blocked off we need to be there to support him ok let's say you're playing as a center back and this fullback has the ball here ok if I'm in this position this isn't good he doesn't have an outlet he can't go backwards what if he gets trapped he's screwed ok so positioning is what you want to focus on when you're off the ball am I creating a passing angle am I creating an outlet especially if I'm a defensive player or a central player like the center backs or a defensive midfielder am I creating an outlet for him to get out of trouble or am I screwing him over because my positioning my off the ball movement isn't good ok on the attacking side of things am I getting space for myself am I making runs showing for the ball or am I standing still and letting the opposing team defend me making their life really easy ok so when you're off the ball when you don't have the ball I want you active always finding new space always moving into new space when you my teammates are going forward am I making for runs and I'm trying to go forward if my run doesn't work if I get blocked I'm not just going to give up and never make that run again I'm going to go find new space we're always going to be constantly moving off the ball movement that's how you get involved in the play if you're not getting on the ball right now it's not because your teammates are passing the ball or your skills aren't good enough it's because you're not active enough you're not making forward runs you're not supporting the ball you're not switching up your runs okay you're just standing still and you're hoping for the ball rather than working on your off the ball movement getting in good positions to ensure that you increase your chances of getting the ball okay so let's talk quickly about the defensive side of things because when you're defending you're not on the ball okay and this is extremely important I talk about this all the time but a lot of us aren't doing it especially our forwards okay their team has the ball and we're just watching what are we doing off the ball can we press to win that ball can we press can we close down these spaces okay can I anticipate where the ball is going to be played and close that gap okay so off the ball movement when you don't have the ball defensively am I switched on am I thinking about okay the ball is going to come into this space a lot of us the ball is getting there and then we're reacting okay you need to be think about reading the play if you can see that he's going to ping that ball cross view like this okay I need to anticipate and I want to get there as soon as he gets there okay so off the ball movement defensively think about your positioning okay try to read the play don't just react to the play anticipate the play okay so can you work harder defensively to win the ball back for your team working harder when you don't have the ball how hungry are you when you don't have the ball everybody wants to work hard when we do have the ball a lot of us are willing to make those four runs we might not be doing it all the time or as much as we should but we're doing it a lot more than making runs on the defensive side of things okay so think about the next time you're playing what am I going to do when I don't have the ball am I making positive runs am I always active am I showing for the ball am I making forward runs am I supporting the ball defensively is my positioning good what position do I need to be in right now can I anticipate the play and read where the next pass is going to go and then get there and then when the defender or the attacker does have the ball can I close them down quickly and stay with him or work really hard off the ball to win the ball back for my team to be more involved in the play the second tip I want to share with you and this is so important I see this in young players and even experience older players all the time how do you respond when you make mistakes so say you receive the ball and you lose possession what do you do after that or you have a chance to score and you miss that opportunity what do you do after that how do you respond okay everyone makes mistakes the best players in the world make mistakes they miss five yard sitters they miss three yards simple passes but what's important is how do you respond okay most players as soon as they make a mistake head is down shoulders are down body language is down their negative self talks going off everyone else is getting on them like come on man what are you doing get yourself together and they just go down and down and down and down okay the only time they play well is if they make no mistakes what happens when you make a mistake you need to respond positively if I get on the ball and I lose possession of the ball okay I shake it off right away first of all I go chase that ball down right away I win it back for my team then I get then I play simple then I focus on my first touch a lot better next time I focus on taking care of the ball playing those simple passes and I work myself into the game okay if you miss an easy goal scoring chance or a difficult goal scoring chance you just miss a chance okay most players after that they don't want another chance because they're afraid they're going to miss or they don't want to even make the run to get in front of the net because they know they might miss that opportunity if you miss a goal scoring opportunity you need to be hungry for the next one because you know you're going to get it okay it's all about this positive response everyone makes mistakes but very few players respond positively and if you can start responding positively after you make your mistakes get over it learn from it get on to the next one you're going to be a much better player and you're going to stay involved in the game what happens is most players make mistakes and then they slowly disappear from the game because again they're afraid to get on the ball they're afraid to make more mistakes don't be afraid to make mistakes making mistakes is part of the game everyone does it and when other people your teammates yell at you for making mistakes don't take it personally okay because they're going to do the same thing five minutes later and you're not going to yell at them you're going to encourage them you're going to motivate them and then the next time maybe they won't do that to you okay but if you make a mistake let's say for example you lose possession of the ball you're dribbling you get tackled you lose possession of the ball or you receive the ball you have a bad touch you lose possession of the ball i want you to chase that ball down win it back right away get that ball play simple then as soon as the next play the next opportunity i want you go searching for that ball get the ball again ask for the ball demand the ball okay even if i screw up 10 times in a row i'm going to go 10 more times and search for that ball get that ball on my feet and i'm going to play simple play myself into the game okay so ask yourself currently how am i responding after i make mistakes after i lose possession after i make a bad pass or after i miss a scoring opportunity does my head go down do my shoulders go down do i talk negatively to myself tell myself i'm no good why would you miss a chance like that or do i pump myself up shake it off learn from it and go searching for the next opportunity the next tip is move the damn ball move this thing right here let the ball do the work and i'm talking mainly to my really talented skill technical players because i find these are always the players who are taking too long on the ball yes there's the type of player who's just they're a bit slow they're a bit nervous their touches aren't the best their decision making is not the sharpest and they're playing too slow okay they need to play a bit quicker to receive that ball pass that ball move and get it back but it's our talented players who are having the most problem with this idea it's because you have all the skill okay and you need to be honest with yourself are you this type of player are you making this mistake because they have so much skill because they have so much talent and ability they want to show that off every time they get the ball they want to impress their coaches their teammates they want to show their skill and they want to use it to create chances but the truth is these players are taking way too many touches and honestly i love defending that type of player i love coming up against that player anytime that player gets the ball i love just pressing them quickly clipping out their ankles going in hard to tackles and winning the ball because they think they're because they have so much skill they have to show it off like i said and they take too many touches they're on the ball way too long okay my defender might come to press them and then i just get in there right away and what happens is they lose the ball they do it again they lose the ball their teammates start yelling at them getting down on them they start getting frustrated with themselves head goes down and they just play worse and worse and worse okay but the truth is this player is way easier to defend than the player who really keeps it simple this guy here always plays two touch he doesn't have as good of skill but when he's on the ball he just gets it he moves it he moves into space this guy's way harder to defend than this guy who has all the skill in the world but he takes too many touches and he takes way too long to make decisions okay if you're a skilled player you need to move the ball even quicker you will have chances to use your skill okay but that's going to come from playing quickly so say i receive the ball in here receive pass find new space get that ball turn play that ball find new space suddenly you'll pop up and now i have space to attack now i can take a couple touches now i can cut inside get my shot on goal okay there will be times for you to use your skill but you need to understand when to do that and when to not and mainly in the defensive third in the middle third if it's in really tight areas here i got defenders around me you need to move that ball okay have a focus on having a really good first touch move that ball then get into new space turn good first touch move that ball can you play two touch move that ball move that ball move that ball move that ball so important the next time you watch professional football i want you to count the amount of touches each player takes on the field when they do take multiple touches i want you to think about what situations or what areas they're in okay did they pick it up on the wing and they had tons of space and they didn't just take 10 touches they took 10 touches but they sprinted up the field cut inside and then laid off a pass or cut inside and whipped across or cut inside and took a shot okay there will be times for you to use your skill when there's open space to exploit when you're one on one you just have to beat one guy to get a shot off okay but the majority of the time watch professional football count the amount of touches they take and watch how fast that ball moves around the field okay if you're a talented player you're a skilled player realize you're going to get more of the ball if you move it quicker if you take 10 touches every time you have the ball no one's going to want to pass you the ball because you're a ball hub okay so move that ball quicker let the ball do the work when you get it pass it move to get it back and you're going to be surprised at how much more you get on the ball how much more you get on the ball how much more you are involved in the play and when you do have your space yes feel free to take those touches use your skills in those dangerous areas okay but the majority of the time move that damn ball i want to talk about a very important idea and i used to do this a lot when i was younger and i see players do this all the time is you slowly disappear from the game you might start the game really well like you're really involved you're on the ball you're making runs you're getting involved you're playing really well and then as the game progresses 20th minute you're getting a little less on the ball 30th minute a little less 40th minute you're nowhere to be found second half starts you might start well again five 10 minutes is good you're sharp you're on the ball you're getting involved and then slowly 70th 80th 90th you're nowhere to be found you haven't touched the ball you're not involved in the play you're not making any tackles you're not contributing okay so in order for you to stay involved in the play for the whole game you need to do a couple things and it starts right here in your mind keeping focused okay if you're not focused on your movement on what you're doing and noticing okay i haven't touched the ball in a little bit i need to change what i'm doing i can't make the same runs i can't stay in the same spot i need to change things up i need to be more active i need to get myself involved in the game okay so try to keep a mental tab am i involved in the game right now if not i need to change that because you'll find again it usually when you're starting the game you got lots of energy you're working hard off the ball you're chasing guys down you're getting involved you're demanding the ball and then as you get a little bit tired and tired and tired you slowly slip out of the game okay so you need to number one ask yourself mentally am i involved enough am i getting involved in the play so keep your focus on being involved in the play a couple things i want you to do number one go searching for the ball if the ball is not coming to you don't expect don't expect your teammates to find you you gotta go searching sometimes you gotta change up your runs say if i'm playing a striker i might have to drop a bit deeper into the midfield to pick the ball up or if i'm out on the wing i might have to come inside to get that ball okay go searching for that ball get out of your position a little bit i would much rather you'd be out of position and get on the ball then stay in your position out there on the wing and never be involved okay your coach might not agree with that but personally i think you as a player you need to be involved as much as you can and there will be times when you're staying really wide and you will get involved because you're demanding the ball you're getting your width early you creating space for yourself and you're getting on the ball but if you're not getting the ball do something about it don't make the same run switch it up okay go searching for that ball on the other side of things if you're not getting involved i want you to go hunting for the ball and what i mean by hunting is on the defensive side of things okay start anticipating the play when their team has the ball they're moving it around can you anticipate where the next pass is going to go and then go hunting for that ball and when i say hunt that doesn't mean you're jogging slowly to get that ball you're sprinting after that ball you're chasing your pressuring that guy you're forcing them to make a mistake you win the ball back for your team and then you either exploit the open space that's given to you or you get that ball you move that ball and then you start playing those little passes getting moving around again go searching for the ball getting involved in the play okay so number one mentally ask yourself am i involved enough no i need to do something about i need to switch it up i need to stay mentally focused but i need to stay physically focused and involved with my movement okay second go searching for the ball when your team has the ball go searching find new pockets of space don't always make the same run definitely don't stand still because no one's going to give you the ball but switch your runs up so you can search for the ball get that ball on your feet then play those little passes combination play get involved in the play and finally the probably the best thing you can do if you're not getting the ball is work harder defensively go hunting for that ball okay can you chase defenders down can you chase midfielders down when your defender is closing someone can you come and double okay can you go hunting for that ball win that ball defensively and you're going to get way more involved in the play okay so think about those things think about being involved for the whole game extremely important this tip will absolutely transform the way you play if you actually use it it does work it's an extremely simple piece of advice but it's so powerful and that is i want you to be extremely direct what does that mean that doesn't mean i'm just going to kick the ball at the field direct as in going one pass to beat everything i'm still trying to play nice football i'm still trying to keep possession and move the ball but whenever i have space i'm trying to attack you need to score goals to win the game okay if i'm always getting the ball i'm going backwards i'm never going to score goals so whenever you can ask yourself get a head shoulder check look over your shoulder is there space get turned can we play forward can we move forward play forward move forward play forward move forward whenever i get the ball i'm trying to attack i'm trying to be extremely direct if they're not going to close me down if they're giving me all this space i'm not going to get my head up realize their space and then jog into this space okay i already know their space i receive the ball my first touches into space i sprint at that net if nobody closed me down i just score the goal celebrate and win the game for my team okay most of us we're getting the ball like i said we're getting turned now we got our head up now we realize there's plays space we're still a bit hesitant we're still looking for a pass rather than going forward and being extremely direct okay so the next time you play i want you to think about if i have space i'm always going to take my first touch into space towards the net okay if i have a teammate who's open in space i'm going to get him that ball as soon as possible if you were out here and you were in this if someone was out here and you were in this position and you were in open space you wouldn't want him to take a couple touches dribble up and then make a decision you would want him to get you that ball right away okay so when you're on the ball ask yourself can i play forward and then join in the attack or if there's no passing options can i dribble forward and be very direct either get to the sideline and whip across or get in the box and get your shot off okay but i want you to think about being extremely direct every time i get the ball can i score is there a chance to score is there a chance to help my team score is there a chance to get an assist i'm always trying to play forward saying that sometimes you can't play for it sometimes i receive the ball and there's three guys on me i'm not just going to turn into trouble because dylan said to play forward no okay you got to know when to play forward and when to keep possession of that ball maybe i just play that one touch and then i go find some new space receive okay this guy's off me now i can turn now i can dribble forward now i can play that pass but try to always go forward if you can if you can't keep possession of the ball try to go and get that ball again and then play forward be extremely direct go for goals at every opportunity possible i think we can agree that there's sometimes when your teammates piss you off they really frustrate you because maybe they're not playing quick enough they're not playing smart enough they're not playing hard enough they're not playing with enough energy or intensity they're not playing with enough urgency okay certain things will frustrate you and it almost feels like you can't do anything about it and maybe even worse you start expressing that frustration verbally you start yelling at them you start putting your hands up in the air moaning groaning what the hell are you doing getting really frustrated and showing this emotion okay but guess what that isn't going to make them play any better now i know like especially in like english or those uk countries of different countries real hard-working football countries if a guy makes a mistake his teammates are usually like what the f are you doing man they're all over him they're verbally just tearing him apart and they think that that's going to make him play better and for some players it might okay but personally i think there's a better to motivate your teammates and make them play the way you want to play and that is by leading by example okay so if i want my teammates to play with more energy with more intensity i need to do that i need to be pressing guys i need to be closing the gaps down i need to be getting the really tense going in hard for tackles if my teammates see me doing that then they're going to get a little pump of energy they're going to say hey if he can do that i can do that or if he's going to do that for the team i'm going to do that for the team okay so instead of getting down on your teammates lead by example as well when you're on the ball if i'm on the ball i'm making sharp touches i'm playing quick passes i'm moving off the ball i'm demanding the ball i'm really positive with my movement with my talk saying yeah give me the ball everything is sharp it's quick okay it's going to encourage it's going to force your teammates to play the same way okay if i play you a little one two pass and i go into space and i'm really quick and sharp and you're super slow on the ball and you get tackled well that guy's going to realize okay like he's doing something a lot different than what i'm doing okay so instead of getting down on him lead by example lead by example defensively with your pressing with your intensity with your closing out how hard you go into tackles that'll get your teammates energy up and when you're on the ball okay your movement how quick you're playing how direct you're playing just the style of your play will influence your teammates also communication is absolutely key i can influence my teammates by the way i talk okay if i'm super quiet and i don't even open my mouth i really have no effect on my teammates they don't really know what i want from them okay now don't confuse this i'm not getting down on them i'm not telling them what are you doing do this i'm just giving good verbal descriptive communication so i'm telling them where to play i'm saying yes pass the ball this way yes give it to johnny yes play quick play simple play simple yes move the ball here i am home open i'm open cake this quick communication just directing the play yes move the ball play inside play to this specific guy take your space turn mad on no time time okay all this descriptive communication if you're verbally talking not only will you be more involved in the play not only will you stand out and press your coaches you're actually going to have more control over the way your teammates play you're going to make them sharper you're going to help them make quicker decisions you're going to get their energy up because you're you got that bright energy it's contagious and your teammates will latch onto that and it will affect the way they play okay final thing i want to say about that is motivate your teammates encourage them instead of saying what the heck are you doing give them positive encouragement say hey just play a bit simpler just take a good focus on your first touch and play quick i know you can do better or when they do things good extremely important when they do things good praise them if they make a nice quick receive and pass off the ball movement or they make a hard tackle praise them be like yes fantastic good job keep it up do that again and they will be motivated they'll be inspired because it felt good to get that praise from you and they'll want to keep doing it okay so when your teammates are frustrating you when things aren't going away your team's not playing the way you want them to play instead of moaning growing and getting frustrated saying oh these guys never do anything right blaming other people take some responsibility and lead by example i've shared this tip quite a few times and honestly i don't think enough of us are doing it it's like the most basic tip but it's the most powerful tip it will help you score the most goals it'll help you be more effective in the attacking third and that is just get into the right areas okay scoring goals isn't about technique it's not a it is about technique you have to have the technique to finish the goals off but getting those chances getting your opportunity to score those goals is all about movement it's all about getting in the right areas okay sadly most of us our teammate has this opportunity to score and we're just trotting up the field we're just jogging we're just watching him oh yeah you got it you got it i hope he scores okay get in there even if you think he's going to even if he's on a breakaway and you're a hundred percent he's going to score sprint up there and look boom the goal he made a save and you tapped in a rebound okay it will never happen if you never get in the right areas you will not score any goals if you don't get in the right areas just think about that idea scoring goals it's not so much about technique it's about getting in the right areas so anytime there's an opportunity to score if someone's whipping a ball in the box you need to be making that run in there or if i'm a midfielder i need to be getting there if i'm a full back i want to get in there okay if i'm a center back i might have to balance i might have to take care of my team okay but there's still opportunities for you so anytime especially if you're an attacking player anytime there's a ball whipped into the box or there's a chance for someone to get a shot or we're moving forward okay don't jog up the field don't shot up the field sprint it to that space that's how you're gonna get opportunities to score watch this if i'm jogging into the space this is easy for this guy to stay with me if i'm just jogging there yeah yeah yeah give me the ball give me the ball just jogging there okay it's so easy for him to defend me if instead i realize there's an opportunity give him a little push for some space sprint into this area okay that's how you're going to get your opportunities but get into those areas get into those areas with purpose okay so get into the box get around the box if your teammates have a chance to score don't just watch sprint you have to be hungry and you have to realize that there could be an opportunity here a lot of times the ball might get whipped across it goes through everyone okay it goes through everyone but the fullback wanted he was hungry he wanted to get involved and it came out here and boom he just tapped it and got himself a goal he would never get that if he was waiting back here and just watching his teammates play saying oh i'm a defender i just defend want to get involved risk a bit okay get into the box make those forward runs get into the right areas but get into those areas with purpose i guarantee if you just understand that scoring goals isn't so much about technique it's more about movement it's more about getting into the right spots you're going to score so many more goals this season so please take that advice because not enough of us are using that idea and see what happens for you i guarantee you're going to see some great results before i end this video and send you on your way send it to your next practice or your next game i want you to understand that your ability to implement these ideas will determine how good you become and how fast you improve 90% of players who watch this video will not do a single thing that i recommended in this video they will just go back to their old habits they'll have the same frustrations and the same pains and they'll play the same way 10% of people and i want you to be part of this 10% who actually watched this video they watched it all the way through they really thought about okay what am i doing in the game compared to what he's telling me to do and how can i make that change and they actually apply what they learn next time they go in the field they try to do all these things that we talked about they will improve so much faster than their competition so much faster than their opponents so your ability to implement what you learn not only my advice but the advice that your coaches give you the advice that your parents give you the advice that your teammates give you if you can take that knowledge and implement it into your game put it into your game you will improve faster than everyone else the harsh truth is that most players like i said in the very beginning they cannot accept criticism they are not open to new ideas they think they know everything and because of that they will stay the same player that they are today for the rest of their lives okay so if you want to become better than everyone else you want to improve faster than everyone else that all depends on your ability to take this information and apply it to your game the next time you play but consistently keep coming back to this video keep coming back to all these videos listening to my advice listening to your coaches advice the advice of people that you respect and actually asking yourself am i actually doing these things or am i doing the same things that i've always done okay if you do something new you're going to get new results if you do what you've always done you're going to get what you've always got okay so thank you once again for watching this video please like comment subscribe and i want you to go out of your way to share this video with players that you want to help improve so if you've got some teammates if you're a parent watching this video and you've got a kid you've got some friends you know are passionate about soccer or football and you want to help them improve share this video with them share it on your social media because it's a very powerful video and if we can get this video out there it's going to improve the quality of football around the world and that's 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We are here with the Jezzetech here at Hong Kong Fair. Hello. Hello. So who are you? Hello everyone. My name is Alice. I'm from Jezzetech. We are the professional manufacturer of e-readers. Here it is the new one we made. It is 10.3 inch. And for this one we have the handwriting. You see we have we are Jezzetech. Jezzetech in the Shenzhen? Yes, Jezzetech in Shenzhen. And for this we have the different size of the pen. This is Android? Yes, this is Android. And you can download the book.  Yeah. So you have all these different systems in here? Yes, but I'm sorry this one is for the Chinese market now. We don't have the English language yet. But we can make it develop. Is it good for reading? Yes, it's very good. So what's the price in the Chinese market? For this one is 2000 RMB. 2000 RMB? Yeah, in China. 109 RMB? Yes. How many dollars is that? It is about three. Yes, about there. About 250 dollars? Yes. So the price, not for the sale, for distributors is lower? What do you mean? 2000 RMB is for the consumer price? No, it's for the one we sell to our customer. Ah, they sell to the higher price, right? Maybe, I don't know what's their sale price. But we sell this price. And then you have a bigger one here? Yes. Very light? Yes, this one is very light. But for this one is the newest one. So the software is not very improving. You see for here, actually we have the one has the handwriting. It's not yet working. Yeah, the software has not improved yet. Okay. Do you have all the books? Yes, and they are also very good for reading. Yeah, so still working on the software? Yes. Very thin, very light. How heavy is this? It is about 1200 grams maybe. I don't know. 350 maybe? Yes. What version of Android are you writing? Which version? 4.4. 4.4? Yes. Can I do a newer one? What do you mean? A newer version of Android you don't have? You always use Android 4.4? Yeah, all the books that it is Android 4.4. Okay, so all is Android? Yes, all these are Android. Only this one is not Android. And how much is this? This one is around 560. 560? Yes. Do you already sell or not yet? No yet because no MP yet. How soon? Next month. And this one for sale already? Yes, this is already in MP yet. Do you have a version that will be lighter, smaller or not yet? No, because this one is magnetism. Is it a battery? The battery is 2000 and not so big. But for this is the back cover is the magnetism. Magnetism? Yes. And this is, what does it say? This is 10.3 inch. Also? Yes. But it is different one. Is the pen also? Yes, this one also is the pen. What is the technology for your pen? Is it something like a Wacom? Capacity. But with a pen it is not capacitive, no? What do you mean? It is not a capacitive pen, is it? Is it a capacitive pen? Yes. So it is not a, okay, digitizer? And also for this also the software also improving. For the handwriting now we only like this. But for the new one we can remove, I mean the eraser. For now we can no eraser only but refresh. What is the price for that one? This one is 200 and 80. 280 is a 10.3 inch? Yes. But why is this one more expensive? The material is different. This one is mechanism and this one is just the plastic. So 280? Yes. But it is still a little bit heavy, no? Yes, yes. It is like this one is more heavy than the big one. This one is lighter. Yes. It is bigger. That is why it is so expensive. But it is also flexible display here, no? Yes. But why you don't make it smaller, thinner? What? Not yet. Smaller? No, the same size display but a smaller device. You don't have? This one. Okay. This size? It is 7.8 inch. Actually this one and this one are the same specification. Just the different size. And the price? But this one is 160. So which one is a front light? Everyone has the front light. Everyone? Yes. Even the big one? Yes. But it is not working yet? Yes. Somewhere there? Seriously. Maybe it is under display? Yes. But there is... There will be a front light somewhere in UI? Yes. But the software has not made it. You have the software engineer? Yes. Then how about the price for the small ones? Is the same all three? No. For these are almost the same. For this one is no. Because this one is flat, you see? For this one is no. This is because it has the coverance. Is it cheaper? No. It is expensive. What? This one is 88. 88? Yes. Well how many pieces all these prices? For this one, for this three is 1K. One dollar. And the other one? This big size can be 500. 500? Yes. So, before you had an e-ink phone, is that available? No. Now we don't do the e-ink phone. Front light. Where are your customers? Which countries? What do you mean? Which countries you sell to? Europe. A lot of Europe? Yes. With different brands? Yes. OEM. OEM.


Hey there, and welcome to a long overdue polyphonic Q&A. In case you missed it, my channel hit a million subscribers a few weeks ago, so this is a little video to celebrate. Before we get into things, I just really wanted to thank you all for your support. A Million Subs is genuinely one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me in my life, and I am eternally grateful for all of your support. I want to give an especially big shout out to those of you who are supporting me on Nebula, and if you've been considering checking out Nebula, I really can't stress enough how much it helps creators like me. And also, it's great for you. You'll be able to watch my videos early and ad-free, you'll be able to watch an extended cut of this very Q&A, and you'll be able to watch all sorts of exclusive content like my video on Rage Against the Machine's self-titled album artwork, or my original series, Polyphonic Magazine. Okay, that's enough with the plugging. Let's get on to the questions. One question that I got a lot is, am I going to do a face reveal? And you know, I've thought this over a little bit, and I wonder if doing a face reveal might not just kill the mystique of polyphonic, and maybe I'm just better as a disembodied voice. So I don't think I'm gonna, oh wait, wait, what's that? What's that? We're rolling? And I spent hours last night setting up lighting and setting camera and stuff like that? Well, then I guess we might as well do the face reveal. Hi, my name's Noah. You probably know me better as Polyphonic. All right, let's get into some questions. Just so you know, and you know this already, but I don't really do a lot of stuff on camera. I don't really do a lot of stuff unscripted at all. So this is either going to be endearingly awkward or cringe as hell. Either way, you're the ones that asked for the face reveal. Ari or something asked what video I'm most proud of and what episode of Ghost Notes was the most fun to do. We'll start with Ghost Notes. By the way, Ghost Notes is my podcast with 12-tone. If you don't listen, you should check it out. You can listen to it on Nebula and on all other podcasting things. I really, really like our episode on children's music. If you want a place to start, I just think that that's a topic that isn't really discussed much and we got to talk about it in a really interesting way. As for videos, you know, there's a lot of them over the years. Most recently, I think the one I'm super proud of is My Queer History of Disco. I think that video is some of the best journalistic work I've done. I think that it is telling an important story that's really relevant right now. One of the first videos that I was ever really, really proud of was my Scott Joplin video because I just, I think that that's a really cool story that nobody's really told. So, you know, like it felt really important to tell that story. And I think it's one that not a lot of people knew about. And I know I didn't know about it before I really started to look into it. I also love my Run the Jewels video. The visuals on that are some of the best work that I've ever done. I went really, really hard on that video and it pushed me to a new level. And then one more, that's actually like six more. I love my audio visual companions. I'm super proud of them. I think it's a really cool medium. I think that they look fantastic. And especially my Wish You Were Here project, which you can watch in full on Nebula. Honestly, I really recommend you do that. If you've got Nebula, it's it's a pretty cool experience. Sarah Mercedes and a couple other people always ask me what musicians right now do I think are going to have sort of a huge impact on the music world in the future? To be honest, I'm not that tapped into what's going on right now. In case you haven't noticed, most of my channel is kind of about older music. But there's a few modern artists that I think are really phenomenal. I think Hozier is amazing. His album coming out this year. I think that's going to be absolute fire. I've been banging the Hozier drum for a while. Everyone should get on him. He's he's got a sort of poeticism that is just very rare. He's an incredible singer. He's just got a ton of vision. Little Sims. I don't think this is very much a controversial take, but Little Sims is doing some really incredible work. Yeah, I think she's kind of hip hop's next great auteur, if you will. Yeah, to be honest, I don't really tend to keep up with what's going on right now. The way that I listen to music, I like to frame and contextualize music within history. And so I find listening to what's happening right now is a little sort of close up for me. It's hard to tell a cultural impact from this close. I often pick up on stuff kind of five years after it's been big. So ask me in five years, I guess. Oh, this is a fun one. Semtex asked if there's a story behind me choosing four band by Prax as my theme song. In case you don't know what that is, it's this thing. So, yeah, there is actually a story behind that. And that is that Prax is one of my best and oldest friends. He grew up literally next door to me. We spent all sorts of time playing together as kids. He was getting into making music as I was getting into making YouTube videos. And so it seemed natural to me. It was a great fit. You know, I could just ask him and wouldn't need to worry about licensing and stuff like that. And so I liked four band and I ended up editing the first video I ever edited to it, which is the Bowie Cohen one. Originally, it was not really going to be a theme song. But then as I kind of edited and got to the the drop, I was like, OK, this is really great. And I made a little intro for it. And then, yeah, the rest is sort of history. So yeah, Prax and I go way back. You should check out his SoundCloud, by the way. He he doesn't really stuff super often. But every time he drops something, it's an absolute banger. Jon Jon asks if we want to support you. Is it better to watch content on YouTube or Nebula? Nebula, Nebula pays out better per watch rate. So yeah, watch my stuff on Nebula. It's also better for you to watch my stuff on Nebula. If you're watching my stuff on Nebula, you're not getting ads. You're getting a better compression quality. It's it's a better experience for you too. So yeah, watch on Nebula.  Nebula doesn't have any of those issues. So it's better for everyone if you watch on Nebula, if you've got it. And if you've got it, thank you. Thanks for supporting me. I appreciate it. Swarolis asks, do I think the complexity of pop music is decaying over the years? And what about the freedom of composition of the pop artist? No, absolutely not. Not no on either fronts. So first of all, I want to talk about this for a second, because there seems to be this idea of complexity as this thing to be held up in music. And there is a lot of music that is very complex and is very good. But there's also a lot of music that's not complex and is very good. And also, even when people talk about complexity, complexity can mean a number of things. For example, timbral complexity. There are more different sounds in pop music than there ever have been because of the advances of technology, because of sampling, because of how far synthesizers have come. There's so many sounds in pop music that you never would have had 30, 40, 50 years ago that alone adds these levels of complexity. Never mind the fact that most pop music now is kind of genre bending. We've reached this point where all of these genres are kind of colliding and collapsing in on each other, and it's creating a really cool moment where these scenes that have been sort of divided based on pretty arbitrary guidelines are now working with each other. And you've got, you know, you've got Lil Yachty doing psychedelic rock albums, and you've got all of this this sort of amalgamation coming together and freedom of composition. No, it's never been easier for pop artists to experiment and do weird stuff. The the barrier to entry for music has never been lower. Pop artists don't even really need labels as much anymore because of the spread of digital media. Pop artists are able to be way, way more inventive than they were in the past. So, yeah, in short, no pop music is no less complex than it's ever been. And pop musicians have as much freedom as they've ever had. The Purple Bear asks, do I have any desire to go revisit a story? Absolutely. I mean, the theme of musicians and mortality, which was my very first video is something that's really, really interesting to me. And I would really love to revisit again. Recently, I actually kind of did revisit an old video. That was part of the idea with my Wish You Were Here project where I made the audio visual companion because very early in polyphonic I did a Wish You Were Here video that it's honestly, it's it's not very good. I don't like it. I don't feel that I did the album justice. So I revisited it and this new one is one of the best things that I've ever made. What's a trend in modern music that I'm excited to see continue? And what's a trend modern musicians should revive in some way? So I'm excited to see this continuing collapse of genre in modern music. I love stuff that crosses genre bounds and is sort of genre lists or is sort of omni genre, I guess you could say. Really, really big fan of that stuff. And a trend musicians should revive is standards. I miss standards. They're so it's so cool to have, you know, the Great American Songbook and hear a dozen different artists take on these songs that just exist in the zeitgeist and really in general, like a lot of folk practices I'd like to see brought back that rely less on, you know, this this idea that musicians need to be auteurs who write everything and do everything themselves, like work with material that's been there for hundreds of years. You know, work with material written by people whose job it is to write songs. The Great American Songbook is incredible. And I really, really wish I it was incorporated more into contemporary music. C asks, I've talked a lot about copyright claims and musicians stealing from other artists. What's my opinion on sampling? Sampling is amazing. Sampling is a brilliant form of art.  Frankly, I don't believe in intellectual property, especially when it comes to music. Music belongs to the commons. Bonsai Dalek asks a couple. They ask a favorite album, not what I think is the best album ever made, but what holds the most personal importance to me. Some some albums that hold personal importance to me five days in July by Blue Rodeo, Crisis by Alexis on Fire, a lot of Canadian stuff because I'm Canadian. But outside of that, Blonde On Blonde by Bob Dylan. That's probably my favorite album. That's probably also the album that I think is the greatest. I have been known to call it the pinnacle of human artistic achievement from time to time. So I got a shout out Blonde On Blonde. RTJ4, I really love that album a lot. Oh, and Worry by Jeff Rosenstock. That's an absolute favorite of mine. I feel like that album, I don't know, it feels like it kind of perfectly captures a certain kind of millennial angst that I have. And so many of my friends have really, really great album. And they also ask what's an artist that I'm a huge fan of but hasn't made their magnum opus yet. I'll go with Hozier again. I think I think it's I think he's got potential to do some really, really cool stuff. Bernie Williams has a whole host of questions. So we're just going to rapid fire this. What musical genre took me the longest to like? Probably country, maybe EDM. I still haven't quite figured out EDM. What musical genre ranks lowest on my list? Yeah, probably EDM, but it's not because I have any problem with EDM. I just haven't really thrown myself into it yet. Was there ever an artist that didn't make a positive first impression and you didn't like, but you listened to them later and fell in love with them? Oh, yeah, that happens all the time. I think the most clear example was Alt J. I really didn't. I didn't know what to do with Alt J when I first listened to them, but they pretty quickly became one of my favorite artists. Also, just a lot of hip hop. I it took me time to get into hip hop, but I love it now. What was the hardest video to make physically or emotionally? Definitely my 27 Club video. That video was very personal, obviously. And that was a difficult one to make, but I'm really glad that I made it and we can put that onto the list of videos that I'm most proud of, too. And is there any artist I'd like to travel backward in time to meet? I mean, I'd like to meet Bob Dylan. So I don't think I need to travel backward in time for that. But if there's someone who's dead that I would like to meet, I would love to chat with Duke Ellington. Everything I've heard about him sounds like that would be a marvelous experience for the Q&A. What's something that I would like my viewers to know? I would like my viewers to know that Curtis Mayfield's Move On Up is the greatest song ever recorded by humankind. 12 Tone asks, who's my favorite ghost notes co-host? That's really tough, but I got to say Polyphonic. I don't I'm not a big 12 tone fan. You know, I think that they're a little too right about most of what they say, whereas Polyphonic is just spitting hot takes and I kind of like that energy. So we're going to go Polyphonic. TSS3393 asks, can I pinpoint an artist or album that caused my taste in music to expand the most? I think to Pimpa Butterfly was really big for me. That really got me into hip hop and kind of in getting into hip hop. It sort of just cascaded into all sorts of music's appealing to me and me discovering the joy of various things. And I would also say Beyonce's self titled because that kind of got me into pop music. So, yeah, those two are pretty seminal for me. Pinocchio asks, what are the best three albums that would be great if they got turned into a movie or TV show or musical play? The first one obviously has to be Good Kid Mad City. You know, that's often called the most cinematic album made. It's got an incredible narrative. It's got these really, really intricately drawn out character arcs. Yeah, Good Kid Mad City would absolutely rule as a movie. I've always really liked Fucked Ups, David Comes to Life. That's a post-hardcore rock opera that I think could be a sort of spectacular piece that's got a lot of really cool meta narrative in it. And let's say, I mean, I know that it already exists as a musical, but I'd go for a Hades Town movie. I think you could do some really, really cool stuff with that. Amanda Caster asks, do people recognize my voice in day to day life? I've never been recognized in day to day life. Maybe that'll change now that I've got a face reveal. If you see me, you can say, hi, just don't be weird about it. But yeah, no, I've never had anyone recognize me from my voice.  So that might be part of it. But yeah, nobody's ever, nobody's ever recognized me. Sheila asked, what songs get me into a summertime groove? I love this because I love making summer playlists. A big one for me is Dindive by Derondo.  I listen to a lot of Motown music in the summers. I want you back by the Jackson 5 is especially one of my favorite summer songs and then sort of laid back country, acoustic stuff. You know, a lot of Neil Young, Blue Rodeo is always the soundtrack of summers to me, the tragically hip cottage music, you know, if you're from Ontario, you know, Victor Royo asks, how has my relationship with some artists or albums that meant a lot in a precise moment of my life evolved over time? Yeah, I mean, I think it's always evolving. I think there's a lot of artists that really, really were seminal to me that I barely listen to now. The Red Hot Chili Peppers come to mind. They were my favorite band in high school. They were one of the first bands that I like really, really obsessed over. I almost never listened to the Chili Peppers now. Another one that really comes to mind is Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin was my favorite band for a long time. And I still really love Led Zeppelin. But, you know, in recent years, my relationship to Zeppelin has changed a lot as I have kind of tried to confront the realities of who they were as people, which is not very nice. You know, I did a couple of years back, I did Zeppelin Month, which sort of tackled the darker sides of Zeppelin's legacy. And since that, I feel like I've had a hard time listening to them a lot of the time. I still love their music, but it's definitely changed. And then on the other side, there's artists who I have just my love for them has deepened. Dylan, I've come to appreciate everything he's doing on so much deeper of a level. Blue Rodeo is a band that has just grown and grown on me as I've gone into adulthood. That most of the music that I love, I feel like I've just I've come to appreciate on deeper levels and appreciate on new levels, which is part of the fun of getting old. Mav asks what albums or artists shaped my current music taste the most? Bob Dylan is one of them. He really got me into the whole Greenwich folk scene, which sort of also kind of cascades into country and blues and all of that sort of early Americana stuff. Dylan really, really was my my gate into. Miles Davis was my entrance into jazz, both Miles Davis and Charles Mingus really were my entrance into jazz. And I love love a lot of jazz. You know, I love Ornette Coleman now, which I never would have listened to without Davis Coltrane, obviously. But even going back like Swing Music, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis really opened the door for all of my jazz appreciation. And Kendrick, like I said earlier, to Pimba Butterfly opened the door to hip hop for me and changed my relationship with hip hop. What was a moment in a song that was so good you physically stopped and had to listen to it again? That happens to me all of the time. Most recently, I've been fixating on the song Oklahoma from the musical Oklahoma. I think when the chorus hits, it's just this sweeping, enormous moment like Richard Rogers is an incredible, incredible composer. One that comes to mind, one of the songs that I fixated hard on for a long time was Coltrane's My Favorite Things. I listened to that song on repeat for days. I just I couldn't get enough of it. And what else am I really into right now? Oh, I'm really into Led Belly's Midnight Special, too. That's one where I just keep going back and listening because the chorus of that is just it just rips. I don't know how to pronounce your name. Tis de Liger. I'm sorry for butchering that. What am I listening to to expand my musical horizon? Do I listen to new music comparing it to classics? When I try to expand my musical taste, the way that I tend to do it is through diving into history. I tend to try to find artists who maybe were a little under appreciated in history, but had huge influences on artists that a lot of people loved. You know, lately, I've been really diving into the Greenwich Village scene and listening to people like like Karen Dalton, who is just incredible and, you know, nobody really talks about. Even Dave Van Ronk is criminally underrated. And the other way that I really try to expand my music listening is by watching music documentaries. It's a great way to enrich in your experience, whether that is for, you know, getting a deeper love for an artist you already love or finding new artists. I mean, even if it is an artist you already love, watching documentaries on them will often show you their influences and stuff like that. The honestly, the probably the two biggest things that always expand my musical tastes every time I rewatch them is Ken Burns, country music and Ken Burns Jazz. I'm a huge Ken Burns fan. And if you want to if you want to find some artists to dive into and expand yourself, those series are the as good as it gets. Also, No Direction Home, another really great music doc that will show you a lot of really cool artists. Craig asks, how has my music taste and understanding and music changed over time? What about since I first started my channel? Yeah, my relationship to music has changed drastically since I started this channel. I feel like I have a richer experience of music, but I also feel like I sometimes experience music on a bit less of a visceral level because I'm always kind of trying to place it within a context. And my mind's always doing that thing where it's like, this could be a video, that could be a video, this could be a video. And that's sort of impossible to turn off. But on the plus side, I feel like I have a very good understanding of where music fits in history now. And that's where I'm most interested in music these days, especially these days, I'm really interested in music as a cultural document, something that orients you into a certain time or a certain place and teaches you what the values of that moment were. I think that that's sort of the biggest change it's had is it's made me so much more of a historian about music. And I really love that I consider it my job to like music. So I try to make sure that I like all music. So I try to educate myself and dive into stuff. And, you know, that's something that's always really rewarding. On that note, Luke Perser asks, did I always have such variety in the music I like, or at some point was my music taste limited? My taste used to be incredibly limited. Yeah, I mean, up until I was like 20 or 21, I listened to almost exclusively rock music with a smattering of jazz songs here and there.  You know, that's the that's the world that I grew up in. And I was completely wrong about that shocker. Turns out most music is pretty cool. So yeah, I my tastes used to be pretty narrow. Yagoshi asks, who is my favorite guitarist and who is the best guitarist of all time? My favorite guitarist right now is probably Curtis Mayfield, the best guitarist of all time. It's it's probably Hendrix. It's an uninspired take, but it's the right take. Jill Silver asks, what's the very first band? I remember shaping my love of music or peaking my interest in seeking out other kinds of music. So there's a couple early bands that really influenced me. Billy Talent was the first band that I ever listened to outside of my parents. So that was a big one. Some 41 were the first band that I ever really fell in love with in like the eighth grade. It was the era of pop punk. What can I say? Yeah, so some 41 were a big one. And then the first band that I really obsessed over that really, really got me into music was the Chili Peppers. I loved the Chili Peppers. They were the first band wherever downloaded their whole discography and learned all their biographical information and stuff like that. And then after them, Nirvana was another really big one for me. Sarah Jones asks, do I find myself falling back into certain artists or genres in different seasons or weathers? Absolutely. To do a quick sort of cycle through. I mentioned summer before. Summer, I tend to listen to a lot of funk and soul and also folk. In autumn, I listen to a lot of folk music. In autumn, for some reason, I also listen to a lot of sort of like new wave, like 80s synth poppy stuff. For some reason, every time autumn, late autumn comes around, I want to listen to Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tiers for Fears. I don't know why. In winter, I tend to listen to a lot of traditional pop. I think of the Christmas spirit kind of gets you into it. But also the shorter days, you know, it's it's cozy music, like Sinatra and Edda James and stuff like that. And then in spring, what am I listening to right now? Soul again, I guess. Folk again, I guess those are the music I listen to most. Jazz a lot right now. I don't know if that's a seasonal thing or I'm just in a jazz phase right now. But yeah, yeah, absolutely. Music change. My music changes with the weather. My music changes with how I'm feeling physically, emotionally. Absolutely. Darth Raiden asks, do I have plans to do any more Pink Floyd album accompaniments? Yeah, I really want to do one to animals. That's that's sort of my last one. I want to do something on the wall, but it wouldn't be an album companion. And I don't know if I'll ever end up doing that, because it's sort of a big project. But I'd really like to do something on animals, because then I've kind of got that whole trilogy of Dark Side of the Moon, which you are here, animals done. So that's a that's a big one for me. Seward Ostenberg asks, I need to know the fonts this guy uses. My most common fonts are Mort Modern, which is real, real versatile, Sarah font. Lately, I've been really into a lot of stuff by Oh, no typeco. This this this is stuff that I get on Adobe fonts. Oh, no, do really funky stuff. Oh, no, Blazeface is one of my favorites. The sort of more elaborate sort of 60s vibes. And then what's it called? I forget what this one's called, but I use this one a lot. It's on the screen. The name will be on the screen here. Generally, I use a lot of stuff from Adobe fonts. Here's a couple more of my favorite fonts with the names on screen. Wow, Welp asked, why did I choose Polyphonic to be my name? Because it means having many sounds. And I always I never wanted Polyphonic to feel narrow and locked in on one thing. And I always wanted to cover many sounds. Originally, I was actually planning on covering more stuff than just music. I wanted to do stuff on films and literature and stuff like that. But it didn't really pan out that way. It the channel took off so fast and there was such a hunger for music content that I feel like I kind of got locked into that. And now I've got a couple, a couple of Twitter questions to end this off. The Math Hatter asked, do I think there's a sweet spot for length of music? Not really. I think the sweet spot for a song is how long that song needs to be. I love a lot of short music. I love a lot of long music. It really depends. Gustavo Achevito, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, asks, what's my view in the way we listen to and understand music today in comparison to previous generations from just listening to songs and records and radio to the empty Viera and the internet and so forth. I mean, this is an enormous topic. But one of the things that I think, you know, I think there's a lot of panic about the death of the album today. But I actually think people are more obsessed with albums than ever. If you look maybe not more than the peak of the album era and the 70s, but if you look at most of music before that albums didn't exist. People conceptualized artists in terms of songs. And the song was the base unit of music these days. I think most people, especially in music circles, tend to think of albums as the base unit. I think that's a big change. I also think that there's a lot of obsession with authorship today, which I I don't like. Like, I think there's a lot of people today. There's so much cultural weight on people singing their own songs, even though singing and songwriting are two completely unrelated skills. And it's really cool when people can do both. But a lot of the greatest music ever made was made by, you know, often it was somebody composed the music, somebody else composed the lyrics and somebody else performed it. And, you know, that practice still kind of exists in pop music. But we're we're very obsessed with the singer songwriter thing, which is good. But I mean, also the Great American Songbook is amazing.  And in general, I think the biggest thing is that folk music doesn't really exist anymore, at least in sort of the West, quote unquote. You know, I think in a lot of more rural cultures, there there is still some folk practice.  But also just the concepts of intellectual property, the reality of folk music as it, you know, existed for most of human history is folk music has existed devoid of real authorship, devoid of intellectual property. It was, you know, music where someone would just sing a song that had been in the zeitgeist and, you know, someone would adapt that song with their own little flourish and bring it to the next town over. And then someone in that town would rewrite new lyrics to that song about something that happened in their town. And there was this very sort of organic building of ideas. And you look at a great example for this is any classic blues looks like this. That doesn't happen anymore. People are so obsessed with authorship. People are obsessed with, you know, I wrote this song about this thing. And people are, you know, less interested in this idea that songs can kind of just emerge slowly over time and mold and shift. And I think there's something really, really big that's been lost because of that. And I think it's kind of tragic. There's a lot that's been gained to. I don't think the two need to be mutually exclusive, though. But but right now they often are. Also, I really like Pink Floyd. All right, I think that that's enough questions for today. I hope my on camera persona didn't scare you too much. I hope you thought I was hot. Is that going to make the cut? Let's see. I think I'm going to do more on camera stuff in the future. So keep an eye out for me. And hey, thanks for getting me to a million.  I got a million subscribers. I have a I got a frigging plaque. Look at it. It's it's big. It doesn't even match my silver one, because it's been so long. But that's OK. It's it's beautiful. All right. I don't I never know how to end things. Bye, guys. Bye. This is me. This is my face. Look at it.


Hello and welcome to the Australian National University. I'm Dr. Reese Crawley, a historian in the Strategic and Defence Study Centre within the Coral Bell School of Asia-Pacific Affairs here at the ANU. SDSC has a long and rich history of researching and writing about intelligence agencies both within Australia and the region and we're currently undertaking the official history of ASIO, the first volume of which came out last year. Today I'm joined by Professor Keith Jeffery from Queens University in Belfast. Professor Jeffery is the author or editor of 14 books on British military, Imperial and of course as the official historian of the secret intelligence service or MI6 intelligence history as well. During his visit to Australia Professor Jeffery addressed a large audience at the ANU where he discussed some of the challenges facing intelligence organisations in the past and some of the changes and continuities that they face today in the age of terror. For those interested you can find that lecture on the ANU podcast website. But today Professor Jeffery has made time to answer some questions along those lines. Thank you very much for joining us Professor. It's a pleasure. One of the key themes that you discussed in your lecture was the significance that security and intelligence agencies place on secrecy and particularly concerning the sources and methods. Why is this important? How do they go about it and what are some of the consequences if they get that wrong? Well the absolute core requirement for any intelligence organisation is to protect its sources because once you reveal or once you give your target some suggestion of how you're getting information against them they can take steps to protect this. Now the obvious example of this for example is in signals intelligence and during the war one of the greatest secrets of the war and the greatest intelligence triumph of the war was the ultra-secret Bletchley Park about which we know a lot there are movies and novels and all sorts of stuff about this but where they cracked the German codes. Now if the Germans had found that their codes had been cracked they would have changed the system and denied the British access to for example naval enigma in which it made a crucial difference in the battle of the Atlantic. German submarines reporting in their position in the Atlantic it was immediately available to the British or more or less I mean it wasn't as easy as that of course but once the process had been developed then you could target these submarines and you could neutralise or largely neutralise the threat but it was absolutely essential to keep this secret not just of course from the Germans but generally so because careless talk as the old wartime poster goes careless talk can lose lives and in some ways the way it was processed was as important as the information itself. Yeah loose lips sink ships. Yes that's exactly it yeah. Another related aspect that you touched on was the dichotomy between keeping states or keeping state secrets from one's own public when your adversary surely knows about those secrets already. Are you able to share some examples from history of that occurring? Well there was a crazy period for 80 years when the British government denied the existence of its security and intelligence organizations. MI5 and MI6 were both established as the same organization in 1909 and until the 1980s and for MI6 the 1990s there was no statutory recognition of these organizations. No in a way the dogs in the street knew that they existed. Dogs had megaphones in the street and everyone knew there were spies and organizations of this sort but no British government representative could be got to confirm this they would say I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of this. Now that led to a kind of absurd position where for example the headquarters of MI6 which was first in a place called Broadway in the interwar wartime period then it moved to a century house which is south of the river near the Imperial War Museum and it was against the law to identify these buildings. Century house is 13-14 stories high it's quite big you can see this sort of thing. Now the Russians knew about Century House but the British people who paid for it and who were being protected by it were prohibited from sharing that information and this kind of absurdity eventually proved impossible to sustain. Now of course as we can see from the James Bond movies now if you watch Skyfall there are only two I think facts relating to intelligence in Skyfall. One is that the headquarters of the organization is that Roxy building again south of the river Vauxhall Cross in London. Second fact is that it has been attacked by it was attacked by IRA mortar bomb during the Northern Ireland troubles so it's vulnerable and it exists beyond that of course the James Bond stuff is entirely fiction but it there was this absurd period in which they knew more about the intelligence than we were allowed to know. Yeah a funny situation which we see all over the world. In the post 9-11 world where the intelligence community particularly that in the US was criticized for siloing its information we've witnessed an expansion of the need to share and the result and we see this through WikiLeaks and through the Snowden revelations has been a joined up worldwide intelligence network. What are your impressions on the desirability of the need to share compared to the need to know in that compartmentalization that you see in the first 40 years of MI6? Well need to know is of course one of the great bases of security and confidentiality I mean it works in private life as well. You doctor and your medical advisers need to know about your condition but I don't think necessarily your colleagues or you know your wider family if you don't want to share it do so compartmentalization is part of human life and in part of the normal privacy and confidentiality. Now on a state level there are different issues here in that the technology and the ability to share information is one way of making it useful and being able to put together previously unrelated facts that might then target you know enemies of the state or people who wish us ill. You need to do that you need to join up the information that the police have with let's say the security service in Britain MI5 with let's say airline records, travel records, mobile phone records all this sort of stuff. Now that brings with it a danger of a hugely intrusive state apparatus spying on its citizens and it kind of subverts the working assumption that we are innocent unless proven guilty and one of the problems about the security state is that it assumes as with security in an airport the whole point of security in airport if you think about it is that everyone is suspect and we're all kind of guilty until we pass through the X-ray machines and we're then declared innocent. Now that's that's quite troubling in a way it's not necessarily reassuring so you have to balance these needs for joined up and connected information gathering with legitimate concerns for private confidentiality and privacy. I think building on from that and we've seen this with the leaks do you think that those leaks will tighten that intelligence belt or is as Michael Hayden has said that the benefits of sharing do they outweigh the risks of another Snowden? Well intelligence organizations internationally have shared information and must share information and will continue to do that. I think it's salutary one of the salutary things particularly of Edward Snowden's revelations which revealed high levels of cooperation between countries within what might loosely call the Western Alliance but not just those of course. What Snowden has revealed is that this exists and kind of authoritatively done so. Now I think that's a fact of life it's not going to stop but I do think in a democracy you do need a countervailing accountability regime that says that requires permission to do these things which may be transcend civil liberties and there's always going to be attention between the maintenance of the correct maintenance of civil liberties and the need for security and on a kind of spectrum of you know one end you have the police state which we don't want but at the other end you have anything goes which we don't want either. With your unique insight into the intelligence agencies both you know having access to their records and also outside sitting as a scholar outside of their control do you think we the West or perhaps the UK in particular have got that balance between civil liberties human rights and security right? Well it of course is a matter of trust in this sense and we could trust our public servants to do the right thing all the time but we also need regulations and rules just to keep them concentrate their minds as to what's appropriate and what's not appropriate and there will be points at which the intelligence agencies want to interfere and and as it were intrude into our private lives that's fine but they need to be able to justify the need for this and that's going to produce a bit more of a bureaucracy it's going to make it potentially more difficult but nobody said democracy was the most efficient form of government it is inefficient but it's a lot better than some of the alternatives. Then it's an important debate to keep having and we're having it here in Australia at the moment particularly I think following from the Snowden revelations and and looking at collection of metadata and things like that but I think you know that you've provided us a really neat insight into the mystique of the intelligence world from someone who's been had one fought in and one fought out for the last five or six years and I think you know apart from the dry martinis in the fast cars there's certainly a different picture there so I'd like to thank you again for coming to see us and I would I would stress to anyone or urge anyone who's interested in the real story of MI6 not the James Bond story to pick up a copy of one of the many prints or editions of this MI6 book here by Professor Keith Jeffrey thank you very much Keith. Thank you.


Welcome to The Core Report, I'm Corporal Clayton Philpovich. And I'm Sergeant Fariz Ali. Thursday Gunnery Sergeant Brian Jaclyn was awarded the Navy Cross for his heroic actions while deployed to Afghanistan in 2012. The Marslock Raider conducted direct, indirect and aviation fires on the enemy while coordinating the evacuation of his Marines. While securing a landing zone, he remained in the open as he rained M-203 grenades on the enemy until the aircraft could land. And what's even more badass is he voluntarily stayed behind to continue fighting the enemy for another 24 hours. Semper Fi Gunnery! April 20th marks the start of Exercise Balakutan 2015. The annual exercise involves nearly 6,000 U.S. troops and 3,500 Filipino military personnel. Balakutan is all about bilateral training and the strengthening of U.S. and Filipino partnerships. In fact, the name actually means shoulder to shoulder. The exercise will consist of three events, humanitarian assistance, a command post exercise, and a field training exercise. Stay tuned to the Marines' social media sites throughout the week as we received more video and photo coverage. Civil Affairs Marines are training partner nations in the U.S. Southern Command Area of Operations. The small group of Marines are there to advise, mentor, and train our Belizean counterparts in an effort to strengthen their capacity to conduct civil affairs missions. We'll keep you updated on their mission in the coming months. Remember you can catch up on all things going on around the Corps by logging on to our official social media sites. Thanks for watching, everyone. We'll see you next Friday. Right here on The Corps Report.


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Lincoln with Sway, you know, how did that whole relationship even start? The Scarface, Slim Thug, Bun B, Pimp C, and the list goes on, we're going to add him to a Don Tiki. We're going to add T-Mode to it. We on Boss Talk 101, 101, yeah, we going to talk. No, but so how did you end up Lincoln with Sway, you know, how did that whole relationship even start? The Scarface, Slim Thug, Bun B, Pimp C, and the list goes on, we're going to add him to a Don Tiki. We going to add T-Mode to it.  They was like, hey, Sway going to be here. So I went met them, rapped for them, and we just done built that relationship from there. Just networking, man. Put myself in the right place at the right time.  No, man. It didn't get that heavy. I actually, you know, Sway, Sway is a, is a piracy, a rap piracy, man. He didn't seen it all. He didn't interviewed everybody. He didn't, he didn't been around the biggest names in the game. So, you know, even though I was rapping for him and I was nice, I wanted to make sure my resume made sense for me to go on his platform and in the represent for the state. Yeah.   So that's really what it was all about. I could have went on Sway, you know, a few years ago, but let me make it make sense. Yeah. And you, and you did that. Sway, Sway show and love the whole, you know, the way he, he, he holds it down for the culture. Yeah. That's real. And he, and he, and he's, to me, one of those guys, I put him on a pedestal when he come down to the lyrics and really recognizing the craft. Yeah. He loved it. He really loved it.  Don't mind. Yeah. Don't mind it all.  I'm going to go for you rap.    So if you ain't ready to, you know, snap when them lights on, it could be tough, man. Man, it could be real tough. It could be tough, man. I was ready for it. So what's the first project you put together? So the first project I put together was called I Got the Juice. Really? Yeah. Based off the movie, Juice. And how long it was this and how old were you when you really started taking serious? I was taking music serious. I probably was about 22. Okay. And so this project I made when I was about 25, my first project. So it lets you know from the time I decided to rap for it, how long. But I always been an observer and a studier. So I used to be in a rap group back home and we had these Waco ciphers. So the whole city attuned in to these ciphers and I killed every ciphering. I just felt like I wasn't getting the respect I deserved. So one day I was sitting in my sister house and Juice came on the TV.  My friends included. I love it. So I made a mixtape, 17 tracks, just me, just displaying lyricism, but just going at everybody. Wow. Everybody whole city. Anybody got friends too? How was it received? Niggas was mad. They was, but what can you do about it? Because you can't rap me at this point. Nobody didn't like, okay, I'm gonna beef with you and lyrically beef with you because of it? No, they'll be dumb. So what I did was the movie kind of played like a soundtrack. So I would take clips from the movie and the clips would relate to whatever the song I was making. And then I was just being super lyrically on top of that. So I was doing a lot of stuff at one time and people were so ready to hear a project from me. The people that didn't know what I was doing just love to hear the raps.  Did you have a vision for that? You didn't do a video? I didn't do it. I did maybe one, but I didn't do too many visuals. You produced it yourself? No. It was so I took instruments. Like it was like a mixtape. Yeah. Yeah. So I had like a couple, a couple of regular instrumentals that I got from producers, but the rest of it was instrumentals. Ain't nobody else this? Not anyone. They ain't come back. Out of all of them that you did, out of all those 17, give me the hardest first out of all of that right now. Bishops atrial. They say being lyrical don't make a good rapper. It's just because you rap good don't make you lyrical. I said that I'd be a beast if I ever give them both. But they don't feel me though. I just need you to see my thought process. You simply be amazed at the levels that my mind catch. I'm anti-wee, so getting high there's no need, hurt your head trying to think like me. I'm blunt force trauma with no blunt objects. See what I mean? Damn it. Damn it. She gon' be in Michigan. She gon' be in Michigan. She gon' be in Michigan. This is a long time ago, man.


Yeah, I mean it's it's definitely just part of the season where you know you're you put in the work and You're not don't necessarily get the results. So it's it's definitely a battle, but I mean usually usually and when you get into ruts like that one swing like that could could definitely help and I feel like yesterday was a lot closer and even some of the outs today were Maybe didn't necessarily look too good, but felt better. So You just got to keep keep going every day and you know once we can just switch it all Labor double-play ball Did you think he off the bat that he had a chance to catch that me or him? No, not really to be honest because he was kind of more up the middle But it's just a that's a tough. That's a tough base running play really you're kind of no man's land but what a great momentum shift for us because Braddish I believe that's like his name Got out of the first bases loaded and we also match that and get out base loaded or not base loaded but with trouble So I don't know. It's definitely a good good moment for us I think you guys have scored more than half your runs on home runs. What do you think of the power up and down this lineup? I mean you have guys that have hit a lot of home runs in this game for a long time and I Don't think we're really trying to go up there and slug we're trying to just pass it on to the next guy That's the best part is Knowing that behind you is a guy that has probably over 200 plus home runs in this league and and or well on his way so You know just pass it on to the next guy and It's just letting guys do their thing and that's the best part is you know when you are Struggling personally, you know that there's guys up and down this lineup that are gonna pick you up and


Roger, the 2021 season has brought challenges for everybody, but for you specifically, we've seen you battle through injuries, we've seen you battle through personnel changes within your own offensive line. We've seen you battle just personally through life and being a human being. What has the season been like for you?  You know, when it comes to life in general, you got so many things you deal with outside of the game, and then you have these struggles inside of the game. And, you know, luckily I've been talking to the right people and helping me through that. And I love how consistent I've been and just, you know, my approach and just trying to make every day as best as I possibly can make it. Everyone talks about how hard you work. That grind really shows through where does that, I guess, mental toughness, that mentality come from and just the ability to keep going no matter what? Oh man, it was something that was instilled in me at a young age from my father.  And, you know, even when I was a young kid, nine years old, I used to do push-ups, sit-ups and run around my neighborhood. Like that was my training as a little kid. And it kind of stuck. It kind of stuck. And, you know, you get happy with the results at the end of the year. And I've just been trying to stay consistent with that through my career. What makes all of this worth it for you? It's the grind. I fell in love with the grind when I was a little kid, you know, learning how to work hard was kind of like my whole MO, my entire life, and then, you know, picking up on some talents here and there. But, you know, just the fact that there's always a journey, it's always the one goal. It gets so fun around this time of year. What does this game mean to you? It means everything to me. This is another opportunity to get closer to the goal of winning a championship. And for me, it elevates my game completely. The focus goes up, the hard work goes up, the attendance and meetings, and then just overall gameplay. I've seen it just play better around this time of year. You know, this is the type of games that bring out the best of you. The return of Derek Henry is something that has Titans fans losing their mind, like actually going crazy. For this Titans offense, how much of a help is it to get a big, strong physical back like Derek Henry back in the lineup? I mean, honestly, I think it's like, what is the difference when you have your star player on the field? I mean, he takes a lot of attention in many different areas. He's going to make things easier for AJ, Julio, all of our wide receivers tight ends. He's going to make those playfakes a little bit harder to see. It's just great to have him back on the field, have another leader on the field, have another star on the field, and see what exactly these defenses can do to really stop us. How much better is the offense now than it was in October when he left? Honestly, I think it kind of came down to just how consistent could we be and just being efficient in the run game and the pass game. And we've been starting to do that. We show signs of that. The thing that's great about this team is that there's always room for improvement. And we have never thought that we just arrived. Like, we're continuing to work. The Titans faced the Cincinnati Bengals in 2020 in Cincinnati. Didn't get the win in that game. Do you go back that far and look at a game that you played against the team even though an entire season has passed? Honestly, I can't. I mean, I think that the entire look of the Bengals has completely changed. There's many different players in their front. They got great guys in front and on their defense. We've seen what Jamar Chase has been able to do. And we see that they've been a high score in offense. All of those are recipes for a playoff team, which they are. And for us, it's going to be yet another challenge. I think that we just have to be excited that it's at our place and on our terms. It's a great day to have your best game. Ain't no mistake about it. Y'all deserve this. All the work that y'all put in, y'all deserve this.


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